skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't say that dictatorships are better at making good decisions or result in a more efficient society simply that they are more effectient at making a decision.

I think that one comes with asterisks too. The cultures in dictatorship are often pretty good at avoiding decisions at all cost. The price can be high for making decision someone in power does not like, better to do nothing or appear to have no opinions. Moreover, you don't want to appear to be making decisions, so that you don't look like threat for people who could be jealous and destroy you.

Communist system was largely characterized by passivity.

Even if the dictator himself can make decision at whim, the structures around him tend to insulate him from the rest of world. Oftentimes simply to protect this or that real world interest. Which means they end up not making decisions.
You seem to be unfamiliar with the AMT trap? I would recommend Googling it. It impacts people who are not well-off prior to exercising their options by triggering AMT upon exercise.
The Norse had some blood from around the Black Sea according to some sources, so the explanation could be simpler.
Absolutely agree. It’s a numbers game but the first 9 may not hit but the 10th makes you wealthy. So if you’re on your 6th then you will feel the equity value is worth $0
... we are not lawyers!

We cannot make productive arguments about anti-trust law!

I have done my best to respond to you respectfully and with my best ability.

I have previously responded to your specific questions with, “If then yes. But it seems unlikely” and “It’ll be more productive for us to wait for the results of the lawsuit.”, etc.

Are you willing to answer the questions I asked?
Hacking the pandemic: how Taiwan’s digital democracy holds Covid-19 at bay
I could argue that I'm much more worried about the set of events my own government can set in action against me if they so choose.

The other government has less power over me because they are thousands of miles away and don't control the institutions that I need to function as a citizen.

That being said, the foreign government might be less afraid of using my information against me, since they would be less afraid of blowback.

I guess I'm not sure. Both suck.

Better use TAILS.
Very interesting. I've been using Arq 5 for the past year, to back up my MacBook to a Linux VPS. When I read that people had migration problems with Arq 6, I decided to skip that version and hold out for a bit.

The background seems that Arq 6 was a rushed release, and some people found out that their previous backups were hosed after importing them in the new version. The interface (not the engine) was written in Electron, but people did seem to prefer it to Arq 5.

Now they seem to be moving to an all-native interface once more, with an upgrade path that seems to simply adopt Arq 5 backups as-is (not try and convert them).

All in all, Arq is still that one Mac/Windows app that does backups to your own space and is extremely simple to set up.
I bought the Chinese version, and PopOS as an Ubuntu derivative is working quite well. You need the mainline kernel for the screen brightness adjustment to work though.
Plenty of companies have justified negative P/E, which is worse than 896, and still worse than even 10,000. In fact, their share price kept going up all the way until their P/E was strongly positive.
Your job isn‘t just to coordinate people, but help them reach consensus. If there‘s a tie, that decision is yours to make.

So:

1. You have to keep writing code to remain an effective tiebreaker
2. You still need to be a badass engineer in order to hire and keep exceptional talent who‘s looking up to you for mentorship. Respect and excellence are non-negotiable ingredients in a working meritocracy.

Sure you can also work outside of a meritocracy, but results and engineering happiness/productivity is usually subpar.

So that‘s exactl why the hunt is on for those unicorn engineers who can also socialize: It‘s proven to work.
Dictatorships can be quite a mess when it comes to enforcing laws unrelated to keeping power. These laws tend to turn onto soft of weapon to be used or not depending on whether you want harass someone or not.

This happened in both Nazi system and Communist system. Both were high corruption a lot of petty crime normalized society (and a lot of other petty crime severely punished depending who done it and what was done).
Http://adnansiddiqi.me

And http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Both,esp blog helped to get job and gigs.
Not every org has them though depending on size, I’m a lead who does a lot of what she describes and there is no level beyond mine that isn’t pure management (which I don’t want if I’m honest).

When it comes down to it my role is a lot of ad-hoc dealing with bun fights before they come actual fires.
Read it as "Compiling World of Warcraft", reading first paragraph wondering what the hell does Word has to do with it.
Is $900k in the bank a lot of money for as large and important an organization as Debian? That is how much the Mozilla Corporation earns every 18 hours. Even if the staff are volunteers, having rainy day spending seems prudent.
I didn't know what EAB is, and it was hard to google:

https://ietf-wg-acme.github.io/acme/draft-ietf-acme-acme.htm...
"I'm not gonna discuss the finer details with people on HN who are more than likely able to exploit the same discoveries if I share too much .."

Very feasible.
Oh, you mean because it will validate even qualified keys that arn't defined on req and opt if they have a corresponding spec?

