skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The definition of "identity" in this context was good enough for the owner of the Madrilenian book store owner.

It was, because that's all the information they had at the time—that the author of the book represented themselves via a picture of a woman. Most people who do that, are women. And then they got new information: in fact, the book was written by three men, and the woman does not exist. So they updated their priors. That's what people do when encountering someone (or someones) being misleading.

It's not a complicated situation at all—we don't need to bring transgenderism into this to understand it.

You tell me it's raining, and I'll grab an umbrella. I go outside, find out the skies are clear, and I'll put the umbrella away. Maybe it was raining previously, and it stopped. Maybe you lied. I don't entertain the possibility that it is raining for you but not for me.
I live near a town where everybody is rich, but only some of them are famous. I've spoken with several people and they pretty much all agree with the Bill Murray quote that being rich without fame is, on average, nicer than being rich and famous.

On the other hand, it's also a place people move (at least partly) to get away from some of the negative side-effects of fame, so there may be some selection bias there.
Links like that are just PR fluff written by university admin/funding departments. We should hardly ever link those; link the actual research paper instead: https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/23/6/646/4035689
I was wondering if Bezos, Gates, or Musk would come out as number 1, at least for living people.
> This has been made a lot more difficult with the electronic log books.

I think this kind of thing is going to be huge in the next 50 years. We have a lot of laws and standards that, in effect, allowed people to cheat a little but not too much (or break a few traffic laws but not too many, etc). All in all, that system sucked - it placed all the burden and risk on individuals to figure out how to cheat enough to make the system livable - but it was stable as a system.

We are going to need to do a lot of work to find new equilibrium points where the various parties can cheat less. It will be made especially difficult because technology penetrates industries more quickly these days so it would be best if everything changed at once, but that also makes it more difficult.
I've been a customer for years and have nothing negative to say. They are providing exactly the products they are advertising. Even those specs that don't necessarily have hard numbers attached with all products (disk speed, CPU performance) have always been good.

That said, there are some products certain customers expect that they will not sell you (and don't advertise). For example, you won't be able to click a button to deploy Software Y pre-configured by the provider as you might with Digital Ocean. What you'll get is mostly along the lines of "server with the OS of your choice and your SSH key installed on it". If that's what you're looking for, Hetzner is difficult to beat on price to performance.
If you're more interested in team performance metrics, read Accelerate. The primary metrics from Accelerate that I use are Deployment Frequency and Lead Time.
Depends on the contract. I consult for a surgical robotics company and the contract bars me from working for competitors for 1 year. Apparently the clause is more applicable to consultants than full-time employees. I have to look deeper into that (haven't had to yet).
What did it look like before 1950?
For a certain definition of bad, for sure.
LC stands for LeetCode → https://leetcode.com/ in case anyone is wondering. I find it funny how the parent comment is so long but didn’t want to include the full name of the website haha
> That physics combination with drag and drop interaction was not obvious in the time

Copying natural laws in our work is something that was obvious for humans for millennia. We've been imagining space ships 100 years before going to space but simulating inertia for an object "sliding" on a screen was "not obvious at the time"?

Of course it was! How to do it (well) may not have been obvious but the idea of doing it was there for anyone using a computer. The parallel with the real world was always obvious because this is directly analogous to how physical objects behave and you'd do naturally in the physical world. The world around you provides the "observed example", not other computer implementations.

I personally thought since decades ago about this kind of inertia while scrolling through lists or dragging things. I thought of transparency, skeuomorphism, writing on touchscreens, etc. long before they were implemented because computers could handle them. And I can assure you I wasn't the only one.

"Same thing that you've been doing for ages in real life but now on a computer".

P.S. I'm thinking of a holographic/VR 3D interface right now that replicates interactions with physical objects either by manipulating it with my body parts, with electronic input devices, or with a BCI. I hope I live long enough to read an internet discussion where someone claims this was just not obvious back in the dark ages of the early 2020s...
That caught my eye as well!

https://framehome.com/

I once stayed very close to the Clinton Hill, Brooklyn location they mention, and may be in the market for an apartment/home soon.

Do you or your father have any pointers for evaluating a building like that? Or any ways to keep up to date on such developments?

I'm sorta surprised it's in NYC because my understanding is that city living is already efficient compared to single family home living? i.e. in terms of the energy cost per person.

Also I imagine older buildings are not great in terms of efficiency compared to new construction. One thing I noticed in NYC is that even relatively expensive (e.g. pre-war) buildings have in-window A/C units.
Porting Software to ARM: Here’s What We Learned
I came here to comment with that exact though. Apple does seem to care that the things it supports are "good" in the general sense. It feels like this mobile gaming thing grew up under them and it makes them so much money they just sort of turn a blind eye.

