skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The uncomfortable truth is that most people don’t give a shit.

People generally give a shit about themselves, and often their families and friends. Less about their work.

Here are some questions the author asks in interviews to get at the quality of shit-givingness:

- What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked on something?

- How many hours were you working a week?

- Why did you work so hard? Why did you care?

- When were you the most unmotivated in your life?

- What’s the thing you’re the most proud of?

- Do you think it was worth it?

These are pretty good questions to ask in general, except the one about hours working. Not only will the answer be easy to misinterpret, but asking the question gives the impression that you might care more about hours worked than results. As someone who gives a shit, that would turn me off.
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That may seem like an exaggeration but in my experience it's literally true.

I tried to explain to my wife what "Linux" was but had to explain what "Operating System" is first, and I don't think I ever made much of an inroad on either. It's just not interesting or relevant to her life at all. My in-laws, foggedaboutit.
I remember the experience of shrink wrapped software just failing to install, or crashing as soon as it was opened, being something that happened semi-regularly. It was worse than trying to open an old flash website on a phone, a lot of times it was just totally unusable.

I guess not working at all is simple, but I would say the quality and reliability increase has been wonderful.
They say file format problem, but one of the reasons why there are so many different file formats is because current file system abstractions are fundamentally insufficient for a wide variety of use cases, particularly ones where you need to ensure that a user can't accidentally separate or delete a file. How do you keep a cache directory that backs a file with the file if the file system doesn't let you put folders "inside" of files? This is only one of many issues that have resulted in the proliferation of file formats to meet use cases with different performance characteristics that all have the common requirement for data to be bundled together an not be separable. File systems that can decouple the notion of access and data locality from inseparability simply do not exist right now, so we are left with the horrible abstraction that is the archive or zip file.
Done it. The place I most notice lightweight wheels are when climbing slowly on steep mountain bike stuff. Climbing like this is not a steady application of power like steady riding on the road; it's a series of small accelerations. When doing this lighter wheels are incredibly noticeable.

You also probably won't see this in your PM data unless you're getting data on partial pedal strokes.

More steady power stuff like on the road, climbing fast, etc? I agree that lower wheel weight just isn't something you'll notice. (Very good evidence for this is riding a fatbike on a fast rolling dirt road ride vs. climbing very steep fire roads.)
> Perhaps I'm too cynical now, but to me this post reads as a troll trying to get a rise out of people.

Might be. I don't know.

What I do know is that once I had a job where my supervisor was highly abusive to the point she criticized me for having left the office during an afternoon due to a close relative dying. This was a research job, where the closest milestone was scheduled to be in 3 months.

In that job I had a fixed-term employment contract structured in a way which it was automatically extended for 6 months when it expired. Thus I waited out my contract, looked for another job and presented my resignation. Well, that didn't sat well with my supervisor. She started complaining that we had work to do and I couldn't just leave because I owed her at least six to eight months work. Even though she was aware I was no longer an employee, mind you. She demanded I continued working for her in spite of the resignation while a) not being paid, and b) while working another full-time job. She even demanded (not asked, demanded) that I should ask my new employer for a 1 year delay so that I could continue doing her work.

Well, I left anyway and still she continued trying to contact me periodically about stuff at the job up to a year or two after I left. I'm talking about stuff from high level technical issues to passwords to an old windows 7 desktop that was sitting around.

So, I personally don't see Gust's story as outlandish.
Interesting. I hope he realizes he can also just run that old system in an emulator and have things exactly the way they were.
That makes some sense: org-mode and its ecosystem is vastly more ambitious than Markdown.
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When I’ve seen HR complaints in the past that seemed trivial, there was usually a history of interactions that resulted in the complaint, and the person filing has reached their limit.

That’s why HR is important - they need to determine if the complaint or history of complaints is a real issue or trivial.
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x86, as a legacy architecture, has a lot of baggage and complexity and takes more space and energy to decode and translate instructions to micro-ops. Also because it was not designed as a RISC arch, but rather "backported" as one, it misses out on some RISC advantages.

This is why you don't see Intel being competitive in low power applications where ARM excels.
2020 is finally the year of RISC on the desktop
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> Match this with pumped hydro and the interstate transmission networks and Tasmania could become the battery for east and south Australian states.

That is the current plan, as well as the state planning (and signed into law!) to double their renewables capacity by 2040.

(Marinus Link mentioned below is a 1500MW upgrade to the existing 500MW underwater interconnect allowing the bidirectional flow of power between Tasmania and the mainland).

> Barnett added that the Tasmanian government would continue to support an expansion of the state’s renewable energy capabilities, as the state looks to grow its role as a supplier of zero emissions energy to both mainland Australia and of green hydrogen into international export markets.

