skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe my people were special in some way, but it seemed like the idea of lining things up vertically just immediately clicked with them. It seems like it's something that folks do in their regular lives when writing (hand-written) notes or on a whiteboard.

People have strange trouble with delimeters. They put commas inside the closing quote, (e.g. ["hello," "there"]) because I guess that's how they were taught in English class somehow. They forget a bracket and then can't figure out how to fix it because the tools are no help. They start putting in excess braces like they're some type of Simon Says: [{"hello"}]. I guess I can't be critical -- this is a lot like how I write CSS. But whitespace makes more sense to a lot of folks because it just "looks right".

TOML is a decent format because it does use whitespace for delimiting -- but only newlines. It gets verbose if you want to represent large amounts of deeply-nested data, though.
Alright, eugenics wasn't the right word. But still this isn't evolution in the same way getting a medical intervention isn't. If you want to include everything we do as part of evolution, which is a defensible position, then all murders would be natural, this is not a practical perspective for a society.
Agreed, and removed.
> which are typically left to slowly bleed to death or are permanently maimed.

100% hacker news. 100% the lifestyle of HN

Live in a cage your whole life then get executed.

Or live 100% free, might die naturally, might be poached latter in life but are a pussy worried about bleeding out?

Obviously we execute many infants and children in the vegetarian livestock world. But they are males commonly, like in dairy and eggs. And again on HN dead male children don't count. Boko Haram massacres and sends to die in battle an order of magnitude more boys. And the Bacha bazi sex boys of Afghanistan.... don't talk about them.

Poaching feeds and educates a family for a year, you also get out and exercise poaching and take personal risk in a world of poverty which the West doesn't care about. Industrial farming feeds fat rich Americans more lazy food.

Poaching does ruin tourism so it does need to be fought. It costs poor people money, which in these communities is lives.
By far most long distance traffic is your/their callsign ("AB1CD"), your/their rough location ("location is Cape Canaveral, florida", or just "QTH is EL98"), and signal quality/strength ("five nine"). For contests a sequential number ("number 23"). Outside of contests, first names, power/transmitter/antenna used, and the weather.

Some people start longer discussions ("ragchews") from there. Though this is more common in regional communication. Topics can be all kinds of things, like exciting new ham radio topics ("there's a new ham radio satellite going up!"), where they've travelled (especially nice if you've been where the other person lives), their life history, health (not dead yet! me neither!) etc. Lots of random small talk. The main rule is to stay away from anything that could cause disagreement, like politics and religion.

This may not sound terribly interesting, but keep in mind that for many, this is really just the last step after a lot of time spent e.g. building and setting up new equipment or whatever. Also depending on propagation conditions (which vary wildly), just understanding the other person is a challenge in itself. The actual talking is often more of a side benefit.

Above is mostly assuming SSB (voice). Other modes are different. For example, with CW (morse) exchanges will generally be more concise. Then there's more "useful" modes, for example you could send/receive email over Winlink via a digital mode like VARA. This doesn't really benefit from extreme reach, but depending on which bands you have antennas for, the next station might be e.g. a thousand miles away, so this is more of a mid-range thing. In contrast, some digital modes like WSPR focus entirely on propagation research (/ antenna testing), and _automatically_ communicate the callsign, transmit power, location and _nothing else_, but getting (automated) reports from stations on the other side of the globe that have heard your very modestly powered transmissions feels pretty rewarding.

Also note that there are phenomena that give you long range, like grayline DX (good propagation along the day/night line), tropospheric ducting (bounces earth->sky->sky->sky->...->earth) and moonbounce/EME (earth->moon->earth). Trying these is fun in itself even without meaningful information exchanged. There's also ham radio satellites; including one in geostationary orbit (Es'hail 2). If you hit one, you can hit more or less your entire continent. There the fun is using the satellite; the reach is generally a welcome side effect.
On NextDoor app the other day someone posted a video of a semi trailer, that obviously had taken a wrong turn, completely tear up their front landscaping and didn't stop. Being able to record it, this is the draw for a lot of people.
"you seem to hate SpaceX"

Absolutely not! I love SpaceX and the all-composite Dreamliner, but the benchmark is not 'pretty good', the benchmark being discussed is 'exponentially better than anything that came before', otherwise we don't have 'exponential progress' - perhaps we have linear progress, or quadratic, or asymptotic.

