skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

We have played this argument out and I'd love to get over beating this dead horse, here and all over the tech industry. Go look elsewhere in the comments. Fantastical conspiracy webs ("trying to ruin their livelihoods") require according evidence, not refutation. We have a slew of people on the record, and direct response from Coinbase. Not to mention that no one is getting "cancelled" here.

The bigger conversation to be had is that cancel culture doesn't exist as you describe even.

I'm simply tired of this.
It's very odd how people who openly express deeply-racist sentiments (as your previous comment repeating lies about George Floyd does) get so offended when accused of being racist.
Top level talent never joined consulting in the first place. Wall St is considered by most a more desirable and prestigious career path. It's also usually more lucrative.

Traders and investment bankers especially consider consultants to be major losers (including me).
A lot easier to lug my 16lb road carbon bike up and down stairs then a 30lb commuter
Wouldn't an unfiltered spectrum mean you'd need to tailor your solar panels less, and likely get lower efficiency (fewer watts of electricity per watt of sunlight) than on Earth? You'd still get more watts per square metre, because the atmosphere wouldn't be in the way.
The Link Between Curiosity and Creativity
They're addicted to opioids and are, while under the influence of opioids, not making sound health decisions.
Something that interests you, but you have no clue how to implement. Forces you to start from square one and possibly pick up radical new ways of perceiving software. Also serves as a major confidence boost once you get it halfway working.

In my case it was a synthesizer. "How do I make sound from numbers?" sent me down a rabbit hole that forced me to grapple with DSP math, bit fucking, and manual memory management: stuff you never encounter doing the usual CRUD nonsense.

And most importantly, it was fun. If your project feels like work, drop it. I will never waste my free time messing with webdev, architecture, testing, etc because those things are boring and suck and I'm not being paid to care.
Opportunities will open up in the new year when people start getting budget and headcount. Don't feel like you don't have options.
Ok, but leadership without management easily falls apart to. I guess I was reacting to the “fire all the managers” subtext, which is not actually what you want (almost always). Manage for the sake that things need managing, I guess.
Origin naming protections are all over the place.

In fact “ West Country Farmhouse Cheddar” is a protected name.

Another example is bourbon whiskey, it must be produced in the US out of 51% corn in a certain kind of barrel in order to carry the name.
If you want my instant feedback, while I understand that you're not getting the quantity of interviews you'd like, I'd caution you against thinking of Coinbase as a "hot" company. That designation would have been true years ago, when the work/reward balance would have been much more in your favor. Instead, right now you're going to work startup hours for less salary than FAANG and a truly miniscule and non-commensurate amount of (likely underwater, as of now) options.

The company is heavily capitalized and clearly mismanaged.
What stops solar collectors on earth from working consistently is atmospheric interference diffusing the light.

If you can figure out how to avoid creating dust clouds on the moon, which is not a small if, solar concentrators could provide a lot of the heat for the process, reducing the power needs to the electrochemical part.
MonoDevelop no longer builds on Linux
Fediverse Space Map
Neutrino detection gets to the core of the Sun
It is interesting how in the modern computing, the whole “virus” (arbitrary-code-modifying, self-propagating) model s basically irrelevant. Sure, there is plenty of malware around, but it is all either “trojan” (distributing pre-modified binaries), or “worm” (entirely separate binaries).

The biggest contributing factor is likely internet - I don’t think I ever passed executables from one computer to another. The modern package management (think debsums), multi-user separation, digital signatures, open source and “cattle servers” helped a lot too.

It ia still interesting to read about old techniques, they were very ingenious, but it is approximately as relevent as steam train maintenance.
Belt drives can be nice, but the reason they aren't as common is because they are incredibly expensive, unless you're getting a single speed which many, many people aren't going to want.

I don't know if part of the reason they are so expensive is because they are a niche bike item, and bike stuff is already hideously overpriced, or if there is another reason.
From the article:

"Earlier this year, it was demonstrated to work well with simulated lunar regolith."
You're the one who's conflating things. The fact that you somehow think that someone _no longer_ locking you out of their bootloader is now considered open just shows how far we've gone off the rails.

By that definition 99.99% of devices are open because you can just swap out the rom. All you need to do is figure out the pin and wiring and the serial protocols involved in communicating. My ducky keyboard is NOT open even though I replaced the firmware with my own.

What kind of insane logic is that?

And the fact that you and the other person here keeps conflating ANY documentation about ANY part of the hardware as contributing to Linux is even more ridiculous.
The “good old days” of simplicity OP talks about can be experienced by using a tablet. Turn on, use, turn off. It’s sufficient for lots of everyday computing tasks and can even be paired with a keyboard and mouse. Everything “just works” for the most part and it’s a very simplified version of the typical desktop experience.
> Do you regularly record interactions with your coworkers, on the chance they may say something incriminating?

