skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article also has a link at the bottom to send the author money if you found the article helpful. If I paid money upfront to see the article, I'm going to be much less likely to send more money afterward.
In some states, a firing squad is an option:

https://nypost.com/2021/05/17/south-carolina-becomes-fourth-...
Weak comparison in scope.
Why are you getting downvoted? I love Taco Bell and every time I survey the crowd about favorite fast food, I'd say 80% of people say Taco Bell gives them stomach problems.
I’ve recently had the privilege of watching “12 angry men” for the first time. It’s a masterpiece in showing how a legal “sure thing” can be so wrong.

Legal cases are often constructed with testimony, unreliable evidence, and chance. Its an effort to increase likelihood of certainty using very unreliable data. And human intuition really sucks when it comes to probability calculations.

I think that film as no other really captures how wrong we can be, even if we “feel” certain about it. It might sound like a tangent but I think it narrates how errors like this are possible more eloquently than I would ever be able to do on my own.
Then, after a short while, we’d probably have little violent crime, police misconduct, and wasteful spending.
Just as a counterpoint, the stereotype is the opposite — nouveau riche are gaudy, make vulgar displays of wealth, while old money has “class” and is more discreet.

Personally I think it’s all bullshit and you have people of all types on both ends. It’s orthogonal.
Good question! It was 4. While waiting for the press I'd deflash [1] the set that were cool enough to put to the grinder and stack them for transport to the next station. Those doing the math will note that in theory 67 seconds would allow for 1716 rims per 8-hour shift. But it took time to open it, get them out, and close it again. The machine never stopped; breaks were handled by somebody coming along and taking over for a bit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(manufacturing)
"strips away any supposed appearance of justice being about re-education and not about plain punishment."

Well... duh. The death penalty being a punishment is a feature, not a bug. Nobody says the death penalty is about re-education. It's because the person has done something society has judged to be worthy of death as punishment for that crime. If somebody molested my prepubescent daughter, I would say that person should _die_, as _punishment_, and that would be fair and just.

You are operating from the premise that justice is only about re-education. There are plenty of people who reject this view and say that justice is about both re-education and punishment for the crime. And that yes, justice involves punishment, not re-education.

"Would have it be possible for the USA to keep executing prisoners if it wasn't the most powerful country on Earth? IMHO, probably not."

What planet are you living on? There are lots of countries far less powerful than the US who execute far more prisoners than the US. The US executed 22 people, Egypt 32, Iran 251, Saudi Arabia 184, China over 1000, and Iraq over 100 in 2019.
Well the detection algorithm for that would simply be a function that always returns `true`. There might be a small percentage of false positives, but pretty much negligable.
Also ctrl+shift+p in Sublime Text.
Because their 'performance' is to perform their part best they can.

In common law systems (US, UK for example) the trial proceedings is adversarial system. If someone should lose money because the innocent is convicted, it should be the defense lawyer. The trial is a game.

In civil law jurisdictions (like in Continental Europe) the trial is fact-finding public inquiry. The court is more actively involved in investigating the the case.
I love how FFmpeg is way down on his homepage. Meanwhile, even non-programmers in my world know and use it.
In good faith, why not visit north korea, its a beautiful country, in good faith why not cage kids at the border, they are trespassing after all, in good faith why not bomb news stations in gaza, there are rockets beeing fired from buildings in that general region, in good faith why not drone strike a wedding in pakistan there are terrorists in pakistan after all, in good faith why not spy on every person on the plant, some of them might be criminal at all.
The core part of that definition is “in need of repair”. It’s “in poor condition because it’s broken,” not “in poor condition because it’s depressed.”

The OP just made an honest typo, it shouldn’t detract from their post, let’s move along. :)

P.S. Personally, I also thought fakedang’s comment was fine. Just a helpful little note in case anyone was confused.)
C++ vs. Rust: simple polymorphism comparison
Lies of omission are lies just as much as lies of commission because they communicate something that is incorrect.
You may be right. I never asked what they thought about poor people or the reasons they were poor. It would be a good conversation to have. Knowing what I know about some of those people, I would guess their response would be something along the lines of "It's possible for many people to earn and work their way up IF they make wise choices along the way and don't give up. It's not easy by any means."

The rich who had it handed to them likely wouldn't even have a thought like that cross their minds. It's more like "Oh... huh, poor people? Yeah, I don't know. What's poor?"
Humans are entitled to use deadly force in response to credible threats to life. Someone waving a knife around, or even running while waving a knife around, is not that. The fact that knives exist is the reason that police carry billy clubs. A normal who citizen shot and killed someone of his own race because they were waving around a knife, would be charged with murder. Police officers should be better trained and better able to deal with knives than the average person. Those few departments who have mandated effective training have seen significant results from that training. [0] Well-trained ninjas with swords are actually quite rare in the modern policing environment.

