skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...haters to hate with perfect precision.

Except... not. All too often, we see stuff people did or wrote years ago being used against them. Those things may not reflect the person they are today, and that's even worse than "hat[ing] with perfect precision."
patio11's classic post on negotiation: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

I almost doubled my compensation in large part thanks to it for one of my positions. I increased:

+ Base salary by $75k

+ Signing bonus by $35k (from $0)

+ Stock options by $100k total (standard four year vesting, so $25k per year)

If you're a knowledge worker in a sought-after field, particularly in the current environment of crazy salary explosion, you should absolutely read that blog post!
I fully sympathize and I had to mute my mic once so the interviewer doesn't hear that I am searching for what SOLID stands for, and then I proceeded to explain each of the characters.

But to be fair... is that an actual technical interview?
"Zoned in the USA" describes the history of zoning in Canada and the USA, which accords with your view. James C. Scott's "Seeing Like a State" includes the example of razing neighborhoods (in Paris) as you describe.
It's not a matter of what it can do, but of safety/ease of use. I used a traditional pressure cooker for many years, but nowadays I see no reason to go back to babysitting the cooking process. Waiting for pressure to build? Deciding when it's done and lowering the stove to maintenance pressure? Setting an alarm, and then making the pot stop cooking? Nah, just set the timer at the very beginning and go for a walk.
Some, like this MSI subsidary, were actually selling on ebay at scalper prices.

> MSI has admitted that one of its subsidiaries has been selling RTX 3080 graphics cards on eBay at almost double the MSRP.

> The controversy first appeared on Reddit, where users accused MSI of scalping its own RTX 3080 graphics cards on eBay under the name Starlit Partner. Since, it’s been confirmed in a Justia Trademarks listing that Starlit Partner operates under MSI Computer Corp and was first set up in 2016.

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/msi-subsidiary-gets-caught...
> Into the early 2000s, everyone still knew never to use a real name online.

In the mid-2000s I was at school, where we were simultaneously being taught (in 'Information and Communication Technology' lessons) never to use a real name online [0], and signing up to Bebo & MySpace with our real names.

It's (there beginning to exist people) growing up with the internet that all but killed that, I'm sure of it.

[0] with some limited web ring/social network type site for schools, for which we given aliases and then, I don't know, wrote BBcode and marquees and stuff about our school-safe interests and hobbies
The 0.1% that matter.
> There are hundreds of thousands of academics whose position in the encyclopedia could also be established with links to their research groups!

Yup, that's really the crux of it. Wikipedia isn't meant for every tenured professor to have a page, the same way an actor with only one IMDB credit doesn't get a page either. And sadly that stub article doesn't seem to clearly explain why this particular professor does.

In hindsight "Nobel prize laureate" is obviously notable... but it's the job of someone creating a page to make the notability rationale clear.
3) Your employer, school, social club, etc. has included you in their organization's public directory, and does not offer the option to opt out, nor do they protect the directory in any way from being indexed / scraped.
It's unfortunate that as he's become more popular his interviews have become increasingly self-indulgent and vapid.

Maybe it's to appeal to a wider audience, however I think more likely it's just a negative consequence of fame. With a lack of honest feedback you start to buy into your own bullshit, thinking that every personal idea you have is some profound philosophical insight, rather than the type of affected navel-gazing done by people who fancy themselves public intellectuals.
“Eventually, convenience will eat all worldviews.” - smbc-comics
this also punts the debate to the checking process instead of the fact that there even is a process to start with..
Wikipedia editors need to fix that. The notability criteria are skewed, tending to think that every minor person in the pop culture is notable, but regularly dumping scientists and local elected officials (the latter is a problem when they run for higher office and people can't find information about them).

They could relax the standard for deletion and it wouldn't hurt anything. If some editors think someone is prominent and others don't, leave the article in place, even if the "not prominent" side has a majority. If the article doesn't meet standards, tag it as a stub or with the "multiple issues" tag.
Luckily for me I'm not an admin on wikipedia, so I don't have to decide whose work is notable enough to justify a page. That's their problem.

And it's fine for them to get heat when they make bad decisions, or when people notice that those decisions are systematically biased. I don't have to solve the problem to say it's bad.
It doesn’t matter if there are collisions if the two images don’t actually look the same. Do people honestly believe a single CSAM flag from an “innocent” image is going to result in someone going to prison in America?

PhotoDNA has existed for over a decade doing the same thing with no instances that I have heard of.

If some corrupt government wants to get you they don’t need this. They can just unilaterally say you’ve done something bad without evidence and imprison you. It happens all the time. It’s even happened in America. Just look up DNA exonerations - people have had DNA on the scene that literally proves their innocence and they’re still locked up.