> “But there is more to do, which is why we have set a target to double our renewable generation to a global-leading target of 200 per cent of our current needs by 2040 – which we recently passed into law following the passing of legislation through both Houses of Parliament,” Barnett added. “We are also continuing to progress the Marinus Link and Battery of the Nation projects that represent an intergenerational opportunity to make Tasmania a global leader and the renewable energy powerhouse of Australia.”
As much as it's uncomfortable to define fair, I'd argue that it behooves us to strain and come to a conclusion. Every societal problem today and in history can probably be attributed to people not wanting to define a global fair, or defining it in a way (at least in retrospect) that was ostensibly below the mark. I'm sure that at some points in the US history thought it's fair to treat some people as slaves, so does your proclaimed universal sentence stand there too?
Ransomware will continue to rise exponentially in 2021 (https://ericalexander.org/SecurityBreach/#/) - that's easy to see.

What's the tipping point? Better assessments from Cyber insurance providers? Higher costs for entities with sloppy domain admins practices? More Fed crack downs on payments?
You're spot on. I made this same comment elsewhere. There is a large market for this age group that isn't being tapped by bike makers. It's a shame, because biking is an incredible way for people to stay very fit and healthy.
Try out Goatcounter for Analytics. It’s great if you want to keep things simple. Fairly good for blogs and the like.
If you measure some quantity using biased sampling, you're invariably going to see biased results. The assumption that the biased results in this scenario are due to lack of opportunity, racism, etc are unfounded. Correlation is not causation.
> which is extremely international

Racism against Africans can be found internationally, but in this case we are talking specifically African-Americans. Being international does not mean diverse in this specific way, it just means diverse in terms of nationality. For a good example, as the article and many have highlighted, asian representation is not an issue at Coinbase. Racism isn't generalized but specific to races and cultures. A person can be prejudice to just one category or many categories.

> the mechanics of crypto themselves prevent racial, gender, socioeconomic bias

mechanics and community are not one in the same, and crypto is still plenty susceptible to discrimination for any transactions that begin off-network (most all, humans are social creatures). While the mechanics help a small edge case or two, I don't really see any meaningful difference. What's the real material racism that crypto stops that other forms of payment or speculative trading fall victim to?
When I read PG’s essays I find they are subconsciously trying to pitch YC. How everyone PG knows including him are very special and deserving. This clouds my experience of reading his essays. I am unable to derive any value from them because of this.

The main reason for this is that I see a big divide between what he says about success people and what I have observed. Success has no set pattern. It can come from a huge variety of reasons.

I really hope this is not koolaid because a lot of young people are drinking it. It would suck if it was all just to suck them into applying for YC.
The JS rounding mode instruction wasn't even Apple's invention, it's standard ARMv8.

But yes, Apple spends a lot on CPU design and it shows; ARM's Cortex performance for things like NEON is way, way worse.
This yes, but it still gave me a chuckle to read HVAC, because I often see HEVC and think HVAC.
Heroin. Every single time. It's of wildly varying strength (and price) these days apparently. My first couple friends dying are what led to me getting clean around nine years ago.

The vast majority of them (if not all) also took oxy before/during their stints with IV heroin. This is obviously anecdotal but that's what I've seen!

Edit to clarify:
Generally it's been accidental as far as I can tell, there have been two instances where it might've been suicide. Generally one way to think about the heroin problem would be:
Imagine wine (which is normally 14% abv and costs let's say, $20) but sometimes it's 100% abv and costs $20, or 5% abv and costs $30, or 7% abv and $100, or 75% abv and $0.99 and you can't tell until you buy it and try it.
Isn't it a switch because the weak memory model, whilst providing less guarantees is more performant?. So they are trying to have both the x86 mode which isn't as performant, but works a lot faster in hardware than the software implementation and the faster weaker ARM model.
80s Macs, maybe. But not 90s. I had to help admin an office full of System 7.5 & 7.6 PowerMacs in 1996/1997, all constantly crashing because FileMaker could not run in a stable way at the same time as Netscape, or some extension in the System folder would freeze up the system randomly.

Classic MacOS had no memory protection, memory management itself was terrible and not particularly dynamic (reserve N bytes for this app etc.), and the multitasking in System 7 was bolted on in an awkward way, and the migration from 68k to PowerPC introduced a boatload of bugs.

The screenshots on the article's page shows System 7.5. Those were the dark ages for the Macintosh frankly. The _concept_ was "it just works" and "computer for the rest of us" but that was the reality only if you stayed on a fairly narrow path, frankly.

