skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like e.g. Bjarne Stroustroup or Linus Torvalds are also paid 6-figure speaking fees depending on the venue, and they're far less-known names than Yellen or Clinton. And not because tech conferences are trying to bribe or corrupt their speakers (i hope), but because having a big name really drives attendance.

It probably sometimes happens that speaking fees are paid as a bribe, but that's illegal and also not specific to speaking fees (similar popular schemes are to hire the person as consultant, or to buy something from him for a much higher price than the real value). It also raises the same red flags, when it turns out that the speaking fees were far above market value.

Unless that was the case here (I don't know how much other speakers are paid at Citadel), it seems premature to assume nefarious behavior.
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colleges don’t exist to get you a job. They exist for a class of society, a finishing school where they all meet each other and collaborate on the obscure arts that weave the fabric of our reality.

Not in the US. Harvard was founded in 1636 as a vocational school. The Morrill Act, signed by Lincoln, established the land grant universities. "The mission of these institutions as set forth in the 1862 Act is to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science, and engineering (though "without excluding... classical studies") as a response to the industrial revolution and changing social class." Wikipedia.

Woke is tiresome.
"For technical people, self-hosting is made easy with a one-line AWS deployment script, and an install script for the Raspberry Pi Zero W"
There's also this:

https://hnrss.github.io/

Which lets you set filters so that you only see posts with a certain amount of activity, so you aren't spammed with every single HN submission in your feed.
On several forums I participate in I'm getting hints of this idea that short selling is getting a bad reputation when in fact it can serve good purposes in a functioning market. It seems like it's becoming politically incorrect to short a stock.
This 'triviality' issue has reminded me of Grothendieck's "two styles in mathematics":

http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf
Yes it is what we're discussing- so it's odd I have to make the implicit explicit.

Links to that actually happening *for non government officials* is exactly the kind of evidence I'm asking for.
I suppose that’s fair, but I think public perception might be a bit different. The public aren’t used to watching prototype jet airliners crashing in flames on runways, so some people are going to be concerned about it.
Have you ever worked a hard labor job? Do you expect never to have to? “They” might be you one day.
the girl sounds like an asshole
> "Pie tastes better than cake!"

Indeed. And is Cheesecake a pie or a cake? You bake cheesecake in pie-crust, but it has cake in the name.

The memory-management "its both" scheme is reference-counting. In some contexts, its ref-counts are considered manual (C++ shared_ptr, Rust). In other contexts, its considered automated garbage collection (Python, Lisp).

In all cases: tons of atomic add/subtract + memory-barriers to strictly order reference counts between many threads... making it actually kind of bad for multithreaded code compared to other garbage collection schemes. (Each shared_ptr<> = blah() requires an atomic add and atomic-subtract. So you actually have escalating costs the more you use the shared_ptr). I think the circular-issue is kind of overblown: it certainly happens (doubly-linked lists, graphs, trees which store a "root pointer" or even an "iterator" somewhere inside of them) but people know how to use weak_ptr<> these days and avoid most issues. (Well... except for arbitrary graphs. No way to know where to put weak_ptr<> there. But most "graph heavy" algorithms use other representations: dense matrix or sparse matrix forms... and probably should avoid slow / low-performance general purpose memory allocators anyway)

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Once you recognize the multithreaded-sync issues associated with shared_ptr<> / RefCount, you start building a thread that "centralizes" the ref-counts in a reader/writer queue to ensure that objects are deleted at the right time. Oh wait, that's called a garbage collector thread and you've suddenly moved to mark&sweep accidentally.

Once you get a garbage collector thread, its not too big of a leap to start thinking about multiple garbage-collector threads (scaling to higher garbage collection performance). I mean, yeah, I'm glossing over all sorts of high-performance multithreaded lock-free datastructures here, but lets pretend those implementation details are solved. Lol.

