skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Honesty is something that never goes down well in an interview when it comes to being critical. (At least in the US)

I wouldn't paint all tech companies in the U.S. with such broad strokes. In the interview loop for the job I have now in the U.S., every single interviewer asked me a question about "how things could have gone better." I talked about mistakes I made, lessons learned, and how I could do better next time.

I am told the feedback from that loop was across-the-board "outstanding."
With SASE still on horizon, hybrid's the path for software-defined networks
Yes it has. Several other comments have pointed out 'reaching a deal' vs. 'it has been enacted everywhere'; I'll just add that it's not at all novel language, e.g. Brexit saw the UK & EU reaching deals before (or without ever) enacting them.
Right. It’s not whether he was successful or not, it’s whether he used knowledge not disclosed to the public to make his decisions.
No not at all. I'm saying that it's not the reason why I couldn't comment further.

The conflict of interest (I'm not sure that's the most precise term here, but I'll go with it) is obvious, everyone's aware of it, and it doesn't normally (nor should it) stop me from sharing information with the community. HN readers are curious, generally like more information rather than less, and are smart enough to make up their own minds. And although you can call it a conflict, actually just sharing what's happening is a way to build trust with readers.

The difference in this case was not any of that—it's just that it's not my call what YC does or doesn't publish about its internal affairs, so I don't get to share information like I normally would. I don't like that; my comfort zone is, like I said, to tell HN readers whatever relevant information I can and let them decide for themselves. That has worked well over the years and continues to. But other people have different jobs and need to make decisions from different perspectives.
But that's not what happened. People didn't rebuild their homes, they left and never came back.
I wonder if they investigated a format for relative coordinates that used 3 bytes .. in the example ivg it would potentially save a lot of bytes, but at the cost of less exact coordinates.
The number of dog attacks that occur in the US every year suggest your “you can always avoid a dog attack” model is completely wrong.
Mr. Judge lol. In a court of law you have to proof guild of someone and you can't.

You are literally blaming a moderator for doing his job. Lol

If you are so hateful against moderation here, you could try something else.
Or, it’s a symptom of the ownership of the search experience being smeared out through a large organization.
This comment section if full of interesting stories! Gold content here!
Source on masks not working?

Their usefulness in non crowded spaces in open air is probably debatable but if you're in an elevator with 10 people sneezing wouldn't you rather wear one? Why does every surgeon in the world wear one?

So the question is in what exact circumstances are they useful. I'd say during a pandemic it's probably better to err on the safe side.
I mean, that clearly doesn't seem reasonable long-term to any mathematically literate layperson, since after ~917 years, the maximum wealth would be less than the median. (10'000x * .99^917 = 99.42%) But I suppose it's not like it'll last that long before corruption sets in anyway.
You are aware that the government you are applauding censors access to other portions of the Web too, yes? Or do you think *.twitter.com is magically the first?
I think we may have crossed signals somehow because I'm certainly not denying any of that—it's obvious and the community is well aware of it. Respect for the delicate conditions under which the HN community, the HN moderators, and YC interface with each other informs everything about how we moderate HN, as anyone who reads my comment history will find. You can look at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... for examples if you (or anyone) cares.

What I don't respect so much is Twitter drama and misleading rhetoric. To the extent that readers care about this at all, they should get to hear both sides of the story so they could make up their minds for themselves. But it's not my call, so I don't get to go there this time.

More interestingly perhaps, I think it would be a big mistake, for community relations, to hide behind bureaucratic language about this stuff (e.g. "as there is a conflict of interest, I will not comment"). HN readers aren't used to that. They're used to getting the inside story and to feeling personally connected to the people who run HN and to some extent YC. To flip a switch and suddenly turn that off when something like this happens would send all the wrong signals. My commitment to people here is to tell them as much as I can about whatever they're curious to know, and to interact with them as a human, not as a corporate role. That's what I meant by "bloodless ghoul" - I apologize if that wasn't clear - my language maybe gets more colorful late at night.
>So we’re just going to close all the restaurants, eat at home and take sandwiches with us everywhere because nobody will want to work in service jobs?

