skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And while I'm not saying you can't have a distributed remote team, the approach of outsourcing software labour to cheaper markets has repeatedly demonstrated that it does not work.

If your goal is primarily to cut costs, yes. If your goal is to hire good engineers and you want to access a global market, the data likely shows the opposite.

2 jobs ago, we had teams in 4 different countries. The top performing team was in a 3rd world country. The US based team (which was the "home" team) was 3rd in terms of performance. All teams worked 40 hours a week or so.

When you can pay above market wages in a cheaper country, you can get pretty good talent. They couldn't afford to pay above market in the US, and frankly, it didn't matter. Most jobs will not benefit from having everyone be outstanding. This wasn't a startup or a FAANG level position. Hiring people in a poorer country was a win-win.

Even if we start going to FAANG companies, they have teams in other countries. I guarantee they are paying them less than what they pay in the Bay area. And I'm pretty sure that "it does work" for them.
what? english please?

edit: why the flagging? do I seriously need to go get a PhD from MIT to understand this and why this is important?
Migration Assistant on a Mac has pretty painless for me for years. If you attach a thunderbolt cable between the two computers, it can migrate a 2TB SSD in usually under a couple hours.
I have sent large amounts all over the place. As for pretending to be anonymous and outside of society, I have no use for that. The issue of crypto currency, besides the resource impact, is the evil that comes from trying to destroy democratic government.
The early narrative around paying for coffee didn't pan out. But right now it is it's an extremely valuable global settlement system.
You probably don't know what you're talking about.
You're a python dev and never had to investigate a segfault in some buggy C module?
I gotta give you credit, "NFTs are important because you can otherwise only have the actual use of the land, not the financially-speculative value of the land" is a bold take given that usually the cryptocurrency pitch (that CCs are a good store of value because they won't inflate relative to real assets) is exactly the opposite.
When you save money, do you save for the long term or for 1.5 months from now? If you save for the long term, and you're earning 0.5% interest on your $10K, how much less can you buy with it now, in terms of real estate, rent, stocks, commodities, etc?

Also, note it is entirely possible to invest on what's called a risk curve. You can allocate some portion of your savings, maybe 5-10% as a hedge. No need to go all in. Maybe 0.5%. at any rate, your savings account has cost you 50% or more in purchasing power for meaningful assets in the past 5 years. While you've gained a great deal of purchasing power if you held crypto.
My assault pack (army backpack) feels like it can survive reentry from space. Military gear has gotten so much better since I joined the military 24 years ago, but it’s so much more expensive.
xpe, have _you_ reviewed the HN Guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html?

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Mostly because, without us really thinking about it, implicitly it was predicated on the premise that the founders would remain largely unemployed for about 6-12 months.
Even through we were looking for work.
And so when most of us found jobs in that time noone really had energy or time for this stuff on the side.

We explicitly determined one day a week to work on this. And kept it up for a while even after people got work.
I was the first to get work and for a while (maybe 3-6 months) I was putting in 5 days on my day job and then 1 more on this.
At some point I quit and formally gifted my share of assets to the other founders (it wasn't really much, we each put in like $100 at the start).
I think it was fully wound up about a year later.
Paid back most of a small arts grant we hadn't managed to spend to the NFP that gave it to us.
Reminded of Ovid.. we may know him now for 'Metamorphoses,' but during his lifetime, his most popular books concerned dating and relationship advice. Such excellent, timeless topics as where to look for love (go for walks around the Colosseum), how to speak at dinner parties, the importance of bathing, give compliments, less is more with regard to cosmetics, etc.
Probably, but the whole thing took about 4 months to shake out, and it was only $3.
The notion of boundary is just not helpful in explaining some phenomena.

A virus RNA in nucleus of neurons in your brain is part of you or not? Is that alive or not? Conscious or not?

The same way as an idea of a point particle breaks down in quantum physics, the idea of binary "you" and "not you" breaks down due to nature of reality.
Please don't cherry pick the worst example and apply it for the whole population.

Tether is one stablecoin, and arguably the worst example since it is literally the one coin every coiner will agree with you is a bad stablecoin. Do a deep dive on MakerDAO's DAI instead.
Or you're drunk too.
[Sorry for posting here. The other thread was flagged and subsequently closed]

Can you suggest me an advanced Bayesian Statistics book that focuses on application without sacrificing too much mathematical rigor?

I am graduating in MS in Stat. I've took a Bayesian Stat course that followed Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath. I liked this book because the author appeals to intuition instead of mathematical rigor. I took 2 semester long statistical inference course, so I am ready for some advance material.
You're spot on. I've dated several chefs, and the reality is that "professional grade" in consumer kitchen devices is basically all a fantasy/farce. Real commercial equipment is generally a huge PITA. It's quite capable stuff, but you don't need those capabilities at home, and everything else about them makes them a net negative, in nearly every case.

