skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I worked at Google, there was always this sinister edge to all corporate events and communications and their culture, in general.
It was like that Star Trek episode - everything is paradise unless you commit a transgression. Any transgression, even minor, would result in your termination. In the Star Trek episode, it meant death, at Google, luckily, it just meant an involuntary "resignation".
Make it work

Make it right

Make it fast

This is an ordered list, and the people who forget that make a lot of work for the people who don’t
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> if you say "I don't want to work here anymore." And you get your "resignation date moved up" you still get your unemployment benefits because you were fired.

I can't speak for California, but in my state, if you are fired and not laid off[1], you don't get unemployment benefits. I've anecdotally heard this is also the case in California. However, I've also heard that many tech companies state they will not dispute unemployment claims when fired (my company certainly says that), so people in these "privileged" companies often do collect unemployment even when fired.

[1] I hope people know the difference.
Microsoft Teams RCE
I think "do you have dealbreakers would you be prepared to resign over?" would be a reasonable interview question for a researcher in ethics.
And apparently they're so infantile and stupid that they need to pay a professional to tell them if they can stand up, or take a step.
Weird, when I search for the URL on archive.org, it says they don't have a cached version. Thanks, though!
When it comes to the oceans, add France to the list. Due to their island holdings around the globe, they have the world's largest maritime exclusive economic zone, covering 8% of the surface of the Earth.
Defund police is a bad idea, not a bad slogan – Slow Boring
Then it will always be truthly if it returns an object, or 0 means success? :)

The proper way is callback convention err. Then you can write if(!err) ...
There is a difference between not having evidence and not providing evidence.

My point wasn't even about the truthiness of the claims of either side, but rather that if party A claims X, and then parties B and C just repeat the claims without being able to add anything - that's not news. That's just a person having allies who believe their claims.

If Microsoft chimed in and said Timnit actually resigned, no one would write an article on that (besides for how bizarre of a statement that would be by another company), because no one expects Microsoft to be apprised of what happens between Google and its employees.
It's actually worthwhile to listen to what Jewel had to say:

https://youtu.be/GxqeOwVl0IQ

I was captivated when she described hearing Tony describe his vision for Holocracy, I finally understood what he was aiming for.
Saw this on her Twitter feed:

> you know these last 2 weeks were supposed to be my vacations and we’re currently on a road trip.

Probably best not to send an email threatening to resign, then go on vacation and expect things to be normal.
I'm not an artist, but I have grown to appreciate art more and more. I think you learn to appreciate art the same way you learn to appreciate any other product.

The first step is to accept that some things just aren't your cup of tea, even if all the true fans love it. I don't like Holy Motors, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, and IPAs. Popularity is a signal, not an obligation.

The second and most important step is to learn how the sausage is made. It gives you a much greater appreciation for the final product. My recent interest in gardening completely changed my forest walks. It quite literally made me see the forest for the trees. Likewise, I learned to appreciate film by paying more attention to the camera work, the sound design, and the many other things that make great movies great. YouTube has many great video essays that will show you a lot more than meets the eye [0].

The third step is to understand the context behind a work of art. My favourite example is Guernica by Picasso [1]. Look at it, then listen to this [2] from 1:12:54 to 1:16:00, then look at it again. You will get a far different impression of that painting. If you grew up in the 90s, the sound of a computer modem probably elicits some sort of emotional response to you. It would seem weird if you robbed the phenomenon from its context. That's also true for art.

That, or date an art student for a few years.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-woNlmVcdjc

[1] https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/guernic...

[2] https://soundcloud.com/james-hewston/blitz-logical-insanity
Ask HN: Simple payment gateway to split payments?
Are there any payment gateways I could add to my site that would act like a tip jar?

