skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But if a company the size of Google can get by without software architects, why does your company need to be organized in such a way that you require that role?

I have a few notes here:

0. Google maybe is exception. But i never worked in google, so i don't know how good it is really.

1. Not all companies can pay same wages and get same talent as Google

2. Every time there is talks about GCP/AWS/Azure a lot of people say that all of those services seems to designed by completely different people and don't mesh together nicely.

3. I worked in one of the FAANGS , and while it's widely known for it's excellent engineering it was a massive dumpster fire. There were excellent people that did amazing things on lower infra level, but in the moment that you move a bit higher up it was disorganized mess of multiple teams not knowing how to collaborate properly what resulted in outages, sometimes rather big, which were not noticed from outside mostly due to size of production environments that allowed to shift users to still functioning parts of the system. Those outages were mostly result of not having somebody who will look at system end to end and will identify potential cascading failures or weak points in general.

>BOTH Musk and Ford knew how to weld, and considered that knowledge essential to being able to do their jobs. Sure, they didn't do a lot of welding day to day. But how could they make correct decisions about how to build new machines if they didn't know how those machines are put together?

I didn't say that I don't know how to code. I said that I won't pass coding interview. Companies that I work in have coders much better than me, but I am much better than them in understanding how system supposed to work end to end and how to prevent it from collapsing under various unpleasant scenarios.
You don't see the obvious dishonesty in how the author decided to interpret tptaceks claim about Telegram storing plaintexts of all messages?

The author claims that this is "defamation" because Telegram uses FDE or a similar solution.

With the deliberate misunderstandings apparent in this article I don't see why it would be inappropriate to call the author out for being a Telegram shill.

>Here Moxie is pretending the discussion was about having plaintext access, which obviously Telegram has for non-secret chats, instead of plaintext storage, which is what Ptacek was talking about

The whole idea of "plaintext storage" is something that the author came up with themselves, tptacek claimed that Telegram "stores the PLAINTEXT of EVERY MESSAGE". These mean entirely different things. Plaintexts are still stored even if they are encrypted on disk with keys controlled by Telegram.
Astronaut Alan Shepard's Golf Shot That Was Heard ‘Round the World
One time many years ago, I accidentally selected one day $50 shipping on a small item. I frantically tried to contact customer service to change the shipping. Without any hesitation, they refunded my money and not only that, they let me keep the super fast shipping on the item. Blew my mind.
What’s the tax compliant way?
> Someone making 50K who scams an extra 2K out of their taxes has gotten themselves a pretty big boost to their disposable income.

another way to think of this is in the difference of relationship to money between a billionaire and a in comparison poor person. give 2K to the avg Joe/Jane they'll circulate it back into the market by purchasing while the billionaire sees themself as a "steward of their fortune" and who would keep in their accounts. (also the reason why trickle-down Reaganomics doesn't work).

Also to a billionaire there is a high chance justifying tax-avoidance (and evasion) is easier since they anyway do it using multinational corporations. And obvs. it's more work to go after big cases where the fight is about proofing overstepping the line between avoidance/evasion while with poor people the case is usually about just evasion.

I'll continue to recommend this here whenever the topic comes up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Islands:_Tax_Havens_a...
The business case is that people will buy their tokens/invest on their platform which will increase in value which will cause more people to buy in etc. If you look closely enough just about every successful blockchain project is a ponzi scheme on some level.
can you elaborate on how the remastering affects the quality? what do you see in the remastered version that you didn't see in the older version or the original?
Great another place that snowflake ass white supremacists right wing assholes can organize violent insurrection because they can't handle being told "no" by women and minorities.

I'm sure this is not the creators intent but I don't see this as solving a problem. I see it as another way for techno-illiterates to share hate.
I legitimately thought it was a joke, and that clicking the login button would take me to a joke page.

But nope, they actually want you to make an account to sign the petition...which makes perfect sense, but kind of awkward given the context.
I really like the idea of wave energy, on-coast or off. While I have not looked too much into it (downsides, maintenance, scalability, ROI, etc.) it does feel intuitive.

A day-dream, for example: could platforms or vessels mesh together with such technology[0] to be self-sufficient? Each vessel could link together with it's neighbor and, with the rising and falling of natural waves, they could all generate electricity for the entire network or individual nodes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPNrwII5OhE
The Predator/Aliens with human slaves
Apple has been iterating on their cores for around seven years, AMD's Zen is around four years old, and Intel redesigns their cores occasionally. The ARMv8 ISA is less crufty than x86-64 though.
One of my preferred parts. Even better that each story arch worked on itself, in the same world, and nicely connected together. And that worked in the books and the show.
I don't see anything questionable about this. Product A can be a valid replacement for Product B for only a subset of users.

