skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest that projecting evil motives onto others implies a far greater sociopathic tendency. Keep in mind that all of the worst things we’ve managed to accomplish as a species tended to start with dehumanization as the first enabling step.

I’d also suggest that this comment would also necessarily include dismissing just about every psychologist, philosopher or ethicist who studies the nature of self-interested motives as being a sociopath as well.

If you really wanted to be cynical however, I’d suggest you start by asking who’s benefitting from us having this conversation. I’d say it’s the regulators, and to a greater extent the executives who have been in charge of those regulators, who are the people statutorily responsible for these failures. I can’t imagine how happy they’d be with us debating how culpable big pharma and their management consultants are for it.
I'm also grateful for HTMX and the excellent development community that the project owner has grown. Like the parent, I'm also using HTMX + tailwindcss; rather than Rust, I'm using Julia.
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Coinbase sucks for other reasons besides racism and libertarian ideals that suddenly are complacent with authoritarianism when it involves property law. Ask any libertarian like Brian Armstrong if they want to defund the police. Coinbase believes everyone should have equal access to an un-regulated digital Las Vegas, despite the understanding that humans have irrational behaviors associated with gambling (i.e. the sunk-cost fallacy).

Bitcoin NOT Coinbase.
What exactly do you consider an evidence of intelligence?
Having mentored interns in the past the idea that certain academic institutions signal intelligence over others is flawed at best. This is anecdotal but one summer we got two - one from Harvard and the other from a US college I'd never heard of. One we went on to offer a job, the other struggled with basic coding and had to be taught multiple times how to open a PR.
They don't call it the human resources department for no reason...

If you look at cities/modern civilization, it's really no different from an industrial farm. People who run industrial farms are focused on the production of the livestock - aka the productive value of each head of cattle, each chicken, etc. People who run cities are focused on the production of every head of human.

Notice the uptick in "How do I get more productive", "I've had a productive day today", etc? Doesn't it seem like it's all about productivity? Are you meeting your potential - have you been as productive as you could be today?
Yeah; I know after about 6 hours I'm mentally exhausted and going to create more problems than I fix if I keep working. Much like physical labor at 8. I'm pretty sure research has also born that out, same as for physical labor.

Now, it's -possible- this guy means just, have you -ever-, because, sure, there have been times I've been really excited about something and spent a lot of time on it...but I don't think that's fair either. Even those times, for my own stuff, I did better stepping away from it and coming back the next day.
Yeah I remember it came up on HN previously, but that was several months ago so I'm surprised it stuck around in the cache that long.

Hard refreshing fixed it, thanks. Sorry about that.
They have some modern machines meant to replicate that experience, but on more modern hardware (Ex: 480 MHz lets your BASIC code run way faster than Assembly could on those 8-bit machines), but you still boot straight into BASIC (pretty much no OS) in about 3 seconds. Pretty nifty.
Their iOS app is a lifesaver, because it will sync robustly across iOS/Mac devices, via WebDAV on FreeNAS, and includes a built-in web scraper for public pages, PDF and even audio files. With censorship increasing, it's valuable to have a local cache alongside the tagged bookmark.
Quoting from your downstream posts for which HN is blocking replies:

> The job is in fact risky, which is why the profession is so highly regarded.

Police work doesn't even break the top ten most dangerous careers in the US. Landscaping workers are more likely to die on the job than police officers.[0]

Police work is just not that dangerous.

[0] https://www.workandmoney.com/s/most-dangerous-jobs-29090b32c...
It seems possible that a much smaller company could have a sizable number of employees who claim to be anti-racist, but fail to behave that way in practice. Particularly one with a concentration of libertarian "crypto bros" who are often at odds with employees who might be described as "rabidly anti-racist".
I think it’s much less an issue with people who have relocated and spent a few years adapting to us, but to succeed with foreign cultures you have to know how directly they prefer to communicate. Dave Barry tells this story:

(Beth) “… and then we want to take a plane from Point A to Point B.”

(Japanese travel agent) “I see. You want to take a plane?” “Yes.”

“From Point A?” “Yes.”

“To Point B?” “Yes.”

“Ah.” “Can we do that?”

“Perhaps you would prefer to take a train.” “No, we would prefer to take a plane.”

“Ah-hah. You would prefer to take a plane?” “Yes. A plane.”

“I see. From Point A?”

This mystified his wife but apparently between Japanese this is virtually screaming “THERE IS NO PLANE, YOU ZITBRAIN!”
Unless you have VCs betting on the same horse... Accrual of advantage, etc etc.

You also likely have funds to float you for longer.

You also likely have a network to leverage/exploit.

These external things all can stem from a lucky first go.
You say "doing research, thinking about it, and bothering to come up with a proposal" as if the only obstacle is that no one has figured out how to bring these people to justice.

