skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add that to my Read-Only Friday. I got tossed directly into the zsh/omz/fzf pool head-first from bash, so the borders of what's what are murky. Definitely some powerful stuff, so far.
If you want to know the future of sports, look to the past
I agree with all of that except the swearing part. Is swearing in work a big deal in US? I'm Scottish (even worse Glaswegian) so perhaps have a skewed view.
Quote: "Mafia 'owned' pop stars"

Mafia owned Elvis. If the king didn't had a chance what chance have the pop stars? Get serious, where is lust, regardless of industry, there is Mafia, organized or not.
I didn't read it as that bad - he states it should be a balance.

Balancing work and life means if you get the Yoga session at 11am, then you're also OK with getting paged at 11pm to fix server downtime.

When I've managed teams, I always held that it's quid-pro-quo. If I want the team to stay late to meet the deadline, then I'm OK with them leaving early to pick the kids up from school (though not on the same day, obviously). If they need to take the morning off to go to the dentist, that's cool as long as they're OK with getting a call on the weekend if there's a problem. It's a give-and-take. If the give-and-take gets too much, one way or another, then that's something we can talk about at a regular one-to-one and work out.
> Are "we" now going to say the state is better at innovating than the private sector? Under what conditions?

At greater scale the State is definitely better at innovating compared to the private sector. Look at the internet itself and at www (CERN is basically a state project), and if we want to go even larger look at the war industry.

There's no way a "private entity" would have had the gall to build some rockets in order to bomb out London and its environs, and without the V2 rockets we probably wouldn't have had NASA and we wouldn't have had two private persons ~70 years later (Musk and Bezos) trying to build and innovate in private and with lots and lots of money what the Nazi regime did in 1943-1945 while being bombed out to hell and back by the Allies.

And then there's the entire nuclear industry which wouldn't have happened without Nagasaki and Hiroshima, both state-run (killing) projects.
I disagree. The government isn’t a hammer to be wielded against our societal adversaries. The fact that it has been and continues to be does not make it right to do so.
> the Mafia is very much a part of the music industry,

I'm not too familiar with the pop side of the music industry. I dipped my toe into the Rap/R&B side of the business building websites for new artists. There were literal gangsters in the recording studios sitting across from me drinking and smoking and they made plans for every aspect of these young girls lives: what and when they could eat, who they could see, where they could travel. They were given an allowance. Sexual favours weren't requested or performed in front of me but it was clear these girls were under control. And by girls I mean 15,16,17.
If what you described were even possible, I’d buy a new Dishy McFuckface every month if it meant never talking to Centurylink again.
>It's a race to the bottom though. Once one person does it, everyone else has to do it too, just so they don't fall behind.

See also: growth hacking which is rampant in the tech startup industry
NASA tipped to back UK space breakthrough as Virgin project dubbed asset
Let me give you the perspective from the other side of the trench:

I never ask my employees for overtime, never control their work hours. The typical work week that organically arises out of this is about 35 hours.

I would absolutely fire anyone who would close the laptop for the weekend and left a critical operation pending on Friday. It's about work ethics and personal responsibility of the outcome of personal work.
Maybe others could consider growing "thicker skins", not applying their personal standard to everyone equally, and not getting offended at every single (and/or little) opportunity. Exposure therapy is a wonderful thing.
Either way it usually has nothing to do with the job. Should we really be accepting of managers hiring/promoting people based on how likely they are to fuck them?
The "Volatility" is purely temporary because of the market still being built. Eventually, the limited supply will make the currency super-stable and make calculations of actual worth of something super-easy. https://youtube.com/shorts/5jsY7YSJBs4
Creutzfeld Jacobs. Please think of the cows.
I think that’s where our experience with type systems could be used to improve our testing methodology and technology. Having the ability to reuse tests in client modules would effectively fix that gap (eg by generating fakes for the original modules from its tests).
It is only impossible because you cannot throw away standard libraries.

COM/UWP have proven you don't need to have it available.

They get lots of hate due to their underlying complexity, however they are the main Windows APIs since Vista, as COM took over the Longhorn vision.
Even so, Apple has gotten far more whacks for violating EU law than anyone else in this space.

Not only that, winning a case against a company in EU over antitrust often bolsters your defense in the US due to courts preferring to hear about established case law by other courts with similar laws.
We need a significant worldwide CO2 emissions tax to get rid of the POW coins and replace them with something vastly more efficient.

Bitcoin is unable to evolve due to lack of consensus. The only constant is change. If bitcoin is unable to change it will die.
I think it used to be more prominent on gmail. Now it's a little link next to the name of the sender at the very top when the email is opened. But not all list messages have it, and for some, gmail even hides the unsubscribe link below a [Message clipped] link to the full email.
Google has been known to point out the perks, such as catering, when asked by candidates for more salary during negotiation, as well.
"Functional core, imperative shell" is exactly what IO in the Haskell type system enforces.
I think it was one of The Exiled writers -- John Dolan, Matt Tiabi, or Mark Ames -- who said something to the effect of:

"All nationalism is, by definition, wounded."