People put it on their profile and if someone makes a payment to that person, then my site gets a cut and the person receives the rest?
Isn't SF wildly corrupt? Do the puppet masters bear any responsibility for the outcomes they orchestrate? Or is stewardship an obsolete concept?
As he says posting on HN... This place (like any messageboard) can be as toxic as anywhere else in it's own way.
The one thing people seem to keep forgetting about when talking about this race to the bottom is how hard it is to find good software authors. My company is fully remote and global and it is still really hard to find good people. I really don't see much of a change given the current unmet, and rising, demand.
> most of us are likely to get this disease at some point anyway

If you live someplace like South Dakota with grossly irresponsible leaders at every level of government, this is probably true.

If you live somewhere with decisive and responsible leadership like South Korea, New Zealand, Finland (among many successful countries around the world, rich and poor), or Vermont, then probably not.

Notice that multiple effective vaccines are here. We just need to hold out through this winter, so that production can spin up enough to start getting a substantial proportion of the population vaccinated.
There are limits to diet. In Eastern Europe people just eat potatoes with tons of fat and occasional piece of chicken, arguably the worst diet, and obesity is far lower than in the US.
Morehead isn't asking us to take his word for it. He used the device for a few days and shared his review as a counterpoint explicitly intended to balance against the pro-M1 hype. I thought it was a pretty nice assessment because Morehead focused on product usability instead of raw benchmarks, and I used his review as part of the process of informing my recent decision to buy an Intel MBP13 rather than an M1 model.

It seems obvious that Morehead's opinion seven years ago about 64bit being unnecessary in mobile was incorrect, mainly because today's mainstream phones ship with more RAM than 32bit would support, but that doesn't mean every word Morehead types is now ritually unclean. He was wrong about something; it hurts his credibility but doesn't banish him from the conversation.

Besides, unless we think Morehead doctored his screenshots, it's pretty hard to argue that his review is nonfactual in its entirety.

More specifically to your point, I don't see why there has to be a separation between hardware quality and software experience when the user (A) can't buy the hardware without paying for the OS too, and (B) can't use the hardware without using the OS too.
How is this functionally different than any other game server dealing with player game states? Players would get even more warping and inexplicable behaviour as their state differed from the server state. You would just as likely get the same warping in Among Us as the game arbitrates the various players' states.
All of the issues with SQL, including strong consistency, data normalization, table JOINs, etc., mean that any RDBMS is going to inherently going to be limited in its viability to scale compared to a properly architected NoSQL database.

Disclaimer: I work at ScyllaDB. A LOT of our migrations are from people who got started on MongoDB, and then it fell over. Another group come from DynamoDB, and then they see their monthly bill.

There are also people who have moved to Scylla from PostgreSQL because it fell over, or those who blanched at their Oracle bill.

Scalability is not inherent to SQL or NoSQL. It requires both technical features as well as economical offerings. It is a quality of a product made with users and real-world workloads in mind.

As in all DB work, YMMV.
Definitely agree 9/11 seemed to be the geopolitical event that really kicked off a different tone from the relative quiet of the Clinton years.
oh okay
just looked at what they offers and 22/year doesn't sound bad
hows your experience have been so far
I'm going to point out that if you want to go down this route, it is insufficient to just check that the base drivers are untampered with and signed by Microsoft or whatever vendor still.

You now maintain a list of potentially vulnerable drivers that can be used as a jumping off point (such as virtually every motherboard RGB or fan control system), and ban users that have these or hard-disable them at boot. There are some games that have caused machines to overheat by disabling cheat-jumpoffable fan controllers.

On top of that, you effectively have to maintain a whitelist of acceptable drivers, because cheat vendors are registering limited companies by the thousands (only $20 in the UK), getting an EV/codesigning cert, and signing their own drivers. Higher end cheats cost enough to offset this, and there might be less than 5-6 people using a particular certificate. Some of the people behind these also release vaguely-useful legal tools signed with the same certificates to get a large install base for them so they don't stick out.