[0] https://www.jiujitsutimes.com/marietta-police-department-imp...
There's a stark difference between frozen food off of the Sysco truck and McDonalds.
Just to add some color to your comment as I think the idea that philosophy can be therapeutic is counterintuitive for a lot of people: consider the loneliness of depression, a big part of which (at least for me) is the seemingly insolvable problem of being trapped in my own head. "No one else could possibly understand how I feel" seems to be true not even just for me, but for the human condition. We're not mind-readers.

Nonsense, Wittgenstein seems to argue. If no one else could understand how you feel even in principle, then neither could you. If you can talk about it then people will understand, because we use the same words the same way. And when we don't, it's not because of some kind of epistemological solitary confinement - it's just a misunderstanding, and there are language games for resolving those too.

You don't have to read philosophy to know that "no one else could possibly understand how I feel" is actually a common sentiment, though. The truly therapeutic part for me was the idea that even though there may be problems that can't be solved, they can sometimes be dissolved. (i.e. seeing the problem statement itself as nonsense)
nah. the bad news is that a lot of energy is generated with coal. so you get the arsenic and other crap with our without bitcoin.

now, the question is: who decides what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable for energy use?
"The letter people"

You mean LGBT+?

Because dang that's an incredibly insulting way to completely dismiss everyone who isn't straight then
"The key here is to understand that by constant-time, we don’t mean that operations can’t take a varying amount of time. Instead, we mean that the timing signal generated by our operations doesn’t leak any secret information."
It's a thing that engineers (particularly software, hardware guys aren't as rude) really have to watch.

Given the tendency for programmers to be that edgy libertarian atheist guy, it's easy to be unthinkingly rude to a coworker who is of a churchly persuasion.
I look at it as being situational. Sometimes you end up with a team whose natural styles all mesh and they don’t need much leadership. Self-organization is great here; a manager’s role should be to give advice and deal with corporate politics (IMO the politics/budget angles are the difference between a principal/staff engineer and a manager).

Other times you get teams whose working styles are very far apart and have a hard time finding common ground. In the latter case, self-organization leads to communication breakdowns; so you have to force some organization on the team.

Ideally you would just hire a team with a diverse but complementary set of skills, but you go to war with the army you have.
I agree with your sentiment, injustice-outrage, but suspect that had things gone that way we'd be in Japan's real estate quagmire still, unemployment at 50%.
I understand what you mean; my parents, my sister & I came to Canada in late 90's. We went through normal "new immigrant" jobs - newspaper delivery, cleaning, etc; but eventually my dad got an IT job again.

5-7 years after arriving, our income was nominal. But having arrived to Canada with literally a suitcase of clothes each, the prospects, in particularly retirement, were substantially different.

It works both ways sometimes though - not only is it difficult for those born here to understand the difference, we too have to mentally remind ourselves - just because I make as much money as my best friends, I should not indulge in quite the same lifestyle; when it comes to "wealth", they are WAY ahead (some got an apartment as gift from parents, others had their university education paid for, trusts and RESP/RRSPs, etc etc).
If by material, you mean less than d=0.3, then you appear to be correct.

It's gonna be really difficult to estimate reliable effects from a meta-analysis of such disparate studies, which is normally the case in psychology.

Anyway, it would make sense that cognitive interventions are more effective, as this would suggest that a lot of implicit biases represent pre-conscious reactions (which is interesting in and of itself).
The Future of Post-Industrial Cities
If you’d like to learn more on this topic Will Larsen has great read about being Principal Engineer. Here link to page that has link to his book https://staffeng.com/about/
I firmly believe that one should never, ever take a pay cut to work at a startup. We've all heard the numbers, 80% of startups fail in the first year, by year 5 it's 90%. If you're taking a pay cut, you're not building savings for the inevitable thin times. When the startup fails, you're going to have a period of zero pay while you look for a new job. How long is that period going to be? If anything, one should be demanding more money.

