skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this 100% and it blows my mind that so many in tech take the opposite stance. For the people who just see a computer as a tool, which is probably the vast majority of users, they just want it to work and then get out of their way. Very few are interested in spending a bunch of time relearning a new UI just to keep up with the latest design fad.

All of this bias towards churn is probably great for my career options so I guess that's something. But stories like this make me really feel for the millions of less tech-interested users who get frustrated by big changes like this. Within the tech bubble it's easy to forget how many things we take for granted as simple are actually quite hard for many people.
There is a difference between mutual knowledge (everyone knows X) and common knowledge (everyone knows X, and knows that everyone knows X, and knows that everyone knows that everyone knows X, etc. ad infinitum).

This brings the knowledge everyone sort of knew and makes it common knowledge. That can have a powerful impact.
Sure, if you can reproduce the input and if you agree that it is misuse. This is a scenario where we don't know the formula to create $5B, and and there is no consensus that it ("making an extremely successful investment in a tax shelter") is misuse.
I'd call it a forum more than social media, the focus is on a topic rather than individuals. But when it comes to outages nothing beats Twitter. I'm not really a Twitter user, but when I click a link from elsewhere there's a >50% chance I'll get "we're having trouble loading this tweet".
It might be one type of extremism today, but it will be a different kind in the future.

Absolutism about lack of censorship is not the answer to this problem anymore than a completely regulation-free economy would fix any problems there.
> The key here is that if you have to reliably identify exactly which startup to put your $2000 in.

No. Theil was already making a risky startup bet, so the "reliably identify" point is moot. All this maneuver did was let him avoid all the taxes he'd owe if it paid off.
That paper doesn't show a causal link. Just that a certain subgroup within a narrow region happened to die earlier. Any number of factors could cause that, independent of profession.
the ACA was a big win for insurers.
> Peter Theil did not have 100% voting shares of Paypal,

First, that's not the requirement.

> and if he did that went away very soon after with the other co founders and investors diluting him fast enough for it to satisfy IRS regulations.

Your argument here is "even if he made illegal investments into a tax-advantaged account that has set him up to not pay taxes on 50000000000 dollars, we should ignore it because if he made the investment later it wouldn't have been illegal".

By that logic let's just throw out insider trading laws. "Well if he made the investment after the information was public, it would have been fine"

> the IRS may have lacked clarity back then.

They didn't. It was still explicitly not allowed for a officer/director of a company, someone with a similar role, > 10% share-holder, etc to make investments like this with a Roth IRA.
In other news, water is wet, most accidents happen with 10 miles of the home, and most shark attacks happen in shallow water.

In other words, no shit. Imagine that, all the vaccinated people aren’t getting the virus, and therefore not dying from it. Wow, fucking ground breaking science.
I would add that you should avoid connecting your personal devices to corporate networks until you understand their usage policies.
One of those things that makes sense, and would be nice, but will never happen.
I'm a little confused: did someone actually use GPT[-J] to write code by giving it an empty Python function and letting it complete the code? Because I didn't think that was possible, and the results are kind of blowing my mind?
While AI isn’t a wand for society’s problems, it isn’t a wand for business problems either.

In both cases AI will do whatever task you design or train it to do.
Forbes thought his personal wealth was 2 billion.

This reveal puts his ROTH IRA alone at $5 billion (it owns stock in companies other than PayPal and Palantir)

That is a material change in Mr. Thiel’s privacy.
> Google could argue that since the box showed the serial killer died in the 80's that a reasonable person would realize it must be a mistake.

A reasonable person would realize which part was a mistake: that it's a picture of the serial killer, or that the serial killer died in the 80s?
We haven't done an official "Launch HN" yet. For now, we're heads-down with our early adopters fleshing out developer UX and a friendlier API. We started by implementing Zanzibar as faithfully as possible, but that doesn't make this technology widely available to developers of all walks of life.
I can't see how LSH would be any faster for 2D/3D data than just sorting into regular X, Y buckets (like the first example). Surely this is only useful for high dimensional data?
>productivity

The productivity is only a matter of local purchasing power. If it were any other, why would third world barber be extremely less productive than Manhattan one?

So, when higher middle and higher classes increase their productivity by tracking global population and selling ads, the productivity of people servicing them has to increase.
Forcing all IRA investment through publicly listed companies sounds like exactly the law a hedge fund would write. Why allow people to invest in assets you can own without going through a Wall Street investment bank?

Regulatory capture is forcing the entire economy through your cartel in the name of nominal protection.
I always thought that Windows ME was designed to make users rush to XP, and Windows Vista to drive them to 7.
Relatives or "friends" asking for money, neighborhood rumors, I don't know. The world is full of random shitty people.
> On the other hand most linux gamers know how to run games under wine, so I really don't see any advantage for a developer to make a native linux version.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've never bought a game because it could theoretically run under Wine, while I've bought quite a few games that run on Linux. Very rarely do I buy a game that does not natively run on Linux.