That being said, IMO as a player, this is invasive as hell, and you should not be crawling through my flash drives, identifying my mouse, killing LogitechMacroSoftware.exe, etc. I'd rather you just collect snap/targetting/click timings server-side and run anomaly analysis on those rather than digging an asshole into my computer.

Also, now I have 5 different "kernel anticheats" running 24/7 simultaneously, half of them are horrifically written and known-insecure, and the other half need to figure out how to not explode spectacularly when the broken half tries to probe and kill it.

Korean MMOs are particularly bad for this and when forcefully uninstalled might permanently destroy disk access, make Windows non-genuine and deactivate it, and send all their data over plaintext (no TLS) with a bizarre, homegrown "encryption" method that is trivially breakable to a bare IP somewhere.

With KMMOs as an example (many of these reward you for staying logged in, have daily rewards, and similar; the game itself is fairly low resource when minimised), GameGuard and HackShield and XIGNCODE constantly have slap-fights where they bluescreen or flop over or die if you try to run multiple of them simultaneously and they try probing and killing each others' services for trying to tamper with themselves. It's like that ridiculous "what happens if three programs all try to demand Always On Top for their window", except give all of them heavy weaponry. These also have severe NIH syndrome for things like homemade shitty crypto and plaintext everything.
The subheading is really unfortunate. I don't always agree with pg, but I think Y Combinator is a great thing.
Gaming on linux would mean me throwing away windows forever.. I really hope it keeps on moving in this direction
Not OP but I had a terrible experience installing Windows 10 on my machine. UEFI boot, NVME root disk. Windows would boot the installer, but would refuse to install. Disabling UEFI would cause it to install but there were issues so I had to bite the bullet and keep trying UEFI.

I had to install linux(because Windows recovery is terrible and can't do much), fiddle around with pre-creating a partition table on the format it wanted, and then eventually got it to work. Don't ask me how, I spent hours trying every combination under the sun. Windows error messages are very cryptic and not at all helpful.
Gentoo w/ nvidia driver; only driver problems in 2019-2020 I've had are "sometimes I need to wait to upgrade the kernel because the driver doesn't support it yet."
> I think you'll find from a legal standpoint, it does.

In fact, it specifically does not: https://cuiab.ca.gov/board/precedentdecisions/docs/pb39.pdf
PowerPC was a RISC…
"Is there even an API to take advantage of that yet?"

Has been for at least three years now (maybe more): https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/core-ml/
Get Blizzard games (WoW especially) to work perfectly all the time with minimal effort, and I'm down to switch for good. I tried VFIO (lots of effort), and it worked great for Blizzard games, but showed massive frame loss in games like Jedi: Fallen Order.
You train them, remember that? :D
Noise Pollution Hampers Animal Communication
It was £200 to go from 8GB to 16GB which makes 2TB ... £51,200 or thereabouts.
Fwiw, my solution does actually take advantage of remote attestation, and if that is validated, a large part of kernel integrity checks are skipped. The problem is that many “gaming” consumer motherboards don’t ship with TPMv2 or secure boot, and we still have to support those computers.
> a CEO friend of mine told me that he'd always make sure to get really drunk the day before an important negotiation

Extrapolating from my own capacity to think clearly while I'm hungover I would suspect this is a profoundly bad idea.
Who are these people that shouldn’t walk without consulting a physician? The only people who shouldn’t walk would be those who had explicitly been told not to walk (e.g. letting a bone heal), but I imagine anyone going to their doctor to ask if they can walk would be laughed out of the room.
For a cover you need a mechanical license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_license In the US under the compulsory license scheme, it's a fixed fee per copy or stream (with a minimum licensing fee). It's been a long time since I've looked into this (in the pre-streaming era) but back in those days it was around $.30 per copy. In the US, this is mostly handled through the Harry Fox Agency. I just peaked at their pricing page and there's a lot more categories than their were back in the 90s. https://www.harryfox.com/#/rate-charts
I don't think you have to suggest conspiracy here. Any frequent reader of HN will know that HN is pretty aggressive with censoring posts that don't fit with the overall ideology here, no matter how up-voted the content is.

