skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other thing is that the state of enclosures for the finished part has gotten a lot better. When I was doing electronics projects in high school, I was always stymied by enclosures that cost $100 and had to be heavily modified. I didn't have that kind of money, and I didn't have a drill and all the hole saws necessary to make a good front panel. If I was lucky, I put it in a shoebox or an Altoids tin, but I mostly had bare perboards laying around on my workbench, longing for a real home.

Now 3D printing is a thing, and it excels at making enclosures for your projects. With a couple hours in CAD, you can have a perfect enclosure on the first try, and they work and look great. Since getting a 3D printer a few years ago, every bare circuit board project in my house has gotten an enclosure, and it's wonderful. You aren't constantly worried about static shocking it, or pulling out some critical wire. You can just use the thing you built like it's a real product.
There will be a string of such explosions. Many of them.

Those with historically unassailable, unnamed, and most sensitively, unearned, prerogatives, become understandably if unfortunately upset when this state of affairs is questioned.

While they retain a platform and resources to do so, they lash out.

The details will vary; the attempts at spin and chaff will vary; the root issues are no mystery.

We're in a moment of cultural shift.

Those who perceive themselves rightly as historical "winners" are going to fight "loss" of status, control, hegemony, pick a word.

All the more so, to the extent that they are prone to understanding the world in terms of zero-sum games.

(As others have noted, the Basecamp trashfire has nothing to do with "politics," that's one transparent attempt at spin.)
When I mentioned separating the recovery files, I meant "burn them on the media and also copy them somewhere else." I think par2 can pull data from a re-ripped iso even without, say, legible file names.
I've always felt this was a weak point for him. He goes over what he thinks makes a good investment for a normal person and why he thinks Berkshire is one of them a lot but glosses over this point any time I've heard him talk about it.

I think the idea is that he doesn't want to return cash while there are still good investments and made the B shares available for those who need liquidity.
dogs aren't wild animals though - their existence really only exists b/c we allow it.
> "But as much as the conversation about Basecamp’s moves has been framed as “politics,” it seems important to remember that the entire affair began when a third of the company — not all of whom are among the 20 who have departed so far, by the way — volunteered to help the company become more diverse and equitable. It was only when their committee dug a skeleton out of the company closet — that list of names — that Fried and Hansson moved to shut the whole thing down."

I've shared and laughed at funny names in the past, as recently as last year. I can't imagine an official or permanent list such as the one pointed out here.

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It's really fucking hard to talk about stuff like this online or big groups. I would encourage people and companies to have small, offline discussions and start with humility and empathy as the guiding principles.

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I've typed and deleted all of this three times. Anything I say feels like not enough. People are people.
The new ice age was a minority claim which never came close to scientific consensus:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-cl...
What do you think is the worst security vulnerability that email MTAs have to deal with? The MTA itself or the end user? The most secure smtpd will still deliver a nasty email.

Note also that someone has actually bothered to do an assessment and published results. Does your preferred MTA enjoy that sort of attention?
Thanks for sharing your viewpoints Nate. I appreciate that you’re willing to tell stories in public that most people would only tell over beers
There's also the problem that the land itself is often moving, relative to the GPS coordinates, via continental drift. Over decades, or after a large earthquake, it can add up to metres.
That's very interesting. Do you have any links to some independent reporting regarding this?
Sure, if you lazy.
I don't expect that to be financially viable too long into the future. Once a significant enough portion of the general public's fleet turns over you can expect to see onerous requirements applied to older vehicles to get people at the margins to buy newer stuff (e.g. inspection programs that drive up the cost of ownership under the guise of safety, some states already have these). Insurance lobby wants people in new cars. The Karens don't like seeing old junk. The upper middle class wants everyone driving EVs for the planet's sake. The state wants to be able to track everything. None of these parties care that most of the people affected will have credit scores in the 400s and be forced to do business with predatory "buy here pay here" lots.
Colombia Protests
Sounds like they cleaned house not “blew up”
I just re-read that particular bit of history... apparently Jefferson wrote that with aspiration to abolish slavery, despite being a slaveholder himself. And of course, gender equality didn't even get that much consideration
I don't see why JIT cannot use type annotations to speed up the code.

But JIT also works on untyped or incompletely typed code.
Those things all came after.

The only justification for the DE&I committee is this list. The only other evidence of white supremacy is (lol) one guy saying he doesn't think it's there in the company.

Usually there'll be at least a claim of someone using the N-word, or employees of different races being treated unfairly. We can't even get that! This list existed, and was not handled well by management, and that's enough to accept that simply claiming the company is not white supremacist is too political.

