skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see this working out badly.

I think Coinbase will now attract/retain fewer conscientious employees. The kind of employees who definitely won't leave are the ones with careerist/mercenary personality types. If that becomes a vicious cycle ( per the 'like attracts like' thing https://youtu.be/wTgQ2PBiz-g?t=75 ), the culture could lead to wide-spread ass-covering and fraud.

Then again, this isn't an area in which I have some particular expertise. Maybe it will work out perfectly.
How it the TDP number determined? How can the 8 core CPU be 105W and the 16 core CPU be 105W too? Why isn't the maximum power draw of 16 cores roughly double the power draw of 8 cores?
> The assumption behind your premise is ultimately that you trust the government to "do the right thing" and I do not, so why would I want to give them more power over me?

My assumption is that if the government is untrustworthy I have much bigger problems, like the fact they can jail and torture and kill me arbitrarily and without recourse. There's no amount of math that'll help me in prison, or when I'm dead. If you can't trust the government, the only thing that'll help is replacing that government. And when you do, you won't need crypto.
Are....are you me?
I wish someone with a larger server farm would count the number of reported ECC errors per GB-hour and give us updated numbers. That StackOverflow question is about 10 years old now, and I think it's relying on data even older than that.
Then just give up and spread your cheeks forever.
A lot of people complain about having to maintain secure passwords and other IT security measures, too, but that doesn't invalidate the measures.

I'm first to agree that the regulatory burden on banks has gone too far, but all too often, people not seeing the point behind compliance frequently do so for the reasons as above (they don't understand it), and jump to conclusions.

If your friends substantiated why they believe so, please do follow up.
At least in finance (I realize HN is FAANG/SV focused), the signing bonus typically vests in 12-18 months. Finance also offers cash bonuses instead of RSUs. Finance also typically has paid leave built into the contract as a noncompete.
Canada also has lower average wages. That doesn't mean that the average worker is better off; rather it's that it's harder to find high earners.
The consequences will be that people will only use open standards and languages. Proprietary languages and APIs will be shunned because you'll be permanently locked in with compatible alternatives illegal.
When cows get mad cow, you quarantine and then kill potentially infected cows. Wild horses have behaviors. They may not change their behaviors when they find a virus, but that doesn't mean that the reproductive rate is independent of the horses behaviors. It absolutely still is.
I agree this is a poor use of namespace. Python has that in itertools, Numpy has combinatorics and random sampling
in numpy.random. Maybe they just planned to stop here? Or the algorithm namespace is bound to become overcrowded.
That's just what I was thinking: if I were in a job I was on the margin of leaving anyway, and an exit package were offered, that might be sufficient to make me make the move.
Is it really an attack though? Supporting the status quo (by objecting to discussions about changing it) is the perceived state. Is it an attack, to observe this?

I understand folks feel uncomfortable talking about systemic bias. Especially if they don't suffer from it. But that's exactly the issue of status quo vs change - getting folks to notice/discuss it. So there can be change, which requires the comfortable to change too.
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The pressure to be perfect turns deadly for celebrities in Japan
Isn't 5%, a normal, healthy turnover for a company in that field?
I can’t think of a worse way to handle this situation.

Sure, I’m not sure what the answer is. Then again, I’m not a professional HR person who is supposed to be trained in handling these issues.

Having 5% of your workforce quit over nothing more than messaging is a catastrophic failure in people management.

Outright political speech bans at companies may be perfectly justified, but it’s usually the case that work environments that have a habit of outright banning things are stifling to be a part of. I’m sure this isn’t the first time that employees have heard tone-deaf messaging from corporate, and being offered some money to leave on the heels of some more time-deafness must have been appealing.

It’s not hard to have policies and training rooted in being empathetic and respectful toward others. That way you don’t have to ban difficult topics. Conversations between coworkers being excessively policed never feels good.

Asking people to always be work robots is completely unreasonable - lifelong friendships and marriages happen with coworkers. We are human, social creatures. Things happen in the world and we spend most of our weekday life at work, so we often need other people at work to talk with about them.

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. 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. It’s simply a marginalized group seeking equal treatment, and there really shouldn’t be anything political about being treated as an equal.

Of course, the reactionaries in our world always demand that we think otherwise: that we should be considerate of their views on keeping women, certain races and ethnicities, the differently abled, or people with the “wrong” faith as second-class citizens. They want us to consider these fundamentally flawed views as if they are on equal plane as a valid “other side” of the coin, as if it’s simple political disagreement. In reality, their viewpoints were never acceptable, we’ve just had to suffer through them.

