skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when a Brazilian teenager was killed after a stranger in front of him at a concert turned around suddenly and pointed at him saying he stole her phone.

Before he knew what happened, he was stabbed to death by a mob while the real thief got away.

Vigilante ’justice’ continues to be a scourge of society; think of the stoning episodes of millenniums past.

Social media removes the activation energy barrier to be a part of a mob - to feel the thrill.
I've run Far Cry 2 on Proton so the ceiling is open. My question is can we do Octree sims at scale???
It depends on your situation. If you’re confident that you can find another opportunity that pays what you want, why wouldn’t you just let them know what you expect and then negotiate from there?

If there isn’t a match, then that’s just how it is.

Not that it’s not a good idea to let them offer first, but mainly because you might lowball yourself.
You yourself said you pitch too high deliberately in the start, expecting some haggling.

If $30 an hour pleases you, then don't mess it up by getting greedy.

If there are other issues with the job that you haven't told us about, bring those issues up and perhaps they will go higher.

The way negotiation works is by joining people with different expectations. It's not a contest or a battle of wits you have to "win." For them $30 an hour is great; for you, it is great. That sounds like a successful deal to me.
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> today's "right of center" would have been considered dangerously extremist by the right a few decades ago

Extremist in what, supporting LGBTQ?
> It's not a government agency.

Be nice if the general public knew that.

"We" have no idea our primaries can be a rigged joke, legally.
Honestly, I would expect it to be sorted quickly and by one person. If I’m paying thousands of dollars for a high end product, especially with a company I’ve (presumably) spent tens of thousands of dollars with, I expect to be taken care of when something goes wrong.
None of these are alternatives to PGP. There is nothing that comes functionally close to replacing it.
WhatsApp is no longer restricting features if you don't accept the new policies
That’s a good point. I hadn’t really considered that.
fly.io[1] supports Postgres clusters with read replicas in different cities[2]

It looks like AWS's Aurora Postgres doesn't support cross-region read replicas, but apparently their Aurora "Global Database" offering does[3]

- [1] https://fly.io

- [2] https://fly.io/docs/reference/postgres/#scaling-horizontally...

- [3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
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Sounds like emotional avoidance; check out DBT, it is an effective treatment and might improve your suffering even if it doesn’t “fix” it. God Bless, friend.
That is the sad truth. All the talk about democracy, open markets, are just a ruse.

There is a real economic war against China and we play dirty against them.
I think you've summed up geopolitics of the last few decades quite aptly.

The whole "they need democracy" and suddenly farmers have an absurd amount of AK47s - and talks of a coup - should not fool anyone really. But it does fool most people. Especially folks in "western industrial countries" whom one would think would see such a ruse.

But alas, who cares as long as we have netflix and iphones. Such is life. Such is dignity.
I made an illustration from this quote: https://comic.browserling.com/93
Funny thing is, you only look like a clown in the eyes of the company you're interviewing with.

Just because they are cheap, doesn't mean your request is unreasonable.

I got laughed at by some companies for the hourly rate others would pay without asking twice.
>The problem was that during the Clinton administration, it was assumed that China would become more "democratic" and open politically, as their economic advancement progressed. It was assumed that their people would slowly change the CCP as they became wealthier - turning them more and more western

And what is the plan/assumption for Saudi Arabia? Is there an assumption that they will soon start respecting human rights?
I'm active in the security and privacy field, and some conferences have started "artifact reviews" [1][2], where authors can optionally submit the data and code that go along with their work.

It's definitely an improvement, but the devil is in the details. Should these be mandatory? If they're mandatory, then what quality standards should artifacts meet? Who's ensuring those standards are followed? How should proprietary code and sensitive human-subjects research data be handled? There's also the question of what code should be made public: Is it just the analysis that produced the metrics on the paper (e.g., R scripts, Jupyter notebooks, etc.)? Or should it also include the data collection and pre-processing? How about the code that didn't produce immediately publishable results, but could be useful for future work?

[1] https://petsymposium.org/artifacts.php

[2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/call-for-...
I manage an applied research group in the machine learning space, particularly AutoML and synthetic data generation. That means is we read the latest literature and create applications. Sometimes we build new research, most of the time we patent something new. But the goal is to get research to production as fast and as impactful as possible.

The first thing I do when sorting research (papers, blog posts, presentations, etc) is sort the research by “B.S.”, “maybe B.S.”, “probably real”.

If you look at research papers in computer science, half are what have the following problem: “running a simulation over and over until the authors get the results They like”.

