skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Having 5% of your workforce quit over nothing more than messaging is a catastrophic failure in people management.

> I think the CEO’s refusal to take a stance on whether Black Lives Matter is a stance in itself. It’s hard not to assume that he doesn’t agree with the organization or the statement, even if that’s not the case.

I think you're right about the second part, but I disagree that it's "nothing more than messaging." Surely it must not be about "focusing on Coinbase's mission" but rather that the Coinbase leadership feels that the Black Lives Matter issue simply is not important enough to take a stance on and thus potentially alienate some people. I strongly suspect that Coinbase would take a stance if they deemed the issue to be important enough. Would Coinbase take a stance if there was a current prominent debate over whether Black people should be allowed to vote? Or is that not related closely enough to their mission? What if the prominent debate was over whether Black people should be allowed to have bank accounts, or purchase cryptocurrencies?
I just tried it again, everything (m4, dune, opam, ocaml-lsp) installed just fine; then I created a simple hello world project (Quick start guide: https://dune.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick-start.html) and I could compile and run it. Oh, how things appear to have changed.
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Option 1 is as portable as ever, all major engines support all relevant 3D APIs, including Metal.

Option 2 was never an option for most consoles (check which ones are listed at Khronos).

Option 3, as per option 2 never had much gain on quasi universal API.
I think Cloudflare is a different kind of "edge" service than what EPYC Embedded targets, and I would think Cloudflare uses regular EPYC chips. The "edge" that EPYC Embedded, Xeon D, etc target is, I think, more about the hardware configurations (smaller enclosures, minimal number of drives and other devices) and the type of facility (usually not a colocation facility, so power and heat are of significantly more concern). But the workloads are still very much server-class.

EPYC Embedded chips are competitive with Intel's offerings (Xeon D, etc), but as I said Intel's ecosystem is richer--for example, more, better motherboards. It's not enough that AMD's chips are competitive with Intel's. AMD has a huge ecosystem handicap, and so either they need to improve the ecosystem or sell chips that are dramatically better than Intel's, and for EPYC Embedded neither is the case. Long term a better ecosystem is necessary for AMD to survive because a broader product and customer base brings consistent income and mindshare--staying power. I would hope and assume AMD is working closely with cloud vendors on their proprietary hardware, but the results are opaque; judging by traditional channels (Supermicro, etc), AMD hasn't even begun to close the gap.
I'm no expert on RBG, but I always pegged her as a Neo-Lib, rather than a Leftist.
IBM still has plenty of sexy hardware stuff - mainframe and POWER (AIX not so much) are pretty impressive.

That z/OS has tens of millions of lines of code surprised me the other day. It's not like it needs to support 23 brands of mouse and dozens of GPU architectures.
If you follow Patrick on Twitter you get used to this - even to the point where I didn’t realize this was from his blog but intuited it was a quote from him just by the style of writing.

I believe what he’s getting at here is close to the following: Stripe isn’t just providing payment (Reliable capture on success, aka Stripe gets money on revenue generation), but is also trying to provide tools to make the B2B model easier to deploy, based on their experience with these business models. Stripe Atlas or Sigma are probably a good example of those types of services - they’re trying to use their payments play to also push for selling you Business Intelligence or Legal.

Indexing is just taking knowledge and deploying it to make something faster, like a database index (I know I want to join on this column, so I index it).
Having worked on many R&D projects, I am nearly certain that any claims they make about efficiency are about as reliable as a startup telling early employees that their stock will be worth something. Sure, it could be true.

Frankly I doubt that they've done a detailed enough analysis to know these kinds of things at TRL 2-3, at best they've done a back of the envelope calculation based on lab results at small scale to show it's not obviously stupid, or if they're really on the ball they've got a license for Aspen and have some incredibly oversimplified model that shows it's not obviously stupid.

Really, at this development level, "not obviously stupid" is a pretty positive thing. If they're doing the work right, they are trying to demonstrate that it's stupid every day because that's how you avoid discovering it's stupid after five years of R&D and $50M.
Is "apolitical" stance a bad thing? Isn't it the default, safe?

I lived in country where you had to be "political" to be in management, it didn't end up well (East Europe, Soviet Union), I always (naively?) thought that West countries were wiser.

So I prefer companies to not mess with politics.
As far as I know, Amazon isn't objecting. So, Oracle can say: we're "doing it" with permission.
You can write Metal shaders and call them from Swift. I'd say that is easier than to write your own UIKit ;-)
Right. Google's lawyer brought up the distinction at least a couple times, saying that the novelty of the API might be patentable but not copyrightable.
All parked domains could lead to the same IP. A single web server could distinguish which domain it’s contacted for, using the HTTP headers for example, and serve different content (probably all 301-redirects, but to relevant other websites of Apple).
This is good! Hopefully Purism can build on their recognition to funnel resources toward FOSS-mobile applications because this will help us all.

