skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you either don't know what an externality is, or you don't understand how plastic is an externality. In the second case, I literally cannot help you. Try to imagine yourself as a member of the ecosystem which is actively collapsing? The oxygen you are breathing isn't made in a lab.

The creation, purchase, and disposal of plastic has consequences for people that are not involved in that chain, and therefore have no ability to be compensated (or in the case where those consequences produce a societal benefit, compensate) in this transaction.

This is a very common market failure. Most "transactions" actually effect everybody. One of the roles of government (and I suspect there are some radical economists that would say the only role of government) is to measure these external costs of transactions, and tax or subsidize the transactions accordingly. Externalities represent an essentially infinite amount of market failure, and the heuristics that are employed for dealing with them are almost necessarily very crude.

In the case of bottles, we are saying "Hey, we estimate the environmental damage of one plastic bottle at %d, and we are charging you that amount to sell one".
> Essentially they will have a full overview of the Arm ecosystem - will lots of confidential information

This is the real danger among everything.
> Feeney worked in private equity. PR are strip & sell firms.

Chuck Feeney didn't work in PE, and he wasn't one of those creatures you despise. He invented Duty Free Shopping in WWII, selling booze, smokes and cars to returning servicemen. He pioneered airport shopping, doing all the hard, clever work himself, and spent the bulk of his life giving the billions earned to good causes anonymously.

Why? He didn't care about money or reputation. He wanted to make the world a better place.

Wikipedia Bio of Chuck Feeney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney

Biography of Chuck Feeney
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2842145-the-billionaire-...

> Philanthropy exists to launder the reputations of the rich

It can be used that way, but Chuck Feeney didn't need or want that. That's why he gave anonymously right up until international money laundering regulations post 9/11 forced him to reveal his identity.
Yeah, I addressed this later on. It's very contextual. You're assuming/inferring there's some strict moral framework, and then I walk into that room and say "fuck you for working at facebook, get out of my face". No! I would never!

I would still ask a new grad the question, and maybe I would put more weight on the answer if they had made it to a senior role.

>It just seems wrong to cause trouble to others because they may have had this only chance to join the elite FAANG crowd and now they pay for it because of people with your line of thinking.

I have never worked at FAANG and I don't intend to, to be honest. I did pass on an offer at A, earlier in my career.

>I have even met so many people with years of experience that are on the outside of the FAANG wall looking in with jealousy and longing.

Well, if they ever get in and show up in my interview panel, they should be prepared for a softball ethics question. That seems like a small price to pay, tbh
How Liberals Opened the Door to Libertarian Economics
If you know nothing else about a book, it seems a pretty fair bet that one about war is more important than one about beards.

Let me put another way. You need to rebuild civilization from nothing. There's two books left from the pile of rubles and you can only save one before the whole thing collapses. One appears to be about war, the other teaches the best method to maintain the most handsome old school handlebar moustache.

The question is, are you serious about this civilization thing or are you just out of your mind?
I'd be good with TypeScript running on the JVM, even.
The idea that inheritance tax is a 'death tax' seems like an inaccurate pejorative. The recipient of wealth is the one being taxed, there is no extant individual whose death is being taxed. In almost all large transfers of wealth we have some amount of taxation. If inheritance tax is the exception, it encourage dynasties to hoard wealth to confer the associate power and status on their families.

This wealth would be more efficiently allocated by the innovators of new generations. It is true that the economy isn't a zero sum game, but we can't pretend that so much new pie is created each generation that dynasties hogging the majority doesn't preclude new, more innovative money, from establishing the positions they might otherwise we allowed to, for the benefit of all participants in the economy. The velocity of money matters, and allowing dynasties to guard their wealth indefinitely is bad for everyone.

This also pretends that capital confers no significant power. The reality is that the inheritors of the ultra rich will also inherit their ability to influence society. While not ideal that the ultra rich themselves have this ability to the extent that they do, to be able confer it on an almost arbitrary set of individuals is additionally hazardous, as they have not set themselves apart from other individuals on any meritorious basis.
Sold out until this Friday when this is all supposed to be over, unless it's a very weak filter that won't do anything for smoke. Show me where you can get genuine N95 masks (as a non-essential worker) as well please. There are tons of counterfeit masks going around.
In 2021, studying for the interview will not be memorising algorithms, it will be memorising which past jobs to pretend to regret.
Something like this:

def sattolo(a, key):
n = len(a)
keylength = len(key)
j = 0
for i in range(n - 1):
j = (j + a[i] + key[i % keylength]) % n
a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i]

(key needs to be a byte string because it's easier that way)

--edit--

Doesn't work for producing a singlar path:

>>> x = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
>>> sattolo(x, b'zanzibar')
>>> x
[0, 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 8, 6, 9, 7]
> or hidden away as art investments inside of storage containers.

