skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly this was not there when you looked at it, but right now as I view the third headline in the list is as follows:

> Congress Passes Bill To Counter The Rise In Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

...which despite the negative language is definitely a positive news story.
I'm envious of people who are good at being bad. It's a skill that lets you choose how to develop yourself.

I've noticed that it's really difficult for me to be bad at something, by which I mean that of my brain hasn't decided that it really needs to keep doing something, I gravitate towards things that I'm already decent at even if I don't really feel like I enjoy it.

Doing even things that I might initially enjoy quickly becomes extremely stressful if I can't observe myself making progress. Forcing things works for a while, but is not sustainable.

Sometimes there's also this weird disconnect between what I want to work on and the things my unconscious brain wants to work on, and that does get stressful as well.
I think you're jumping to the "risky" conclusion a bit prematurely.

> What if they die or go bankrupt and no one agrees on who owns ETH?

By "owner", do you mean the core developers who own the protocol repositories on github, or do you mean the client software teams who own the software repositories, or the individuals and exchanges who run the nodes and economic services, or the stakers producing blocks, or someone else?

If two reputable factions have a simultaneous claim to be the protocol stewards of the "real ETH", the ETH currency will fork and market forces will decide who the "true" owners are by valuing each side of the fork properly. We've already seen something similar to this with Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic, and with Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash.

So we don't need to trust any majority of users like you said, you get to personally choose what fork of the software you want to transact on, based on what version of the client software you personally see as legitimate, and download and run.

> So I know who has ETH based on what software I download and I download software based on who has ETH? And I know I'm in the right cycle of that form because I googled it and found an 'authority'? Risky.

Every cryptocurrency has a cycle of that form, even PoW cryptocurrencies. You could take "the chain with the most accumulated work", but that's not enough, because what you really need is the chain with the most accumulated work that also follows the protocol rules, with the protocol rules being based on which software you choose to download. You always need to trust someone to give you the software, unless you download the source code, personally audit every line of it to understand how it affects the behavior of the protocol's consensus, and compile it yourself.
It's not a dichotomy; there are plenty of people who are doing okay. But there are definitely winners, and definitely losers, and it's a game for some and survival for others.
Deficit spending is not the same as QE. In fact they're orthogonal. Keynesian economists believe you should deficit spend during recessions and pay down the deficit during booms, but the latter part doesn't ever end up happening because raising taxes is politically toxic so the deficit gets inflated away via QE. The U.S. could just as easily have operated at a big deficit during the recession and paid it back during 2012-2018 without QE.
Think carefully if you care how someone stole the data. Or you care more about how likely it is to steal the data. I can argue that penalizing companies for being blackmailed in fact encourages less cooperation with authorities, which encourages more people to blackmail them
> I've started to wonder if it's even possible to develop a stable form of design that can last, stay up to date and be good looking.

I'll be dead and buried before I give up my Athena widgets.
I feel in general Android UI is vastly better than Apple. Apple had a better ui before Material design came into picture.
This is nonsensical. There was practically no inflation in the United States during the 19th century[0], the major exception in that period being the Civil War, a period of when the government needed to generate more revenue by printing more money. Following the war, deflation brought prices lower so that price levels at the end of the century were roughly equal to those at the start of it (and it should go without saying that there was certainly economic growth between 1800 and 1900).

With economic growth, you would expect the economy to produce more items, thereby being able to buy the same things for cheaper. E.g., if we get better at producing electronics, you would expect their price to decline - and that's precisely what we've seen in the past couple of decades.

It is true that a period of economic growth could induce inflation in the short run if the growth resulted in an expansion of credit, which increases the money supply even if M1 is stable. But there's only so far you can stretch the money multiplier. And on the other hand, monetarists believe that increasing the money supply could resolve a recession, but for one, an increasing money supply clearly isn't required for economic growth (the 19th century in the US is emblematic of this, but in particular there were decades of deflation within that century with economic growth), and for another, increasing the money supply in the monetarist framework is brought about by a central bank, not caused by the growing economy.

[0]: Figure 1 of https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/s...
I don’t quite understand, switching is good for the employee but in what world is it good for the employer? On-boarding/institutional knowledge/etc all suffer.
Leaving aside the hyperbolic fringe, I'd guess that what you've heard is that it's possible for a team with discipline and experience to develop in such a way that they sidestep C++'s memory pitfalls. The situation being discussed here is the exact opposite.

For example, while I'm not particularly fond of Python as an engineering language, I've never worked on a team with poor enough process that we deal with (eg) production runtime failures due to typo-ed variable names that would have been caught by the compiler. And yet I'd never claim that it's impossible for such a problem to exist, given arbitrary levels of talent composed in arbitrary teams and processes.
Sounds like a win-win

Gamers (generally very price-conscious) get a more stable close-to-msrp price now and in the future, nvidia secures their supply

You're right with respect to e-waste, but I wonder if they may end up really subsidizing hobbyist data analysis.
Seems like this will be an unpopular opinion, but I like the design.