This is a strawman. Nobody is claiming that we'll close all restaurants. People who want extra money (or just want something to do) will work in service jobs, and if the supply of workers is too low then that will heavily incentivise automation and investing in productivity improvents.
The fact that this behavior may not meet the legal criteria for an insider trading charge does not make it morally right.
"The standard" is primitive, barbaric, and violent. It's high time to evolve and civilize. Language shapes thought. Thought can shape language. Stop glorifying violent idioms.
> I suspect this is based on Marx's analysis of the creation of value. That is, for Marx only primary production creates value, all other economic or human activity destroys value.

Can I have a source for that please? It seems absurd.

> They are additional services that increase the cost of the product, and Marx actually used the term parasitic for these activities and argued they should all be minimised or preferably eliminated.

Today we use the term "overhead". Are you saying that the cost of distributing products should not be minimized?

> The result was actual productivity in the real economy collapsed because it turns out some of these parasitic activities are kind of important. They ruthlessly stripped out all the bullshit and produced stale, drab societies of bored hungry drones. Thanks guys.

So the Soviet economy failed because... the things it produced were not actually distributed to the people as that would have destroyed value in the eyes of the CPSU? I never heard of that theory before.

> Who actually needs plays, books of fiction, music, [...]?

As a specific example? People who like to criticise them after dinner, like Marx.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8116796-for-as-soon-as-the-...
applying a force perpendicular to the velocity does not change the speed, only the direction. Only the component of the force tangent to the velocity vector (the projection) is relevant for controlling the max speed
I'm aware of what you're referring to, and I can assure you that this cultural gap can often extend beyond just the interview and into the workplace.
There are _so many_ reasons it can suck to be a freelancer

- lots of time spent on marketing, network building, and sales. You don’t get paid for this time.

- you have no benefits that you don’t purchase yourself. In the US this means very expensive healthcare

- you are first to go when things get tight for your clients.

- nobody at the company cares about your growth or mental health under crushing workloads.

- PAYMENT RISK - ready to wait 30, 60, or 90 days to get paid, only to be get the runaround by some Rando in the clients accounts payable? And what can you do anyway if they can’t pay you?

- double taxation in the US as you must also pay employers taxes on yourself

The main upside is you can charge higher rates. So if you can handle cash flow issues, have light benefit needs, can ride instability in workloads, and like networking a ton - then it’s a great fit! But there’s a pretty specific group of people that thrive as a freelancer.
Golly would crush them all.
> It's kinda surprising that symmetric-key algorithms have been so resistant to attacks.

Not really. RSA was subject to attacks because it relies on arithmetic, which has a lot of structure and you can exploit that structure. Thus a number-theoretic advance in factoring becomes an attack on RSA. The reason why ECC is so much stronger on a per-bit basis is because there is a lot less (known) structure to group multiplication on a curve than to integer multiplication. But with the primitives used in symmetric cryptography -- basically substitution or in math terms a permutation -- there is almost no mathematical structure to exploit from general permutations of elements.

Incidentally, one of the concerns that many have about AES is the agressive design and reliance on inversion in the S-boxes which does have some arithmetic structure. E.g. in AES, the permutations are obtained from taking the reciprocal of field elements, so there is some math there. The Soviets famously went in a different direction, generating their s-boxes randomly so there would be no structure whatsoever. Those heavy-duty ciphers are built like tanks and stood up well over time, their only weakness was small block sizes for early versions of the cipher.
Difference between drop and truncate in SQL server
Arguably the S3 object system is also "functional" in spirit, even if it's single-dispatch.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3531.pdf

Object-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming and R (John M. Chambers)

"Chambers and Hastie (1992), in the discussion of classes and methods, noted that S differed from other OOP languages because of its functional programming style. In fact, this version of functional OOP finessed the resulting distinction from encapsulated OOP in two ways. First, the methods were dispatched according to a single argument, the first formal argument of the generic function in principle. As a result, the methods were unambiguously associated with a single class, as they would be in encapsulated OOP. Methods were actually dispatched on either argument to the usual binary operators, but a number of encapsulated OOP languages do the same, under the euphemism of operator overloading.

"Second, the question of whether methods belonged to a class or a function was avoided by not having them belong to either. Methods were assigned as ordinary functions and identified by the pattern of their name: “function.class”. In any case, there were no class objects and generic functions were ordinary functions that invoked UseMethod() to select and call the appropriate method. Neither the function nor the class was able to own the methods."
You are entitled to your feelings of course, but the design of the two systems could not be more different.
> Without stablecoins, people that want to cash out at a certain price will be cashing out to fiat, which generally is not a seamless process and requires stronger KYC, etc.

