skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is highly dependent on who you are as a person, but I'd honestly say most of the big tech firms excepting a few which you can suss out based on reputation.

IMO people overestimate how much you can know about whether a team will be good over the span of 2+ years. I've had several friends land at a small company with what seemed like a great team and then the great manager was replaced by a bad one, the job started sucking, and everyone had to jump ship and go on a new job search. If it happens soon enough after you join you may not be able to leave for over a year for appearance's sake.

At big companies, you can still get bad teams but many places, such as Stripe, make it super easy to switch teams for a better fit.
I think you overestimate sophistication of “let’s steal stuff from a truck” businesses.
Bitcoin miners per se do not control Bitcoin network. They are the backbone, but the nodes ultimately decide whether they include a mined block or not. Validating blocks is way cheaper than mining them. Expensive mining process only ensures that you can't easily flood the network with bogus blocks.
Ironically, much of the funding for 'Yes' (which was in opposition to the new power lines) was provided by a nuclear reactor in New Hampshire that didn't want to compete against the lower electricity rates this would bring.
I suspect that a lot of these companies just don't make a lot of noise, but quietly do their thing without being pasted all over the HN front page.
I guess you can consider yourself lucky that you're not affected by those bugs? Things are ostensibly already broken and have been for quite some time, some of those bugs are over 15 years old. If you only care about bugs that affect you then it's not even worth having a discussion about this, you can't expect everyone to wait to make changes until it's personally convenient for you. And if that's not what you meant then the other stuff is still there if you change your mind and decide to switch.

"I pointed out doing so would have been a better choice than starting over from scratch, and that the choice to start over from scratch is the reason people are still sticking with X."

I would urge you to look into how much work it would take to actually fix those bugs and push out incompatible server/libraries/etc to people and then come back and see if you'd like to revise this statement. Because that is what we are looking at here. Remember what you are asking here is for every toolkit and program to do a "if x12 then dostuff elseif x11 then do otherstuff" and weigh that versus "if wayland then dostuff elseif x11 then do otherstuff".
> Everybody is already paying for it in their taxes. Furthermore everybody is also paying per use for the energy used, time and cost of vehicle ownership.

Sure, but they're not paying for using up the finite resource of road usage at high demand times. If too many people use the road at the same time, it ceases to function as a transportation route, and no one gets good use of it.

You can think of it as "equality" when a common resource is destroyed equally for rich and for poor, but it's not good for anyone, and there are better ways.

> The drywaller and the janitor have just as much right to sit in a traffic jam as you do.

I'll spell out my point more clearly: If roads that today creep along at 30mph at rush hour start going 70mph, the drywaller can choose to live in a cheaper area further away, pay a bit extra for commuting, and still come out ahead.

Final point: It's common misunderstanding, but roads are NOT public goods: https://fee.org/articles/are-roads-really-public-goods/
If there were canvassers knocking on doors and offering bribes for ballots you would hear about it here in Washington state. People here take their voting rights seriously.
I doubt the people at the US Treasury would be blind to such an obvious maneuver. Not matter what the public opinion says I think they won't let NSO try and evade their blacklist.
Cars directly kill 3x the amount of people by firearm homicide (in the US), along with an alarming increase in pedestrian deaths. Not saying we should ban cars everywhere or anything like that, but the status quo is not good enough.
Just like with setting up a weed farm. The cops need to follow spikes in power consumption that are out of the ordinary and they'll find you. However, growing weed may be illegal in most places, mining is not yet.
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Why not push out a software update that disables the cards with these serial numbers?
I loved his blog too. I looked and found the post you’re referring to, but can’t find most of the interesting stuff that I recall seeing.
I've been using this for decades. Originally I pirated it when I was younger but recently bought a lifetime licence (very affordable!) and it's genuinely a great tool if you're on Windows. Does help download speeds too if you're on an ISP where single thread speeds can be a bit rubbish (Virgin Media in the UK). Gets updated often too.

https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/
Well running as a republican would mean he's a member of and supports the republican party, is that not how that works? Otherwise one would run as an independent.

If you associate yourself with a group that's known to be scum then that will reflect badly on you regardless of your actual character.
If thieves selected trucks at random they would more likely get toilet paper than graphics cards. This could be just circumstance but more likely at least some targeting.
Funny enough, I'm getting this message:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://forums.evga.com/Notice-of-Stolen-EVGA-GeForce-RTX-30S..." on this server.
I guess we looked at the personal wins vs the global downsides and made our choice.
You can likely recoup the initial cost somewhat quickly with that kind of hardware though.
Primer.io has been quite nice so far. I’m writing this from one of our twice yearly workcations in Tenerife. Our fully remote has gotten together in an Airbnb, basically all expenses paid for to chill work and have fun together.