I think they are not in the same league as Wernher von Braun or the Wright Brothers - those folks changed the world as we know it,
- when Braun was designing rockets, we didnt even know that human body can function in space at all. There were no engines to look at for examples. There was nothing.
> 1. Whatever happened to increasing tax rates, like pretty much every other country? Why these weird gimmicks?

I live in one of those countries,... I used to live in another country, that had a red star in the flag, I haven't moved, but I now live in another country... which again has new parties with red star flags.

Every time I hear "tax the rich", the same thing happens... the poor already pay almost zero tax, so nothing happens to them. The rich open a company two countries away in one direction, and register their car two countries away in a different direction, and in the end, pay very little tax. And me? Earning an above-national-average engineering pay, but way below "rich" enough to make such manipulations worth it? I get fucked with new taxes.

In an ideal world, both people like me and people like bezos would pay a same amount (percentage) of tax for every dollar/euro going from our workplace to the crap we both buy, but somehow i get taxed as fuck, and Bezos doesnt ( https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-did-not-pay-incom... ).

So how about we first tax Amazon and Bezos at the same rate we tax the local mom and pop bookstore, and their owners paychecks, and then continue from there.
We are in uncharted waters here. Never before has so much money been printed so quickly in a major economy (China printed _even more_ money by the way). So no, you can't "research" this, and your historical stuff and definitions won't be any good when hyperinflation arrives, which is what's about to happen. You can already see it in the stock market and real estate. It's not like Google is worth twice as much as a year ago. Where you don't see it is the bullshit metrics that the federal government pumps out to make themselves look good. I mean, sure if you exclude all the things that get more expensive, you get "5% YoY", but you don't need to be a Nobel laureate to see that this figure is already bullshit as of today - you just need to go to a grocery store once.

>> incredibly unlikely that hyperinflation will occur

Au contraire. It _will_ almost certainly occur, though maybe not to the extent of Venezuela or Zimbabwe. I'm scratching my head at the moment trying to figure out what to do about that. Can't really think of anything other than borrowing a ton of money and buying real estate and land somewhere far away from population centers, which is what Bill Gates and Black Rock seem to be doing. They certainly know something we don't.
If you've ever tried managing complex, human-centric configuration in JSON, XML, ini, or most any other format, you realize it ticks a lot of the checkboxes that are necessary for a good human-readable configuration format:

Requires some amount of legibility out of the box due to whitespace requirements.

Can store complex data structures (and even direct JSON).

Allows comments.
The University of the Future
> Disclaimer3: The police only get ring videos that are forwarded to them from ring users, they have no generic access to ring data. The victims of crime tend to forward videos of the criminals in hopes the police can catch them.

That’s fascinating. How exactly are you so intimately familiar with Amazon’s inner workings? You’re fully confident that this system can’t be abused because of… what experience, exactly?

Edit: yes. I fully and unequivocally support criminals. I figure if a silly cop propagandist is going to respond to this post, that will be the first silly vague salvo against not wanting to give cops full control of society, so skip to rebuttal(2)

Edit:typos
>In exchange, Amazon provides police departments with an easy way to request and store footage from thousands of residents at one time––allowing for massive warrantless surveillance.

I am confused by this, though I'm pretty sure it is the author who is intentionally combining verbage though?

The link this post connects to is about how people submit their own photos/videos of porch thieves + suspicious people to the police. You could argue this is bad on its own but certainly not what "massive warrantless surveillance" invokes. Everyone reading that line without scrutiny will assume it means police departments are somehow watching your own Ring without permission.
I love being able to collaborate with the police with video footage. Package theft is a huge drain on society and needs to be faught.
Could this work underwater? Would be interesting to have a acoustic tracking system for diver safety.
The same reason visual programming languages keep making a comeback: people keep thinking they could make programming easy if they could just get rid of that pesky "code" part.
To your point 4: "Defund the police" is one of the stupidest slogans ever invented. It is practically designed to make the argument easy to attack and to motivate opponents.

The actual nuanced goal - Get police out of the business of non-police tasks, and leave those tasks to professionals who specialize in those areas (mental health, social work, etc) - is something that almost everyone actually agrees with. But it's hard to get past the stupidity of the original slogan.
It's not a binary situation where you either own 51% or not. The larger the share of the company you own, the fewer stakeholders you need to convince to vote in your favor.

e.g. having 49% equity only requires ~2% of remaining shareholders to agree with any of your decisions.

If you're making remotely justifiable decisions, you're likely to get a decent chunk of shareholders supporting pretty much any position.

Also it's common to stack the board with allies who you can trust to vote in your favor/support your decisions.