System 8 was a major improvement.
The Unarchiver has been acquired and is proprietary now, I believe.
In my mid-30s and the majority of faces I'm getting look like toddlers
This is absolutely correct!
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I wonder what they plan to do for powering vehicles.
Most new Surface devices are Intel. Surface Pro X is ARM.
Cease and desist for what? Reverse engineering their file format? Doing that is totally legal.
I'm a fairly serious mountain biker as well, and I'm wholly sold on carbon rims. In particular, I'm waiting on a set of rims to be delivered to rebuild some I9 Hydra Trail S aluminum-rimmed wheels with carbon.

I've been riding on carbon rims on both hard tail XC bikes and my full suspension trail bike for six years. I've also had aluminum rims on my single speed and hard tail trail bike. I can't count the number of times I've hit the carbon rim and had it be just fine, but all of my aluminum rims have some degree of denting from much lesser riding.

Between the bikes with carbon wheels there's about 12,000 miles of trail riding and they've been just fine.

After I dented the rim on the I9s and had a spoke break I decided a good winter project would be rebuilding the wheels to carbon rims because my previous experiences with them have been so good.

I think the primary benefits of carbon are stronger sidewalls (less likely to dent) and that they cannot be bent and thus can't go out of true (unless the wheel is built wrong). Yes, they can be broken, but it takes a LOT more than it would for a comparable aluminum rim.

(For reference, the rims I've beat on so hard are Light Bicycle RM29C07 and I'm replacing the stock rims on the I9 wheels with AM930.)
And yet you'll find numerous comments in this thread using disproportionate population statistics to erroneously declare bias and bigotry.

Sure sounds like quotas are what is desired.
Wouldn't those sorts of modifications make the executable fail signature checks? I think most viruses don't use that sort of technique anymore because code signing prevents that sort of attack.
Not to be mistaken with tldr, the command line utility that makes man pages readable and fun ;)
I have this tool in the list here https://opinionatedguide.github.io/design/generative-art/
if anyone wants to see more things like it
Yea, but the parking lots are always full. Can't build office space fast enough to keep up with the demand for headcount.
I’ve never worked in a company in Silicon Valley (I’m up to over 10 now over 20 years) where racism would just be silently tolerated. Never. I would certainly speak up against a manager who was casually racist or wouldn’t promote a good black engineer, knowing full well I might have to quit.

I’m sure racism exists but that type of overt racism that this article suggests, in the middle of SF especially in tech, is hard to believe.

So I take the accounts of some sort of systemic racism within Coinbase with a lot of skepticism. Especially the account of the support people who were forced to move to Portland. It sounds like all except one person was forced to move to Portland and both white and black people were asked. There’s a lot missing in that accusation which makes me think they are twisting things out of proportion.

I would love a more detailed account or talking with others. Could there be racists working in Coinbase? Sure. But this article doesn’t cover enough for me to not be skeptical without getting both sides of the story.
Tasmania has already started deploying an EV fast charging network (although there are quite a few Level 2 chargers already in operation). There will be gaps no larger than 100 miles in the network (slightly better than Tesla’s Supercharger network density).

Will Tasmania outlaw new combustion vehicle sales like many other jurisdictions have set deadlines to? Seems like it’s reasonable to do so based on their electrical generation mix and EV charging infrastructure deployment timelines/cadence (with orchestration to prioritize charging those vehicles when excess renewables can’t be shipped over the underwater interconnector).

https://aeva.asn.au/articles/tasmanian-fast-charging-network...

https://www.plugshare.com/ (search for “Tasmania”)
It's a private company, they can do whatever they want as long as it doesn't violate the law.

And if there is a legal case against them the accuser has the burden of proof and due process.

All I see from this article is a bunch of hearsay & rumors. It looks like a smear campaign to get some quick 'reparations' by riding a popular trend.

We have this thing in the US called presumption of innocence, but apparently in case of racism accusations you're guilty as soon as proclaimed guilty by the media.

Coinbase legal team should definitely sue NYT and this 'team' of accusers for libel & slander. The hysteria is getting ridiculous.
Sounds like you're upset that people are allowed to have opinions about your opinions, which would be pretty ironic.
> if you do the math you can quickly prove to yourself that reduced inertia isn’t doing anything for you.

This is exactly what I was talking about. People like to assume that a simple math equation tells the whole story, while ignoring the fact that bikers do more than just exist as rigid attachments to a bike that travels in straight lines.

I can do the math, but I can also swap wheels in a matter of minutes and feel the very obvious difference.

I'm talking about 29" mountain bike wheels, where the mass and moment of inertia is significantly more than what you see on 26" road bikes. It's palpable.

Maneuvering the bike in the air is another place where the mass difference is noticeable. Dropping 500g doesn't sound like much when you think about holding 500g in your hand, but it's a different story when that mass is on the ends of a 48" long wheelbase and you're trying to maneuver it in the 0.5s that you're in the air.

