skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've discovered that the software industry is made up of some of the most dishonest, insecure, power-hungry people on the face of this godless earth.

Only a tiny percentage of developers seem to actually enjoy coding - Most of them have no interest in it and only see it as a mechanism to acquire money, power and influence.

Disinformation is rampant because contrarians are punished and conformists are rewarded. The rot is deep in the guts of the industry. Those who have the most power and the loudest voices hoard all the attention for themselves and are unwilling to give exposure to any alternative views - Their deep insecurity drives them to surround themselves only with yes-people and to block out all critics; avoiding disagreement at all costs... Downvote, suppress, censor...

Powerful people in this industry need to put aside their insecurity by embracing disagreement, allow themselves to change their minds, and give a voice to contrarian views and ideas; even when it risks hurting their current interests.

Powerful people should seek the truth and try to promote the narratives which make the most sense; not the narratives which happen to benefit them the most. Everyone is free to move their money to match the changing narratives, so why do powerful people invest so much effort in keeping the focus on narratives which only maintain the status quo? To protect their friends? To protect the system? That is immoral - Capitalism was not designed for this kind of arbitrary altruism. For every person you 'help', you hurt 100 others.

As much as people love to bash Elon Musk right now, he should be applauded for constantly trying to adapt to the narratives which make the most sense as opposed to rotting in his own filth and succumbing to tribalism like everyone else.
From the medium article

> It should have been unnecessary that we expose these evidence and challenge the result of the investigation, if the committee can drive a responsible, transparent and thorough investigation

An interesting question : Did ACM require the followup Medium article to update their position? I don't know the details of the case. However, merely updating positions when situations are black and white are some of the easiest scenarios. I wouldn't be impressed if black and white situations are assessed as black and white. This doesn't mean that one shouldn't do so. I'd expect those scenarios to be a bare minimum requirement.
Yeah I've come to the same conclusion but idk why the staff didn't say this in the first place. They only said that they didn't know he was the owner.
It was a First Amendment ruling which applies to all states and jurisdictions regardless of their licensing laws.
The First Decade of RISC-V: A Worldwide Phenomenon – David Patterson
That's his receipt. Not hers.

Is that really 100% of the interactions they've had?

You seem to be pretty confident there's only his side of the story.
Forgive my ignorance. "encapsulation" is a new term for me in this context. What does it mean?
When people are surrounded by rules that make no sense, many start to question all rules. It's not a justification for acting dishonestly, but it is the cause.

One way we can make the world better is by fixing the rules. Getting rid of ones that are unjust, and making the rest more consistent.
I believe you mean more serialized. Episodic, defined as "containing or consisting of a series of loosely connected parts or events", is the opposite of what you mean.
It's been my experience that part of the reason browsers get stuff wrong even when it's clear what to do, is that entirely different teams work on parts of the browser that all need a poper color pipeline, and while one team will learn and do it correctly, the new team working on the diffrent part has to go through the same process again.

You can see this, for example in Firefox's image pipeline which seems to assume everything is 601 (because JPEG), and this means 709 AVIFs won't render correctly (and are thus off by default currently).

Or in Chrome, the MediaRecorder API will create HD H.264 streams that are untagged, and are 601. Which Chrome then assumes is 709 based off the res.

Or, also in Chrome, the WebCodecs team not having talked to the Media Team, seemingly (?) before starting work on what kind of buffer gets returned to the user, and what the semnatics of its color are. (I think this is resolved now, though - this was a year or two back when they engaged with VideoLAN over this API)
This article is about planar graphs, which aren't really related to knowledge graphs.
The Sami Religion was influenced by but not identical with Norse mythology. It appears to have been extinct for the last couple hundred yeats after facing a significant ongoing persecution and conversion.
Not just “don’t want to”, I’d hope: They should be able to win on the economics, too, assuming customers that care more about TCO for a fixed or steady-growing workload rather than elasticity.
> they have no way to put cash they have to work

Apple could have built the most incredible semiconductor mega-hub in the world with the money it spent on dividends and buybacks in the past decade.

In-house R&D is still a thing. Capital expenditure is still a thing. Pay raises for rank-and-file staff are still a thing. Please don't suggest that acquisitions, buybacks, and dividends are the only ways for Apple and Google to put their free cash flow to work.

Not to mention that both companies carry debt.
"What am I doing right?"

Maybe not buying the cheapest cables available on the bottom of the Amazon barrel.