Wine seems like kind of an ugly hack even in the best case scenario. You don't know what performance is going to be like with your hardware, and you usually don't have anyone who's tested the program on your hardware to make sure it runs correctly and doesn't crash, and obviously games are extremely sensitive to these kinds of hardware dependent things. Installing Wine can be gross too, you have to install a bunch of 32 bit libraries on an otherwise clean 64 bit system.

I'd say the appeal of making a native Linux game is that it gets you access to the market of people who will buy a native Linux game. It's true that you already had the market of people who are technically running Linux and playing Windows games via Wine, but presumably there are many people who aren't going to go to that much trouble. (Obviously, there are many cases where supporting Linux isn't financially viable anyway, Wine or native.)
There are also consumer cooperatives, and hybrid models.

Also, some cooperatives are cooperatives of other businesses (agricultural coops are often this, and sometimes sports leagues or similar), but those are in some ways a very different thing.
They should also be worried about being blamed for preventing the victims from speaking out
Your comments are not at all sloppy; they are very well-written and well-taken, at least by this reader (and Canadian). I think you are correct in your analysis and your perspective.

The fact is, as Canadians we ought to feel ashamed of this. I know I do. When I feel shame, I want to make it go away. Our entire society has become adept at turning away and ignoring our past. But our task as citizens right now is to not do that. It's to grapple with the reality of what is very clearly a horrific injustice. It's to stop claiming the past is the past. The legacy of colonialism is alive and well in Canada and it is still actively destroying many lives.

There is no way to make this right. The only thing we can hope to do now is honour the dead, do our best to make amends to the living and carve out a new path forward.
Federal minimum wage debate is silly. Places have varying cost of living.

Just give people income tax relief/credits based on their living situation (including credits that are paid out as cash) and let companies fight for workers with whatever wage they want.
Australian roads: exploring sealed and unsealed roads in OpenStreetMap
Welcome to the great panopticon remember the Telescreen sees all citizen.
Ah, sorry for not expounding further. I did understand what the GP was conveying, but I’m just saying:

It is common to consider some situations as being worse than death.

I suspect that most reasonable readers of that classification manual would be able to identify a selection of situations that could lead to being considered worse than death.
> no one internally seeing any juicy line item on their performance review

Pretty much. There are countless pipelines producing ad placements and feed recommendations, or flagging some kind of content. Each one might have produced a good result at one time, getting someone a good review, but that time is long gone and probably so is the person. Nobody wants to mess with it lest they trigger a loss of engagement/revenue. Safer to just keep adding more.

There are thousands of people at Facebook, both data scientists and moderators, sincerely trying to fight the good fight. I respect their efforts, but there's no way they can win against a multi-billion-dollar physical manifestation of technical and organizational hubris.
The fight against the ultra rich usually ends up as a fight against the middle class with some token offensives against the ultra rich.
Out of curiosity, I checked out the last twenty entries from this list.

Clearly, the reigning heavyweight champion of Facebook is Ben Shapiro. It is simply dishonest to call Ben Shapiro "far right". He's a Republican. He doesn't promote military dictatorship, or "plandemics", or "the steal"; he's an Orthodox Jew who wants Republicans to be in charge. That's it.

That's just bog-standard right wing. I happen to think he's a twerp; so what?

So your source doesn't support your claim.
Uh huh - I think we will need a full accounting on what exactly happened here in an IRS audit to confirm that - I'm pretty dubious.
What is this belief based on?
Perhaps it was this book:

Horowitz, E., & Sahni, S. (1976). Fundamentals of data structures. Woodland Hills, Calif.: Computer Science Press.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/fundamentals-of-data-structur...
Sure, if it doesn't generate notifications, that's no problem.
I thought they were riffing on recent UFO hype.
Exactly. The unstyled code snippets are the prompt: everything after that is generated by GPT-J-6B.

All the raw code outputs are available the GitHub repo to show there's no manipulation: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-j-6b-experiments
I thought Zircon is the kernel and Fuchsia is the operating system. Though that wouldn't prevent Google from building Android on top of Fuchsia.
Millions of memes were suddenly silenced.
Employee tracking isn't anything new or all that surprising. Do everything as if it is going to be made public at some point. EMPLOYERS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

If they buy you internet, they are tracking it. If they provide you with a computer, they are tracking every click and pointer movement.

Keep work computers and personal computers separate and that includes all methods of IO.