A bike is a perfectly valid replacement for a car for the set of people who only drive a couple of miles to commute to work. It's obviously not a replacement for all users, but that doesn't undermine the valid claim that it is for some.
Google shutting down their RSS reader didn't really have an impact.

They shut it down back in March of 2013. If you look at the trends graph[1] for RSS it was dying out for years.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
"Yeah, but see the hedge fund illuminati hacked into archive.org to make it seem like those posts were there last year."
Simple screenshots of games in action would do it for me.
Yep. Blockchain is a joke for all of the ridiculous use cases outside of digital currency.
I read the comment. He’s telling me that people are passionate about things that they’re obviously not passionate about. It feels like gaslighting. When I read job descriptions that tell me I’m supposed to care about some guy’s boring company that does nothing interesting I always thought we were just playing a game where we both pretend I care so everything runs smoother. Am I wrong? I genuinely can’t believe people like this think their employees care. He is either a troll or he’s delusional.

Payroll software is just a placeholder for the most boring thing I can imagine.
For those who don't know what DTCC even means (like me), read this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-29/what-s-th...

(caveat: source bias)
It's made of plastic, glass, and the special protein pores which split the strand and read the DNA. Reagents and sample are applied to it to make the reaction happen.

The flowcell gets contaminated with your sample after one run so they are 'one time use'. The nanonpore protein eventually stops working also.

They are expensive because doing molecular biology is expensive. It requires expensive machines and expensive reagents at atomic scales to create. Thus money is required.
I'll be doing that as well for our internal machine learning platform. I'll use Stripe, but it doesn't accept Algeria, so we'll use our accounts in France.

You can use Flask Login[0] for the login part and I hope you live in an area that payments services support.

- [0]: https://flask-login.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Agreed. But would add: as a developer my least favourite thing has been Product Managers who keep the customers exclusively to themselves. Requirements inevitably have a technical component to them, and getting the end users and developers together in a room and talking to each other directly is invaluable. It's so important that it's actually a key requirement to taking a job for me.
I'm not an Egyptologists, but it's my understanding that the graves of many of the laborers have been found. You could probably tell slave labor from other labor by their bones due to poor nutrition and harsh treatment. There are probably other ways.
whoa this is so sick, nice job guys!
My point is why would people trade range for faster, more frequent charging. Most people don't need extra range. The time you need extra range or fast charging is on road trips. Even then, you generally want to stop for food, restrooms, etc and super charger stations can give you a pretty good charge in a fair amount of time.
Are you asking for links to places where other celebrities get paid six figures for an appearance? There are other posts in this thread with links to venues where you can find any number of celebrities with posted prices in the six figures.

Edit: here's a link, since it only takes 10 seconds to find: https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/discover-your-speaker.ph...

Notable: Ava DuVernay (film director) starts at $200k. Tim Ferriss says $100k-$200k. Viola Davis: $200k and up. I'm certain that none of these people are obligated to these prices; if Citadel is buying, anyone would be silly to not raise the price. Conversely, all are certainly able to make speeches at discounted rates or gratis to schools, nonprofits, etc.

Also notable (because it refutes your priors) is a lack of public officials, or those who have held public office.

Edit (again): Here are private economists who make bank for speeches: https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/searchresults/economist#...

Sort by price and you'll see that people do hire economists to speak for six figures, even if they have no nexus to government. Yellen is higher-profile than most of these, and again anyone would be foolhardy to not double their rate for Citadel.
I think there’s some unspoken stress about building and maintaining a taxonomy of your relationships. Whether someone is an acquaintance or a friend or a good friend can be fairly dynamic. Being constantly confronted with rearranging people into different “circles” feels a bit like explicitly deciding if people can sit at the cool kids table today or not.
There is nothing wrong with abstract thinking. It is indeed useful. It is, in fact, one of the things that separate the higher animal species like humans from the rest.
Australian Greens political party request a publicly-owned search engine
Doesn't really matter. She probably told them many things she's said in public. My org has paid just as much for invited speakers to say things I could hear them say on Youtube. $700k is to get her person inside of the room to give an exclusive talk. There are myriad reasons for that, one of which may be you intend to ask her return favors. But that's certainly not the only reason as people here seem to be implying. Other reasons include:

- Because you can: $700k is not a lot of money to these orgs

- Because you have to: if you don't spend the money you lose it in the budget

- Because you want to brag: social media points for you and all your employees (look who we got to meet and you didn't!)