There’s nothing political about telling someone through words and actions that they matter, and treating those people with equal protections and rights in the criminal justice system.

As an anecdote, my employer had no problem proclaiming support for Black lives. We have Black employees, of course we should agree that Black Lives Matter. And of course we can have difficult conversations among our coworkers, as long as we know how to listen to each other. 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 - and that can happen at work!
I carry a Fisher Space Pen in my pocket with my keys. It can write on wax paper. The ink cartridges are pressurized.
> A company with vertically integrated...seems like it could have such an edge

Yes but I guess it was the IBM board whom decided that they could better invest in the money with various initiatives. IMHO, they are now (and for ~15 yrs) only choosing a safe route, not an innovative route.
Bye-Bye, Apple
In the case of Brexit, the political news media was correctly reporting that the British public preferred Remain until a sudden swing in the opinions of undecided voters in the few weeks before the referendum.[0]

In the case of the US, the political news media was correctly reporting that the American public preferred Clinton to Trump.

Neither case should have damaged their perceived credibility, except in the minds of people who believed that there was a conspiracy of under-reporting the popularity of Brexit and/or Trump.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_EU_referendum_polling....
Exchanges are not cryptocurrency.
Currently the customers that are using Kubernetes integrate with our Docker integrations. We do see that Kubernetes is a growing use case and are looking into a dedicated integration (possibly through a CRD as you mentioned). Send us an email at support@doppler.com, we would love to hear about your specific use case with Kubernetes.
Bob grows chickens and Alice grows corn. They trade via barter. We'd probably agree this isn't political in any meaningful sense.

One day, Alice has a clever idea: she can create a digital representation of money. Both Alice and Bob agree to accept these "tokens" in lieu of barter.

Big mistake. CarelessExpert announces to Alice and Bob that their creation obligates them to join in bitter arguments about abortion, climate change, and LGBT rights.
author here - it's not clear what the actual software was, and it doesn't appear Excel was actually to blame.

The real problem was that this was heroic gaffer-tape to work around completely unnecessary problems.

(also, a tech error crept into the article - LO doesn't automatically fix Excel's crappy math, it just has alternate formulae that behave correctly that you can use instead of Excel's broken ones: multiple variants of FLOOR, CEILING, WEEKNUM, some of the fancier statistical stuff I think. I've flagged the error to the editor.)
Large conglomerates like IBM usually trade their shares at a discount because they're poorly managed due to the sprawling size. Breaking businesses with little synergies usually makes the separate pieces better managed and thus more valuable.
> with the distance of time that tools such as FOIA requests require

Often that is way too much time--25 to 50 years in many cases, since those are the time frames for declassification of classified information--for such revelations to be useful for oversight, especially with the state of encryption as it is since computers and the Internet.

Before computers and the Internet, it was possible to have a reasonable tradeoff between strength of encryption and the ability of law enforcement to conduct surveillance, because perfect encryption was impossible and imperfect encryption got more expensive the closer you wanted it to be to perfect. So people were already making a cost-benefit tradeoff (difficulty of breaking the encryption and obtaining private data vs. cost), and it was reasonable for the government to ask that the potential benefits of surveillance be included in the tradeoff, since that would just adjust the balance of the tradeoff, and the adjustment could be periodically reviewed based on data on past surveillance that was revealed by things like FOIA requests.

But now, with computers and the Internet, perfect encryption is cheaper than imperfect encryption. Perfect encryption is just a mathematical algorithm, and it's straightforward to put that algorithm in computer code and verify that the code correctly executes the algorithm. Imperfect encryption requires adding code to that perfect algorithm, which adds cost, and also adds a risk that wasn't even there before, of whatever back doors are in the code being exploited. So now we users, to enable surveillance by law enforcement, would not be just making a small adjustment that could be periodically reviewed in a tradeoff we have to make anyway. We would be adding a new tradeoff that we have no other incentive to make, and thus taking on a new oversight burden, which is, if not impossible, at least extremely difficult to properly fulfill, that we have no other incentive to take on. That is simply not a bargain that free citizens of a free society should accept.

> embedding those checks/balances/required transparency in the surveillance processes in such a way that they cannot be circumvented by those in power.