I used to work for a Fortune 10 company, and they retroactively changed their approach to personal data on company computers. Yes, does it sound illegal? Very much NOT so, but they totally got away with it.

....Except there was an accidental malformed script that wiped all the user folders and backup data. Ever wonder what happens to a SAN when every disk shits itself for a few days?

I'll never really know what the outcome of the malformed script was except there was no retroactive application of corporate rules because the thing the rules were meant to apply to simply didn't exist anymore.

Coincidentally, it was also the same day that I quit and decided to work for myself.

"Malformed script"
Yes. I think it’s a common view that realigning Facebook’s values and motives is part of any improvement.

Thus the public criticism.
That's too bad :( As a Linux user, I love it when game studios support Linux and make a point to buy their games more often.
Read load alone can be pretty high.

And no, you want to calculate checksums and fix bit errors right here in the RAM buffers you just read or received, because at such scales hardware is not error-free.
When I say public figure (which Mr. Thiel is, despite his harassment by Gawker and other quirks, but I get your point) I am referring to the thousands of non-public figures who have had their personal tax details stolen and shared with ProPublica, who seemingly did nothing to deserve this.
> Would Thiel have been willing to sell his shares to someone else at $0.001 at the time he put them into the IRA? Because that's ultimately what market value is about.

Well... no. (Can't believe I'm defending Peter F-ing Thiel)

I might own some AAPL shares that I think are worth $1000/share--so I'm not willing to sell my AAPL shares for less than $1000 each. The market (today) thinks they are worth $133/share. Who is right?

Thiel might have really truly believed that his 2M shares would be worth a few billion dollars one day. But if you can't find anyone who is willing to buy them for that price, then it doesn't matter. The "fair market value" (what the IRS cares about) of those shares is not a few billion dollars. It doesn't become a FMV until you can find an arms-length buyer who is willing to buy the shares for that price.

You could pay someone to create an independent valuation of the shares--but for a brand new company that has no employees and no assets, not even IP, why would you expect the valuation to come back at much more than $2k?
Nevertheless, your separate posting [1] of your "What is Zanzibar" article deserved more attention, and IMHO is useful to drum up attention to your problem/solution space.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27143342
Steam is quite generous about refunding games, either because you purchased them accidentally or they didn't run correctly or any other reason, as long as you don't have more than a few hours in the game. I think that's a much better approach than having to implement what's effectively a DRM system in software, or a completely separate trial binary containing only part of the game.
For me personally, TPM is the concern because of how integrated DRM is with it. Light DRM is fine, and prevents casual rights abuse by casual players. Stricter DRM gets used to lock things up and it becomes pervasive and hard to discourage. It chews extra resources, requires more power, and eventually means that some things that probably should be copied freely eventually cannot ever really be. Just imagine if Doom had been written with TPM in mind. You would never see it running on any of the myriad devices that people have had it running on, and the knowledge gained during those builds would not have come into existence.
*value to the __economy__, not to be confused with value to society.
I live in Australia, which generally has decent (but slowly eroding) workplace protections. But I managed to get fired and walked out of the building with zero notice. So I would not count on this even in a country with traditionally strong labour laws.
Right, but you don't need an impressum for a GitHub repo or a browser extension, right? I guess the GP probably did run a website.
>It's debatable whether it was legal (because he was an officer/director of the company and that law is on the books)

I am interested in finding out the answer to this, as others have posted in this thread the text of the law which makes it seem like he should not have been able to, and what reasoning could possibly have made it legal.
"It's not how much you make. It's how much you keep."

One of the things that tends to not enter these discussions is that the US has torn down about a million SROs[1] and largely zoned out of existence the ability to build other small scale homes currently being called Missing Middle Housing.

When walkable neighborhoods were more the norm and you could get just a room or small place as market rate housing without having to go through some government program with long wait lists, you could live on not much money. Now a car is practically required to make life work in the US, housing is expensive as hell and then we argue about income and I get told by random internet strangers that the high cost of rent is irrelevant to discussions of homelessness, and never mind that studies contradict such claims.

Meanwhile, housing costs and the fact that it's so hard to live without a car tends to not come up at all in discussions of this sort.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
Either mystery or bad puns based on the science.

Extra points if you can throw "Einstein" in the headline.
YouTube rules only exist to protect YouTube.
Fair enough! I haven’t gone through it entirely. What do you recommend as primary texts? I have a few in mind (Practical Common Lisp, for example) but haven’t actually touched them yet.
why the hell would you want to stay on top of work during off hours?
I've seen people using archbee.io for similar use case. Archbee is a lightweight docs tool for developers with various integrations so should check your boxes (full disclosure - I'm an investor there :)
The only argument in favour of minimum wage is that if set at a low enough level it does not seem to have a detrimental effect on core prosperity metrics like employment rate. Proponents never attempt to claim any positive effect or show evidence of it. It doesn't reduce unemployment. It doesn't reduce poverty. In many situations it hurts young people who are trying to break into an industry, low income workers and small businesses. It also incentivizes undocumented ('under the table') employment. It's very much like rent control - a policy that feels good, but either doesn't do anything or more likely actually causes pain.
Forgive my ignorance but I was under the impression this was startup founders standard operating procedure.