I can’t tell you how many papers with thousands of citations are just blatantly wrong. They don’t run corrections based on the number of simulations they run, they don’t take into account other variables, etc

This isn’t limited to CS either. Biology, economics, environmental sciences, etc all suffer the same fate.

The worst part about it, is it’s PEER REVIEWED. Meaning, others agree this is the way to do things, which is why I don’t trust academia almost at all.
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Note well: the article is about the provenance of the quote, not the veracity or not of the sentence.
Fulfilled by Amazon.de screwed up my last micro-order. I ordered an 8-pack of something and got a 5-pack.

Trivial for small items, but doesn't bode well for high value orders.

It's a confidence issue. Amazon has become a logistics giant but is steadily losing customer confidence.

A combination of fake reviews, fake items, high-friction or just plain missing consumer support on high-value items, and a hopelessly confused mess of a shop front all add up to a mediocre and untrustworthy experience.
Litigation is only for those who can afford the money, time, and aggravation required.
> he has come up with a partnership proposal in which he wants us to transfer IP rights of the product (without any money paid) to a California general partnership entity in which his LLC company will have 51% interest and a managing partner status.

WWWHHHAATT???!!!

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Some parts of an old comment I made:

Did you verify that the previous business are real? Are the previous partners happy? Are the previous partners real?

Imagine the happy path: He is very good, and in 10 years your business is huge and everyone is happy.

Imagine the unhappy path: He is a scammer or a moron, or he has an incompatible vision of the future of the business or whatever. Can you fire him in 3 months? 6 months? Can he fire you? Does he get a fair compensation? Does he get most of your business?

Be sure to understand both scenarios, and perhaps a few intermediate versions.

As a warning, take a look at "A $5000 chair" http://battlehardened.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/a-5000-chair/ HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3564569 (217 points | Feb 8, 2012 | 60 comments)

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More parts of an old comment I made, but in your case I'd just run away:

Make YOUR lawyer review all the paperwork, and get everything in written.

Repeat after me at least three times: "4 years vesting with 1 year cliff"
Ironic how many of the criticisms of the plot of Ubiq (by SF pulp standards) precisely justify Lem's critique of the facile SF audience in TFA.
> The question is, when they offer me with a lower rate how should I deal with the situation so that I don't loose the position and get away with the best deal?

There are no guarantees in negotiation. Projecting confidence and being willing to walk away from a lowball offer will help you negotiate.

If you give the impression that you have no other options and that you will be taking the job even at the lower price, they will likely offer the lower price.

If you give the impression that you are not interested in the job unless they accept your higher price, they will be more likely to negotiate. However, they might also look for alternate candidates who are willing to accept the lower rate. This is a risk you must accept.

One of the best things you can do for yourself is to continue searching for other jobs until you have accepted an offer. Getting too attached to any one job will diminish your negotiating position and the other side may sense this. There will always be more job offers, so don’t sacrifice your requests just to take the first one.
Yeah, they're worse than countries that fund terrorism. And the worst thing is their own population is oblivious to all that. It's consumerism in us that led them to power. If we all need/want a little bit less or make a conscious effort not to buy things made in countries with a track record of human rights abuse, it's gonna make a difference.
Sounds like poor pediatric oversight FWIW.
This has happened to me. In some circumstances banks will still honour a charge even though the card is expired.

You'll have to ask the banks why. In my case it wasn't a problem, but technically it shouldn't happen and it's strange that it did.
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I'd actually disagree here. If he has a job lined up then yeah, your advice is solid. But if he doesn't it's better to accept and then immediately start looking for someone that values you.
Agreed. Bubble envelopes can work okay if they are the correct size, but I often get normal-sized books shipped to me in XXXL size Amazon envelopes. These mailer envelopes are big enough for the book to rotate freely in amy direction inside of the packaging. So it’s inevitable that it arrives with creased or torn pages and jacket. I even had one where the cover separated from the pages. Horrible.

My preferred approach now is to use niche-retailers for things I care about arriving intact on the assumption that if your entire business is about that product category then you should be knowledgeable about how to ship those items safely. Barnes & Noble for books, B&H for camera, BestBuy for consumer electronics and video games, etc.
You admit that the Western evaluation of China was wrong, but then persist in describing their system as “capitalism under authoritarianism”. The Chinese call it the early stage of socialism. It might be worth listening at this point. As you say, their rise is undeniable, and I think there’s a lot we can learn from them in the West.
Only when it is politically convenient
>>"I put exhausts on my vehicles and motorcycles that free the flow of air which makes the engine (an air pump) perform better"

As I mentioned in other thread

1. What proportion of people with straight pipes take them on a track or engage in competitive endeavour

2. What proportion take advanced classes and have the skillset to take advantage of increase performance

3. What proportion put their bike on a dyno before and after to have a foggiest clue if straight pipe does anything

4. What proportion of them tunes the rest of their bike to take advantage of new pipe

5. For how many loud cruisers is performance in any way even remotely an actual consideration? You don't buy a cruiser for speed.

