skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some engineers will be bored to tears with a scope of responsibility that is any narrower.

The foundational skill for an engineer who supports partners is likely one's ability to absorb, navigate, and understand new systems quickly. Knowing more than one OS (or language, or CPU, etc) actually improves this skill.

There are some fundamental ideas that are common across OSes that could help reduce mental burden, though the details differ significantly. And there are some activities that almost require one person to know multiple OSes internals, such as reverse engineering Windows drivers to write Linux drivers.
We used a law firm. The paperwork was quite straightforward because our attorney managed it.
Just because people demonstrate remarkable skill or intelligence does not make them immune to the same cognitive biases shared by every human being on the planet. We are all susceptible to being fooled, and a lot more easily than we probably like to imagine.
Now if he can convince Jim Keller to come back.
This talk is fascinating. I didn’t realize Intel does professional ML/AI services!
Seems to me like the 2-year stints are a big deterrent to joining a union.

All you have to do is ignore social causes for 18 months, after an additional 6 months being team selection and other unproductive stuff, and you have an okay probability of clearing $1,000,000 during a bull market?

What would have to change for employees to be able to meaningfully change Google? The incentives just are not there.

I have heard and read about a concept in Germany where a labor union is part of the board in large companies. That seems like a possible solution in America that nobody seems inspired enough to consider.
That's what I expected as well, before I tried. I assume Spotify just prefers to make a few big deals instead of lots of small deals. It saves them from having to manage all the individual payments, and probably the whole "is this really your music?" thing.

So the aggregator's fee is simply an entry fee. As you can see from my numbers above, it's not a lot of money. :)

To be fair, the aggregator I use offers a choice between 15% of the revenue, or a fixed yearly cost of $9.99 per release (first year may be slightly more expensive, depending on release size). Since I used to release a trickle of singles as I finished them, the per-release pricing definitely made no sense for me; the 15% thing was the best deal I could find when I started uploading in 2009-2010. Also, back then (not sure about now), some aggregators' terms actually demanded exclusive digital distribution rights, which was a complete non-starter for me: I wanted to put stuff on YouTube and free downloads on my website too.
> So why do we want this?

Just yesterday, I ran into an issue where a set of node unit tests were failing. My college and I were both getting failures, but different failures. The reason was: Different versions of Chrome, and thus different versions of the chrome integration plugin.

Given that we have effectively no control over Chrome's auto-updates, we'll never have truly identical development environments. A container with headless chrome would have resolved this for us.
In my estimation, Intel has four categories in which it is being outperformed by key competitors:

1. TSMC/Samsung - fabrication

2. AMD/Amazon-Graviton - Cloud Server

3. Apple-M1/AMD - Laptop

4. Nvidia/Amazon - Cloud ML/DL Accelerator

Intel has made giant blunders in the past (e.g. Itanium [1], Atom [2], WiMAX [3]) but I'm not sure that any of these past challenges were equivalent to the current four-front war. I would not count Intel out at this point but it will be several years before we know if they were able to right the ship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(system_on_a_chip)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX
Instead of moving to Austin, why can't we fix California?

Or, if California is "not fixable", why can't we split the State in two or three pieces (North, South, Middle), so that everyone can have their desired, smaller California-lite?
A buttcoiner always sees another buttcoiner.

edit: wow, didn't know so many people were against r/buttcoin its sad to see HN descend into this sort of madness.
> You should also consider supporting the work being done by the folks over at Asahi Linux.

This seems like quite a nice gesture after the bit of drama that apparently happened (and made corellium look bad, imo).

I hope that eventually they're not going to duplicates effort as much as they likely are now, but then again it seems like Marcan thinks that their approach (with "insider knowledge") is an inherent risk to the project's legality.

With or without Corellium Asahi will eventually get there, though, and they're pretty certainly the ones who will make the GPU work (thanks to the amazing Alyssa Rosenzweig of Panfrost fame).
They removed the whitepaper about as fast as they removed Gavin Andresen's commit access once they found justification.

There are a lot of bad things you can call the BTC core devs but they sure as hell seize every opportunity to grab power.
I've been waiting for this moment for literally years.

Long ago, I made http://github.com/strayptr/memes

If you scroll down to Kappa, you'll see a Lambda, which is pg in the style of twitch.tv's Kappa emote.

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/12214175/7581578/...
Given that horses run faster than 30 mph [1], and people have been riding on horses for a while before trains were developed [2], this seems unlikely.

[1] https://horseandrider.com/western-horse-life/fastest-a-quart...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_horse
>The real satoshi is probably Paul Le Roux, and currently in federal prison.

That conjecture makes a huge amount of sense based on circumstantial factors but most importantly, business purpose. The gentleman you identified was (when BTC was released) running an international unconventional business with money-logistics issues. As we see now, BTC's primary use case is facilitating international financial logistics for criminal transactions-- the use case for BTC always stayed close to home! Assuming the conjecture is correct BTC performs exactly the real-world role it was designed to perform.