Oh but the guy did share a Breitbart link once, I think, so the whole company was basically a half step away from burning crosses on lawns. Give me a break.
Warren wouldn't characterize a long-term investment as speculating, even with no dividends and no voting rights. Speculation is when you buy something for its short-term price movements, whereas investing is buying a share of ownership in a company based on the intrinsic cash-generating ability of the company. Even with no dividends the profits don't vanish in thin air, they can get re-invested or improve price through share buy-backs
Ahh, another 32 bit overflow problem. I still think I'll be making big bucks after my retirement working on the Y2038 epoch overflow problem [1], just as COBOL programmers were reportedly in high demand for Y2K.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
> also your "global game of prisoners dilemma" metaphor (is disingenuous?) it ignores the real time reality climate cliff we are about to fall off

That's part of my point. Making an impact against climate change requires everyone to work together while sacrificing something, like the mutually best outcome for the prisoners.

However not following that path can be very economically beneficial to a country, at least short term.

Thus there's incentive to ignore climate change and not work together, like the example I gave earlier. If someone else will pump the oil that we won't and the oil is getting burned all the same, why should Norway take that hit? That's what the dilemma the prisoner has.

I mean, just look at how hard the delegations worked to get the Paris agreement signed. I mean, good thing they did but it was a fairly wimpy compared to what was and is likely needed.
This seems like a strange decision given that:

* Until 2000, stocks were priced in fractions of a dollar (8ths, 16ths, etc) before moving to cents (https://www.sec.gov/hot/decimal.htm)

* These days, prices on exchanges must be in one cent increments, and not smaller (https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/subpenny612faq.htm)

Perhaps they're using the same software as for overseas markets, or its some future-proofing gone wrong or something.
> I think that, no matter your political views, if a situation gets out of hand that bad over matters that aren't even really directly related to workplace concerns, something must have gone fundamentally wrong much earlier.

Remember, the proximate cause here was something that directly related to what happened at work.
But it's probably not going to go upstream. And probably very little of it will go into other projects. Every time one of these forks gets dropped on the internet, nobody does anything with it, because it goes out of date shortly after it's dropped. Probably a couple specific optimizations will get picked up from it and put upstream. Versus if development had started and stayed in upstream, you wouldn't have to force people to pick through a huge patchset looking for things they personally want upstreamed.
> It is hard to argue that showing the pyramid of hate doesn't imply that laughing at names leads to genocide.

I don't find it challenging to make that argument at all.

"Laughing at names leads to genocide" to me implies that laughing at names is a necessary and sufficient condition to a genocide.

The pyramid of hate, to me, implies that laughing at names is a necessary but not sufficient condition of genocide.

Therefore showing the pyramid of hate does not imply that laughing at names leads to genocide, as it lacks the sufficiency condition.

Not so hard to argue.
This is an excellent point. I always assumed the emotional aspect of sex was part of the reason the verb "withholding" was used, much in the same way it's used to describe a more generalized "withholding" of love and affection, whether it's as simple as a kind word or hug on upwards to the more carnal. But withholding something implies that thing is deserved or earned, which runs contrary to body autonomy.

Even though he used this language, I thought the author did a pretty good job explaining why sex isn't something that's rarely "withheld" as a means to an end. But our language around love (physical and emotional) and relationships needs work.
Scary, I'd have similar fears about using Firebase/Firestore in a production app.
It's weird to criticize someone who wrote several books like "it doesn't have to be crazy at work" as "ads for basecamp" and then proceeded to run basecamp (his workplace) as a not-crazy environment. What else would you expect?
There’s this, a close match:
“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

From hbr in 1963.
https://hbr.org/1963/05/managing-for-business-effectiveness
my old roomate wouldn't even lend me $200 one night, but he was more than willing to basically chauffer me around for a week when my car was in the shop. This included taking me to work 20 minutes north every day. Despite that, he wouldn't take the $50 I offered for gas. Definitely still consider him a friend.

This doesn't mean anything at all to this thread, but your comment reminded me of that. it still bugs me a tiny bit, even if I completely understand and don't blame him for it. I know some people are just extremely picky about money.
The actual test, in any case:

> In each of their tests, the researchers split their subjects into two groups: those who regularly do a lot of media multitasking and those who don't.

> In one experiment, the groups were shown sets of two red rectangles alone or surrounded by two, four or six blue rectangles. Each configuration was flashed twice, and the participants had to determine whether the two red rectangles in the second frame were in a different position than in the first frame.

> They were told to ignore the blue rectangles, and the low multitaskers had no problem doing that. But the high multitaskers were constantly distracted by the irrelevant blue images. Their performance was horrible.

