skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is apples and oranges in that they are both fruits with many common traits while also being different. In the end, what difference does it make to the creator what your reasons are? You’re depriving the creator of money.

My hypothetical Apple or Google App Store pirates could have a surveillance issue claim as well. Would that really change how angry many people would be with the behavior and the difference in response vs ad blocking?
I have no dog in the fight either way, but I think it's weird that their demo product shots are on a Mac when part of their pitch is

> "50+ tabs without your computer coming to a crawl"

On Macs, people can just switch to Safari for free and solve that problem. Yes, Chrome is a memory hog. Stop using Chrome, don't send all your browsing data to a third party.

Perhaps Windows would be a better choice for Mighty demo shots, since there may not have a better option than Chrome for Windows.
I'm not aware of a single country with higher income disparity than Finland whose "worst off" are living a better life. Can you cite some examples?
Technically you need to plant trees faster than they rot, not faster than they die.

All the trees that were cut down to built my house are not rotting - that carbon is captured and out of the system until/unless my house is burned down or left to rot.

It's funny to think - right now "green building" tries to minimize the amount of wood in a structure, but are we approaching a future where green building means locking up as much wood product in a structure as possible, to get it out of the carbon cycle?
> (new Sanitizer()).sanitizeToString(`<sc<script>ript>alert('XSS')</sc</script>ript>`)
"ript&gt;alert('XSS')ript&gt;"
Are you in the US? I don’t really know any highly paid contractors in the us .. maybe I’m in a bubble but I would guess that is <5% of the market
I don't like how Paul's writing always gets hundreds of likes just because it's by him.

Not everything he writes is amazing. I wish there wasn't such a cult around him.
So it is. My EU mind just links skyscrapers to New York for some reason. Doesn't change anything about the age though.
TN here with another anecdote that says it isn’t.

Spoke to someone just recently who said they’ll stay on unemployment as long as they are allowed because they haven’t had to work in over a year and get to spend their time playing their favorite video games.

Which, if you make as much unemployed as you do employed, it makes no sense to return to work. He’s not a bad person. He’s just optimizing.
> People are not claiming that it is a bad idea because it is infeasible or not valuable, but because it is dangerous and also because it sounds technically ridiculous.

An idea isn't bad if it's valuable and built on ridiculous / dumb / silly / simple / old technology. A product should be measured on output, not input... in fact I'd go as far as to say that we (hackers) should celebrate ideas that deliver incredible value with such a simple implementation.
If the U.S. were to double the minimum wage from $7 to $15, it would make sense to invest in robotics firms, or perhaps the largest fast food chains like McDonald's.

Why? Because lower-price restaurants would have a choice: dramatically raise their food prices (which would almost certainly drive inflation across the board as everyone in all industries would hopefully see raises to deal with increased costs of living) or try to minimize the hit. If the latter, this would set off an immediate price war, even if unintentional, because McDonald's especially would strive to keep their prices from changing as little as possible.

Then, the smaller chains that couldn't afford to reduce their workforce and/or invest in efficiency or robotics wouldn't survive. You would see less competitive chains like Popeye's closing up on Interstate exits, and their marketshare would be handed over to the larger chains.

The unintended consequences of a massive shift like that would be enormous, and it would absolutely result in a stronger national chains and probably destroy or badly harm local eateries -- especially the ones that were trying to be price competitive. Get ready to see your local small businesses under severe pressure, while profitable operations like McDonald's and Chik-Fil-A will mop up the smaller places, and this is across the board at any low-skill, low-wage places, not just restaurants.
An ad is pretty much useless for that, other than "negative" words (to me) like "scrum", "agile", etc. I'd be looking at the tech stack for things I'm proficient in, or things I'd be interested in learning. Also, WFH is now a critical for me, so it has to be 100% full-time remote work.
sure, but meanwhile Brexit changed that dynamic drastically imo. I don't think it'll be beneficial for the Scottish economy (being so dependent on UK) to have the same hard border that is now in the Irish sea. Also ideology trumps common sense as we have seen with Brexit.
Opera Mini did it first.
The persecution complex...

What difference? Were they calling those bans a stunt before? No. You don't need to be hypothetical. This policy wasn't a secret.

The media didn't have to dig this deep when drinking bleach and injecting light were the topics du jour.
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> The biggest gain here is security, you won't ever run code natively. The caveat is you also have to trust the host.

That assumes any malware cannot bust out out of mightyapp's sandbox to the host's host.
> I also miss the luxury of buying VAT-free tax-deducible gadgets.

Like what kind of gadgets ?
1 - Don’t engage anyone who isn’t able to do the math on total comp. (Benefits, downtime, vacation, etc) If someone is optimizing on today’s paycheck you won’t win.