That's not what's happening here. These are people who use their immense power and resources to warp our bureaucracy to protect and enrich themselves. They don't face real consequences because the system is designed to shield them from accountability.
> Why would you assume there is no proper conclusion

I wouldn’t and am not. It’s your responsibility to confirm one way or the other.

If this is a case of a disgruntled freelancer who isn’t getting more than what he/she wants even under a contractual and agreed upon arrangement, then I’ll gladly retract from my former concerns and sincerely apologize for my personal issues towards the matter.

But if this is almost literally anything else where the freelancer did work and wasn’t compensated under the terms of a contractual agreement, I will hold up my concern and maintain my disdain towards the matter.
No edit, I just replied to you in my previous comment.

Are you under the impression that Coinbase makes Work-From-Home decisions based on the skin-color of their employees?

If yes (which it seems like to me), I'd like to learn more about that, and your reasoning. Am I oblivious to modern work-place racism? Imperceptive? Naive? Defending vile racists? I'd like to reconsider those questions on a more informed ground. My (and your) view kinda hinges on that impression and its truth.

I can understand why Black employees would have that impression, but if it's not true, then I also see that as problematic.

> I am under the impression that Coinbase demanded that the Black employees of the compliance group relocate to PDX so that the whole group could work out of the same office, and then exempted a white worker in the same group from that requirement.

Did it matter for this demand that one group was Black and the other was white? Or did this just happened to be the unfortunate outcome, which is bad optics if you focus on skin color attributes, and such bad optics should be avoided?

I am still not too sure. Can you remove "Black" and "white" from your impression and still say the same thing, or is it essential to your impression, and telling of a problematic work environment?
You suck.
The article fails to mention the generous 4-6 month severance package that was being offered at the same time as the relocation of the division. Of course a bunch of employees will take the 6 months paid vacation over moving.

This is the level of dishonesty that I've come to expect from the NYT. Any fact that does not fit their narrative basically doesn't exist.

Better treatment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233702
I think there's a couple things here. x86 defines a pretty strict ordering of memory operations, where ARM is more relaxed; as discussed elsewhere in the thread, this means atomic operations, used for synchronization, will need to wait for pending stores to finish on x86, but not on ARM.

The other thing is that the M1 processor seems to be a lot wider than contemporary processors. This means it can (potentially) do more operations per clock. Wider processors are harder to clock faster, but it works for Apple. Apple has no desire to put in the cooling you need to get chips running at 4+ GHz, so it's not a big deal if their chips are clock limited. On the other hand, Intel and AMD like their cores to approach 5 GHz at the top end.
Since I haven't argued against any of this, I haven't replied.
Whose privacy? Coinbase's?! They wouldn't be the first company to publicly publish an internal report (voluntary or not; such documents routinely go public via the justice system).
Absolutely insufferable, I can't even hate-read this article.
So the lived experiences of actual black people when they speak up and straight up say ”this is happening to us” means....what, then, in comparison to actually having dealt with said racism personally?

If it’s hard to believe because you haven’t lived it, then is listening to the multitudes of people also not enough?
When companies do not reflect the population then it shows that some races do not have the same opportunity as others.
Maybe, some companies seem to adopt the strategy of “hire talented 22 year olds out of college, work them until they burn out in two-three years and move on, hire more”.

Not claiming this is necessarily effective.
> At the end of the day, the best thing for Coinbase employees to do is to jump ship to a competitor (I for one, am happy to give a referral to any Coinbase employee who is leaving due to all this) - but absolutely vile that they would try to buy-out all POC in the company.

What makes you think POC are equivalent with woke activists? That seems a bit like stereotyping to me. It also seems to contradict actual data.[1] While most black Americans agree that racial issues are still serious problems, they tend not to endorse the extreme progressive interpretations and policy recommendations.

If I were to guess, tech workers are much more likely to be progressive activists than workers in most other industries. This includes the (shamefully small) number of black tech workers as well. But at the same time, almost all of the activists are white.

