skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are seeing one of the parties opaque view. The DNC seems to have a better handle on their operatives than the GOP. That resignation letter from a few days ago for that particular organization shows a very toxic place to work at. Where if you do not toe the line you are attacked daily. Fear and intimidation and loss of group are proven ways to make your point the loudest. Mr. Bernays should be proud of the monster he set loose upon us.
Hacker News has a very specific techno-libertarian Silicon Valley type outlook and you get downvoted pretty quickly when you express other types of views, especially in politics and controversial topics.
Chinese forced technology transfer is “market for technology” policy, not manufacture in China for market policy. Even if you manufacture within United States but want to sell to Chinese markets, the law applies.

You can manufacture in China, without transferring IP (apart from what is needed to reveal for the ability to manufacture it). But if you want to sell in Chinese markets, you must transfer some technology.

Tesla builds factory in China because wants to _sell_ in Chinese markets.
Sure, and dust, and any other spores or pollutants in the air, I didn't mean to provide a pure and complete list, I just meant that it's not some magic yeastless concoction that also happens to make bread rise. It's still yeast doing the work, it's just naturally occurring, rather than added from a packet of commercially grown and sold yeast.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23858510
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I haven't done any experiments but at those low figures it's likely imperceptible to people but I think it's important from a perception of fairness to have each participant with the same low latency. Like if one team averaged 10ms and another averaged 20ms that might not be a compelling competitive difference but just from a perception of fairness not having it is important.
> Instead I think we need to collectively, as a society, be less sensitive to perceived insults and disagreeable opinions

So we're going to ask the boss to pretty please not fire people because of what they wrote on Twitter? Without any teeth behind it? I've seen it happen in my country: here's a few millions€, please don't sell the factory, please maintain all those jobs. One week later the factory closes and everyone is fired.

No.

If we agree on a social norm, "please" must be followed by "or else". Without "or else", my employer's freedom to fire me will naturally override my freedom to write what I like on HN. If we agree it shouldn't, we need to build an incentive structure where it doesn't.

Laws and regulations are pretty damn effective, as incentive structures go.
That is not my experience. For instance right now there are several posts regarding the EU Court ruling on Safe Harbour. And it does not explain where the points the post had already got have gone.
Simpler than convincing the globe to change their eating habits, certainly.

I don’t have any better idea than you how the science works out, and the supply chain thing sounds nontrivial, but that’s nothing compared to getting masses of people to change their habits.

We can’t talk red staters into take wearing masks for a few months, and next we are going to make them give up bbq?
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one of the last voyages https://www.towt.eu/code-2001-cafe/

They are one the way to build a more modern ship https://www.towt.eu/voilier-cargo-towt/?lang=en
> Electron runs like shit

Does it? I've seen some electron apps that run like dogs, and others that seem perfectly performant. So, I'm curious... in what way does the framework run like shit? In what way could it be improved?

> How many interviewers dock marks for iterating over columns, instead of rows? Because that matters, a huge amount.

I think you mean the difference between SoA and AoS. I'm not sure that one is inherently better than the other, except the former scales well for large homogenous datasets.

I doubt optimising for DSPs/SIMD/big-data to maximize throughput and reduce cache-misses, is something the typical FAANG employee needs to know about. Could be wrong.

> "Don't you know Big N complexity is the only thing that really matters if you're looking for speed?"

It does, even if you cache-align and pool your data. And you can optimise your in-memory data-structures (and database IO) later, if profiling finds them to be a bottleneck.
I don't disagree, I see something that looks like a bias too. But on some of the issues (wearing a mask, climate change) the GOP is so off the mark how can the NYT not come across (appearing) biased?

I've also noticed the past few months they now make an even greater effort to call out racism by some politicians. Is this an agenda or just factual observations? There are a lot of discussions on race right now and a lot of dog whistles. I go back and forth, but for the most part I think the NYT does a better job than most.

Their opinion section is atrocious.
Hah, I've never seen a utility schedule end of life for cables. They just replace them as they break, they'll replace chunks if the cable itself is looking bad, but otherwise they'll just splice it together with a coupler.

If fiber optic is in the way, they'll just cut it.
I am assuming it will just be another chrome skin, since they are looking for a chromium engineer.
He was describing the ideal attorney. If you factor in human failure in your ideals from the start, what you get is the lowest common multiple, so you limit any aspiration and potential from the start.

No, the ideal would be an attorney that can almost perfectly differentiate between his emotions plus opinion against true justice.
The cops raided his place and found nothing, yet he plead guilty anyway?