The processes can't be transparent because, as I said, that would reveal sources and methods that should be concealed from adversaries. An application for a FISA warrant can't wait for the years it would take to allow a FOIA request to be fulfilled in the interest of transparency.
Yes, need to fix this. Thank you!
One of the most exciting things I have read on HN in a long time. :). Thanks for sharing.
It's the same as saying "Don't discuss religion at work." A religious fundamentalist would take issue with the mere fact that they are being told not to discuss their religion. That's what we have with virtue signalling types. They are religious fundamentalists, and their religion is Statism.
do people really read this much into resumes? I mostly just look to see if they have any relevant experience and/or impressive projects. aside from raising an eyebrow if I see a bunch of short stints at different companies, I don't try to ferret out their life story or political views by carefully analyzing their hire/leave dates.
Many companies, like Coinbase, don't have RSUs.
Typically the signing bonus vests over 12 months in tech, and the RSUs vest over 4 years. There are also usually cash bonuses in addition to the above.

YMMV depending on the company. Netflix is an obvious outlier in that they offer no RSUs and just pay very high salaries.
> I told all my friends to buy AMD stock.

I thought I should buy AMD when the Intel security bugs appeared. Then with the success of AMD's new line of procs, I thought even more so.

I didn't do it because I got lazy to study how one buys stock.

Now when I look at the stock I want to headbutt a brick wall.
It signals that a person did not want to be politically active at their workplace enough to lose/quit their job.

I think that says nothing of a persons political views and is just self-preservation or even indifference. Hiring would have to make some very tenuous assumptions to consider that a signal.
I wish I could believe this is how it would actually play out in reality.
As in the US the majority of people don't demand public transport, I don't see why municipalities would need an excuse. Outside of nerd circles the hyperloop is rally not even very well known so I don't even understand how that would make sense.

And 'the point' of Hyperloop certainty never was that, that is just conspiracy nonsense by people who are bitter that most people don't share their opinion. The most you could say is that 'hyperloop has been abused by XY people to avoid investing in public transport' but I have not seen a single piece of evidence for that.

Are you really so cynical that every new technology that you don't like, is instantly put to 'ah this is a conspiracy to prevent adoption of what I like'.
No, the biggest promise of crypto is that you don't need to trust a third party (wether, govt., bank or your neighbour) to verify a transaction between two parties as valid and that somebody didn't just give you counterfeit digital coins (i.e it solves the double spending problem). That's pretty much it.

Everything else in a crypto economy is built on top of that as an analogous structure to regular physical currency/digital currency verified by a third party (i.e fiat) economy.

Not needing a third party to verify the authenticity of digital transactions does not automatically make you immune to regulation.

In very specific situations (i.e failed states undergoing civil war), if you lose the trust in your entire govt. you can now reliably still trade digital currency without it necessarily being backed by a third party, however everyone you are transacting with must buy into three things:
1) This new digital currency is now the dominant currency.
2) Everyone trades goods and services based off of this new currency
3) People outside your country respect that everyone inside the country values this at some specific value and honours trade in that currency.

It is extremely unlikely you can convince anybody outside a country of (3) without some intervening international body, so the "crypto economy" replacing currency to fight an authoritarian regime is practically never going to happen.

With regards to the article. Ultimately, if you trust your government to in general protect you, this is a good thing. If you don't trust your govt. to do so, this framework is a bad thing.
That is a terrible analogy since the potential conceptual range of APIs is so wide and because it does disservice to the conceptual power of APIs.

Good APIs embody the key architectural and conceptual decisions. They define the key concepts and how they interact. But at the level of a programming language, this is of immense scope and power. Java defines an imperative language with built in garbage collection with abstraction from physical hardware.

Furthermore, the real distinction between API and implementation is that API are that which needs to be exposed to the world.

Programming languages are more akin to defining the fundamental laws of a universe. Physics to chemistry.

It is true that other APIs are of much smaller scope but the point is that the range is so wide.
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It could be, but the verdicts out till it lands. My guess is cheaper and near 3080 performance, but it could go either way. Likely cheaper regardless just based on history though.
Right, lobbying is super valuable for a company whose business is in a legally questionable position on the boundary of the highly regulated banking industry.

This "apolitical" move would be a compelling choice if their only goal was optimizing shareholder value -- it's in their interest to maximize their ability to effectively lobby both American political parties to ensure any future cryptocurrency regulations benefit them.
Not every company offers RSUs (at least outside US).