I admit, that's surprising. Not sure why they made it so.
Is Rust Functional? (2018)
Diversity dilutes your return as it regresses to the mean
Try to develop for Android.

Lots of very relevant details aren't in Android developer documentation, rather scattered around in Stack Overflow, G+ (when it existed), Twitter, Medium or the developer personal blog.

Apparently the team keeps forgeting that Android has its own documentation website.
There are functions in log.go that emit message to stdout (thinking about it, I need to send warnings and above to stderr).

The function err(), in addition to sending a message to stdout, also causes an exit of the process. But it does so only if ExitOnError is turned on; which is on by default, and can be turned off by setting environment variable EXIT_ON_ERROR=true.

I have converted that Gist into a standalone Git repo, and hope to update it to add more improvements (like the stderr change, above) to showcase how to leverage GoLang for scripting.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~gurjeet/GoLang_Scripting_Example
There is a role like you're describing at some companies, often called a technical program/project manager. They're responsible for managing schedules, communication, etc.

The difference with a staff engineer is that TPMs are not expected to be technical experts, while a staff/principal engineer is. So they're not just routing information between stakeholders, they're also synthesizing and evaluating, partly responsible for the project going well and empowered to make changes they think necessary.

All of that takes a lot of experience in the trenches, having seen many projects succeed and fail. It also requires a lot of trust and respect, which takes experience to cultivate.
What companies currently have the best software engineering culture?
And as any large software project eventually collapses on its own weight of complexity, so do societies when their tax and law codes become too complicated for citizens to comprehend and only clerks, priests and lawyers can be hired to help them navigate the code of the organization.

Complexity slowly kills organizations and whole civilizations. If there ever is a silver bullet, it would be aggressive pursuit of simplicity of systems.
I really love your work, but in comparison to how easy v1 was to configure, the new JSON stuff is "here be dragons" level. For me at least.

This is, however, a nitpick in the grand scheme of things. Thanks for making caddy and keep up the great work!
I forgot one, or two:

b <= a # true
b <= a => b # assign true to b?

I'm not too thrilled about the hash-arrow - but I think it's a bit more obvious from context.
> I think we've all learned in writing classes we should avoid it as much as possible because stating the active voice is clearer.

Writing classes can be misguided.

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/grammar/passives.html
Right, but why exercise the option without next selling it? If you’re quitting, that’s a risk. And AMT is applied on the gains. So your strike is $1, valuation currently at $100 and you pay tax on the $99 gain. Unless it’s Theranos that valuation wont go back to $1, so yes, you’re privileged.
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I firmly believe that some parts of the AI community have a vast overestimation of their capabilities.

AGI is not 50 years away - it is unknowably far in the future. It may be a century, it may be a millenium. We just know far too little about the human mind to make any firm prediction - we're like people in Ancient Greece or 1800s England trying to predict how long it would take to develop technology to reach the moon.

We are at the level where we can't understand how the nervous system of a worm works in terms of computation. Emulating a human-level mind is so far beyond our capabilities that it is absurd to even imagine we know how to do it, "we just need a little more time".
Yeah, that's definitely available in Python frameworks. (I was wrong to mention Numba - I think CuPy would be a better example: https://docs.cupy.dev/en/stable/overview.html)
The linked Wiki page says this was also true of the Alaska - Canada border:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_boundary_dispute

Alaska boundary dispute – Alaskan and Canadian claims to the Alaskan Panhandle differed greatly, based on competing interpretations of the ambiguous phrase setting the border at "a line parallel to the windings of the coast", applied to the fjord-dense region.
All You Need to Know About Motion Graphics Animation
I don't understand you. You say it doesn't seem to be the case and then quote the exact part that proves that it does.
Or clone of gitea
The repo-level comments section is an interesting touch.
basically, if they would offer 50/50-jobs in partnership with public services, where the public service guarantees job security and the Debian project guarantees some oldfashioned hacker-spirit, people would fly at these (or at least I would. People could spend 50% of the time for Debian and push OSS adoption in the public service and develop the basic CRUD in the remaining time.