2 - Be generous with equity.

3 - Quantify career growth and progression.

4 - Sort for people who agree with your mission and want a long term impact.
This domain is frustrating to talk about as a technical person because success isn't based on technical soundness, but rather popularity.

So any argument I could realistically make against $sillyAppThatHasVCBacking will not matter if enough Paul Grahams back it and $sillyApp makes itself a moat.

WeWork would be the most prominent example of this; even after their 2019/2020 crash, they'll probably come out of the pandemic okay compared to its competitors simply because it just got big enough.
That measurement came from a radar cluster for which an update was being tested the same day. The radar data that was quickly grabbed from the strike group (tinfoil explanation: coverup), was actually retrieved for diagnostics and post-mortem for the test which had apparently failed.
We have a game streaming service from Google, too (Stadia)... which is apparently struggling.
Same issue for me. Just emailed you. Thx
Reading that twitter thread, and HN discussion here, I am again reminded how the whole startup scene looked before dotcom crash: insane valuations, lots of scammers, and what little utility there is, it's mostly for illegal means. (If you're saying that there's no real utility in Bitcoin, you really should google Hydra).

But don't you wish you bought Amazon stock right after IPO?
>But why?

Two reasons. The most important reason is if you keep the money for 30/60/90 days, it's like a interest-free loan for the company. The stronger your position is, the longer you can hold on to the money (see walmart). It's how virtually everyone does it.

Second reason, "A bank transfer is fast and trivial to do" - I'm guessing you've never done work for or been around a large enterprise or you would not be saying that. Usually it's something like "The spending committee has to approve, then Richard in accounts receivable is the only one who can sign off on the check and he's on vacation til June/"
The French overthrew and executed much of their upper class, so their middle class became the elite there, and that's why the term is used in that way. Compared to the UK where there is still an upper class.
It's difficult problem, but don't forget the day rate might sound high but it has got quite a few hidden costs bundled up in it: pension, holidays, down time, expenses and the various taxes.

To answer your question: different things appeal to different people. Other than the obvious of paying someone a boat load of money you could try promoting some of your companies 'soft perks', not the gimmicks like ping pongs tables and free drinks but things like:
- real flexible working
- extra vacation days
- accommodating regarding personal vs work life

As others have said:
- selling the work they'll be doing
- the technologies you use
- how many users your products has
- what your products applications are
Employers are probably waiting for the pandemic and unemployment insurance to end so they don’t have to raise wages to attract workers to these now-hazardous working conditions, as it’s hard to walk back wage raises. Every employer benefits from a society where everyone pays their employees more, but also if they are the only employer to pay their own employees as little as they can get away with. Yes, the minimum wage does need to be hiked (arguably not to $15/hour), as it’s in the best interest of both employees and workers.
Hmmmm okay! I see what you're saying now.
> Not only that but a great amount of people here live in a literal tech bubble and we believe that everyone has a reasonably fast laptop or can setup a large workstation.

By that same token the average persons browsing habits are also not the same. Optimising for Chrome power users who have eleventy billion tabs open and run hefty web apps isn’t the normal usecase. My families browsing is mostly taken care of on a 2012 MBP and a couple of ancient iPads. Mighty would be functionally useless for us.

Heck my entire day is spent in Chrome working in Drive and writing code in our own development environment in our web app. I am a browser power user in that sense on a three year old gaming laptop and I don’t understand the Mighty usecase. It’s a niche within a niche at the moment although I understand the appeal of the business model.
Fun stuff, and a very nice post!

This is one of those topics where my mind starts racing. How many optimal, distinct networks per order are there (ie ignoring trivial exchanges in the sequence of comparators)? What if you have additional constraints, like maybe limited temporary storage (ie not all inputs can be loaded at once)?

This isn't my field, but it's fun just trying to think about it.
There is no benefit to a gene in benefitting the species per se. A trait that increases the size of the gene pool while decreasing its own absolute prevalence will die out.

Group selection is a possible mechanism in social animals, but it requires the group to be strongly interrelated relative to the rest of the species, and it relies on the group being able to expand at the expense of the rest of the species.

Infanticide makes perfect sense; offspring are only related 50% to the parent, so if resources are less than 2x as effective in the bodies of offspring compared to once they have been digested by the parent, of course they should be consumed. The genes of the offspring won't agree, of course; for them the calculation is reversed.
Napoleon reinstated it in 1802 and it was abolished in 1848. There were only 46 years in between. The state bought the slaves and then freed them.

That is not a question of change within centuries, that is various people at that time making active decision to keep or abolish slavery.
companies investing in training is real.

Be it pushing for certification, mooc, internal training credit.