> Because the high multitaskers showed they couldn't ignore things, the researchers figured they were better at storing and organizing information. Maybe they had better memories.

> The second test proved that theory wrong. After being shown sequences of alphabetical letters, the high multitaskers did a lousy job at remembering when a letter was making a repeat appearance.

> "The low multitaskers did great," Ophir said. "The high multitaskers were doing worse and worse the further they went along because they kept seeing more letters and had difficulty keeping them sorted in their brains."

So the usual soft science dreck of investigating vague, ill-defined umbrella terms such as “multitasking” by investigating a highly constructed, specific scenario that never occurs in real life that falls under it, and then extrapolating this result to all of real life, not to mention inferring causation from correlation.

Logic of the form of “Eating is bad, because we fed our test subjects objects human beings normally never eat, and we concluded it was very averse to their health to eat marbles, shards of glass, and mercury.”
Why did they buy it in the first place?
Two things having very high priority means really, neither are. I've reminded many a manager of this in the past.
This sounds unlikely; even with just one species sooner or later a random mutation would give some individuals an "edge" over others in some area, and others would get an "edge" in some other way. Different strategies will evolve, especially if we consider the hunter/prey arms race.

Less biodiversity? Sure. But one or two species? Probably not.
Insights & metrics that inform the Paste design system
Mostly from scratch. I am yet to see a Python -> Go transpiler which generates human readable/maintainable code.
Enormously. The latest Railsbench results on TruffleRuby are ~3x CRuby.
Yes, but that only stops you from claiming capital loss, you still pay taxes on gains
I think it's just a matter of terminology/framing -- large sophisticated, moneyed market participants is a "financial crisis" and smaller players getting conned/suckered/fleeced is "enabling gambling". On one hand I don't care for the moralizing and condescension but on the other hand, Berkshire has more business/market knowledge in their trashcans than I have in my head.

That said, Berkshire has always been on the side of the little guy in a sense, even if they're a bit condescending about it -- Warren Buffett has been very vocal about investing in index funds (even putting a tiny bit of his money where his mouth is and challenging fund managers to beat it) this whole time and it's been a good strategy over a very long time frame.

Now, one of the things that no one tells you about the stock market is that a LOT of players make money by front-running and middle-manning the whales (index funds, pension funds, etc), so you'd maybe think it was a trap to just make the whales bigger, but in general the strategy of just investing in broad index funds has been good regardless for individual investors.

Another thing that's been made pretty clear in the previous year is that governments will bail out businesses first in crises. One of the really crazy things that Warren mentioned was just how wide "spreads" (difference between pristine debt aka bonds and debt from struggling companies aka junk bonds) got in march of 2020 -- near/surpassing 2008. He joked that Berkshire couldn't even have floated debt in that market, which is why the Fed doing what it did was necessary. The usual arguments of businesses as "job creators" is maybe valid in some sense, but capitalism without repercussions/negative feedback is what we seem to be trying to drive hard to. Companies that are not prudent with their cash and record profits for the last 10 years of extremely loose fiscal policy should be punished. We expect individuals to save for a rainy day, why don't we expect companies to do so?
Efficiency becomes a problem when it’s the only thing bestowed with value. Optimising for efficiency by definition removes resiliency.
Disproportionately prioritising any narrow goal will produce a brittle monoculture.
Considering that:

1 - using this setup means considerably less info is exiting my systems to feed the beast

and 2 - exactly because I don't see them they're wasting their time on me

I'd say mission accomplished. Wanna guess in how many months the current state of ads/ad R&D would drop to 0 if everyone would do the same like me?

Here is a funny story, from this year. crackwatch dot com (the site, not the reddit) went down. why? because pirates that flocked there with thousands, all had this setup and they got exactly zero ad revenue from their users. Of course they went with a nice corporate BS "we could use more aggressive ads to raise revenue for servers but we respect you guys too much for something like that bla bla..." - translation: we know is not going to work so we just going to cut our losses.
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Not really? Everyone would look at the split adjusted price for the past?
I see where you are going, but honestly the generalizations are pretty sad.

You might be surprised of the acceptance of an outsider showing a willingness to roll up their sleeves and experience something real not just sip drinks on a beach resort, even if it is for a day or two. Similarly if you met a child laborer or former child soldier outside those conditions, odds are you would have no idea of their personal experience.

I have met many child refugees that have more Worldly experience than most adults, yet if I did not represent them in asylum proceedings and meet them while they were detained, they would have simply appeared as children in my eyes. I have been part of law clinics that represented torture victims from some of the regimes you have in mind. The child soldiers, much less the child laborers, are not mercing people for their cell phones.