- Because you want to attract new talent: your org is more attractive if you offer these events to your employees

etc.

I think any of these are just as plausible as corruption.
If you want even more of a reason to not read it, the blog is run by Vector Marketing, aka the MLM Company behind Cutco Knives, which probably explains some of the suspect UI design decisions and general anti-education sentiment of the post.
It amazes me how an open source project can outperform a 40 year old multi-billion dollar app. I think this points to major corruption and incompetence as a result of market monopolization.
You just state it’s destructive for ideological reasons because of religious law, that’s not a good argument and it ignores contrary evidence. Why is taking a percentage of someone’s company better? If anything that’s more exploitive.

On women’s rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-Nisa,_34

You’re the one cherry picking here and rationalizing anything that doesn’t fit into a narrative you’ve already decided is true. There won’t be any ability for us to agree, because you can’t update based on new evidence.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CqyJzDZWvGhhFJ7dY/belief-in-...

You can pretend Charlie Hebdo and any other negative action that’s clearly driven by ideologically motivated Islam is not “true Islam”, but then you’re just creating some special reference class that ignores the bad stuff.

I’m not trying to get into a fight. It’s rare for religious people to break free from their religion, but it’s possible. I succeeded when I was young and seeing counter arguments is part of it.
They're also quite different. The difference looks like two different groups of people playing the same published DND adventure: the worldbuilding is the same, the main events are the same, but the characters and their choices are very different, in my opinion (and it makes both the show and the books equally interesting).
i actually hate subscriptions like those, both as a customer and as a seller.

I prefer to buy/offer a high value course with a price that matches it. I bought several of such corses myself in the past years.

I do offer payment plans for people that can't pay a big lump of money at once, but that's not a subscription they can stop. They still have to pay all installments.
Not in defence of Amazon,but how do you know how other retailers,the ones you use, treat their warehouse staff?
It's not too much to ask. But Citadel is not involved in any significant way with the Gamestop fiasco. Any claims to the contrary are crackpot conspiracy theories without any evidence.

Citadel's a market maker that processes a lot of transactions in pretty much every stock in the universe. It'd be like me saying that someone with ties to power company shouldn't investigate the mafia, because the mafia regularly used electricity.
Court convicts French state for failure to address climate crisis
The first three episodes make you think it's a neo-noir detective story with heaps of unnecessary extra stuff.

You have to get through those first few episodes before it becomes more clear what the show is about. And even then, you might be misled into thinking it's about a merry band of crew floating around space on a ship; because that's not what it's about. The clue is in the name; it's about humans expanding beyond Earth, and the conflict that arises from that.
Not a surprise. Blockchain is an interesting concept but a terrible solution for most problems that people pitch it for.

IBM feeds off executives that hear buzzwords but don’t understand the fundamentals to make sound decisions. They tried it with “AI” and Watson, “blockchain” and this stuff... What’s next?
Consider the nearest civilization with clear evidence of slavery: greeks, romans etc. One key difference is that their armies outnumbered their slave count. Egyptians on the other hand did not have any significant army. They were neither threatened by neighbors, nor did they need to control slaves.
Amazon has a special place in my heart. I'm from Poland and currently live here (though I've spent a few years in USA and NL). Thanks to Amazon I can order virtually any book and have it delivered in a few days. I've been doing this since 2008. I've been able to read niche academic books and brand new non-fiction releases, classic textbooks and worn-out copies of the classics thanks to Amazon.

Thanks for all that, Jeff.
Thank you for your work.

You are making me think it is truly possible to upgrade to Big Sur today and buy an M1 soon.
Agreed. I wonder if this loss of compassion is caused by our inability to scale it. We tend to be more communal when the community is small. For e.g. People often reminisce about a time when 'everyone knew everyone' whether its in a professional context at work, or in an online forum, etc, It falls neatly in line with this often proposed notion that people from smaller towns / remote areas are more friendly, etc.

