skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would less regulation lead to less inflation?
The CEO is one piece of the administrative puzzle for a company that large (>100k employees).
I mean, this seems to be the basic understanding of every single epidemiologist and public health expert, and also correlates with everything we know about the physical mechanism of how COVID spreads.
Levels of Abstraction in Engineering Management
Can gaming workloads simulate the 100% of all cores that a parallel large scale native C++ compilation will generate?
Keep in mind this is not a government ban, but a private business saying we don't want your lies and garbage here. Every restaurant has the right to get rid of someone destroying their place, why can't Facebook?
Stances that genuinely are an affront to human dignity are already prohibited under harassment rules. Banning politics in the workplace has no bearing on this.

Other political issues may very well be important to people, and they're free to act on them in their own time. Your co-workers are a captive audience, and it's not appropriate to abuse that relationship for political activism. People who want to be politically active can do so on their own time. I would not take issue with, say, a Mormon co-worker who goes door to door on weekends and takes PTO to go on missionary trips. I would however, take issue with proselytizing to co-workers. I regard politics the same way.
eBay and PayPal
Poles are the most positive of EU of any EU country [1], even if at the same time they might be quite opposed to certain things (certainly the 'narrow majority' right wing groups are obviously very opposed). That does not translate into Euroskepticism.

But Poland would be done without the EU - imagine if 'New Mexico' were cut off form the US, it would be devastating. It's not just the transfer payments, it's the trade, quality standards, participation in so many groups, financial networks, zillions of Poles able to work abroad and remit payments, the Poles do not have a sophisticated diplomatic corps so they'd be starting from 'nothing' in trying to make international trade deals and nobody would care.

From a geo-strategic perspective, Putin & Co. may very well press hard to meddle in their affairs, trying to pull them into the Eurasian Economic Union aka the Neo Russian Empire.

So in almost every way, Poland wins tremendously from EU participation and that's probably unanimous from every perspective. Arguments between Duda and EU is huff and puff, partly it's just populism, partly it's negotiation, partly it's Duda trying to draw the line at where he believes power is etc. etc. but it's not existential - there is zero chance Poland is leaving the EU.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/03/19/europeans-cred...
This is a very important insight -- in fact the main value of the distinction between the two.

"The Facebook" had an initial viral value that bootstrapped its network in a way that, say, HotOrNot did not.
A quirk of Silicon Valley culture is that senior employees on the inside of it tend to be rather sophisticated about how they think about equity, and they also tend to be rather reticent about talking about that externally, because of factors such as legal and PR risk.

This is immensely frustrating to me, because thinking lucidly about equity is incredibly important for career planning for engineers who are startup-adjacent, work at AppAmaGooBookSoft, or who are in markets where those firms' offers set market terms. I think this sets us up for a continuance of the class system, where people who talked about this subject around the dinner table or have a frat brother who was in Google in 2004 know the score, and people who grew up in Chicago and didn't know what Google was in 2003 do not, even when they're evaluating career options which are heavily dependent on correctly valuing equity.

I did not always think lucidly about equity, and overly trusted the representations of folks on Internet watering holes who said that equity was likely to be nearly worthless. I would like to think I've learned a bit over the years.

I apologize for being indirect here; feel free to ask me about equity in some place where it will not be reasonably read as a comment on a firm I owe various duties to. (Offer broadly open to HNers.)
Not talking about your salary only benefits the employer and allows them to deflate workers wages.
Oh please... EVERY SINGLE piece of software has some security issue. Apple is no exception. Assuming they should be perfect is just petty BS and short sighted.

Also, keep in mind that security and privacy, while related, are not the same things.

You can have privacy (i.e. minimal data gathering) and poor security. You can also have poor privacy but amazing security.

Not sure why I'm feeding the troll here but whatever.
Every time I read about Stripe, it seems that the most interesting people work/have worked there (Julia Evans, Aditya Mukerjee, Mudge, Brandur, Greg Brockman). And it seems like a great culture.

But the CEO's "progress studies" thing repels me because it reeks of the Kochs' efforts to implant conservatism into education. I don't want to enable that. It sucks.

BTW, I am one of the people who had their YC app reviewed by patio11 and it was a great experience. It's amazing how much time he's able to dedicate to individual Stripe Atlas participants -- thanks!
On the other hand, at least in the US, we don't have much protection when banks themselves take money from our accounts. E.g. back in 2009, banks made $37 billion from overdraft fees [1], thanks to shady practices like reordering transactions to maximize overdrafts. There was a class action suit about it, but it was a token victory, with very little money going back to the victims.

