skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved reading the opening of this article because it felt like a voice from the "other side of the aisle" that I could actually understand and potentially engage with. I do not (shame on me) make a project out of reading and digesting right-wing discourse: if it sounds like Tucker, I flush it. But it was refreshing to hear this voice, which does not sound like Tucker. Never mind that "women, liberals, urbanites, and people of color" are probably buying more guns in order to defend themselves against Proud Boys, et al, these are still statements that seem grounded in reality, and display no more emotional bias than I've likely got in the other direction. Anyway, I was quite relieved to read this.

> Millions of people of all walks of life have been buying firearms in record numbers as more rational people reject the culture war around this topic and recognize the need for self defense is still very real, even in an ‘advanced’ society. Women, liberals, urbanites, and people of color are some of the fastest growing groups of firearm owners, for example.

> Regardless of politics or background, you are welcome here. We believe in modern and responsible gun ownership — and think our communities and civil debates will be much better off if people at least accurately understood the topic of firearms before arguing about or fearing them.
China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans
Disclaimer: I work at scite.

We, at scite, actually designed scite to help folks see beyond the "one big claim per paper" model. Specifically, we designed scite to present show how specific results were either supported or contrasted by other papers, rather than showing that the publication itself was disputed or reproduced as a whole. If there was any feedback you could give on how we could present things so that folks don't get that impression we'd love it - feel free to DM me or let us know at hi@scite.ai as you test it out.

In an ideal world we would present the claims, results, and argumentation as structured information to the user but we are not quite at that stage yet!
I've been using Manjaro for the past 2 years. I used KDE for the first 6 months, but ended up switching to Gnome for the rest.
Do you think the value judgment of tumblr should be based on revenue or user count?
I recently reread The New Economics. Deming talks about a factory worker screwing up on the production line, ruining a large quantity of product, and getting punished for it. He makes the argument that the design of the line, company policy, etc, have a far greater impact on workers’ productivity than the intrinsic qualities of those workers.

I told this to a colleague and she said “well yeah, I can see how that would be true in a factory but it doesn’t apply to software”. I pointed out that I haven’t dereferenced a null pointer in years, and haven’t been the cause of a buffer overrun ever, and that's all because of tooling, not because I’m such a badass engineer.

Having been convinced by Deming’s arguments, I can’t think of rank-and-yank as anything other than a deeply flawed, costly, and counterproductive optimization strategy, all based on a false assumption.
The Books Are Already Burning
> You can lose jobs, friends, and clients simply for being a jerk. There's nothing illegal about being an asshole, but plenty of people refuse to work with assholes.

Sure, but the current cancel culture results in people refusing to associate with the accused out of fear, not because they think he or she is a jerk.

I heartily support freedom of association. I don't support a mob of people, completely unrelated to either the victim or the accused, exacting punishments for any third party who exercises their own freedom of association. Made all the more worse when the mob then moves on in a coordinated fashion to the next "accused".

I cannot see a future where I ever support mobbing and witch-hunts, even if I happen to believe their accusation.
Nuptial Gift
Exactly. I am of the opinion that anything that was possible in computing 15 years ago should be perceptibly instant today. There are obvious exceptions such as cross-continent communication being limited by the speed of light, but as a general rule. Instead, we get software that's written as if Dennard scaling were still occurring.
Stoicism and the Appeal of Marcus Aurelius
Wikipedia claims:
“Eliminates excessive marketing to young adults. Consumers under the age of 21 must prove that they have an independent income or get a co-signer before applying for a credit card. The Act also prevents credit card companies from mailing offers to consumers under 21 unless they "opt in," and prohibits companies from wooing students with T-shirts, free pizza and other free gifts at university-sponsored events.”

Not sure how much companies toe the line/what was going on at the event you saw.
Writing a drop-in MySQL replacement means copying all its dumbest decisions
> The truth is, while we use git every day, most people really don't understand how it works.

It is a tool. One should not need to understand the inner workings of a tool to use it. How many APIs do we use where knowing how it does what it does is required? Whether it's Stripe or Node or Bundler or ..., the user does not have to know what happens inside. The need for incantations makes some people feel powerful or exclusive. I just want my tools to do their job so I can focus on doing mine.
No matter which side of that argument you find yourself on, the other side will reliably invoke the specter of genocide. If you side with the Israelis, you will be accused of supporting the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. And if you side with the Palestinians, you will be accused of wanting Jewish people to be genocided again.

And if you say that both sides have a lot of valid points and you aren't sure how to weigh all those points to reach a clean and simple conclusion? Well... I've never won any friends like that.
> This is the first time I heard Windows phone being called bug-ridden.