Are we talking about whales or someone holding a bitcoin or two? Trading/withdraw limits at non-USDT exchanges (eg. coinbase/kraken/gemini) are quite generous, and you'd only be running into issues if you're selling several bitcoins per day. As a concrete example, kraken has a $500k daily withdraw limit for their "Intermediate" account.
Bertrand Russell: What I Have Lived For
The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's Autobiography

What I Have Lived For

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
You're really fixating legal definitions on insider trading. Oddly enough, we're discussing the activities of the people WHO MAKE THOSE DEFINITIONS.

I think most americans are pretty uncomfortable with our leaders profiting off their own decisions and information they have access to but we don't. Those briefings were private. It's also deeply troubling that they were saying one thing, and privately doing another
> But then, once your code has RefCell<> everywhere, you're incurring runtime overhead

The runtime overhead is quite trivial (a single word per object IIRC, which is accessed w/ simple increments/decrements/checks as needed) and work is ongoing on abstractions that don't incur any hidden overhead (called 'GhostCell').
I predict your proposal will significantly increase the demand for yachts.
The difference is they NOW tell you and it's a toggle between performance and battery life so users can choose and understand why their phone is slower and what to do about it. This was because of the outcome of a class action lawsuit and not the goodness of Apple's heart. They were hiding that they do this before. If it was so great why hide it?

It scares someone into not trusting the repair shop! That's the whole point. Would you have kept going to your mechanic for 10 years if on the second visit when you turned the car on the speaker blared about a potentially harmful non-genuine part being installed? Or would you have gone to the dealership?
How is that different than 8 kw of solar panels in a utility scale solar installation that costs significantly less than your residential system? $0.94/W for utility scale [1], and $2.81/W for residential [2].

1. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/key-2020-us-sol...
2. https://news.energysage.com/how-much-does-the-average-solar-...
I actually like dogs. Id be honored to have my BF entrust his dog to me for a few days.

But the onus is not on me to meet your pet half way, learn the species’ “tells” or pretend that there are no irresponsible owners.

The onus is on you.
You could integrate this with adtech to help make advertisements more interactive and to analyze how the viewer is receiving the ad by their pose and facial expressions. Based on that you could have an algorithm serve only ads that improve facial expressions and poses to positive ones
Starlink is a life saver for this situation.

Family in Placerville CA went from unusable <1mbps viasat to 50-190mbps overnight.

I hope it puts all the geostationary satellite companies into bankruptcy.
thank you! we plan to add some more pinpoint updates for common updates to improve performance further (while staying under 1kb ;])
While yes liquidity drives share prices over the short term, as a general rule that's nonsense. What do you think it means for them to be "valued as a commodity"? Why do you think shares have any value at all, or have any connection with company performance? Over just the past 3 years facebook has paid out almost $30 billion to shareholders through repurchases and has plans to pay out $25 billion more. That's the majority of what its market cap was just 8 years ago, and it's still a growing company. Do you think it does that just for the fun of it?
there's also another big issue with this, which is that this falls under the /gig economy/, which is a big issue because it's a lot of unprotected labor, not good at all
Yes, under the benchmark/ directory
I think combined shipping can be a huge attraction factor for an Amazon or Walmart.

If you want to buy a $150 mixer, but also, say, a $10 book and a $5 cable, you'll be able to put those all in one cart at those vendors and get free postage.

If you go to some specialty mixer retailer, you'll have to buy the other items as a seperate transaction and pay for shipping on them.

I know in my household, we definitely will ask around "I'm buying something from Amazon, so I'll already be spending $25, does anyone want anything else on that order?"
I am struggling to understand why the media gave so much credibility to diverless cars in the first place.
Kerckhoff’s Law for Security Engineers
>Dogs are still animals and can be unpredictable.

Which is precisely why they must be on a leash, always. Except in a fenced off area maybe.
No, it's like saying Tesla and SpaceX are the same company. It means you're fundamentally confused about what's going on.

(It's a pretty close parallel. Tesla is public and SpaceX is private. Similarly for Amazon and Blue Origin.)
In theory this is fixed by the the laws around “Transfer Pricing”.

You are supposed to be able to prove that the deal between your different international entities is an arms-length agreement. That is to say that the revenue sharing agreement is similar to what would be negotiated between unrelated companies.

