skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simpler to justify if the development process is also seen as a knowledge acquisition process. Does the knowledge acquired by re-invention and its effect on subsequent effectiveness and or productivity outweigh the cost of time expended. In many cases, especially in a mature or stable environment, the answer is yes. It's also an attractive method of learning to people who like to think from first principles, as it involves developing a bottom-up understanding of whatever "the wheel" in this case is via practice.

I find that strong opinions either way on this question to be indicative of time preference. My own view is there's a time to do it and there's a time to avoid it. It becomes very valuable when ones navigating an unfamiliar area or is in the midst of a fundamental shift in the landscape. It's best to avoid it if the team or project is an a do-or-die scenario where certain milestones must be met to ensure it remains a viable team or project.
Utah would be a counterpoint to this. More and more VC funding every year, yet doesn't have legal recreational marijuana.
The nefarious thing is that nobody wants currency, markets are over priced and investors need collateral. So, they go to the banks who in turn sell outrageous mortgages to home owners.
I wonder how many people in the U.S. would recognize what is instantly familiar to us in Uruguay, the Yerba Mate gourd (10 out of 10 Uruguayans would recognize)

https://www.123rf.com/photo_120278916_stock-vector-yerba-mat...
I'm an engineer and a biker. If you only look at the numbers or try to run simplistic calculations, it's easy to think that bikers are just deluding themselves.

But there's more to it than just numbers on paper, and there's more to biking than just riding in a straight line from point A to point B. Carbon fiber frames aren't just about saving weight. The Carbon Fiber has different flexibility and damping properties that result in a different feel, for example.

My engineer friends make fun of me for spending $1K on a set of carbon fiber wheels, until I let them ride the bike. It only takes a few pedal strokes to feel how the reduced rotational inertia translates to faster acceleration. The advantages are even more significant when jumping or throwing the bike around, because the bike's moment of inertia is reduced significantly.

Carbon fiber handlebars don't save much weight, but the damping properties make for a minor reduction in fatigue. Carbon fiber Derailleur arms will again only save a few grams, but they're more likely to spring back from impacts than metal pieces that will simply bend. More expensive shifters have better bearings and cables that make for more precise shifts, meaning less fiddling over time and less mental effort to make sure I'm only changing 2 gears instead of 3.

The list goes on and on. Casual observers think we're just being silly and fooling ourselves with expensive parts. Meanwhile, I'm still buying the expensive stuff, enjoying it, and having zero regrets. At this point I just don't talk about it with any non-bikers because so many of them think they've got it all figured out.
> bend the brane our reality resides on by any measurable amount, and also demonstrate this causes an actual translation in 3d space?

Bends in spacetime creating measurable effects is how LIGO’s interferometers see gravity waves.

You’re asking for a light bulb when we’ve barely begun grinding lenses for a telescope.
> Keep in mind that simply complaining about something to a coworker isn't the same thing as "filing" a complaint.

It really depends on the HR department, too. In most, reporting something as seemingly straightforward as an overt sexual assault will raise the question "how do you want to proceed." But they might not lay out what your actual options are -- or worse, they might just offer an ear and won't offer to act unless you demand it. Sometimes, they'll make it quite clear that a complaint will be a huge pain in the ass for everybody involved, especially the person reporting. HR should understand that there can be direct and indirect blow-back; that reporting misbehavior (especially of management, or worse, HR) can have both real and perceived consequences for the person reporting. HR departments cannot, generally, be trusted to police themselves if you can't go to them or above them, the only other option is the labor relations board. So much of the time, marginalized employees will either suck it up and endure the abuse, or quietly leave to keep their reputation intact.

So if anything, I see the discrepancy of 3 official reports and 11 complaints as a weak signal about how seriously HR takes complaints about racism at the company.
Can anyone recommend a realtime remote presentation solution? That is, something that updates the slides for the viewers as well, to use instead of sharing a screen with slides.
1) Turn on computer.

2) 500ms go by

3) Computer prints "READY" and shows a blinking cursor.

At this point you can start typing code.

That is what I miss about 80s computing.
I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought the new name was much funnier than the old one!
I think the security issues come from parsing text rather than stdout itself. I vaguely recall reading about such an issue a year or two ago.
MP3 wasn’t an open standard. They paid licensing fees to the Fraunhofer institute like every other commercial vendor.
Is the 4th direction time?
He also took charcoal tablets. No idea if that would actually make a difference.
They can do nothing, once someone calls you 'racist' you're racist for good.