So doesn't require much equity to have de facto control. But there will likely be a big difference in influence between, say, 10% and 20%
$20M is retirement money. $1.2M isn't. But $1.2M is FU money, and that's the most important part. You can't stop working indefinitely, but it does give you the power to walk away from any job even if you don't have the next one lined up.

Or at least it should be. Many people with $1.2M cannot go a few months without a pay cheque because it's all locked in a house and a retirement fund -- make sure you're not one of them. An emergency fund is the best way, but I also recommend having an open HELOC. They're a lot easier to get when you have a job, and you don't have to draw on them until you have an emergency.
could the ID requirement be to enforce a no-fly list?
Jobs put most of his fortune from Apple into developing Pixar, transforming it from a failure into a powerhouse.
The rest went into Next, which formed the core(!) of Apple's resurgence when Apple merged with it.

No Jobs money => no Pixar => no Next => no iPhone

Neener neener!
In other words...

> So, your X server is really effectively nothing more than a shitty Wayland compositor.

Couple of things: 1) you use DRI3, you lose network transparency. KDE apps run like a pig stuck in shit over network links because Qt on X was built to take advantage of the massive speed of DRI3.

2) Having the X server, window manager, and compositing engine in separate processes introduces latency due to context switches on the hot path. Wayland fixes this by making the display server, window manager, and compositor all one process.

Wayland solves problems you do have, you just don't know you have them.
> The whole movement is rooted in envy, transparently disguised as virtue.

Our whole economic system is itself grounded in the vicious promotion of the parochial interest of the capitalist, née mercantile, class, rooted in their envy of the privileges previously enjoyed by the feudal aristocracy, dressed up as virtue.

The capitalist class is now in the position the feudal aristocracy was in when the movement toward capitalism was young, for much the same reason.
> I'd like to see an example of systemic racism that's holding anybody behind in current year so we can work on it.

Let say there is Group A who have worked for free for Group B for generations.
Group A also does not get home loans for generations
Group A does not get business loans for generations.
More members of Group A are also put in jail compared to Group B.

Group B does not face those same issues, which group do you think will turn out better, which group will have more money and resources, will it be Group A or Group B?

For points 2 and 3, do you think Group A and Group started at an equal level to make that comparison or do you think one of those groups was held behind due to the issues which I mentioned above?
Another one, not quite 51% this time.
Because my wife runs the intelligence unit of a police department, and they only get ring videos forwarded to them from victims of crime. And some of those crimes are horrific, like armed home invasion robbery, and those videos have led to capturing those criminals.
> My wife runs a police intelligence unit that catches actual criminals from ring info
Isn’t Sweeney talking about publicly traded companies here though?
there are liquid secondary markets.
This is an excellent example of why inferring causation from an observed correlation requires great care. Note that the study did not randomly assign valedictions to emails and observe the causal impact on response rate. Rather, they observed a correlation between the sign-off chosen and the response rate.

"Thanks" garners many responses because people use it in emails that make reasonable requests with a good chance of response.

My favorite valediction is still "I am, &c.," which is short for "I am your humble and obedient servant". Not sure whether my colleagues appreciate it as much as I do...
Intel Shares Alder Lake Pricing, Specs and Gaming Performance
The cliches are usually the words without the context. And often wrongly interpreted context. Most of the time when someone attacks a philosophy, it was addressed in the original book, but the people who promote this philosophy often read a summary of it by someone else rather the original writing itself.
Spot on. Moreover, technical cofounders that start as CTOs make terrible CTOs once the startup gets to 50, 100 people or larger.

The most successful stories I've seen are startups where the cofounder CTO moved to a technical role (chief architect, Devops or r&d) and hired a CTO. Or they hired a very strong VP of Eng and kept working in small startup mode.
"Beautifully, all unfoldings of the 4-cube, 4-simplex, and 4-orthoplex are nets." why? is it a theorem or is it obvious?
That probably depends a lot on jurisdiction, DA, the police and the people of said jurisdiction. SF gov kind of treats this as 'part of the fabric of life' but not all places see things the same as the example set by SF.
While I was walking the dog, I thought about Jack Donaghy's idea on 30 Rock for a show that would be ratings bonanza:

Cricket Night in America

(this is not because the actor who played him is in the news, at all.)

Anyhow, I think Cricket Night in America would outdraw Bridge Night in America. As would Paint Drying.
> It means I didn't want to get too specific about the amount involved.

Is this because you don't want to reveal anything about your personal financial situation or is it because knowing the amount would somehow help someone compete and encroach on your "territory"?
Assume that Bob knocks up both Alice and Eve.

