skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the market has demonstrated institutional knowledge is worth $0 at most companies.
> Something like this:

Honestly that comment doesn't read "racist" to me. Maybe the disconnect is taking "culture" too literally, or using "culture" when one really means "people" (i.e. a combination of culture and ancestry/descent). Also even though an entire culture can technically be transmitted memetically, that's practically not the case except in cases of early childhood adoption. Immigrant populations may tend to take on certain cultural characteristics (e.g. economic and political ones) of the population they get socialized into, but those characteristics may not actually be the ones particular individual cares the most about preserving (e.g. culture in a narrower non-anthropological sense, like religion and and attachment to certain literature).

And even assuming a full memetic replication of a culture, I don't think the last member of a colonized people would be entirely happy that his people went extinct even if some of the colonizers fully took up his culture.
And the implication is that bond markets don't expect our current inflation to last very long and that growth will also likely be below par for a long time.
Jail time. They need to see the inside of a cell. And to think of all the attacks against the women at the focus of Gamergate, years after this happened. Disgusting.
> 3) Why do you consider a 20 year old paper that's only been cited 16 times to be critical reading about estimation, when a vast body of research in forecasting exists, written by people who have measurements of the accuracy of estimates to base their theoretical models on?

Have some links to this vast body?

I've encountered very few over the years that actually qualify as "science" as much of it is fake or close to fake.

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/softwa...
This is the way.

Also, you should try to update as few things as possible at once, and let your changes "soak" into production for a while before going in all "upgrade ALL the things!"

Why? Well, sometimes things that fail take a while to actually start showing you symptoms. Sometimes, the failure itself takes a while to propagate, simply due to the number of servers you have.

And, one of these days, cosmic rays, or some other random memory/disk error is going to flip a critical bit in some crucial file in that neato library you depend on. And, oh, the fouled up build is only going to go out to a subset of your machines.

You'll be glad you didn't "upgrade ALL the things!" when any of these things ends up happening to you.
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Why is this a link to a comment in a forum rather than the legal brief?
Can you recommend some papers on this?
My SO has always done this for her people. Consequently, she has an amazing professional network. Sales & marketing.

For my part, I've done what I can for my direct reports.

I've never had a boss or worked at a place that has followed your advice. Tech sucks.
I maintain a legacy application which was written in a fully event-driven way. As another commenter mentioned, native Windows programs work this way, but it is not just because this is a Win32 program. The original author(s) of this application also embraced a multi-threaded paradigm and use their own homegrown asynchronous serial message and event system (built on top of Windows messages).

It's terrible. The reason it's terrible is that you can't use function call graphs, single stepping, or call stacks to debug this application. Everything happens indirectly by one part of the application throwing a message in a bottle into the ocean, and another part of the application (running on another thread) finding the bottle at a later time. And every message is written in a different binary format (different memcpy'd structs) which is mutually intelligible to each sender-receiver pair and no one else.

Troubleshooting and understanding this system is more akin to endocrinology or ecology than math or engineering.
This is the all-important point. It would be insane for me to try my best to make money for a company when the effort reward curve is so non linear. The only reason the idea of "doing the best job you can" is propagated is because it allows one to abuse workers. I could see myself working hard at a company with a flat-ish compensation structure tied directly to the revenue of the company.

"If I make a penny my boss makes a dime, that's why I shit on company time."
so the conflicts the US instigated were inevitable, and the US might as well have gotten involved for its own benefit? I hope this is not what you're saying but it sure sounds like it is.
Hungary and Poland also have incredibly interventionist governments who are happy to not only ecourage family formation through economic policy but also cultural policy. The former is fairly easy and many other developed countries are going down that road. The latter is the part that some countries in Western Europe and the USA do not want to touch with a ten foot pole, but it is the more important metric.

You want more families? You need to unashamedly celebrate your nation and culture.
At the end of the day you were underpaying them, so I'm not sure putting the "blame" on the employee is the right way to frame this.
Automation isn't an issue (except for wealth gap). Automation opens up new jobs
People are willing to sacrifice an enormous amount to work in gaming.

The salaries are poor. The work hours are poor. The work environments are poor. The benefits are poor.

Just by those metrics they should only be able to hire bottom of the barrel Wordpress engineers. But they can get people who are far better than that.
Is that real? It mispells Cosby as 'Crosby' in two different places in point 47 right above, I can't believe state investigators could make a basic typo like that and that it wasn't caught in proof reading for a court filing.
Chlorophyll contains magnesium, photosynthesis requires Iron at about 1000 magnesium atoms per iron atom. However, Iron still ends up the limiting factor in ocean ecosystems. https://zenodo.org/record/1258477

Anyway, Life can only chose chemical bonds that are possible. It’s perfectly reasonable to pick a specific temperature range and say here this is ideal for silicon lifeforms, but that means every chemical interaction must occur in that temperature range which is a major physical constraint.

