skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Four words come to my mind: “United States Healthcare System”

Even with an amazing buyout like this, I feel like you have to be in that relatively narrow space of “no spouse, no kids, good health, pretty young” to be able to walk away from health insurance.
i wonder if the "shiny new" element is the fractal structure of the wave - at least it is the major impressive element for me here. While depiction is abstract, it is really captures and references the extremely important and powerful aspect of reality - the fractal structure of turbulence which we see as natural without paying much attention to it, yet it is one of the main things which separates real world from any simplified/abstract models of it.

Also for example the one of greatest work by Aivazovsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninth_Wave#/media/File:Hov... Here the fractal structures at the tops of the waves are the major elements delivering the feeling of the raging water, the main point of the picture.
World's largest beaver dam shows up on satellite images
Poster meant a full 1/3 left because yadda yadda. Not that the entire 1/3 left yadda yadda.
Thanks for posting that, it had additional info I was unaware of that changed my view. This quote in particular:

> “At least in my experience, it has always been centered on what is happening at Basecamp,” said one employee — who, like most of those I spoke with today, requested anonymity so as to freely discuss internal deliberations. “What is being done at Basecamp? What is being said at Basecamp? And how it is affecting individuals? It has never been big political discussions, like ‘the postal service should be disbanded,’ or ‘I don’t like Amy Klobuchar.’

I had originally thought it was more in line with the Coinbase decision, which was more specifically about taking a stance with respect to the BLM movement, which is an external political discussion, vs. what to do about sensitive issues within your company. Discussing how to handle issues like the "Best Names Ever" list that are internal to your company isn't "politics", it's called running a company.
or they could storm the Capitol
No, mostly because I’m fairly conflict-averse :)

If my coworkers misgender me and aren’t amenable to correction, or otherwise overtly discriminate against me, I’m much more likely to quit and go elsewhere than to fight it.
Discussed at the time:

How To Write an Equality Method in Java - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=649258 - June 2009 (11 comments)
As a user, the only "moving of goalposts" I see with regard to "software updates" is that as a consumer if I buy the device with software installed (including whatever latent defects that software may contain) the manufacturer believes it has the right to continually install updates. I did not buy the updates (new software). That was not part of the deal. I did not sign up for a subscription. I purchased a piece of hardware. And yet, there is an expectation, for lack of a better word, that I will "update", long after purchase, after the buyer's relationship with the manufacturer ends (no warranty in effect). Of course, these updates are always to benefit the manufacturer, by retaining an ability to track buyers after purchase. Surveillance capitalism.

I have no desire for any developer to have to do more work after the date of purchase to "fix" or "support" software. What I want is all the work to be done before selling the device. Quality control. Is this really too much to ask. I am not interested in purchasing what are effectively "works-in-progress".
For start, people are allowed to work also in other places.
Be careful with this argument, it's a talking point that over-represents the amount of these jobs held by teenagers earning pocket money. Quite a lot of minimum wage jobs are held by single parents or people just trying to stay afloat.

By the way, even if it is just teenagers, I don't think that should somehow disqualify them from earning fair wages. They aren't being "provided" jobs, they work to produce value for a company, and and should be compensated fairly regardless of their financial situation.
If Apple wants to keep a tight control on the app offerings and pricing on their store, they should be able to do that. But as there's no official way to install apps outside of that, it's really an unfair position to put the users and developers in to.
Government taxation is very very ineffective tool, and rarely accomplishes that goal. I would love for you to cite and example of a taxation scheme in use today that is right now countering an actual negative externality

Governments do not have a track record for being trust worthily enough to be placed in charge of controlling externalities, it would inevitably be used to usurp power, and liberty from the people, while unjustly enriching their political allies. This happens time and time again yet people still believe government is not only the "best" way to control things, but more stockily believe it is the "only" way to do so despite 1000's of years of historical record proving otherwise
Average spend has of course gone down - you can get the same computer you would have gotten 10 years ago for a lot cheaper now.

Computers have gotten a lot faster, that is why "spend" has kept up.

And you seem to suggest that early smartphones were already as fast as an M1, because they were "systems on a chip". That is not the case. Not all SoCs are the same, more and more things have been integrated over time.

And sockets take up space, making for thicker smartphones. People don't actually want that.
"bad choice of metaphor here! "

Or a funny one.
The US have being doing just this since ww2.
Well, you're always bound to an obligation to be professional at work. If someone gets a legal name change, you would be expected to use the new name. Even if you thought that new name was funny, you'd be expected not to laugh at it and not to make fun of the person for having it. Pronouns really aren't any different.
GraphQL, OData, and JSON:API some of many compound document implementations you can use to mush multiple resources into a single request, this article was about how doing that is pointless and sometimes detrimental.
> You may have a valid point bringing it up with Apple's pull on the world, but that's not the whole picture. That's all I was trying to say.