I used to play a game with myself at predicting which posts I would see in the morning would be removed with in 30 minutes. My favorite example was an article on how important it is to openly talk about the impacts and causes of climate change. It made it to the FP, had lots of discussion and was removed within 30 minutes.

Posts that are likewise seriously critical of the startup world get remove very quickly.

In this particular case I don't think this post is necessarily being censored, but HN does do this very frequently so it's not a crazy question to ask.
HN is a private forum. They can do whatever they want with posts. They're not obligated to accept anyone's content or posting.
In the entire history of Pijul, you probably picked the best example of how to get your reviewer stop being in love with you. That change fixed several hundred errors caused by the removal of a dependency.
Fucking hell, PG writes one "off" article and the gazzilions of helpful ones are ignored, the billions in wealth he has created, the public service he has performed, is thrown in the trash for a cheap character assassination. I am glad it was flagged it was total melodramatic bullshit.
That particular author has a reputation such that it wouldn't surprise me if some people flag anything he writes.
I think the worst CPU that Apple ever made shipped about a decade ago ;)
Resigning to that power relation is defeatism, and unhelpful for the maintenance of labor rights.
Ah, yes, ye old argument: "BACK IN MY DAY"
Because if "tech elites" actually are leaving, then the increase in demand will have been proven to be transient

Surely many developers would have made the bet anyway, at least in 2010-2019, but going forward it'll be worth considering whether building housing for people who are likely to leave en masse is worth the risk.
Does this mean that Japan will now stop their “research” whale hunts?

If it doesn’t, I am worried about how much this commitment is real.
They already do!! Still not enough engineers.
Historians generally refer to the "long 19th century" as encompassing the time from the French Revolution to WWI (although there is some room to discuss at what exact year you want to place the endpoints). Post-WWI periodization is hard to discuss because it's not necessarily clear until long after what events make more of a difference.

WWII isn't really a single war as much as it is a collection of several wars, be they wars of territorial expansion (e.g., Germany, USSR), ideological civil war (e.g., China), non-ideological civil war (e.g., France), or random local conflicts (e.g., Yugoslav coup) which are all occurring in the context of one another. In many places, it's often a three-way war, with all parties equally at odds with one another, instead of the simple Axis v. Allies it's usually presented as. Start including the full context of these conflicts into the timeframe of WWII, and you push its start date back arguably to 1931, only 8 years after the last cleanup war of WWI (the Russian Civil War).

Viewed from an international relations perspective, combining WWI and WWII into a single period of flux makes sense. WWI makes the death of great power influence, but the attempted resolution afterwards (League of Nations) was impotent and unable to have any major effect on the international crises that arose, unlike the great power conferences preceding WWI. Instead, the end of WWII ushers in the era of superpower relations, where essentially the USA and USSR drive international relations for the rest of the world.
This is probably in response to user flagging.
Should the left care about blockchain technology?
My initial reaction agrees that does sound quite high.

However, I wonder what the alternative strategy costs for rural broadband are. My guess is that laying a lot of cable to remote locations could possibly be even higher than the $1376.52 per customer cost? It seems like something like Satelite internet connections could be less to set up, but it's not clear to me the cost of the equipment, installations and upkeep are in that case?