Alice has a son, Eve has a daughter.

Alice's son knocks up Eve's daughter.

Their kid will have two biological grandmothers, but only one biological grandfather.

Apparently, historically, this type of thing was quite common and could heavily skew family trees towards the female side of things.
Cool, I wasn’t aware that Amazon and regional police were the same organization. I was under the impression that a multibillion dollar corporation could keep secrets from a an HN poster’s wife, but I guess your point that she’s some sort of cop negates that
They were bad investments over that time period. I'm still smarting over my disastrous Cisco investment.

How's Intel doing lately? Nvidia ate their ice cream.

Cisco and Intel could do no wrong prior to 2000.
Many people see it as a novelty. I know a bunch of people with "dog cams" in their house, even wired up with speakers so they can talk to the dog during the day. With the ring, people who have it tend to be fans of it. As a luxury item, that kind of makes sense to me.

Privacy is an afterthought.
Me, when I started my career:

Dear Bobby,

Thank you for your email and response. I appreciate your prompt reply as always.

Following the meeting with Jane at 2:00 P.M. PST, it is of my professional opinion that we…

…

Let me know when you get a chance for your thoughts and again appreciate your time.

Thanks,

Me

—

Me, today:

Bob - Yes! Let’s rock and roll. Talk soon.
The claim is not "car of 1980 is same as car of 2020" , the claim is "car of 1980 is much-much closer to the car of 2020 than to the car of 1940's"

If the latter is true, then it is evidence thay the statement "we have exponential progress" is false
I'm not familiar with Ring but I would say the ease of clipping and exporting/forwarding the evidentiary footage is the the part that makes it easy to use. A platform like FB or ND where the police have a presence make it easy for inhabitants to send the footage with little friction to the PD units.
I think the old adage "don't talk to the police" extends to not providing them a video feed of your property. People should be free to do what they want with their video, but you're putting yourself at unnecessary risk.
Yes, this is in reference to noise passing through a door that is localizable. Typically we would play pink noise (broadband, equal energy per octave band) on one side and listen for "hotspots" on the quiet side. I would wonder about the precision of being able to tell in the image the contribution of the door frame from the perimeter gasketing.

Acoustic cameras like from Noiseless Acoustics are on the market though they seem to be marketed to industrial customers. There are similar mapping systems using a scanning mic like from Soft dB.
Also this one... "Racial profiling is at the heart of Amazon Ring’s business model."

There's a liberal tendency to hyper-focus on race and see everything in the lens of race only. Ironically, I don't think this helps racial injustice that they are set out to resolve.
People have lived with governments that forced them to do whatever they wanted. With enough support, perhaps we will see those times again.
Edgy little joke there! You must not interact with many people whose companies have an AD/Azure/Office 365 based email (e.g. almost everybody not at faangs). Outlook is really pretty good these days in my experience with the Mac and iOS clients. Calendaring is seamless and they even have a good zoom integration (even if it wants to steer you to teams). Considering email is almost useless in 2021 especially with all the compliance crap like mimecast involved in using it, I couldn’t ask for much more than Outlook aside from a couple small ui issues.
Shout out for my favorite nontransitive elemental damage system, from the kingdom of loathing. Hot, Cold, Stench, Sleaze, Spooky. I haven't played in nearly a decade, but I still see those words in color.
I’m not a CTO, but I am a senior leader that also in the past helped found a leadership development program focused on management (tech and non tech related).

As is always the case with this, one can code and one can also not code in a CTO position. Sometimes CTOs manage no one and are only focused on technology. Other times, they are the top of the management pyramid. Other times, they’re just one of a couple of engineers early in a startups lifecycle.

No matter the situation, the truth remains that it’s not which path you take, it’s how you manage the path you choose.

If you are a coding CTO with a lot of people, make sure you’re delegating the focus on the people components to another leader (hiring strategies, interviewing process, comp, reviews, high level program management, etc).

If you are a CTO that focuses on people, make sure to bring on some senior ICs that can help lead the technical direction of the company. They should still be coding and empathizing with the team, and helping to highlight long term tech trends for the team to progressively adopt to stay current.

Hire people that do the thing you don’t have time to do, and care deeply about doing that thing the org needs. Keep repeating that process all the way down the management chain, with a heavy focus on trust and delegation.

People and teams fail when folks hang on to responsibility long after they should have given it up, because they aren’t self aware enough to realize they don’t have the time or knowledge anymore to effectively do a task. Don’t be that person!