Mind blown.
Was not a fan. Basically reads as--I could not get on the same page as the client, my boss was useless in helping with these interactions (but... is the "best boss ever"), so they took me off the project, and a jaded / more experienced developer told me that he'd lost his passion for the work, so apathy must be the solution to communication issues.
It's an interesting area, but a quick scan of the generators section makes it look quite inaccessible.

I actually have a pseudorandom number generator as my interview question and it's quite simple. I have a slightly simplified asci-art version of it that use essentially a variation of Wolfram's Rule 30.

Coding it is easy, requiring no algorithms or data structures, just some iteration, if statements and substring look ups. At first some are annoyed at what looks like a useless, made up toy project, but then I tell them this was actually a part of Mathematica in the early versions and we start discussing how you'd turn that output into a useful pseudorandom number generating function with a seed, acceptable performance etc. Quite a few end up happy with the problem at the end.
Most companies that are not hard tech companies consider IT an expense.

I work for a financial company as a software developer and we are considered an expense. There has been a big push to just buy commercial software instead of building anything in-house, even if that means we have to customize it or build something on top of it. The use of outsourcing has dramatically increased over the years, including outsourcing an entire line of business. They will raise expectations and erode benefits in an effort to keep your costs more comparable to the cost of outsourcing.
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Meanwhile... global population is expected to peak and then decrease.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23840670
Of course we have to get rid of objectivity, otherwise people couldn't claim obviously false assertions like publishing an op-ed “puts black @nytimes staff in danger.”

In the spirit of the new AP guidelines which say “Do not use racially charged or similar terms as euphemisms for racist or racism when the latter terms are truly applicable,” let's have the same criteria for "Stalinism".

What's going on is pure Stalinism.
Yes there might not be anything called objective journalism but that does not mean journalists in the past did not strive to. Now they don't even try and we have entered the age of the activist journalist.
This still helps you. Unless you expect a car that is constantly in the shop the first five years to magically stop needing work after that. Yes it's possible that some of the top cars switch places in the 5-10 range, but its very unlikely a bottom 5 car is going to eclipse a top 5 car.

Most cars are also far more reliable now than you are thinking. Every big company makes cars now that routinely last 200k-300k miles, that takes more than 10 years of driving for most people.
Less necessary to do so, though.
This, one hundred times! Journalists are humans like we all. Expecting them to be completely unbiased would be too much. But should hold them to the professional standard of being open about there biases, and be as neutral as possible in their reporting.
Sure, but after dragging the lawyers in and figuring out how we were impacted; (hint: we were barely impacted other than allowing people to download their data which was trivial) I am now truly skeptical of anyone who says that GDPR is a barrier to entry.

Unless the "entry" is doing something nefarious.
If you’re going for paid, Affinity Publisher is great software, and is only $50 for a license. I’ve used it and enjoyed it. If you like it, you can snag the other programs in the Affinity as well for $50 each.

For open source, there is Scribus. I’ve never used it personally but I’ve heard good things. You could also try LaTeX or ConTeXt, the latter if your design is going to be more complicated.
>I find it appalling how people believe there is such a thing as unopinionated journalism

It could be, but it would turn most news organizations into simple notification services that resemble weather reports. Some folks desire the opinions and biased views.
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I've been running production grade Go apps[1] on aarch64 servers for ~ a year, written on macOS(x86_64), tested on aarch64 before deployment and never faced a single instance where something didn't work because of the architecture.

These are the benchmarks for different ARM platforms[2], where I had submitted one for Jetson Nano a year back and now it seems there's one for Apple Silicon.

I'm not telling, no one would ever find cross platform issues with Go; I'm just curious to know what issues you have faced and whether it's because of Apple's extension of ARM instructions.

[1]https://needgap.com

[2]https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoArm#jetson-nano
So, you think that I can't use iPhone as a hammer, because I can do that with a Samsung? :)

Sorry, few countries agree with the claim I made - by investigating the lack of ability to have different app stores on iPhone, usually rights of the users triumph rights of the producer (at least in Europe, US is a different beast).
There certainly is objective reporting. That online outlets put more focus on editorials doesn't change that. I couldn't name a US example to be honest, but the classic profession of journalism goes to great length to ensure objectivity. Maybe don't call it objectivity and just detachment if that resonates more.
Could you explain what becoming less liberal means for those who have no firm grasp on the US liberal label?

As to who gets labeled what for which action is a big mess, but the direction seems to be that people are very quick to call everyone else bad if they are not as far-whatever as they are. (Anyone trying to gather and assess data about anything like "race", police brutality, homicides, guns, socioeconomic status is instantly suspect. But also it's very clear that a lot of people just post incoherent unfounded stuff on twitter which happens to have citations and graphs and even some structure resembling a paper -- and of course discussing it on twitter is neigh impossible, but almost always an exercise in mental self-harm.)