Also 1376 / 12 months averages out to only about $110 per month per customer for just one year. Which honestly doesn't sound too bad.
That's neat, what's Teddit. A non-cluttered version of the site?
I have consistently lost weight on both trips I took to Japan despite not necessarily eating very healthily. I think a large part of it is all the stairs/passageways into and out of train stations. Obviously some have escalators but some don't or during rush hour it's easier to just take the steps. In the Bay Area we don't have a transportation system with that kind of infrastructure. New York City's subways would be a bit similar, but most of the stations I've been to there have much fewer stairways.
Diet isn't just types of food consumed but also the amount. Also fat isn't 'unhealthy' but that's a different misconception.
Undocumented immigrants far less likely to commit crimes in US than citizens
I really hope the pandemic prompts systemic change to the way we handle disease. Imagine if the safety testing for these vaccines were already done in January. Imagine if major transport hubs like airports had generic testing equipment that could check for a wide range of diseases. Imagine if we had a system in place for food distribution so at risk and sick people didn't have to go to the grocery stores. It would be an insult to the memory of everyone lost this year if we didn't gain some 2020 hindsight.
His ability to annoy people seems to stem entirely or mostly from the fact that he writes about topics, like this one, that are uncomfortable for people to hear. Just to clarify for anyone thinking he goes around harassing people.
Have you tried eating only potatoes for a longer period? Its basically impossible to eat too much.
> Why should I care about the dirty laundry of FAANG

FAANG employs a tremendous number of technology workers, are key drivers the industry-wide technical agenda formally (standards bodies) and informally (open source project management, areas of active research), are often the first line of serious education for new workers, and the fallback for workers when riskier undertakings fail.

If anything far more of their internal management (project and people) processes should be scrutinized.
>> So what makes it that a developer in SF is much more expansive than the one in, let's say, Chicago?

One is more likely to have more experience with startups/trendy new tech.

The other could probably work with it, but the other one already has.
Perhaps a deleted article that called HN "toxic sludge" isn't the best topic of discussion?

> Though I can’t separate Paul Graham these days from the toxic sludge of Y Combinator and Hacker News
>They will soon realize they don't need to pay SF wages.

The reason they pay “SF wages” is because they can’t hire talent at other prices, not because of some goodness of the heart. While total talent pool might be slightly expanded with people who didn’t want to move to SF previously, overall it’s not going to be a big shift.
> Yes, but it is not good that your "compensation" will be coming from something that isn't tied to your job performance. Wages at least have some tenuous connection to how well you perform at work.

It also doesn't account for the fact that these equities can lose substantial value, or may be over-valued.

> Yes, or nationalize the banks.

Re-implement the Glass-Steagall Act, or similar. Nationalization leaves the levers of power in the hands of the wrong people. Keeping commercial and investment banking separate while implementing strong consumer protections was shown to work well in the past. Also, it has shown that the repeal massively reduced the amount of banks (killing competition) so it stands to reason that trend could be reversed and improve the consumer banking experience over time.
The ban on non-competes was pretty instrumental to allowing the startup revolution to occur somewhere in California.
That'd be smart; you can meet her timeline so it's officially a resignation, but with all the benefits of ending the relationship that day.

I've seen people walked out the day they give notice, but I assume they weren't technically fired, and paying out their two weeks is the right thing to do.
We aren't the only animals that eat fish.
Iota is still defined in terms of S and K. More technically, Iota is an "improper" combinator (see pg. 779 in [1]). Therefore, you can't axiomize Iota, so it would be hard to argue that it's more "fundamental" than S and K.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=1xEVkzuX5e0C&pg=PA779&lpg=...
Sorry my bad you're correct.
The worst diet is one abundant in ultra-refined packaged foods. At least chicken and potatoes have nutritional value, even if it's not complete.

But you have a point, there was a study revealing that the red meat and fat consumption in Hong Kong was relatively high, and yet longevity ranks among the top of the world. It is a very walkable city.
That's why I keep my old Android phone and I kept postponing system update for two years now (you cannot disable update notification so this is quite annoying), as I know that update disables call recording API. I would love to upgrade, but I have no idea what's the best way to figure out if call recording works on a particular phone without having to buy it. My plan B is to replace the battery and the screen in my current phone and maybe squeeze another year or two out of it and it will be fun to learn how to do it. It's old, but is still better than e.g. Librem 5.