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As usual: its not really the garbage collection or memory-management parts that are hard. Its the multithreaded high-performance (and provably correct!) portion that's really, really hard. Even for simple ideas like ref-counts or even "manual" malloc/free.
Logistically, this is the stupidest way to bribe someone. There is a clear paper trail and everyone knows about it. The wealthy have dozens of highly discrete ways to legally transfer money to each other. Also given the number of speaking engagements every year, how likely is it that all or most of them are "bribes"?

Corporate speaking fees are Cameo for very rich people. They pay a less-than-rounding-error amount of money to have someone famous show up and interact with them. Similar to me paying Perez Hilton $50 on Cameo to record a message for my buddies. It doesn't make a lot of financial sense to pay someone famous to talk to you. but people do it anyway, because people pay for rare experiences.

Brief association with fame has a direct financial value, it always has. You don't need a conspiracy to explain that.
I was wondering this, too, recently. spacejam2.com is kind of interesting in that they sell jams and also offer to sell the domain for a million dollars.

"You are welcome to buy our jam or you can also buy our website"
Calling a Communist Sikh uprising a “farmer’s protest” is a little disingenuous.
Yes I agree. Blockchains would be pretty useful for many scenarios. Few ideas (some already in prodcution):

- supply chain transparency (with the right crypto model you can do things like that different parties have different visibility into transactions)

- food traceability

- fighting counterfeit items (on amazon!)

- a review website where reviews cannot be tampered with (bye bye google or amazon removing negative reviews)

- logging stack for IT operations that cannot be tampered with
> You're eulogising a system that doesn't deserve eulogies.

Nobody is eulogizing anything. The system isn't dead, it's alive and well. What I, personally, am doing is simply appealing to nuance.

> Workers pass out in warehouses and aren't allowed toilet breaks

Yes, this is bad. Nobody is arguing that it's all sunshines and daisies for Amazon Warehouse workers. The argument is that the reality is more complicated because they are well compensated relative to their similarly-skilled counterparts elsewhere. And it's not like they're not allowed toilet breaks as a rule, the reality is that Amazon's warehouse policies are decentralized and in one documented situation, there was malpractice. This is undeniably bad and should be fixed, and one would be a fool to argue otherwise. Notwithstanding (objectively bad) isolated incidents like this, in the aggregate, it is arguably a good thing that 1.3 million unskilled people are gainfully employed with competitive benefits, and all in service of providing convenient supply chains to the world especially in times of widespread pandemic and distress.

> And many are gig-economy contract hires who have zero chance of ever seeing a 401k or any other permanent employee benefits.

At least as it relates to the warehouse workers in the United States, this is factually untrue.
> This isn't ideal but public service isn't a vow of poverty and someone will pay them. What is important (and appears to be the case here) is that they are public and disclosed. Citadel is only 10% of her overall speaking fees over two years. She owes them nothing.

When we give money to someone, there is an expectation of receiving something in return.
I'm not talking about myths under a precise definition (as in stories to make sense of the world), rather mythology in the rougher sense of the way we think about our ancestors and people from the past (in the vein of "the good ol' days" or in contrast "the dark ages")

also, "who is trying to influence" seems to imply some sort of distinct actor (with agency) doing it based on some definite agenda.

but I don't think this is the case; as some other comments point out, it's closer to a dynamic. it gets fashionable so everybody does it never mind the fact that the next generation of people will inform their beliefs about our ancestor's lives based on this romanticized versions. so in a sense "cultural ideology" is the "agent" behind this.

finally, answering how does this affect our future is not so easy. I said it because knowing our past (our history) allows understanding our present circumstance. and based on this we are able to visualize our future. If I could explain this better I could probably also answer why is there historical revisionism
“barebones”
How is it dishonest? They have a lot to gain financially, and the penalty for doing so (although steep) is not significant enough to have a material impact on the person committing the fraud. That seems like the exact moral hazard that creates this situation.