I don't know the details of the story, but the thing is with baseless accusations of racism is that it's a perfect slander, one can never prove innocence once proclaimed guilty.
So

1. I’m glad this is the most upvoted comment in order to provide visibility and

2. I’m glad the founder wants to make it right apparently by having the alleged freelancer send details to rectify

but the the fact that the founder doesn’t immediately refute that this occurred and only wants to now potentially make it right by having the freelancer send his details over to get paid is very troubling for me. I hope this comes out as a false allegation but if not I wouldn’t want to support this at all.
I was looking for a demo and then I saw that the big header is a presentation. Well done.
I 100% get where you're coming from, but allow me to offer a counterpoint to your counterpoint. I don't know anyone who works at SpaceX, but a bunch of my classmates went to work for ULA (their competitor). I imagine that SpaceX is better managed, but the nature of work is the same - you're either calculating things using conventional wisdom, or you're writing simulations or coming up with other ways to achieve higher performance or save money. Either way, the work is slow and highly co-dependent on a million other moving parts. Once a project is complete, your ownership is unlikely to be higher than a tiny fraction of 1 percent. Also, at least at ULA, you better excel at selling your work internally.

On the other hand, SV is littered with names of people who single-handedly turned unprofitable late-stage tech companies into major successes. There's less regulation, stakes are lower, capital requirements are lower, less of the available landscape has been claimed, and the industry lends itself well to the power of computation. It's a little bit like trying to get rich in 18th century England vs 18th century USA. Would it be fair for US farmers to claim that they are doing "radically different" work compared to their English counterparts? Perhaps the work looked similar ("put food on the table"), but the rules and opportunities were vastly different and created different outcomes for individuals (as in - the smartest/most fit/hardest working people got more out of their work).
It's the reason the article comes up now, and not last year.
I’m curious what in 2009 was the tipping point for you. In no way am I interested in challenging your switch, it’s just really interesting timing (as that was around the time nearly all of Apple’s product lines were growing rapidly even among the general HN audience).
The last link is what I was looking for, thanks. More startup infrastructure is there than I was aware of.

I’m not certain it changes my overall assessment, though: I wouldn’t chose to move to Switzerland based on its vibrant community of tech startups when compared to other European options. This isn’t to diminish the work being done, and I obviously have more to learn which may change my opinion.
I'm trying to avoid liquid calories. Otherwise I would of just used milk or other fats already :)
Many new build US apartments though large in floor area seem to be really poorly designed. When I first moved to the US I lived in an ~800 sqft 1 bedroom apartment. A deep dark cave with windows on only one smaller side.

It was so much worse than the 1970s ~600 sqft 2 bedroom apartment I had previously lived in in England. While smaller, the two bed apartment felt larger since it had separate rooms, not just a bedrooom, bathroom and a single large open plan area.
Song: “Video Games”, by Mixtape for the Milky Way
> You're arguing against a straw man here. [...] There's nothing even like that.

And you are arguing in bad faith; there are several parts of the article that detail exactly what you are looing for.

In the second paragraph, the article indicates that 11 of the folks who left notified HR or their managers.

In the third paragraph one of the named victims states she made several reports.

In the sixth paragraph 5 on the record employees and 18 off the record employees, and internal documents and recordings are claimed as evidence.

Despite this, Coinbase only reports three official complaints in the year many of these folks left.

Coupled with the stream of hot garbage that Brian Armstrong has proposed trying to position as being "Mission Focused", in the middle of a pandemic, massive, ongoing riots, and political instability just illustrates how utterly tone deaf the leadership at Coinbase is.

> Susan Fowler blew up Uber with a single blog post.

Yes, you correct. You also have to look at the facts; Susan is an excellent writer, and based on her book, she already had some measure of experience speaking truth to power. Coupled with the fact that she was already recognized as a talented engineer and a published author, it's not surprising her blog post was as well received as it was.

Susan also wrote about her experience with her own voice and had receipts to show how bad it was. I certainly don't want to down play the issues that women in tech face, but it's also well known that people of color frequently have different social and economic circumstances than white or white-presenting folks (and it's not me saying this -- she calls out in her book the casual anti-semitism she faced from folks who didn't know she is Jewish).
I know exactly the type of guys you are talking about. They write tools for traders, a mix of Excel, VB, .Net, you name it. They are not obsessed with architectural beauty, patterns and frameworks. They just write what users ask them (and they do not tell traders what traders need - the response will be swift and insulting). The traders take these tools and generate profit. And they do not give a shit about test coverage or not sound architecture principles. If software generates profit, then it works.
There is also the response of people without diabetes.
> a breaking change in StuffIt 5 makes archives created in this version unreadable in older versions of StuffIt

In the predominant software culture, we don't regard that as a "breaking change". Breaking is when content created with older versions of software doesn't parse under newer versions.
Yes. The "pie" (while certainly finite) is nonetheless immensely bigger than it was in even 1980, much less 1880 or 1380.
One of the reasons for this whole relocation operation was to bring more of us together. But at that point I'm willing to question that, because my top priority now is to get better.
And Bryan Cantrill has expressed quite a bit of remorse about that.
It does not work that way (logically). Listing a 100 weak, baseless arguments is a debating tactic to confuse your opponents, not allowing them to address and debunk specifics (and if they still manage: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"). It also creates the appearance of smoke.

