skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly you are someone who strongly believes in the superiority of remote work

For myself. I strongly believe remote work is a net gain for me and others like me. I appreciate that others do not feel the same way, but when the dust settles I stand to lose if I am the odd man out, no? I strongly believe that the sentiment conveyed in this article will be used as ammunition to drag those of us that prefer remote work back to the office. I'd prefer articles like this to find a balance that allows everyone to have their preference, but they seem to grapple for downsides that don't apply to everyone.
I have been in the IT business for thirty years in Silicon Valley and have interviewed hundreds of candidates, not one of them was black. I can count on one hand the number of blacks I have worked with in that period of time.

Black college students are over represented in low earning majors. Blacks that focus on high paying majors go into law, medicine, or business. If black leaders want more black IT executives, they need to push black kids into IT related careers.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/african-american-majo...

>I worked at some places with a lower manager that just seemed to have it in for the staff black IT person for no discernible reason

That mentality can be seen in anybody. When I did consulting in the late 1990s, I had a client company where an Indian manager refused to promote or hire non-Indians. Same company, an engineer from Taiwan gave bad marks on interviews if the candidate was of Korean descent. He told me, "I won't work with gooks."
> My read from dvt and ishansharma is that they're just being political.

I think this is unfair. For example, I don't really relate to building a multi-million-dollar startup in my 20s, so the wealth tax article is simply not relevant. The article on Conformism is just highfalutin pseudo-psychologizing. Compare these to classics like "What We Look for in Founders" or "Ramen Profitable" and we have a pretty clear shift in focus. This takes nothing away from pg being a bonafide genius, it's just that his focus is no longer actionable and insightful advice to founders.
https://financialpost.com/financial-times/softbank-unmasked-...
‘Linusgate’ over 250 Messages Leaked Code of Conduct Linus Torvalds
You’re lucky. I made it 30 minutes after changing all the privacy settings and not providing a phone number then signing in on my phone browser. I accidentally sent in my profile pic for the “suspicious activity” verifier which is totally on me. Instantly got my account disabled and have been unsuccessful at recovering it since June 2019 despite several attempts at sending in my ID as they requested.

However, now the create a new account page says there’s an existing disabled account with this email address, but the account support portal says one doesn’t exist! Top notch engineering. Luckily I have my IG account for Messenger login, but I can’t use it for desktop sign-on’s which is pretty dumb.
That’s a massive cop out. You either believe in conspiracy theories or you don’t. People who don’t believe in conspiracies don’t say they do as a way of expressing they don’t like the people involved.
you're kindof proving his point though. Notch is "bad" because he believes in the "wrong" conspiracies, that all the trusted authority figures have ensured us are untrue. A few years ago the Epstein stuff would have been considered within the realm of wacky conspiracy theories, but it is receiving legitimate attention now.
> Saying that passwords are “encrypted” over and over again doesn’t make it so. They’re bcrypt hashes so good job there, but the fact they’re suggesting everyone changes their password illustrates that even good hashing has its risks.

This is correct, but I am going out on a limb and guessing that legal counsel had something to do with the wording here (which is perplexing because I tend to expect legal definitions of terms to be more specific).

I was at an organization that also had a data breach, and legal counsel advised us to write a similar email when disclosing publicly that the breach occurred. I was personally on multiple phone calls with legal counsel about this, and it was quite frustrating to try and explain the difference between encryption and hashing, or stay on point with the fact that our passwords were not encrypted, trying to get people to stop using that word on phone calls. Early on, they'd ask questions like, "But aren't your passwords encrypted?!" And you'd have to explain, no, they're not, they're hashed, which is most likely better than encrypted (although I'm open to being proven wrong on that).

They were, also, mostly useless on explaining what their perspective of encryption was. I never got an explanation from counsel, and at best, I was linked to a blog post that suggested some security best practices (not a legal definition of anything we were liable for).

The sad thing is, with a data breach like that, you probably do (and should) feel terrible for your customers, anyone who trusted you with their emails, passwords, etc. But the laws surrounding it are confusing enough to make it easy for some people to push this out of their mind and just focus on, "What is the best thing we can do to legally cover our asses?" Even if that means saying factually incorrect or misleading things like, "Your passwords were encrypted."
By the way I think that we should phase out password anyway, I mean that I prefer to implement in the applications that I develop a password-less authentication: when you want to sign in a mail (or an SMS) is sent to you, you click on a link with a temporary token and you are authenticated.

Please don’t do this. For one thing, SMS is fundamentally broken as a secure delivery method. But more than that… it’s just so, so deeply annoying.
No, It tells you what program image file is going to be used when a program "shells out" or spawns a shell to run a shell command (e.g. via the ! command in mail or the :shell command in nvi).

