skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We talk about management as if they were appointed by corporate divine right. These too are just people, and their job is also just a job. These ‘clever’ policies of top-down social manipulation often fail because there is no such thing as top-down execution of policy. All action in any system or organization is bottom-up. This is tautological. But information only propagates top-down. This is because of destructive mixing on the way up. So any policy that is designed to expect execution according to dictate is bound to fail, as individual actors will seek only their own best benefit and security. This has broad implications across business and politics. Most strategy games (e.g. Civilization) also help imprint this fallacy, and history books can’t avoid simplifying explanations that require omnipotence of a single agent. Its probably more reasonable to say that, while information asymmetry tends to create single points of accumulation for tremendous wealth and influence, the same principle in reverse also says that these are somewhat random choices, and they actually have no real power to do anything but filter, accumulate, and distribute the benefit of actions that that flow through them.
Looks a bit like adware IMO. The library appears to be drenched in analytics. Dependencies include:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-vitals/v/0.1.0
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs

Harvesting user's data, most likely...
Experts exchange was NEVER the place to get answers. They just perfected the SEO so that Google would point to them first. But everything was behind paywalls and it was never useful.
Terrapower finally gets a shot to create a demonstration reactor for wasteless nuclear power. I only hope the slated 7 year build time doesn't get delayed.
Definitely not. Meals and snacks are becoming common perks in tech even outside of SF/the US, and people (especially young grads fresh out of college) are beginning to ask for them. I personally keep a look out for it, too, since I eat a lot healthier when compared to ordering food, and save a lot of time compared to cooking it.
Another example of my comment.

JVM wasn't the first nor the only bytecode format around.

The early ones go back to 1961, and there are plenty of multiple language ones.
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> When we've all had our time with the candidate, we meet back up to discuss. And at the end, the Bar Raiser- not the HM- makes the decision.

Either you haven't been part of the panel in a while or you haven't worked for Amazon. BR's responsibility is not to make the sole decision but help the panel achieve consensus. This is very clear in the interview training.
I had to analyze whether or not this overall exchange was a fortunate one. It was! Bravo.
Yes, it's absolutely wonderful. I hope to never need it, but I'm so happy it exists for everyone that does.

It also shows why controller compatibility between consoles might be more important than one would think: the "native" controllers might just be inaccessible. If you want to play on a Switch, you can use an adapter [0] to use the Adaptive Controller. Similar products exist for the PS4, I believe. Hopefully someone reverses the protocol DualSense speaks with PS5 sooner rather than later and can make an adapter for that as well.

[0] https://www.mayflash.com/Products/NINTENDOWiiU/MAGIC-NS.html
It’s a big company, maybe my experience was unique. But nothing about this resonates with what I experienced at AWS. It was a relatively safe bet to assume your team would 2x in size over the coming 12-18mo. That’s definitely easier to do by not churning large numbers of people. We never hired someone we weren’t high conviction in. And I recall management calling out our very low rate of unregrettable attrition as a very positive thing in the annual review.
There is a lot of Chinese immigrants working in the fashion and textile industry in those areas in Northern Italy, with frequent flight connections to Wuhan, which is also a hub for fashion and textile industry.
As it is in the Columbia Journalism Review in their "The Media Today" section, I think it is quite simply summarizing the situation for their readers.
They probably would if not for the PR and resulting regulatory hurdles.

Modern designs like molten salt reactors are also amenable to making them much smaller which ties in nicely with your other objections about centralization and corruption. Ultimately we could get back to the 1950s dream of each house having its own small, safe nuclear reactor providing them with independent power.
Nobody will ever get documents that proves as that is confidential information. If you want anecdotal evidence, you can check Blind.
Except this is all about running outside the browser.

The new applets was Flash with their new format that supported C++ as well, Silverlight and PNaCL.
This seems obviously false? I want it and I understand it? Corporate ITs would want it to mitigate risk?
> A given theory can be a conspiracy and racist and, at root, true, just as a given theory can be scientifically grounded and not racist and, at root, false; who is propounding it, and why, and based on what, matters.

Truth is an absolute defense against charges of libel and slander, but not, apparently, against the charge of racism.
I feel like you make a better argument against using cash rather than for using crypto. I don’t use cash anymore because I do want transaction reversibility and fraud/theft/loss protection. You say it isn’t “necessary” but in the same vein nothing that crypto offers is “necessary.”
Absolutely there are certain upgrades which require large component upgrades but those are few and far between. But this doesn't require a new GPU, case, case fans, storage media etc.