People should care about their governments being corrupt, not necessarily about this.
EUV LLC was already heavily funded by DARPA in the 90s and is why we are able to have export restrictions on ASML machines used by TSMC for the latest EUV nodes etc.
Excel does a fairly bad job when moving data between two computers that aren't configured the same way, which kind of defeats the purpose of using a data interchange format.

Where I work we have offices in the US, and in Europe where installing a localized version of windows will swap ',' and '.' when used as the group and decimal separator. Excel when loading a value 100,002 in the US will see one hundred thousand and two, in some parts of Europe it will see one hundred and 2 thousandths.

Character set handing can be just as bad, there is no good way to get Excel to auto open a CSV file as UTF-8 that won't break every other CSV parser in existence. The only cross platform option is ASCII. Excel will happily load your local OS encoding, likely some variant of ISO-8859, but any other encoding requires jumping through hoops.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Y9nSY
And by sheer coincidence, I very recently learnt on a HN linked article on big-endian and little-endianness that these terms come from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift [0], where Lilliput and Blefuscu wage war over which end should be cracked first when eating a hard-boiled egg:

> The novel further describes an intra-Lilliputian quarrel over the practice of breaking eggs. Traditionally, Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations ago, an Emperor of Lilliput, the Present Emperor's great-grandfather, had decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end after his son cut himself breaking the egg on the larger end. The differences between Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions ... wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. The Big-Endians gained favour in Blefuscu.

This seems like a perfect fictional example of the Narcissism of Small Differences, published more than a century before the birth of Sigmund Freud!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu#Satirica...

PS: It's also a great opportunity for us to start a feud as to who should be credited with the idea, whether Freud or Swift. I declare myself Swiftian! :-D
Part of the reason fabs are spread out is capitalism: if you manufacture the part in the country, you don't pay import taxes (e.g., Intel's Ireland fab debacle).

Another part is lax environmental laws. Hillsboro Oregon is embroiled in a suit with Intel where Intel dumped 100x the fluorine into the air that they claimed when D1X was first pitched. Don't need to worry about that stuff in Asia (for now).

Also, lead time. The x-ray litho machines take years to build and test. There are only two companies that make Intel's testers, and the lead time is years. So a "quick fix" isn't possible.

Speaking opinion: in the long term, it is mostly rich people trying to get richer that caused this. If greedy CEOs and shareholders would just be humans for once and think about the future we wouldn't have this trainwreck. That ain't ever gonna happen.
I believe for most people, the answer is: routine. Humans need it.
Any child of the Cold War thinks of the "Stasi" as an organization dedicated to cataloging every bit of information about everyone and using it to harm any detractors of the State. Do the same thing and make it publicly available for anyone to harm anyone whatsoever, and you have Google.
Don't phrase it as "interest". That's a word with an emotional valence. ADHD hyperfocus is not the same "interest" as "I'm interested in this job" or "I'm interested in her". It's quite neutral. I can find myself doing things that are engrossing but entirely uninteresting. In fact avoiding that is a big part of managing ADHD, isn't it? At least for me.

Some jobs simply require multiple roles such that any person is going to be juggling a few things, some of which are not their strong suites. I have to do some accounting stuff that I flounder with. No way around it.

But otherwise, maybe tell your manager you want more work like X if possible because you blew through it with ease. If you keep churning out those tasks, and they have that work to be done, I'm sure they'll be open to accommodating that.

I'm not sure you even need to mention it as being ADHD-related so much as just a good way to keep you highly productive. But you could phrase in it terms of how you manage your ADHD and why certain kinds of tasks are more productive than others.
Pretty much everyone understands that computer chips are needed for everything these days though.

The population can relate just fine. It's just there's no one rich and powerful who wants to make the investment that is making it an issue.
Interesting point. I think it has two sides to it:

1. I started using Spacemacs which got me into using Emacs(mainly for org mode in the beginning). I'm not capable of building an emacs config from scratch(nor do I care).

2. In Vim though I already have my vim config and have been customizing it. When I try to use these neovim distributions, they're very far off how I configured my vim and I have no idea how to reconcile these two things.

I feel like once you are capable enough to configure it on your own, you won't really be happy with these things, but neovim is also almost like the ever changing javascript ecosystem. There are new completion engines coming out every day, new file trees, etc. etc. I don't feel like changing to the next best lsp engine every 6 months.

Also, spacemacs seems to have a better hook mechanism when it comes to configuring the default configuration.
One of the problems with binary classifiers is that you can't simultaneously make low errors in both directions. That's not "an institutional failure", that's practically a law of nature. You have to live with the fact that sometimes you're wrong. What errors to make is the core of the feud between deletionists and inclusionists.
Related: LLVM bitcode modified for sandboxed untrusted code execution, recently deprecated in Chromium: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/introduction-to-p...
ImageNet is a very well-known data set. Are we sure apple didn't test on it when designing this algorithm?
Anonymity was mixed.