It is a way for applications to know where the shell to invoke is, not a way for a user to find out what program xe is using to run commands. echo $0 is more informative on that score.
Plague Inc. For the TI 84 Plus CE Calculator
He's always written about conformism and wealth. See "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" (2003) [1], "What You Can't Say" (2004) [2], and a lengthy discussion of what wealth is and what it means for society in "How to Make Wealth" (2004) [3]. All of these are featured in his book, "Hackers and Painters".

[1] http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
[2] http://paulgraham.com/say.html
[3] http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
It's still a decent start, and I'm hoping future versions will begin open sourcing the rest of the chip core like the memory controller. It'd be nice to have a good DDR IP core for things like this.

EDIT: Removed a bit of the comment from a misunderstanding from reading the article
The 555 tops the list, as usual. I have a sweet spot for it, since it was the first IC I was allowed to use for my own projects-even if I blame it for ushering in an entire era of blinkenlights...
> The Roman Empire was unstoppable until they over extended themselves with endless war and tried to solve it by debasing their currency. It may not happen anytime soon, but America won't lead the world indefinitely forever, its only 244 years old for shit sake.

Sure, but Britain didn't lead the world forever, either, and it's not exactly like the £ collapsed leaving everyone who held it in ruin.

American won't lead the world forever doesn't mean much unless but it's collapse will be so sudden and unexpected as to leave no opportunity to unwind dollar positions without catastrophic loss.

It might be worth hedging against that, but digital collectibles are a poor hedge for that circumstance. Physical resources for community self-sufficiency and physical defense against the ravening hordes are the hedge you need if you take that threat seriously.
Don't offshore wind farms do okay?
A promotion doesn't mean you have to take on the role of your manager, it generally means you have expanded (or new) responsibilities and expectations. For larger companies career progression broadly falls under either an individual contributor (IC) track or a leadership track. As an IC you can grow your career from Engineer to Senior Engineer to Staff Engineer without changing managers or teams, and there is a similar progression for leadership.

Becoming a manager because you think that is the only ladder to climb is definitely the wrong choice. I think a great manager is also a leader who takes an active interest in the motivation, growth, and outcomes of their team. If a management team worked the way you describe (manager's managers run the show and broker deals with their peers for micromanaged promotions), that would be an extremely dysfunctional environment.

In my experience it is always the direct manager who recommends someone for promotion rather than the next level up (although your manager's manager likely has final approval on budget). As a manager, I support and coach my team toward their career growth aspirations with regular performance & growth conversations. I also try to ensure my direct manager has visibility on the state of the team, but ultimately they are expected to be looking at a bigger picture and trust that I am taking care of my team.
While maintaining a huge entourage of musicians, jesters, and other entertainers is certainly expensive, it’s a far safer and probably cheaper projection of power and influence than maintaining a standing army who you can only pay practically by allowing them to loot.
Passwords aren't encrypted, so why would deterministic encryption matter?
This is pretty dated. Segwit has been implemented. The lightning network is growing. No mention of sidechains like Liquid. No mention of Taproot.

Satoshi is great proof that you don't need to know everything to understand something enough to make something, read some David Deutsch.
>This begs the question, what do they have to hide?

I was on board until this.
That's completely unrelated. The Euro wasn't designed as an alternative to make USD obsolete. The Euro did do exactly what it was designed for, to unify much of Europe under one currency and economic system.
What you are doing isn't piracy though. You've paid for the content and are working around crappy DRM. That issue is entirely separate from the piracy itself.

Pirates love to conflate their activity with the noble pursuit of freeing the world from DRM. Maybe that is true for the people on the 'scene', but the countless millions of people torrenting their releases are doing it because they simply want something for free. Your actions are very much the exception.
Nobody actually involved with helicopters calls them wings. They're called rotor blades.

Similarly, nobody actually involved with helicopters calls them copters.
BMW is a public company
> Bubbles don't happen in efficient markets.

But how do you know a bubble ahead of time?
Does every application (and process) using your database automatically know what's in every table at every moment? That's highly unlikely, so you still have to do queries to find out. And then what would you do if the tuple was or wasn't in there already?

Whatever your answer is, UPSERT just combines that into a single more efficient statement. There's no new logic, just a better expression of it.