[1] see appendix 1.1.1 https://hiddentribes.us/pdf/hidden_tribes_report.pdf
I believe they also run a programme of random tests regardless of symptoms. A friend of mine was selected for this and they periodically come to his house and take a sample.
I get those sometimes. It’s fair to say they are not exactly aids to well-being.
You’re right, and I think this is a good point against the root comment. Nobody can argue against the claim that we are all just resources to politicians, corporations, and law enforcement because it is vacuously true. It’s like saying we are all just atoms. It doesn’t tell us whether many or most in those industries are good people who are in it for the right reasons. And of course, this story about a particular repugnant act can’t prove such a blanket statement.
x86 has total store order, all stores are queued(store buffer) in the CPU and then pushed to the cache subsystem. Last item has to wait previous ones. Arm doesn’t have TSO, so CPU can reorder stores in the queue or issue stores out of order etc. depending on memory barrier use.
By showing what is possible with an ARM CPU in terms of performance/power efficiency ratio on the CPU. Apple may trigger an increase of investment in ARM technology. The wave will not happen overnight. Intel has opportunities to adapt. But their are a lot of corporates (and consumers) that are waiting switch to greener, more power efficient computing.
There are many abstract concepts included in the definition of the word resources. You’re trying to argue that it means computable wealth and absolutely nothing else. Which is very obviously ridiculous, and it’s hard to see this comment as anything other than an attempt to start some pointless semantic debate.
I am under the impression that Coinbase demanded that the Black employees of the compliance group relocate to PDX so that the whole group could work out of the same office, and then exempted a white worker in the same group from that requirement.
> This is why dogs can die from hypoglycemic shock if they consume xylitol.

Cats are affected in the same way by xylitol.
True, Python is good for this, it also comes by default on mac!
I disagree from my interpretation of what we do know. They could have made the case about that specifically if they wanted to, but they decided to deflect with a blanket policy on politics. To say we can't determine anything is silly - we're making best guess judgements, not trying Coinbase in court for murder.

I've made this comment elsewhere, but I really would love to know why people are digging in so hard here. Let's just call a spade a spade.
Wouldn’t geo-locating the client request, and selecting the CAPTCHA challenge accordingly, be a way to mitigate this risk? i.e. for client requests from the US, it’s “Please select all the images of crosswalks” with photos of American crosswalks, but for Commonwealth countries it’s “Please select all the images of zebra crossings”. Admittedly there are flaws in this plan, such as when someone uses a VPN to obfuscate their IP address, but surely it would be a net gain?
If the founder has lost most control, they also have way less equity. So way less reason to stick around. If things are going that badly, dump the stock, and GTFO, same as the smart employees are likely to do.
It's n-gate [dot] com

I think you have to type in that URL. If the referrer is set to this site, you get goatse'd or something.
I really, really, really enjoyed working with intercooler.js on a previous project... I understand there’s no immediate need to upgrade, but what new features does this provide for new projects?

By the way, thanks!
> people are having their reputations destroyed and lives turned upside down because of a single thing they (allegedly) said

Then perhaps you can find it in you to empathize with the black folks who are scared of the police, and can begin to understand BLM. You have something in common with them.
Never heard of it, looks cool. Thanks!
Not only do browser manufacturers disregard that request, I observe that IETF has gone back on their idea of prefixing application protocols with 'X-`. See RFC 6648: "Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols"

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648

If the HTML standard changes so much as to collide with 'hx-` then application developers using HTMX will likely have bigger compatibility problems to deal with. Besides, regex replacement on your HTML templates isn't hard.
> By the way, a Mac still lets you select a boot drive in the exact same way.

The UI might be similar here, but the experience is vastly different. Back in The Day it was pretty common to build customized System Folders by hand to fit your personal needs and your machine's resource limits, e.g. to fit in a RAM Disk on a PowerBook to save battery on the go. The minimum bootable (note: not "usable") blessed folder could be just two files — a System suitcase and the Finder executable.
Yeah, but you're missing the point the parent is making. On a C64, you boot into bare basic and can immediately start playing with sprites and lines and stuff. With a modern computer you have BIOS, 80 bazillion lines of Windows or Linux, your Python installation and about 90 layers in between. It's simply not possible to fully understand a modern computer. Just take a look at all the lines of code in Windows and Python that lets you play with turtle graphics (forget about the other million lines of other code I don't even know about). Then, compare that sum with the amount of code in the C64. See the difference? Sure a modern computer does a lot more, but it's also a black-hole/ accretion disk of bad design glued together.
I can't believe I watched that whole thing.

When someone is speaking perfect English then suddenly says a single word in a language I don't recognize, I somehow lower the volume of the unknown word when I hear it. I could not tell if the video was corrupted or if I wasn't hearing it properly, at first.

Let me be clear: I'm not making any negative comments about languages that aren't English! I'm just surprised that I watched the entire video given that I was so confused through the entire thing.
Fair point, and you're right something had to give on that score. Classroom pods for young kids seem to work fairly well overall, it just ups the risk for visiting the grandparents.

The university side didn't seem to work out as well - possibly partly because uni staff are (understandably) less willing to work crunch hours to meet duty of care than primary school staff.
If they aren’t “fastidious about truth” probably. If they are, and they know you are being “curious”, you will likely have a cool, engaging conversation on your hands.
Boil it for 8 min 30 seconds. Cool it in cold water for 60 seconds right after.
I wonder if arrays of mirrors (aimed at a heat engine or whatever they use to generate electricity from molten salt)

That seems like a great idea. Find a nice big crater in an area that gets a lot of sunlight and polish the walls of the crater into a parabolic mirror. Put your heat engine at the focus and collect tons of energy. The one drawback: how do you provide cooling? Heat engines are only efficient with a large temperature gradient (Carnot's theorem).
> if Nvidia buy ARM then that choice may become political.

