skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a matter of perspective. It surely wasn't simpler, but it may have been more joyful somehow..

Maybe the fact that it was slower, less connected, less parts overall too and that you had to get into it.

I mean I'm a dev with experience but I have near zero control over my smartphone. There's tons of nice stuff on it (hardware and software) but it doesn't feel much nicer because I actually have no clue about what happens now what I can do.
The author of this article obviously never actually tried to use a computer in the 80's. Don't forget to edit your autoexec.bat file before you try to play that video game! Internet? Shiiiat, dial up your local BBS and try to download some files before your family starts complaining that they can't use the phone. Also, don't forget to release the Turbo button so that your game doesn't run at twice normal speed. Want to install that new version of WordPerfect? That'll be twenty floppy disks that have to be inserted in the proper sequence, and don't you dare get them out of order.

Sheesh,... wankers.
Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021
So, uh, if I'm reading this article and the related ones in the Guardian correctly:
1) covid-19 infected mink have escape into the wild
2) probably hundreds of them (thousands per year * 5% of mink are infected)
3) at least one of the mink variants of covid-19 is different enough that there is reason to worry the vaccines might not give immunity to it, but we haven't seen that since September so it's probably gone
4) it will probably spread from mink to several other more common wild species
5) but, nothing to worry about

Uh, ok then.
And if you don't, it quickly becomes someone else's bike. That's just the way the world works now. Given that you need to lug the bike around anyway, your choice is now down to the 26-pound version or the 35+-pound version.
There's so much push-back because the answer always seems to be "discriminate against non-black candidates to improve diversity" or "allow political propaganda to be openly preached in your organization".
This seems like a PR piece. Plus, it takes time for hired people to be productive.
If gravity is simply the curving of space caused by matter, why must there be 'dark matter'? Why cant there be something else that bends space? Or who says space is homogeneous and flat-why cant there be 'bubbles' of positively and 'negatively' curved space? If the universe is expanding, why would it expand homogeneously in all directions? After all, isn't the cosmic microwave background anisotropic?
You're right about all the contradictions with this bike. It doesn't make any sense from either a utilitarian or sport point of view.

But fancy carbon bikes have a robust market with 40-somethings who like to ride and have significant disposable income, it's the market that "Rapha" is going for.

This bike is for a similar market which perhaps isn't quite able to get aero anymore but would still like something sporty that will help them up a hill, I guess.
I've heard audiophilia derided as the practice of listening to the noise instead of the music, sand that was enough for me to get off the train and never think twice.
Something cool I’ve done with reveal.js slides: it’s just a web page, so why not embed an iframe? Instead of putting a slide that says “Now for a live demo!” and switching over to an editor, why not just embed an interactive editor?

For example, here’s a slide from a presentation where I was showing off some fun features we had built into Sorbet’s[1] LSP editor support:

https://sorbet.run/talks/RubyConf2019/#/18

The slide has the Sorbet web playground embedded as an iframe, so the demo file persists for anyone who wants to browse the slides later. You can play around with the same example I used on the day of the presentation.[2]

[1] https://sorbet.org

[2] https://youtu.be/jielBIZ40mw
> excess insulin produced will then metabolize whatever useful protein is found into fat

Doesn't insulin also push nutrients (incl. amino acids) into muscles, promoting muscle growth?
Excellent! Thanks for that! It is extremely rare that people think about releasing source data for multimedia assets.
I know what you mean, but I wouldn't say it was pretty common. Most of the systems I saw back then had very long boots while all the random 20 extensions fired up.
Do you think 11 instances in a company of 1,394 employees shows an "extensive pattern"? We also don't know how many of those were even accurate or corroborated.
Main selling points:

Near-universal breadth of products

Typically decent prices on products

Generous return policy with free return shipping

Fast shipping (not so much anymore)

The combination of these means that buying from Amazon is largely a low-friction experience. Even though the website is horrible to navigate, you can order most of what you need on one site without searching for deals or coupons. Even though the site is filled with knock-offs and fake products, they ship quickly and are free to return, so there's little risk.

People (myself included, though I'm trying to do more of my purchasing locally or on other sites) get suckered in by the convenience and then don't have enough reason to switch to other stores, despite the overall subpar experience.
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story (2019)
> As for “Gust”, my sympathies are severely limited. He remained in a job where he knew his employers were taking the absolute piss out him long enough that he turned toxic himself.

What? Do you realize you're attacking the guy for breaking out of the toxic relationship? And do you realize you're attacking the guy for refusing further abusive requests directed at him by the same guys with a long track record of abuse?

Let's try to be serious: there is exactly zero issues to point at Gust's actions. He was subjected to abuse, he packed his bags and left, and when subjected to further abuse after his resignation he simply rejected it. End of story.