If I'm so upset at work that I'm about to publicly call someone a racist? Yeah, I usually gather some evidence rather than just smear them.

Just throwing accusations works in 2020, however.
The reality is: England only remembers the first goal. Argentina the second. And the rest of the world doesn't give a damn.
The reception here is pretty bad and perhaps justifiably. There are some pretty scathing Glassdoor reviews that mirror the problems a lot of commenters are pointing out with this attitude. A lot of ex-employees "gave a shit" and they got severely burnt-out from it.

I care greatly about the quality and effect of my work (I hope most people do and have the privilege to) but definitely it's more important to me that my employer also "gives a shit" about me.
Show HN: A short animation about how Spacecraft Separation system works
Type Theory and Applications [pdf]
> Patreon but hopefully without another 3rd party middleman

https://liberapay.com/ is a great 3rd party middleman / alternative to Patreon that doesn’t take a cut of payments (so arguably the best of all worlds).
Adding force touch, a technology Apple abandoned, to the Touch Bar, a technology Apple should abandon, is like tying two slow runners' legs together in hopes that it will make them win the race.

I would literally pay more for a Macbook Pro that replaced the touch bar with regular keys. It adds no value to the device and instead just distracts me when I accidentally hit it while typing.
Heroin (an opioid) is known to bring quite literally the happiest euphoria known to man. You can read this sentiment of it just about everywhere. For simplicity - take it as exactly that: a drug that induces the feeling of the happiest warmth imaginable

Then, realize, some people come from absolutely fucked and broken lives. Being beaten and raped by their own family members they have to live with (sometimes for years) - if you're not aware that things like this go on - I'm mostly happy for you. But yeah, this is very much a thing.

Then put together what it has to be like being a person coming from an absolutely broken place and having never had the slightest emotional warmth and happiness in your entire life, and finding something relatively cheap and easily sourced that takes away all of that pain for some amount of time.

Then, realize, that tolerance to this euphoria inducing drug grows rather quickly, what you find on the street gets laced with shit like fentanyl, etc - and it's not hard to see why countless deaths occur.

Also, somewhat unrelated, but you sound like you've never had much of a bout with extreme lasting physical pain. Shit can get unfathomably intense.

For better answers perhaps, look to the bluelight forums.
Does MediaTek still send out Excel files full of register names/offsets instead of data sheets? Man..
Even in the absence of anything else, the fact that over half of their black employees complained to HR of racism and 3/4 quit[0] seems to be a strong signal that there is a problem.

Whether you go on with the job or not should be based entirely on how you personally feel about the situation. Maybe this bothers you but you’d like the opportunity to make a difference and try to shift the culture. Maybe you’re so bothered by it that you don’t want to work for them at all. Maybe it bothers you, but not enough to change your course. Maybe something else.

I think the one important thing to do is that, if you do pull out of the process, let them know why. Hiring people costs a lot of money, and perhaps seeing that there are actual consequences for letting their corporate culture be what it seems to be might help to drive home the message that this stuff matters enough to affect their bottom line, and that they should therefore take it seriously.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25230716
>But if you view this scenario from that perspective, there’s no logical reason that you shouldn’t also view the relationships you have with your own spouse/parents/children/friends... the same way.

Absolutely. And while such attitudes are not incredibly widespread, there are enough folks who do so that we have a name for exhibiting such behavior. We call it Narcissistic Personality Disorder[0].

Which is a terrible thing to do of course, as it stigmatizes a whole group of people that just want to live their lives and use the the objects in their environment to their advantage. What's bad with that?

[0] https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-disorders/narcissi...
ERs are expensive.

An urgent care clinic would have gotten you quicker results at a lower cost.

Typically I've waited under 30 minutes, and now days some have online wait time estimators, and at larger facilities x-rays are right down the hall.
Kaitai Struct – a new way to develop parsers for binary structures
It's probably wrong to assume that that was their primary goal. The whole chiplet strategy makes an enormous amount of sense for so many other reasons that the one you suggest may well be the least important of them.

Being able to use one single chip design as a building block for every single SKU across server and desktop has got to have enormous benefits in terms of streamlining design, time-to-market, yields, and overall cost.

And then there's the financial benefits of manufacturing IO dies at Global Foundaries, and laying the groundwork for linking up CPU cores with GPU and FPGA chiplets directly on the package.