More likely: There is a activist political trend now, that has picked up a lot of steam. In that political view, society is racist, and whites at best profit from this, at worst contribute to this. Anything bad happening to a person of color is then used to accuse the racist system, or even individuals, of a heinous act, to force their hands to adopt your view, or deplatform them and their criticism as an obstacle to growth of your movement, for personal gain, as revenge for inequality, or as a coping mechanism.

Far easier to argue/reason/imagine that, than that Coinbase makes WFH exceptions due to skin color, or that black employee are correctly assessing skills and experience of co-workers and correctly identifying racism on skin color, when passed over for a promotion. And if you don't believe that racism is really a driver at Coinbase, the correct course seems to be to attack these allegations for what its actually doing, not to support it by falling victim to this poor-argument overload and resigning because it is too hard, or too sensitive, or too taboo, to call out this damaging and horrific behavior.
This sounds like a child wrote it. You should hire smart people who get shit done. Hire craftsmen. The whole thing about caring about the company is a joke without real equity. If you care about your work and do a good job then that is your contribution to the company. Engineers usually have 0 input into the direction a company takes so it's hard to care that much.
4) Spend 10 minutes saving your carefully written code to tape.

5) Scream at the tape the next day because it stretched a bit and the computer now won't read it back, or your little sister recorded the spice girls over it :P

I did love that time too though! But it did have its drawbacks.

But really, this experience is not far away if you're looking for it. A raspberry pi kinda offers that. Maybe not the 500ms, but it boots in seconds to a CLI and it's cheap enough to just leave running. Windows 10 is also really fast at booting (basically because it secretly just hibernates its kernel but it's a smart and useful trick).
I think most people do give a shit at the beginning of their career. Unfortunately, many companies do everything they can to make their employees stop giving a shit.
Just a reminder that LeMond is credited with the great aphorism of cycling: "It never gets any easier, you just go faster." Fitting that he's associated with solutions to that particular conflict.
Core to attitudes like Coinbase's (as described in the article) the theory that their only responsibility is profit for their shareholders.

IMHO, that theory is like many others today: It's attractive - it simplifies everything and even makes it quantifiable - but does not stand up to a moment's scrutiny.

Almost everything Coinbase has comes from their community: Liberty; peace; political functionality and stability; economic stability; the rule of law; property rights; the free market; the wealth of the market they sell to; the education and wealth of employees, customers, and partners (including the massive public education and healthcare systems - imagine how their company would survive Coronavirus without the public health system and eventual free vaccine); the physical infrastructure of housing, roads, food, power, etc., all kept functioning and safe; the incredible technology stack they build upon, from mathematics to basic literacy to electricity to materials to more proximate tech (the Internet, Web, TCP/IP, and of course the cryptocurrency technology). No matter what Coinbase does, they add only a sliver on top of what's come before.

It's just an absurd, transparent rationalization for selfishness to try to justify being a parasite, for not contributing to it and being responsible for making it work. Our community is us; nobody else will make it work. And it's sociopathic to say that, about part of our community, 'I don't care what happens to African-Americans'.

But being a sociopath and buying into this transparently false argument has become trendy and admired by a vast swath of powerful people in American business, as if ignoring problems will solve them. I used to wonder if they really were smarter than others, but recently I've concluded that they follow the herd and are easily manipulated as much as other people are (and I could have seen it earlier in financial bubbles, etc.). And as they've followed the herd in disparaging liberalism and postmodernism, rather than thinking critically about them, they've unilaterally disarmed themselves, willingly discarded the tools that would protect them from being deceived, confused, and led.
Fair enough - one article alone probably wouldn't have had the full impact. But I am envious of the generation of current high schoolers who can read HN all day. After a year or so, I imagine you can reprogram your mind quite a bit. Back in the late 90s, access to information like this was much more limited.
I don’t know I stopped going there about 15 years ago.
> you’re unlikely to make a living from donations

Blender gets 135.000$/month through donations & sponsors

Godot hires 4 full time employees through donations

Krita got 4.200$ donation for this month (not sure about the other months)

Ardour seems to have 11.500$/month

etc.

I agree it is hard to reach a stable income through donations & sponsors but some open source project managed to do so, and I hope other will in the future.

There still room for many "Blender of XXX" (in the sense of a flagship FLOSS that is competitive with proprietary solutions).

I'd say Godot is well on the path of being the "Blender of Game Engines".

But there is still room for the Blender of Photo editing (Gimp is far behind Photoshop), the Blender of Vector/UX (inkscape is not on part with Figma/Illustrator), the Blender of Music (Ardour is nice but UX wise not as "modern" as Ableton or Bitwig), etc.