The other obnoxious thing is most of what's marketed as "professional grade" to consumers is junk that no commercial kitchen would use. It's just marketing.

You can get some interesting specific stuff on say webrestaraunt store, but you gotta be mindful of the above aspects imo.
I've been trying to find coverage of Reserve from non-Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency publications - basically because I don't trust any of those publications - and I've not been able to find anything convincing yet.

This is a general problem I have with crypto stories: every crypto coin has a built in incentive for people who hold it to hype it so it's really hard to tell if actual regular users are finding it useful yet.
Not just branch predictor,
but "Software Assisted Branch Prediction". See the source at: https://opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-824/runtime/...

Comment near start says:

/// Code for setting up the H14 ObjC branch prediction control registers.
so what are going to do about this?
Far as I can tell bitcoin boosters are either people that can't trust people for some reason, like they are doing something grossly illegal. Or they hate having to trust people.
Defending yourself against the efforts of Google's best minds takes time and energy that could be spent in better ways. Admittedly setting up uBlock is trivial, but going further takes moderate effort that often isn't worth it, especially considering Google have probably worked out how to track you anyway.
Fireside Chat with Chris Cox, Former CPO of Facebook
You want the tech world to tell regulators that, "Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion. It has no social benefit except helping end first dates fast.", and that cryptocurrency solves no problems and creates new ones.

If regulators agreed with these statements, what do you think they would do? And if you don't want cryptocurrencies banned, how do you want them treated differently from today?
My understanding is that the term "Latino" includes both people indigenous to Latin America and people whose ancestors were colonists from Spain. The latter group is generally the larger/more well-known one -- that's why "Latino", a Spanish word, is used to describe them.
Crypto == Cryptography over here. Just FYI
Or AU
I don't see any technical criticisms in the thread, which means "us in the tech world" is just an appeal to meaningless authority.

It's also a bogus attempt to imply a broad consensus where there is none. As someone in tech myself, my personal opinion is that most of the twitter thread is nonsense.
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My strategy for end of day meals when driving long distances is to look for a non-chain brew pub in a smaller town. You are going to find a business that is the passion of the owner and that sets a certain minimum threshold for food quality. Plus if they felt they needed to make their own beer they will probably be paying attention to food instead of selling Sysco glop bucket #6.

Override this strategy if you see a non-chain restaurant that hasn't had its exterior updated in 3 decades with good reviews. They probably have something good going on.

Accept that sometimes this strategy will fail.
Raises immediate associations with "Slaughterbots" of course:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots
This just made me realize that the example given in the article of a 3D framework of strings interacting with a 2d plane would have its own speed limit since the fastest a point created by a string could move would be the case where the string was almost parallel to the plane. It would also stretch the moving point along its axis of movement approaching infinity the closer it got to being parallel. That thought experiment seems even more profound than it initially did. I wish I knew more physics.
Bitcoin inventors were anarcho-capitalists, an ideology that promotes an extreme version of capitalism where there are no governments and corporations have unlimited power.
How to get a ransom without being caught?

How to pay a drug/malware/CP dealer?

How to receive a bribe without physical exchange/trail?

Cash doesn’t work well for any of these use ases, while crypto (esp. Monero) is just perfect!
The hiring process for the company wasn't special. Of course half the stuff they claimed in the interview changed later (was hired as a Java dev but was assigned to Filenet, they said rhet dont outsource or layoff but have started doing both).

This was an internal transfer. There were definitely warning signs in that interview. I was desperate because they were outsourcing my job in an obscure tech (Filenet) and we were expecting a kid.

The hiring manager said something to the effect of, "I was surprised anyone internal even applied to this job".

'Warning flag' doesn't do this justice. I have no idea what to call it, but desperation required I ignore it.
Thank you for the links. So I take it Andreyev is also gothic fiction or do his similarities to Poe lie in some other aspects?
I am making a claim that there has been insufficient progress in e-ink space.

I would love to hear your expert opinion on the causes.

We have not had the explosion in devices and the reduction in prices that has happened in other areas(scanners, various types of printers including 3D,LCD monitors, digital cameras, mobile phones, etc etc). E-ink is stagnating, this has been the constant lament on mobileread forums for 10 years.

Eink corporation usually gets the blame. Maybe they shouldn't and it would be interesting to hear it.

People want high quality color, people want lower prices, and we are not getting it.

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EBook_Reader_Matrix is rather limited.

Only recently we've had some larger devices. Why is only Dasung able to offer a very limited sized monitors and at a very high price to the consumer?