And using profanity does not make someone as bad a participant than employers abusing their employees as described in the article.
Sorry, can you clarify what a “contrarian view on vaccinations” mean?
Having spent some years as an employee of several consulting firms (with an IT focus, not management/McKinsey style), I can comfortably say that a primary goal of a professional services organization is to maximize realization[0] and profitability.

When the goal of an organization is maximization of revenue/profit to the exclusion of all else, it's not unusual to see laxity in ethical standards.

The mechanism for doing so is to provide quality[1] service and leave the customer satisfied. The article makes it clear that the Sackler family felt this was true for the services provided by McKinsey.

You'll note that those are similar metrics that are associated with sex workers. The primary difference between consultants and prostitutes is that being the former is usually (but not always) less degrading.

None of the above should be all that surprising to anyone. The question then becomes: "What, if anything, should we do about it?"

I posit that we should make the costs of ethical lapses higher than the potential profit of same.

We certainly don't have that now. Perhaps we should work to change that?

[0] https://www.hainesandlagerquist.com/understanding-utilizatio...

[1] 'Quality' in this context is generally defined as "achieving whatever result the client desires."
Buy Nothing Project. If you want to practice opening your heart and focusing on what you have to give, I recommend this so much.

(I lost touch when I deactivated my Facebook account but I’m happy to see they’re trying open source and a crowd funded social network called “soop”.)

https://buynothingproject.org/about/
Battle of the billionaires: Bezos, Ambani gun for India retail supremacy
I'm still not sure that M1 is much of a quantum leap, and I haven't been able to get my hands on one to try it. I went to an Apple Store on Wednesday, but they were unwilling to let me see the device without a shopping appointment (store was empty of customers except for me and one other person). They only let me in the door because I was picking up an online order.

I'm not willing to describe M1 as "untouched" without actually using it in the real world for a couple of weeks.

My question to you is, have you used M1 in the real world for a couple of weeks, or are you basing your comments on the benchmarks that have been published by tech journalists?
The amount of keyboard input required for browsing can be easily filled in by voice dictation. Or a lousy on screen keyboard.

Creating long form content absolutely requires a keyboard, but the parent even mentions that as part of the "it just works" of a tablet.
The health condition of Steve Jobs and the value of Apple’s shares (2018)
And it’s never used again
Hire people who give a shit about what they like to do, and hire them to actually do that. If you find people who actually care about the company beyond the extent the company cares about them, they're either mental or very naive.

"Why do you want this Job"

I grew up dreaming about studying for half a decade to write JavaScript, why else!
I just tried it, I don’t know what your AI thinks I look like, but it’s decided I’m a kid.. I’m in my mid-20s ;)
as others have pointed out when this is brought up, this seems out of order to me. the relocations required in the story that caused the team’s exodus occurred prior to the severance package tied to coinbase’s new corporate stance on workplace social justice advocacy.

however, i am not sure that is relevant given the immediate example of a team member who was allowed to work remote. also, i am not sure it is relevant given the fact that there are many other underpinnings for the story’s thesis.
M1 has the ability to do this on all eight cores.
I believe with regards to TSO, it is actually a huge benefit performance wise. Without you would need to effectively have a barrier after every memory operation ARM, reducing performance drastically.
The biggest difference maker for me is using hashed filenames for non-html resources. That way even if the html caches too long it's at least a coherent experience, and if anything else caches too long who cares, the user doesn't see it anyway.

I don't know what your pipeline looks like or if you're already doing that, but if not it's worth a look.
This is a larger ArchiveTeam problem, not a language problem. They use MediaWiki (Wikipedia) to effectively host static informational pages without a cache in front.
The emulation is not implemented in the processor, just the memory ordering.
Regular people don't know what an OS is.
If we can get Dustin Hoffman on it pronto there should be little worry.
I think that's why PG's discussion of whether and how a motivated individual can change or enhance these attributes is interesting, along with the observation that strength in one can make up for relative weakness in another.

I think your analogy fails in that hanging out with tall people can't make you taller. Exceptions to general rules are interesting, but don't have much predictive or explanatory power.
I can't resist correcting some of that, sorry! :)

* WHO recommended that sick people wear (surgical) masks since February at home to reduce the chances of spreading the virus in the household - if they can't fully isolate. (You can check this using archive.org - I don't have the link readily at hand, unfortunately)

* Yes, PPE was a concern but also it was thought that there is no spread without symptoms initially. Which was the main reason why masks were not recommended for the wider population:

* non-respirators don't really *protect* the wearer
* respirators like N95 do but PPE is in short suply
* if you have symptoms, wearing a mask helps, sure, but best to fully isolate as much as possible.