Finally, you can get high flow pipes which are quiet. But that's not really the point is it ;)

I actually respect people who say "I got it because it's loud and cool and gives me a rush" because they're at least honest a*oles, more than 98% of people who claim its for performance but don't have a clue - they're fooling themselves as much as others :-/
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Just wondering at what point it stops being business and becomes theft.

50% mark-up $100m painting seems excessive.
I have a very different experience; when I code, it feels similar to mapping out a conversation or constructing a narrative, and this is how I teach it to my students.

I've met people who view it as mathematics or philosophy or a bunch of other things; in the end, I think there is a wide range of valid mental models for how computers function and therefore how to communicate with them.
> In the future I suspect cancelling will be illegal: the same way vigilante justice is illegal now. Causing a person to be fired/doxxed by a mob for an action that isn't even illegal (free speach) is no more morally noble then going and beating them up over a suspected crime.

I’m incredibly dubious that you can write a law that accomplishes this that won’t run afoul of the first amendment. And honestly, I think that literally jailing attempted “cancellers” would have way more of a chilling effect than whatever “cancel culture” causes.

The solution for this is to change the culture, not to weaponize the power of the state to harm those you dislike. Please stop suggesting it, it will only make things worse.
Concur, recorded delivery has worked like magic for me too in the UK. The UK is also good for consumer activist sites like MSE and regulators / ombudsmen. I bought an insurance policy once which failed to deliver the policy documents, and then wouldn't let me cancel. One email to the ombudsman and I got an apology and full refund within 24 hours.
the rich expect price of goods and services from poorer countries to be lower than in their own country. This is standard, not just in IT, but also in clothes, manufacturing, etc. It's capitalism at its finest.
They're not 300 bucks, buy a surface go or a MacBook air ticks all the boxes of what I want in a netbook!
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> Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay?

Apparently not, because the author has since corrected it.

> the British use single quotes.[1]

It's not that simple, because "the British" rather notoriously spread to many places. There are large ex-colony countries like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, where English is the primary language; and others where it's a major official language, like South Africa and India.

When it comes to rules like the ones you mention, they tend to vary because of varying degrees of American vs. British influence, as well as local variation; and of course, this all changes over time.

A better and more realistic treatment of the subject of punctuation in quotes can be found here: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm
UPS is 100% solid for me too. Been shipping with them within the UK and I know they can be trusted. DPD provides much better delivery tracking though, not only they provide an accurate 1 hour slot, they also take a picture of the parcel being delivered so there's no doubt where it went.
> Political speech, in particular, is supposed to be protected from this kind of treatment.

No, it is not. It is supposed to be protected from the government punishing you over it, any other requirements are purely made up.

> There's also an intermingling of private and public sphere, and firing someone for private legal behavior because some internet hive mind started a smear campaign also should not be lawful

So you would use the power of the state to suppress speech in the name of free speech? I don’t think you’ve thought through the long term consequences of this.
There is some self-reference, but I suppose I always saw that as fan service. Later in their careers FT did a lot of live shows, where die-hard audiences would call-and-response the famous lines, so to me the presence of self-referential gags always felt like a big part of the FT experience.

But to each his own - quid malmborg in plano as they say.
When negotiating salary, always throw the first figure, and make it higher than you expect. It's called anchoring (read about it in Thinking Fast and Slow). It is a lot easier to come down to 120->100/hr then it is to come up from 50->100/hr.

This can be applied to selling/buying a home and a lot of other things.
That doesn't distinguish between "I ordered a book and got a plant mister" and "I ordered a book and got a stapled photocopy with greasy fingerprints."
> , while I believe in 2021 it should be seen as one of the necessary everyday high-level datatypes.

And I add that just the datatype is not enough, because is "this close" to be the foundation for relational programming (p.d: I'm building a relational language where you can say everything is alike data-frames/relations: https://tablam.org).

> It is mostly thought as "some special scientific thing"

This is part of the problem, truly. Being so focused on "science" when I think is better to frame it as data manipulation like you do in SQL tables/views, making it much more general than is used for...
Right. For a regular coffee drinker, coffee has stopped being a boost and is merely a requirement to get back to normal energy.
This. I’ve been avoiding “made in China” products for the last ~4 years.
> Firing an employee or terminating a contract in response to a twitter mob.