When/if ever will we have $200 e-ink monitors?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fauci-paul-niaid-researc...
An Australian Inventor Wants to Stop Global Warming by Electrifying Everything
I use 6.5 digit calibrated multimeter, precision programmable power supply and programmable load (all from Keysight) to discharge/charge my car's battery:) In total the equipment to do this is almost the cost of the car.

As a bonus I get nice chart and precise measurement of battery capacity:)

Likewise I have precision data logging laboratory thermometer, with current calibration (to 0.01C) to measure temperature of bread dough. Not strictly in category of overkill -- I am running experiments to come up with formula to calculate exact perfect bread dough recipes, taking temperature into account.
Why would someone ever pay a non-authorized bill for hundreds of dollars, after already having purchased the product and paid for shipping??
> If Maciej had hedged his bets and accepted Bitcoin payments for Pinboard in 2013[1], it would most have been the most cost-effective action of his entire life. He would be worth millions more today.

This argument makes me hate cryptobros even more - people who have an interest in cryptocurrencies have direct financial benefit from talking about how good they are.

> He could have used that money to further causes he cares about, such as climate change and social issues.

Financial benefit from something doesn't make it right or morally acceptable, it only makes you rich.
> So what part of falling in love with people in the lab, people in the lab falling in love with you, and that affecting concentration and productivity, is so evil as to get someone fired?

Fundamentally, he is saying that since he has trouble keeping his emotions in check around women, the solution is to not allow women in the lab rather than developing his own managerial or social skills.

It's understandable why some would question the wisdom of having this person responsible for developing the skills of female scientists.

Should he have been fired? I don't know. Certainly not if tis joke was is only "offence", but I suspect there is a bit more history to the situation.
Yes - have a backup of your dev machine to restore from. Apple’s TimeMachine is a godsend. I’ve never had a windows backup program work w/o a lot of fuss.

An extra $150 external backup HDD is worth any crash at work, get your company to get it for every dev.
Well, despite your technical definition, it would seem it gained function.
Thanks for posting this, phenomenal film and amazing documentary. RIP Syd Mead
Because I doubt anybody complaining about decline used a feature available for two decades and saw decline in it.
I have a lot of digital artist friends who used to rely on live performances and installations for their money, now they're seriously killing it selling NFTs

Some of them opt out of more environmentally unfriendly stuff like Ethereum for sure

Personally I've developed systems for paying for everyday things like your bus fare or phone bill using crypto in a country where there's a hell of a lot less confidence in fiat (Brazil) -- hell check out the history of the Brazilian Real if you want an idea of what real candycorn money looks like

Personally I just feel a hell of a lot of privileged bullshit out of people arguing that crypto is some good for nothing shit. Yeah sure great try living in a country where your government is fucked. We truly don't live in some francis fukuyama neoliberal fantasy world where we can trust stuff like traditional financial markets which have gone and failed us in the non english speaking world time and time again. I welcome any and all alternatives
I would attribute this perception to state and county highways increasingly being used as last resorts when interstates are not available. The major interstate stops are newer and more planned out. The diners are still there but are increasingly outnumbered as commercial infrastructure is continually built. I agree that locally owned, unique stops are a better experience than a series of Casey’s and the like and hope that Americans will become more adventurous again, which could cause capital investment to return to unique establishments.
Isn’t this the same as “pay with PayPal/Amazon pay/etc”?
You have a great point, but let's balance this out with a few of the author's other comments.

- OP uses the phrasing senior engineer.

- Never worked for FAANG. This is relevant because $120k + bonus/benefits is basically a FAANG new grad. Fairly normal for SV tech companies.

- Those numbers likely provide a solid standard of living, but as a senior engineer you are likely underpaid.

- Esoteric and proprietary knowledge means if you choose to go elsewhere, you will be at a competitive disadvantage compared to using industry standard tools. There are of course tradeoffs and lots of general learning that comes with experience, but all other things equal it's a disadvantage.

> I guess those numbers also explain why the author can recommend maxing out the 401k

Yes, but again fairly typical for the target audience I think. There are even startups trying to target this market to optimize the flow of money from salary -> 401k -> post tax contributions/megabackdoor -> other investments, brokerage accounts, etc., e.g. https://www.helloplaybook.com/

Just as a sanity check, BLS suggests the median SWE wages work out to ~$110k.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
It's a hash tree with a vape cloud around it, not quantum chromodynamics. I think most people on this technical forum understand it just fine.
Unfortunately the global economy is a pyramid scheme as well, based on the unsustainable promise of infinite growth
> Depending on what country I travel to, Ill be using a different app like Grab or Didi or a local taxi app that were all made possible by Uber's initial disruption.