You're either avenging a real or perceived loss, humiliation, or simply taking umbrage at the fact the world isn't kneeling to you as deeply as it should; "Make America Great Again".
Usually a person with good empathy can pick up on social spectral disorders after some time and factor for this in their communications capabilities. This is often not a hard barrier.

The problematic people are those that cannot self reflect AND are incapable of realizing the nature of their dilemma. The problem is present when a situation demands harsh words and the troubled person is utterly incapable of receiving that communication.

> Perhaps your words are so likely to fail because because you're taking the wrong approach?

If a person commits to an action that is potentially harmful they must be halted and corrected even at cost of some minor embarrassment. If that person then attempts that harmful action again they should be severely counseled. The harshness of the words should reflect the severity of the failure. Empathy doesn’t mean agreement or kindness which are akin to sympathy.
I'm guessing that when they all reconnect again the longest chain would win and basically all the other forks would roll back, so essentially only the transactions of the continent with the most hash power would stay.

IIRC bitcoin does not have any conflict resolution besides "most work wins".
> online ahead of us was overheard saying “What? Sushi again???” which became our inside joke around entitlement.

Yeah, I dont like Sushi either. Not sure why not liking Sushi is entitlement, but as I said, normal food tastes better.
And this is a good enough reason to expect people to work on the weekend? Kids are not some tamagotchi pet that exists as it is for a long time... kids are constantly growing and if you blink, you miss it. Some people would rather spend their weekends with their kids for purposes other than just keeping them alive.
Isn't that an indication that he sees these things as equivalent? 11am yoga is just as ridiculous as refusing to work weekends. This is precisely the sort of toxic attitude that keeps a lot of people away from startups.
The point that's missing here is that there will _always_ be a generational divide. Young will always see Old as antiquated, out-of-touch. Old will always see Young as entitled, perhaps flippant, and out-of-touch. Neither perspective is invalid.
How do you prevent spam? You should at least verify the address of the sender.

A favicon would be nice. (I'm using Chrome.)
That last point is key. Bitcoins once created exist forever.
Boy, I love their website. It's so fast and snappy when it comes to browsing. A hard to find gem nowadays since most sites are infected with trackers and third-party ad engines.
Totally agree with what you’ve said.

Sure yeah, if you’re getting the equivalent of overtime or time-and-a-half, ok, it may become worth your time and like you said you are getting compensated for the extra effort and sacrifice.

But the author of the article is talking about salaried FTE Google employees. I’m a salaried tech employee, I don’t earn extra comp for working weekends. I assume that is the norm.

Hence why the authors attitude is indeed entitled, and not the employees, as you’ve stated.
You can teach someone to paint or take photos, with text. You can't teach someone to write with paintings, or with text-less video.
They got downvotes because it's not relevant to the point of the saying.

Which this little flap just underlined, because asexuality is defined as a lack of interest in sex, once again demonstrating that everything is indeed about sex (or lack thereof).
It doesn't matter.

Genuinely, the only thing that mattered was working, safe vaccines as quickly as possible. Whatever government paid is absolute peanuts compared to the costs associated with locking down economies let alone the lives potentially saved.

Covid19 was and is a crisis, you may well have a point in terms of other initiatives in this space, but with covid all that mattered was finding a solution as quickly as possible.
What about the CO2 impact of fiat currency in practice by governments & central banks? War has costs, so does welfare, and the electricity used to spin propaganda, etc. These are externalities that nobody is looking into, unless they have tinfoil hats on.
That doesn't sounds like it would just combine the drawbacks of both approaches: You end up with slow open/save operations, and the writes to the db still aren't necessarily atomic (eg. if a user copies the file while changes are being applied)
Interesting read, but I'm not sure the analysis of the following exchange is correct.

> Q: But was it ever below 90, here or at the White House?

> CONLEY: No, it was below 94 percent. It wasn't down in the low 80s or anything.

When Conley answer's "No," that implies it was not below 90 "here" or at the White House. And "it was below 94 percent" implies it was somewhere in the range of 90 to 94. Assuming Conley told the truth, the only way you can interpret the oxygen levels as being below 90 is if you ignore the presence of the word "no."

I've noticed when speaking with physicians that they tend to give very precise answers (unless they believe the precise answer will lead to worse health outcomes for a patient). This exchange sounded pretty typical to me. Doesn't seem like Conley intended anything nefarious.
Or Surface Nets. Nice compromise of speed and quality. Marching cubes needs a lot of resolution and it's imperfections are especially ugly my eyes.