It's a very flexible and economically sensible design that ticks a lot of boxes at once.
That is really great suggestion and example! Thanks
The fault here lies with our society granting far too much power to people claiming victimhood. Being a victim is now an actively sought-after position because of the rewards it yields. We’ve completely perverted the incentives.

So now, in order to protect ourselves against bad faith actors, we have to be extremely skeptical of victimhood claims. I agree, it is sad.
Look here for the bots.
Right! Or Google Maps — enough of people with the heads in a cloud.
This is definitely targeted at middle aged people who want to have a fast bike to enjoy nice ride around town, but aren't nearly as fit as a "race" level road biker.

This is probably a much bigger segment than you think. There are lots of middle aged people with tons of disposable income (as evidenced by the mid life crisis sports care trope) that like the idea of exercising, but don't want to put in the pain and effort of getting to the fitness level where mild climbs, higher speeds, etc are doable.
What it seems like is most likely is that dark matter is going to turn out to not be some mysterious unobtanium new physics substance, but rather likely just things which aren’t very bright — dust and rocks and rogue planets and gas and such... stuff that is hard to see and therefore hard to account for in our galaxy formation models.
I find it difficult to conceive how one could work at/manage a mainstream cryptocurrency company and be racist.

Both empirically (it's the most multicultural tech scene I ever witnessed), and in principles (one of the core tenets of crypto is precisely eliminating discrimination), crypto would be among the most counter productive fields for a racist to spend their time on.

Of course I'm not discounting the fact that humans are often irrational and incoherent, so it seems fair to give the benefit of the doubt to both parties until we have more information.
Author seems to think PC users like to run multiple OSes on their machine. I think that might just be him, regular people have enough to learn in mastering a single OS, no need to add more.

Also, macOS still has a nice GUI to set startup disk, and most of the other features he shows old macOS having.

And the rest of this multi-OS pipe-dream, who wants any of this?
If you read the Catfish_Man tweet, he says that even under rosetta refcounting is faster, and under rosetta M1 has TSO.
Investment banker thinks somebody who makes less money than them is a loser, more at 11.
Re: “JavaScript” instructions. I think it means FJCVTZS which is not Apple specific and only yields a fairly minor improvement. It’s not even really that JS specific, it’s definitely designed to help with JS numbers but it’s not like a large chunk of JS functionality is in silicon.

The memory ordering stuff is cool, calling it cheating might be a bit harsh although it would be cool if other ARM cores would support something like this.
Full disclosure, I'm personally a bit more motivated than most about what the company that I work for stands for, but to me, you made the answer clear with this:

> I do already have a (very) good job, so I don't "have" to have this and can afford to just drop it.

I understand the getting an interview struggle, but you have time and comfort here to wait and find a better option. My one counterpoint in my head (change from the inside) is ruled out if Coinbase isn't receptive to the change at a leadership level, which seems to be the case here. I think you do the most good here by explicitly dropping out and telling them this is the reason why. Maybe if they won't listen to their own employees, they will listen to the labor market.
Consoomer
Not to rain on the parade, but, I just found out a few weeks ago that wind turbine blades are toxic trash when they age out. We just bury them, apparently they're mostly resin and glass fiber and last a billion (or whatever) years leaching in to the ground.

I'm interested why this is a problem. Can't we make the blades out of various exotic metals like wings of the last aircraft generation are? Before the carbon 787 etc? Then we could just recycle them? Or is there a lightning strike issue or something I don't understand?
They clearly have debunked the original article that was published here: https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-... (including a copy of the original article), saying:

"Briand was quoted in the article as saying, “All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers.” This claim is incorrect and does not take into account the spike in raw death count from all causes compared to previous years. According to the CDC, there have been almost 300,000 excess deaths due to COVID-19. Additionally, Briand presented data of total U.S. deaths in comparison to COVID-19-related deaths as a proportion percentage, which trivializes the repercussions of the pandemic. This evidence does not disprove the severity of COVID-19; an increase in excess deaths is not represented in these proportionalities because they are offered as percentages, not raw numbers.

Briand also claimed in her analysis that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may be incorrectly categorized as COVID-19-related deaths. However, COVID-19 disproportionately affects those with preexisting conditions, so those with those underlying conditions are statistically more likely to be severely affected and die from the virus.

Because of these inaccuracies and our failure to provide additional information about the effects of COVID-19, The News-Letter decided to retract this article. It is our duty as a publication to combat the spread of misinformation and to enhance our fact-checking process. We apologize to our readers."

That's rather clear and unequivocal. Reading that, in conjunction with the original article and other science papers, it appears clear that none of that minimizes in any way the impact of the pandemic if you know how to read those sources properly. That is apparently not the case for everyone.
If you wanted to kill someone with a bullet made of ice, or, IMHO even cooler, dry ice, you'd forgo a conventional cartridge, which would contaminate the scene with gunpowder anyway.

