skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd join one if it meant I had more bargaining power and therefore more pay.

Just because I'm being paid outrageously high, doesn't mean I shouldn't also be getting paid more.
I’ve recently upgraded from a gtx550ti (~10 y.o.) card to an RX 570 (3 y.o.), and even though I get way more performance, it introduced a noticeable inputlag in csgo.

It just doesnt feel right, and slowmo video capture confirms it.
“Coca Crops in Colombia at all-time high” (2018)

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2018/September/coca...
Compile time impact is a very non-linear thing. There's a narrow band that could be called the distraction threshold. An investment in faster hardware will give very small returns if you are already below that range and only moderate returns when so far above that the investments only gets you a little closer. But when the speedup crosses that narrow band or at least significant parts of it, it's a night and day difference.
How Will Future Cars Interact with Humans
PBS Frontline has a good documentary called Plastic Wars. It’s part conspiracy where the Petro Companies need alternative sources of $$$ since the Energy $$$ is drying up with the advent of Renewables and EVs

https://youtu.be/lXzee3tIZco
Why would a group of employees want to have any collective say in what their company does or how it treats them?
What's amazing is that Trump could have been re-elected in a landslide if he had just stayed in character and gone all-in on a MAGA mask grift, selling them on AM radio and late night TV infomercials. You wouldn't find one single person in N. Dakota who wasn't wearing one.
Just me quibbling about language, but this article should really be titled "How To Safely Store A Hash That Lets You Verify A Password". Nobody who knows what they're doing (including the author) advocates storing passwords, even encrypted.

But an article with that title would probably be less visible to the audience that really needs to read it.
Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.lisp for sure.
> What sales, they hardly had any stock available.

Some people gave the same reaction when there were no EPYC processors available when they were first announced.

Then we've learned that almost all of the production has ended in Google's, Dropbox's and other big tech's data centers. :)
Outsourcing KYC is a questionable decision though - I’m wondering how much of a black box that is or you get the same info as if you implemented it yourself.

There’s always false negatives for systems like this, and if Stripe wrongly tells you someone is good then are you liable for acting on that decision?
My guess is they are not worried now but they know a strong union may cause problems for them in the future. If there's any kind of trouble in the future, a union will be harder to control.
We have our own crawler and indexing.
Love it. Ported a project to it recently and will be using in all projects going forward.
Must have gotten at huge discount sale prices
Yeah, when your hospitals are operating at 100% capacity, the argument "but excess deaths this year aren't actually much higher" doesn't really work.

And then if, through heroic effort and sacrifice the hospitals don't get overrun, people say "why were we worried? The hospitals never went over capacity!". Like if a team of engineers spend a week mitigating a security attack, then all of the non experts at the company say "well, nothing ended up happening, guess the whole thing was overblown".
That is what risk is.... not knowing. If you want high reward from an investment, you need to take high risks, which means you will invest without knowing something.

Now, some risks are smarter than others...
Excellent news! M3 is great technology.
> For the sum of 35,000 NOK (3,300 EUR / 4,000 USD), we got access to location data showing where tens of thousands of Norwegians had travelled in 2019.

> One of them was 31-year-old Karl Bjarne Bernhardsen from Stavanger. The information made it easy for us to identify him in the data that – according to the data provider – had been anonymised.

Here’s that article:

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?tl=en&u=...

And the HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23136612
I've done a mixture of Scheme, Common Lisp and Clojure for fun. I've skimmed the Racket docs, but never took the plunge, in part because the license weirds me out a bit. Scheme always struck me as the better designed language, but Common Lisp tends to be more pragmatic. The latest Scheme reports only made the problem worse by further fragmenting the community.

The main problem I tended to have when starting projects in CL/Scheme was library support. Sure, I could wrap whatever libraries I needed in SWIG or the implementation's FFI, but that was work taken out of my all-too-small pool of time to work on something that wasn't the problem that interested me.

Clojure solves this problem by being hosted while also making a lot of the language changes I once dreamed of making to Scheme and Common Lisp.
It is for the simple minded
It's a good time to write a crypto whitepaper and put up a fancy website. It's not alt-season yet .. when it starts is when you see the real shitcoin proliferation. Wouldn't be surprised if the number is in the 1000s.
Benchmarking multicore Performance+Efficiency (Apple) versus SMT (AMD) versus SMT+Wide vectors (Intel) is never going to provide perfect apples-to-apples comparisons. There's an entirely reasonable argument that single-thread performance is oversold as a metric, and that the focus on it advantages some platforms over others.