If you are a reader, I might suggest two books: 1) The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia; and 2) Storming the Court.
I had an AWS account that charged me like $6 per month for a year after I thought I had turned everything off. I finally went on a hunt for what was causing it, and had to escalate to support to find it. This was 11/12 my fault I admit, I should have been on it after the first month.

More recently, I was looking for a cloud GPU provider, and tried a different provider that I won't name. I tried out a ~$3 per hour instance, and shut it down after maybe 20 min. A few hours later I (thankfully) started getting billing alerts that my bill would be $1500 ish at the end of the months if my usage kept up. I couldn't find anything still running, could not get anything from support (they had some kind of chat support that told me to open a ticket), first opened a ticket then after and then after ab hour shut down my account as a last ditch effort. At which point they promptly emailed me an invoice for the $16 I had incurred during the time before I cancelled. The help desk relied to my ticket like a week later, asking for more information.

Needless to say, I won't ever use that company again, but it could have been a lot worse, even more so if I was a student or someone who blew their whole experimentation budget on whatever mistake I made.
is there an IAC template somewhere that resets an aws account to 0 and deletes everything? I know this articles point is this shouldn't be possible, but as long as it is, there should be a simple measure, that could be linked in tutorials for stopping ongoing charges.
Thanks for sharing that. Full disclosure: this is also not a significant pain point for me.
This is more or less the purpose of toll roads.
'Multiplexer' Silicon Chip to Drive 6G Communications
I've gotten thousands of euro of 'free' Amazon cloud credits over the years, and would love to have used tried it out for cloud computing/GPU stuff, but the opaqueness of pricing means I won't touch it (except for S3 backups) - I just don't trust myself enough to not mess up.
Well you still have the economic right to part of the company during a sale.
Moshe Vardi gave a talk on this idea recently as it applies to the COVID-19 crisis. His word for slack is "resilience" but it's the same concept. He quotes William Galston: "Efficiency comes through optimal adaptation to an existing environment, while resilience requires the capacity to adapt to disruptive changes in the environment." You cannot maximize one without sacrificing the other.

https://learning.acm.org/techtalks/covid
I bought a Mazda CX-5 last year and in the dealership, one of the televisions was playing an endless loop of Mazda commercials, and one of the commercials was specifically about how all the important controls are on physical buttons / knobs / switches.

Mazda is clearly aware that they work better, but I'm sure customers who don't drive often or don't pay attention to the experience of driving simply assume that a larger touchscreen is better and somehow more modern.

I sometimes even turn the screen off completely, on long drives or at night; I only wish there was a dedicated button to do so.

The car is great too - it has dedicated buttons for pretty much everything else, including a dedicated, physical volume knob in the center armrest and track change buttons on the steering wheel, climate control, various driver assistance features, etc. It was all clearly designed with the driver in mind, and the touchscreen was an afterthought.
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Students are broke, so no lawsuit fuel.
BRK.B gets you a ticket too
I feel bad for everyone involved. This story made me realize that working at Basecamp is not something I would want to do in the future, primarily because DHH and Fried are so egotistic.

However, it also makes me face the reality that I would not want to work with many of the people that resigned. Resigning over a random employee refusing to say that "white supremacy exists" is absurd. I imagine myself working at some of my earlier minimum wage jobs in college and putting forth such a requirement to my managers then. It's a non-sequitur.

When I talk to my family and non-tech non-coasts non-city friends about the sort of political polarization I encounter at my high-tech Seattle job, they often think I'm messing with them, that I'm being facetious or exaggerating. Unfortunately, I'm not.

It's all so tiresome. The increasing politicization of everything, and tech being at the center of it, made me realize I have no interest anymore in climbing the corporate ladder. I realize that my lack of political fervor is a liability. I wish I cared more about these things, I really do, but I don't.
Not sure if I'm understanding you correctly but my criticism of the book is that, while it has interesting ideas, a large chunk of it reads as: "We do this thing at Basecamp. Most other companies don't do that. And because of that, Basecamp is an awesome place to work and other places suck.". Instead of, you know, giving a slightly more balanced account of certain things or acknowledging that even your own company has flaws (every company does).
Yup. Got charged over $800 for "experimenting" with a DynamoDB database and forgetting to delete it afterwards.

Sure, I called customer support and they reversed the charges. But something the nice lady on the other end said as she chuckled: "This happens all the time".

DigitalOcean is the worst with the dormant accounts. Just got dinged around $2.40 on my credit card. Going into DO I could not find what was causing that charge. There was nothing there. Wuuuttttt.