You'd use something like compressed air. You can reduce the instantaneous pressure delivered to the projectile which helps fix the melting problem. You'd want to chill the barrel a bit, but some melting might be good there as long as the water doesn't refreeze in the barrel and stop successive rounds. Basically you're making a potato cannon that shoots ice.

Bonus for freezing the water/co2 out of the air itself. You wouldn't even need to carry ammo.
It’s not the ISA that matters. But the execution of the project. Apple just showed it can make fast ARM. Is M1 faster than the latest zen?
My carbon full squish XCO bike weighs 26lbs.

That's impressive.
Humor isn't toxic. What's toxic is the vituperative snark, contemptuous elitism, low-effort cynicism and outright hatred this community breeds and that dang constantly has to put down because (among other reasons) we have to be pedantic humorless prigs about everything.

I'll take more dumb jokes over yet another diatribe on how Twitter's latest moderation policy changes will lead to mass graves and white genocide any day.
However there was no actual suppression, given the explanation and link in lieu and place of the article : https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-...
When Copernicus was working out the solar centric system, he was using 1000 year old star charts dating to Ptolmey. They were the best Europe had at the time. The Alfonsine tables were just being compiled and printed as Copernicus was working.
They state that they use Stripe and PayPal as payment processors. Not clear to me why someone would want to use an additional layer, although it is nice that they take an additional cut of payments on top of the processor.
Thanks, I have been looking for this for ages and I couldn't find a reference. I was starting to think I immagined it.
All health care systems regardless of payer structure have a financial motive to decline coverage.
This stance is so ridiculous on it's face that I'm more likely to believe that you're Brian Armstrong than someone else.
I’m fully aware, I actually built something that quantifies what other experts think of your opinion.

It’s called InsiderOpinion (insideropinion.com).

That being said, the reality is that social media has over stepped as late. I’m literally being forced to “thedonald.win” or some other sh to find broadened perspectives.

Perhaps some insight as to why people have trouble believing scientists at the moment... they told everyone “masks and gloves don’t work” (to keep supply for essential workers) then told everyone “make your own masks” (btw studies going back to the early 1900s says masks will work if it’s droplet based) we also now have evidence masks don’t work. We knew this would be the case because back in January and February they confirmed it was airborne. Multiple studies since confirmed this. Basically the virus can survive in the air and our cloth masks aren’t good enough. Part of Biden’s transition team said that on Joe rogan’s podcast in March.

Then we had the whole “don’t go into crowds” followed by “oh protests are for a good cause, so it’s okay” and stuff like that.

The reality is that the public shouldn’t trust what they are being told. Literally everything has been a lie thus far.
FWIW, the name is HEVC or H.265. AVC is H.264.
so, it does? thanks for clarifying!
Your first two sentences contradict each other (turbine blades are toxic but they’re “just glass and resin”). Glass and resin are fairly inert.

Wind turbine blades aren’t toxic. They can be land filled (like almost all waste that isn’t incinerated or plasma gasified), or, if you want to recycle them, they can be used as feedstock for cement kilns or crushed into insulation pellets (which requires a supply chain configured to do so).

https://blog.ucsusa.org/james-gignac/wind-turbine-blades-rec...
Just solve the php problem.

`Warning: Unknown: Unable to allocate memory for pool. in Unknown on line 0`
Highly paid people are a pain to hire for and replace.

If all of a sudden your turnover spikes that's a lot of sudden unexpected cost, which is very bad.
There are already bikes that hit the points you're talking about. I've been seeing a ton of RadPower bikes around town lately, specifically because they hit the key points of being affordable, durable, and very usable.

https://www.radpowerbikes.com/products/radmission-electric-m...
Does there exist a thing called "effective management" or not? Do you just give a free pass to all companies for all actions? Is there any evidence that can exist that supports bad management, given that complaining isn't evidence, leaving is not evidence, calling it out isn't evidence sufficient for you? If Paul Graham called it bad management would that suffice?
Is that the file format problem? Are they being meta?
That's a terrible thing to say about economists - don't you know those people successfully predicted eight out of the last three recessions?

(wrap in a joke tag)
The evidence you're presenting that federal public sector unions writ-large joined the "resistance" is pretty thin.
And why are they afraid? Where did they get the notion that black people are aggressive?
I think we need to differentiate between several different things:

* the social organization and structures required for technologically complex societies
* the knowledge required for certain technologies
* the loss (or otherwise) of knowledge by humanity, as opposed to local loss of knowledge