This doesn't negate your point, but I would just argue that we pay a heavy price for our heavily regulated financial system, between bank fees, card processing fees, foreign transaction fees, trading fees, etc.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2012/02/28/147573947/the-fight-over-over...
By the time you have the decision, yeah, that's true.

There are other situations where the game is over before you get a decision.

Both GCG and GGC are eliminated half the time before you get to make a decision. But CGG is never eliminated before you get to make a decision.

Once you're making a decision and the game isn't already over, you can use this information -- that the game didn't end -- to assign a 50% chance of being in CGG, and 25% of each of the other two.
Missions are often in pursuit of political goals. (It's a political stance that promoting the use of cryptocurrency is good, and not one I share.)

But, this doesn't mean an organization has to take a position on every hot-button political issue. Even the Biden campaign, a a political organization if there ever was one, needs to focus on getting their candidate elected, and not on things that divide Democrats.

To agree on a mission doesn't mean people on the organization need to agree on everything. Putting aside any differences on stuff not related to the mission is important in being able to work together as a team.
By "don't care" I mean they don't perceive the current situation as a problem, and they view the cost of switching vendors to be too high. But either way, yes.

I think one problem with the concept of "everything is political (including supporting the status quo)" is that it provides no principled mechanism for determining what counts as "too far" (costly) for any given political cause. The nice thing about having a dictator (CEO) in this regard is that it provides a fixed point.
Do you believe end to end encryption is political? Do you believe that companies should disable E2E encryption in order to be "apolitical" in the eyes US's attorney general?

How do you believe Coinbase, a cryptocurrency corporation, will remain "a political" in the design of their systems given the changing political climate around crypto? Does that just mean bowing down to whatever the administration says? Do you believe Coinbase will remain "apolitical" is the US begins to enact policy that causes Coinbase users to find alternatives?

Do you believe Coinbase employees will have no opinion on the way the justice department handles cryptocurrency?
I am also a Tesla owner, and you can talk to Tesla owners and get their perspective on Tesla's autopilot capabilities. I have owned Tesla for 5 years, and also have a 2018 Model 3. Tesla is nowhere close to full self driving capability, and cannot still handle basic uses cases like driving on well marked freeways within lanes without randomly phantom braking.
You're forgetting the options gain value as the company grows (due to your own hard work which is the whole point!)

You're awarded $100k but then it grows to $200k by the time you start cashing it in. When you switch company you get $100k again, not the $200k you threw away.
The map is right here; you can scroll over and see the locations. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/data-centers/
> The question is not, who has the first taxi on any public road anywhere, but who first can launch 10000 of autonomous taxis and make money.

Probably Waymo

> Waymo so far is just a gigantic money fire, and even if you assume their autonomy works, many people have made arguments that the businesses case is really not very solid at all. Waymo has incredibly few ours driven on public roads outside of a limited area.

and Alphabet / Google is a money printing machine, if they get to self driving first it’s pretty much over for their competition.

> many people have made arguments that the businesses case is really not very solid at all

So self driving technology isn’t a solid business model? Why are so many companies trying to do this?

What’s stopping Waymo from patenting this after they get to an acceptable threshold and selling it to their competitors?
> I-frames in the RTSP spec

It's non-standard for the spec but is common for security industry. All of my Axis cameras support it, and some of my other vendors support it too... unfortunately it's vendor-specific but it's super useful when you're dropping someone into an pre-established stream and/or recovering from adverse stream conditions.

> I am looking for some web based RTSP streaming solutions

Start searching GH for "RTSP WebSocket" and you'll end up with a TON of stuff! It's how I had your work bookmarked in the first place.

I would also take a serious look at that previous Axis Communications lib I sent over as well for web-based stuff. One thing I'll warn you on is that you'll need to work within the HTML video element sink to look for "seek drift" and correct it when it comes up... VLC has some of these same problems too where I want to "FF to the end of the buffer" for low-latency video feeds VS. every "hiccup" bumping me further and further back on a buffer. This all gets weird for use cases like ours because the normal social contract for video is "don't lose frames", where ours is likely "give me the most up-to-date/valid video frame possible". (which is why requesting a new I-frame is SUPER useful!)

Also let me know if you know of any modern communities around this stuff... I'm seriously on Archive.org ripping through the wayback machine to learn (rtsp.org) or reading through ancient Live555 docs/GH projects... I could really use an accessible Discord channel around modern video engineering with experts like yourself in it!
Entrepreneurship: The number of new businesses in America is booming
The Model 23 Teletype connected to my Netronics ELF II was so loud I was only allowed to use it during the day.
It was slow, noisy and smelled like a mixture light Oil and electrical sparks but you could play Tiny Star Trek on it. At least until sundown, or it ran out of paper.
"patriotic education" sounds pretty close to "radical indoctrination" to me.