At the end of the day, benchmarks are inherently only an approximate measure of how real-world code will perform. SMT, basically by definition, is rarely going to benchmark well, but is inherently going to show more of a benefit when running real-world mixed workloads.
Thing is, he does. Else his wealth would quickly evaporate, and he'd be like the CEOs of Fedex, UPS & suchlike. The fact that most of his wealth is in stocks doesn't help.
Well the article does mention that they'll be paying market price for the coca. If the price goes up, they pay more and pass it on down the line. The government will literally be manufacturing cocaine, and even excluding recreational use there is still a high demand for it that isn't currently being met.

They'll be printing money.
The idea is to establish the habit, so that you do it automatically every time, including the relatively few times where it really matters.

It's easy, it's never harmful, frequently helpful, and occasionally saves lives.

I ride motorcycles, so I have had more opportunity to think about the importance of turn signals than others might. But I also drive cars, and I believe the benefits are universal and have zero negative consequences, so I include this as a minimal-effort suggestion.
No, we use Kubernetes, grpc and protobuf as base, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring. Our systems are mostly in C++, with some in Go such as crawler. No open source tool is used for indexing and search.
Did vsync get turned on somehow?
> the degredation of our collective culture

Your dog whistle is showing.

> We judge people by merit in sports (which have zero value), but not in our academic, governmental, and corporate institutions and then we wonder why none of these institutions even function

Are you arguing that the bulk of modern political and social issues are caused by affirmative action?!?
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Make STEM (including HN) a slightly less hostile place for women.

It can be done, doesn’t take unreasonable effort, would advance the HN users as a group, and encourage more women to be part of HN and tech.
It's analogous to investing money in USD or GBP before those countries were given a license to print as many USD and GBP as they wanted.

Before then (1931 for the pound and 1933 for the dollar, though they maintained de-facto parity with gold until 1971), dollars and pounds were considered good investments. That's why we had bank runs: people thought their money would be safer under their mattress, and preferred to own physical currency rather than numbers in a bank's ledger. The only reason holding USD is a bad investment is because inflation is basically guaranteed: you know that a dollar will be worth less tomorrow than it will be today, because the authorities that control the dollar say so. Not so with Bitcoin: the total supply is fixed at 21M, forever, and there's no central authority with the power to change that.
Time Flows Toward Order: Revisiting the gospel of second law of thermodynamics
Gold is a good portfolio asset for reducing overall risk in a long term investment strategy. You can beat the market over time with less risk by holding the S&P 500 and gold and weighting each according to respective volatility. This also has a lower beta exposure than just holding stocks.

Gold (and commodities more generally) have fundamentals - just different ones from equities. You can't take advantage of the universe of sound investment opportunities if you restrict your attention to equities.
Every company struggles with 'properly' managing funding and resources.
Spain has been wearing masks for half a year with 99% compliance rate (I'm not exaggerating), but you can check the numbers yourself. Masks are definetly not some panacea so many want to believe they are.
I guess so, the difference between 8ms vs 16ms is not much for 1 frame.

Though in my totally subjective experience it feels better.

Interestingly the person who did this latency test also did a keyboard latency test:

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

Compared to the slowest keyboard measured it's possible to shave 45ms which if you were latency sensitive would be the biggest reduction.
My apologies if I seemed to be wishing ill tidings for Saudi Arabia. I have no wish for Saudi Arabia to see bad times ahead. However, I think every oil-dependent country is in for a rocky ride in the next decade, as renewables become the dominant energy source, and since Saudi Arabia is the world's leading oil producer, they came first to mind. Not something I want to happen at all, just something I think will happen, which we should prepare to mitigate. My apologies if it sounded otherwise.
trouble is you easily remember it as "after" and "pre" midday.
I honestly thought "Pinkerton agents" was a metaphor. :) Like the way you say "xerox that paper".
IMO, Bitcoin won't become a viable currency until it stabilizes, at which point it's no longer a viable investment vehicle.

There's a reason people don't keep the bulk of their assets in fiat current, but they also don't buy pizza with Microsoft stock.
>"US government will not allow it"

Also my instinctive first thought, but actually I have to wonder why they care so much?
> That's not how it works. Worst-case scenario that winds up in landfills instead of being recycled.

It's a problem even if it ends up in landfills. Plastics can leach chemicals into groundwater. My point is that the "Asian countries are responsible for most of the world's pollution" narrative is simplistic and unhelpful. Most of the plastic in the oceans is indeed from Asian countries. But plastic concentrations are 4-20x higher on land than in the oceans. The United States has the highest tapwater contamination rate in the world (94%).

> The problem in Asia is 100% domestic, with citizens and households and apartment buildings dumping their local plastic trash on the side of the road, burning it in backyards, dumping it in the river.

You're of course correct to point out that this happens, but calling the problem 100% domestic is disingenuous.
Given this legal complaint is USA-based, it would be interesting to understand how ‘friendly’ Google is to unionised employees or employees organising unions in other countries (eg UK, France, Germany, Australia, etc) where it has a significant number of employees.