This reminds me of something else. What would be the best model for a FOSS "app store" with mechanisms for compensation? Lowering the barrier for transactions to FOSS projects really helps their survival and sustenance by individuals who cannot contribute code.

Here's a very half-baked thought: One can imagine users supporting community servers (matrix, activitypub/mastodon, etc.) and applications through a cryptocurrency wallet that is loaded in the same way that people load their g--gle/a--le wallets. One can also imagine applications that can tie into this wallet to compensate publishers based on some model (a transaction API like g--gle/a--le or something like what brave is doing with the BAT). My question is what are the failure modes of such a model?

For example, this still wouldn't stop the perverse incentives of:

- Content publishers going for the types of bait that generate the most clicks. Clicks=compensation regardless of it's from ads or some sort of attention token.

- Application developers casing addiction mechanisms that go after whales. The same loot-box mechanisms can be implemented with a FOSS game that uses a crypto wallet API.
I feel like this confirms (although this could be confirmation bias, and would literally be a textbook case) my belief that this is indeed a tiny percentage of people at most tech companies that are really into social justice activism, and they are very, very noisy and disruptive.

My suspicion is that the percentage of folks who are into this is higher at companies like Google, who have absurdly overly bureaucratic hiring pipelines that weed out free thinkers in favor of academic elites who are strong conformists. Strong conformists from academia are the ones I see gravitating most to this form of activism. Add to that the fact that your typical Google engineer is massively overqualified for the actual work that they do on a daily basis (working on a cog in a gear in a giant system) and you get a lot of anxious, bored people trying to erase their guilt over being radically overpaid.

Another group of folks I've witnessed being into social justice activism (at an extreme level) are borderline Aspergers folks I've worked with who, on a good day, have a hard time navigating human relationships of any kind. I think the intersectional, hierarchal nature of these beliefs brings a Dungeons and Dragons, RPG like sense of order to humans that is comforting to them. The fact that it's mostly over-simplified and false escapes them.

Basically, Coinbase probably got rid of a lot of unproductive personnel and won't have to deal with this anymore.
I've been trying to figure out whether the mainframe business is being spun off or retained as part of this split. Haven't been able to figure out whether IBM even manufactures this equipment. I know they outsource the chip fab now. I'm not even sure what the mainframe is called any more, they seem to change the name every couple of years. IBM Z? zSeries? System Z? Something with a "Z" in it I think.
Facebook Just Forced Its Most Powerful Critics Offline
I’m not sure that I would consider BLM to be that centralized anymore. It has far outgrown the opinions of its initial founders. The vast majority of people who identify with the movement are in no way Marxist or anti-capitalist. They’re just people who are tired of seeing different rules for different races.

From Wikipedia:

> The phrase "Black Lives Matter" can refer to a Twitter hashtag, a slogan, a social movement, a political action committee,[18] or a loose confederation of groups advocating for racial justice. As a movement, Black Lives Matter is grassroots and decentralized, and leaders have emphasized the importance of local organizing over national leadership

Again, as a company it’s not even hard to take a not-tone-deaf stance on the issue while avoiding directly supporting the original organization. It’s not hard to reassure your Black colleagues that you recognize their struggle and that you support them.

When you as a company say “we refuse to discuss this, you are forbidden from discussing this,” it’s inhuman and tone deaf.
Is there any evidence that level of restriction correlates with severity of outbreaks, though?
The problem with this is adverse selection: the employees who are worth the most elsewhere relative to their current comp would be the quickest to leave.

It would be great for those employees, though!
I'm sorry to hear this and apologize. We're definitely still a comparatively small team wishing we had more efficient ways to handle our inbound funnel. (We do have some ideas here.) But this is good feedback and we should absolutely have provided a better experience.
I like the idea of carbon taxes in principle, however I'm afraid of public revolt against such taxes if it were introduced in practice. Hopefully I'm wrong but I don't think you can convince large swaths of the population and the immense private companies that control every aspect of daily life will willingly accept these as an added cost, but chaos instead and worse realities beyond that.