> You tried to pigeonhole me into some class of person in order to undercut my arguments.

I guess I didn't think it was much of a stretch to assume that someone who conveys the position of "sure, people fighting for their freedoms and journalists evading censorship are valid points -- BUT, that's not the whole picture, remember how bad Windows was?" is unlikely to have had to face these issues. For the record, that wouldn't make you bad, I haven't had to face these issues either. And you're right, for all I know it may very well be the case that you're typing this from a laptop in the desert fighting for water rights or something, but still open minded enough to be just as concerned about the practical business desires of Apple's AppStore. I simply think your post repeatedly skipping the points about Tor gave off a sense of irreverence with regard to them, arguably just as insulting as assuming you haven't had to deal with them. I'm sure you can understand any frustration that might generate, considering you've now admitted you may have not read them.

That being said, I don't think an outsider reading my post would think it is really all that "emotional". Passionate perhaps. Either way, I think you mentioned that that wasn't what we were arguing about. I guess I don't know where the demarcation lines of what we're arguing about are. I'm simply arguing about the effects of the AppStore, and what I believe would be the benefits of other alternatives, to Apple, customers, and yes, the world. As you yourself said, "the whole picture." I began this thread by stating that pricing was not the real problem, so I think I certainly hinted as much. My only hope is that our conversation has perhaps introduced you to concerns about the AppStore beyond the IMO tired discussion of whether 30% is or isn't too high, which is the unfortunate form that this argument usually takes, since it is usually presented as "Apple's interests" vs. "3rd party developers' interests," but that I think is ultimately just a small part of the conversation.
When something goes bankrupt they don't necessarily send in the prohibition-like police with axes to bust up all the machines and stuff or something.
Is the business logic difficult to understand? From what you’ve described, counting the days sounds trivial, so I’d imagine it’s not the part people are stuck on. Saying that though, time in general is notoriously difficult to deal with. Maybe they are over complicating it in their own minds. It’s hard to say without knowing the question.
That's because defining `a = 2` at the top level is a global constant, which can be changed at any time. Hence, the compiler can't optimize it out. If you tell the compiler it's a `const` though, it'll indeed do the optimization you were hoping for

const a = 2
f(n) = n * a

julia> @code_llvm f(4)
; @ REPL[2]:1 within `f'
define i64 @julia_f_290(i64 signext %0) {
top:
; @ REPL[2]:2 within `f'
; ┌ @ int.jl:88 within `*'
%1 = shl i64 %0, 1
; └
ret i64 %1
}

julia> @code_native f(4)
.text
; ┌ @ REPL[2]:2 within `f'
; │┌ @ int.jl:88 within `*'
leaq (%rdi,%rdi), %rax
; │└
retq
nopw %cs:(%rax,%rax)
; └
[1] previously, though with no discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26859554
Can ransomware leak on to your always-connected NAS?
Hey, you work for me - - you leave the politics at home - - or else you get the pink slip faster than a New York minute.

Employees think they can act like unionized and destroy startups over their political sway - - that is BS.
Well you're describing a situation where there needs to be general rise in the cost of labor. Its competition against competitors that don't raise wages that is the problem, right?
> And if you did and someone pointed out how it can become problematic to have foreign names in the list and they tell you why, you don’t self-immolate.

This isn't accurate. DHH openly admitted that the list circulating was a big failure that fell on the founders and the company, an admission that was positively received by most employees. The explosive part of the scandal starts when some employees insisted that the list contributed to genocidal attitudes and DHH rather aggressively pushed back on this point, saying that this is an unproductive escalation of the discussion (and then DHH himself ironically escalated the discussion even further).

> He told me today that attempting to link the list of customer names to potential genocide represented a case of “catastrophizing” — one that made it impossible for any good-faith discussions to follow. Presumably, any employees who are found contributing to genocidal attitudes should be fired on the spot — and yet nobody involved seemed to think that contributing to or viewing the list was a fireable offense. If that’s the case, Hansson said, then the pyramid of hate had no place in the discussion. To him, it escalated employees’ emotions past the point of being productive.

Pointing out the problematic nature of the list was not the trigger for this. The trigger was a specific accusation made about the political impact of the list. The founders were clearly trying not to be a company that maintains a list of customer names to laugh at.

[1] https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basec...
That's a constructive comment based on a well rounded understanding of the various architectures and paradigms around. You sound well balanced and like you're a pleasure to work with.
#3 AKA The most toxic person at the workplace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljLlpOAGRsQ
>Work is not a politically/religiously clean room environment whether we like it or not.