We don’t know of many interesting and relevant Si compounds in large part because they don’t exist. It’s not even just chemical compounds life needs a water equivalent for all that cellular machinery to float around in and bump into each other.
Except the USA where we don't do anything. Don't even have paid maternal leave.
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Have absolutely zero background knowledge here, but just to be pendantic your argument is structured as a logical fallacy [1].

While we maybe could estimate the relative sizes of the groups you mention and compare them relative to each other to guess the strategy/policy/tactics it's not clear that would be accurate; or maybe we could infer based on some heuristic or metric (like budget being a proxy for headcount), and even then it's not clear how certain that guess would be, so it's not obvious how "we all know" it's 99/1 vs 50/50, vs any other permutation.

Push come to shove would probably agree with your premise and conclusion, and really have no idea, so apologies for being nitpicky; without a background on the technical details it's likely I'm wrong.

[1] https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Alleged...
I do agree that a news article is much suitable than a forum post for posting on HW.
Sounds like BS. All the shares in the option pool have already been issued, just not granted. Issuing fewer shares in the option pool doesn't mean there is less dilution because there are fewer shares to grant. At any later date the company can issue an arbitrary number of new shares for investors, new (larger) option pool, etc. They can dilute you down to nothing whenever they feel like it.
Not so much.

On-board STSAFE secure element with ST-issued ECC P-384 certificate provisioned at point of chip manufacture.

Sessions are TLS-encrypted to the Notehub: TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

Kind of wonderfully, all traffic flows from the carrier over a VLAN to the AWS/Azure Notehub instances, so your devices aren't even visible to attackers on the internet.

And if you don't want your data in the clear on the Notehub, there are options for you to place your server's public key in fleet environment variables, and the data will be end-to-end encrypted between device and your service.
> What yields the lowest risk - spending a ton of time hardening one cluster, or building multiple clusters to reduce the blast radius of bugs and misconfigurations?

Not sure this is a valid dichotomy.

If you are spinning up multiple clusters, you are presumably doing so in an automated fashion. If so, then the effort of hardening is very similar. It doesn't really matter where you do it.

Multiple clusters may have a smaller blast radius, but will have a larger attack surface. Things may be shared between them (accounts? network tunnels? credentials to a shared service?) in which case an intrusion in one puts everyone else at risk.
> As far as I can tell the Democrats don't have to choose Kamala although how often has the VP not gotten serious consideration in recent times?

Exactly 100% of the time that it was the election where the party had a first-term incumbent, back to Humphrey in 1965, and that...isn’t something the DNC probably wants to repeat. Harris is only a potential candidate in 2024 if Biden doesn't run for reelection, and even then isn’t a shoo-in for the nomination unless Biden resigns before the primaries and she runs as the incumbent President. Which is such an extreme scenario that its not worth considering.

Heck, even for outgoing Presidents, the sitting Vice President hasn't been a contender in the subsequent Presidential nomination contest since Gore on 2000 (neither Biden not Cheney were contenders), and the only VP to actually be elected (rather than succeeding on death or resignation) to the Presidency in...quite a long time...was George Bush in 1988.
I mainly use it to surface interesting things I might have missed otherwise. I generally disregard anything with an abysmal rating since it indicates just about everyone had a negative opinion. Likewise, if both critics and audience are 90% or more positive, I might just check it out, even if it's not in my usual "wheelhouse".

The rest is just finding interesting movies/shows that would otherwise fly under my radar.
aboutblaw.com is bloomberg law; it's linked on their page here: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-...
What would be the purpose of this with USDC though? Since you have to put in more than the loan amount as collateral, aren't you just paying to access your own money? For non-stablecoins that you don't want to sell, it makes more sense, although it seems risky.
It isn’t dismissing, it is pointing out that for things that are not incredibly important, you can plan for it, and if you don’t, there might be a situation sometime where you are out of luck. I cannot imagine a scenario will I will desperately need a full color printout at 3am, that can’t wait till the morning and a short trip to the Walgreens, Staples, CVS, whatever. Is it possible that a situation could come up? I guess. But its not really reasonable to go out and buy multi hundred-dollar pieces of equipment for random insanely unlikely scenarios.

If you are in a situation where you need to print full color at extremely odd hours, by all means, you might want to get a printer. But if you are just forgetting to do something until 3am, that’s just poor planning and likely not even a big deal, or something that couldn’t wait until 6. Edge cases exist, but pretending like the edge case is the norm is silly.
I don't know any better than you. I'm just reporting that OP's notions are already the core thread of some UFOlogists of the past ~40-50 years (and beyond).

