skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't tell if this is genuine bewilderment, or just more of the usual "USA is full of dangerous murderers" meme to dunk on the country as a whole, but just in case:

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

The USA has 4.96 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. 93rd in the world out of 230 countries or territories, below the global average of 6.2 and well below the average in the Americas of 16.3. It's also below the African average of 12.5.

CAF and Puerto Rico are the major territories with a figure closest to 4 times the US, and Puerto Rico is 20th on the list. Higher than Puerto Rico are 18 territories in the Americas, and 2 in Africa.

Of the 10th most populous countries in the world, the US is 5th and lower than Brazil, Nigeria, Russia, and Mexico. However, it _does_ have the highest rate of the 3, 4, and 5 most populous countries (Brazil is the 6th most populous, and with a murder rate of 27.38, more than 5 times the US rate).

Of its neighbours, Canada's figure is 1.7 (lowest in the Americas), while Mexico is at 29.07, 13th highest in the world.

In the Americas, only 4 countries or territories have lower rates than the US: Chile, Martinique, Aruba and Canada. On the other hand, 45 other countries or territories have a higher murder rate.

My own country is at almost 6 times the US rate, too, btw.
Print it, laminate it, seal it in water tight container.

There is no permanence on the web, everything thats there takes constant maintenance to keep in place.
Would you mind?
I meant implementing CLOS in any language is a large undertaking, but then pointed out two portable implementations in CL one could use, to save that work.
This has had me thinking all day about situations and industries where we all assume the “experts” have it “figured out”.

I don’t think these people are stupid, there’s just this huge combination of junk that stacks up that nobody fully understands over time.

It’s a lot like a really large, old codebases. Nobody dares to look under the covers and change anything out of fear of it breaking. What it takes is an outside who doesn’t know any better to start poking and prodding at it to see what it does. In this case Ryan effectively ran a profiler on the Long Beach port, a “decades old codebase”, and found a hotspot that was created by a deadlock between the local government and the yards.

What other physical world situations can you think of what would benefit from an outside running a “profiler” against it?
She was subjected to a process that wasn't the norm at Google. I'd be pretty upset too.

The details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25313994

Discussion about whether the review process was normal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25308847
It has been THREE FUCKING YEARS since you fascist pieces of shit have allowed anyone to work.

THREE FUCKING YEARS!

Wear a mask.

Get the Vax.

Don't go to work.

Don't let the work be open at all.

Moltolv the workplace because "BLM".

THREE FUCKING YEARS!

Why is there inflation? Why is there a supply chain problem?

THREE FUCKING YEARS OF SOCIALIST BULLSHIT!

FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU SOCIALIST FUCKS!
> lead by engineers who by and large do not talk to people

Do you think the engineer who leads a 1000 man org is not talking to people? I talked to the engineer leading our 500 man org, he talked to a lot of people and wanted their input and tried to understand the whole to make decisions. He had technical expertise so he could talk to low level engineers as well, but also to business people etc.
Projecting contemporary morals backwards is fraught for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that we know scientific facts people in Jefferson’s time didn’t.

If you were a European in 1780, and you believed that all people were morally equal, would it necessarily follow that all people were factually equal in every capacity? Would you really look at London and New York on one hand, and virtually anywhere else on the other, and conclude that the people who built those respective places were fungible?

How much does scientific knowledge shape moral thinking? In particular, how much does contemporary knowledge of the minimal genetic differences between groups of humans—something that wouldn’t be discovered until 150+ years later—color the conclusions we draw from the obvious differences in civilizations land technological achievement between people of different nations?

> Rather conflicts with the narrative that the US was founded as a melting pot nation.

The narrative is that America is a melting pot, not that it was founded as such. The founders were virtually all of British heritage and the country was founded as England 2.0. But starting with German American immigration in the early 19th century it very quickly became an immigrant nation.
The Biden government using newly printed money. Or they'll just make them take flatmates.

See, it's an emergency. New tenants are streaming in every month.
Yeah, but rust is very rigid about ownership
This is a very important point because it's very commonly believed that extreme cold weather (99 pct) will be worsened, and it's central to Scott Alexander's piece. Not storms per se, just the inverse to heat waves. Can anyone find any evidence for this from primary sources like the IPCC? My guess is the answer is that they're going to reduced. If they're virtually certain that 75th percentile events will be reduced that usually suggests that 99th percentile events will be reduced too.
The article is incorrect. The author has likely confused GAAP vs non GAAP revenue when he talks about a decline.

2021 revenue projection is 73.5B, while 2022 is projected to be 74B.

Checkout the official earnings report.
https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_150ab36dee7b2e1e66231d...
I think you're vastly underestimating the volume of cargo that moves and the world of infrastructure that has been put in place to move it.