DDR4 as an example was released 7 years ago and DDR5 is still yet to be released not less a required upgrade for a new CPU.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374840
Please remember that not everybody here works for FAANG or similar companies.
Anthropologists and the business of sense-making at work
I had a pleasure to watch an amazing talk from Joe Armstrong at Reaktor Breakpoint 2015 in Helsinki.

The funniest part of the talk was when Joe presented a diagram showing the stock market value of Ericsson being up always when he was working at Ericsson. :-D

I even had a chance to have a beer with him afterwards and talk about some programming ideas related to audio programming and also some related to typography!

RIP Joe Armstrong, you were an amazing person and programmer.
What I thought of when I saw this was not the bodywork of Italian cars, but the rest of the engineering that you don't see until you look underneath.

I was really struck by the chassis of, for instance, 90s Ferraris, when I first saw a picture. They look so primitive, like something from the 60s or earlier, compared to a vehicle made by one of the big Japanese or American companies.

My impression is that until recently, the really prestigious brands that made super expensive cars were paradoxically impoverished themselves, so had to make severe tradeoffs in engineering and development. The only way to compensate was by racing and making beautiful sheet metal. I watched a Doug DeMuro video on an 80s Lamborghini and up close, it was just weird, almost like a kit car.

Nowadays, Ferrari is an expanding public company, and probably suppliers can give small car makers parts that are more on the level of the big companies.

I assume that Lamborghini no longer has to use Nissan headlights due to lack of resources to develop their own.
500MW peak delivery is not _that_ small. But it still puts the cost at planned 2 $/W, whereas solar apparently ranges between 0.82 and 1.2 $/W. It will require quite some political willpower to get this through.
Almost,

"Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...
Our fathers CPI is never coming back either. What i wouldn't give for that...
> Pro tip if you're working at Amazon: if you get a PCS with no additional grant and no base increase, you're on the development list. Find another job, or do something amazing.

Allegedly, the only sure-fire way of knowing if you are on Focus/Dev list is if you ask your manager point-blank about it and they have to respond with the truth.
I would guess it’s probably that, some kind of secret trial period, or some scheme to get out of paying benefits. I can’t imagine Amazon of all companies has a pattern of “accidentally” firing people they just hired.
True. Plus, Google and Apple already have so many first party services to dictate the type of data they need. Ominous signs for Facebook ahead
Do you see more-than-usual overweight people in this group?

(Never cooking is very, very rare here in The Netherlands so I'm curious about any anecdata here).
personal choice does matter. but people are lazy and entitled and would rather government force someone else to fix the issue for them so they can have a good conscience without changing their lifestyle at all.

you actually need both. not just one or the other
>Clearly, optional privacy is not privacy at all.

This is a marketing term without actual meaning. There's a system with some anonymity. Then there's the external world. There's no 'optional' anonymity. The error lies in incorrectly comparing monero to zcash as a whole, instead of shielded transactions themselves. Names themselves are irrelevant. Depositing xmr to an exchange is equivalent to withdrawing from the anonymity pool.

From the design perspective, the mixin model is vulnerable to an active adversary that has spent output data from exchanges and spams the chain to generate recent known outputs when the target makes transactions. Full zk-snark anonymity is fully resistant to this.

A problem of both xmr and zcash is that they have no other use than anonymity, making it easier to ban and impractical for larger amounts and forcing commerce to hedge price risk, generating deanonymizing metadata. For actual commerce anonymous dollar is the ideal, for as long as dollar remains the main unit of account in the world.

https://zk.money supports dai, although it's still in alpha with a limit of $1000 per external deposit.

https://aztec.network/index.html
i.reddit.com is mobile-optimized while still having the old.reddit.com sensibilities.
What's funny about parent's remark?
Co-pilot is a really great idea, and also so simple. Definitely one of those "why didn't we think of that before?" moments.
Right and that's but but clearly my post was in response to the user who commented that with increased integration/soldering of parts if one part fails you need to throw the entire thing out rather upgrading that specific component.