The idea that it is all essentially a projection/emanations from a singular core consciousness (a la gnosticism or neoplatonism) is not unexplored, nor contradictory to your own statement.

That's why it's clever; as a theory it can virtually explain anything. It just requires a level of faith on par with any other belief system.
Blizzard has (or at least had) one of the most dedicated fanbases in the industry. People wanted to work there simply because it was Blizzard. Working in video games is already a "cool job" and working at Blizzard was even cooler. That creates a natural supply of workers which exceeds demand. People are therefore willing to sacrifice a tremendous amount in order to continue doing that job.

You find this same type of mistreatment of employees at a lot of "cool jobs" like in Hollywood and the sports industry. The difference is that many workers in those industries have unions to help bring balance to the natural power discrepancy.
yeah it's especially useful for maintaining a large scale codebase! gotta love it
I see a lot of math and graphs. What I don’t see is an indication that the author understands the problem. Is he an experienced salesman?

(The opening struck me as rather reductive, so my inclination is to believe that the analysis is proceeding from false premises.)
I wish that I could get negative interest on my mortgage; guess that only central banks can get away with this practice.
Now I am curious if, in the real MDN production site, serach-index.json loading is triggered by the execution of /static/js/autocomplete.js, when their download should really be started in parallel by the shim.

Many websites leave a lot of performance on the table because of such behaviors.

My hypothesis is that, since this is easier for the developer, and works good enough, not many people really care. But these things add up, and the web becomes slower and slower.
The divorce rate for the first 5 years is less than 20% in the the US. The US has a higher divorce rate than many countries so, in general, this is untrue.
How many "low-level" exposures does it take before it graduates to a "risky" exposure?

The other major effect is wide-range poisoning of insects that just happen to be passing through the garden.
I didn’t read the bill, but here is the summary: “We’re going to use violence against non-violence.”
Care to elaborate on their meaning, for the less informed?
They can stack warm bodies, but they seriously lack for talented developers which tends to force dumping manpower at most problems.
Ugh, you seriously sound like a lawyer from Bayer’s legal department.

Search pubmed for glyphosate for a small taste. Then realize that most of those studies were done ONLY on glyphosate, the solvents and surfactants that glyphosate is mixed with to make Roundup are excluded. Post some studies if you find any juicy ones!
I still see a curve blasting off at an unprecedented accelerated rate after the jump. And after 2009 doesn't look great either.
Wow I read that same section twice and didn't catch this.
I've been f-bomb guy before. Cursing (not for cursings sake, but for the love of the language, if there is such a thing) is a crucial part of my language and when I was younger, before I moved into technical leadership roles, I didn't quite understand why it was unprofessional language to use at work... But sspecially so when everything else abut the job felt so casual. In the last 5 years, however, I have been involved in technical leadership and have restricted my usage.

FWIW, I'm also the type to insist on helping friends and colleagues with physical labor work.
I knew the existence of "/", but never figure out why I should use this instead of Ctrl+F. What's the difference (other than have fewer features)?
> It's scary that this happened at Ebay, I dread to think what kind of shit a company with the funds of google or facebook could pull off.

Ebay is a ~$46 billion company. Yes, that pales in comparison to Google or FB. However, when it comes to going against a couple, any of those three have in essence infinite resources.
Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms
If there is any tech industry that is seriously deserving of extremely strict, federal and state regulation, it's the video game industry IMHO.

Between what Blizzard has done here, EA regularly pushing children to gambling, Telltale Games violating federal and California labor laws, and too many more to enumerate - the video game industry is complete garbage built on a constant source of disposable developers.

Burn it all down.

I hope to one day fix this with an actually sane game company that makes it impossible for companies like this to exist. We need a market leader that is not completely psychotic, genuinely cares about gamers and developers, who can eat these companies lunches.
Boards think, or pretend to think, they need to promise such payments at hiring time in order to attract the candidates they (think they) want.

Board members tend to be, have been, or be related to CEOs. So, it is largely a matter of class solidarity. A norm of "CEO always wins" is good for them in general, even if it occasionally makes bad publicity. Bad publicity doesn't really cost them anything, anyway.

Boards and corporate officers ganging up against the interests of the stockholders is an old story. Nobody seems to have a solution, or to know how to put one into practice. Typically there is no one but a Board in any position to act on any idea.
Here's an example of purple prose that has nothing to do with the complexity of cybersecurity, from his first post on Substack (https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-mask):

> Though my relationship to time fluctuates, the gravamen of my disclosures remains constant. In the past eight years, the depredations of surveillance have merely become more entrenched, with the capabilities that used to be the province of governments now in the hands of private companies, too, which employ them to track and tether us and attenuate our freedoms.
Please stop spreading misinformation. Yes, the classical "Arbeitszimmer" must be a separate room and, by the letter of the law, must have no private function. No, that does not apply for 2020-style home office. And no, you don't "get" 0.35€/km. You can deduct that amount from your income taxes. And that's totally in line with everything else you can deduct because you do it to earn the money in the first place.