Also, to the extent that small vessels are used in the "transportation" business, it's for contraband, not Beanie Babies. Look up the street value of 100 kilos (~220 pounds) of cocaine in major US and European cities and compare it to the value of a 40 foot container full of nuts and bolts.
Bitcoin is only fuelled by people's poor understanding of what money is.

It's not changing the world except for when the next revolution really comes, people would be averse to it having lost so much money chasing this false gold.
FUCK LIBERALS!

FUCK THE VAX!

FUCK THE MASK!

FUCK YOU SOCIALIST FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT!

BURN IN FUCKING HELL FUCKING DEMOCRAT FUCKS!
Post hoc ergo proctor hoc fallacy. Just because something happened after UBI doesn’t necessarily mean it happens because of UBI.

Attributing the labor shortage to UBI is to ignore the fact that the original impetus for the payments was to allow people to continue to live while we fight off the spread of disease.

Also inflation has been low for a decade and we have people money at the same time the supply chain had to start dealing with selective border closures and businesses slowing operations due to disease outbreaks.
There might be a perverse incentive to treat some people like they are special in the hope that their self-perception actually leads to special potential.
BURN IN FUCKING HELL LIBERALS!
If you speak and read the local language, life is very good on a US salary.

The main QoL issues are that things take longer to do (you can visit 10 stores in the US in the time it takes to do 1 or 2 there), and traffic jams can suck.

Also, engineers there have the same status as rock stars in the US.

Note that a lot of "digital nomads" report having problems getting new work there, or worse, returning to the US broke and struggling to find work - so starting their life and career over.
This is eerily similar to my experience at Amazon including how I feel when I look back. Even the years are same :-). I somehow feel joining and leaving Amazon when I did (2005-2012) was the best thing to have happened.

What makes it more special was the stellar team that I got to be a part of with whom I’m still in touch with. It’s like being part of a secret club.

The only thing we used to discuss among colleagues most of the time was solving some hairy interesting engineering problem. That changed as years wore on, it became more gossip and internal politics and who got promoted how and when etc.
FUCK THE MASK!

FUCK THE VAX!

KILL ALL THE FUCKING LIBERALS! KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!
Indeed, I'm not sure how they came to the conclusion that stronger pull-ups would reduce power draw. If anything they'd increase it.

And it won't affect MCU power draw at all as PS/2 is open collector - the MCU is never driving the data or clock high at all.
It's been longer than that, namely 1968.
We already do! I grew up in Virginia in the 1990s when it was a red state. Even back then if you toured Monticello (which everyone did) you’d learn that part of the history.
It is not only relevant for Google. Apple is exactly IBM from the past + some design and marketing sprinkled over.
The high being too low on an open-collector bus is a rather unusual situation, since it's more common when mixing logic families that the pulldowns are too weak to satisfy Vih(min).

From the IBM PC/AT schematics we can find that the pullups are on the host side and are 10k, and the Intel 8042 used as the interface controller has a Vih(min) of 2.0V. On newer motherboards, the KBC is usually built into the SuperI/O. As an example, I picked the D845GRG as one listed motherboard that required the modification, and discovered that it has either an SMSC LPC47M172 or NS PC87372. They both specify a Vih(min) of 2.0V, but the datasheet for the former surprisingly recommends a 2.7k(!) pullup for the PS/2 ports. That is surprising because the original IBM PC/AT only needs 10k. Maybe these "non-compliant" motherboards are running the port at a faster clock than the original?
> I'll clue you in on a dirty little secret: it's hard to get promoted to L6 for anything.

It's hard if you're on the wrong project (read: low impact and/or low visibility). There are different routes to L6 at Google, but by far the most successful was to become TLM or just M of a medium impact project. It's hard to make the case as an IC for L6, but colleagues did it multiple times. Large enough, long-running projects also reach a critical mass of L6+ people and then getting high-level support becomes much easier.

Having been through the process, seeing the process from an IC, TL, TLM, and promotion committee member, if you think that L6 is unachievable, there is either a problem with your project or your expectations.
Tailscale Now Runs in the Browser
Voicebox 360: The queen of video-game acting (2011)
Oh man, you've got AI and an R at the end of your startup name! How do I invest?
You can use whichever phrase best represents the concept: "non-sterilizing vaccine," "leaky vaccine," "imperfect vaccine."

What you should not do is lie, obfuscate or pretend that everything is hunky dory with the vaccine situation. That creates and feeds paranoia. Anyone who does that should then stop complaining about misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Long-time former Googler here, author of go/l6talk (internal presentation on getting promoted to L6). While there I coached a lot of people on the L5-to-L6 promotion process. It seems a lot of Googlers get disillusioned about getting promoted above L5. Broadly speaking Google's culture is heavily focused on levels and promotions, which is too bad, since many L5's are doing just great and getting paid extremely well.