How appealing a design is is personal preference, and I think a lot of the elements advertised, say, squiggly sliders, show the flexibility of the system; it's not like all sliders will be squiggly, but it opens up the possibility while still working with the rest of the design language.

The emphasis on customization is important as well - a more flexible system means that you can customize things that look more closely to how you want them, whether this be bright and squiggly, or dark and slick.

Just my own two ¢. I'm not affiliated, fwiw.
> Ethereum is no longer practical.

Oh please, L2 solutions already exist, EIP-1559 in the upcoming months, and Proof of Stake is 1-2 years out.
Coming from Pascal/C/C++ to Java in early 00's I really hate it the style of non-existing global variables. To use global variables I had to declare another class? Such heresy!! To this day I still hate Java, personally, but when it comes to a real challenge I really don't care the programming language. Programming languages are tools, each fits better for a particular problem and my clients pay me to solve their problems, not to bitch why one language is better than other.
A tiny section of techies love it, the government hates it. This has pretty much been consistent. The government doesn't understand crypto and neither shows a desire to understand it. There is no particular love-hate relationship as such.
True, that's an interesting possibility with the current trend towards remote work. With enough of a pay raise, I could solve the private office problem by just renting the office myself out-of-pocket...
Is this one of those "We couldn't hire locally so we have to get someone in on visa" type situations? I know that happens here (Australia), at least pre-covid
Apple’s New MacBook Pro Will Be Powered by a 10-Core Silicon Chip
Wave functions are just another type of vectors. Measurement (and collapse) is just an application of matrix diagonalization. It has its complications and its own beauty, but it is indeed just fanciful linear algebra (I work professionally on this).
That’s a half truth, if you want to sell lots of treasuries at low yield, which was the case, you have to QE. There is a clear benefit to low yield debt in deficit spending, and so far no real harm (>10 years later!)
In my understanding, Facebook and Google have centralized interviewing, whereas at Apple each team did its own hiring (my team of ~40 had their own recruiter, did all their own interviews, etc.). Amazon I believe is similar to Apple but the teams are larger? When I interviewed there it was all for the ads org, and there weren't people from other parts of Amazon.
I feel like an optical mouse sat on a clock (or perhaps a mirror) would achieve a similar result.
You're probably right, but I'm going to order one as soon as they become generally available (providing the price isn't too expensive). I'm not interested in owning a real C64 because of its complete absence of modern conveniences (VGA, external keyboard, etc).
Plot twist: the person behind the screen is actually sat there, everything else turns out to be a hologram!
On the topic of simple chess variants played on a tiny board:

Mamikon's Mini-Chess is a game/puzzle played with just a white queen and black king on a 4x3 board, that is said to have eluded Kasparov.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140220104115/http://www.mamiko...

Mamikov Mnatsakanian is also the co-author with Tom Apostol of the wonderful New Horizons in Geometry. "As an undergraduate he specialized in the development of geometric methods for solving calculus problems by a visual approach that makes no use of formulas, which he later developed into his system of visual calculus."

https://www.amazon.com/Horizons-Geometry-Dolciani-Mathematic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_calculus
Absolutely terrible developers exist, some have 5, 10, or 20 years of experience. I have worked with at least two of them in my career. One was a co worker at a startup. He seemed smart and confident but he just didn't do any work and focused on things like "optimizing code linting" and breaking our DNS, telling us it was fixed then laughing at us while we had to wait 24 hours for the new fixed DNS stuff to resolve. Due to a comedy of errors by our companies management, he was able to last 12 months and was fired on vesting day. More recently at a different company, we hired a guy with 4 years of tech consulting and free lancing experience and he nearly destroyed the company twice in two months and I then fired him. He did surprisingly well on our interview that we designed to be less crappy than the general tech interview loop, but in retrospect his success was clearly a sign that our interview loop was extremely broken. Having "false negatives" isn't great, but having a single false positive can literally destroy your company. People with multiple years of experience just may be the crappy developer that destroys your startup.
While property prices have definitely risen, consider that every other industry has not seen the same level of income growth. We are still privileged to command this kind of salary as tech employees. (Yes we worked hard etc but I also try to remember that the median household income in NYC, where I live, is $63k).
Mind sharing the link ? Thanks
btc mining isn't worthless - just you don't directly mine. You sell your compute to the pools.
You’re right, I guess I’m pulling other qualities in here from people I’ve known who have overlap with the type Paul is describing. It’s not exactly in line.
I would like to get feedback for this analytical tool we built for WhatsApp. Messaging is so prevalent that we spend so much time on WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc, yet we know so little about our usage. That's why I built this. Let me know how you think about it!
harsh, but true. I also feel the author's struggle, in my opinion there are a lot of factors to consider why some of us don't get what we expect.
The only thing we can do is to constantly improve and give our best in every interview we got
Site like Reddit and Imgur are puzzling. They claim to have great communities, but in reality they are absolutely toxic. Any opinion that’s not in line with that of overall community is instantly attacked and shutdown. If you want diversity you have a much better experience going to 4chan.
This appears to be the same story that got 145 comments 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27173859
When I am hiring, for every ~30 post interview rejections I always get an angry follow up email explaining in details why my hiring process is bad and how I should fix it. I politely reply “thank you” and silently also thank my hiring process for correctly rejecting that specific candidate.
> ...this moronic interview practice would alienate an obvious asset