So many of their devices (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, now MacBook) seem like such obvious decent gaming machines, far overshadowing something like a Nintendo Switch in specs, that it's really sad we can't get much worth playing on them (personal opinion).
People have run out of things to spend money on where the person you are paying gets to keep some of it.
Which part of OSs do you expect not to be covered?

There's IPC. There's memory management. There's process management. There's network management. There's security. There's device management.

They all happen at a slightly higher layer, but they all exist similar to an OS. (I'm not sure if the higher layer makes it easier or harder to understand - but in terms of what you need to know, an OS class or three is definitely helpful)
Do you have an incentive to reduce/eliminate bullshit meetings? On the one hand, those meetings give you cover for getting your work done. On the other, juggling attendance at two sets of meetings seems like the hardest part of this

(Read "you" as "one", I guess)
I think Python dependency/build/install/test stuff would be helped greatly by a library or module that did for it what pathlib did for file & path manipulation, eh?
Can you send a link for the probability course that you have in mind? Thanks for the discrete rec!
(NB: Post author here)

Totally understand the concern, for now, it’s just for a particular datatype, all of the other operations are happening normally inside your query and you can still use window functions...

And btw, I love window functions and will probably be doing a post on them, but they can be a little bit weird and have some really odd ordering properties with aggregates etc.

The point of this is really much more about providing choices for folks. But yeah, if we find that people are just getting really confused we could re-consider, that’s part of why we released it experimentally.
It is like that, and the answer is the same: yes.

Obviously with things like the Panama Papers, we know it's a combination of a circlejerk and a tax evasion scheme.
We always check the corporate registries to see if any of the legal entities the execs of a company are related to are making substantial turnover from either the company we are looking at, or a subsidiary. In 200+ DDs this has happened a handful of times. So I would not say it is a common thing but it definitely does happen, and often enough that we feel the need to at least try to establish if it is the case during a routine checkup in case of investment or acquisition.

Of course that would not help a company while it is happening, we only check a very small fraction of all offerings. In a perfect world an accountant would catch this.

One case I ran into was very much like this one: a whole bunch of hardware was sold at above sticker price, on top of that much more hardware was sold than what the business could reasonably expect to be using. The a-technical management never caught on to this until we showed up, the fall out from that case was fairly spectacular.
Yep - I guess they are linked to Facebook, so getting into one unlocked the other one?

Didn't really make much sense, but I was very glad to get back into my account to chat to some old friends mid-pandemic
VC Pitch Deck Demand Is High, Record Lows for VC Time Spent on Pitch Decks
Thank you for documenting it so thoroughly. My experience totally agrees with this. DDG often returns a lot of irrelevant results and they are not irrelevant because they're not personalised to me, but because they do not include terms in my query - even when those terms are in quotes! I simply cannot tell DDG: "unless that exact string is in the page I don't want to see this result"! (To be fair, I cannot tell Google that, either, but it still returns better results.)

Today's example: I searched for

> linux nic bonding "bond-mode"

The second result is https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... which does not include the string "bond-mode" (nor "bond mode").
You mean the fraud that's been uncovered and successfully prosecuted? Unfortunately the article and press release don't disclose how this came to light, unless you know something more?
I had the opportunity to talk to one of devs who created Terravision, an awesome guy. It really made hate Google... I feel guilty for being so deep involved and dependent of this whole G environment.
I'm not referring the the article specifically, In general most crypto exchanges active in the US ban or extremely limit NY residents. Even on highly legit exchanges like Coinbase a huge part of their crypto offerings is unavailable to NY.

That is because of these burdensome "You-need-us-to-protect-you-because-you-are-not-smart-enough-to-make-educated-choices" crypto laws.

There are lots of different ways to ensure "scam" cryptos don't end up in NY. Being overly restrictive doesn't help NY'ers at all.
> I have never seen anyone use the phrase like this

Maybe look around? If you google “present day Babylon”, you will find many examples of exactly this usage. Present-day Babylon is referring to the region that used to be called Babylon, it has a perfectly clear meaning. I think this usage is in fact more common than referring to something current using the phrase “present day”. You don’t need to clarify present-day Iraq, because Iraq is the name of a current region, so it would be automatically assumed that you mean today’s borders, and far less confusing in your example if you left out “present day”.

Your example has the same primary problem as the article title, it’s mixing two time periods in a confusing way. The term “present day” is normally meant to signify that the sentence is discussing the present, not to invoke the past. That said, your example is slightly better than the title because it starts with “thousands of years ago”, and it’s clear the people drank beer thousands of years ago before you say “present day”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_day

Edit: BTW, the term “present day” is not really the issue, we don’t need to debate the meaning of those two words. The problem is the larger fragment “people in present day Austria”, which implies by correct and common usage the same thing as “people presently in Austria”. The article title only becomes clear later on, when it clarifies 2700 years ago.
I'm just finishing "Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction" from the OUP series. I found it to be a useful starting point even though (as the title says) it does not go into much detail, and it is a bit dated as well (currencies are not mentioned). It does, however, cover fundamentals that you can supplement with videos and other texts.
Welcome to Peronistan.
Isn't the key to drive as a team?
> Why are there so many proposals trying to force alien syntax into JS from "functional" languages?