Sadly the real internet hate machine is not 4chan's /b/, but serious platform like facebook and twitter, where real people grind their ideas on each other until they just become sharp sticks and slurs to poke others with.
Yeah, and the only way to get better at writing stuff up, is to write stuff up.
Ah yes substring search, the hallmark of artificial intelligence.

select * from messages where text like ‘%bomb%’;

Reminds me of that video where the caption goes “they used coding and algorithms”.
Couldnt add the address to blacklist either, they had to find the denylist.
Applications must not be given passwords. Consider that there are hundreds of applications/api/reports in a company, managed by hundreds of developers in different departments.

Passwords would be leaked all over the place (verbose logging, debugging to investigate issues, etc...). That's totally compromising employees/users, as passwords are rarely changed and reused for personal accounts.
Whistleblowers are needed.
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill

FYI, this is the actual quote that is more often attributed to Edmund Burke in the altered form of “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Simple compared to getting people to change their eating habits, for sure.

“Maybe instead...” yes, the researches who came up with this are doing that, it’s their job.
To me it's interesting that pickle can be thought of as recording some of the implicit assumptions GvR made about the expected use of Python semantics.

Formally serialization/deserialization is very crunchy and precise. (And I remember how stoked I was to find out that Python included an implementation!) In practice, things get messy and we break the implicit assumptions.

Is it a flaw of the pickle module? Or are our designs too clever?

Patient: "It hurts when I do this."

Doctor: "Don't do that."

;-)
One example I'm aware of is Lawvere's fixed point theorem, of which Gödel's (first) incompleteness theorem, the undecidability of the Halting problem, and Cantor's theorem are all special cases.

Not really related to "group theory, linear algebra, real analysis, etc.", but interesting nevertheless.

It's quite a wide generalisation which really just captures the nature of diagonalisaion arguments, but it does formally tie together various proofs/theorems which "smell the same".
Quite a racket, being part of setting up this gauntlet and then selling books on how to get through it. Some might call that a conflict of interest, but there's no such thing as ethics for the nobility so to hell with what the peasants think.
This is one of the macroeconomic scenarios that scares me the most. I can't imagine what would happen to the global socio-economic stability if those middle east countries were to lose that source of GDP. It's not to unreasonable to conceive either as more countries are becoming oil energy independent.
> so a US citizen working in Germany or for German Customers "could" be a problem.

That's usually fine (related to the "in Germany" part). I'd say you'll only have an issue if you're doing something really high up the government (same as for example SpaceX - which cannot hire non-citizens)
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The whole goal seems to be the opposite of what you say. Why would you characterize people who leave a job at a company they disagree with to take one someplace they agree with as not being courageous or free?
> facts have a remain bias

...

Or, FT could actually acknowledge that the remain folks have legitimate arguments.
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Maybe it's why most businesses come to the U.S. lol
You can, worm gears that can't be reversed are called self-locking, but depending on setup, it's possibly to drive them in reverse with some effort.
> Ending at-will employment is a legal solution to a cultural problem. Unlikely to work, but more importantly, I’d argue it’s unwise to rely on legal codes to solve non-legal problems.

Let me prefix my remarks by noting that I'm not American and that I live in a country where at-will employment for the most part doesn't exist.

I disagree that getting someone fired from their job is merely a cultural problem. It's also a financial problem and hence a legal problem.

As I see it, if someone burglarizes your home, they're depriving you of the goods they steal. If you're arbitrarily dismissed from a job that you're performing perfectly well (including treating coworkers, clients, etc. correctly), you're deprived of the lost income. In either case, there's a financial loss involved and I fail to see why the law shouldn't try to protect the victim of such a loss.

I do agree that laws will never offer a complete solution to cancel culture, but a solution doesn't have to be complete to be justified, various partial solutions are OK.
The alternative is setting it up by hand which is error prone. When you're starting out, that might be OK but it'll grow and the difference between your staging and production accounts will drift.

Also, then let's say you get a mega-enterprise customer that wants to host it in their own cloud account, you simply apply the same configuration to that new account. It's quite something to see thousands of cloud resources created over the space of an hour, thinking how long it'd take to do it by hand.
So we could measure its movement in arc-Plancks?
I literally had someone tell me once after a demo of progress on a project: "That may be what I asked for but its not what I want".
Obviously but that's not the point gp making. The tendency, as shown by many on this very forum, is to use these services. If BTC in theory is totally free and impervious to govt/banks, but in practice is highly controlled, then it's basically just traditional banking with more steps and vulnerability.
Zomg it’s max!