The product is very interesting and innovative. The teams are well organized and quite self sufficient. And there are huge challenges to overcome in every aspect of the company. Anywhere you look there is something you can do to make it better.
You have the warranty regardless. Creating accounts and registering your product after purchase cannot legally be a requirement.
https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-po...
I agree... EVGA needs to make a way possible for customers to identify which cards are stolen or not at a bare minimum.
If this had been released when the 800 was new, it would have blown people’s minds.
So the OP said that there was "a team in Traansylvania making it a legacy codebase". The literal meaning is that there is a team of developers in a foreign country being paid less to do the same job. The other guy said it was offensive because he's implying something similar. He's also working in a foreign country for a US business. More of a joke about being offended. At least that's how I'm reading it.
Yes, which is why it's amusing in hindsight that for a decade everyone* outside Google was forcing all* their distributed data tasks into the MapReduce paradigm, without considering alternative approaches like the one used by Spanner.

* slight exaggerations, I know
You should watch last weekend's episode of Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liptMbjF3EE
Given many are at the municipal and school board level I suppose that’s true, but they are barely “politicians”. For example Palo Alto has professional management and then an unpaid city council (they take turns being mayor). There are no political parties.

How well does this work? It’s a mixed bag. The professional managers get things done but managed to build a little empire (lots of middle management) which is now hard to dislodge. The non-professional council members couldn’t keep up. Also there are waves of the real estate interest taking over the council for a while and screwing up priorities.

Compared to that, a few who were on the job full time might have been better.
OpEx is always greater than CapEx. You don’t see mining farms moving to countries where GPUs are cheap, they go where electricity is cheap.
I think their goal is to reduce demand for stolen cards, thereby reducing incentive to steal them.
Yes, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife already owned meta.com. The history of that domain name can be found here:

https://twitter.com/hieuSSR/status/1453920342477447169
Why would you not cut off buses and taxis?

They are professional drivers, so you can rely on them being better than the average drivers in difficult situations like having to brake suddenly, so I think you should cut them off preferentially.
EVGA has historically had the step up program. It used to be 2 years but look like it is only 90 days currently.
Oh, I wasn't criticizing, just genuinely curious. If the AWS service has a similar design, that's interesting to me. AWS doesn't seem to say much about the details.
I wonder if services of non-Iranians ever get canceled if they travel to Iran for vacation or business. Has anyone heard of that happening?
Base64 can be done by hand with two tables: one splitting every character in three times two bits and one that takes four pairs of bits and looks it up in the ascii table. Done.

It's hard to call this encryption.
Our Further Maths was a lot less modular. Preparation for it started in the 2nd year (so 12/13 years old), when we were streamed for maths - if you were in set-1, you studied to take 'O' level (showing my age here) in 4th year (so a year earlier than most) on an accelerated schedule.

That meant you could take AO (a halfway house between O and A) when everyone else was taking their normal O levels. The thing is that the extra stuff in AO was all Pure Maths, and formed a fair amount of the easier "P1" maths syllabus for the normal A level maths exam, which had P1 and Me1 (Maths with mechanics 1, basically statics).

Because you'd done that work already prior to the A level years, you could take "A level maths" after only 1 year (which looked really good on UCCA applications :), so you've now done an exam consisting of the two 'P1' and 'Me1' papers in the first year of your A levels.

Which meant that in the second year of your 'A' levels, you could do 'Pure Maths' (P1, P2) and 'Further Maths' (Me1, Me2) for a total of 3 maths A levels.

On top of that, you had your other two subjects (mine were Physics and Chemistry), and because it was the JMB board, everyone got to do "General Studies".

Getting all of them gave you 6 A levels, even though some of the work was duplicated in the maths arena (over different years of course :)

S levels were a bonus on top - there was no fudging for those, though, you just took what you thought would be useful to study. They gave me maths and physics because I'd said I was going to do physics at college... :)
> Side-note: why is HN so anti-crypto?

A variety of reasons. Some think that crypto is a socially pernicious bubble that’ll get people hurt. Others still have to deal with the ransomware attacks that are only viable with crypto. Most of us are pissed off that crypto comes along and keeps ruining the price of hardware we want to buy. The environmentally minded are angry about the energy usage. A lot of us are sick and tired of the naked scamming and the dumb ideas that get floated on the subject.

> I feel that if most HNers would just build a crypto business (DeFi, arbitrage, NFTs, tokenomics, etc.), they'd basically be overnight millionaires.

Obviously not. That’s just not how anything around money works. If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Just because someone got rich off a thing doesn’t mean everyone will; after all some people got rich in pyramid schemes too, doesn’t make it a good idea.