If you want examples: 1) analytics with `key(id,timestamp)` to avoid manually creating new rows as time goes on. 2) OLTP updates where we only want the latest data. 3) new data from multiple sources concurrently and we want the last write. 4) duplicate data and we want a single copy for each key.
So what exactly is Amazon claiming? That Microsoft didn't actually meet the RFP conditions? That Microsoft was given the contract despite a higher price? That Amazon should have been granted the contract despite a higher price and both providers meeting the requirements, since AWS deserves it due to some unquantifiable market leader je ne sais quoi?
"Just family reunification"

Also a good thing in and of itself.
Hugh mongo... Sorry wrong website
Ocean carbon uptake widely underestimated (Sept. 2020)
Blockchain would swallow databases not dollars. Currency is just one use for a blockchain, git is a great use for it and much older than bitcoin.
> by AWS Public Sector Blog Team

I think this probably came down from a few levels higher up the corporate ladder than that..
This is hilarious.
Amazon: "How can you choose MICROSOFT?! We're the best"
DoD: "Uh, sure, but we like Microsoft."
Zon: "BUT WE'RE THE BEST. DONT YOU UNDERSTAND"
DoD: "Uh, no"
Zon: "BUT, BUT, BUT THAT'S NOT FAIR"
DoD: "Tough."
Man, Woman, and Robot in Ian McEwan’s New Novel (2019)
I have given up on getting a good story out of emergent gameplay and sandbox-y games. Bioshock 1 & 2 is about as good as it's going to get with regards to producing a good story that can go multiple ways. Those games moved me like very few songs or books ever did.
If you add enough conditions and move the hurdle higher you can always force some business to be no longer viable. If you make minimum wage $30 an hour most retail business are no longer viable. Doesn't really speak to what should happen or where the line is though. In fact having a higher burden probably benefits more established businesses over upstarts and SMBs.
Parenting is weird. Haven’t you ever seen the parent whose kid goes quiet, and then they jump up in a panic? They know their kid is up to something horrible if they’re quiet now....

There’s lots of thoughts like that and plenty to worry about as a parent. It’s more than just “Shut up Johnny!”
Show HN: Weighted campaign donations based on competitiveness
This is ridiculous both-sidesism.
I built this site because I was looking for a way to donate strategically to candidates for U.S. Congress and didn’t find exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something that worked like an index fund, weighting donations to as many candidates as possible based on the competitiveness of the race, and did so transparently, so I could see exactly how much was going to each candidate.

Although the goals of the site are obviously political, there are aspects of it that I thought might interest HN readers:

* the use of a simple mathematical model to determine donation weights

* transparent presentation of donation weights and amounts

* (hopefully) straightforward UX

I’m not much of a web developer or designer, so I'd appreciate any suggestions for improvement! The site was a good excuse for me to play with Elm, which I enjoyed, and to fight with CSS, which I did not.

There’s no backend; the site just computes donation amounts and ships you off to ActBlue to complete the transaction.

The model for weights is pretty simple. There’s a roughly sigmoidal relationship between vote share and win probability, with win probability increasing rapidly in the region around 50% vote share. I fitted this relationship using the outputs from FiveThirtyEight’s 2018 House model; the cumulative distribution function of a t distribution worked pretty well. The weights are just the density of the same t distribution, and represent the relative increase in win probability due to a dollar.

Since FiveThirtyEight’s Congress models aren’t up for 2020, I’m using Cook Political Report ratings for the House as a rough cut, and a (fully Bayesian) model by Cory McCartan for the Senate.
I've been using this for a while now and absolutely love it.

Just go through the documentation of MartenDb and I'll bet you'll like it.

Note:
If you are interested in DDD/microservices on. Net, you probably know Mass-Transit.

But I would advice you to check out everything under JasperFX ( https://github.com/JasperFx ), which MartenDb is a part of.

Fyi: they hang out on gitter.me
Burger menu broken on mobile. Can’t see pricing easily.
When I was young I worked in the defense industry. If I remember correctly, pushing back hard when not winning a contract was not done. I can’t imagine how much this would sour future contracts and future negotiations.

I admit a little bias since I preferred Microsoft winning this contract. I am a very happy Amazon and Google customer, but as a taxpayer I felt better about Microsoft winning this. This is just an opinion that admittedly is not based on any expertise in government procurement of cloud services.
America’s ugly election – what could go wrong?
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> Why? He points out [the non obvious to many fact] that wealth tax kills compounding.

His analysis was deeply flawed to the point of being disingenuous. For one, it assumed that your wealth never grows once you get it. And for two, it completely forgot that there is a baseline on the wealth tax (the current proposal is at $50M).

So no, it doesn't kill compounding, it just shrinks it a bit.
!?

Why would you need to change your public IP? Is the how cable works in the US?
People still use Shoutcast, it's the standard way to DJ in virtual worlds.
Or Troy wrote a confusing sentence that didn't make sense.
And didn't MS at the time prefer people to pirate Windows and Office over not using it because it contributed to the ubiquitousness of those products?
Lockdowns did control the virus in NZ, life outside of auckland still seems pretty normal.