For a poor person, the same situation is likely life-altering in either case.
ok, I didn't know it's left or right term... wtf the word seems to be like 'feel-good-fool' but seems there's more to it
I still use rss too (switched to using a self-hosted tt-rss after trying out a ton of Google Reader alternatives). I love RSS and mourn the fact that it's not more popular. The main problem with RSS becoming so niche is that lots of blogs/etc. no longer support RSS (I guess I need to look into one of those mailing list -> RSS things).
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What a wonderful story. This should be a best selling biography and movie for goodness sake. I must read more about him.
I don’t believe that complexity means something nefarious is going on. Everything has been getting more complex, just compare the cost of building a mile of subway or a power line today vs. a hundred years ago.

Heck, just any active codebase. Complexity is the default and is very very hard to fight.
Setting the bar in open-source visual analysis tools for CV/ML
I can support my point with decades of data that average retail investor only looses money. I can support it with recent barrelrolls that GME price was doing, with 2008, etc.

Our societies literally have enshrined in law that most people cannot be trusted with financial instruments.

https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/glossary/G3061.html

What do you have to support the claim that "The theory is a remarkably good approximation to reality in this case."?
When there are 100 'large firms' calling, it's the 'friends' calls the get answered first, if at all, because hey, we're all busy.

When Masayoshi got 45 minutes in Trump Tower to convince Trump to push forward the Sprint/TMobile merger, do you think that Trump just handed out that favour for free? Because it was 'Good For American Business'? Or maybe at some later date, Trump might find himself in need of investors for his Trump Tower Tokyo, or some help in getting regulators to approve it?
I think Betteridge's law of headlines still applies here even though the question is answered in the title.
"Stepping", he's not out of the chair until Q3.
> I preceded to tell him that it doesn’t matter if you have a college degree anymore to do today’s jobs and that he was basically bragging about his family’s socioeconomic status, not his son’s actual achievements. I tried to elaborate about the inequalities of higher education and why it’s an outdated metric of future success. I explained why employers are absolutely wrong for thinking his son is better than someone without a degree or a degree from a public university.

Massive eye roll. I'm sure everyone clapped after that, and they gave them a free coffee, and hung their portrait on the wall.

Also, it's "proceeded".
150 millidollar is a strange way to say 15 cents.
If you pay attention, it's actually much more subtly done than that.

The engine whooshing noises are more like what you'd hear on board, if you were on board. If they left those sounds out, the conveyed sensation of motion would lose a lot of its impact.

But consider how the characters touch helmets in order to communicate when their radios are down, or when they want to communicate privately.

Or consider Naomi's trial on board the Chetzemoka most recently. She needed to examine the ship spec plate to find out the air volume so she could calculate how many trips she could make to the unpressurized parts of the ship; she marks the number of trips on a wall, which doubles as a narrative device to demonstrate how many trips she made. Note also the way she touched her helmet to the hull in order to hear the radio broadcast while she was in the unpressurized area.

Some of my favourite parts have been the battles, the way they demonstrate the harshness of space and the way the lack of gravity confounds expectations. The way the railgun punched through multiple walls of the Donnager, into open space, and the rush to patch up the holes. Or when Prax and Amos were in the cargo bay and some tools came lose, and they flew around the bay based on the ship's manouevers - or rather, tried to stay still while the ship moved around them.
I assume scale and more R&D on how to produce nanopores more cheaply would be the main ways to drive price down. As for patents, Oxford Nanopore has a pretty big portfolio for all things nanopore, so a direct competitor based on nanopores that would drive the price down seems unlikely (though they obviously have to compete on price with other sequencing methods to some degree).
MJIT

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-rele...

(Also pypy)
I have been a linux user since about 2006. I didn't really even know anything about the MS stack when I started at LargeCorp a few years ago. I was actually pleasantly surprised how well most things just worked. Teams was a bit shakey at the start, but the office online integraiton was nice, we were able to collaborate, exchange worked out of the box nicely, the phones in the office were even tied into whatever system we had so I could have my number even if i was sitting at a different desk for a week.