That doesn't make any sense. They pay for that art, and the money goes to the people that owned the art previously. Either they stick it into an account in the Caymans, or a regular/investment account, or they just have it available, but purchasing assets with it is not money hidden away as an art investment.

A significant amount of wealth may be in assets, but that's the same for most people that's aren't poor (i.e. that own a house). The money used to purchase those assets is still circulating though.
Your examples are, more or less, how I was taught to construct proofs. It's just much clearer and easier to read/follow than the prose-style in that Wikipedia page. And you can always supplement one with the other, just like the code example. Technically unnecessary since there was a prose description of the algorithm, but from a readability/understandability perspective it's immensely useful.
I'd really rather not download a whole app for this so my apologies if this answer is readily available in the app, but...

I keep seeing these kinds of conversions (AQI to equivalent cigarettes per day) but I never see numbers on how long you need to be outside for that to be the case. Is it based on assuming someone on the coast (where AC is rare) having to keep their windows open all day? Is it based on 1-2 trips outside per day? How does it incorporate exposure time into the conversion rate?
Names everywhere could just as easily mean a culture that celebrates wealth and the wealthy as superior to others, because after all, their names are everywhere. A happenstance donation by a rich person in this society may mean far more than a significant donation by someone less well off. This may create a culture where people see helping others as a suckers game unless you get something back, rather than a moral obligation.

On the other hand, a culture of anonymous donations (and less wealth signaling) could indicate a culture where everyone, no matter how rich or poor, is expected to do their part to help others.

It depends a lot on what people's takeaways are from these acts, which are shaped by cultural expectations and norms. One should consider the cultural externalities of donations in addition to purely the dollar amounts.
Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're using a cloud-based linux server, most of them have "mail":

some_long_command | mail -s "Command finished" email@example.com
It’s great for web development when I want the same code to run client side and server side.
I've been involved in politics and software a long time. I was an elected Hillary Clinton DNC Delegate in 2008. I'm a senior software engineer today. And I'm not sure Democracy will survive contact with social media. I have a solution.

1. Ancient History - Historically politics was a hobby of the elite. You had to go out of your way, sometimes into the cold to attend party meetings. The discussions were academic and professional. People who were involved in politics had their lives very much together, on both sides of the isle.

2. Social Media was invented. I had the opportunity to work with a very fantastic and kind person. My role in the organization was software engineer. This person's role was warehouse operations. Because of Social media this person, who would otherwise never be politically engaged, rocks social media all day long. With the advent of Facebook on mobile, this person tweets political memes all day long. This person spends Xor time on reddit, and "chan" sites. This person now represents the main stream. This person is awesome, but shouldn't be shaping policy.

3. Solutions. I have a number of ideas. I think we should move away from ideas such as ballot initiatives and direct democracy and embrace the fact we are a Republic. We need professionals to determine policy not the twitter mob. Another solution I would seriously implement is a rule. No politics on social media. If its political, flag it, delete it. This would take care of twitters toxicity problem, and facebooks foreign interference problems.

I'm spitballing ideas here, but I am not sure Democracy can survive first contact with social media. It's a mess. people are angry. If you work at one of these big tech companies, I'd love to know your take!
Yes, it's absolutely contextual.

At the very least, asking a softball question will help filter out someone I might not want to personally work with.

I actually think interviewing really sucks, because you spend an hour getting to know someone who you'll potentially spend 40 hours a week for years with? That's a whole separate topic, though.
You would hope, but no. Wood smoke is still deadly.[0]

[0]https://www.stoveteam.org/why-stoves
Glass is also somewhat difficult to recycle. The actual recycling is easy, but different colors of glass needs to be sorted. And glass is heavy, so it’s costly to transport.
Of course, modern planes, known for their constant crashing and terrible safety standards.
Close to a million years by the best guess.

Which is thousands of years... about a thousand such thousands.
I've always found differential privacy very interesting. Very much looking forward to reading about additional tools around it.
> If companies want to hire experienced senior talent, then streamlining isn't going to be a good idea. They need to recruit them, and that means not alienating them right away.