E.g. in my case only my third offered it, and I was like "What is that?", in my case it started vesting after 1 year (linear). So at that point one can think of looking for new job.
But (honest question) can the services business NOT offer an IBM product?
Seems like a really expensive way to get rid of them if they were dead weight in the first place.
It's the (usually 1-year) cliff that is more important when considering leaving. Once an engineer hits the RSU/bonus cliff, they're not losing _past_ benefits for leaving, only future benefits - and presumably the other job opportunity has better future benefits.
> Companies aren't generally supposed to be political.

I honestly don't understand how you could believe that.

Every oil and gas company or tobacco company has been historically engaged in politics.

IBM and BMW famously enabled the Nazi regime during WWII.

Union busting and strike breaking throughout the 70s and 80s was entirely political.

Silicon Valley, in general, heavily invests in political lobbying, including Coinbase itself!
I just estimated mine, and I would pay about $700/month. A stiff increase to be sure, but easily manageable if I was getting six months salary.
This is one of the few blogs where I'll always read the entire article, consistently great writing and thought-provoking ideas.

I agree with the other commenter regarding the Stripe application process. I've applied 2-3 times starting in 2015 and as recently as early 2020 and have never heard back, it's been the only company that never gets back to me!

Everything worked out, since I've landed some great positions at promising startups in the meantime, but I would have loved to experience the growth from ~500 to ~3000 employees like Patrick has.

Small improvement in this paragraph:

> “If you sell to doctors you prefer futures in which more money goes to doctors. Those are much better futures for you than futures with less money going to...

Since the article was just talking about call options, my first thought went to futures contracts instead of possible timelines. I think using "timelines" instead of futures would make this a bit more readable.
I live on the West Coast in one of those "85% leftwing" cities. None of the power structures are made up of anything like a majority advocating those things: state, county nor city.

Our county has attempted to open two whole safe injection sites and it has been extremely contentious.

There is absolutely no political will to abolish the police. The single city council member who advocated ir is now in a recall fight.

Public users are left to their devices perhaps in part out of some attempt at humanity but there is budgetary pressure for this as well. The county jails are routinely overfull and the police would rather hold more dangerous offenders there.

Just because people don't go around clutching their pearls at the sight of people using drugs on the street doesn't mean they are indifferent or in support. When I go to the beach I get sand in my shorts but I don't write my congressman about it.

You can agree or disagree with the the policies. You can praise or bemoan the outcome of policy. But you are weaving circumstance and conditions into a tapestry of intent.
How does one actually build native apps for the platform? I couldn’t really tell last time it was posted. Are they QT based?
Books are not equivalent to software because software has a functional purpose. While programming has creative elements, the primary goal of a program is to achieve certain functions (whereas the primary goal of a book is to enable creative expression or to record factual information).

If I want to support a Windows program on Linux I have no choice but to implement the Windows API. Likewise, if I want to interface with a program that stores data in S3, I have to replicate the S3 API.

That's why I think that there's no good analogy for software APIs among traditional media.

As far as the law goes, Google's argument is that because software APIs are arbitrary choices and necessary to be copied for interoperability that software APIs are noncopyrightable under section (b) of this statute. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102
I'm sure those Chinese cameras weren't donated for free. It would be interesting to see the contract and if there's a 99 year lease mentioned anywhere in case of payment default.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magampura_Mahinda_Rajapaksa_Po...
Remember, remember, the fifth of November.
I asked for, and got, total editorial control of my voice in my spaces when I joined. Though in any universe where my experience at Stripe wasn't positive, I would be unlikely to have stayed for four years or to have written the post, right?

I tried to be honest about my frustrations, too, but there's a possibility my salaryman indirectness made them not leap off the page.
You're right, but its difficult for a website (or anything really) to encode the semantics without inviting criticism. These speeches, along with news broadcasts, make assumptions about their audience, and their content is carefully designed to appeal to that audience's biases and value system while appearing "neutral" or "factual" on the surface.

In this case, Trump's speech makes the assumption that his audience sees themselves as "patriots" and subscribe to the narrative that their way of life is under attack by people who "hate America" and want to indoctrinate people to do the same. This paints the other side as being against their value system and champions their values.

The problem is, even explaining that in those terms will cause people to take exception, so it's both difficult and dangerous for a website to do so and remain "factual" or "neutral".

Take a look at the 5-star reviews for this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History-United-States-Entitl...

Compared to this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062...

Most people really hate it when you tell them things that run counter to their narrative, and have a hard time even seeing their narratives as biased one way or another.
I also want to share that I paid for COBRA $1,660 a month for for my family coverage (spouse + 2 kids) so $400 is probably not true in many cases even if single it seems really a low estimate