I understood why when teams came out they said "okay stop using slack because we now get teams for free". They already have MS every-other-product and now they got another one at no extra cost.
So the future gaps up in Chicago. What happens to the price of the etf trading in NJ afterwards and how do you eliminate latency arbitrage?
This quote is exactly right:

"Having only the content I want to see only be shown when I want to see it with the freedom to jump between readers as I please, all with no ads? For me, no other service comes close to the flexibility, robustness, and overall ease-of-use that RSS offers."

I always wonder why they aren't as popular now. It takes more work to add site to a reader, and more effort to even use one I suppose. And maybe it's also missing the social aspect that people seem to love?

I assume they'll be popular again some day like vinyl and static web sites.
Speaking fees are bribes? Someone tell Tony Robbins! It's a job that pays well, because the demand is there.

I don't feel it's any different than writing a book.

Bernie Sanders made good money off books:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/13/politics/bernie-sanders-milli...

Bush's speeches, for reference:
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/president-lady-bush-profit-s...
Presidents do receive a pension, along with other benefits for life
It doesn’t matter,

Corporate America has taught us that even the potential appearance of bribes is a bad thing for the random employee.

We can’t accept a $30 gift card to Amazon without potentially having to talk to HR.

What you’re suggesting is that someone like Yellen is 50,000 times less interesting to consider as a possible point of corruption.
I think Trump raised 300 million for stop the steal and didn't spend a dime on it. It all went to himself personally.
The final episode has a bottle of whiskey fall from 10 stories at about 3mph. They do a really good job of portraying the weak gravity of the lunar base.
Gamestop is in Europe though. Seems more like a mistake than something deliberate.
Show HN: Games with Gran
That's not the starting wage, that's the "average" wage as reported on GlassDoor.

UK minimum wage is £8.20. Amazon warehouse basic day rate is £9.70, less deductions.
I created a quick side project - Games with Gran

https://www.gameswithgran.com/

Simple games like Tic Tac Toe & Connect 4 with built in super simple video conferencing to help keep your family in touch.

The idea was born in Covid Lockdowns to try and help my Grandparents keep in touch with my young kids using simple games.
I wrote her a letter (paper) asking her to withdraw her ethics waiver.

Who grants this waiver? Can I write to somebody who can prevent her from getting it.
There’s a concept in CS called an abstraction layer and the UI can literally change the thing underneath. I can create a UI with one button that when you press the button it triggers 50 actions to happen. It is not just about moving fonts and colors. This the exact same thing that a programming language does. A programming language abstracts away assembly language by having one programming expression execute several assembly commands. This is the job of abstraction layers and also the job of UI/UX.

Second explaining architecture is not solely an architectural job. It’s mainly the job of the person who writes documentation. The “architects” job is pretending he knows some “theory” of architecture more then the engineers actually coding the “architecture” when no such “theory” even exists.
Starting off bragging about that Starbucks story was comedy gold.

There's a decent chance someone who wanted to convince the guy that his son's degree wasn't as valuable as he thought could make the case. The author had no intention of doing that.
Pfft, they’re already making Apple products in their slave camps until they drop from exhaustion and get organ harvested. What’s a little rape added to all this? Probably the only time they get off their feet between shifts making iPhone components.
fwiw, idm, ISTR it being turned off around 2018, so I'm surprised to see it working again.
>I can't believe how many took a margin call as some nefarious conspiracy

Why? We have the intersection of 3 things:

1. A financial system with opaque and often counter-intuitive inner workings (from an outsider's perspective)

2. A history of financial firms "innovating" (sometimes outright fraud, sometimes legal but leading to new legislation to restrict the "innovation"). Also the industry is not exactly known for being guided by strong moral principles.