How about we just teach kids to think for themselves? To learn to verify things they read and how to identify a good source.
> I'm curious what your definition of political is, because my gut feeling is that (Almost) nothing is political.

Politics is more than just the rituals of government officials or what gets written about in the politics section of the newspaper:

> Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics)

For instance, this effort to create an "apolitical workplace" could probably be understood as political project to stamp out elements of bottom-up democratic political culture in favor of a more autocratic political culture. At work we keep our heads down and follow the edicts (mission) of our leaders.
Outputs are sampled from a probability distribution, and increasing the legibility effectively concentrates probability density around more likely outcomes. So you're correct that it's just altering variation. The general technique is referred to as 'adjusting the temperature of the sampling distribution'.
I picked up a i3-9100 a few months back because its was a low cost processor with ECC (for an edge/embedded solution). The problem then becomes the motherboard, and it seems intel has just shifted the ECC tax from the processor to the motherboard/chipset. That core fits on a lot of low cost motherboards, but to enable ECC requires about another $100 chipset tax.
Silence gives us the ability to work together, without silence you get to hear my hardcore religious ideas all day. Silence is our truce.
It's backwards compatible to really old versions. It wouldn't surprise me if 70% of that code was emulators for previous versions of the OS.
Ed is the standard text editor.

Ed, man! !man ed
I've just upgraded my Notebook to an HP EliteBook 835 G7, which is a 13" Notebook with a Ryzen 7 4750U. I've decked it out with 64GB Ram and a 2TB SSD. 8 Cores, 16 threads, boosting to 4,1ghz, 3 outputs capable of 4k 60hz, (2* dp over usb-c, 1 hdmi 2.0), 2 full size USB A Ports... and a lot more goodies all packed in a very supremely built chassis.

I couldn't want for more, (ok Thunderbolt, but that's not as valuable as everything else).

I'm VERY happy with it's performance and couldn't be more grateful that AMD is providing much needed competition in the CPU market, I wouldn't have gotten a machine this powerful at this size otherwise.

So yeah, i'll upgrade my Desktop to Ryzen 5950 once I get the opportunity, even if it's just to hold more fire below Intel's feet.
(As I look down and see E5540 on my laptop. Great device, going strong.)
Seems like a major pivot into very interested territory seeing as Bitcoin is not used as a medium of exchange other than by scammers.
Are you missing two zeros or am I counting incorrectly? The paper claims an improvement of 10-36 or smaller
Rigol DS1054Z is very hacakable. Quite a nice scope for a good price.
I did Computer Science at Edinburgh in the early '80s.
While there were VDUs around, there weren't enough - especially at assignment crunch time. Thus sometimes the only terminal available might be a teletype printer. So Ed was the only option! While not appropriate for major edits, it could allow you to complete some final tweaks...
The vaccine won't be 100% effective. The FDA just approves vaccines that are at least 50% effective, and with the margin of error it's possible that they will work in 30% of the population.
lld will parallelize your link step. Major improvement over ld. Barely any change to the rest of your build process.
ResEdit Reference (1995) [pdf]
I would guess that it doesn't work out that way. The Apache license has the patent clause, but it doesn't have a comparable "API copyright" clause. Though perhaps another consequence of an Oracle win is that we end up with an Apache3 license.
Netflix takes the stance 'adequate performance gets a generous severance package.' You can read more in their culture doc that made the rounds a few years ago.

Original deck: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664/

Up to date statement: http://jobs.netflix.com/culture
There is a "Support Us" link (top, left) that sends you to buymeacoffee.com
HN is one of the most negative about Tesla of any place I have seen, including car forums. The hate against Tesla and their approach is about 10x more aggressive then the skepticism of Waymo.

Also, I'm pretty sure Tesla has a lot of PhDs and probably about 100x more unit tests then Waymo as they have an gigantic amount of strange real-world corner cases that they have converted to unit-tests. There is no way Waymo has anything like that database, as they simply have never encountered all the strange scenarios Tesla see daily on the roads of China and all the other places they drive around in.
Not at all. While there is a tiny bit of truth to your bongo example, money in particular is highly political though it has been rhetorically stripped in order to make it appear as though it is not so the wealthy can make money in peace. Controlling the distribution of resources in society is a highly political question.

Who makes more money at work for example? The low level employee or the boss? Who controls what, why, and how things are produced? What the schedules are? These are smaller questions than national policy, but they are political in nature. Of course, the socialist movement sees all workplaces' workers united together as a national political project. When you swim in water all your life, you can't see it easily unless someone points it out.

Another reason "just making money" is political is because so many people can't. In a society with levels of inequality that approximate ancient kingdoms, the lowest people in society have little opportunity to "just make money" and their invisibility is a political artifice.