Definitely pretty much everyone was anonymous on warez boards and the like. On the other hand, a lot of local BBSs actually had something of a local community in real life as well. And the people accessing Usenet from corporate and academic accounts often used their name and affiliation.
I'd also like to know.
> Now, my 8 year old Macbook Air is still more or less as functional and useful as it was when I got it.

This is my frustration with Apple's policy of dropping support for hardware in MacOS. It made sense in the 90's to upgrade every 2-3 years because you got 1.5-3x more performance each time. So 6 year old hardware was almost an order of magnitude less capable.

Fast-forwarding to today, a "legacy" 10 year old ("Mid-2011") MacBook Pro supports just as much memory (16GB) as Apple's current M1 offerings. The M1 does put up some very impressive numbers on the single-thread CPU front, but that's because we've gotten used to such small progress every year--it's only about 2x the speed of the 2011 MBP for single thread tasks.
> All it takes is a wiretap warrant and Apple would have to scan on-device pictures and iMessages for whatever the wiretap says.

This is total and utter bullshit. It is a complete misunderstanding of how the system works.

If you and your family think this is true, then of course you are alarmed.
At least you seem happy about that.
DO bills in arrears, so it’s stuff they already delivered and have not been compensated for. To my knowledge DO will keep your system alive for like 60 days for resurrection after you stop paying (ask me how I know). Some companies, like Meraki, are pretty flexible when you need an extension of time, but to my knowledge it’s limited to twice per customer lifetime. But there you have customers with significant investment in equipment with much to lose if they don’t eventually pay. DO’s customers are far less sticky and there’s really nothing securing their commitment.
Fun with regular expressions, 4 part series
Don’t worry, surely they won’t ever include these banned phrases in a search of your iPhone. They will only ever scan for CSAM. And their stock is nearly at ATH…
Single file with an open standard binary format based on Protobuf or CapnProto. This idea of using text files by default is ancient Unix cruft. Use binary formats unless you have a damn good reason not to, always, and release open-source tools for reading and processing files in your format. Then you can do some semblance of enforcing structure and types on your data.
Probably Get that Job at Google for giving me some idea of things I should study, as a self-taught dev working in a tiny company by myself, if I wanted to play in the big leagues. Not as Google specific as the title suggests.
To be clear, AMP pages are often the same size as regular webpages. Often they can be much much heavier.
Bezos has said repeatedly that nobody is the tide itself. You capture opportunity not by swimming to the tide but by getting in place before it comes.
That's certainly one view, but it's not my view. If people don't feel safe participating today on some topic that haters have google alerts set up for, then those future archives will be heavily biased in favor of content that's acceptable to the haters of that time. Sounds like a great way to ensure the spread of hate across social generations to me.
Ha, ha. I also thought we were talking about Dynamically Loaded Libraries and I couldn't remember a time when Windows would show me how many DLLs I had loaded or stop me with, "Sorry, too many DLLs loaded". :P
>It was suggesting that we very temporarily give special treatment to a very small consumer of chips that has an outsized impact on production rate, in the midst of a global chip shortage.

Why would we do that if the fabs themselves don't think it is worth paying their equipment manufacturers enough to afford their own chips?

Giving "special treatment" is a price control. It is forcing a transaction that otherwise wouldn't settle at that price.
The damage is already done by the time it gets to the point of devices being confiscated.
Great point. A core cause of the endless wars in the middle east is people pushed into the truly evil British model of a minority in power over a weaker but larger other party. I get that there are lots of existing problems but doing this in countries on purpose is unforgivable.

My own country (the us) fucks things up too of course - Afghanistan being the latest example, but we have our own long list of shame (Iraq, many countries in south and central America...).
Wall St in general and Jack Welch in particular embraced the “avoid owning anything” at any cost model to juice the books.
Linking accounts is optional, and combined cross account data is used when they are linked. Otherwise, subsets of the apps may or may not "know" about the link between your accounts via your phone number, email address, or access patterns.
What I don't like about this article (besides the very obvious conclusions that it starts out with and then hits you over the head with) is that it doesn't attempt to reach any wikipedia mod or reviewer for a comment. It's only the author's side and the author's narrative. Also, correlation does not imply causation. The fact that women's pages get deleted more often doesn't mean that there is a gender bias against women.
Yes I was about to say the same thing. Hash collisions are an extra concern about what apple is doing, but even if they were as collision free as cryptographic hashes, that would not make the invasion of privacy OK. The technical discussion is something that apple can easily parry and is the wrong framing of this debate.
Because this product doesn’t seem to be doing anything different and the only way they can get buyers it is to try to proclaim that the service is made specifically for “insert underserved group here”.