All of that was part of my review for instance.
It does work.
As a camera industry meta-commentary, it sure seems like the Big 3 really only want to sell full-frame cameras.

Sony, Canon, Nikon, they seem to have roadmaps for a full range of lenses for full-frame, from wide-angle to super-telephoto.

But APS-C? Meh. It’s a little confusing as to what works with what (hi, Canon, with your EF-M mount), and given that they never fully fleshed out a set of compact-but-performant sports lenses for that sensor size…it all seems perfunctory.

They seem to want to only sell full-frame, as that’s where the sweet meat of the margins can still be found in camera sales. All their APS-C cameras feel like “get the value buyer in the door”, but, that seemingly hampers growing into the rest of the system, as they only have a middling set of crop sensor lenses.
The solution to censorship is a decentralized video hosting like https://d.tube or https://joinpeertube.org.
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Patent & copyright nationalism is one hell of a drug.

China stealing our vaccine technology has got to be the least convincing threat I've seen. So what if they do? What are they going to do with it? Cure diseases?
> 5. Raises that matter. Not some 1 or 2 pct insult. There's no excuse for that. None.

Is a big one. I am very unsure why companies seem so reluctant to do this when the cost of hiring and training a replacement are non-negligible.
for this particular thread you are right. i just hope the reason is not the volume of comments.
Hi, you say all levels but I don't see a lot of roles for the backend engineers, is there an internal job board that's different?
Taleb has never revealed the details of his investment portfolio. For someone who screams "I don't care - show me the returns!" it's interesting that he cannot prove that his "black swan" strategy has ever been actionable for his own or anyone's portfolio, how to use his theories to make significant money vs. normal strategies, and any proof that his hedge fund made any money during the dot-com crash which you would figure would be the prime time to make money given his public persona.

Taleb got profiled in the New Yorker, his Black Swan book became popular, and he has rode that and Twitter ever since. I highly recommend people see him for what he is - a public figure that is a bullshitter like anyone else - at least until he shows proof that he is some sort of investor oracle. He has actively sued people who revealed how much money his prior fund lost, as those documents are floating around but he attacks anyone who publicly reveals them.
> Most software doesn’t read random addresses.

Is there any literature or studies to back this?

I thought one of the downfalls of modern software is a ridiculous number of tiny dynamic allocations, often deliberately randomized in space. Lots of pointer chasing and hard-to-predict access patterns.

And some people work really hard to make their access patterns cache friendly, which is far from trivial and for most software, not a cost they can justify. Sometimes changing the access patterns means reorganizing all vital data structures and going SoA to AoS (or vice versa) and due to limited language support, that can mean sweeping changes across the entire code base. It doesn't help that as new features are added, requirements on these data structures and access patterns can change a lot.
Probably because both use the information they're getting from you to actually improve their services. And that's (probably) fine, since you're giving away your information to get a better service.

I want privacy but I also want good services, Duckduckgo for example gives me a good privacy service but its searches have nothing to do with what I wanted to find.
Wages are not 100% of current food prices.

I don't know what they are, but it isn't 100%, which is what it would take to require doubling prices to cover doubled wages.
Awesome, life is great when you don't owe anyone anything!
Linus Torvalds: The Beauty of Programming
> I think it's incredibly short-sighted, but a lot of British businesses treat their software staff as equivalent to generic office inhabitants, rather than highly skilled software practitioners. They also seem to treat their tech staff like children.

This is not just true for British businesses... it's common worldwide across everything that's not a tech startup. The older the people in management are, the less likely they are to even understand what the younger staff is talking about.

German Mittelstand is infamous for this - they're roadblocked on one side by the government bending over backwards to impede proper buildout of real broadband across the country and not just in cities, and on the other side by 80+ aged patriarchs who still are dictating business communication in an audio recorder for their secretaries to type down. These pre-Boomer fossils are only focused on micromanagement and keeping control until the day they literally die, and the Boomer generation isn't much more modern either.

The result? Humble startups led by young people of a diverse background are eating their lunch left and right, and the Boomer+older generation are standing still, scratching their heads and wondering what's going on.
I’m going to echo the sibling commenter. You somehow tried to negate my hypothetical App Store pirates by saying it’s a different situation without commenting on actual substance.

Now you’re admitting your set up is awful for creators and would screw things up for genuine people if everyone did it. Just because whatever creator example may not be a good site or person doesn’t mean that’s how everyone is.