* Opinion largely changed due to incoming evidence of presymptomatic spread - and yes, some campaigning by various groups like masks4all.

I'm sure there were some people and groups that connected the PPE and "masks don't work and thats why they are not recommended" but it was certainly not a blatant lie - it was really thought they wouldn't help and isolation for the infected is much better. With presymptomatic (and therefore possibly asymptomatic) spread and the realization of millions infected everywhere, everyone wearing masks became a viable option.

Aerosols are a whole other topic I won't get into (and I don't really have the expertise for it either!) but suffice to say from my understanding its not really as simple as "works" / "doesn't work".

Yes there is a problem with science failing us here as well, as the bar for evidence is simply set too high and the processes are too slow to deal with a pandemic. This is true for medications too...
Look at the bottom bolt on the "No Parking" sign: It's partially covered by the later-added "No Stopping" sign.

Also, because this is apparently in a school zone, you have to think about how stopping is different from parking: You don't have to pull into a parking zone to drop off your kid, you can just stop momentarily in the middle of the street. During the non-overlap hours, you can pull over and park, just not stop in the street.
How to Be Resilient
> But no one is being forcibly shut down here

But they are. If you are skeptical of the claims in the article, then apparently you have taken a “depressing” (incorrect/intolerant) stance.
>>Even if they don't increase total consumer spending by offering better products and winning market share, they do increase consumer _wealth_. I'm glad I can buy a 65" 4k TV for as much as my parents paid for a 15" CRT 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation.

I think this depends of how are you calculating the cost of things. In this day in age, misery wages and huge negative externalities have more to do with cheap clothes and appliances than the sewing machine, imho. The later mostly contributed on how many of them you can make by the second, but you still need farms of people to work them.
The battery.

My desktop is an AMD Threadripper 299WX running FreeBSD. My laptop is a mid-2014 MBP. I can build a kernel about 8x faster on the AMD than in a VM on the mac. So when I'm away from my desk, I use the MBP to ssh to the AMD and do all my dev there.

My biggest problem with my current MBP is that the battery life is down to 1-2 hours. Less if I have a video call.

I could maybe just use a chromebook or windows laptop, but the Mac "just works" for all kinds of corporate stuff and is the path of least resistance.
Listen to black debaters in the 1950's and 1960's sometime, david hoffman on youtube has a few really great videos up. Some of the Black panthers stuff is pretty interesting IMO.

Black people are more than capible of holding their own in corporate america, but they've been disenfranchised and disabused by crappy social policies and generational complex trauma stemming back to the 1600's in America, compounded by familial and community abandonment.

The net result of this is you have a bunch of basically abandoned children that, when they get into an adult environment, especially a tech environment, they can't function. Then, the devil incarnate comes along and says an environment of high emotional regulation (professional standards and boundaries) where people strive to develop cognitive function (think through their problems) and work as teams (because we all have to specailize) is "whiteness" because people are explaining the basics to them, or they can't negotiate because they get very nervous, or a myiad of other issues that really boil down to development.

It is a terrible lie, many things that aren't really racist become racist because all of a sudden we are discovering this group of disabused people don't have the development they need to have to function in that environment, are getting left behind, and have no clear path to attainment. Then the media vultures come in and "monetize" them.

And in some cases, they make people feel threatened and not physically but intellectually, and some narcisstic people feel like they've been dressed down a few notches which is BS.

You're American, some goat farmer is going to come over and invent the next big thing, put you out of work, then you're going to go work fixing robots and make 4x what you were making. Deal with it, leave your cultural identity on the boat.

So first of all, be the best you can be. You have nothing to feel guilty over by doing that and working towards that.

Second, recognize this group has been through an incredibly difficult time and more importantly, that survival instinct and moral perspective are important to really listen to and to play chess with. Keep "whiteness" and "blackness" out of the discussion and just stick to this as a navigation exercise.

Third, keep in mind a lot of them are impatient and angry. That isn't your doing, the best you can do is offer them an ear, mentorship if they ask for it, and a straightforward and fair explination.
Do you have a link? I searched quickly and you might have been mislead by lazy titling. They released the recommendations of the report - I can find that very quickly [0] - but the actual investigation isn't obvious.

And that was investigating stuff Susan Fowler had already attacked them publicly on. I'm not going to try and look up all the details but it is probably a different set of circumstances.

[0] https://www.uber.com/newsroom/covington-recommendations/ and then https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1s08BdVqCgrUVM4UHBpTGROLXM...
> Blogging - Medium - I actually hate Medium, but its easy and popular.