Why would you want to work for a company which has such a hard time recruiting and retaining senior talent that they need to pander to them?
Building a new one would take more time
"One lesson that GPT-3 might be teaching us: the tell-tale signature artifact of simulation is not the spiky glitch, it's the smooth, shallow, facile surface. It's not the errors, it's a certain kind of boring flawlessness, that's what we should be on the lookout for."

These models could be trained on any arbitrary corpus of writing, from any one author or combinations of authors.

Let's see the the critics complain about "boring flawlessness" when the model is trained on the works of Shakespeare, Voltaire, Buckowski, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, or Hunter S Thompson... or some combination of the above.
At >$6 Billion per, I don't think we're going to be build thousands any time soon.
I doubt any CEO would admit to utilizing people who "lack integrity" but are otherwise ruthlessly effective.
Ethos matters, especially when there's money involved and you're taking advice from someone. You'd be disturbed if that someone is a bot. Maybe you shouldn't be, because sometimes financial advisors are worse than bots, but people don't know that.

As for the stories that merely describe stock movements without any real analysis, I myself would read those. I'm completely fine with that as long as there's reliable QA on the output.
But a video covering that would be 30 minutes. I can read it in a lot less. Having been through academia, you do after all learn to read quickly :-)
I don’t know why you believe this, but it is false.
I think it's really only the dullest minds that latch on to this kind of stuff.

If a random person on the internet making broad generalizations about the millions of people in your "generation" feels important to you personally, you need to assess your life priorities.
This makes sense technically, but it still doesn't answer the question of why it isn't fixed. Is it really that hard to experiment with caching policies? Is there secretly only one developer at instacart?
I think you're reading into it too much and injecting politics. I don't know how else to describe it without de-anonymizing other than "it was actually bad and the PM who came up with it did a bad job designing the fraud cases".
This is actually based on a classification system for military officers first outlined in 1933 by a German general named Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord
> though frankly if letting people feel good with a little recognition results in more donations then that seems well worth it.

I disagree. This is an attempt to buy legacy and erase their past. It benefits only those who make the donations, and whatever causes happen to pique their particular interests. It also creates yet another organization of people dependent upon the good will and whim of a single supporter.

> to encourage others to give

I would presume the tax breaks are enough.

> and otherwise to direct that attention towards the cause rather than yourself.

Large portions of non-profit budgets are specifically spent on awareness and on generating future donations. There is no need to slap your last name on the side of a building for this purpose.
It would be good if there were a technology neutral expectation that all waste from energy production must be handled and addressed in both short term and long term.
iOS 14
This was as favorite of mine in highschool. My friends and I would all play this after school.

We found a bug that made the 1 player missions way too easy. The range of the sonic tanks wasn't really a range so much as a path that the waves took for the duration of the sound effect. We found that by turning the speed of the game up, the shots would travel way too far and made them really overpowered.
It's like the government is matching your donations, and in the case of certain charities, that means the government is effectively funding lobbyists for you.

"Loopholes" are often in the eye of the beholder.
Hey but it worked didn't it lol
You wouldn't hire a former prostitute who put themselves through education to better themselves and get a mainstream job?
Remembering my father
> just a way for those in control of society to control us more efficiently

OK QAnon
It rather seems that the beginning of the end was the desperate so-called "deal" done with GM. It's nicely, or brutally, summed up in a Seeking Alpha article [1]:

The deal shows Nikola doesn’t have any technology of its own, be it battery technology or fuel cell technology.

The deal also shows that Nikola is willing to forego any possibility of an economic return, just to further the story and pump the stock.

Arstechnica also has a piece [2] today about the deal.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4374438-gm-and-nikola-fine-...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/why-gm-is-sticking-with...
> The filesystem does provide guarantees when you use fsync() and fdatasync(). Postgres relies on these guarantees. So does RocksDB. Pebble's usage of fsync/fdatasync mirrors RocksDB's. Our crash testing is not testing the filesystem guarantees, only that we're correctly using fsync/fdatasync (which is hard enough to get right).

For anyone unfamiliar, fsync/fdatasync are infamous for all sorts of subtle sharp edges: https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc20/presentation/rebello

Having synchronous replication via paxos/raft can mitigate a lot of this.
Thanks for correcting my typo. Yes.

I've read first hand accounts about what happened in Venezuela. About twenty years ago, Chavez turned a democracy into a dictatorship. How could this possibly happen?

Well, one ingredient was that the people who were against Chavez repeated over and over that the dictator was not logical.

In Venezuela, this type of argument did not persuade Chavez voters. It did the opposite. Chavez won and the country is now a dictatorship.