People want to leave their mark on something big. It's a form of status.
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I don't think anybody is confused about the morality of "I will only sign this contract on behalf of my company if you give money to me personally". The problem is that this is never mentioned in the article. In fact at no point does the article say that the agreement was with the VP and not okayed by the decision makers at Netflix. It seems pretty clear to me why people are confused.
Metal is 4th class:

1. Vulkan
2. DirectX
3. OpenGL
4. Metal

IIRC, there are some efforts to translate Vulkan to Metal similar to how the WINE project translates DirectX into OpenGL/Vulkan, but that's still an imperfect workaround.
s/understand/care
You are right that the basics are often misunderstood but an Intro course this is not! Knowing what prime factoring is can be interesting if you like maths but definitely not required to understand on a practical level the difference between symmetrical, asymmetrical and things like CSPRNG vs hashing.
There is no free lunch. Every blue collar business that you can cook up either comes with significant start up costs or a decade of crap jobs working your way up the ladder. The money you make is directly proportional to the amount of stuff you do in house from customer acquisition to maintaining your machines. This comes with employees, paperwork, compliance, etc, etc or it caps your scale.
Schedulers, Pluggable and Realtime (2004)
I don't know about the early versions, but I believe the final version of IE for Mac, though also numbered 5, used an entirely different browser engine from that on Windows. Tasman

http://jimmy.grew.al/macie5-twentieth-anniversary/
It's an interesting turn. Microsoft invested $150 million to save Apple long ago, now Apple is investing in Microsoft's services platform as they both try to transition into services companies.
This case study had a lot of valuable insights cooked into it, so I'm glad this developer blogged about it.

The myth of the developer who knows everything and never makes huge mistakes is a lie that needs to perish. I'd much rather work with someone who is upfront about their mistakes, the gaps in their knowledge, and can speak directly on serious issues of overwork, managerial incompetence, bad clients, and systemic fragility.
Energy Star won’t recommend any gas appliances on its next ‘most efficient’ list
>“In Southeast Asia in particular, the spread of Covid and lockdowns are affecting our local suppliers,” said Toyota Purchasing Manager Kazuanri Kumakura. Toyota will make sure in future to diversify its supply chain even more spatially. In the weeks before, Toyota had announced minor production stoppages due to missing parts deliveries. Last month, Toyota extended a production stop in Thailand because parts were missing as a result of the Covid pandemic.

Looks like it was written by a bot or hastily rewritten.
Also, the team picked `->` as the operator, which I thought was a very natural and intuitive choice :-)

e.g.,

SELECT device_id, timevector(ts, val) -> sort() -> delta() -> abs() -> sum() as volatility
Because of greed. For most humans, what you have is never enough.

A few years ago, Netflix had a reputation of paying very well to lower level senior employees (think L5 and L6), but not as competitively for higher level employees (L7+).
I have no evidence for this but I wonder whether, in the more sexist/male-dominated society of the 70s and early 80s, it was more common for doctors to deliver reports to men that did not question their own "virility" when assessing fertility problems.
Quite a contrast from the automation-driven jobs loss that was being forecast back in 2016, even by those who should have known better. For example a quote from a piece by Ryan Petersen, the CEO of Flexport:

"driverless trucking is right around the corner. The primary remaining barriers are regulatory."

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/25/the-driverless-truck-is-co...
I would try BorgBackup or restic. Both support encryption and compression.
Wouldn't no pipes be better than hack pipes?

Once a feature gets in, it will never get out. Whereas until it gets in, we can still hope for F# pipes :-)
In those instances, do the managers at BiggerCorp who initiate the deal get the equity or the company?
For me it will always be Jacques Mayol
> brain surgeon. What’s special about software?

brain surgeon doesn't take USMLE at every job interview.
> ICC is a checking on down the line
> Well I'm a little overweight and my logbook's way behind

- Dave Dudley, "Six Days on the Road" 1963

The give-and-take between making a living and obeying the law in truck driving is well established in our culture.

