skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I certainly would encourage and do encourage people to code (it) themselves, the claim that using that not doing so

> mean[s] endless seeking, evaluating and further deviation from our goals.

is simply not true. Only if software were written to serve ultra-particular and individual goals would that be the case.

Software is written to serve needs - of fewer or of many. And while it may serve a more constrained set of needs more optimally, it typically serves wide enough needs well enough, that the vast majority of people have most of their software needs met by software written by others (albeit with room for improvement).

Also, almost no person, even a proficient coder, has enough time and attention span to code most of the software they use. On the contrary, we absolutely and necessary _won't and can't_ code "it" ourselves, where "it" is the main bulk of software we use over the course of our lives.

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Instead of this manifesto, I would suggest a "Write good, robust, widely-usable libraries" manifesto - because that's how other people will be realistically able to code "it" themselves when and if they need to.
This is why we need more really good string, date, and GUI accessibility implementations in standard libraries
That's right but the EB5 process is really slow right now. The other options are the O-1 extraordinary ability visa and the L-1 intracompany transferee visa (if you have existing operations in India).
Can an employee on EB green card leave their sponsoring employer to start a PhD in the US and keep the GC?
Sharing our safety framework for fully autonomous operations
On a log scale, all numbers are equally distant from 0 and infinity. 1 is no more “halfway” than 10, or 13, or 1/95.
> It seems to me that claiming you’re independent-minded is sort of like claiming you’re a genius. You’re not supposed to make this claim yourself. Graham doesn’t make this claim explicitly, but by writing about this subject he makes it implicitly.

I think that is one reason to react against the essay, but not really.

My problem is fundamentally that it seems like, with the rise of VC worship (I really don't know what else to call it), people now take the pseudo-sociological observations of their VC heroes as fact or at least very close to fact.

Given that we're pretty incredibly shitty at social sciences, even when trying to do it rigorously, I don't understand why I would start giving strong weight to someone who is just pondering in a wall of text about sociological phenomenons/models that I have no reason to believe are how the world actually works.
This might be the most important thing happening right now and Hacker News has keep it's head in the sand. Lets have an honest discussion about the technical parts of the alleged election steal by foreign agents.
Fantastic field with tons of opportunities.
In Europe a lot of the Bosch/Yamaha bikes have the so-called 'walk mode', where you hold down a button and the bike powers itself up whatever slope at walking pace.

For some reason I understand this mode is illegal in the US, but it makes all the difference over here - especially when going up stairs (or other 45 degree slopes).
True. At some point the answer to overload is to cut something out.

But I think he’s onto something, and I’m specifically looking at Slack and email, which seemed designed to force as many context switches as possible. Something along the lines of putting streams of information aside or in piles so I can deal with one at a time would be a sweeping improvement.
In the US, I don't think it'd actually be legal to travel on an airline with a battery the size of the one in this bike - it appears to be a 250 Wh unit, and I understand the legal limit for lithium ion batteries is 160 Wh.
Obviously the name is good for seo. Does anyone know what the rules are here?

Could he say "NOT grana padano" in the description?

In general the claims wouldn't hold in court, would they?
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How is the new wage requirements affecting H1B approvals? I heard it was being challenged in court. Are H1B transfers and renewals also subject to the new wage requirements?

Thanks as usual for your time and contribution!
PG has one target market. I respect him for that. He’s trying to help the unique people experience their full potential instead of giving into conformity.

My heart aches for all the ways I’ve allowed conformity to ruin me, but thankful that some of my original efforts have paid off.
Chrono trigger is interesting to me too because I know some rpg fans who just can't get past the simpler turn based battle system and hand drawn pixel graphics to unlock the story. If it had a FFVII style remake I would be vastly more enjoyable to lots of people.
Yeah, stereotypes are a bitch. BUT - if one gets stereotyped enough, after a while s/he’s probably developed some coping mechanism to actually leverage it into an advantage (I know I do). So don’t feel too bad - it might well be that the guy uses that sort of conversation precisely to gauge his audience.

(It makes a lot of sense that pro athletes are in gaming, btw: it’s competitive and it’s something that can be done during long downtimes between training sessions, or lonely hotel nights away from home. If you follow any twitter feed of pros, from football to f1, sooner or later you’ll see plenty of posts about games.)
Infinitesimals do not exist in the standard real number system. 'tiny' seems to be more related to the smallest positive representable (normal or subnormal) IEEE 754 float/double type of value which is a real number.
That article is about A14. It's projecting what things will kind of look like for M1. The top spec MBP runs rings around M1. As well, M1 limited to a paltry 16GB RAM vs 64GB RAM for the MBP 16.