So, all I have to do is hire a few Twitter bots once in a while and I’m permanently unfireable?
It is indeed difficult to see how cancelling can be made illegal without curtailing political speech itself.

If there was an easy solution though, it would probably already be in place.
> This is standard...

That's what people tell themselves to justify their exploitation.

I am in the business of providing value. That's what you pay me for and it's commensurate with the amount of value that I can provide.

Your recruiting costs also don't get any cheaper just because I'm not in the same location as you. If you're just looking at a calculation of how many asses can you get into seats for as low an amount of money possible, sure, but I guarantee that makes you a shitty company to work for. Also getting quality output out of a globally distributed team isn't exactly cost-free either.

People really need to stop thinking like employees and more like they're in business for themselves.

I shop out work to artists/artisans all over the world and I can assure you that the illustrators I've contracted in the Philippines and metalworkers I've contracted in China all charge high (normal for US) rates when their work is good. And I'm happy to send them repeat business.
Huge improvement? It doesn't even come close. It's yet another half-assed reimplementation of the easiest PGP features to reimplement. There is no web of trust, no smartcard support, not even signing.

Which is why age has gone nowhere, and pretty much everyone keeps using PGP.
This.

Only do such things if you're in for the exprience and want to leave soon.
Also, the pro for Tennis and Boomerang is if the drone comes closer, you can directly hit it with the racket or the boomerang, while trying to hit it with balls or an arrow wouldn't be as effective.
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If firing for speech is made illegal, then a boycott will be ineffectual and thus not happen. You don't have to outlaw the speech of the mob, just the ability for a company to fire someone over someone's past statements.
Congrats on your family!!
You forgot to mention: all but maybe 200-300 don't give a flying fxxx about the CCP and would prefer to GTFO and immigrate to Australia, Canada or the US if they got a chance.
Dropbox is profitable as long as you exclude the fact that they have to pay people…

How many people who are comparing their costs to using a cloud provider are ignoring redundancy?

And I’m sure your average startup has the capability to maintain their own redundant data center. Besides, does it add business value? Would they really be better off hiring multiple infrastructure people or just paying a cloud provider.

It doesn’t matter why it’s the case. People keep bringing up Dropbox as a shining example of moving away from a cloud provider - and still not being profitable. But ignore a little company - Netflix - that did just the opposite.
A better name would be "Computing Science".
oh good point
you have to go to your sports club. who gets you there initially? if your family doesn't support you, getting into sports needs quite some luck. I'm with you once you're in other parents might compensate and support you. Vive le "Ehrenamt".
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I don't think so. A decade ago was the tea party, that was effectively a Libertarian action by Democrats and Republicans. Libertarian being very "right of center" and combined support indicates some level of popularity. In my experience as formerly labeling myself Libertarian was the only shitty time to be one was around elections because Democrats and Republicans like to blame their failings on you.
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It's not much and mostly right after sleep.

So, yeah, I'll do more training.
Based on some personal experience with "lost" packages, and discussions with delivery drivers, this is also the case in the US. This makes it even more egregious when the carriers quibble because surely they know the package was stolen in transit.
I’ve used a 12-inch MacBook for years as my daily driver for backend web development. It’s perfectly usable if you don’t run any Electron crap or Docker (on Linux it would actually be fine, but Docker for Mac is terrible) and the portability and battery life is amazing.
I had the same feeling but like much else in life it turned out to be adaptable. I find similar feelings from mornings while the world is asleep.

As someone else mentioned, if I camped without artificial light I would get tired at eight. So I switched my evening routine to only use lamps, created a wind down routine, and now I get sleepy around ten and don’t feel good if I stay up.

Feel free to stick with your schedule. But if it is causing you trouble you are probably more adaptable than you think.
I think that it varies.

Due to network effects, there often aren't good alternatives for social media like Facebook or collaborative cloud tools like Google docs.

For games, it's not unusual for indy games to only release on Steam. Even when there is a physical release, that option is becoming increasingly difficult (e.g. many computers no longer have a built in disc drive, many stores no longer carry PC games, etc.).

This is less common than the previous two examples, but it may be difficult to find niche products outside of Etsy. For example, I haven't been able to find another place to purchase this specialized martial arts equipment: https://www.etsy.com/listing/175827423/
My 1215B is still working for most workloads, except Rust even with cranelift, unless I feel like killing the battery.

My Asus S6 is also quite alright (with a keyboard case).

If I would be starting from scratch today I would probably get an Air or a Surface.
I use Uber with this setup just fine.