But I can't know that. Maybe you are and your place will burn down next week. Who knows?
Uh no, DDR4-4000 (which servers can't use BTW) is ~256 Gigabits per second. Latency is also a killer; optimized Infiniband is ~1 us which is 10x slower than local RAM at ~100 ns.
> Power negotiation applies to USB-A

Nope it doesn't.
No thanks. It only takes one person to decide that fertility or some other basic function is a disease to end all life on Earth. Genetic tampering is dangerous enough in a lab.
A drug that causes you to think you have more energy doesn’t magically actually give you more energy. I didn’t read the paper but I hope this article significantly undersells it.
removal of per-channel staff/per-channel owners and replacement with network owners.

like removing a subreddit's creator/moderators and taking over it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290508
My wife was called a “Karen” for telling a (white British) man that his big dogs were not allowed off leash at the children’s playground. It’s gotten beyond absurd at this point.
That's complete nonsense. A good angel-company relationship is not driven by the angels but by the company management. It's on their terms that advice is sought, evaluated, and quite possibly rejected. If you let your angel investors drive your company you are doing it dreadfully wrong.

As a participant in well over 20 investments now I've yet to see this go wrong even once.
The thing is, all of these do provide me with a lot of value and convenience. Many of such services are known by most people I hire and work with, so it's just the anxiety that's ruining the party...

And I never know how irrational it is...
Wayback supports diffs natively, it’d be straightforward to poll for diffs based on URLs you wanted to monitor.

https://thenextweb.com/news/the-wayback-machine-now-lets-you...
No I don't. Not sure what side of the arg ProJared is on.

But I do remember what happened to Vanessa Guillén, and an entire military that tried to cover it up, and many, many others like her. (Should I enumerate GamerGate's victims and the way their real accusers said it was BS, when it wasn't?)
That's a myth. You can absolutely work an engineering job and call yourself an engineer in Canada without any certification. Look up all the "software engineer", "systems engineer", "marine engineer", "audio engineer", "application engineer" etc. job listings in any Canadian city. None of them are looking exclusively for certified/licensed engineers, and the people working for them aren't doing so illegally. Canadian courts have ruled many times over that professional licensing organizations do not have exclusive rights to the word "engineer".
Excel as a code editor would be cool. Each cell could be a function or variable, watch them update in real-time, highlight which functions are being called, which variables are being used.
When scientific orthodoxy resembles religious dogma
Yes! We have a guide on how to do it here. https://docs.anycloudapp.com/documentation/how-to/multi
You were gaslit through heavily controlled communication? Say it ain't so, that must have been awful.

I can't believe someone would use money to take over a productive communication forum to manipulate the information there for their own gain. What kind of awful dishonest person would participate in something like that?
I think 255 is reserved as well.
This looks really promising. Would love to learn how hard would be to abstract a current implementation.
That's not a USB-C cable. The discussion is about USB-C cables capable of thunderbolt. Not the older, dedicated thunderbolt cables.

Correct link: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ4H2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-u...
Unfortunately it is not even a subculture. It is often openly touted in mainstream culture. Steve Jobs is often brought up as a hero of that type of thinking.

You are absolutely right that trust and reliability are very valuable. Societies with high trust tend to be richer and much more productive than societies overriden by cheating and corruption.
When cable started, it had ads. Cable was just a bunch of broadcast stations pushed over a coax wire to your house so you could get stations that were pretty much impossible with an antenna from your location in pretty much perfect signal quality for the time. There weren't even "only cable" kind of channels when people started paying for their television to come over wires to their homes.
And the third order effects will be further destabilization leading to more wars, which may go nuclear, and will all feed back into more environmental degradation.
I've always found it interesting that XKCD uses a slightly beige background color in all of the comics.
Apparently JJ Abrams consulted with Lucas on Episode 9:

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/12/how-george-lucas-hel...

But in an interview with Lucas before that, his plans for Episodes 7 to 9 would have focused on midi-chlorians and the Whills, an order of immortal beings who seemingly controlled everything through the Force:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
In theory you could probably do something like have three runoff rounds, such that low-scoring papers are eliminated before people do their second review.
Starting a Business with a Co-Founder (2019)
If it isn't legal, and normal democratic processes won't make it legal in the short term, then it isn't viable competition.

DMCA/etc vastly favors content owners who also lobby hard to maintain their ownership by extending copyright and similar protections.

Anti-competitive behavior must be countered but unless it's well funded and focused will end up like the IRS and DMCA today, going after small fish due to lack of resources to challenge those that can afford to fight like players as big as Amazon and MGM.
For most applications, having used a few 2D "programming languages", I disagree.

2D layouts are simply too hard to follow once things start getting complex. You spend a lot of time reorganizing stuff. If you find writing clean code hard, making clean graphs is hard squared. As for spreadsheets, they are good for manipulating data, but for logic that is a little bit complex, they are terrible.

The author claim it is better for parallelism, but even for the most parallel application: chip design, most people use text-based "1D" programming languages (HDL) when things get serious.