> The lack of faith in our fellow humans is disgusting.

This kind of catastrophizing and dismissive language makes me want to ignore everything the author says. If you think being evaluated in an interview setting is somehow unfair, I think you should consider whether your attitude is the problem. If you are actually good at leetcode and continue to fail onsites, you're almost certainly giving off red flags in some other behavioral category.

At my (FAANG-ish but not in the acronym) company, many of the candidates we fail are leetcode gurus who have a negative vibe. Maybe they're technically pretty good, but they have an ego on the level of Linus Torvalds. Or maybe they trash talk their current team or boss, or avoid giving straight answers to simple questions about their background. Or they've got 8 years of experience but can't talk about anything they did to grow the younger people on their team. Maybe they launch into brain-dumping a solution they memorized from a practice problem without explaining their approach. Or perhaps they are aggressive and stubborn when given corrective hints.

As a dev who will be on the same team as the candidate in the event an offer is made, my primary incentive is to vote no on any assholes I cross paths with in the interview. I don't give a shit if my no-asshole standard means the company needs to spend another 3 months and $100k on recruiting costs to get an equivalently skilled non-asshole candidate for my team. I consider those costs part of MY total comp.

Beyond the junior level, success usually means working well with others and bringing a growth mindset for yourself and others to each project. Mentoring others. Learning and teaching. Being a steward and doing unglamorous work for code health. Slinging feature code is a minor part of it in big companies, so you need to figure out how to signal all these other forms of value in the interview. And avoid sending out red flags.
> the median household income in NYC, where I live, is $63k.

What's the median NYC houshold income for investment bankers and radiologists?
No, sometimes there is no zone of possible agreement (value produced is below market rate). In this case you can both have shortage and unemployment at the same time.

Example, you have labor force of 10 people. All jobs have mandatory stay of 2 years. 6 companies have an opening each that pays 1 mil/year. The openings are staggered so 3 jobs are available on odd and 3 on even years (and last 2 years). 50 jobs are posted with a salary of 100k/year. These salaries represent value produced to company and cannot be raised. All applicants have equal chance to get a job they apply to.

The minmax solution is to not take a 100k job because of opportunity cost (you won’t get a chance at the 1 mil job next year). So you have both 40% unemployment and massive labor shortage (56 openings but only 10 viable candidates).
That's interesting. I keep a dream journal and most of my entries are on days where I had interrupted sleep.
What proportion of bitcoin use do you think is legitimate purchases versus crime? I suspect it's a long way on the wrong side of Blackstone's ratio.
BlockFi Botches Promo with Outsized Bitcoin Reward Payments
It doesn't work. It's unenforceable without the government to enforce it, and even then people will skirt it.

Rules constraining how a market functions often don't work or have unintended consequences. The only real solution is to attack supply and/or demand. A rule limiting how many a person can buy doesn't actually affect demand, it just affects that market's ability to respond to demand. You get people that circumvent that, and if it's onerous enough you'll get a secondary market where they cost more but there's no limit on the amount you can buy, if there wasn't one already.

That is, it's restrictions on a free market which create secondary markets. If the price was constantly in flux base don demand, there would be no secondary market because it would provide nothing over the primary one.

People don't want that though, because we've been conditioned over the last century to expect prices to be stable because we've had large companies that decided to innovate and compete in other areas that decided pricing things accurately based on real world local conditions. I mean, I understand, I'm the same way. I don't want to walk into a store and find the thing I went to buy is twice as expensive as it was yesterday.

I do think that's a more natural and sustainable state though, as long as market principles are actually prioritized though, instead of just being paid lip service (having one entity control a large chunk of a market is bad, and so is making it hard to reason about items and features in a market, as competition and information are the life-blood of free-markets).
It might be more fair if you compare this to how long it took to move from Babbage's blueprints to something like ENIAC (more than a century?).
> this is a HUGE problem for PoS

The problem of exchanges not keeping proper liquid reserves has nothing to do with PoS. If they stake customer ETH without permission, that ETH leaves their full custody and therefore they are lying to their customers about their reserves, and operating a fractional reserve scheme.

