skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what to explain here, every hedge fund is audited extensively, of course there are case's such as madoff, but in any way does this imply that virtually full transparency is not existent, what are you doing as organization, every email, every transaction can be and it is audited in many cases. Furthermore, if there are unusual trades, request will be made for explanation why this was the case.
Interesting. My Chrome on Ubuntu seems to have differing behaviour.
Looking at crunchbase, they've only raised funds using a kickstarter once. It seems like they're making enough to pay salaries and keep the show going. I know some of their products are not priced for profit, but the company as a whole seems to be doing well and growing. It doesn't seem like the typical overhyped SV company that only survives on VC money.
Mark Zuckerberg has complete control of Facebook, and he feels emotions.

Elon Musk's emotions certainly dictate a lot of his companies' behavior.

Companies aren't emotionless if they are essentially an extension of an individual.
Why post it at all if you don't care?
In the case of Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates they already did what you said. They ran their company for a few decades and kept most of their wealth tied to the company. Jeff Bezos isn't 31 years old anymore, he's 56. Bill Gates is 65.

This argument reduces to the richer you are the more you can donate to charity. It doesn't really matter if I'm a billionaire, everyone will have more money later in life if they let it compound. The main issue is that there are real problems that need to be solved today too, you can't put everything off into the future
No. Be careful who you are threatening as well.
Didn't they shitcan the Servo team?
Why did bezos leave this woman again?
> is it not more effective altruism for those like Bezos and Scott to keep their wealth compounding as effectively as possible, and then donate it much later on, perhaps in a few decades?

You can donate stock. Or, if desired, the charity can convert your cash back into stock. Or you can transfer the stock into a trust that the charity controls.
They wed together before he started Amazon. She's not some vulture that came along after and made off with half his money.
Both of these people seem like assholes, but honestly the Luis guy seems like a bigger one. This Rob character at least seems interested in trying to break through and find agreement somewhere.

I've noticed two things about both kinds of people that are on these opposite spectrums of political thought:

1. They're almost always minimally employed, or unemployed.

2. They always expect people to see things "their" way and then adjust their actions and beliefs. This seems to me to be worse for far-leftists.

Number one is simple. If you're making a good salary and you're working hard at your company and have a path to climb up the ladder, you don't have time to fuck off in the streets crying about non-existent boogeymen (or existing ones for that matter). There was a time earlier this year when I was putting in 70-80 hours a week in at work, and fortunately I was working from home. Some days I was so engrossed, I didn't eat that day, or even take a shower.

Number two is simply acting like a child. Adults know that for long-term success, from the local to the international level, there must be some element of cooperation with people you don't agree with, don't like, and perhaps even actively loathe.

I did notice two things about this article - they took a stab at Rob's appearance (45, but looks older) but described Luis (mid-40s) totally differently. Both of these fuckers look haggard as shit for their age - I say that, because I am their age and I don't look nearly as shit as they do. Maybe its a hard life they've lived... maybe they don't take care of themselves well (diet, exercise, sleep, water intake, whatever), but they're both rough looking. The second part was very telling about these "anti-facists". They say any brown people in the Proud Boys are just "token" members to cover for extremism. This is the most discussing kind of racism to me. We saw it at the Oscars a few years back with Meryl Streep when she was talking about MMA being full of white racists... when MMA is over 80% immigrant and non-white. They all love their genderqueer Bangladeshi mother of 3 who's putting herself through UCLA while working at the local diner... but they fucking hate the conservative Syrian immigrant who came here as a cage fighter.

That kind of hypocrisy isn't lost on casual viewers.
For clarification, how do you say Trump has claimed without evidence the election was rigged, without it being manipulative? This is precisely what Trump did and has done for the last three election. He has made claims without evidence, baseless and any “evidence” that backs it up is debunked.

This is actually exactly what I’m talking about, these news agencies are reporting accurately the events. And you don’t like it.
But then it's actually best to invest and lose all your money in the stock market, because then capital gets reallocated to the people who are best at allocating capital.

More seriously, you also need to take into account the compounding interest from e.g. malaria nets for people in Africa. Save some number of lives today, and you prevent human capital from being completely destroyed today, which also compounds in parallel with the capital allocated into AMZN etc.
The longer the time period you wait, the worse the problems get. It's not a one way street of improving your donations now. Why assume that none of the people you help today would do anything as impactful as you in the future?

As long as governments do not take care of their citizens health and safety as in the USA today, delayed donations also delay any help to people suffering today.