Also, do you remember UML? It used to be super trendy in the 90s. Now, I almost never see it used. Sometimes you get a class diagram, usually generated from code.

2D layouts can be nice on a very high level. Connect the boxes. Digital audio workshops tend to work like that, but behind the boxes, this is regular code.
Without passing any judgement, I think it's important to note that she is a nude photo model. The image is a cropped Playboy centerfold.
The 'Five Ones' Policy – why travel to China is currently 4x the regular price
We need a blockchain for peer reviews!
I didn't go that far, but for small movements I use arrow keys. hjkl don't make any sense to me and I'm not keen on using them just because someone had that keyboard layout in 1978.
The math behind this is linear control theory (LCT) [0], which is quite interesting. LCT and the Laplace transform techniques at its heart (this is where the "s" terms on the web site come from) are not really that daunting and once you learn them you'll know whether you even need the I and D parts of the PID and what order of each you need.

If we had an analogous "Machine Learning Theory", we'd be able to predict from first principles how many neurons we needed, how many hidden layers we needed, and what architecture (i.e. recursive, convolutional, etc.) we needed to solve a given problem. We don't have that now, but I hope we do some day. The good news is we do have such a theory for control problems (at least the linear ones).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory
Someone is (supposed to) building a proper Email bridge for Matrix through GSOC.
Yes, but you can't really fault them for that because without any evidence to go on it would have been a fishing expedition. So compared to some of these other investigations that I'm familiar with I think they did it by the book.
Jugaad is very different from this sort of collusion.
The role of bureaucracy is particularly relevant and interesting. Joseph Tainter argues in The Collapse of Complex Societies that the diminishing returns of increasing layers of bureaucracy are an important reason for the collapse of societies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter

Quoting from the book:

“Sociopolitical organizations constantly encounter problems that
require increased investment merely to preserve the status quo.
This investment comes in such forms as increasing size of
bureaucracies, increasing specialization of bureaucracies,
cumulative organizational solutions, increasing costs of
legitimizing activities, and increasing costs of internal control
and external defense. All of these must be borne by levying
greater costs on the support population, often to no increased
advantage. As the number and costliness of organizational
investments increases, the proportion of a society's budget
available for investment in future economic growth must decline.”
It does look like it. Perhaps it is easier for maintenance, if you don't want to start with a full rack. The upgrade granularity is higher.
While DNA methylation may be involved in the specific pathology you mention, it is by no means definitely involved. Both Magnesium and Niacin are cofactors utilized by many enzymes and their supplementation are likely having pleiotropic effects.

*Edit: Added a mistakenly omitted word.
I'm a professional software engineer. I practice software engineering as my profession. Am I not allowed to call myself that?

Also, I have in fact undergone the training that an engineer in Canada would undergo. I just didn't do the tests or pay the fees, and why should I?
> The company's defence is that if people feel progress towards cutting emissions is too slow, they should lobby governments - not Shell - to change policies and introduce financial incentives.

Do you agree with Shell's defence? If you do not, what's the role of government for the society?
This all needs the context that it is US specific. Other countries usually do not have this 'accredited investor' limitation, nor do they have low limits on how many named investors can participate in any one undertaking.
We are losing the ability to ignore device coloration though - since some activities are intended to be carried out on multiple displays at once (i.e. a phone and monitor or switch with tv display). Being consistent across devices is beginning to matter and is an incredibly hard problem to solve.
What is the "mechanism" from the vaccine which has caused some people to get thrombocytopenia, bells palsy, temporary deafness, and other such side effects in just the short term?
huge and freaky brah
Influenza is not a coronavirus. The closest analog we have to SARS-CoV-2 in the wild is SARS-CoV-1, where continuing immune response has been well established even in those infected during the initial 2003 outbreak.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."

The question of course is, peoples interpretations of which laws are just and unjust are subject to bias and individual incentives.
Yes. Here are some stats on the breakdown of trust in society: https://medium.com/@slowerdawn/the-decline-of-trust-in-the-u...

This animated gif makes it clear: https://invisible.college/reputation/declining-trust.gif
That incident is the same one referred to in the CACM article and elsewhere throughout this thread.
Personally, I feel like many/all software principals can be applied to other subjects, and it has a tendency to make things simpler.

Sometimes it's a joke, but other times it is quite fitting.
> I feel like there isn't really anything similar in the US.

I'm not super familiar with the space, but I think this is what WattPad seeks to achieve. I know there have been at least a few stories on there that struck it big via Netflix deals.
I rarely see people mention it but documentation writer/tech writer is a full time role at bigger companies, especially SaaS companies with large/complex APIs.

Writing API docs, user guides, blog posts, how-to guides, etc...

Pay is usually less than dev but still high.
> I believe you mean more serialized.