Even though the M1 is much faster than others in its class, it might touch 2x performance. Quite good, but not an order of magnitude and certainly not several orders!
I love watching the lock picking lawyer on YouTube and how easily most locks are defeated. When I was like 16 we were interested in lock picking simply for the challenge. It didn’t take long with some filed down and bent mini flat head screw drivers from the dollar store and me and my teen friends learned to open pad locks. We had no skill just mostly raked across the pins and a lot of locks that is all it takes. It quickly made me realize locks are mostly for honest people.
Blended fruit provide fiber along with their sugar content which... decreases their glycemic index or whatever. (the sugar is less bad)
> In recent years conformists have gotten louder and louder, and more and more insistent that everyone should conform.

You grew up in America and think that? Let me guess, you think that pushing for something like trans access to bathrooms is the "conformist" position.

Based on the values my parents told me to conform to, there's been a massive collapse of conformity in the last two decades.
Truth Cullen ;-)
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Hi Peter,
Thank you for doing this. I am a student founder at a university in the US on J-1 visa (with 2 year requirement in place). I have got an interview with YC last summer and plan to apply again. If I got into YC and plan to continue working on the startup full-time, what would be my options in term of immigration and visa?
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It _immediately_ becomes untenable, actually. It'll like telling people to "manufacture it yourself". That might be possible for a perfectly fit person living a Robinson Crusoe life in some remote region; otherwise it's just divorced from reality.

We are a social animal - "zoon politicon" in Plato's original Greek - and our activities are social. For better and for worse, we can't declare that not to be the case or claim that we want to just be "left alone".
> DNA remains the same DNA from the '80s & '90s

It literally doesn't. All the leadership from that time has retired, the revenue sources are different, and even the business models are different (subscription vs. upfront for many services).

> Don't be fooled: A Leopard cannot change its shorts.

Someone should tell this to all the large companies started by or tied to Nazis (Porsche, IBM, Volkswagen, Puma, Adidas, etc.)

Or they should tell Apple, which went from near-death as a desktop/laptop vendor to a company now making most of its money from services.

Companies change. They do a mixture of good and bad things. At this point, Microsoft is far, far from the company they were in the 80s and 90s, even if they still do bad things.
> [Brian Armstrong] attributed [bad stuff] to being “on the spectrum,” according to a recording of the event.

Ah, the ol’ James Damore defense.
Do you think the new administration will have an impact on immigration and if so, what do you think will change?

My wife and I have been waiting since July on an update to her K1 adjustment of status. Some of that is COVID related issues, but I suspect some of the delay is due to additional processing of the new requirements (e.g. I-944).
Too good to be the mules, yes certainly.
Author here: I understand your point, but I disagree that Gmail’s reasons are good reasons. Partly this is a difference in philosophy I suspect; we should all try to help each other to become better, and Gmail’s pandering to users’ poor habits just enables them to avoid gaining understanding that would help them in the long run. Another reason is that the Gmail type of threading simply doesn’t work in practice, especially when the conversation has more than three participants. I know this because of the way people try to find a “better” way by moving away from email, when a good portion of their frustration is due to the difficulty in following conversations, specifically because they are using Gmail. They have no idea that email already offers them what they need, because they’ve never used an actual email client.
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It would be a strategically bad response for someone of lesser stature

Why? Sometimes those people of “lesser strature” are the ones who suffer worse outcomes from majority conformity.
Watch out for the words.

Being notorious :), or lets just call it being well known is not a measure of success.

Problem with defining successful scientist is I suppose more complex than scientist becoming a celebrity.

I believe one can be very successful by reproducing papers and for example pointing out bad ones that claim something that was supposed to be "groundbreaking".
I'm surprised by how many people are missing the central thesis of Connections. Yes, it was about how technological progress is a web of interlocking discoveries, which is entertaining, but that wasn't the _point_ of it. The first and last episodes of Connections 1 introduce and wrap up the theme of the entire series and it ought to terrify people to the core.

(Warning: spoilers ahead)

The first, "The Trigger Effect" highlights how utterly and irrevocably dependent human civilization is on a broad web of technology and how delicate that web is, the so called "technology trap". Break it and we can expect an astronomical death toll. (We got a tiny taste of this in the supply chain disruptions of COVID-19.) No one wants to think about it or believe it but the breakdown of civilization is actually possible.

The final episode, "Yesterday, Tomorrow and You", ties together the past episodes by pointing out that technological progress is not really controllable or stoppable because of its incremental and interlocking nature. Yet by doing so, we are only deepening our dependence on an ever more delicate web of technology without which we are helpless. Moreover, we don't even know where this unstoppable technological progress is taking us; perhaps a utopia but just as likely a hellscape. (An example of this is the unforeseen societal consequences of the growth of social media or the loss of privacy caused by the web.) It is enough to make one think that the apocalypse preppers aren't entirely wrong.