In your case, if nothing fails in your machine both options don't impact you at all. Whereas if a part does fail you might be up for a more expensive repair bill than previous
Other people fight it by adding a defined iteration order. That works just as well and don't introduce randomness.
Well, in the case of that paper it's true. It's using deductive reasoning, but my statement is more easily read about inductive reasoning. However, you could equally read it, "other theories that provide predictions that contradict this reasoning". My point was be constructive and creative, not just dismissive and destructive. Have something to offer, an alternative way of viewing the world, rather than just saying "this way doesn't work".

But reading it the way you did, I disagree. We do have plenty of data on aliens. Do we have any "data" on drug-use? On parental abuse? On sexual assault? Most of these "data" are self-reported by people involved. But that's "hard data" from a public health / legal point of view.

Equivalently, we have plenty of witness data about actual non-human beings in craft. And we have plenty of data about craft that seem to exceed anything we are capable of. So we have "we do have plenty of data" not "we don't have any data at all" is what you meant to say, if you were reading the world consistently, honestly and openly.
They should just get everyone together for an annual parade—it's what any good autocrat would do.

Think WWDC but with scrum teams in matching hoodies marching by Cook's podium.
Why Silent Treatment?
> They're likely to be extremely adversarial against workers who want a raise in pay, better hours, better working conditions, generally anything that would reduce their profits in any way.

This wasn’t true in literally every business I’ve worked for.

If you expect someone to behave adversarially and you act in kind (forming unions), then you’ve already poisoned the relationship.

Perhaps it’s different because I’ve been in highly skilled labor pools but you’re setting yourself up for a life of bare minimums and limited advancement if you assume every business relationship you go into is adversarial.
I wonder if the new Wizer component can be used by other projects in the WebAssembly space, e.g. Wasmer?

https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer

(Haven't fully grasped how they're different from wasmtime, but I think they've spend more effort on embedding the runtime into other languages)
It's not just about the backups. If these people encrypted your data that means they had a good chance to copy a lot of it and threaten to release it if you don't pay.
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No, the OP's comment is wrong.
Ways to Forgiveness and Reconciliation: A Perspective from the Amish (2015) [pdf]
> It's a huge power imbalance.

No it’s not. You literally just quit and move on. This is one of the easiest environments to find a job in if you have a decent resume of actually working somewhere for more than a few months.
I don't think you can argue that a society built on admitting based on diversity rather than even imperfect standardized testing can be more independent of the pre-existing network. By denying admits from poor "overrepresented" minorities you preserve the status quo, since in practice affirmative action merely admits minorities who are already wealthy and connected rather than lifting people out of poverty. At least in the Gao Kao system you have new entrants in upper socioeconomic tiers since you can realistically study your way out of poverty. Those entrants can bring new viewpoints whereas wealthy people, even if they're different races, are fairly homogenous in life experience.

Personally I believe standardized tests reflect the degree of time and diligence invested into preparing for them ("grit"), which although negatively impacted by poverty is still a strong signal for future success.
That sounds nice. I'm surprised "work where you want" hasn't gotten more press time. Hybrid is so much weirder.
What good is that? You'll still be coupled to municipal water supplies, sewers, roads, communication infrastructure...
How much is solar energy storage for winter months and rainy/cloudy summers though.
It’s a lot harder to watch YouTube at work.
But solar is not able to produce more energy on a demand spike. And batteries are expensive, so if you store it the price goes up.

Nuclear is not an alternative but a reinforcement.
Outsider perspective: American media went crazy.

American perspective: We hate the other half of our own country, so we need our media to be crazy. It's all for a good cause.
Racism is too cheap these days, as it often speaks of intentions hard to prove. You may call it bad faith though.
StackOverflow was successfully expanding their service even before this purchase. I'd imagine stackoverflow jobs is a valuable area - sure it's not linkedin but it's still really good. SO also has really strong community following so there's always room for easy expanding.

It's not about the QA area but other areas that surround it. There are a lot of ways to integrate products to QA part of the web - you already see "Python jobs" on python questions which I'd imagine should work really well!
The unfortunate part of this is that once people start responding to e-mails at 12AM, suddenly everybody is expected to respond at 12AM. It's a race to the bottom when separation from work and home life isn't really mandated.

I've faced this first hand as I switch from one company to another. In my previous place, we enforced a hard limit on when we could be expected to respond, and nobody ever messaged me on slack/ sent me an e-mail after that. At my new place, people are constantly e-mailing and messaging into the small hours of the night. It's tiring to watch.
> I assume that Lamborghini no longer has to use Nissan headlights due to lack of resources to develop their own.