Laws and perceptions on unionisation of staff obviously differ heavily on a per-country basis.

edit: added last sentence
> I couldn't perform a wire transfer for a full week back in March '20 - at one of the most reputable banks globally

Can you explain this in more detail?
Both are Google Employees who got fired for rubbing their superiors in the wrong way.

> whose continued employment would open the company up to a risk of lawsuit

If protecting google from a lawsuit is your main concern, aren't you for firing her?
The memo of James isn't as much a threat to bottom line or a lawsuit as unveiling some unethical practices (which she allegedly is up to due to her ethical concerns).

My point is precisely you can't have it both ways and be consistent.
No, that's just the American model of capitalism. The rest of the world has a lot more balanced approach.
ETH for instance is used for fees in the decentralized economy (e.g. p2p lending/borrowing/investing/marketplaces).

If demand for fees in the ethereum economy outpaces supply, the price is likely to rise.

https://cryptofees.info/

Aside:
If I issue equity in my company, I'd do it directly on a decentralized network like Ethereum > IPO. I'd prefer to not have an underwriter like goldman sachs take 3%+ & manipulate retail investors.
> What tactics are ok for a company to use to combat unions if it doesn't want them?

They don't have a right to combat them at all. Union organizing is literally a human right. Of course ownership doesn't want them -- the feelings of ownership are (supposed to be) irrelevant.
Ask HN: When's Larry Page's book coming out?
But those have nothing to do with the supposedly "incredible" chip performance Apple has that Qualcomm doesn't.
Before we get to the answer we need to realize that a slippery slope is often presented to make the opposition realize that they're being irrational or missing something. Once this realization has been made it is often also unnecessary to actually answer the question.

Engaging in this type of discussion leaves the choice of where to stop at the individual level to justify and not swallowing what an expert says today or tomorrow and ignoring all information left out of the communication.

Forcing mask wearing probably won't go anywhere federally. The states is where it becomes a problem.
BTW the working title of that book was “An Ambiguous Utopia” which I’ve always liked (though the lovely pun of “The Dispossessed” makes a better book title).
That is also the argument for why Apple’s restrictions are beneficial.

If we create regulation it will end up reproducing all of the restrictions that Apple imposes, plus whatever else the government wants.

The biggest difference is that nobody will be able to compete with it, and even open source will be forced to comply.
I'm just gonna skip a bunch of steps here, which may be unwise but whatever.

Your argument is that if you're fit and healthy, you shouldn't have your behavior dictated by people who aren't. They've made poor choices, they're the ones who should bear the consequences. You further argue that the low per-capita positive tests indicates that COVID-19 doesn't deserve the response we've (so far) given it.

Here's why you're wrong:

- Fit, healthy people do die from COVID-19. They can also suffer long-term effects.

- There are people with high vulnerability to COVID-19 through no fault of their own. They can have autoimmune disorders, or simply be old. You acknowledge this. However, you generally can't choose to transmit COVID-19 only to the obese and not the old (for example).

- Further, you broadly can't choose to contract COVID-19 and not transmit it to others. It's possible to be asymptomatic and shedding for days. To be clear: you can have COVID-19, not know it, and infect dozens of others who can do the same.

- Tests are a poor measure of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. They do lend themselves very well to manipulation and motivated reasoning, which I would guess is why people who are motivated to diminish the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic like using them. The only stat that matters is death count per capita.
North Korea Military Perpetuate a Cruel Heartless Deception
I have not seen any convincing evidence that Amazon’s warehouses have “terrible working conditions”, do you have a source that might change my opinion?
Is this a catch-22 though? Would it be a less busy world if we the price of cheese packaging included the externalities of disposal?

Some people would choose the cheaper of more time consuming alternative, and what is wrong with that? Do we have to have everything possible asap, damn the consequences?
But it does have high sales. It was hyped to the moon.
Their sales team are awful. They don’t even understand the product they are selling.
Nobody is saying that Jamal should not be paid more, they're just saying the floor should be enough to live.
We don't have incremental indexing yet, so we have to replace the entire index with newer results once a while. Incremental index is on our roadmap.

However, our news search is updated every hour, and Salesforce Hyperforce has new results.

https://rightdao.com/search?q=Salesforce+Hyperforce&type=new...
Google would vastly prefer the former than organizing for ending forced arbitration (which worked and is what prompted Google's anti-union crackdown/illegal firings), a formal council for engineers to voice complaints/elect representatives, and higher wages/profit sharing.
> I have been taking 10,000 IU every night

It would be better to take it at lunch: from what I have read a long time ago it might affect your sleep if you take it late.
>Stocks are shares in profitable companies.

Not always, tons of companies are losing money but the share price goes up.
Thanks for the input. It does put things into some perspective but I am still wondering.