It is one of the most utterly terrifying and thought provoking concepts I have encountered over a lifetime of gathering knowledge.
""The job" here can talk about very different engineering roles"

You seem to be saying there is an area of softwre engineering that is not saturated candidate-wise.

Well, don't hold us in suspense -- go ahead and tell us specifically what sort of engineering role you were referring to here!
Thank you. It's almost 10 years I think.
It's missing VisiCalc. Perhaps it only considers those running on x86.
We actually had two of those by my parent's fireplace at home. It was a long time before I realized they weren't random brass cylinders, but in fact two spent artillery shells that my maternal grandfather brought home from WW1.
> This entire thing reads like it was torn from the journal of a clever middle-schooler who thinks he's so much more clever then the world.

This point really undermines your argument. I see this kind of response a lot, particularly on the left to people like PG (who I have mixed opinions of) when they have the audacity to write about something they don't have qualifications in (such as economics), or when you just don't like what he's saying on an emotional level. "Oh he thinks he's so clever" is just a childish insult, you're not refuting his central point. You're also second guessing him.

> pretending to be a deep thinker:

This is just an insult. PG clearly reads more than most and is a thoughtful writer.
DO instance? Can you please expand that acronym?

There was a recent discussion on Hacker News about the use of abbreviations and acronyms and how they drastically reduce the legibility of posts.
A more user-friendly, versatile and higher performance language. E.g. Julia can do everything R, Python, Fortran, Matlab and C can do in principle all in one language.

You can use R and Python packages from Julia. You can call Fortran and C code from it. Unlike R and Python you don't need to have a module rewritten to C or Fortran code to get high enough performance.

In fact Julia will often outperform C and Fortran code. There are researchers which have switched from Fortran to Julia to get a higher productivity programming language expecting to get a performance drop only to realize they got a 3x performance increase.

The main downside of Julia is that it is a very new language. R and Python and old and hence well known, but Julia is a rapidly growing and taking over serious areas. Next generation climate models are built using Julia e.g.
(as in 1meter rather than 1min!)
Good luck teaching my mother in law how to use a password manager.

Heck, I tried teaching her to write down her passwords in a notebook, and she either keeps forgetting to write down, or she loses the notebook completely.
> He's competing to capture pieces of a finite pie

this is an odd way to describe investing. this would more accurately describe the founders themselves, competing for a finite pool of VC dollars without necessarily having a viable product.
Thanks for pointing out the lack of rack attachment points. That is a design failure.
But to come back to the points you made about Korea, what does government size have to do with any of the transitions that you mentioned?

It is not reasonable to draw only on recent, lived experience when discussing political development. There is continuity of institutions from generation to generation. In the USA we have the benefit of long experience with democratic institutions, though of course this is no substitute for offering justification for our ideas. We do, however, have to look at history fairly broadly to see how these principles come into play.

To consider this all in light of your original comment and subsequent ones, you seem very confident about the application of Korean experience to American and Americans but seem to have little interest or understanding of the application of the American experience to America or Americans. It doesn't make much sense, unless the subtext is that you do not believe in the worth of applying history or the comparative method in this area at all, and rather regard Korea as a kind of model or blueprint, applicable to any nation at any time. The way you are referencing your Korean experience, as a source for statements about the most general topics, it's just a roundabout way of saying "My opinion is...".
non-AMP in the meantime for those who want to avoid AMP without fiddling around on mobile to edit the link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/business/uaw-dennis-willi...
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Leaders can foster the sort of team dynamics that you’re talking about here. Who can’t foster it particularly well is managers.

You can lead without managing (much) and you can manage without leading at all. The latter always seem to suck all of the joy out of my work, to the point where I dread coming in.

The problem is they should have fired all of the managers but kept all the leadership. It takes some soft skills to know the difference.
Nicely written article.

A few minor nits:

* As such, the development lifecycle is incredibly long. It starts with prototyping in an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), in which chip designers can program their required functionality and confirm compatibility*

I’ve been involved with development of multiple generations of ASICs including 7nm and now 5nm. Going all the way back to 40nm, we never prototyped in FPGAs. Most designs will not fit into a single FPGA and designs involving multiple FPGAs are a headache and the design diverges rapidly from your target due to all the overhead associated with coordinating multiple FPGAs.

Prototype might be something you do for a very simple design and a new or inexperienced team.

If you have a good experienced team, the tooling is good enough that simulation and verification are all that’s needed. However verification is a very extensive process and the most time consuming part and can take 9-12 months. 7nm tape-outs are extremely expensive. So you want to get it right. Most designs have multiple options built in on risky sections so that a work-around for a bug can be done in a metal spin. Furthermore, most of these chips have significant FW/SW associated with them as well. If you think about it, that’s quite a lot to deliver in 2 years into something as reliable as a network processor.