I see the same thing happening here. Trump supporters with a high school diploma are personally insulted when a bunch of PhD's get together and declare that their candidate is not scientific.
Arcane might be the wrong word ... but how many people leave an economics class actually understanding comparative advantage? I would bet (just on the basis of my mostly college educated friends and family) that most don't actually retain the knowledge if they even learned in the first place.
I find it repulsive that no one is discussing that the original author was doxed by a news organization and this was done after a "whistle-blower" leaked their memo to the news org. One person discussing something internally with their peers, and maybe trying to make things better, has their life ruined now because everyone on the internet knows their name.
If you can do some really basic soldering then any i2c capable board (like raspberry) + PMSA003I + ccs811 and influx+grafana or something to dump the data into shoule give you the monitoring+archive solution.
I just feel like adding free onto the beginning is more harmful than helpful at this point.

So many people have been conditioned that "Free is bad, and steals your data". Which is kind of ironic, but unfortunately true in my experience.
Rightly so. Smoke inside the house is a leading cause of death. [0]

[0]https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-a...
This is a criticism that has been made of consumer computing since its inception: Even if you're versed in the technical details, you can still get misled.

In all cases it helps to know your must-haves and prioritize accordingly, given that it's rarely the case that you can "just" get the new one and be happy: even if it benchmarks well, if it isn't reliable or the software you want to run isn't compatible, it'll be a detriment. So you might as well wait for reviews to flesh out those details unless you are deadset on being an early adopter. The specs say very little about the whole of the experience.

I actually hate the idea of having a high-end GPU for personal use these days. It imposes a larger power and cooling requirement, which just adds more problems. I am looking to APUs for my next buy - the AMD 4000G series looks to be bringing in graphics performance somewhere between GT 1030 and GTX 1050 equivalent which is fine for me, since I mostly bottleneck on CPU load in the games I play now(hello Planetside 2's 96 vs 96 battles, still too intense for my 2017 gaming laptop) and these APUs now come in 6 and 8 core versions with the competitive single-thread performance of more recent Zen chips. I already found recordings of the 2000G chips running this game at playable framerates, so two generations forward I can count on being a straight up improvement. The only problem is availability - OEMs are getting these chips first.
Related tangent: I remember being floored years ago by a realization that a seemingly-innocuous bit of CSS (the `:visited` pseudo-selector) could represent a significant privacy risk or aid to a phishing attack, if it were a _readable_ property.
Wikipedia Bio of Chuck Feeney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney

Biography of Chuck Feeney https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2842145-the-billionaire-...

For a great read, and to get a sense of who Chuck Feeney really is, track down a copy of Hugh Lunn's book The Great Fletch, the story of Chuck's mate Ken Fletcher from his Hong Kong days.

https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/the-great-fletch-story-of-a-tenn...
Actually it takes a minute to put four sensors on and calibrate your posture before class. I’ve used it since my gym shut down in March, and do not plan to return there any time soon. This sensor kit with the free app with cool classes totally transformed my practice with respect to the depth, focus and effectiveness. Imagine having a private teacher who is paying attention to you, measuring your posture in Asana, gives you immediate feedback and praises you when you do it right... and it costs a fraction of $ you would pay for your private session. None of the big fitness brands come even close to this technologically. It’s a future of home yoga practice whether some may resist “invasion” of tech in yoga or not.
Interesting! I spent some time recently looking into technical solutions for marine aquaculture industry problems, and I saw the same concept proposed as a preventative measure for salmon farms, to reduce sea lice infestation. It was referred to as a "bubble curtain", or something like that. IIRC, I may have also seen it proposed as a measure against harmful algae blooms (HABs).
Their large incomes are made possible by infrastructure. The analogy doesn't make much sense to me since even the most prolific billionaire didn't build much of this infrastructure.
Yes, other countries have them. They're not willing to produce them at the higher cost required to obey environmental laws. I'm not sure how patent laws are a huge issue here: rare earths may have increasing market demand, but they've been extracted and processed for countless years. Only innovations China has made in the last ~20 years would be covered by patents. I'm sure there have been some innovations, but I'm also sure our other mining industries in the US would be happy to leverage their patent portfolio in a patent war if China wasn't willing to work on reasonable licensing terms.

A global strategic bottleneck in China for these things doesn't require patent or environmental law violations, it just requires us to pay more for them. For a critically strategic resource like this, the US should ensure a consistent supply chain independent of geopolitical concerns with China. And if China were to cut off supply then concern for their patents goes out the window too.
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That was my original request! But there are "readability" concerns with a "non-standard" date format. I died a little inside when I heard those words.