1. Form a C Corp

2. Grant founders shares at $0.000x/share

3. Early exercise all of said shares at basically nothing

4. Make 83(b) election to IRS

5. Take advantage of long term cap gains and qsbs

I’m sure plenty of folks in this forum have done similar things, the only difference is mr. thiel put it into his Roth account, essentially betting on himself and it paid off big time.
Ask HN: How to Return to the Tech Field?
Throwaway to prevent breaking the rules.

Very unusual story but I left my first developer job 2 years after college to try to start a business in an unrelated field. The business is alive, but not doing well and I'm tired out and need to return to the work force.

I've been job hunting for a remote developer role for about 5 months now and have been getting rejection after rejection. HR / recruiting always thinks I don't have enough experience (even for entry level) but whenever the interview involves another technical person they usually see the potential in me.

I have a portfolio, I have my own website, I love doing side projects (web apps + apis). I can easily spend 15 - 30 hours a week on them and have worked on them for over 4 years now. I even have a bachelors in CS for whatever that's worth.

I write cover letters. I put a lot of effort into improving them based on feedback / what lands a interview. I basically conduct AB testing. I've tweaked my resume many a times.

I've tried startups thinking the business experience would help.

I've tried medium - large companies thinking they'd be more open to mentoring new-ish devs.

I don't have much of a network to connect with, and I come from a rural state with little tech.

I'm not expecting the world and would be perfectly happy with a junior role.

Has anyone else been in similar shoes, and if so how did you escape it?
Though I wonder... Some decades ago people made similar arguments with regards to C/C++ versus native assembly. That the only way compiled languages could approach assembly languages on performance was if the code was written in a way that the compiler could optimize. If it couldn't, performance would often tank.

But as compilers got better this become less and less of an issue. By today it has become very rare to need to write in assembly. So shouldn't history repeat itself? That JIT compilers will be so good that it becomes extremely unlikely that you'll hit the performance cliff.
Rinsing the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher makes sense to me, too.

The dishwasher takes a small amount of (very hot) water and cycles that same water over everything many times. I don't really want a lot of sanitized (or not) food bits going over everything, or clogging the debris filter, thanks.

Fun fact, some 'dirt sensing' dishwashers sense dirt by using a resetable undersized fuse on the circulation pump. The more gunk in the water, the harder the pump works and the more it triggers the fuse. Count the number of activations to see how dirty the dishes are.
It looks like they removed it from Home but not Pro.

https://i.imgur.com/vxs03rC.png

Another difference: Cortana talks you through the installation on Home but not Pro. After years of installing Pro that was a bit of a shock.
Same argument for regulating Google analytics which seems super popular on here
For me, as someone who runs small tech businesses, it's not about what you get with Pro, it's about what you don't.

Specifically, I have a problem with any operating system that will update itself in arbitrary ways without our consent and at a time we have not chosen. We no longer have control of our own business's IT resources and whether they will continue to meet our business needs in this scenario. That is simply unacceptable in a professional context IMO. Moreover, I have worked in several places over the years where long-running jobs (days or more) were needed, and you shouldn't have to ask your equipment's permission to start a job like that before you can safely start it and expect it to complete uninterrupted, and you certainly shouldn't have to ask and risk being told no.

I also have a problem with any operating system that will phone home with any data from our systems without our consent. That's all kinds of liability waiting to happen if you work with any sort of sensitive information, whether it's a client's trade secrets, personal data about customers, technical data you've been given under NDA, unreleased company statements, or simply whatever you're working on right now that you haven't chosen to disclose publicly yet. I don't care what Microsoft is or isn't doing right now, partly because of the previous point. The fact that the technical capability exists at all without an absolute power to disable it is a deal-breaker, and the convoluted mess that is Microsoft's numerous legal terms and privacy policies offers me no reassurance at all on this point.

Professionals control their own IT systems. It's really as simple as that. That's why the higher editions of Windows 10, which aren't just used by professionals but administered by IT professionals as well, don't try to pull these kinds of stunts.
The US government is pretty aggressive about getting their tax dollars (no matter who it is).

See John McAfee, Al Capone.
They still get value from their apps, those won't go away.
Good info, thanks for the corrections!
That only applies if you maximise your windows. I personally never maximise anything. My ultrawide monitor would be too big for that.