(For those who don’t know, the parent poster wrote and maintained a lot of nice Haskell Libs at one point)
Curry's Paradox [0], for anyone wondering why this suggestion is entertaining and deserves its exclamation point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%27s_paradox
>White is a cultural definition in the US which used to be legally defined and still carries cultural implications.

Right, but this was a bad time. We should be moving on from this. The infographic apparently does the opposite: reinvigorates, and then accidentally claims that white traits are mostly superior. I know you're going to claim that there are not value judgements in the info graphic, but the opposite of hard work, individualism, and the scientific method are in fact bad things. (And, even if you're non-white, the Greco-Roman heritage is in fact a large part of how the American system of government came to be.

I'm trying to be constructive because we're on hn, but I have to say I'm absolutely disgusted by the modern tendency to reduce everything to race. The color of someone's skin is not important, and people of the same skin color don't all share the same values. More importantly, racial groups cannot "own" values such as hard work, and formal logic.

"White" is not a cultural concept. People on the new left are trying to make it a cultural concept, and it's backwards and racist.
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The material will break eventually. Other gears provide some structural support against expansion, but that is not what is going to break a gear. IMO the thing that would break it would simply be the mass of the gear; the fast acceleration would tear the gear out of it's axis or break it's teeth.

If it doesn't, at some point the material will give, likely away from the driving gear, and the entire thing will fling itself apart.
I found Halt and Catch Fire to be entertaining. It's not really historical or technical, but shows the politics of a fictional company (based loosely on Compaq) related to technology. Keri Bishe is also very attractive with auburn hair.

There have been a couple movies about Steve Jobs. I think netflix has some stuff about Microsoft and Bill Gates. I think there's also a BBC produced film about algorithms on Netflix, although it's very basic.
Note that rye sourdough is still high fodmap. Found this out early on when I realized it still caused symptoms.

True wheat sourdough is hard to find too. Most bakeries put in yeast and label it sourdough.
Fiber is routinely hung on utility poles, in the same way hardline coax was deployed in previous decade, and open pair telegraph was hung in previous centuries. Actually comms cables on poles are much older than power cables.
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> So we are comparing strict lockdowns compared with sensible social distancing - not with doing nothing.

No, we are not comparing lockdowns with sensible social distancing. We aren't comparing lockdowns with doing nothing, either. We're comparing lockdowns with what people actually do when you don't have a lockdown, which is in some cases sensible social distancing, but in other cases traveling 150 miles to wear your mask as a decorative chin strap and cough in a waiter's face.

Yes, some people sensibly social distance. But given the opportunity, many people don't.

> There are strong arguments to be made, and we will have to see how they play out over the next 12-18 months, that strict lockdowns actually resulted in more deaths because the fear they induced stopped people from doing regular health checkups etc.

Didn't you say, just one paragraph back, that "It turns out most people don't want to catch a deadly disease."? Wouldn't this cause them to not do regular health checkups, etc. as well?

I suppose it's possible that Covid itself causes just enough fear to cause people to social distance but not skip preventive care, and lockdowns just happen to tip people over into too much fear so they skip preventive care. But I don't think you have the evidence to claim that's what's happening.

That's a long way of saying, [citation needed].

> Comparing the other Nordic countries to Sweden is misleading because it was on a different trajectory before any lockdowns were implemented.

[citation needed]

> Note if you compare Sweden to the US it’s around half of the US rate per 100,000 despite lack of lockdowns.

Comparing Sweden to the US is misleading because the US doesn't have socialized medicine and is much more densely populated in the major cities where the disease spread. You can [citation needed] me on either one of those claims if you want and I'll provide links, but I think they're well known enough to not need citation.

> They have had ~100 excess deaths/week - and if you remove the older population (>65) then it’s basically 0 excess deaths/week.

Well, there it is. The age of the people dying is only relevant if you don't care about the elderly. You should be ashamed of yourself. Grow a conscience.

> 1) Ability to properly protect the old

Lockdowns protect the old.
This is going to be a dumpster fire of opinions.
Also in countries like India and Pakistan with very high percentage of smokers, we are seeing very low COVID19 cases.

While a lot of people are skeptical of the official numbers from these countries, I think they have free media and if cases were high, we would have known.
What is up with this nihilism?

Ofc there is no such thing as perfect objectivity, democracy, justice, etc. But it's critical to strive for all these things!

"Media has never been objective or impartial so might as well go for my political/moral stance and destroy everything else." Fight wrong with wrong, eh? No wrong tactics only wrong targets? This is progressive and "on the right side of history"?

Don't go down that path, this is not what US ideals stand for. And yes, they are ideals, dreams, I know, but they make a huge difference when compared to what I lived under communism in eastern EU. The world is watching and copying everything it sees in the US. What you do matters more than you think.