And this is especially true if the field is one you're excited about working in. You're putting yourself at an emotional disadvantage. You're more likely to put up with missed paychecks because you're supposedly "working your dream job". And when you end up in a bad situation, if you don't have a cushion of cash to fall back on, it could very well sour your view of your "dream".
That’s kind of how it worked out when we sold our company. All the transactions happened simultaneously so the only real payments was the net of it all.
Both business and tax lawyers where involved to set up that whole process.
Very silly question : I'm used to "portable" as applied to code (meaning it does not need a lot of changes to be run on different architecture) ; and in French, "portable" is the colloquial term for "mobile phone". But what does "portable" mean in this context ?
Fun story, I worked at as employee #3 or #4 or something at a startup many years ago, and it was fun at first, trying out various product ideas and strategies and pivoting a lot. Then the first serious funding crunch came, and the founder ran out of money to pay us, so we worked for a month without compensation.

Except during this unpaid period the founder took off to Costa Rica to "work on his vacation" while we continued to work in the office with delayed pay. He came from a wealthy background, while I had a young child and a pregnant wife at home and a mortgage to pay.

So he didn't really get it, I think, when I raised a stink. I was offered more stock options and a higher title to retain me (without that title being communicated to anybody else). But a mark was put on me for my whining and my attitude and the founder's attitude toward me took a turn. He pivoted again, and I was either fired or I quit (I was already interviewing elsewhere and had an offer) depending on who you talk to.

Through some hand waving the ability to buy the options disappeared, though I couldn't be bothered.

He built that business up, and a few years later he sold for an OK sum. But the business itself was dubious, I doubt the company that acquired his business kept any talent or tech worth anything and he's now living in Costa Rica. The people I know who worked there and were there from day one certainly didn't get rich.

So yeah, that's when my attitude towards startups in general changed significantly. I used to be very interested and motivated by being early in the process in a company and getting to be technically creative and involved in the decision making and architecture, and I loved the feeling of coding like crazy and really pounding metal on something greenfield. But honestly, it's not worth it when you start to see the kinds of people and egos involved.

So I'm getting older and maybe I'm not the ultimate talent that a startup today would be looking for, but there are plenty of other people like me who've been burned in this game and their advice would most likely be: don't bother. This isn't the 80s or 90s, you're not likely to change the world tech wise, and you're unlikely to get rich out of it, and jobs at FAANGs are soul sucking boredom in many ways, but they'll treat you well.

(FWIW I went from there to a later stage 50-100 person company that was acquired by Google a year later and did OK out of that, but that was a properly managed company run by ethical human beings.)
rasengan, this is coherent, credible and serious enough to deserve a response from you, and this is an excellent place for it. I don't wish to draw conclusions from this without hearing your side. I hope you have time for that.
Umm, I do enjoy the things you mentioned (building new stuff, experiment with new tech) but I love doing that on my free time, without pressure, deadlines and bosses.

At work, though, I love: boring stuff I can deal with easily, long epics that end up in features that are barely used (so, no big deal with critical bugs, also no need to be on call). At work I can be done in 4h and call it a day (which gives me TON of free time to experiment with new tech, keep my cv up to date and even fantasize with making my side projects profitable).
> wasting my time

Yes, your time is so precious you spend it defending the monopolist practices of a multi-billion dollar corporation on a hacker forum.

> I'm not moving any goalposts.

First you compared having software freedom to invading someone else's private property. "Can I go to Walmart and setup my own store inside their store without permission?" You implied people's iPhones were still Apple's private property despite people having purchased them.

So I asked you in direct terms if this is really what you believe. You immediately backtracked by changing focus from hardware to software. "Just install your own OS", you said.

Okay. So how are people supposed to do that on the locked down device they bought? "I don't know, do your research, buy something else, stop complaining."

And I am the one being "intellectually dishonest"?

> Your argument is this utterly ridiculous notion that you get to buy an iPhone and then whine it doesn't do what it never said it'll do.

It doesn't have to be said. If I buy something, it's perfectly reasonable to assume I can do whatever I want with it. It shouldn't require some corporation's permission.

> It's like buying a Tesla and complaining it doesn't run on oil.

It's like buying a car and then finding out it only drives to pre-selected locations which pay 30% tax to the manufacturer for the privilege of having people reach them via that manufacturer's product.

> "How about we make it illegal for corporations to control the product they themselves make" is a shitty, entitled, spoiled brat behavior that honestly disgusts me to my core.

It's entitlement to actually want to own things I paid money for? You gotta be kidding me.
Exactly this - exclusives are a standard move which we can be guaranteed will be used if multiple apps stores are allowed on iOS.

It won’t help consumers or developers, but it will allow epic and other well funded companies to insert themselves into a revenue stream without creating value.
There are a couple things to understand about being poor.

It's not about lack of money (though obviously having lots of money means you're not poor). It's about insecurity. I grew up in farm country in the 1980s. Nobody had money, but I didn't feel poor. When I moved to other parts of the country, that's when I encountered poor people. They had to worry about crime, schools for their kids, and being homeless.