Maybe mesh resolution isn't a problem for 3D printing. But if 3D printing is the main goal why bother with a mesh? Just go straight to voxels that can be fed directly to the printer.
By Google’s hegemony, I was talking about developers only testing in Google-developed rendering engines, not their web properties.
By that same argument/logic you might as well argue cave paintings are superior over text. It traces back probably over 50000 years and is still universal today and doesn't even require understanding of a specific language - and it still forms the basis of most of society now. (art, painting, photographs, graffiti, ...)
> If they pay back the loan they can get the shares back. If they fail to pay back the loan the shares are confiscated, no matter the value the shares are now at.

You need to make a slight tweak to this statement. Currently, the smart contract enforces a "collateral ratio" of at least 150%. This means that if the underlying collateral appreciates, you can skim off and take whatever appreciation even before repaying. The only invariant that the contract enforces is that the value of the collateral has to be equal to 150% of the remaining principal.

And yes, if they fail to pay back the loan, the shares are confiscated; but the borrower isn't left with "nothing"; rather they're left with 2/3 of their original collateral in cash + any appreciation from the original collateral (minus the principal, of course). For a lot of people, this is a manageable worst-case scenario.

> That sounds enormously risky for most people. So basically:

It's enormously risky for people that are in grinding poverty. This should obviously not be used as a pay-day loan of sorts. But for people that are in the middle or upper-middle class, this has the potential to be a solid financial instrument that can be used as one of many tools we have at our disposal in financial markets.

> What’s the advantage over traditional finance? You can already get an asset backed loan at a bank for which you pay interest.

Have you tried to do this? It requires a lot of time, process, and paperwork. The interest rates vary depending on the risk rules of the bank, and banks often charge a percentage of principal just for this service, sort of like what happens when you refinance a home loan. With DeFi, I was literally able to lend and borrow at the click of a button, and that transaction was processed by a network of robots where the transaction fee was flat/fixed. There's a lot of room for improvement to bring down that transaction fee, but it's too early to throw our hands up in concede that we are forever doomed to $80 transaction fees to process these kinds of contracts.

Now, does this mean that everyone should move off of traditional finance? Absolutely not, traditional finance can still work out to be better for some people. But the key phrase there is "some people". With DeFi, you now have more options on the market, and that strikes me as a good thing.
I was unaware they had any meaningful presence. according to their PR/marketing they do stress since now a few years that they're a globally distributed workforce which happens to be HQ'ed in CH. Looking at their LinkedIn this seems to be correct.
There is room for 3rd party app stores. Epic will argue that Apple does an absolutely ghastly terrible job of curating the Apple app store, as Apple really has little incentive not to suck completely. The EU court will agree. Apple will spend a year or two saying “it can’t be done”, then issue a signing certificate to Epic.
Personally I have found Google to work well almost always. The reason I like DNS on iPhone itself is because assuming the iPhone is super optimised for handling https traffic and also an extremely fast device, not to mention a very stable software platform compared to the terrible home networking gear people own that has some outdated linux firmware that can be buggy at dns resolution. For most on HN its probably not the case but I've seen too many people use old hardware for a basic home internet setup and I'm hoping using on device DNS can greatly improve the experience. At the cost of small hit to the battery life of course but I would have to test that which would be a fun test to do.
>>If they really complained about not getting compensated for buying their own food during lockdown I think "entitled" is a fair descriptor.

I very much disagree. If you were getting food at work previously, as in - it was clearly your agreed part of compensation - then I would absolutely complain if suddenly I had to buy my own.

>> But the flipside of that is that, when there's a deadline, I'm very invested in meeting it, even if that means working a lot of hours.

Again, that's fine and if you want to do that yourself, great, everyone would love to have you as an employee. But the second your manager walks in and says "john, I expect you to work this weekend" I'd start looking for a different job. Taking personal responsibility and working harder and more hours to finish something is one thing, being told you have to because your manager demands it is unacceptable.
And in practice the website of the Court of Justice of the European Union loads YouTube videos so I'll follow what they are doing as an example and justification.
> I mean, if Jeff Besos would come to you and say: I invest into your startup $100M if I can fuck you into the ass tree times, very high percentage of HN crowd would immediately say yes.

Ew. This comment is atrocious and shows your privilege. It sounds like you haven't listened to many stories of women experiencing systemic abuse, misogyny and humiliation (and who experience most of this abuse in the music industry). It scares me that people say this stuff publicly.

Comparing Bezos 'fucking you in the ass three times to gain an advantage' with the constant threat women face from powerful men leaves me feeling disgusted
> The product is a tool to advance the employees career, not a passion, mission or economic game changer.