If? Was that a typo?
They have indeed [https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for...]
@tptacek: you are imputing a motivation out of thin air. having fought hard for wfh/remote at companies against it, I can imagine far more benign reasons to be plausible.
What do you mean by “accelerate hard enough?” Can I see your math?
I don't see it as unjustified to point out that the primary risk actors in China's threat model will be the American armed forces and/or three letter agencies.
I am involved in the distribution of very expensive bicycle components. The demand is massive. From my commercial experience, this sort of stuff has lots of similarities with other branded goods (bags, watches, designer clothes). It probably is built to a higher standard than mass-merchandise, but people buy it for more reasons than the tiny theoretical improvement in performance. I reckon more people buy a Rolex as a signaling device than because it more closely to Swiss Chronometer accuracy standards. I think the same for lots of bike stuff. Not really a value-judgement (I'm thankful for my customers) but in many cases, it's not a pure performance-per-dollar value calculation that they're making.
Personally, it's how the weapons are unusually used that stands out to me. Tokyo Zodiac Murders remains one of the finest bits of stage magic I've read.
> I encourage everyone to give [Moral absolutism] a spin

> state that they performed terribly regardless of what occurred... [report] that their interview behavior during the interview seemed erratic, to the extent that I questioned their sobriety

Quite some cognitive dissonance you're holding onto there!
[Thank you for all your advice -- it's greatly appreciated. I've edited this post since it included a few personal details that I don't want permanently attached to my account on here. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.]
> In an era of smartphones and viral videos, the fact that we don't have a single audio/video recording exposing the racism seems rather suspect. I'm not saying that is proof of anything. But something to consider.

Do you regularly record interactions with your coworkers, on the chance they may say something incriminating? I don't, and I expect most would not try to record things at work unless they go into a meeting expecting it to end poorly.

> The problem is the lack of qualified employees.

This sounds awfully similar to the argument made against women: qualified women just don't apply! Unfortunately, that is not actually true. http://isitapipelineproblem.com/

You seem to accept Coinbase/Brian Armstrong's words without question. Why do you feel that the Black employees' words must be critiqued to hell and back?
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The unconventional independent minded people on HN are the people who are banned and voted down.

While this group of people includes individual with new ideas, it also includes flat earthers. The same emotional confidence that allows you to have revolutionary ideas is the same one that allows you to be a flat earther.

If you posted your idea on HN and you find that the idea is voted up by a lot? It means a lot of people agree with you, the thought is therefore not independent or unconventional. Does your post get voted down? Well it's pretty much by definition a very independent idea.

In general, unconventional independent minded people fight an uphill battle.
Also, here is a counterpoint that you may have not seen because its just not as interesting to retweet (I applaud Ian for the effort with the GIFs but while that helps, its not enough to offset the novelty/interestingness factor of the original theory):

https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1331440271716827137
Yeah, I basically want a machine with a fast CPU and lots of RAM that boots into something like LISP or Forth with a very minimal OS (SD card navigation, text editor, image and audio file player, simple graphics).
I think i think of it as a investment in my career. if you can do close to 30 of these small projects each year, it starts adding up. You become an expert in many domains and you start to build up a large code base.

If you look at my codebase (www.gamepipeline.org) you can see that it looks more similar to a platform holder like Microsoft/Apple/Google, then what most individuals github profiles.

The most common critique of my coding ethos is that its not efective (I write everything in C and I have Zero dependencies, so I write everything from scratch). But looking at what i have been able to accomplice over the years, I cant think of many people who have produced as many applications as I have (http://www.quelsolaar.com). If writing everything in higher level languages and using lots of dependencies was as effective as people say, then there would be plenty of people running circles around me in terms of productivity, and I just don see that.
A justice system that applies equally to everyone should not require immense effort from private unrelated individuals to do it's job.
> Ms. Sawyerr said ...

Of course she said that. Big bad company silenced her co-suiters with money, after their spy devision learned that she was bringing suit. Now she has no recourse to go court herself, she absolutely needed those four other employees.

> The lack of a court case has nothing to do with the amount of evidence or the truthfulness of the accusations here.

It allows me to disqualify it as hearsay, and it allows you to think they offered severance payments, with the purpose to keep legit actual racism out of the courts.

Intent is of utmost importance for the law. Every lawyer and judge will agree to that. Punishment is increased for bad willful intent.