The decision to move back to level 1 wont be made for over a week when more data is in and hopefully the government will continue to focus on science not whoever is shouting the loudest
What PG describes is basically what's proposed - the main difference is that most American proposals have a floor before it kicks in.

That floor is pretty high depending on the proposal ($30-50 million), but that doesn't stop the problem of equity ownership being eaten away over time when a lot of your worth is tied up into a successful company (like Bezos).

You also get other incentive problems with things like angel investing. If someone is at the wealth cap they're less incentivized to risk money when they'll either lose it because the investment fails, or lose it because it gets eaten by the wealth tax.

Other proposals have low floors where you just have the problem of a lot of wealth getting taken.

In general it's good for a society to incentivize wealth creation/growth and still protect the lower bound of society. A wealth tax dis-incentivizes wealth creation - and for what? It just comes across to me as a 'hate the rich' policy that creates perverse incentives.

Disclosures so people don't think there's hidden motivated reasoning here:

- I'm nowhere near the wealth cap and probably never will be

- I think trump is an idiot and the republican party is a disaster

- I voted for Hillary and will vote for Biden.

I still think the wealth tax is a bad idea and bad policy.
You don't have to "distinguish between the man, the company, and the product." You only have to read his open letter to hobbyists to see how they all intersect.
I think there's a difference between happiness and fulfillment. Parenthood unlocks a new level of feelings I never experienced before.

I cannot accurately describe the joy that fatherhood brings me.... despite the reduced sleep and increased stress.

By a magnitude of 10x, Fatherhood has surpassed anything i have experienced prior.
That's not the argument though - the argument is that storing high security rarely accessed information ( hashes of passwords / encrypted passwords ) that are needed for a very limited number of well defined operations on the same system within the same security domain with the low security often accessed information with a high number of not well defined operations is what responsible for majority of hashed/encrypted credential leaks anyway.

You are going to have a much harder time getting data from a service that only speaks HTTPs with 6 endpoints that can only be fed 1 type of JSON with only specific fields present per end point rate limited to rates per second that make sense for those individual end points with a database backing it being internal to that service which gets 15 deploys per year than from a Gigantic Database Supporting Application That Does Everything For Users and Business and Marketing and Analytics that keeps changing based on weekly sprints.
> Solar does not have the special handling and proliferation issues that nuclear waste does.

That is also what I'd expect to see if people aren't taking the issues seriously, so it isn't really evidence of anything.

> You cannot just say "Well no one is looking into it for solar, so nuclear should get a free pass too!"

Sure I can. The evidence to me suggests that, for equivalent amounts of effort and adjusting for the energy produced, nuclear waste dumps will do far less damage than solar waste dumps after adjusting for the energy produced. The amounts of waste are tiny to the point where it is unclear to me why anyone cares. If proliferation is a problem, bury it 2km underground in a desert and don't tell anyone where it is. Good luck recovering that on the sly.
What happens at the speed of sound?
Yep, that's the one! I also enjoyed demoscene from afar in South Africa, and it wasn't until recent years that I was finally able to attend demoscene events here in Europe. Well, then COVID came along...
1. If someone intercepts your password you're screwed anyway. How many of your emails are intercepted regularly?

2. If someone has access to your email, you're screwed anyway because they can lock you out and reset every password.

Your email password, effectively, becomes the password for that website. I.e. security-wise, I think they're equivalent.
> They still did it and suffered near-zero consequences.

Wasn't this part of the settlement with the FTC for about 5 billion dollars? I'll agree with you it evidently is not enough to really deter Facebook but I wouldn'T call it nothing, that was one of the largest fines ever handed out.

Same in Europe, Google has taken significant fines. Those companies are not untouchable any more. And yeah I don't trust facebook that much either but I don't think they'll blatantly ignore the law intentionally.
It's not that I think you are wrong at all, but good Lord, I hope you are.
Aren't you mixing two things? TRISTATE was required to hook up multiple chips _data_ lines, yes, but not the address lines, which are input-only. If the innovation was sharing the data bus, then, sure, that would make more sense.

FWIW, even the 4004 (1971, predating the MK4096 by three years) used multiplexing and I'm sure it was a known approach prior to that.
Inspired by the recently gone viral “digital pregnancy test just reads a pregnancy test strip,” I wonder if you can get around the calibration issue via some sort of electromechanical pH strip autoloader and analyzer.
You generally encrypt the hash of the password. Pepper can be thought as a form of encryption.
How did this strategy fare during the last couple days though? Wouldn't weeks or months of profit have been wiped out? Though I guess if it's done for a long enough time it's probably ok
I know quite a few billionaires from the Amazon "process" that definitely did not have "the will-to-power". They just got lucky.

How that relates to Page (& Brin) ... I don't know.