But.... sadly this is not going to fill the coffers of politicians and consultants alike, so things like these will just be daydreaming until a majority of people is fed up with corruption and not braindamaged enough to believe extremist bullshit.
They've already mass-produced orbital rockets which are the cheapest way to space, put a payload out past the orbit of Mars, landed multiple orbital boosters simultaneously and produced the first production full flow staged combustion engine. Alone those are incredible achievements but they also have a viable pathway to Mars, the Moon or other bodies in the solar system. I expect they'll land cargo around 2024 and send humans in the next few synods after that on a demo mission.
The treatment in the actual text of the book is rather different, and goes into some delightful detail concerning Tarzan's self-study program, which begins at the age of 10 or so:

"Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers, numerous picture books, and a great dictionary. All of these he examined, but the pictures caught his fancy most, though the strange little bugs which covered the pages where there were no pictures excited his wonder and deepest thought."

These are materials his parents has gathered to take to their Colonial posting for the express purpose of educating their infant son over the next several years; he just gets a rather late start on the program.

"He did not accomplish it in a day, or in a week, or in a month, or in a year; but slowly, very slowly, he learned after he had grasped the possibilities which lay in those little bugs, so that by the time he was fifteen he knew the various combinations of letters which stood for every pictured figure in the little primer and in one or two of the picture books."

He takes several more years to piece together some of the mysteries of verbs and modifiers... I've always found it a fascinating thought experiment about language formation, given the era. In this context, I suppose the Hollywood presentation of Tarzan could be considered an application of the critical period hypothesis (had it existed at the time).
So if I understand correctly, during WWII, so many Jews were trying to enter Germany, they had to build camps where they were kept before being deported?

Edit: To clarify, I'm pointing out there is a huge, gigantic difference between trying to keep people out of a country, and trying to keep them in. Conflating the two is beyond dishonest.
We tried GPT-3 for our email startup (Mailscript), initially as a fancy way to detect and understand the content of an email. That didn't work out great, because it's really prone to false positives and ultimately requires more work than doing fancy Regex. We're hopeful it will solve other problems we'll run into though, but we're not going to push for it before we find the problems.

I'll share the lessons learned from the implementation if that's interesting to people here.
Actually it's a great example, because regardless of what microsoft says, it doesn't actually include python, just an empty executable that exits and tells you to download python from the windows store. You have to manually fix you path to get that folder out if you want to download it through some other way, too.
Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize
So people who are sterotypically nerds do better at sterotypically nerdy things? Did the study account for the possibility that maybe those personality traits corresponded to being members of a shared cultural context, which helped their chances of code being merged because people like people like themselves?

Edit: but the bit about personality difference contradicts what i said, so maybe not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_in...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/concentration-camp

No, that’s what they are. That’s what you call such a camp.
Cloud backend: goLang (docker friendly, built-in concurrency)
string quotation is a very interesting topic, one variation I would like in a config file is a single backtick that continues up to the first line break
It’s a good sign that Monero is offering real privacy if the government doesn’t like it.
If you search the book you will find samples like:

sum: xValue with: yValue
"sums two values"
^ xValue + yValue

That is where commentString gets used.

Several Lisp variants also have a similar approach.
It's just part of the lingo, a tool to communicate. The TCP/IP model ignores the physical layer making it a less useful tool.
Because anything that does not exist on Windows is useless, of course...
Speak for yourself. I use X11 forwarding a few times a week, and it works fine for the things I need it for.

"It doesn't work for me, therefore nobody needs it," isn't a valid argument.

And thinking about it a bit, it wouldn't have made any sense to keep the feature around for so long if it weren't useful.
You need to read up on the issue. Links to get you started:

- https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/sections/the-...

- https://thestartuplawblog.com/immediately-exercisable-isos-t...
- Not sure if it's still the case in most recent versions, but apparently w3m used to be snappier (I suspect there is some blocking still happening in eww, or maybe it's just that it loads emacs/elisp more).

- w3m just ignores colours, while eww applies the ones it recognizes, though in newer versions it can be disabled (it seemed like a major misfeature to me, but YMMV, and it's not that relevant anymore).

- Being written in elisp, eww is more hackable and generally fits a bit better into emacs.

Both render reasonable HTML subsets fine, can load images and handle forms.
Cryonics, Mindfulness, Psychedelics, Nobody Cares, Revolution, History Has Begun
Ask HN: Self-hosted micro-PaaS recommendations?
US did more or less drone-strike this American and his 16 year-old son for criticizing the county on social media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

The difference between 'recruiter' and a guy who sent some emails to some people is unfortunately a distinction that is up to some dweeb with more top-secret security clearances than medals on a North Korean general.