3. A lot of money at stake.

If this is not a perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories, I don't know what is!
> but I haven't heard of counterfeit goods.

If you peruse some of the sneakerhead forums, you'll see a lot of complaints about counterfeit dealers on Amazon. Nike used to partner with Amazon so you were assured your Nike's were coming directly from Nike. Nike killed the deal in 2019 and so now you have no idea where those Nike's and other sneaker companies products are coming from:

And the Wall Street Journal reported this week that Nike was “disappointed the deal with Amazon didn’t eliminate counterfeits and give the brand more control over gray-market goods,” which are legitimate items that Amazon sellers buy from distributors or retailers, rather than from Nike itself.

The problem for Nike is, removing itself from the Amazon platform won’t fix that problem. In fact, it’s likely to get worse. Amazon will now look to acquire more “gray market” Nike products to fill in the inventory gaps Nike’s departure will leave behind.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/14/20965434/nike-amazon-p...

Now Chinese Nike knockoffs are showing up under dubious brands like "fashion" or "Vitike":

https://sneakerhistory.com/2019/11/14/8-unbelievably-fake-sn...
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I'd prefer a site that doesn't include all those "features." This doesn't need to be a do it all site with social stickiness to be useful.
well at least Biden doesn't make any mean tweets
Same. I actually built a personal Python app that turns RSS feeds into a daily newsletter when I quit most social media. It's been fantastic, in part because it's NOT infinite. It typically gives me something between 1-10 links and... that's it.

There's nothing to "check" and it's not watered down with provocative crap that an algorithm thinks would make me stick around longer.
Speed run bandit game level 0 to 32
Thanks! and tell me about it... I've burnt out too hard during lockdown

Also, me too - the advantages of a shorter week are endless imo!
Google tried this. Google+

You setup your circles for various topics.

Neat idea. Complete failure.

I’ve set up social interactions for major companies. Basically any restriction on who can see what will kill the feature.
High-performance computers are under siege by a new backdoor called Kobalos
Ask HN: Example Data Governance Policies?
With today’s emphasis on GDPR and privacy, are there any example policies online? For example before integrating or transmitting your customer data to new fangle SAAS or vendor, the vendor must attest to the following....
It seems that the biggest underling issue is that people are at key junctures to make decisions for groups. We have the technology to directly vote, we should change out Govt to more freely allow for that.
I have to believe that tire grip is the limiting factor... the maximum seems to be about 2.3 g

The fastest braking from 60-0 is 16 meters (53 feet), according to https://fastestlaps.com/lists/top-quickest-stoppers-60mph

Using the physics calculator at https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/physics/uniformly...

This gives a deceleration of 22.5 m/sec^2, or about 2.3 g.

I'm amazed it can go above 1 g, actually.
Right, she gave a talk in return
Did it now? Because Toshiba Libretto 50CT came out in 1997 using 1200mAh 17670 cells. Today, after 23 years you cant buy 3x the capacity even in 18650 form factor, with best cells available topping out at 3500mAh.
I'm terrified of r/sino in reddit, they constantly deny everything non-positive about what may be happening in China.

They literally ban you if you mention this topic, you would assume you can report this to reddit.com to defend truth. you're wrong, they simply say that's up to the moderators.

Maybe, it was a very bad idea to let Tencent buy shares of Reddit, right? https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/
What was the gallows for outside?
> I always wonder why they aren't as popular now.

1) Google makes really quite good RSS reader (Google Reader)

2) Everybody switches to it, competition atrophies

3) Google shuts it down
Then who should they trust? Once people start losing faith in democracy then it's a very slippery slope - everyone needs reminding that democracy isn't just voting, it's your right to speak, organise and protest for change.
We all moaned and sighed and called Trump and family a bunch of grifters.

Now we get Biden and his administration of professional grifters.

It should shock us all it costs 1.9T for a country with 330 million peopled to give 150 million of those $2000. That means 1.6T in grift going down.....