Even when there is legitimately easy money to be made, the rush of people trying to exploit the opportunity usually drives the per person profits down to $0. If someone claims that there are easy, guaranteed millions to be made, your alarm bells should be going off.

Furthermore, even this tiny whiff of “you’re just jealous you didn’t make millions flipping NFTs” is an ugly look.
Did you skip the paragraph the poster was referring to? They were referring to older social media where you would pick which users to follow and those would be shown to you, which mirrors RSS, a comparison explicitly mentioned in the article.

The point is that now it is getting more and more "pushy", but previously it was very "pull" based when compared to traditional education.
"you can also check the serial number at the EVGA Warranty Check page to see if it is affected."
Good point. There is: a HFC modem & 2x Google Wifi access points. Totals to about 15W of energy use - which only leaves enough energy budget for a Raspberry Pi.
My EVGA card from a decade ago had a lifetime warranty if you registered it with them. I didn't, so when it stopped working 3 years later I had to buy a replacement.

Registering for an extended warranty is a requirement that many companies enforce.

Update: Why is this being downvoted? Literally from EVGA's website:
"Limited Lifetime Warranties are available to the original owner on applicable parts if registered by the original owner within 30 days of the date of purchase." [1]
[1] https://www.evga.com/warranty/2011/graphics-cards/
looked into this some time ago after watching a video[1] about Lightshot don't recall the addresses involved but the set of domains was different, the interface looked similar to the screenshots. This was a 6+ months ago at least, the video is dated Mar 14, 2020. This is probably been going on for quite some time

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwKFY61-hq0
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Slight digression. IIRC PHP was using Mike’s work (DynASM) a while ago. Is this still the case and is anyone else using aspects of LuaJIT (eg DynASM or the byte code interpreter)?
You can write several million rows per second through indexing and storage while reading consistent views but it is not trivial. It requires a pretty sophisticated database kernel design even on modern hardware. LSM-style is not a good choice if you require these write rates. Time-series data models are relatively simple to scale writes for as such things go.

I would not want to try this on a traditional relational database kernel, they are not designed for workloads that look like this. They optimize their tradeoffs for slower and more complicated transactions.
I would have thought it'd be the violence. Not like NYC homeless bundled up in a corner keeping warm while praying for the health of those who leave them coin.
My team doesn’t really do stand ups.

But we do spend a lot of time in a daily meeting on Teams. Often there’s lots of dead air. Free to come and go. If you are in a zone, don’t be there in that meeting. But also free to bring up questions, including work related or not.

I started them years ago as one of my admins has been remote for 6+ years. When I started he griped he felt distant and out of touch to what was going on.

I don’t think he feels that now. And now that we are often remote or roaming. We stayed pretty well In sync.

Definitely not for everyone or every team, including some I’ve worked on. But it works for us.
Worst job I have ever had was easily the Marines.

It took me 20 years to get out.
Ye. I mean it is fine if they are pacifists but I guess most are not. If they think that way about their own country's armed forces, why are they even paying tax?
I think V is still too new and trying to find its footing.
What's the deal with the combatative database posts lately?
I have read (part of) it, and it is excellent. I highly recommend it (alongside Needham’s VCA book).

But the lessons learned from there are largely orthogonal to the lessons you will learn from working with GA for a while.

To the grandparent, I would also recommend the very pretty book http://matrixeditions.com/5thUnifiedApproach.html
So the Airflow scheduler + notebook is with the client + you hold the data?
Electricity isn’t expensive everywhere.
Let’s say you want to mine ETH. 3090 can do 125 MH/s. At peak load they consume about 360 watts. If you’re paying $.12/KWh (a little higher than national average) you’re making $276/day.
VMware seems like a place where people work either less than 2 years or 10+ years. If you can identify a niche for yourself it can be quite comfortable.
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But plenty of folks here work for [insert-evil-mega-corp] which has all kinds of "global downsides". Unless you're a hermit (or Stallman), this argument won't really work. Crypto's here to stay whether you like it or not.
I think employees wildly overestimate the negative resume impact of leaving any individual role "too soon". Your life is short and your career is shorter. Don't stay at a place that sucks.

If you show up with one short stint, I might ask about it, but I'll totally understand a "it wasn't what I was expecting answer". If you have two of those with at least one 2-3 year stint (ideally including a promotion), that's also fine.

The danger only comes when you have 5+ stints of 6-15 months in a row. That reads like you might have a performance/potential problem.
You have the legally required warranty regardless, but to the extent the warranty isn't required by law, you have whatever you’ve jumped through the manufacturer’s hoops for.
> weird that people love babies then

There is a lot of research on this. It's a deep, fascinating rabbit hole and I don't know its contours well enough to flag the entrances. But it touches subjects like mammalian postpartum depression, infanticide in great apes, why the characters :) make one go "aww," cute aggression and a host of other matters.