So something analogous to owning a part of the network, would it be correct to say that, for instance, governments own and auction telecom spectrums to businesses. They do make money out of that ownership through the initial auction price and then potentially tax you later. So a cryptocurrency could be looked at in a similar way in the future. When you later sell the currency you have owned for a while (given that it takes off well over the couple of years), you are basically transferring that "spectrum" ownership to another party.
Maybe you’ve noticed that almost everyone who thinks this was probably justified is using a throwaway, and everyone who is claiming it was unjustified is not. Only one group stands to lose their careers here.

The same is true of AI research Twitter.
I enjoy writing in Svelte more than using React. I like the concept that the output doesn't contain the actual library. I think testing tools is a must have though otherwise it will just be for my personal projects.

Looking forward to SvelteKit - I don't care for TS though.
Tangential (and not to attack you specifically), but I don’t understand the basis by which tech, HN included, judges itself to be more liberal and less reactionary than other industries. There’s just as many racists in tech as the rest of American society, with a special bend towards libertarian/scientific realism/racism that is much more pronounced than in other segments of America than I’ve seen. It’s traditionally been one of the most unwelcoming places for minorities (Hi Coinbase!), and has pioneered new workplace and have championed euphemisms like “culture fit” to exclude people who don’t look like them (not limited to black people).
I’d be interested in an index tracking the prices of San Francisco rents. I’m waiting for the low to buy.
From everything I have read, it is already the case that building a new PV plant is cheaper in most of the world than building a new coal plant, and soon it will be cheaper than building a new oil power plant.

Similar to how much of the developed world skipped landline phones, and went straight to cellphones, because they didn't have to build as much connection infrastructure.
This is not a comment on crypto as such, it's more a comment on how markets work.

By the time you know what you're buying, it's priced in. When everyone agrees that some opportunity is amazing, they also agree the vehicle that provides it (shares, bonds, coins, whatever) has got to be expensive. At least more expensive than when it was just ideas.
Software can—and will—be updated. If the problem is with the M1, it's going to be a problem for the life of the laptop.
I agree on mask usage, but it's clear from all available data that areas with aggressive mask mandates and widespread public compliance are also suffering horrible spikes. We knew there was a big November spike coming months ago. Rather than pinning it ALL on mask misuse and blaming a hypothetical Other, we should seek to understand every factor contributing to virus spread. Unfortunately, the more politicized it gets, the more difficult it becomes to have honest and truth-based conversations.
Lots of people have jobs where they should be disruptive to other teams. Financial audits are disruptive to accounting. Legal can disrupt just about any team. HR can disrupt hiring decisions. Security disrupts my desire to move fast and break things.

That does not create a hostile work environment. It's healthy and normal. I would expect an ethicist to fall under a similar category.
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That’s what we were told as well. Plus also various things like cross region replication being unavailable. Also things like management ports are not possible to get to.

Edit: also plan to lose everything in it.
I hadn't heard they had fired Timnit, that is shocking.

e: surprising that this comment appears to be controversial
Incredible vision in ancient marine creatures drove an evolutionary arms race
Sorry I’m definitely overly pessimistic when it comes to new database tech - you’ll find us industry hardened rdbms users hard to convince (we’ve been through a lot) thanks for chatting!
>Amazon hired Pinkerton operatives in Europe to surveil workers.

Europeans would be more familiar with the name Securitas as in three red dots security firm.

Pinkerton is a subsidiary of Swedish company Securitas AB. Securitas has over 330,000 employees.
$800M isn't all that much when it comes to sovereign budgets, I mean, Slack is apparently worth over 30x that amount.

If Colombia's arm is being twisted on this regard by the US, it would probably behoove them to just forgo the foreign aid. A lot of foreign aid is counterproductive, anyway. In the long term they'd be better off, more independent. They could probably make back the $800M from tax revenue from their legalized coca trade alone.
Their content is absolutely average.

ACG as a company nearly killed Jupiter Broadcasting. JB were able to escape but are facing many years financial hardship due to an overly burdensome litigious culture from ACG after the acquisition of Linux Academy from separating the two businesses.

This split came on the heels of a questionable HR policy implementation around the firing of Joe Ressington. Reverse sexism is apparently OK but casual swearing during a work trip to the pub, is not.

From an ethics perspective, avoid ACG. There's a lot more I could say on all this but I won't - it's hackernews not reddit.
This announcement comes very close to Atlanta entrepreneur/rapper Micheal Render (Killer Mike)'s Greenwood bank, a grassroots black owned bank. I wonder if they are using Stripe Treasury as their banking platform.

Bank: https://bankgreenwood.com/
I'm really enjoying the new generation of battery powered lawn tools. From chainsaws to leafblowers to lawnmowers, li-ion is taking over. I won't miss the mess and cheapo carbs and tricks like shipping products without a simple fuel filter.