For someone who has some time + a strong commitment to pretty UX & clean architecture, I think there might be still my opportunities for donations & sponsors driven projects
You’re describing a superficial side-effect of the monopoly stage of capitalism, otherwise known as imperialism. The bourgeoisie make the bulk of their money from exporting capital at extortionate interest rates to poor countries, not so much from actual production. The fact that they let their managers take a cut doesn’t change the power dynamic. Lenin throughly described this phenomenon a century ago, it’s in no way new https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Nothing is changed by the bourgeoisie holding state power despite the veneer of democracy, that’s also part of how capitalism works. Just because the haute bourgeoisie don’t risk personal involvement doesn’t mean they aren’t in control. Lenin’s slightly less scientific work talks about that too https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
We need to clean up your model:

Not just any two lines intersect at a point, they need to be non-parallel. Parallel lines intersect either nowhere or everywhere.

The same is true of planes: they must be non-parallel to intersect in a line, otherwise it’s a nowhere-or-everywhere situation.

But how do we define this?

We look at the intersection of spans defining each object — which overlap in one of three ways, nowhere or everywhere (parallel), or at a one-dimension smaller object.

In this model, every pair of lines or planes meeting is a linear transform of a few basic situations:

Two lines are the same as the origin defined by x-axis and y-axis meeting.

Two planes are the same as the xy-plane meeting the xz-plane on the x-axis.

Two spaces are the same as the xyz-space and the xyt-space meeting in the xy-plane (at t,z=0).

In general, two n-spaces meeting in n+1 space intersect at a n-1 space, or are “parallel”.

An intuition is that since each object is missing one dimension from the parent space, either they’re missing the same dimension (parallel) or their intersection will be missing two dimensions.

A further intuition is that we have some space, and define each smaller space with a constraint, eg t=0. Then the intersection of subspaces has three cases:

1. The have the same constraint.

2. They have incompatible constraints, eg t=0 and t=1.

3. The intersection satisfies both constraints.

The first two are cases of “parallel”.
Or perhaps you are weak-mind? It's funny, hard working individuals are typically the ones who don't have jobs, while people who perpetuate mediocrity, like you, most like have jobs. Mediocrity is what people hire for. Not skill.
No, he's defining the meaning as you put it, or compatibly with it. And taking the claims in the article at face value -- not people's feelings, but the specific facts asserted -- it's clear Coinbase hasn't been persecuting black people.
Good question. Would also be interested in this, as something to accompany [insert video conferencing tool of choice] to make use of dual monitors sensibly.

What's your use case out of interest?
> Same with the water consumed by those crops.

Every drop of water on Earth has been "consumed" many, many times over. It doesn't just get used once and then disappear.

There may be localized shortages of water (e.g., in California), but that doesn't mean that the Earth's water overall gets "used up", in any meaningful sense.
Some great GCM experiment(er)s out there. This guy commits to a 2 week test of potato starch, sharing screenshots, etc. I dig HIH, too, for his info, but I stop at vegan intermittent fasting vs. full-time carnivorous keto.

https://youtu.be/YvJGvoJtokA
Love the video but I'm not sure I would consider this a takedown. His comment below the video reads:

> Guys I’m not salty, I’m sweet :3

> But for real, I think this company is super promising. Most FANG company have their own in-house system for hiring labelers, and I know that it’s extremely valuable for any ML team. Getting trusted, reliable and cost effective labeled data is not easy for smaller companies. I actually feel honored that I even got to interview for them in the super early stages.
Sorry, I edited my earlier outcome for clarity.

Here is the context again:

> Lately one of my luddite friends keeps mentioning how computers will soon kill us all. Perhaps to add to his torment, I like to retort that computers won't need to kill us, they'll just need to convince us to kill ourselves.

> Certainly there are many ways to affect that outcome via social media. I wonder what other tools the deepfake future will provide? Stealing the voice of a dead loved one could be used to great affect to push a troubled soul over the edge.

Anyway, are we talking about changing the death from being caused explicitly by computers to users being motivated by computers to kill themselves? I think the comment is instead talking about there being myriad ways computers could manipulate their users into killing themselves. It depends on the predicate of "that", but one construction seems more consistent.

Shouldn't the second "affect" also be "effect"?
When I read this on Twitter yesterday, it seemed like it was just a summary of what has already been reported by others elsewhere. Not sure why it’s worth posting here, where all this info has already been covered in more detail in earlier threads.
And remember the cut fingers from inserting and removing all the cards constantly trying out new jumper combos just to get the SoundBlaster, graphics card, ZIP drive and whatever other goodies all working at the same time :D
Heroes are like firefighters. In my experience the firefighters are often the arsonists.
Scale's GlassDoor Reviews from ex-employees are fairly telling

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Scale-Reviews-E1656849.htm...