From the Wikipedia article I linked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_1020#Reported_prob...
It’s something I’d bundle in my own product if you had an API, something where I can create/remove trackers and then get alerted to changes via webhook.

If you ever build that let me know, as you say it’s something we could build but I’d rather not deal with everything you described :)
Is there any way to integrate an app with zoom/teams to know when a video call is happening? I’d like to have lighting when I answer a video call but not the 99% of the time when I don’t have the camera on.
> Though not the default, Microsoft is moving more and more towards hypervisor-based security

So what? That doesn't change the fact that running these tests in a VM isn't going to be the same as running them on bare metal.
> But here's the thing, in 10 years time, you're going to have Windows, which is still just, and will continue to be, Windows. And macOS, and iOS, and tvOS, and every other Apple OS, is going to be so much more. And they already are so much more.

And what is wrong with this? A stable, long-lasting platform is a beautiful thing.

Maybe I'm an old fart (at 36...) but I don't really want "so much more". I want something that I can count on and bank on now, and that will be there for me for as far into the future as possible. None of this lofty futuretech seems to promise that, at least without bleeding me dry in pointlessly recurring interactions like subscription fees.
Ministry of Freedom
>I would have avoided if a class like this was around.

I doubt the 20yr old me would've listened anyway.

I, too, racked up some CC debt (nothing crazy) in my early 20s. I knew most concepts outlined above but it's really about dealing with temptations when you finally making real money with full-time work.
Fair point - but you aren't getting it at a 15-30% discount (ESPP) or 'for free' via RSUs - so paying market rate isn't as enticing.
El Salvador could be the example but it’s far from proven. It definitely shows that Bitcoin really doesn’t scale: getting remotely competitive speed and cost requires giving up the decentralization vision and using Lightning network companies which are banks in all but name.
I also couldn't believe it when I realized it a while ago! Also...I hear Arch more often lately. Why would someone choose Arch over let's say Ubuntu? I'm curious. Never used it.
"If early replacements occur as predicted by our statistical model, they can produce 50 times more waste in just four years than IRENA anticipates. That figure translates to around 315,000 metric tonnes of waste, based on an estimate of 90 tonnes per MW weight-to-power ratio."

If you conservatively assume that solar panels have the same density as plastic (1g/cm^3), that works out to 315,000,000kg / (1g / cm^3) = 315,000m^3 That's a cube 63m on each side, or approximately one Hindenburg Zepplin.

Even if we have to treat those solar panels as toxic waste it doesn't sound like a very difficult disposal problem to me.
> People don't do kernel reviews themselves. They just use the official kernel, and when someone finds a bug (or spots otherwise bad code), they notify the community.

There's a big difference here. When a vulnerability is found in the Linux kernel, that doesn't mean that you were compromised.

If a build was found to be malicious, then you definitely were compromised and it's little solace that it was discovered after the fact. This is why package managers check the deb/rpm signature before installing the software, not after.
I don't know if the current algebra curriculum is teaching people how to solve real problems though.
tl;dr

> Almost all of the company consisted of very junior people, often with no experience outside of that company.

Lesson to learn: there is a reason why experienced coders cost more.
Idk, if I was accused of supporting genocide I’d certainly clarify my position. Who gets to decide what’s “appropriate”?
What hardware are you running? OP was running a virtual machine with "4GB of RAM, 4 cores and a 32GB fixed disk for each build".

I do wonder how if they only did one run per test or multiple, since n=1 will mean noise can mess with your results.
Looks like the Act prevented the extension of credit to students >21yo and banned the handing out of food/gifts. But, didn't outright prevent banks from setting up tables to push their services.

From Wikipedia...
Eliminates excessive marketing to young adults. Consumers under the age of 21 must prove that they have an independent income or get a co-signer before applying for a credit card. The Act also prevents credit card companies from mailing offers to consumers under 21 unless they "opt in," and prohibits companies from wooing students with T-shirts, free pizza and other free gifts at university-sponsored events.
Oh, well then there you go ;)
I guess I think you can coherently believe that without somehow implicating the justice system. People have different thresholds for this stuff.
I think you've managed to make a comment upsetting both extreme lefties and moderate righties.

(assuming there are not that many god-loving, only-country-music-listening, in-a-trailer-living extreme righties on this website)
Amazon can be one of the most productive companies ever, and still be doing self-sabotaging things that will erode their long term success.