I assume it's the same thing in China, they just have more dweebs that can disappear people.
Being Finnish: A Guide for Soviet Spies
I do too. But I think that ship has sailed.
I (native English) first interpreted your comment as saying that "letsencrypt" is promoted. The other person probably read it the same way.
Font rendering was matter on Low-DPI monitors but IMO not much matter for HiDPI monitors because some techniques like anti-aliasing is no more needed. Fonts are still important.
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Huh, TIL. Investopedia only says "may also include early investors" [0]. I've checked the S-1's of some companies.

Cloudflare's S-1 has a 180 day lockup for "Our executive officers, directors, and the holders of substantially all of our capital stock"

In One Medical's S-1 "We, our directors, executive officers and the holders of substantially all of our equity securities, have agreed" to 180 day lockup.

In the Unity S-1 they have "certain holders of our common stock": "All of our directors and executive officers and certain holders of our common stock and securities exercisable for or convertible into our common stock, are subject to lock-up agreements that restrict their ability to transfer such securities for a period of 180 days after the date of this prospectus", and apparently they allow selling of 30% of the stock within the first two days of trading. Couldn't find any reference on who those certain holders are.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/ipolockup.asp
Conclusions about ROS and the Future of Last Mile Delivery
Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
Setting aside the question of Anduril, “concentration camp” is a general term that is not specific to Nazi Germany’s death camps. The U.S. operated concentration camps for people (including U.S. citizens) of Japanese national origin during WWII.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/concentration-camp

The topic is super partisan right now, but in the long run, the current U.S. detention centers near the southern border have a good chance of being considered concentration camps because of the intense and overt focus on the national origin and ethnicity of those detained. Immigrants of other ethnicities, even those without entry visas or other documentation problems, are not being similarly detained.
Our laws are not so rigorous a system that we need to be worried about how to handle determining whether or not a computer program halts for the purpose of enforcing a law against writing programs that don't halt. Enforcement frequently differs based on whether laws are even remembered, and the last time the US federal government attempted just to count the number of laws they failed and gave up. Remember, the incompleteness theorem says that a consistent system can't prove its own consistency. Amidst the mess and imprecision of any legal system there's no chance that consistency is preserved anyway.
Thanks for that. Would you be able to link/quote the relevant section? I'm personally interested in it, but my German language skills are extremely limited.
"accidents happen [in LAN]", "at least the router is exact (for the most part)"

What does this mean?

Then towards the end... "the packet is recycled". What?
Why should RocketCake be included in the list?
I make that Faang salary elseware already. Sorry boo
Interesting question. As someone else pointed out, TPM is a role more like what you’re describing.

For Staff+ engineers, communication and high level architecture are just the tip of the iceberg. You have to understand the problem domain and the solution domain, be able to come up with good technical solutions (which is generally a collaborative process), and sell others on these ideas. Then you have to follow through with implementing them yourself and leading others working with you on them. If you don’t have the technical depth to understand the details, you’re not going to succeed at that. If you haven’t already internalized a lot of the details through your past work, you’re not going to have enough time to both learn the technical details and do all the communication, implementation and other parts of your job.
> a lot of the perceived instability in the economy is _caused_ or at least much amplified by the nature of stock markets.

Where did you get this idea? I don't see anyone saying it. Consider what might happen if you freeze the ability for people to borrow money. The stock market allows capital to move around more freely.

I notice this is your first comment in a year and a half. Welcome back.
Thanks for mentioning https://versoly.com/

One of our coolest features especially for the HN crowd is a code editor built into the browser that updates the website in real time.

Something that I felt was missing from all the other website builders at the time and still is.
Some wild guesses: representation would be one's identity. Maori are supposed to have used depictions of their moko[1] as equivalents to signatures among us, and I can imagine it would be helpful for traders to be able to describe their agent, several months away, by their tattoos instead of relying on personal introductions.

As to being heavily tattooed, I'd imagine it implied an elite status proof-of-work. It takes several sessions with a cooperative artist to do a full body tattoo, and if one "doesn't deserve" the body art, that leaves a large window during which poseurs would be liable to retributive violence from the legit.

Then again, maybe they just enjoyed body art. For instance, I could easily imagine a Rus tattooing a new islamic dome (albeit in green instead of golden[2]) for every season they spent trading, far away from home.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kwIkF6LFDc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpuBgLBrhfo
mild, flu-like symptoms. Just describes how I feel since february and I'm not sure, whether it's for a hidden Covid (business travelled to Spain, when they found their first case, around 2 weeks, before they closed down...) or the depressive mood-swings I had in the past.
In case you're not aware, that site is run by an ex-Debian-dev with an axe to grind. He's been proactively trolling the project for at least a year now. The project has its issues, but let's be very clear: this is one troll with far too much time on his hands.