Local Taxi hailing apps were first. Uber adopted this and their disruption of many local markets happened only after offering cheaper alternatives by burning money.
I think what they're saying is that it's especially ridiculous given you don't even get a say in courier. And yet _you_ are made responsible for clawing back money from the courier if they screw up.

I agree that underlines how especially ridiculous it is.
The very problem that PayPal solves, and why Elon now builds rockets (and Google Pay, and Pay with Amazon, to come full circle). However, inevitably the vendor wants your details in their own database and now you're back to having to interact with their terrible UX, just with the benefit of a breach no longer exfiltrating your credit card info

That's not even mentioning the network effect, where a service has to have enough adoption or demand to "force" other merchants to accept it
Sometimes this is true for me, other times I still have to turn on the display with one remote, turn on the speakers with another remote, turn on the playstation with another controller. From there all my "castable" apps (youtube, netflix, spotify, others) also recognize my playstation as a device.

The other path is with the chromecast, which turns on with the display.

Did you ever notice that Playstations do audio much better than Chromecast? So I rarely use my Chromecast. The several hundred dollar difference is not an argument to me, I expected the Chromecast to not have a difference in audio.
My prior manager said something about everyone should be contributing the max. Easy for him to say as a manager... with a physician as a wife.
Like when he said we shouldn’t use masks?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...
Unnecessary.

There are non-technical heuristics that we can all employ, through our knowledge of history and sociology, that allow us to identify late stage bubbles (and the pyramids and ponzis that accompany them).

I don’t have a taxi driver but I do have taxi driver equivalents in my life that are currently giving me all the signals I need.
Fees of blockchains are at times very high because the demand vastly exceeds their current transaction capabilities
Let me know if you want a hand in setting up a private key on a normal computer
I'll admit to banging out v0.0.0 code with a buzz. Mostly it's comments and shit-code as documentation. Sober eyes and test cases before production.

So maybe write drunk, edit sober does work
Sweetwater is nothing like Amazon’s customer support.

You can’t call Amazon and ask them what equipment you need to accomplish a task. Among many other differences…
Nice lib ! I’ll try it as soon as I can, there are a ton of options and it supports multiple frameworks.

Great job !
Oh definitely they’re using it fraudulently; but whether or not the seller defrauded the logistics provider, it’s the logistics provider that put up the import duty bond.

Legally speaking, you owe the logistics provider money separately from any contract between the logistics provider and the seller. And so the logistics provider will attempt to collect on it, up to the point of impacting your credit score.

Its similar to if you had a valet park your car, and they parked it in a pay parking lot they don’t have authorization for, and your car got ticketed/towed. The fact that the valet is in trouble, and the fact that you owe money, are independent facts.
> If I'd make a list of 100 questions regarding crypto, an exam so to speak, I am reasonably sure that this silent majority can't even answer 5% of the questions.

I'd reckon that the average HN cryptocurrency skeptic would do better than the average person who's actually invested in crypto.
>VWR - This is my kitchen goods store. Usually sells billions of dollars of things to labs around the world.

These days they're notorious for shipping backlogs (my lab ordered things 5 months ago and still hasn't got them).
I'd be interested in seeing this exam!
lighting the earth's natural resources literally on fire to create currency is pretty violent towards human life.
Thanks to your comment I just found https://www.rsonline-privat.de but the site doesn't seem to have free shipping during the weekend (at least now 1h before the end of Sunday).
You seem like a very smart and highly technical person so I find it incredibly hard to believe you would have left vast sums of crypto on an unregulated exchange.

You're either being dishonest here or you consider yourself extremely naive.
This is a great write up on how Tether is super scammy

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/nfv8vg/the_te...
Apple's iPad Pro is amazing, but iPadOS holds it back from its true potential
Huh? Not in the original article, or in OPs reply, unless I'm seriously misunderstanding him. He's talking about the pros/cons of cryptocurrency.
That is demonstrably false.

You can absolutely write DSLs, mocks, and spies in a statically-typed language.
On trips I used to time stops for future reference. It's surprising how long they take. Sure you can gas up a car in 5 minutes. But in practice it's usually a lot longer. 15 to 20 minutes is more common. For food, 30-45 minutes. Sit down dinner is often an hour and a half.
The people who have the capability to use and exchange cryptocurrencies in developing countries are those who already have local or foreign bank accounts denominated in USD or EUR.

These same people then mine coins in those countries, utilising cheap or subsidised electricity, resulting in power shortages.

As we have seen in Turkey, these exchanges can be easily shut down, or the founder can simply disappear with all the cash.

These are not really long term solutions, and the existence of cyrptocoins is probably making the individual lives of people in the 3rd world worse.

I think its more likely that if these grey-market coins didn't exist, the local tech bros in the 2nd/3rd world would actually be pushing Governments to improve general financial regulation and stability, and building a proper series of banking companies themselves.