Since the cryptocurrency "big bang" in 2009, it's always been the case that you have to trust your exchange not to run away with your deposits, because they can show you whatever balance they want on your screen regardless of how many coins they actually own on the back-end.
my 1080 ti sells for 30% more than i paid for it 3? 4? years ago. its price has fluctuated in mostly perfect tandem with crypto. just based on first hand experience, your claim (if its what you are actually claiming) that miners arent influencing the price is pretty wrong.
Notion on iOS has exactly that problem for me, it’s not possible to select text across blocks or even move the text cursor between them continuously.
I suspect this worked because the person was, indeed, there.

I mean, not in the same room, but down the hall or so.

You can have the most perfect rendering in the world and 100ms of latency will be enough to make the experience miserable.
Google's ad/tracking code is generally measured in the tens of kilobytes. Compare that to e.g., the tens of megabytes that news sites routinely waste autoplaying videos on completely different stories to the one you clicked on.

Google clearly already knows whether a website is primarily a text-based site or a video-based site, as it displays the two differently in search results. If they immediately blacklisted any text-based site with autoplay video from ever appearing on the first page of search results it would cut about 50% of web bloat overnight.

Yeah they have competing interests when it comes to truly minimising unnecessary resource usage, but there's so much good that they could do without going anywhere near cutting into their own analytics.
This all feels like a buffering problem. Can power companies not just buy big batteries... you wouldn't even need that many, just enough to signal generators to do the right thing.

(Also no idea all the gadgets in-between house and generators, but assuming all the gadgets can handle load going in and out)
Nope. You don't.

The difference between both taxes and the "next in line" isn't large enough.
Hedge funds pay as much as Google/Facebook, but work and life balance at SV companies is much better.

Compare my two offers from a few years ago - well known hedge fund in CT vs a food delivery tech company.

Well known hedge fund paid $250k+50k bonus for expected minimum 50hour weeks and 20 days of vacation time.
Food delivery company offered $170k+200k in stock over 4 years for 6 hour work days in a relaxed environment and unlimited PTO.

It's at the point that it's not worth the money. Sure it's about $3k extra monthly income.... and if you're not burdened with student debt, it's not a game changer.
I doubt he's still in industry, but my guess was it provided good, "easy" money while he was laying low for previous misdeeds. When I said "bonafide conman" - I meant he was using a fake identity and was quite literally on the run. The police got in touch with the org not too long afterwards asking after him - he was re-using an alias the police knew, and his employment/background-check likely popped him right back onto their radar. The police had wanted to set up a sting operation, but found no takers on staff - his alleged past crimes were linked to organized crime, so I can't say if the fears were overblown.
Xkcd: Surface Area (All solid surfaces of solar system as a flat map)
One of the animations on the page shows how the UI can be reduced to B&W.
Ransomware gangs exist and thrive because their crime is profitable -- their victims are willing and able to pay. Make many of their victims unable to pay, and the equation changes.
Russian fisherman shares scary photos of deep-sea creatures
Ha, yeah, my intras are actually Shures, too, the 425.

Bought mine around 2010-2011, I remember it being a pretty big purchase as a student. Probably one of the best investments I've ever made, I still absolutely love using them.
That's basically GeForce Now, in this context...

So, I'm afraid that they already got (and applied) the idea :p
I am unsure about posting this: I am definitely "gratifying my intellectual curiosity (hey look the moon is as big as all the asteroids), but hell, this is xkcd - we could just post the random button and be done :-)
Do you know what a game designer is?
Google pours piles of money into Angular. Businesses want Angular developers. People aspiring for Google salary pay fortunes for Angular bootcamps. Instructions unclear, stuck sending CVs.
I avoid refined oils that are high in polyunsaturated oils. This mostly means seed oils from non-tropical seeds: canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grape seed, etc.

Palm oil has a significant percentage of Omega-6 oil. If it's in whatever's available to eat I don't worry about it too much. I understand Coconut oil is mostly refined without solvents, and that the refining process mostly has the effect of removing the allergens. Trader Joe's has a partially-refined low-odor coconut oil that I sometimes pick up. Extra virgin olive oil [EVOO] is okay in moderation; I prefer 'unfiltered' olive oil to plain EVOO.

Chicken fat is mostly polyunsaturated, as is pork (reflecting the fats in the animals' diets), so I try to avoid those fats too.

I never noticed a benefit from Omega-3 consumption. Omega-3 is an unstable polyunsaturate too. Avoiding the Omega-6 oils improves my ratio of Omega-3 to Omega-6 without any other efforts on my part.