Anyone who's interested I'd encourage to check out Dave Dudley's music. It's all there: racing time, avoiding the law, fatigue, loneliness, bodily harm, drug abuse, etc.
This suggests 1.0 average pages per visit.
This is why I've never used it. It always felt like I was getting 10 records for a penny.
You still have to provide last mile delivery, loading and unloading operations thus it takes more time. Plus adjust the logistics chain. If you have big warehouses built for trucked goods, tough luck.
Three layers to data lineage to analyze and understand the data
Interesting. Do you have a beginner’s course or tutorial that you would suggest? Something like the Rust book is wha came to mind
This case is particularly interesting because he was convicted by a jury of the somewhat controversial charge of honest services fraud[1] in addition to the more common criminal fraud charges. Jeffrey Skilling (of Enron fame) was convicted under the same law (also among other charges) and successfully appealed to the Supreme Court where his convicted was reversed and his sentence was subsequently reduced. Skilling v. United States[2] and Black v. United States[3] (Conrad Black, the Canadian media mogul) significantly narrowed the scope of the crime. The Court came eversoclose to finding the law unconstitutionally vague but instead limited its applicability to situations where a fiduciary duty exists and there is evidence of bribery or a kickback scheme. Since Skilling the charge has most often been used for holders of political office, like Rod Blagojevich[4] but prosecutors couldn’t even get the charge to stick there. (Trump pardoned both Black and Blagojevich before leaving office.) More recently the charges have been brought against participants in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal.

The Supreme Court definitely left the door open for this law to be ruled unconstitutional so I’m curious whether any of the very wealthy and newly convicted-at-trial defendants will pursue the matter.

Edit: Reading the DOJ press release and the way it’s worded I’m not so sure whether Kail was convicted of honest services fraud. It seems there was one count for which the jury did not return a guilty a verdict and I’d bet it was this one.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_services_fraud

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilling_v._United_States

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_v._United_States

[4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_c...
Mental shortcuts to enhance your decision-making
"Preparatory industry" is a bit much. The only thing people really need or use for interview prep is Leetcode, which costs about as much as Netflix if you buy an annual subscription, and provides hundreds of hours of what should be at least somewhat fun to anyone who actually enjoys programming

If you wanna get fancy you can throw in a $59/month Coursera Plus sub for those big-name-university math and CS courses. There are some good ones that I think would help people who focus exclusively on LC improve faster and/or get a deeper understanding

Ok, so we are now talking about ~$900 over the course of a year. Even throwing in some a la carte courses from edX, like the Programming Languages sequence from Washington that OSSU recommends, you can now give yourself a thorough and marketable CS education in a couple years of hard work for under $3k. That doesn't sound like a predatory industry....that sounds like excellent progress towards equitable opportunity

P.S. And you can even be a cheapskate and just use the Sedgewick booksites and do the UCSD and Stanford discrete math and algos courses on Coursera and get your interview prep done for a grand total of like $200

P.P.S. The reason you don't need algos in your day to day is because you are not good enough at algos to get a funner, better paying, more impactful job where you do
Google hopes to sell 7M Pixel 6 devices. Apple sells 80M iPhones per quarter
Seems like it includes owner operator pay without deducting the (quite large) expenses.
It may not be just another status symbol though. It is likely also a pump-and-dump or tax evasion.

For example, let's say I buy 10 NFTs from the same set, each for $50k. I then sell one of them to another wallet that I secretly own, but I sell it for $5M.

Suddenly the "value" of those NFTs has gone up 100x! I can then sell the other 9, or I can even donate them to charity to reduce my taxes by $45M.

This is not dissimilar from physical fine art. It's just a lot easier.
It’s less that they are reducing compatibility and more that they saw limitations in BlueTooth and built extensions into their devices to handle additional use cases.
Apple's devices are personal computing devices, not video game consoles.
> [snip] It comes down to this statement: "I have two candidates who are equal in every way except candidate A never finished college. Candidate B gets hired!"

> Going this route you have to be better than everyone else with a degree: If you're not, the person with the degree will win, every time.

> [snip] My big fear is that I'll never get hired after this job because there are lots of qualified candidates who went to school, and I just don't stack up.

Oh boy, this resonates so strongly with me. I even have actual proof that the opposite is true (when I asked about other candidates at my first "real" job while I was still in college, my boss said they hired me over people with a degree because of my github), I still felt this way!! In the end, I ended up finishing my degree not because it made me more intrinsically valuable or a 10x rockstar code god, but because of that exact fear you're talking about. I wish I was the kind of person who didn't have to do that.
The XPS also compromised - the camera quality is terrible, especially in non-optimal lighting.

"That camera is really embarrassing given the price tag. We got one for our CEO as a replacement.... everything was working well until he had a video meeting.... so embarrassing"

extensive thread on this discussion: https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS13-9300-2020-version-w...

You can see the difference for yourself at 3:13 here

https://youtu.be/QgFd_w2n1es?t=193

Grainy, ghosting, compression artifacts, and looks like the FPS is lower too.
Why didn’t Powell’s vaccine work?