Global problems are getting worse. Waiting to donate means that each dollar you donate later has less impact than today.
Machine Learning in Clojure reminds me of Yann LeCun’s ML course from 2010, where we used an adorable language called Lush:

http://lush.sourceforge.net/

which I suppose can best be described as Lisp and Python having a baby. It was immense fun to code neural networks from scratch in it. I hope Clojure can find a bigger place in the world of ML.
> is it not more effective altruism for people like Bezos and Scott to keep their wealth compounding as effectively as possible, and then donate it much later on, perhaps in a few decades?

The caveat to that is the Steve Jobs outcome - that that time isn't guaranteed to anyone. Jeff Bezos for example nearly died in a helicopter crash. Steve was fortunate he had Laurene to handle philanthropically disposing of the now $37b family fortune responsibly (presumably).

Also, you may just run out of time if you wait too long, even if you live a very long time. Buffett was aiming to discharge most of his wealth before his death and they thought they had a solid timeline for doing it. He won't come remotely close to that as the wealth piled up even faster than expected ($84b remaining and he's 90, after giving away near $40b so far in 14 years). The Gates Foundation can't give it away fast enough. The Gates family was initially aiming to get rid of their wealth in their lifetime, then they shifted that to within N decades after their death. They have to give away at least $250 billion yet (with Buffett's wealth taking priority, which has slowed their ability to discharge their own pile of wealth) - it may require another lifetime.
He's legit! Dr. Kory is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (I know this university very well. I happened to have gotten a Bachelor's of Science in Molecular Biology there before working for two years in an HIV vaccine research lab.)

https://sitetest9.medicine.wisc.edu/people-search/people/sta...

https://piwigo.medicine.wisc.edu/picture.php?/3758/category/...

Senate testimony: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Kory-20...
You seem to be asserting that it’s “very clear” with basically zero justification for why it’s so clear.
I believe it was a mutual separation.
Nice, nice. Just in case people aren't reading the actual source code on the last link, here are some highlights...

% WARNING WARNING! DANGER! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
% This is *gross* code. I mean UUUUUGLY! (And it used to be
% even more contorted, if you can believe that.)
...
% Brute force debugging hacks
% Ignore this stuff. It was written when I was very frustrated.
(% ifdef PISSEDOFF
...
% For use when mildly irritated:
...
% This is nasty evil vile implementation dependant hackery.
...
% Good god this has gotten bigger than dictbegin can handle!
XNeWS? not { 300 currentdict extend pop } if
...
% This code was designed to be rewritten!
...
% XXXX: Here be the start of the trouble.
...
MyProcess type /processtype eq {
pause pause pause % maybe it will kill itsself
...
% BOO HISS

Also it has a definition of quicksort.
> These companies wouldn’t hesitate to kick you out on the street if they had to

> Sharing inside info on an ongoing incident is a great way to get fired

You're not disagreeing.
Dr. Kory is the real deal. Here is his faculty page and photo from the University of Wisconsin-Madison:

https://sitetest9.medicine.wisc.edu/people-search/people/sta...

https://piwigo.medicine.wisc.edu/picture.php?/3758/category/...

From the faculty page (if you are too lazy to click):

New York University - MPA in Health Policy and Administration

Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons - Residency in Internal Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Fellowship in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Kory is faculty member in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine. Previously, he was a faculty member at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. He is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society. Currently, he serves as medical director of the University Hospital Trauma and Life Support Center (TLC).

An expert on point-of-care ultrasonography, Dr. Kory co-authored a textbook on the subject that was selected for the the British Medical Association's 2015 President's Choice award for medical textbooks. Dr. Kory has also been named to the 2015-2016 Top Doctors in Madison List, was a semifinalist (2009 and 2013) for a Chest Young Investigator Award, was named as a "Rising Star" physician of New York City, and received a Teaching Attending of the Year Award from Mount Sinai Beth Israel. At UW-Madison, Dr. Kory has received the James B. Skatrud Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine on behalf of fellows in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine program, and the Outstanding Off-Service Faculty Teaching Award from the UW-Madison BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine.

Senate testimony: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Kory-20...
Having fumed for years about the too-often poor state of software documentation and program comments, I was not surprised by the result, although it was nice to see it proved.

What did surprise me, though, was the lack of similarity to mathematical thinking. Was, this, though, because they used fairly simple snippets of Python, a programming language which is not very mathematical in its notation? Would a different result have been obtained had they asked the subjects to reason about a multithreaded C++ program which copiously used autoincrementing pointers and polymorphism?

And, can personal preferences in programming languages be partly down to which parts of their brains people like to use?

And, as the problems were simple, the study doesn't say anything about expert programmers. Is the often-quoted 10× difference between the best and worst programmers associated with the best ones also involving the mathematical and linguistic parts of their brains?