Truth is that any given time no company is perfect, they can simultaneously being doing things that give them an advantage in the market and doing things that undermine their own efforts. As long as the advantageous stuff outweighs the self-sabotage, they can be successful.

Some of the trouble is that people see success and assume that 100% of the things they are doing are the correct thing to do. Not considering that maybe the reason they can get away with one sort of bad behavior is because they have such a huge advantage in some other area.

So for Amazon, the soaring stock price serves as a big financial incentive that allows some employees to overlook the work environment. But that may not always be the case, and the more people share negative experiences about the work environment, the more new people avoid joining altogether. The negative reputation and the turnover may not be enough to doom the company, but on the flip side they'd probably be even more successful in the short and long term if they didn't have a firing quota.
https://archive.is/3DmfW
> Cannabis: Note that even if you live in a state with legal marijuana, it’s still a crime at the federal level. These forms will ask if you are a “user of illegal drugs including marijuana.” There are no drug tests or verification.

Always glad to see ridiculous laws effectively nullified by lack of enforcement.
People are understandably extremely sensitive in the US to violence around voting.
I failed Amazon like three times in a row (along with other smaller companies). This last year I expanded my search and got into Facebook and Google, despite failing Amazon again.

Plus there are lots of smaller companies that are as prestigious within the valley as Amazon. I mean, if you had to hire someone, would you really consider ex-Amazon superior to Uber, Snapchat, Microsoft, some random startup, etc.?

If I were hiring someone I might actually discriminate against Amazon because I'd be afraid of absorbing some of their culture.
Come up with a project and write code. For example you can just implement the web server you were mentioning. That is a good start. Build it and see how to scale it to handle millions of requests. Just creating the code to test it will be a good exercise. You can dig into a lot writing a web server. After that you can pick up another project in the kernel.
Important RFCs, Humorous RFCs
That's because they got sued for antitrust the last time they tried to do this.

And given that they don't sell hardware, there isn't money in it. And if there isn't money in it, it isn't worth getting sued over trying it.

So here we are.
That's all well and good, but no one is innocent[1], so the only winning move is not to play.

[1] https://mises.org/library/decriminalize-average-man
It actually is the opposite of what you say, in that the Fast Boot feature of Windows 10 is basically logging you out then hibernating the system, which is faster on HDDs but slower on SSDs (or at best the same speed of a cold boot, but at the expense of system stability in the long term since NT really likes its reboots).

It's really odd, because the first couple releases of Windows 10 were fast enough on HDDs, but post 1703 is when I started to really notice it.
Meditation shown to slow aging of brain
Disappointed I didn't see fairly reasonable explanations around processor security bugs which impact broad system performance such as Spectre and Meltdown.

This has a significant impact on Linux and Microsoft has even outlined that these fixes impact their performance (there have been many more security bugs identified since): https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2018/01/09/understan...
> The thing that i don't understand is how can people that live in the USA accumulate so much debt?

Drowning people in debt is kind of what American society is optimized for.

> As a 24yo European I never had more than 5k € of debt at any point in my life.

Europe is...not America.

“The average loan debt for a bachelor’s degree among the class of 2019 was $28,950.” [0]

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/whats...
No, it doesn't. People who want to work in an office -- or in any kind of shared space -- can do so. Maybe that space is provided by your employer as a traditional office. Maybe your employer can rent some space a WeWork-type thing.

Your argument also rests on the premise that the people who have been forced to come into an office every day should continue to be forced to do that, because some other group wants that situation. The idea that that's an ok situation to begin with is just bonkers. If you can't have your communal office experience without harming others, then you should not get your communal office experience. (But you can have that! No one is saying you can't!)

The idea that a group of people wanting to work from home is somehow "harming" people who want to work at an office is ludicrous.
Speaking from experience, the administration's disregard for the wishes of the student body pissed me off enough that I didn't donate anything to them for 15 years or so after graduation (until William Greiner, the president who presided over this had retired). Others in my peer group felt the same way, and I imagine did the same thing.

In terms of the impact of the fee: When I went to school, the tuition was $675/semester, and the fee was over $100 (I don't recall if that was per semester or per year). So that was at least a 7% increase in cost. Its sad the tuition has gone up so much.
> Can someone please define 'metaverse' in the context of... whatever this article is about?

Personally, I dislike the term and I believe that it causes people to lose credibility when they use it. However, I can define it to some extent.

Consider the term 'universe' in the context of 'a particular sphere of activity, interest, or experience'. For example, the 'Harry Potter universe'.

The 'metaverse' is simply such a 'universe' that you can't really opt out of, because it's a layer on top of, rather than distinct from, the regular old world. This is why AR is often considered to be such an intrinsic aspect of it.