Put another way, what is political is the ability to _not care_ when others are suffering. People are being deported, attacked in the streets, dying of disease, etc. so keeping your head down _and make money_ during such a time is something won by virtue of class. Other people can't ignore it because politics is life and death. While exhaustion is a valid excuse to rest (I'm super tired myself), what is being asked is for solidarity and to exhibit positive humanity towards other people. A primary site of conflict and domination is the workplace -- it's just that so many of us are used to losing or out competing each other that we don't band together to win.
From entering "define political" in Google:

1. relating to the government or public affairs of a country.

Not the one the parent probably means:

2. (DEROGATORY) done or acting in the interests of status or power within an organization rather than as a matter of principle.

Whatever a company does, it relates in some way to the public affairs of a country.
Either in what you offer, or what you need to produce your offer. Your company is hopefully affecting the public affairs of your country in more than one way.
And that I think had very much a place at work.

The delineation between public affair and private matter seems to be quite arbitrary at times.

I would say abortion is a private matter, or who you marry or which combination of sex chromosomes you have, but all those things are very high on the list of things being discussed.

Here I have to say, I'm more likely to give the point, that those topics are not professionally relevant, but neither is sports.
SQL is an ISO standard. IBM would only have grounds if any part of Oracle's implementation implemented a proprietary portion of an IBM database implementation. This is the positive thing about standards, it removes ambiguity around what people can/should implement and present to users of the systems.
Thanks to Covid-19, more people than ever are banking and making payments online
This is governed by which specific cryptocurrency's monetary policy you're talking about. For example ethereum's supply is decided by a committee with people from different groups [1], while bitcoin's is basically fixed incremental supply that's built into the protocol (as of writing this comment).

[1] https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-basics/monetary-policy/
> Enabled WebGL2 by default

That has taken an absurdly long time to arrive in Safari, but better late than never!
We all seem to assume that there is an obviousness defence, because we are like fish and water.

And it makes a degree of sense - take the articles example lang.java.math.sum - there are a limited number of ways "adding up an array" can be expressed in English. All of which are obvious and based around domain jargon - all very hard to copyright.

However what interests me about this case is how fast it all unravels

Is this about the math.sum part of about the lang.java part? It cannot be the math.sum because then every other language from Rust to Python gets clobbered.

If it is about the lang.java then hey maybe Oracle has a point. But it only means "you cannot copy lang.java.math.sum and that surely is an accident of language design - for example in Python the same call is math.isinf. That's the part used in the code that I write, that's the import signature. The API.

So from my pov this should be a very narrow ruling - if the import signature is not obvious and is unique (lang.java.x) then yeah fine Google, they stole your developers.

I also wonder about how transferable the obvious part is - math.ist_unendlich is fine for german speakers. Is that obvious if the rest of the manual is in English?

And if Google had gone for lang.gava.math.sum (don't tell me it was not at least discussed :-)?

It does overall seem a big fuss over a small hill of beans. If the supreme court rules in a narrow and well defined manner they just move the industry in favour of open and free, in a broad and badly defined manner they move the industry off US shores. Neither side is that bad for the software world
On a hot day I actually start the car remotely and it automatically starts the AC a few minutes before I get into the car. Mine is a hybrid so I can do this even when it’s in my garage.
Bitcoin is massively deflationary.
It doesn't feel like this is about being 'apolitical' - it feels very political, particularly when you read https://www.wired.com/story/turmoil-black-lives-matter-polit...
If that was sarcasm, apologies. In a better world, I'd indeed assume it was, but social justice warriors have spoken to me in that manner with a straight face, and it's hard to know for sure.
We live in a scary time where lies from Qanon and similar groups are rampant and exploiting vulnerable gullible people who commit crimes based on those lies.
Books don't have a functional purpose in the same way as software. With a book, there are many ways to state the exact same fact (and the fact itself is not protected by copyright law). With a program, there's only one way to call a particular function, or to write a function declaration that an existing program can call. The exact text used in a program is relevant to its functional purpose.

A more apt analogy in the case of a reference manual is perhaps a competing manual that presented all the same maintenance information with different words, since they would achieve the same functional purpose with different expressive content.
what an amazing industry we work in! denying top talent every day because people aren't motivated enough to check emails, make phone calls, click buttons to schedule things.
HN for some reason is suppressing current events get the word out

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/1...
Faith in government declines when mobile internet arrives
The tech world is in the US, not the EU.
I recently started developing my own chips and put them on all my desktops. Thinly sliced potato, hot oil, a bit of salt… Delicious.

Seriously though, some people just don't like Apple and they make a lot of noise about it.