To address your point a bit more head on, I imagine public reactions to a publicly-defecating child would be very different from those to an adult.
You need to double buffer the clients or you will still get flickering and noticeable redraw. You can see this with older X clients. It actually is a protocol issue because X was explicitly designed to do this.

You are presenting this as if it's some kind of decision between "break compatibility" and "start from scratch" when really those are a lot closer than you think. Realistically, most of the X server is still overdue for a major rewrite/refactor. But I really doubt anyone would ever volunteer to do that work at this point.
Do you really believe that when were are looking at the effects of deficit spending (such as inflation, debt, growth) the absolute number of dollars in the deficit is more important than an inflation or gdp adjusted number?

Imagine we passed a law that only made one tenth of currency still viable, and reduced the size of all owed debts and contacts denominated in dollars by 10x.
Effectively making the dollar 10x more valuable. This would cut our absolute deficit spending by 10x. Would this then let us increase inflation adjusted government spending by 10x without suffering any ill effects from deficit spending? The obvious answer to that is no, which then implies inflation or gdp adjusted deficit spending is a far more important metric.
I think we just repurpose storm drains for that. Always bring a ladder with you in the trunk of the car!

(I'm kidding. Chicago has a mildly extensive two level street system, and there are just doors in the "basements" of buildings that open up to the subterranean streets. I always thought it was neat, but was also afraid to walk around on the lower level. Also, the top level wasn't parks, it was just more car lanes.)
I understand perfectly.

What I don't understand is why people who claim they know these things are acting like you can't make money off a free Ampere card.

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Like 99% of mining is initial capital, everyone knows that. GPUs alone don't make a farm but you realize the thieves are also motivated to not go to literal prison?

Figure that a fence for stolen goods with trackable serials is already taking a substantial cut if they try to sell.

Mining in an inefficient hacked together "farm" doesn't seem so crappy by comparison suddenly.

It's not like anyone is saying they have to do that, but it's a very unique property of what they stole
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Yep! Inefficient, but it is what I have, and there is no risk to frying my moderately expensive laptop which I hope to keep running for many years.
It's probably a simple bot that's hooked up to a GH app. Then just some custom code to react to specific types of events. Depending on what you need done, you'd possibly be able to replicate a lot of functionality within a GH action.
You wouldn't really. It's the same concept as `τ = r × F`. the only difference is that it is useful to think of the 'type' of the output as being a bivector instead of a vector -- there's no sense in which it points 'out of the plane'; rather, it is a single vector in the vector space of (planes), with the same magnitude as r × F.

The distinct gets a little more useful when you start dealing with covariance under coordinate transformations. There it becomes more meaningful, because the _vector_ given by r x F doesn't transform the same way as their cross product should.

For an obvious example of why this is true: suppose r=x and F=y. Then r × F = z. If you change coordinates by mapping z -> 2z, then you would be doubling the torque that you computed .. which is wrong; the torque is unchanged. The bivector x^y is correctly unchanged by z -> 2z.

Currently in physics courses (usually not until more advanced mechanics or relativity) the resolution to this is to wave ones' hands and declare that, no, torque is a 'pseudovector'. But it is really much easier to think about if you type it as a bivector in the first place.
Yeah, let's skip to the end and ban algorithms, they are the source of so many of my problems

I work in computers btw
> I know it won't last due to bit-rot but all my CDs burned in the nineties are still readable.

Were these the more expensive archival disks? I lost all ~50 of my old CDs and DVDs to rot, within 10 years. They were middle range Memorex.
Yeah. Its pretty meaningless.

If you are buying a new sealed video card, never used sold on craigslist/ebay, I'm guessing your not very suspicious and probably not looking for a warranty.
Honestly I disagree with this. They are refusing to honour warranty claims on the stolen cards, which given the situation is totally fair.

The alternative for them is exacerbating the financial losses caused by the theft by offering free repairs/replacements on a product that they already haven’t generated any revenue on.
That would rather defeat the purpose...
PDFTron in Vancouver is alright. I didn't vibe with my manager or the rest of my immediate team well, but the rest of the company is alright with not much bureaucracy and some smart people working on a niche product. I burnt out in part because they had me do customer support while trying to deliver features, so I was terminated, but they're still alright if they can figure that out. I have ADHD and my manager didn't seem to understand how I couldn't get back to people on time, so I quickly learnt to resent coming into work.
It's wild. HN of a decade ago was very much in favor of anything cypherpunk or otherwise wrestling control away of the Internet away from authorities and corporations. I guess those people "grew up"?