I’m sure you wouldn’t want everyone taking whatever service or product your livelihood depends on.
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The Knights Hospitaller were at the time occupying Malta, and they were basically pirates who raided Muslim (and sometimes Christian) merchant ships. They were still enslaving people and engaging in slave trade. They got kicked out by Napoleon on his way to Egypt, and in the process he abolished slavery on the island.
So many of the smartest people in the world work in the areas of getting people to click on ads, mining personal information, finance and crypto. Areas that at best have no social value. It is quite depressing.
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One and only problem with old Laptops is that you cannot just replace the CDROM-drive with Raspberry Pi and call it a day. Because VNC is too slow. There must be some handy way to connect the display. I know you can order HDMI-to-display boards from Alibaba, but this requires dismantling the laptop. Not handy enuff I say.

Edit: I know exactly what would be the optimal solution and it is two-port SATA drive. Rasberry and the old Laptop would share the same drive. Even I could write necessary routines starting from "scrot". And other I/O like keyboard and touchpad would be equally easy. But no two-port drives in Ebay.
> Any EU citizen in our out of country has their PII protected by EU law, regardless of who processes that data.

That's a common misconception. GDPR applies to "data subjects who are in the Union". Whether or not the data subjects are EU citizens is irrelevant.

It also applies to all data processing of processors or controllers who are in the Union, regardless of where the processing takes place or whose data is being processed.

For processors or controllers not in the Union processing data of a subject in the Union it applies if (1) the processing is related to the offering of goods or services in the Union, or (2) the monitoring of behavior that takes place within the Union.

Some examples:

If I, a US citizen who has never set foot outside the US, has some interaction with a German company then GDPR applies. The German company is in the Union so it applies to all their data subjects regardless of citizenship or location.

If a French citizen comes to the US and some local US business gathers all kinds of personal information about them GDPR does not apply. The data subject is not in the Union and the processing is not being done by an entity in the Union, so no GDPR.
There is nothing "simple" about the concept of flat earth. It's one set of exceptions on top of another set of exceptions, ad infinitum.

To use the pre-enlightenment list of exceptions: It's flat, but not infinite. It's a disc. Ringed by mountains. Held up by giant elephants. On the back of a turtle. On the back of another turtle.

The modern "rationale" for flat earth is just as complex (not simple) an explanation of exceptions upon exceptions. The Copernican, Galileo-an and Newtonian attempts to explain things are much closer to "simple", despite being incomplete, because they are experimentally gathered and predictive and not just mentally created from whole cloth.
It's very much possible, now more than ever. New JDKs provide more efficient version of garbage collector like epsilon for example. CMS can also do the job if you know few tricks. You don't have to be a big nerd to understand them. Documentation is pretty helpful.

In my application I was able to get latency for http/rest services less than 15ms which also hit database more than once. Ofcourse it's very subjective to the business use case and networking infrastructure. YMMV

If you really want me to pin point the issue, as far as GC on JVM heap is concerned only major difference with other language implementation was that I had to use around 1GB of extra RAM.

All i am saying is that, start with idiomatic clojure. If that's not performant enough for you use case, start optimizing the code.
Loved it!
Although it didn’t give a comprehensive answer on how to preventively solve the problem on any platform.
Is there one?
Or should software developers just stick to one way or another like some kind of an unspoken rule?
This is great. I will be on a mooring for the first time this year and it is very tempting to build something like this! But my boat will be close enough where I could almost look out my window to check on it. :)
>>If you are not able to pay market rates (that match the big tech companies) this is the markets way of saying "you should be denied access to this talent because it can be better utilized elsewhere"

"I have a great idea to make chairs, but the chairs won't generate enough profit to use the special type of gold bar I need to make them. Where can I find cheap gold bars?"
Facebook's Trump decision shows Big Tech is 'way too powerful': Elizabeth Warren
Because funding? We need better equipment, better sensors, and more data due to the investigation. That requires more funding.

Call me cynical, but I legitimately believe anytime a government agency releases information like this, it is just a cash grab.
The companies you just mentioned all got Paid at whatever market rate they/the market set.

Just because it was the government that paid them, why isn’t that capitalism?

Socialism and Communism is when you tell people what they’ll charge for the greater good of the people. At least that’s what it is to me, someone from a former communist country.

Edit: not only did those companies get paid to invent it, but others got paid to make it, and yet others got paid to distribute it (pharmacies etc).
As an intern I once attended an internal Innovation Symposium hosted by the company I was working for.

Most of the speakers talked in glowing terms about innovation, how good it was, and how welcomed it was.

But one speaker didn't. He said: "You'll know you're being innovative because you'll feel uncomfortable about your idea."

I had never before heard that point of view before, but it clicked.

If all of your peers think what you're doing is a good idea, maybe it's time to re-evaluate how innovative your ideas really are.

The problem with all of this is that immature good ideas look and act exactly like crazy ideas. It's hard to find comfort pushing on an idea with that fact always in the back of your mind. You could find yourself years down the road with nothing to show for all that effort.