When you skip meals because you have to put two gallons of gas in the car so you can get to work the rest of the week, that's when you're poor. Or when you're under constant stress because you're worried about what's going to go wrong next, and when you spend all your time on stuff like where you'll spend your last $12 because that's all you've got. It's hard to understand what it's like to be poor because you don't even realize that's part of the deal.

The other thing is that there's a saying along the lines of getting wealthy being mostly the same for everyone, but every poor person is poor for different reasons. One example is a guy I knew in the 1990s that worked hard at a low-wage job. He got hit by a car while walking across the street. The driver got away and left him laying there. He couldn't work for months. The non-poor person's solution is to move in with their parents or to have their parents send them money. Maybe put things on the credit card. Maybe take money out of savings. He didn't have those options. How do you financially recover from something like this if once you go back to work, you're making the same low wage?
Man, if i look at the numbers people are throwing around i start to think that Europe is another planet.

Well at least we have better social benefits all around i guess.
I'm not american i'm german. We know a thing or too about concentration camps. And yes i wouldn't have visited america under trump and wouldn't visit them now either.

Where i draw the line is when criminals get their fair day in a court vs getting in a camp for being muslim.
I doubt it was ever so simple. Maybe for a halcyon moment when incomes were rising and ideology was sparse on the ground - the 50s and early 60s - politics had little part in work, in as much as most people still agreed. But they all agreed on horrible things, like how to treat women in the workplace with disrespect.

People are politics, especially in a free land like ours. No politics at work is unrealistic, I believe.
That worked for early movers at beginning of Covid. In Canada, 12 months later, previously "cheap" provinces have doubled in prices too.

Still cheaper than Vancouver or Toronto of course; but given lower income in those areas, and the growing pains they're about to have in catching up their infrastructure etc, it's no longer a straightforward gain anymore.
Not sure where you live, but in the US, options are typically granted with a strike price equal to the latest 409A valuation, which makes the grant neutral from a tax standpoint.

I don't see a world where you have to pay lots of taxes for worthless options, unless someone really screwed-up (i.e. messed up the 409 Safe Harbor election etc...)

Now... if you exercise the option, that is a different story. At least in theory you would only exercise if things went well and the stock went up vs the strike, which makes sense why one would have to pay taxes then.
not requiring installation. (meaning you can bring a USB drive full of useful tools with you and use on random PCs)
Stable doesn't really describe early stage startups at all. Just because there is a paycheck doesn't mean there will be one when a big account falls through.

But anyway, I would urge founders to think more about the logarithmic utility of money and whether it makes sense to take 30x+ the gains of early employees. In particular, think of the number that make it all worthwhile and ask if you need to capture all the gains above that, or whether you could be more generous if you hit it out of the park, and if there is a way to write that into your contracts.
From my own household/wife I have a person who's worked her ass off for a hugely incompetent CEO who has a majority stake. When I say ass off I mean 12-14 hours a day even on weekends. A promise of unlimited holidays and then coercing all employees to work during government mandated holidays and now he's trying to scam her out of her less than 1% options by coercing her to write a maternity leave policy that would make sure she doesn't get to vest. This is a sequoia invested company.

I don't think this company has even 10% of equity allocated for all the other employees. No way it's that much. She's sacrificed her own health, the health of her child and her personal relationships for someone who's coerced a bunch of people who are to scared to talk to a lawyer into a bunch of labour law violations.

When I myself interview with startups and they try to sell me on their BS vision fantasies, I tell them that I'm not available 24/7. I'm not on call duty either and if they have issues with that I'm happy to use my experience to help them transform/automate their business into a situation where they are more efficient and don't need to burn out their employees. Some people respect this as a sign of experience and others, especially the valley considers this not aligning with their "values".

This is exploitation plain and simple. They cheat their employees into thinking taking abuse is acceptable, because that's what you have to do to change the world. If anything such people change the world for the worse if you ask me.

EDIT: also, due to the lack of experience it's clear that some of the directions actually come top down from whatever VC is involved in it.
I think what's also missing from the equation here is the fact that part of the reason which startup compensation is not competitive is because FAANG salaries have been set in such a way to attract talent which might otherwise go to startups.
> I suggest adopting a simple protocol of never using Freenode PMs for any conversation at all. This protocol is both easy and convenient; if you want to talk to someone, you can simply PM them on another IRC network, since most people are connected to more than one network. If you don't know whether they're on another network, simply ask.

I'm a little surprised someone hasn't written some sort of plugin for common IRC clients to support at least minimal encryption in PMs.