Maybe we do trial runs of these taxes or something? Has that been done before? A/B testing on public tax money?
If you think it’s ridiculous to get irritated by “salesperson” then it should also be ridiculous to get irritated by “salesman”.
Somewhat unrelated, but on the topic of severance: Back before I broke into the software field, when I was working a retail job, I was working for company that had an unwritten policy that they didn't hire any fulltime employees, all new hired were part time. There were, however a number of "grandfathered" full time employees who had been there quite a while. The company ended up trying to merge with two other companies and after that, decided that they would give remaining full-time employees a choice: be moved to part time employment, or take a serverance check and leave. To little suprise, a good many took option 2.
Coinbase does offer stock options though.
This happens when a company choses to amass wealth instead of investing in security. Their ads about privacy now sound laughable
It doesn't seem like that's 4K: the text on the top-right corner clearly says 1080p or 1440p next to each framerate. The narrator also says 1080p and 1440p.

It's definitely confusing, since there's a mention of 4K elsewhere...
>But I still don't quite see how the multi core performance per $ of the new generation will be competitive compared to their previous generation

AFAIK that was the case during the 3000 series launch. The newest generation always has worse bang/buck.
Curiosity about a topic is not the same as an intention to engage in that topic in real life.

This is why privacy matters. Because you cannot trust the people who collect information about you to interpret that information correctly.

You also cannot trust those people to exploit that information for their own purposes.
I look forward to all the unnecessary type casting we will get to do so public interfaces don't infringe. System.Out.Println(byte []) is my new favorite
function on Android.
Running on third-party hardware is leveraging comparative advantage. Like Itanium, POWER is more expensive and there are very few reasons you would want to run on it. Definitely not a good fit for Cloud.

Full vertical integration isn't necessarily good business. Even Apple doesn't do its own manufacturing.
> What happened to the rule against politics and religion in polite society?

What rule? That's only ever been the case in idealized tv 'society', and mostly-homogenous comparatively rich/affluent folk who can afford not to give a shit about politics.
Does not work in older browsers 'flat is not a function'.
"I still have no clue how Wirecard managed to do what they did"

And you still seem to have a strong stance on how great the current regulatory scheme is.
Happy who lives in a country where reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is explicitly allowed by law. So do we have to expect more economic refugees from the USA in Europe in the future?
>> which is a real mouthful to say a hundred times over as is done in the article.

It's often reduced to TSP.
Key quote:
“The most extraordinary thing about this whole affair is how it's exposed the total Trumpification of Facebook's corporate comms,” Cadwalladr told VICE News. “There is a brazen shamelessness at work here. It's not just that a company that has used 'free speech' as a protective cloak would go after our ISP and drive us off the internet but that its official spokesman responds to such criticism by attacking and trolling journalists.”
Asking specific people about their political views during the hiring process (even general questions like "do you think tech workers should be politically active in the workplace?") is dangerous even if not necessarily illegal. Making hiring decisions based on the applicant's experience and employment history is pretty much best practice.
Slashdot does this to some extent. Moderators are invited to choose from a small subset of tags. The most used tag by the moderators is listed next to the comment's karma. Your idea would be a generalization of what Slashdot does, and it certainly has merit.
Web 3D APIs are castrated as per security requirements and average hardware requirements, you really don't want to use them for native 3D applications and games, unless you don't care about taking advantage of nicely bought GPU cards.
I have actually, but for some reason Google kept asking for my phone number on the device from which the problem originated in the first place. I got a spare phone lying around and turned phone verification on from there to be able to login to my other devices. It's simply not safe to be using a Google Account without a mobile device by this logic. I have in turn decided to move away from Google, my Drive is now like 100 mb used cause of GMail which I have now forwarded to iCloud and am also just slowly changing my email everywhere I had signed up to my company mail or my personal iCloud mail.
Relying totally on Google was the worst decision ever I suppose.
What do you mean? It's one of the headline items. COBRA paid for 6 months.
Or proprietary software could just publish their interoperable APIs under free license.
Seems like a complete waste of time, but, if that's how you want to procrastinate don't let me stop you :)
What a bunch of fuckers!
"They haven’t disclosed when they plan to unveil the Vision EQXX electric prototype."

Not even a commercial product, a prototype, and they don't know when they'll be able to show it!

What they've been doing for a hundred of years!

I'll buy a Tesla.
They obviously wanted to make sure it was a sweet enough deal to serve its purpose. I would imagine there were employees that took the deal for non-political reasons. It would make a heck of a bonus, if you were already heading out the door.

Frankly, giving the non-offended but unsatisfied employees a ready out is probably good for Coinbase in the long run.
“The algorithm we study is very similar, except we choose a random spanning tree based on the standard linear programming relaxation of TSP.”

That’s so subtle to suggest but incredible hard to prove

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01409
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They are probably thinking that they could negotiate licenses with the other big companies easier than any startup could, thus locking out a lot of competition.
My longest stay at one job as been 2.5 years. By changing jobs, I get a lot more experience in a lot of different things. I've worked in five different markets:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/tech-culture-shock-from-ameri...