As for the paper, let me get this straight-- the group that publishes the software that establishes what BTC is now has taken the position that whoever Satoshi is or was can claim copyright and take down core BTC IP no matter how licensed?! Yeah, that can't be very reassuring to a multi-million dollar industry based on IP collected and distributed by Bitcoin Core, i.e., the entire bitcoin ecosystem.
Yep, exactly - IIRC Sony did some code drops to FreeBSD long ago improving SMP performance but that was preatty much it.
> She also carried around a scalpel and tubing for giving passers-by emergency airways (tracheotomy?), and apparently did so over a dozen times.

My mother does the same (well did, she's retired. She was an ER doctor). Before seatbelts and other safety devices were common there were a lot of gruesome accidents on the roads and we would have to stop. I remember several episodes were my sister and I were bored and annoyed because my mother had departed in the ambulance and my dad would drive us to the hospital to wait for her. Kid's perspective.

I've been trained to do emergency procedures like a tracheotomy, move a patient with a back injury* et al and in my life have encountered zero situations where my so-called "skills" would be useful. I don't even drive past many car accidents any more, nor have I ever seen a diner choke to the point where they needed assistance. But as a child I knew several kids who'd been hit by cars or fallen out of trees and been hospitalized, not to mention kids who'd lost a parent. Has the world become safer?

* Obviously you only do this when the victim would be in even more and immediate danger where they are, else you leave 'em in place for the professionals.
And you'll be really naive to think that Vultr/DO/OVH/... won't deplatform you like others did already. Pretty sure that if you search a bit you can find people that has been booted off them
more perfect does not imply 'perfect' is the goal nor should it be.

"More perfect" in this context is effectively "better."

Perfectionism, ironically, stunts improvements.
Or perhaps being incarcerated for 25 years shortly after releasing bitcoin
Working on the lower levels, I have to wholeheartedly agree:

> Depart ye; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the place of Tophet, because of all the machine registers
You're right. Reading this text without having heard it, it reads like a speech. The only thing that gives it the poetry sheen is the same tired slam poetry delivery that you can't escape now.
This is the one headline I’m constantly afraid of reading... do any HN biotech experts have any comments or feedback? Is this a serious cause for concern?
I recall hearing from friends that Intel paid more for higher levels of education; having a PhD was more conducive to a high salary than years of experience. Do you know if that was true?
Don't miss the "Who Wants to Be Hired" and "Freelancer" threads that get posted each month by this auto account: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring.

The Jan threads are now closed (HN threads close to new comments after 2 weeks) but there will be another one on Feb 1. No guarantees, of course, but people definitely get work that way.

Good luck! I hope you find something soon.
It's weird for me to hear all these stories about MBAs. While I'm not an MBA myself, I was in investment banking and planned to get an MBA before I left finance and did something else instead.

I regularly pay engineers more than I pay myself as a CEO (granted: I am not really interested in draining the company's coffers for my own benefit, since I have equity). It just seems obvious that, at the end of the day, so much of the business's success turns on the engineering quality of the product, of the production lines, of the efficiencies, of the final delivered product quality.

While I take time to try to understand engineering issues, I am not an engineer by training and recognize that these people are much, much better at it than I am. So it's strange to see all these MBAs -- the types of people I used to work more closely with -- simply not get it. In most industries, you simply can't paper over operational and engineering incompetence with a slick marketing plan. So you need great engineering and operational chops. For many industries, more than a slick marketing plan.
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The left spent four years focusing on the absolute worst aspects of a man, and refusing to give him credit for the several things he accomplished that were actually worthwhile.

That's a recipe for an unhealthy relationship, and it's also something you only get better at with practice.

I think they did more psychological harm to themselves over it than he ever could have.
Someone needs to watch Abby Martin's series on the U.S. empire's lies about Venezuela.

If there are food or petrol shortages in Venezuela, it's due to American economic warfare, not Maduro.
I've been approached by headhunters for contract work at Intel. They want all kinds of machine learning knowledge & experience and the pay is.... $45/hr. I kid you not. I just sort of laugh and tell them that that's about 1/3 of market rate for that kind of thing.
I know how that goes I guess. Slowly "rules" and "procedures" from the behemoth come into play. Before he knows it, his successful methods are "against the rules", and doors slowly close.

I love that dynamic /s
Seeing Like a State: The Book Club
> He constantly told people to give all of their possessions away to the poor

No, this is an imbalanced view. Listen to the podcast linked, it was directed at Judeans.

I’m not saying that individuals shouldn’t be wary of holding wealth up as the most important thing as Jesus said you cannot serve God and mammon. But that’s a different thing entirely from “how do you get wealth to begin with”. One can become wealthy in an honest way and then be quite generous if he serves God instead of mammon.