This is exactly true; I really don't understand the opposite point of view (and I'm happy if anyone can enlighten me; I'm happy for good-faith discussion). It's not hard for anyone to admit that our society, the very organization of people along economic, class, race, and gender lines is 'biased' in some way, that the equality of the law does not reflect in how people are treated. Why do people think that the door to the lobby of your workplace is like a magical portal into another dimension, where these influences/biases/perceptions no longer hold any sway?

I understand that this argument can be extended - for instance, we might say that the public/private distinction is just as arbitrary, but we have good reasons to respect, say, sexual autonomy in the private realm. Do we have similarly good reasons, speaking in terms of what a well-meaning person in society might be concerned about for why 'politics' (speaking broadly as issues from 'the outside' that manifest within the company and issues of the company itself) should enjoy a similar distinction?

We spend one third of our adult lives at work. Much of that time is spent on interacting with others in some way. Should that really be closed off to 'politics'? Is man a political animal (Aristotle's words, not mine!) or not?
Unless your country goes full socialism and there is only the government as provider for all those things, competing companies can provide you with repairable products. If people actually want them (which I doubt), why shouldn't companies provide them?

With the tractors and DSLRs, again, if you don't like their licensing model, don't buy them. If nobody buys them, they will probably change their licensing model.
I think this is a side effect of American obsession with work. We really build our identities and lives around our jobs, and our corporations want and expect is to be there all the time.
I spent a lot of time reading about this... TLDR: Basecamp had a list of funny names which originated a long time ago. You can imagine that certain ethnicities have names which sound funnier than a common name, so these names go on the list. Some people think its racist, others don't. These people who don't think its racist still admit its rude/ unprofessional though, just not racist.

Anyway, there was too much political arguing going on in the company, and the founders offered people they can get paid a few months salary to leave, and some people are taking them up on this offer. "About one-third".
They don't necessarily melt down the machines and recast them as ingots in a bankruptcy.
There are separate micro op caches per core however they are typically shared among hyperthreads. I wonder if this could be another good reason for cloud vendors to move away from 1vCPU = 1 hyperthread to 1vCPU = 1 core for x86 when sharing machines (not that there weren't enough good reasons already).
Isn’t it risky for the timing to rely on a rubber belt? Does it never slip? Even a mm of slippage seems like it would make the valve timing stop matching the pistons?
Url changed from https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/30/airtag-stalking-protections/, which points to this.
This was working (and looked cool) but appears to be down now?
Looking at the contribution graphs, it doesn't look like DHH has contributed much to the Hotwire stack.
Loosing that many people is going to cause a hard time there.

I wouldn't call it SV culture. I think it's more the culture of people who are trying to use companies to promote their political ideals.

I grew up and first worked in a region where your employer was not your everything. People worked (often times with a diverse set of people) and then outside of work were part of other groups for their interests and ideologies. That separation enabled people from many walks of life to work together. I'd like to see more of this.
Yeah , if the Taiwanese government don’t want their engineers to go to China then they should be payed more. Or we could , here in the US start a program to attract talent from Taiwan , give them a green card or something.
Especially when you juxtapose superficially-and-barely offensive things like this with ongoing things like war which are truly deplorable in real human suffering they cause.
Which countries are suffering from this?
I am sure you know well the counterarguments to measuring by kWh per transaction.

- The power consumption of Bitcoin has almost nothing to do with the transaction rate limit. Increasing it would have basically no impact on the power consumption. So it doesn't make sense to look at the energy usage on a per transaction basis.

- It's debatable whether there is actually a need to increase the transaction rate limit yet, whereas it's obviously necessary for Visa to process a high transaction rate right now and so it makes sense that Visa would have optimized for that already. I think even the "small blockers", who prefer the current low rate, can agree that the rate will need to be increased eventually.
If they have a better option than their current one, why don't they take it?

Their second best option would typically pay less, meaning the workers would die off even faster.
All of the available evidence demonstrates that even experienced fund managers with access to extensive, expensive, and focused research on the companies they invest in perform no better on average than VTSAX.

Further, there’s no strategy to find the winning fund managers. The distribution of winners and losers over time seems to be exactly what you’d expect from random chance, and even fund managers who’ve been successful for years have the exact same odds of having their next year be awful as anyone else.
This is baked into Azure DevOps, I'm surprised they haven't pulled it over into GitHub.
> except that now it's 50% better for the 2/3 of remaining employees

Spicy.
Thanks Alex for documenting and writing this.

I'm sure we've all suspected this, but seeing all those graphs was a real punch in the gut.
> Should we live in a world where we are wage slaves where 100% of our earnings are spent on the bare necessities such as food and shelter?

No.

> Surely we work to be able to spend some money on the pleasures of life?