Of course it is. With the exception of the founders and possibly the first few, other employees rarely reap the benefits of product success, and if they do it's a promotion. I.e. advancing their career.

It's pretty naive and selfish to expect employees to sacrifice and emotionally invest as much in a product as the founders since they will not benefit nearly as much should it succeed.
Agreed yeah, hence the loose question. I’d assume this is a less formal scenario of oh, we have cafeterias, you’re welcome to eat there, but this isn’t some formal stipend. Makes sense, more curious on if that changes GP’s position on the topic with that added info. I’ve worked for places that did alternatively have a formal stipend amount.
> While most "real" people were worried about keeping their jobs or finding one, many employees were complaining about expensing their food on top of their salaries/stocks/bonuses. This entitlement continued everywhere - while Google is BY FAR the most employee centric company giving tremendous hard and soft value to its employees, they keep creating imaginary problems to complain about, instead of appreciating the hand they have been dealt.

I 100% get his position here. I definitely want to be surrounded by people that are grateful.
Do PNG files reduce in size over time?
What Covid has taught me about fighting the climate crisis
This is the problem with these constant black and white debates on hacker news. They leave no room for subtly and you end up with people saying dumb shit like "Words leave nothing to the imagination."
That's fair but my perspective as a lowly engineer was I wanted a role model to learn from and help upskill my career. My people manager managers never had the skills to provide me with any growth, the only reason I'm at where I am today is because I decided I wanted to level up and taught myself outside of work.

It's my goal as a manager to be that manager that I never had and lead by example for my reports technically in addition to the expected soft skills of a traditional people manager.
> Am I missing something fundamental? How does it make sense to borrow $100 and lock up $150 for the lifetime of the loan?

Great question, I was just as dumbfounded as you are. Answered below in another sub-thread, which I believe you're also participating in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162914
One can argue that Facebook is detrimental to society, so it's worse than an unproductive asset. It's strange seeing people take an environmental stance against Bitcoin, and then blindly defending unethical money making schemes, as long as it's a traditional company.
From an engineering standpoint, I agree that you want a true RCA and this event's RCA will be a bit different than 2011's. And this RCA (and its political consequences) will take time, doesn't need to be done right this minute, etc etc.

However, this problem is not at its root an engineering one; it is political. While the public attention is on this, we should point attention as close as possible to the most likely cause given the information we have at the time. It's bayesian truth and bayesian politics.

You'll note I didn't draw conclusions about which recommendations were ignored but having read through them all, there is no way they were all actually followed and we ended up where we are. I think some basics are fairly obvious. While some winterization perhaps was done, there is some degree of winterization that was never done; power plants in other states far north of us and colder than us are not having the same types of problems. Various professors in various cities in Texas who follow this stuff confirm this in various news outlets I haven't cited here. I also wouldn't be surprised if there was were issues with gas transport from wells through pipelines to plants that were noted in 2011 but much more severe this time due to even colder temps and unexpected by all. But still...

At the end of the day, Texas has optimized for cheap power and has not funded the work of reliable power. This is a political decision at the end of the day due to companies not paying for their externalities of poor service. I'm open to saying we shouldn't blame follower-type politicians who were scared of "raising electrical rates" and we should blame ourselves, but let's all acknowledge that some costs that weren't borne should have been borne and some oversight that should have occurred didn't occur. Is that so hard to concede at this early juncture?
Working on the weekend is a management failure.
If the Internet would be deleted tomorrow I would miss two pages:

1. Wikipedia

2. Stackoverflow and the Stackexchange network

Stackoverflow has it's problems (often similar to Wikipedia) and everyone might have been treated unfair sometimes. But despite these issues the content makes it still the second most valuable webpage on the web. I donate regularly for Wikipedia and if it would be possible I would also donate for Stackoverflow.
You can install it on MCUs and use it to debug code pretty easily and makes it really nice to use reflection[1].

This use is not necessarily limited to enthusiasts, since nowadays even Arduino ends up in commercial products.

While the language itself it's considered difficult to read by some, it's a great way to access MCUs features in a stack-based way and at a level higher than assembly.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTI3KmcZ7I
I can't stay on that website long because I start getting motion sick from the background. Animated gif backgrounds belong in the 90s.
We grew sales 10x by spending $0 on a sales army
You might have read our previous article "Don’t raise money. Don’t hire. Don’t build. Sell." There is a bunch of caveats to that advice. Hiring is not categorically bad. Once you have built a running engine with a semblance of a product-market fit, it does make sense to scale it. But how do you do that? We looked at the cases of two startups to see how they solved their issue in efficient (and cost efficient!) ways.
> hijack and delete OSM Israel data

What? How did they do that? I'm not an OpenStreetMap but I thought that sort of "privatization / removal of crowdsourced data" could not be done if not globally...
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