Also not laying up treasures speaks to what one should do when they have money, not the system by which they got money. Coming from Galilee, I think he’d be more pro-free market since he railed against the politically connected who got their money through corruption.

Also there’s a time and a place to take care of the poor voluntarily, but don’t trust everyone whose says they care for the poor. You should donate to them out of your own heart, and be wary of centralized programs. Socialism is the Judas Iscariot view of economics: pretend to care for the poor and then line your own pockets.
How did redhat kill centos again?
Artist Creates a Samurai Origami Sculpture from a Single Sheet of Paper
5. AMD/TSMC - desktop x86
Please no. HN was better when it didn't have all the political articles and what I would consider off-topic submissions. Too much non-tech posts / comments. Too many people trying to use HN as a marketing platform.

Like any platform, HN will fail with too much popularity. The nicheness is being lost and with it my desire to stick around.

*non-tech is a little misleading and I generally mean the content found here 5+ years ago. Tech, startup culture, science, philosophy, mathematics, other intriguing ideas. It has started to see too much news like content and sources that would never have been here in the "good ol' days"
Briggs did a video on the times this was attempted [1] if you would like a summary.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=549hAQCHF7c
I'm not sure what techbro-ism means. I don't work in tech. Do you mean that as a man, I ought not to criticize a black woman's poetry? I don't accept that.
I've always wondered how one gets into ship design...

I worked with a guy who was a technology designer for billionaire level yachts, David Person - he worked on both of Larry Ellison's yachts (and houses) - but the yachts were made in Germany..

but how does one actually become a ship designer?
Hey! Jake here from FitnessAI (YC W20)

We should chat :)

jake@fitnessai.com
I've read somewhere that he is being released in 2025 but can't be sure.
I am not a hardcore bitcoiner, but the price would fall quickly if these few controlling nodes would do something malicious. Which is against their own interest.
> I'm definitely right.

That's really not how that works, kinda like how pirates don't prevent global warming [1]

[1] https://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/hilarious-...
Yes with the access to the index i agree, but i was assuming the other party would not have access to that.

(But of course, if its over torrent and public the other party would have access to this data..)

But lets not forget, it would only reach the data over torrent if its not local, and as it would do it only once for each block, someone that would be spying over torrent would not have access to further queries after the first hit over that particular piece.

Also, as far as i know, you would only know about the pieces, if its asking it from you, so you would need to seed from as many peers as you can, to have access to all the pieces requests from the party you are interested in..

So even assuming a sophisticated party that could reverse engineer over piece offset access, (and let not forget that if the block size is big, this gets even harder), still, i don't think it would be possible to rebuild the query.
Because that's not how this works. The bridge has to have the unencrypted text, because it's the bridge that is communicating with WhatsApp/Signal/IRC/whatever. The client isn't the bridge, it's not communicating directly with WhatsApp, it's just communicating with a Matrix Bridge (over an encrypted channel) to a Synapse server you don't control.
Intel was the top H1B sponsor a few years back. Presumably they hollowed out their talent base by hiring less experienced engineers for less pay. Some of whom have returned home or are now working for a competitor closer to home.
I've seen this kind of thing from other museums too.

Can anyone recommend a way of a layperson getting them printed in decent quality, say on canvas, for hanging in the home? Is there a good online service that does this where I can upload one of these hi-res images?

The ones I've seen are mostly glossy photo paper for family portraits, rather than the use case of replicating oil paintings.
It is usually easier to con smart people. Or in the alternative, being a bit thick can provide protection against fast talk.
Is Huawei a Top-Tier VC?
Neat ML exercise, though it wasn't the right solution for the problem.

What is the right solution at consumer level though? I currently run smartmontools at regular intervals, compare the TBW with manufacturer's TBW and send a MQTT message using a script.
It's a federated model so it would be up to each instance to police it's self.
Because you are hosting your own legally owned music library on your server.
I tested the dumbest PPE of all time – the Rich Guy COVID Helmet
>As I perceive Substack model and positioning , I would guess that people would blame the author.

That depends on the extent to which users see Substack as a publisher vs a marketplace. If you think Substack's role is just infrastructural, you would blame the author. But if you think Substack has to provide value by cultivating good, high-quality newsletters, then you blame Substack.

But in either case, if you're looking for an ad-free experience, an increase in ads will frustrate you. Even if you don't think Substack is responsible for ads, you may be using it specifically to find ad-free content creators. The moment that guarantee vanishes from the Substack marketplace, the service becomes less valuable to you.