It's probably not practical to measure programming at a high level (or indeed violin playing at a high level) inside an MRI machine, given the cramped and noisy conditions, so we may not have answers to the interesting questions raised any time soon.
Not OP, but pretty sure he’s saying that if you’re eg a CISO who’s naive enough to accept whatever argument is fed to you for why this is a “state sponsored attack” (implying that it’s not), then you may as well reduce your professional decision making to favoring whatever Gartner recommends in their “magic quadrant” marketing materials.
Question remains, why did Microsoft and Sony certify them?
Big Sur ships with zsh 5.8 as /bin/zsh.
Raspberry Pi Bell Slapper
No, I think I was quite clear on that.
I'm not going to give you platitudes for donating 69 cents, and I wouldn't expect you to give them to me either is the point. The reason that Mackenzie Scott is receiving them here is that she didn't donate 69 cents, she donated a substantial amount.
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> Reality is, _zero_ countries have totally developed under democracy. Ever. Modern India is the first to attempt.

Zero countries other than, post-WWII West Germany (and then re-unified Germany) under the Marshall plan. The US of A, Canada, the UK post-WWII's devastation etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_and_economic_growth#...

There is a strong correlation between democracy and long-term political growth,

> Democratization of a country from a non-democratic regime is usually preceded by a fall in GDP, and a volatile but expected growth in the long run, While on the other hand authoritarian regimes experience significant growth at the beginning and decline in the long run.[4] The cause of such behavior is that non-democratic regimes, mainly authoritarian ones, are more effective at implementing decisive policies and choices as well as solving ethnic and sub-national conflicts, but are unsustainable in the long run as there is more incentive to extract money from society which in turn leads to less prosperity.[5] Democratic regimes revolve around institutions and policies which lay the foundations, through which principles of liberty and equality are designed and followed, thus directly or indirectly affecting firms or individuals who benefit from the directives and increase their growth, which in turn has a positive impact on economy.

However, I'd like to add that the reason why democracies work in the long-run is that all the good ideas, the transformational ones come from the margin. Authoritarian countries simply do not create systems where anyone other than a small group of ruling elite is able to bring their work to fruition. Whereas democratic policies and a lower social extraction leads to a strong consumer base in democracies, which in turn allows ideas from the margins to thrive.
If you want negative opinion, then I am your man. The net value cost of these donations by these philanthropist billionaires should be considered. That is harder to calculate but basically what detrimental impact did generating this wealth cause? Does the donation really offset the damage done? For example, the very pro-business Australian government has been blamed for "shrinking government" by severely cutting back on bush management and firefighters leading to the fires getting out of control. These are the people welcoming the Bezos of the world with open arms. It's money from an ethically questionable source helping solve a problem caused by another group of people making ethically questionable decisions.

Also billionaires combined donate a pittance compared to public institutions likes NIH or NSF, National Endowments and other grant giving orgs funded by the public. Really we should just tax them more and funnel the money to public grants, and also properly enforce antitrust, labor laws and environmental regulations to limit societal damage wealth extraction causes, instead of hoping and praying billionaires will sprinkle a little moolah where it matters every blue moon.
Reminds me of Phil Och's song from 1969, 'Pretty Smart on My Part' on Rehearsals for Retirement:

"I can see them coming / They're training in the mountains / And they talk Chinese / And they spread disease / They want to get me ..."
If Google and other major mail providers weren't opaque about this, then fine, but for me a single bounce is an immediate removal. I can't take the risk. I can't imagine the hell that would ensue trying to get through to Google to ask them to take me off their deliverability shitlist.
Apparently this is from a psychiatric evaluation when he was caught perpetrating a burglary at age 14. That's definitely an unusual and disturbing thing for an adolescent to do. But do you have reason to think Carmack got that way at that age specifically because of his interest in programming, or that his interest in programming kept him that way thereafter?

I'm skeptical of this because he went on to be a successful, respected computer scientist and business leader, as well as starting a family. While of course many people who've done each of these things may be bad at empathy (or worse!), I'm not aware that Carmack has somehow continued along the course he was on at 14.
Short code may seem unclear, but it does do exactly the same thing as longer code (if written correctly). It's exact opposite of natural language, where short sentences heavily rely on context and supposedly shared knowledge to beget correct understanding. And as such short sentences are prone to misinterpretation.

A program can also be seen as an awkward natural language, conveying programmer's intention to other programmers, of course. But it's a different modality of the code.
Jeff himself has said Amazon would not exist without Mackenzie... so I think not only is he perfectly happy with the outcome of the divorce, I think everyone was able to walk away, if not happy, at least satisfied.

However, you are of course speaking in broad terms, and I also happen to think you're correct. I know this was a concern for Elon Musk at one point. How much of a concern, I don't know, but I definitely remember reading about it.