Yeah (I think the actual intent was “less episodic”, and I’ve corrected it to that, but same thing.)
The rules change at 35 non-accredited investors. This has zero bearing on angel investing.
Could apply to research, application development, web development, credential management...
That's based on very shaky assumptions. Although coronaviruses are not as rapidly mutating into new strains as the influenza viruses, RNA viruses compared to DNA viruses mutate quite a lot. To deceive people that they have lifetime immunity is both unscientific and irresponsible - I already know people who ignore all kinds of protective measure because they've had it last winter and assume they are immune for life. We yet have to see that and go beyond pure hypothetical speculations like this one! The coronaviruses are responsible for 20-30% of the common cold, which sickens hundreds of millions of people each year.
Isn’t this basically: https://www.vmware.com/products/vmc-on-dell-emc.html

Or https://www.hpe.com/us/en/greenlake.html

Disclaimer vmware employee, but I dont work in this area.
I noticed that a couple of days ago when I was able to charge my Surface Laptop with my iPad's USB-C charger. While Surface Laptop already has a proprietary charging port, it also supports charging through USB-C. Seamlessness of the whole experience was very impressive.
This really only takes effect for very large values of n.
The crossover is around 3x10^7

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+ln%28n%29%5E3+vs...
One of solutions is to let individuals choose who to trust. I can pick to not trust the certain person, or certain publication or conference, and have my personalized scientist ranking recounted.

And of course, I could choose to delegate the trust, and to “follow” someone, which would mean to incorporate their rankings, especially in areas where I don’t orient that much.

Do you think this would work?
Assuming much? When did I mention influenza?!
Jared was accused by his ex of some shitty things, then a bunch of randos straight up lied about him to pile on. It's 40 minutes but he explains what happened to him here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBywRBbDUjA
Apple does the largest buyback in the equity markets. Their derivative-based ASR is larger than the entire buyback program of many major companies.

https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2021/q2/...

At $77B, that buyback program amounts to a $300m bid for Apple stock every trading day....much to the delight of executives whose compensation is tied to share price performance.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/apple-ceo-tim-cook-receives-...
Long-term I don't expect either of those things.
> I subscribe to a couple dozen subreddits, some of which are fairly large (/r/cooking, /r/games, /r/programming), and see pretty much nothing off-topic or political

Well, that's because those have specific topic. It's hard to make something political about cooking. Bit easier in case of gaming (as games being cultural work can be political commentary), I've seen some political discourses on r/programming as well.

But on r/all you will find post from more political subreddits (r/WhitePeopleTwitter, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/TwoXChromosomes, r/MurderedByWords, r/PoliticalCompassMemes etc.) regularly. For better of worse the posts consist mostly of content from left-leaning side of political spectrum, although it creates and echo chamber and you will be highly criticized if you try to raise any concerns.

I consider myself to be more on the progressive side, but sometimes when I see some post I have thoughts "wait, this one actually starts to sound like communism again".
AssistiveTouch - one-handed control of Apple Watch [video]
It only gets better!

I envy you, I wish I could forget everything about the show, so that I could experience it fresh again. Having watched it end-to-end 3+ times over the past decade, it's burned hard into my brain.
Not in the startups I'm familiar with. You have individuals investing anywhere from 10K to 100K+.
The unfortunate tendency of people not in the know is to pile on righteous indignation for the sake of peer brownie points.

It’s often clear they’re just taking a birdshit on something that looks like it can earn them internet kudos.

Dynamically it doesn’t seem far removed from a lynchmob.
Anyone who uses OpenStreetMap in a city, how hard is it to give up the traffic aware features of Apple / Google Maps?
Whistleblowers have plenty of protections and can be exempted. Libel can be stated such that they only apply to private matters between individuals, where accusations that do not reach the felony level - which is exactly what is going on here. I have no doubt we could protect all interests, while limiting the power of the wealthy and powerful.
I long for the long lost time when research was less of an industry. If you read 19th and early 20th research, it comes of from an alien world. You had to be curious about your subject and smart back then.
Why would exposing the names of the reviewers/conferences do more harm than good? We want to discourage such behavior don't we.
It’s fascinating that something like this would happen without any context.

I’m struggling to figure out what possible causes for four different women to draw such attention to themselves to highlight this.

I suppose one option would be organized Mad Max-style roving bands of man-hating woke gangs that rove Twitter, hungry for blood.

Another would be targeted and coordinated attacks as revenge for some sort of personal or professional slight.

Or maybe the guy whose “proof of friendship over a decade” is four interactions total (half of which directly related to professional matters) might have given somebody a creepy vibe at some point. I suppose we’ll never know. According to this blog post, the matter is settled and he has been vindicated by this blog post.
Nor with "Red Beans and Rice" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_beans_and_rice>