If we accept the above, certainly there is a potential path forward. But in the current climate capitalism (and society) has primed us to always look for ways to scale, always look for ways to engage and interact with as large of an audience as possible. Maybe that has to change?
A Statistician Teaches Deep Learning
Is it though? Do these companies regularly pay out thousands because they're fools? Most business decisions are made with some return in mind; they must feel in the grand scheme it's worth it-- that they'll make more back. I think it's more foolish to dismiss the very real possibility of bias if she holds this meeting, solely on the basis of 'she makes so much money why would she even care about 700k?'
The page loads only if you do not have a college degree.
More than anything I'm sad to see that this is mind blowing nowadays... I feel like at one point, this kind of customer service was the norm
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I don't know what part of the world you are from but my local library has a 3D printer you can use for free. All you need is a library card in good standing and to take a 1 hour orientation. After that you just need to reserve the printer for the day (no overnight printing).
Gme was literally shorted over 100% last week.
I'm an avid trackball user, and this is one of the key attractions. I can flick the cursor from one side of my dual 1440p monitor set to the other, very quickly. It also works quite well with triple monitor setups.
Oldest I have, is a site I let a friend from IRC setup on my box.

http://l8r.net/amiga/

Lots of the images are from 1996:

amiga/images:

total 1112

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12187 Nov 9 1996 amigactit.jpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2252 Nov 9 1996 Amiga.gif

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9282 Nov 9 1996 BlueBack.gif

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45784 Nov 9 1996 IBrowseNowAnim.gif

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18014 Nov 9 1996 JoshSuit1L.jpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4880 Nov 9 1996 JoshSuit1LNail.jpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93300 Nov 9 1996 logo.jpg
Aren't these very expensive? Why do it this way if the lithium batteries provide enough range, with the exception of road trips? Sounds like it would be twice the expense since you'd need 2 capacitors (not to mention the graphene used).
> The guy paid way more in penalties than he saved on taxes

Is this a fact?
But how does this relate to the article?
Profiling can be about time.. but which time?
I think the problem isn't necessarily how people immediately believed the conspiracies at face value (although that's still kind of bad), it's that

1. almost a week later, there are still people in certain communities (eg. wsb) that still believe in the conspiracy, and haven't bothered to inform themselves of at least the counter-arguments (eg. DTCC deposit requirements).

2. prominent politicians decide to jump in themselves without doing due diligence on their part, for some cheap political points.
I personally find these articles amusing because I'm still wondering whether I should start using RSS. I've always kept in the back of my mind over the years that I really should check out which RSS reader is the best so I have it ready when I need one.
> > Amazon doesn't have minimum-wage workers, at least in the United States [1]. The starting wage at Amazon, $15 USD per hour, is more than twice the U.S. minimum wage.

> That's not the starting wage, that's the "average" wage as reported on GlassDoor.

No: see the link in my previous post. In the United States, the lowest starting wage for Amazon workers (including warehouse workers) is $15 USD per hour.
This why I personally gave up RSS. I used to enjoy reading things in my RSS reader where I could set things up to be clear to me.

Once they started providing only links back to the WWW browser where everything was hard to read I gave up and now I just suffer reading in the WWW browser and frankly don't read nearly half as much online content as a result.
Makes sense. Yeah I guess right now it's hard to understand what the games are with just these illustrations.
Except for a notable character death in Season 5.
How to Put Faith in UX Design
I'm wondering about the impacts of cheap/accessible DNA sequencing in the future. Not just impacts to existing businesses, but what does it mean from a privacy perspective? If someone could take a strand of your hair and then get your genome sequence from it - what would be the implications?
> It's not a monolith like the capitol insurrection was

I don’t think what happened at the Capitol was a monolith either. There were 10,000s of people in DC that day and only 100s (?) entered the Capitol illegally.

So, it’s entirely similar to what happened over the summer with BLM where there were 10,000s of peaceful protestors and 100s of violent rioters.
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The performance difference between Clojure and the pure Java implementations was much smaller than I'd thought. Quite amazing for a dynamically typed language to get so close to Java in performance, to be honest.

That's not surprising given that they rewrote all the middleware in Java and the Clojure part was just a very thin wrapper around vertx. And that's fine, it's what makes Clojure usable in production, but the vast majority of Clojure users bash Java all the time, take this libraries for granted and ignore the fact that a big range of software for the JVM is better written in Java than in Clojure.
There is always the chance they considered automatically showing the current year, but counsel advised them against automatically applying a copyright date later than the last modification of the work.
> And we refused to risk any individual life in order to potentially save hundreds of thousands or more.

Are you volunteering? Will you sign all the paperwork?

If you die in the trial or get a severe reaction, would your family be happy with the paperwork, or they will claim that they fooled you?

If you die and the vaccine candidate fails, will the TV claim that they should have used a good old method like a modified adenovirus instead of playing god and creating a frankenvirus in the lab?
The problem domain is only a means to an end. It could be anything, but payroll in this case might be where somebody sees an opportunity to take advantage of just for access to what they really want. I don’t understand why people (and the original article) act like it’s wrong to not care about the problems being solved or to hate the process. It’s just a pet peeve of mine.