When you consider all of the above, Broadcom does an amazing job going from TH3 to TH4 in only 2 years. They are tough to beat because they have such a good process that they can crank out these incredibly complex chips on a reliable cadence. Please note that this includes analog for the SERDES which is its own development.
> being ignored/cursed at

I would certainly not wish to be ignored by wagons, trucks, and SUVs while cycling through American cities.
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> her incoherence did add to my, and particularly, my father's (her brother) grief.

I sympathize completely, and I'm sorry for your loss.
It's simple things like this that make the experience a lot better.

I haven't yet got used to hCaptcha, so I still have to search for the word every time I solve one.

Make it a different color, and increase the font size.
I'm tired of all of these Sabine posts, can we get someone else?

e: I'm curious what the opinion of professional physicists would be.
What's a reasonable price to pay good lawyers to put together an H1-B application for an employee?
You can give the basic HTML version of Gmail a try:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049
Wealth disparity and its huge gulf answers all the arguments, corporations will take till they are chastened, bit like a tick?
The American government insists that patents, trademarks, and copyrights are respected worldwide without jurisdiction because they got everyone else in the room to agree to do that in exchange for import market access. That's why the WTO TRIPS agreement exists. Everyone agreed to the same laws, and agreed to allow foreigners to sue domestic businesses, so it doesn't matter who has jurisdiction over what. America doesn't buy your cheese unless you agree to protect their movies. The only outliers are countries which have already pissed off America so much that market access without regime change is off the table. So, if you see someone say, for example, "but DMCA doesn't apply in my country", they're either wrong, or you should start looking up the export regulations involved with knowingly talking to Iranians before you wind up in federal prison.

This isn't even exclusively an American problem. The EU and Japan do it too, and more countries will start doing that as they start getting stronger domestic creative industries. The more money a country makes from owning copyrighted works, the more protection they will demand from other countries. Hell, the last major copyright term extension (the "Sonny Bono" one in the US) was started by the EU doing the same thing to America. The EU passed a term extension that had a reciprocality requirement: if America didn't agree to the term extension, then American works would enter the public domain in the EU quicker than EU-origin works did. This is a fiendishly clever way to ratchet in term extensions, and it works because the WTO treaties only specify maximums for copyright exceptions, not protection. You're always allowed to go stricter.
OP is talking about DigitalOcean. They are just one of the thousands of VPS (Virtual Private Server) providers you could use.
This is in the wake of Coinbase decision to be a "mission focused company" and prevent their employees from speaking out about political issues at the workplace. It shows the dangers of being apolitical when saying "Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job" is apparently still a political statement.
> First, we've never seen a new form of money created in realtime.

Call me when I can buy my latte and groceries with bitcoin, or pay my mortgage. Until then you've made an investment vehicle, not money.

> The tech darlings of today—Apple, Google, Twitter, etc. were also quite volatile as they grew.

Survivorship bias. Pointing to a handful of random successful companies and trying to draw conclusions is literally meaningless.

> As you may know, the mantra in the bitcoin community is to HODL—hold on for dear life, not to time the market. For long term investors, the ups and downs don't matter.

Yeah, this isn't something you actually say about money. Honestly, it would be a kind of cultish thing to say about an investment too. I don't need a mantra for how I invest in my 401k, why does Bitcoin need one?

> A publicly traded company that puts its treasury of $425 million into Bitcoin isn't speculating

That's the literal definition of speculation, a risky one at that.
he means Digital Ocean
> One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun, trading on racist stereotypes. Another said a co-worker at a recruiting meeting broadly described Black employees as less capable. Still another said managers spoke down to her and her Black colleagues, adding that they were passed over for promotions in favor of less experienced white employees. The accumulation of incidents, they said, led to the wave of departures.

Wow.
Digital Ocean, probably.
Hi Peter, is it possible/how difficult is it for a Canadian to set up a Deleware corp?
Lovely anecdote. Thanks for sharing!
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It's not really relevant, either. Much of US involvement with Europe following the revolution and particularly during the World Wars was involuntary, and it was one long process of helping them devolve strong, authoritarian states.
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Is that a stupid question? I did learn a lot about the Arm Cortex A-8 (beaglebone) from TI. Hence the question.
Is it really that bad on pavement as I am thinking about getting the ripcurrent s for commuting next year once wfh ends? That hydra does look pretty sweet though but I'm not sure if it is worth an extra 2k.
Good point. I meant it in the sense that anyone marketing a product is competing for a finite pool of consumer dollars.