If you're just riding something like your tri bike in a straight line down a smooth asphalt road at a constant velocity then it obviously doesn't matter, though.
may also apply to Rust where we often make use of reference counting when the borrow checker isn’t enough
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Why is this on the front page of HN? Coinbase has issued a rebuttal refuting this article. (the refutation is not on the front page, I note) There is no reasonable way for anyone to discern who is "right" in this particular argument based on the data presented.

People who see systemic racism everywhere will undoubtedly side with the NYT plaintiffs. People who are skeptical of the social justice narrative being shoe-horned in to every possible corner will side with Coinbase.

The "white patriarchy" will be called out and there will be tptacek and others falling on their white male swords to gain some woke cred and signal their purity.

Let's stop reading and commenting on this kind of article eh?
Yes, but that's not at the hiring level but at education level. You can't expect every single tech company to be representative of the population since there simply aren't that many female/black/whatever engineers
For mountain biking the simplification is wonderful. Front derailleurs were always a pain in the butt. With wide range cassettes 1x is just the way to go. It also frees up the left side of the handlebar for the lever for a dropper seatpost, which is a game changer in bike handling.
Given this great summary, I’m sure you’re aware of the Casimir effect. I understand that it is controversial whether this generates usable negative energy or is merely apparent negative energy relative to surrounding vacuum, but Miguel Alcubierre specifically mentions it as the only known experimentally observed negative energy. The problem he points out is that any practical superluminal drive would require morenegative energy than could ever theoretically be extracted via the Casimir effect.
Innovative solutions, innovative business model, quick response to change, clear thought process, great results. Enjoyed working with the team as client.
For my purposes it's nearly twice as fast as my maxed out 2018 MBP for development (6-core i9). This is for projects which are mostly C++ / C / Swift

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1331932956642852864
quelsolaar.com is really bad on Safari (iPad.) Took >10 seconds to load and then I couldn’t even read most of it as animations clearly meant to pop up at a different point constantly popped up over the text.
My takeaway from such comments is their perception that it is not a problem for them.

And, they are in denial, since if it wasn't a problem for them they would not question the story.

Sharing stories does help. Racism is rooted in lack of exposure to diversity. It may never be eradicated but working to end it among every new generation is worthwhile IMO.
> Mountain (Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado)

..and to explain this one geographically, refers to the Rocky Mountains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains
Why would they? Supporting privacy-preserving options is not within their business interests.
How is this not murder? They are literally paying someone money to kill someone.
I think you might be overlooking the fact that bias comes in different forms against different groups. E.g., a hypothetical racist might be comfortable around Asians because he thinks they're subservient and weak, whereas he might be uncomfortable around black people because he thinks they're angry and violent. If this hypothetical racist ran a company, it's plausible he'd hire Asians, but not hire black people at all.
Good carbon wheels are incredibly strong. Carbon has the advantage of flexing where aluminum would deform.

You can watch Danny macAskill try to destroy bare carbon wheels (no tires) on concrete here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfjjiHGuHoc

I assume some of the horror stories come from people buying cheap carbon wheels or early models before they had layups and molds figured out.

If you're really concerned, add something like a cushcore to the inside of the tire for additional damping.

Your complaints are common, though. I've all but given on up trying to discuss carbon wheels with people in person because there are so many preconceived notions out there. It was the same way 5-10 years ago with everyone avoiding carbon handlebars for one reason or another.
> you couldn't avoid taking a side on.

Pretty sure there’s only one “side” anybody’s actually ever taken there.
>It's just not interesting or relevant to her life at all.

This is the key point I think a lot of tech people don't get. My dad's smart. He worked in pharma for many years and knows tons about a lot of the science (and business) related to that.

He just never had any interest in learning about things like file systems and so forth. A tablet for him was my best gift to myself ever. (And he now just uses a large smartphone. He doesn't use the vast majority of its capabilities because he's just not interested in them; he uses what's of interest to him.)
I said over, as in relative to other ARM uArchs. Clearly, the power efficiency was the main draw of the proposal in the first place.
This would be a reCAPTCHA: there were no parking meter questions running on hCaptcha yesterday, from a quick check.
I haven't seen high sustained inflation since 2008.
The NYT has long been complicit in promoting the divisive and racist woke/CRT cult. I can't imagine either side of this genuinely believes they are an impartial party.
Instead of Last pass, I would suggest Bitwarden which has open source clients and can be self hosted server side (with an open source server implementation).
The places where I cared a lot about the company ahead of time have in the majority of cases been among the worst interviews I’ve done.

I doubt I’m along in this. Am industry you’re interested in, you’ll probably do great. A specific company? That tests qualities that aren’t often that important to your job.