This is really sticky sort of problem, wherein it seems good solutions are few and far between.
This year I actually gave away all of my money and now my bank account has only ~$3k (after 8 years of earning software engineering salary). I didn't donate my money to non profits and instead I just gave out money to people I know who are not as fortunate as me. For example, someone I know got into a car accident last week and now couldn't drive to go to job interviews so I gave him 5k to help him out.

I have a few people that I'm giving 2.5k / month to help them take care of their families and so they don't have to spend every waking hour door-dashing for people like me.

I don't understand how society became so unfair and cruel and I didn't see the point in having savings when so many people around me have so little savings and no job.

Hearing MacKenzie giving away 4B of her 60B is not really impressive because you can live pretty nice with even 1B. To put it in perspective, If I made 300k (my yearly salary) / month for my entire life, I still won't have 1B.
Define big and bulky. But fair enough, that’s why lightweight 2020 pandemic redesigned versions are desirable. $33 is 9 cents a day averaged out over the year. Double it so you have a spare; that’s 18 cents a day. Not out of reach for most but they should be subsidized or provided free by the government anyway.

Even as a one off, a single respirator costs less than three or four good quality cloth masks, and less than a months supply of single use designed N95s or surgical masks.

Few who have ever ever worn an elastomer respirator would argue it’s less comfortable than an N95 or less efficacious than a 1918 flu era cloth mask.

The exhalation valve filter adaptation could be cut and fitted with the craft skills of a five year old and took two minutes.

I’m not trolling but I think you may be.
Very good article! I started my programming career with MS Windows 3.1 and remember when Windows NT came out that it was invariably linked with the name of David Cutler (the other MS person i remember was Charles Simonyi) who always loomed as a giant. And when "Inside Windows NT" was published, i pestered my boss to get us a copy :-)
Put credit card signup bonuses on autopilot
I've had Geforce Now for over a year now and have completed The Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Death Stranding on it. I use an Nvidia Shield to play it on my TV. I've never had any problems with the streaming quality or latency. I could see that depending on location though, I'm playing in West Coast Canada. Some of the games I've been disappointed with the performance, Assassin's Creed Odyssey for instance couldn't hit 60 fps even after lowering the graphic settings. Cyberpunk 2077 has been amazing though, high fps and maxed settings, including ray tracing.

A few other things of note. 1080p is the max resolution. Unlimited Internet is probably a requirement as its about 10gb per hour. After 6 hours the session ends and you need to save and relaunch the game. Your entire Steam library is not available, its up to publishers to allow their games on it.
Minor thing, but I'd make the 'Premium', 'Pro' etc labels of the pricing table clickable. Bottom of the page felt somewhat unintuitive for the only signup link.

Not sure if this is in-scope, but I noticed the link over to EmailEngine.io, and wanted to note some sort of trial period is usually nice to test drive the service.
> there’s few enough actors for them to collude

And those who collude become the central planners. So central planning doesn't fix this problem: it worsens it, because now the colluders have government power on their side.
I don't want to crap on the project, but it seems like good user docs would be... the second most important thing after API design in terms of making a library hard to misuse. Maybe I'm wrong here though
I am far from an HVAC expert, but I think these lines from the article help clarify the issue:

> The temperature dial doesn’t work, the building controls whether its heating or cooling time.

> The fluid temperature is out of our control since the building adjusts it based on the outside temperature.

It doesn't sound like the device they have available is actually a proper thermostat- rather, it's just a control device for a water heater + radiator + fan. The switch adjusts how fast air is blowing over the radiator, and the dial is supposed to adjust the temperature of the fluid in the radiator.

But if I understand correctly, the building sets their radiator fluid temperature for the whole building, and it sounds like the fan speed is apparently useless, so the only control the author has over their unit's temperature is whether or not the fan is on or off.

So, what they built is the actual thermostat, which mechanically actuates the on/off switch based on a temperature measurement.
I've heard this a million times, but I'm not sure I've ever actually seen average=median used in the wild.
> In what could have been a 50/50 split, Bezos walked away with 100%

Maybe Scott didn't care. She has a net worth in the 10s of billions (and deserves every cent). Would a few 10s of billions make any difference to her life? It probably would have made a difference to Bezos because he runs the Amazon machine and it would have diminished his power.

The voting rights make sense, her wealth is also tied to investor confidence. She would only lose money by spooking investors, and maybe she does not care about power. I am sure if she wanted full voting rights a judge would have agreed it was fair.

> will be a warning sign for entrepreneurs.

This is the historical equivalent of an empire being divided up. It sets no precedent for anyone.
Why do you assume Scott gave up a 500k/year job? For all we know she left an opportunity worth much more.

Also Bezos/Amazon’s success wasn’t guaranteed. Using the benefit of hindsight to evaluate how to split assets now is not reflective of how decisions were made 20 years ago.