In order to do that you are supposed to be able to show evidence that the deal is similar to other deals in your industry and such.

I don’t know how Google would get away with a licence fee of 100% under those laws so I kind of doubt that that is what they have in place.

However, let’s say they have a 30/70 split with 70% going to the IP holder (Ireland company) and 30% going to the selling agent (USA company).

Now it’s in the best interest of the company to attribute as many of the expenses of providing the service to the USA company so that we can get its profit down to zero. The profit margin of the US company might be 0% (so no tax) while the profit margin of the Ireland company is near 100%.
I agree that it's important to learn these lessons, but if recent history has taught us anything it's that reach and amplification will drown out most voices of reason.

I think Vimes might have had an aphorism about this...

EDIT: aphorism, not proverb
https://slco.org/parks/millcreek-canyon/

there's a great hike just outside Salt Lake City that solves this problem by allowing bikes on even numbered days and off-leash dogs on odd numbered days
This is an absolutely brilliant statement.

And when the truths change, you have to remember that we were never at war with Oceania?
I don't see any evidence that the rats are the object of extreme devotion or admiration. The featured rat did its job well for five years and is now retiring with a modest celebration.

If there were some evidence of extreme devotion or admiration, for example maybe the locals celebrate this rat, know its name, call this one for especially challenging fields, erect statues to it, etc - then I'd agree that a specific rat could be heroic by this definition.

As is, the rats seem to be doing a not particularly challenging or dangerous job in exchange for payment. One rat is retiring after a successful career - which is laudable, but not so much so that it qualifies for extreme devotion or admiration.

In general, I like to push back on cheapening words like "hero" so that we can use them for better effect when they actually fit. I also don't think teachers, hospital workers, police, soldiers, etc are heroes though some people sometimes call them such. Individuals in those professions might be, but the general classes are not, nor are bomb defusing rats.
Yeah and it would be great if it existed. I don't get your point. Some movements are fundamentally insincere and some are genuine.
Well they sometimes do (e.g. fine them) but at a scale where it matters these are companies that also have leverage - if Amazon responded 'Ehhh we might stop delivering to the UK then, Brexit is already an expense, with this too ...' and then the Government is the government that lost/banned/there-is-no-good-spin Amazon.

Within the EU, (or EEA perhaps) I vaguely recall there's some restriction against penalising for things like this, as long as the other nation is also a member state. (Since viewed as a whole, 'one EU', it should be fine, I suppose.) Struggling for the right words ro search though.
There's all sorts of outcomes here. While you may be right that the US will not sign on to the deal it might still have to deal with some consequences. E.g. while Yellen may not have the ability influence US tax laws there are also foreign tax laws that are part of this over which McConnell has no control. Let's say the rest of the G7/G20/OECD changes the way they tax global companies, if the US doesn't ratify their side there's still plenty of real world consequences. I think Yellen's agreement does count as in this is the US's (sort of foreign policy?) position, i.e. the rest of the world can proceed to make changes based on that agreement even though Yellen does not have the authority to commit to changing US tax laws.
Before covid both inflation and unemployment were low. To let the economy create jobs for everyone you should deregulate the labor market by for example reducing occupational licensing and eliminating the minimum wage. Current high unemployment benefits are discouraging less-skilled people from working.
> this is merely an agreement in principle and has no force whatsoever

You mean that it's unenforceable in a court, but that doesn't mean at all that it lacks force:

Court enforcement isn't the the only force. If your boss, client, spouse, etc. pressures you to do something, it can't be enforced in a court, but it can have great force. We all are subject to great social pressure in our behavior, conduct, life choices, etc. - we all generally speak the same language, dress the same, follow the same life and career paths, avoid socially unacceptable things (even those that are unfairly discriminated against), etc. HN mods have great influence here, even though they have no means of court enforcement (in any practical sense).

International relations in particular has no law, in the sense of a court that can make enforceable decisions. In a sovereign legal sense, it's anarchy. There is no international sovereign government (the UN is a conference of sovereign governments). But obviously a great deal is done which has real force. It's actually very interesting to see the creative ways in which 'international law' (again, not the same as a sovereign government's law) is crafted, given that very significant constraint, in order to give it force and effectiveness. Note that the G7 is exceptionally influential despite having no legal power - why do you think these very powerful, busy people are spending their time there?

The President controls the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. Their decisions have great legal force. Politically, those decisions mostly carry forward to future presidents.