Also, building a modest-sized house in Germany costs about 200k€ - this sum is affordable by the average German couple (average income is around 36k€ per year).

Germany is not California and especially not the Silicon Valley. Just because you may have chosen to rent an extremely expensive, 130 year old apartment 5min from your workplace that does not mean it is the lifestyle for the majority in the country.
> I don't understand why anyone capable enough to work for Blizzard wouldn't work for the slew of other awesome tech companies/startups in SoCal/Irvine/LA that don't treat their employees like absolute garbage.

I think this has happened. Many times. They’ve had massive staff departures year after year after year. It’s a Ship of Theseus that’s continued sailing again and again. Anytime that all the employees leave, another fresh slew of kids will take up the name.

I don’t mean to question the talent or skill of anyone who has stuck it out the whole way. But from what I can tell, these companies just churn through fresh blood and slap the developer “brand” on at the end.

Designers of Diablo, most WoW classes, Overwatch, Starcraft, have all trickled out. Then you try and generate enthusiasm with a _different kind_ of remaster (See Diablo 2 Remastered marketing).

It’s probably a bunch of young kids, straight out of school, being told “you have a chance to make up for WC3 remastered, you can do it!”. And they even pay a few of them decent and everything.

Then they’ll push deadlines, encourage crunch out of the young blood (or hell, they’ll want to “prove something”), and the game and developers suffer.

When the game doesn’t sell well as a result? Cut all the kids and try again.
What about when your “organized crime” group has a moral compass and isn’t breaking local laws?:

DS: Obviously, there are many talented professionals on your team. Why is it that this talent is aimed at destructive activities? Have you tried legal penetration testing?

BM: We do not deny that business is destructive, but if we look deeper—as a result of these problems new technologies are developed and created. If everything was good everywhere there would be no room for new development.

There is one life and we take everything from it, our business does not harm individuals and is aimed only at companies, and the company always has the ability to pay funds and restore all its data.

We have not been involved in legal pentesting and we believe that this could not bring the proper material reward.

For me the line between organized crime and robin hood is very blurry.
As a tax haven, Luxembourg depends on France + Germany's tolerance for tax evasion though. Granted, it has worked out great for them, but it's not necessarily a long-term strategy.
Even if I accept the premise that "Not a single entity anywhere in the world has been able to come up with any model that accurately represent COVID-19 infection rates and evolution." (which sounds highly unlikely especially at this point).

None of this backs up your claim of...

"The strategy is balanced and thought though".

What is this strategy anyway? Do random 'tests' and if they produce bad results then do something else? And that's ok because 'the models are bad'? Or something. I don't see much thought or balance in that.

It's not a meaningful plan. It's certainly not thought through from the point of view of coming from the minds of experts in pandemics. It might be a workable 'political plan' that causes lots of needless suffering, death and waste.

I mean seriously - I'd love to see a clear articulation of the Uk strategy from the start to now and why with it's 'balance' and 'thoughtfulness' adverted disaster even though the Uks outcomes are so poor.

I'd note other countries were able to do something about this and have it work - such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand or South Korea. It certainly wasn't/isn't impossible. The Uk also had the advantage of being an island nation.

In Europe Germany has a competent government and it's efforts seem to have paid off in terms of the economy and having half the Uks deaths per capita, for example.
Women, please stop sex. You can do it.
Men, stop sex. You too.
DOJ repatriates looted “Dream of Gilgamesh” tablet, other artifacts to Iraq
This is a very surprising result, putting it mildly!

Edit: Upon reflection, the performance as a function of image degradation is not that surprising given what we know about the sensitivity of neural networks to slight perturbations.

My best guess at this point is that while humans can detect other features like breast density/bone density/BMI from the scan, they don't automatically interpret race as a function of these, while of course the NN does. The fact that it does so much better than the direct regression between these features and race (e.g. .55 AUC predicting race from BMI, .54 AUC predicting race from breast density) is initially very surprising. But they don't report the results of a similar experiment using all of these together. I suspect that simply predicting race from BMI + Breast Density + Age + Bone Density + Sex would achieve similar performance.
Guess I better stock up then. Stuff works great.
Hence why some malware programs won't activate if they detect the computer's keyboard layout is set to Russian.
Is there somewhere to read more about this? It sounds very interesting, are there any places/systems that are considering using this, or even talking about it?
Go coroutines (and any implementation of stackfull coroutines) are equivalent to one-shot continuations.
Locks in PostgreSQL: Locks in Memory