I know people who've been at the same job for 6~7 years and they are totally getting paid way under market. A company might give you a 2~3% cost of living increase, or a $5k promotion every few years, but switching jobs let's you ask for $10k or more.

On the downside, I would NOT recommend anyone else change jobs almost yearly like I did. My job loyalty is shit and it's hard for me to take on other jobs when people are concerned I could just leave.

That being said, the good jobs with good pipeline engineering, tests and CI/CD flows allow people to flow in and out; quickly pick up things and move with fast/good deploys. Those shops are the best, but they are rare. They tend to not care as much weird resumes because they want to hire people who are innovative.
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Someone once did a bit-squatting experiment and "estimates that 614,400 memory errors occur per hour globally".

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/10/bh-2011-bit-squa...

It would be interesting to repeat this experiment today.
Something is off about those listings. The majority of the transactions went to "Brian Forde for Congress" and have the memos like " .03533216 BITCOINS SOLD VIA COINBASE - PURCHASER UNKNOWN". I don't think these are contributions by Coinbase, but Bitcoin contributions that went through Coinbase. There is probably some byzantine election funding rule that allowed or forced these recipients to list Coinbase as the"source" of anonymous Bitcoin donations.
The author, Patio11, is such a trusted and long term member of the HN community that it counts for a lot more than usual for an advert.
And while the movement is in some way political, in most ways the organization and the phrase simply stands for the idea that, well, Black Lives Matter

That's just wrong. "Black lives matter" encompasses at least three separate categories of claims:

1. The lives of black people are inherently as valuable as the lives of others.

2. The US and western civilization in general is based on white supremacy at its core, and all disparities that disfavor minorities are solely due to present-day racism.

3. Radical change is necessary in order to solve the problems of racism, including reparations, abolishing the police, and ending capitalism.

BLM often ends up being a motte-and-bailey where anyone who isn't totally on board with #2 or #3 is accused of denying #1.

This is where HR comes in to help train and guide around keeping those conversations productive and beneficial to everyone, because people grow by having their viewpoints challenged and expanded

I suspect there are certain viewpoints that can be challenged and others than cannot.
> A simple example is, if you and I want to share, say, user data, and you have a "people" table and I have "Users", and my fields are "first_name" "last_name" and yours "given" and "proper", and so on, how do we match the same user across tables? RDF provides a solution for that.

What solution does RDF provide for that? I know of `owl:sameAs`, but even if it were feasible to look up those statements and reason about them (assuming someone reliable went to the effort to actually define them, and did so correctly), that already breaks down if I have to match a single field "name" (or, say, vcard:fn) with two fields "first name" and "last name" (or, say, foaf:givenName and foaf:surName). So as far as I know, there's still no practical solution - or is there?
Every model is wrong, some models are useful. Does this flaw make this model useless? On the flip side is it a useful approximation even if it's not completely accurate?
Books can have a functional purpose. E.g. if it is a reference manual for a car. If you used the same table of contents for the reference manual, but the contents were substantially different, would that still be unlicensed copying?
But you can catch something from the previous rider, and there isn't any driver to sanitize things for you.
Are you sure? I thought Unix, for example, came from IBM APIs. Many crusty APIs underpinning our systems today originated from proprietary products that have been preserved through caked layers of compatible interfaces, like new cities built literally on top of old ones. Sure, maybe the only APIs that are left are stuffed away deep in some broom closet and we can just throw out the whole room, but how sure are you that the APIs shuffled away in a dark corner aren't vital components required to boot or something?
According to that link, you pretty much have to.
Well, even then, showing one left-leaning justice with pro-property stances doesn't actually disprove that argument. Less likely things still happen some of the time.
All businesses that want to survive are political. Whether they admit it or not.

How many defense contractors are there? These people do have a vested interest to vote for candidates that increase govt contracts with the private sector. This is a massive industry.

Now that govt is getting more involved in health care, we're seeing that too.

These are trillions of dollars we're talking about.

This is also valid for small businesses too. How taxes are done in a given community. Etc.

I can't emphasize enough the vested interest a business has to be selfish. I'm indifferent on if this is a drawback.

I just wish there was more competition/choices for everyone and like you, I wish people would be more upfront (or self aware) of what they're doing.

P.S. When it comes to Coinbase. What stops them from backing a racist KKK member whom backs Bitcoin/crypto? What stops them from backing an anarchist whom backs Bitcoin/crypto? Etc...etc... This silencing of discussion...it a bit disgusting.
Which, as your parent seems to not realize, is also a political stance. This dichotomy is exactly what MLK refers to in the Letter from a Bermingham Jail (i.e. positive vs negative peace).
I dunno. I wonder how many people they lost, not because they were political, but they wanted a break for 4~6 months.