If it weren't for the fact that Google makes level information public within the company, I doubt there would be quite so much emphasis on getting a promotion. Most people want to get L6 for the recognition and the fact that it elevates you above other engineers in terms of status and influence. When I worked at Apple, levels were private, so you had to treat everyone the same -- a person's influence was not dictated by what level they had on their company profile (there is no company profile at Apple). In my opinion this approach was much better, and significantly lessened the internal competition for promotions.
Sure. Not saying this case is harmful to animal welfare, but the idea of anything that seems immediately good being actually good, even a little bit, isn't generally true.
There seems to be a ‘cloud’ play in the satellite space that someone might launch… ie. a provider will run your firmware on their devices in exchange for usage fees. It seems like a good fit for a well-capitalized firm that would allow for a lot of innovation to happen. Amazon already offers satellite management systems via AWS- how long until they start renting out hardware too?
Slightly unrelated, but does anyone think we'll ever discover a closed-form solution to neural network optimization? If you think about it, the network is known, the initial weights are known, the training data is known, and the objective function is known. All of the work spent "training" is spent computing the solution to an optimization problem that could (theoretically) have a closed-form solution.
I realize that in certain social circles, the idea that Elon has ever done anything useful is met with scorn and laughter, but that’s kind of precisely what happened. NASA and the aerospace primes (including in Europe) had abandoned reuse as impractical due to the lessons learned from Shuttle (and several abortive attempts at reusable launch, like X-33 and others). It took the non-status quo companies like SpaceX (and Masten Space, etc) to prove out reuse.
Re the romance: enjoy [https://www.filfre.net/2021/10/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-sc...]
> And scale is simply because greed.

Is it possible that it is simply because of survival? The general theme of business I see is if you do not keep up with others, you will lose to your competitors. Especially in a winner take all business with network effects and low marginal costs like tech.
I read all my books on an ereader but still buy my favourites in dead-tree format for my shelf.
Nah, 1 year is pretty much the minimum burnout recovery period. I've seen it happen several times now.

Work isn't worth doing just for work's sake. You have to feel aligned.
Um - she wasn’t fired because of her paper - she required they out an anonymous reviewer or she wouldn’t be able to work there.

It’s pretty likely the reviewer would have been harassed - a good thing perhaps if you have one view of thing - but a bad thing from another perspective.

Google refused and accepted that she writing be able to continue working there
There are many Palestinians who are not under occupation, but none of them, and this includes those in the refugee camps, are free from the potential danger of future ethnic cleansing. It seems more a matter of Israeli priority rather than a hierarchy of 'fortunate' and 'less fortunate' Palestinians.

Those today in the Greater Jerusalem area are undergoing ethnic cleansing as we speak. Those who live in the vicinity of the apartheid wall Israel is constructing, half completed, are likely to be next. Those who live under the greatest illusion of safety, the Palestinians of Israel, may also be targeted in the future. Sixty-eight per cent of the Israeli Jews expressed their wish, in a recent poll, to see them transferred'.

Neither Palestinians nor Jews will be saved, from one another or from themselves, if the ideology that still drives the Israeli policy towards the Palestinians is not correctly identified.

The problem with Israel was never its Jewishness. Judaism has many faces and many of them provide a solid basis for peace and cohabitation; it is its ethnic Zionist character.

Zionism does not have the same margins of pluralism that Judaism offers, especially not for the Palestinians. They can never be part of the Zionist state and space, and will continue to fight - and hopefully their struggle will be peaceful and successful.

The ethnic cleansing started before May 1948 and continued into the next year. My parents were forced to leave Haifa in early 1948, with my oldest sister (one year old at the time).

When I talk about this with friends, they mostly shrug and say, it's complicated.

In reality, it's not complicated at all. It is the simple but horrific story of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, a crime against humanity that Israel has wanted to deny and cause the world to forget.

Retrieving it from oblivion is incumbent upon us, not just as a greatly overdue act of historiographical reconstruction; it is a moral decision, the very first step we must take if we ever want reconciliation to have a chance, and peace to take root, in the torn lands of Palestine and Israel.
PS/2 is clocked by the keyboard.
My quotes are from the very article you linked, man.
Drop the "The", it's cleaner.
As for how the hashing works, that's more an implementation detail, isn't it? How it finds the target is what the DHT tech does. But I have to say the home page and example was incredibly clear! For such an abstract thing, it was truly about as perfect at communicating what it is as I could imagine!
Facebook bungled efforts to curb hate speech ahead of Capitol attack
The same can be said for highway robbery. It happens in my country and people say well it’s just a tax you have to pay for taking that road. Since the victims are businesses handling goods, the robbery fee is priced into imports and we all pay extra. It can’t be priced into exports because we are too negligible of an exporter, so instead workers in that industry are paid less and there is less money left over to invest so our growth lags behind other counties. Overall the whole country suffers, all because of a few thousand bandits sitting in the forest near the border.