Note on this, Lamborghini is now owned by the Volkswagen/Audi Group, so while they don't use nissan parts any more, basically every component bears a VW or Audi logo
We talk about the time-value of money; perhaps there’s also a time-value of time.
Me: High School Sophomore in the early 90's

Class: English

Book: The Lilies of the Field

Assignment: Write about what the main character (Homer) does after leaving the nuns he'd helped.

What I did: Wrote a hysterical (to me, at the time) story about how he went to South America in search of a mystical coffee with some made up Latin name which, when translated, meant "Grave-digging coffee that really stinks". I'm still proud of that line. His team of scientists (who all looked like "Billy" from The Far Side) were all killed in various ways while traversing the Amazon, all of them funny (to me, at the time). I was very, very happy with myself. Creative writing was fun.

Teacher: Rewrite it, be serious.

Me: Wrote some drivel that I hated, turned it in, got a lousy grade.

That stifled me for a long time, because it's been hard ever since to just let loose on a story. I criticize it every step of the way now. I find short form poetry (often as music lyrics) to be far simpler and just as expressive if not more so.
Well, to make analogy with the grocery store complete, it’s not just refusing service, but accepting the money and refusing goods, while holding the money for 180 days.
Storage at scales anywhere near what would be required to make any significant impact on fossil fuel use remains unavailable. To put this in perspective, the world uses about 60 TWh of electricity per day. And that's just grid electricity, it doesn't include heating (both for homes and for industry) and fuel.
Some MS person down voted this I guess. :) I have Teams accounts in at least a handful of tenants and it does not work for chatting.
I’m not sure what your point even is. Twitter should just not allow people to claim other people raped/robbed/etc without pointing to some actual conviction or ongoing trial.

No letting a pool of people decide guilt based on literally no evidence. That’s insane.
This is de-risking. Also it’s a minuscule percentage right now.
https://blog.coinbase.com/responding-to-firefox-0-days-in-th...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/department-energy-pi... an older article that talks about the TerraPower reactor mentioned in the article, they say that it has to run on 20% enriched Uranium, wouldn't that have the potential to create problems with nuclear proliferation?

interesting that only one company seems to be working on a thorium cycle reactor https://flibe-energy.com/ . Why don't they invest more into this direction, instead?
> If have to guess that most people don't

Most people definitely don't, at $1825 a month that's already more than the median cost of rent in the U.S.
https://disboard.org/servers/tag/darknet
http://archive.is/Gly6h
that would be pretty telling, I expected python to be big advantage for blender but if the internals/model are fluffy, and fluffier than good old maya i'd be worried
Why local development for serverless is an anti-pattern
Bar Raiser may not make the final decision, but he/she can block a clearly bad hire.
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Whether democracy is “a lie” depends on what the thing it is supposed to be is.

If it is supposed to channel the collective spirit/collective will of the populace, well, it doesn’t do that, because there is no such collective spirit.

If instead it is a mechanism to avoid succession crises, and also tend to pick options that are in alignment with an overwhelming consensus, then the systems in place are actually quite good at those things (though there is still definitely room for improvements to be made on the latter thing).

If what democracy means is the first thing, then it is false. If it means the second thing, it is true.
Perhaps then they should offer raises across the board.
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Could you find the link? I'm not sure kubernetes can really replace erlang. Some of the key things that distinguishes erlang are

- light "threads" and supervision of them

- OTP which is largely a library other languages with message passing and light threads could implement

- garbage collection per light "thread" rather than stop-the-world

Akka was on the right track in supporting the same approach to highly concurrent and fault tolerant software. The JVM might have gotten better at garbage collection without paid plugins since 2015 when I last used Erlang?

But I'm curious what stack in particular is seen as superceding erlang.
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No - TFA mentions teams can come in all five days if they want to.
> But this definition has nothing to do with the article's topic. You can s/upside decay/-8 luck/ without having much impact on what the first ~2/3 mean.

Given that the very first appearance of the term "Upside decay" says "an organization doesn’t get any lucky breaks." I think the author would agree with you on this point. I don't see how this is a criticism; until the author finishes their explanation, the explanation is incomplete?
Huawei replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android