For a no nonsense list that doesn't make much sense.
> Why cant there be something else that bends space?

That's literally what dark matter is. It's something else that bends space. It's called "dark" because no one knows what it is.
> Coinbase's stance there is fair, reasonable and moral

this is a self-evident conclusion being hawked as a premise, and the rest of the comment doesn't do much to mold this premise into an argument

> If Russ had a reason for quitting that was race-related then the NYT didn't uncover it.

There's an unfalsifiability in this rhetoric, because someone leaving for race-related reasons in an industry that either:
a) has "subtle racists"
b) is funded by "subtle racists"
c) functionally aids and/or abets "subtle racists" through inaction

would be incentivized to not specify these things, as these industries (finance and crypto) optimize for relationships almost as much (if not ==) to the amount they optimize for merit. And that's not even getting into clauses baked into employment termination contracts.
So you have a scenario where you can't actually "prove" race was a primary motivator for quitting because:
a) if it were a "subtle racist" co-worker, they're probably using euphemism
a2) if they're a "not subtle racist" co-worker, it would embarrass the employer for keeping that person on the book swhen the reputational cost exceeds the cost of sourcing and hiring someone who's not a not subtle racist"
b) If the person wants to work in tech again, relationships will likely be burned as a direct or indirect result of airing out a company's dirty laundry
c) Could be sued for violating non-disparagement clauses (prices out anyone who doesn't have the security to burn the bridge between them and a growth industry)

If the point of your comment was to use a number of premises that aren't empirical, and border on dogmatic, then I misunderstood, and apologize for trying to search for rhetoric where it was not intended to be found.

If the purpose of the statements above where to be rhetorical or logical, then we're getting into a place where we're asking for evidence that would be difficult for someone with said evidence to do without them, say, being financially and occupationally secure enough to burn the bridges between them and:
- Coinbase
- Coinbase's Investors
- Coinbase's Investors' LPs
- Coinbase's Investors' companies
- Every other company that either doesn't question whether they are less meritocratic than they believe, or doesn't question whether or not they can replace the problematic superstar employees
They could change the mediawiki config to use file cache ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUseFileCache ) which is basically poor-man's version of varnish (it saves all the rendered pages on disk, and outputs that instead of rendering the page if you're not logged in or otherwise cant have a cached page). Would probably help a lot with the hn hug of death. Not sure if it would be enough, but it might be especially if combined with different max connection settings in the webserver to prevent memory starvation.
This article is self-contradictory. The premise of the article is that you have to be unconventional and do things others aren't do to be successful. And then the author "proves" the premise by saying, "just like all these other successful people did!"

The formulae are all driven by survivorship bias anyway.
“Dark matter” just means it’s something that behaves like matter wrt gravity.
That's what abstract are for
Infrastructure so massive and so important that it underpins our entire civilization. Then people start retiring, forgetting how it all works. The people will take weird automatic half measures to fix what they don't understand with neural nets. Then it really gets interesting.
Dear CEO, practice what you preach,

> Default to trust: We assume positive intent amongst our teammates, and assume ignorance over malice. We have each other’s backs.

> some of what I’ve written above will be misinterpreted, whether accidentally or on purpose. [1]

If you assume positive intent then no one would misinterpret your words "on purpose".

[1] https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...
the article is from an extremely biased source, done in the midst of 'social justice' trend running out of steam, I'd just ignore it.

Think long term.
The math is correct or incorrect regardless of the language used. Changing the language doesn't change the math, what the math predicts, or what observation and experimentation prove or disprove about those predictions.
I can empathize with the merits of this idea but I also agree that such cult worship of a business idea is absurd.

There is a massive gap between the output of passionate people who go the extra mile to provide original solutions in the highest quality way versus people who watch the clock and press buttons on a keyboard. The biggest problem is how to achieve maximum talent. The solution is ownership and setting high standards, not compensation.

Ownership means allowing some control of product decisions and connecting compensation to product performance. The product staff must be willing to work hard because there is a clear connection between their effort and their rewards. This is more like a commission than a salary or equity package.

If founders really want to instill that mentality for the long term they will earn a slice off the top while driving product strategy just like a sales manager. That redirects energy away from the founders and investors back toward the thing driving revenue.
Some VCs fund these types of founders because they are easy to manipulate and control.
Implementing the memory ordering in hardware is a huge performance benefit, but they didn’t have to do it with a switch like they have right now. ARMv8.4-RCpc would be enough, and I believe M1 supports these too.

(FWIW, Rosetta itself does “cheat”: the translated code and the runtime shares an address space, and memory accesses are not checked, so it’s possible to write an “Intel” binary that is aware of the runtime and can read emulator state.)