But hey… our society moved on, so you’re right about that: you can definitely live with it.
I don't know. I was never assigned it for class, but I tried reading it on my own and hated it.

Melville and Joyce are the two well respected literature authors I can't stand.
Learning to Live with Durians Again
I'm not saying throw out the business. But when most of it's revenue is selling chips for devices and data centers, and they are losing revenue despite strongly expanding markets, it's crazy to me that the main innovation investments are to double down on more of what isn't growing.

Competing chip makers are showing how to grow on worse process technology by investing in software codesign and vertical codesign -- smarter designs, heavy compilers, heavy ai, heavy solutions, and going hard on the bigger markets within that. Likewise, the Google hw moonshots are more interesting in practice and scale, afaict. Intel knows this, and I'm sure there are clever internal proposals for other orthogonal approaches. But like AMD, even if that stuff is happening, these statements suggest it will be without muscle.

This is like a worse repeat of how they approached the rise of mobile devices. I want them to do well, it's frustrating to see them under leverage so much $ and talent year after year when everyone else is doing so well.
This is the common story, yes. But it evaporates when you dig into the details, which I've posted below. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28965631

I think it's worth reflecting on why we're so quick to believe the corporate version of events. Corporations have an astronomical amount of power and influence. Aren't you at least a little curious whether it's true?

And if there was nothing wrong with her paper, that raises the question of why an anonymous reviewer was grilling her about it.
Yeah, if you want a soundbyte explanation of why the US is a carceral state (which it really is), then it's because we have the expectations for law and order of a small Swiss village, but the criminality of a Brazilian port city (exagerrated for humorous effect, but not really).

That schizophrenia between demands for law and order, and the reality of law and order, is why we lock so many people up and have fairly tough policing.

One option is to accept that hey, the government can't really stop all this crime, so let's not investigate or prosecute that much. This is the approach taken by the latest crop of liberal DAs. And it's been a disaster for local communities.

That's also when you start seeing stores with their own armed guards, and armed gated communities as the wealthy privatize security for themselves -- and the poor are subject to a lot of violence. I remember visiting the Phillipines and seeing men with shotguns outside basically normal stores and in shopping malls.

But hey, you don't have government jails filled with people and the police are a lot less visible. So, there is an upside, it's not necessarily a bad approach as long as we are willing to tolerate private security engaging in private violence against criminals.

But what you can't do is pretend that we should have Swiss levels of incarceration while at the same time having a much larger criminal class and a completely different society.

Fun Fact: In Switzerland, if you leave your windows open during the winter, people will call the cops on you (for wasting energy). It's a much more rules-following society that would drive most Americans nuts.
Most of those got promoted by going into management and lucking out that the product they worked on grew and therefore needed to hire a lot, and you easily get promoted as you start to manage more people. Getting promoted on technical merit on the other hand is really hard.
>Bitcoin is only fuelled by people's poor understanding of what money is.

Citation needed. I majored in economics and BTC is a huge percentage of my portfolio.
Yes, this is what I currently use, in fact.
Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed someone
Because "apartments bad"

>With particular reference to apartment houses, it is pointed out that the development of detached house sections is greatly retarded by the coming of apartment houses, which has sometimes resulted in destroying the entire section for private house purposes; that, in such sections, very often the apartment house is a mere parasite, constructed in order to take advantage of the open spaces and attractive surroundings created by the residential character of the district. Moreover, the coming of one apartment house is followed by others, interfering by their height and bulk with the free circulation of air and monopolizing the rays of the sun which otherwise would fall upon the smaller homes, and bringing, as their necessary accompaniments, the disturbing noises incident to increased traffic and business, and the occupation, by means of moving and parked automobiles, of larger portions of the streets, thus detracting from their safety and depriving children of the privilege of quiet and open spaces for play, enjoyed by those in more favored localities -- until, finally, the residential character of the neighborhood and its desirability as a place of detached residences are utterly destroyed. Under these circumstances,
apartment houses, which in a different environment would be not only entirely unobjectionable but highly desirable, come very near to being nuisances.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/365/#tab-opi...
Yeah you might be. But they also have way more resources for you to build your talents. There's still a lot there if you have realistic expectations.
I never realized how deeply the promotion mindset is damaging my personal happiness and growth, until I left Google in 2019...

Most things promoted in Google about growth boils down to promotion, which is just a cover word of getting your hands on promising project without proactively doing much by yourself.

Self motivated ideas actually get me into various trouble. In hindsight, I can see that many coworkers are silently watching this guy getting burnt without offering much helping hands.

In the end, I learned the googely way of working at Google, and find it not worthwhile to stay...
Many Vim plugins abandoned the release model since most Vim and NeoVim package managers focus on fetching latest git HEAD for every installed plugin.