It’s a common trend with startups being accepted into YC nowadays.
Seriously? You're using Donald Trump, who specialized in brand licensing and being a television character, as an equivalency to all the manufacturing engineers and supply chain specialists working to resolve the problems created by a global pandemic that's killed millions of people?

The amount of disrespect to highly skilled professionals in this thread working like crazy to respond to a massive exogenous shock, and then following it up with the idea that "well, the government should fix it" with no specific idea of how exactly, the government would fix it, is mind-bending.
bspwm

See https://github.com/siduck76/dotfiles and https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad/issues/22#issuecomment-8138...
Which one is it? I found a “Tiny Habit” and an outdated “Tiny Habits” on App Store.
In general we do, because launching from west to east at the equator lets you use the Earth's rotation for a 465m/s speed boost. Launching the other direction means you need an extra 465m/s just to counteract the rotation you started out with. Polar orbits don't gain or lose much from the rotation since they're aimed over the planet's poles.
If the two images looked the same, then the expected behaviour is a collision, so if collisions matter at all, it would only be for pictures that look different.
Exactly. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/machiavellians-gulli...
That’s pure fantasy. The system involves Apple reviewing any detected images.
Can you point to a single instance of that happening where it was due to a false positive?
"Unless Iran harnesses its water resources, the country will hit a major crisis by 2036 and will face mass migration," said Banafsheh Keynoush, a fellow at the International Institute for Iranian Studies and former consultant to the World Bank. As far as the Iranian authorities are concerned, "Iraq's interests are irrelevant," she adds bluntly.

Isn't an Iraq-in-water-crisis also a mass migration event for neighboring Iran?
Login-wall, pay wall. Can't read.
> stimulant-based treatment of ADHD in childhood and adolescence does cause significant changes in brain structure. In a good way.

I've seen the literature showing evidence of reduced depression and suicide rates in at-risk adolescents who undergo long-term treatment with Ritalin and closely related drugs.

Are you aware of any literature beyond that? If so please cite the sources here so we can all learn.

I have yet to see any conclusive evidence that the induced changes in brain structure and function are always 'good', and the previous citations I provided present evidence that counters your claim.

> if administered to a healthy child who has inappropriately been diagnosed with ADHD, our data indicates that administering the drug may induce persistent changes of dopamine-dependent behaviours that can have detrimental consequences [3]

FWIW we're in agreement that long-term treatment with these medications can be helpful for people who genuinely need it. But diagnosing ADHD isn't an exact science [4][5], hence the caution I've been advocating.

[4] ADHD: Is Objective Diagnosis Possible?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2993524/

[5] Prevalence of Parent-Reported ADHD Diagnosis and Associated Treatment Among U.S. Children and Adolescents, 2016
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5834391/
The last company I worked at renamed every department in this fashion.

Sales? SalesOps.
HR? PeopleOps.

I worked ... in operations. We didn't get a shiny new name. But then, we actually did WORK, which had to continue at the datacenters -- not just get drunk on Zoom, like "PeopleOps" did.
Interesting content, but light gray text on white is a poor choice for a website :(
Yes, but there is a stark and important difference between "this looks sensible and isn't going to cause problems but needs improvements" and "must contain BBC or CNN link or it not be real" which I think has been lost on the editors of Wikipedia.

If biases have been introduced in one way then there well could be additional biases which need to be checked for or which have come about through the first bias through correlation.

Whilst I don't agree with turning everything into a gender war I do feel Wikipedia as a "factual resource" is open for correct ridicule if it's not being fair and unbiased. Otherwise it's not truely factual.
It certainly would be much worse to burn a living planet, but even a hellhole like Venus is a uniquely beautiful and mysterious scientific wonderland.
It meets the tests of a tax: You can't opt out and the payee has a legal right to use the threat of violence against you in pursuit of payment.
Show HN: Made a service that can text you as soon as the PS5 is back in stock
> either can't or couldn't (I haven't checked in a few years) open CSV files that start with a capital letter I.

It can't do this because it confuses such files with files in SYLK format, which was YET ANOTHER attempt to standardize spreadsheet data interchange, dating from the 80s.
The point is, that they don't know if you're telling the truth when you say "I just built one", there's no real way to ensure that they are knowledgeable enough in every single topic to be able to figure it out. So they adopted the sensible rule of requiring citations.

This annoys people like you, who know stuff that isn't in Wikipedia, because it raises the effort required to get it in.

But at the same time it stops Wikipedia being swamped with fabricated stuff.

And provided a tractable problem whenever a dispute arises. Not "is this true" but "has this been cited in a trusted set of well known sources".

In this particular case, this possibly has the unfortunate side effect of reflecting the biases of the well known sources, which is a shame.
Looks like the author is running BSPWM, their configuration (in their dotfiles repo) is available here: https://github.com/siduck76/dotfiles/blob/master/thinkpad/bs...