Money doesn't buy happiness. The best things in life are free. And sure, if you have money to spend on fun things, have at it. If you don't and you want to, try finding a way to do it. It really is up to you. But the idea that if you do not have disposable income to engage in consumerism you're going to be unhappy, well I'll just say that's a terrible starting point for your argument, and a mindset that breeds unhappiness quicker than tight finances.
>1 / 3 left because it would increase their wealth or give them the summer covid took away last year.

Citation needed. Did you talk to all of them? I have only seen people say the opposite.
> Outside of collector/classic car insurance policies or parked insurance, there is not $200 to $300 a year car insurance in the USA.

Absolutely beg to differ. I was on a high-deductible, low-benefit plan for a two-year old used economy car in Louisiana with no marks on my driving record for $250/month. The insurance cost was more than the monthly cost of the car. That being said, it was more than the state mandated liability insurance, but it still wasn't anywhere near the levels of insurance I now have in Washington State on a brand new Tesla Model 3. As you mentioned, it's highly dependent on where you live, but it's absolutely feasible to be paying $200-$300/month for insurance.

Edit: Apologies to parent comment. This was a reading comprehension failure.
Quite a few who left said the policy was the reason when they posted about leaving on Twitter.
> There's a long list of things that would have you packing your desk if you discussed them at any other company.

Yeah, like pulling extracts of customer names to circulate and make fun of them. That mis-use of customer data, and tinged as it is with racial and xenophobic overtones, would have me sacked for misconduct in no time flat.
Thank you for sharing that talk! Very thought provoking for sure, and wow what a brave guy for giving that talk to that crowd.

I also learned a lot about why Signal does what it does.

I highly recommend this video to everybody, no matter your background or current work role.
Certificate Transparency Policies Diverge After Apple's Update
Is ARM so much better? I can migrate my AWS hosts.
I’d like to highlight this excellent post about x86 micro-ops “fusion” from three years ago, as it’s the reason I have any idea at all what micro-ops are:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16304415
As a dev in the midwest, there are a lot of midwest tech companies where I wouldn't want to mention that I'm gay, or bring up anything about my personal life with my wife. (And Basecamp is also a midwest tech company.)

If a company I worked at went full no-politics at work after two minor incidents about the founders use of ablest language, and the acceptability of making lists of "funny" names, then I think I'd probably not know where the line is for them.
MBAs don't like wasting money. If bad IT costs them money or sales they care. If they can reduce the costs without losing that money they will. However they don't know how to solve this optimization problem and are learning the hard way when they get it wrong.
> getting too uppity

Uppity has a racist history.
Anyone going on a political rant is "a toxic person" in the workplace. It's always interesting to see the sheer prevalence of downvotes without reasoned response on hacker news. Completely disappointing.
The Fed is terrified of inflation, that's why it's only using tools that cannot cause sufficient inflation.
Sure, that's a much better word to use. It's about what someone is arguing, rather than who or why.
They can make use of COBRA and use some of that money to pay for that.
How were these animations made? SolidWorks?
Getting Inked Up? Thank Thomas Edison
The lawsuit might have suggested that but the court did not find any such thing.
> A complete and utter waste of time. You spend more time messing about with rebase than solving problems.

You won't think that when customers report a regression that was introduced some time in the last year.
https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-workers-older-88-percen...

88 percent of people making the federal minimum wage are older than 20. A third are older than 40. Median age is 31. More than half work full time.
My friends that worked hard while at school or studying have been relatively successful. They just seem to be more focused to earn money.

The counter-examples I can think of involved drugs or health issues.
This is not UBI at all. If someone starts working now, they lose those unemployment benefits they're getting. So the question becomes: should I work my ass off at this shitty job to make $X, or should I stay unemployed and make $X?

If it were real UBI, these people could work those shitty jobs while still receiving the extra income every month. It's still a shitty job, but you also get the added benefit of not having to live in poverty while you do it.

EDIT: Also, this situation is further proof of how useful UBI would be to the economy. It would be the government helping businesses by subsidizing wages, making even crappy unsustainable jobs livable and attractive to workers.
DeepState – common interface to symbolic execution and fuzzing engines
Coming from my own experience interviewing at Google. This problem is seems relatively simple to what I have been asked in coding interviews.

I have faced this in a coding interview(not at google). The coding question was so simple that I spent talking about different scenarios and edge cases that I was slower than expected. The interviewer said that, I have completed the most challenging part and its only a basic if statement. THAT'S IT! And I was like "This can't just be this?. There is a trick or I been getting ask a trick question here". As a candidate who has personally faced this an interview, preparing for FAANG interview sets the coding questions bar so high that even simple questions need to be analyzed over and over because as per a candidate this can't be that easy, right?!