>Also, newspapers have a mix of subscription and ads for decades,

Substack's business model is predicated on its dissimilarity to existing publishing forms. By choosing their own subscriptions and receiving them in their inbox, a Substack customer is doing the complete opposite to going out and buying a particular broadsheet printed by someone else. I doubt any Substack customer who is paying for an ad-free experience would appreciate the comparison to a newspaper.
Thanks for the follow-up. I definitely think some screenshots of the tool directly on the homepage will work to convey that additional value.
Paul Beatty's essay was actually about his inability to appreciate Maya Angelou, and subsequently his inability to appreciate Black literature the way it's been framed in the white educational system.

"My journey to black literary insobriety isn't so different from how I came to appreciate free jazz after growing up in a house that contained two records, the soundtrack to "Enter the Dragon" and "Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan." It turns out that I enjoy never fully understanding what's in front of me, and I masochistically relish being offended while thinking about why I feel offended and if I should feel offended. I also live in Manhattan's East Village."
Unashamed MBA checking in here! MBAs are the classic punching bags for HN. It seems we’re willing to bend the “civility” rules a bit here in order to have a nice hearty MBA-bash. I’ve seen all sorts of awful generalizations posted here about MBAs that would get you flagkilled if made about other professions or degrees. Some of us actually have tech/coding backgrounds and aren’t the stereotypical pointy-headed-bosses, and it sucks to get lumped in with them but it’s ok—we don’t take it personally. Try to keep in mind though that we aren’t all bad!
Twitter sued for allegedly refusing to remove child porn
I don't think they do. Not in small-to-medium size tech companies. Usually, one way or another it is the engineering department running the show. I am not sure about large orgs/behemoths.
When I heard how much Apple was offering versus Intel, I just had the picture in my head of a classroom where the teacher is demonstrating some showy physics or chemistry principle based on pressure.

Maybe they reasoned that they're located in a lower cost of living market and so those big paychecks aren't necessary. Or maybe the policy people just get sticker shock because of that.

Either way, making rational decisions 24 hours a day is very different than being able to consistently make them 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I've known plenty of trustworthy coworkers who make irrational personal decisions. You can't use 'econ brain' to price employee salaries and benefits.

SV is so familiar with the cheaper, irrational solutions that they're a cliche that occasionally rises to the level of self parody.
Lindy Hopper(and Blues Dancer, Fusion Dancer (actually, a lot more too) here as well!

I've lurked for ages, never seen partner dance on HN
How would you make sure not to end up like Labrats subreddit?
It's not a hollywood interpretation at all, Satoshi created something that was an existential threat (at least long-term, in terms of the doors it opened) to fiat currencies / fractional reserve banking more broadly. It's not farfetched to see that certain government organizations would want to disrupt that, or at a minimum gain control over the founder to be able to direct things how they please.

Regardless, intelligence community subpoint aside, I think the fact that third-party criminals would want to kidnap him and force the transfer of his bitcoin mega-fortune is very plausible, even if you don't see governments as a possible threat vector.

I do agree in general that maintaining pseudonomynity helped keep the focus on the project and not the person(s). But I think it's undeniable that being publicly known as a figure with billions of dollars of value stored in their brain puts a target on one's head. And it puts a target in a way that being a normal fiat billionaire does not, because you can't just wire a billion dollars to another country without having the transfer stopped, whereas with bitcoin once they force him to transfer Bitcoin (if he caved to torture etc) it's irreversible.
"I once went to an ARP restaurant. Thank god I didn’t eat the food! It was poisoned.."
I don't agree that half the country is evil, but this is a very big leap to make.
Most instances I've seen are used to host music uploaded by the original authors, or collections of CC-licensed music, etc. I actually have yet to see anyone using funkwhale to share music publicly they didn't create themselves or have permission to share. It does have a private mode for that, so you could upload your music collection and share it with just a few friends or something.

(Edit: I tried funkwhale out as a way to privately share a small online radio station's music library with its DJs. It didn't suit our needs ultimately -- I felt the UI & search / filtering affordances were lacking for our use case -- but you could use it in a hybrid public/private way like that if you want. Libraries have some access control features.)
The metrics being discussed here are largely quantitative. OTOH, a qualitative metric is better for measuring if your product is turning to shit over time. Both types are needed to manage big complex things.
Does Substack claim to be an ad-free space?

Edit: In their FAQ they say:

> Substack is entirely focused on subscriptions, so we don't build any additional functionality to support affiliate links or advertising, but you are free to use them.
Our species is at the most interesting point (now + coming few generations) in its evolution I'd think (creation of WMDs, genetic engineering, effecting plant-scale changes, artificial intelligence/life, spacefaring, etc.) - a tipping point that makes us most "interesting" at the moment -- so if there's a civilization that's been around for millions (if not billions) of years, I'd expect that they are here now, and that they are in a form (tiny, distributed, etc.) that isn't recognizable to us unless they decided to manifest in a specific form. I'd wager that if we are not the lone civ in the galaxy, that this is probably the case.
There's always base65536

https://github.com/qntm/base65536