Now, you might say that 'the internet' is just such a metaverse, but it isn't because it doesn't benefit the people who peddle the buzzword.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_(software)

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=590

This is closed source software (Freeware) as far as I can tell. I realize you're already on MS Windows, but downloading a binary blob from some third party that's reading all files on your system seems a little too trusting.
good thing, that form of legal slavery and exploitation is getting taken down.
college coaches and assistants and athletic directors make a killing. and what do the students get ? meals ? while the superstars surely get cars and maybe 100k of cash. But that ain't enough.
Run the bill up. Pay up. While at it, they should cut down the salaries of admins and increase pay for adjunct professors.
Because the stock comes in a 4 year grant. You can't trade your GOOG for AMZN until vesting.
> don't be a creep and treat women like human beings and you'll be fine?

You may have your best intentions about women and still slip. Like accidentally calling people "guys" which is considered offensive now.

Everyone does tons of "mistakes" like that. Sometimes it is forgiven, sometimes it is now.

Whether it is forgiven or not often depends not on the exact words or tone of your voice, but on the perception of you. If you are handsome, the reaction will be a giggle. If you not so good, exactly the same words can be considered offensive. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1663485-hello-human-resource...

The problem is that people gets offended too easily nowadays.

And you advice can be translated as "just be successful young and handsome".
Well, there are many flavours of lunatics on the left, the "math is racist" people is just one flavour of it, and they are still supported by a significant subgroup of the Democrats. So in the end you support that side by voting for the Democrats.

Of course in your opinion it is more important to stop all the lunatics on the right. But to a right wing voter he will look at all the flavours of lunatics supported by the Democrats and use that as a reason why he has to vote right. I'd argue that both parties absorbing their sides lunatics in USA is the by far biggest problem with politics over there. Where I live the lunatics made their own parties so you don't have to vote for them, but in a two party system that can't happen so the lunatics will almost surely get absorbed by the big parties.
Interfaces/protocols aren’t really the same though. An interface defines capabilities for an object; the capabilities are directly associated with the type.

In ECS (where Components are a bag of data, and systems handle all logic/operations), and like a DB, the object is defined by an id and its relations; from the relations, you can derive available capabilities.

That is, an object tells you what it can do. In a DB, what it can do tells you the object.

You can create the same system with interfaces by simply ignoring the methods part of it, and keeping the data part, but associating data with capabilities is pretty much the defining difference between objects and structs.

More importantly from an architectural perspective, in ECS the logic isn’t associated with the object, it’s associated with a system that takes the object as input. The system is shared across all objects. The object (entity) for ECS is little more than an id and some relations.

An ECS very directly corresponds to an RDBMS. To call it OOP is to deny the ORM’s classic Object-Relational mismatch.
I have several friends at Amazon. They all love it. Mostly because they're workaholics. Most Amazon people you talk to will say the same things.

However, you won't see that story featured on Hacker News because it doesn't fit the "bring down the bourgeoisie" overwork-porn yay-Sweden narrative that is HN/Reddit.

My theory is it's because most high performers who work hard don't have much time for Reddit/HN and it self-selects for the opposite profile
And Amazon is very successful because it has dominated one of the main reasons we use the internet: online shopping.

Comparing online shopping revenue to social media revenue kind of feels like comparing apples to oranges to me.
you're viewing it through a modern (and historically wrong) perspective. I would say our ancestors were incredibly SMART. Imagine yourself in the 15th century. Sorry. 15th century, BC. You want to transact with someone else, but you don't know whether or not to trust them. You need some sort of THING that you can minimally destructively validate is what it is to establish trust in an intersubjective fashion.

Well, hey, there is this material that is soft (so you can nondestructively rub off a bit of it) that has a unique color (due to some wierd relativistic quantum mechanics), so that you can have a series of standards that you can test against to evaluate the purity of the material and verify how much of it you have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_(assaying_tool)

you can verify the quality of the THING, you don't need a mass spectrometer, you don't need analytical chemistry, you don't need a blockchain or GPU computations.

And that's why gold was smart.
Does Amazon have an ESPP? I don't think they do. They also aren't really giving it "for free", they're giving it instead of additional salary, and when it vests you can choose to sell it all immediately to make up the salary difference.
I have a feeling that people don't always express their experiences literally. Maybe unless they have some mental problem, where they are unable to see behind literal meanings of words...
> There are Slack clients out there, which use a hundreth of the official one and they can run on these old machines, too

Uhh, care to share? Asking for a friend....