skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine paying $10 to send money in 2021.

Your imagination is wrong in its estimate of absurdity: Western Union charges $60 to transfer $999 to the US:

https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/send-money/app/price-esti...

Up to $158 depending on what option you use, which is somehow even more than the claimed gas fees.
Library directors would look like the entry-level workforce 20-30 years ago, right?

One of the major faults in these analyses is to not account for cohorts — and so they discriminate against men in the here and now (fresh hires) to “balance” historic issues that haven’t aged out yet.

That purposeful (and misguided) bigotry is the basis of a lot of modern movements, like “anti-racism”.
Ahhh that’s the key insight I have been missing, and that should be higher somewhere.

Thanks
Done, hopefully this is clearer. Please let us know if you see a way to improve it further: https://github.com/elfshaker/elfshaker/pull/60
I think its pretty common in the US. Look at law firms there are very few male paralegals and nursing as well. Same concept applies to secretarial / admin / HR style roles. I have seen a hiring manager in real life skip over male applicants for an admin role.
Corollary: notifications should be a public service whose only purpose would be to maintain that TCP connection and have a server as a broker, with clear control given to the user over which app can use said service and be allowed to wakeup their device.
It depends heavily on the problem you're solving. A few jobs back I was in a small shop and we were all regularly bouncing between Java, C, Ruby, JS, Perl, Python... Go crept in round the edges too. We wouldn't have been able to deliver without the full set just because of what we had to interface with. It's more than doable as long as the culture is "learn the necessary skills".
I'd be curious how they define race. Do they have a rule book with color pigment density, size of external attributes and maybe even a grading scale of good to bad "diversity factor"?

I find it more disturbing they consider diversity on a pseudo scientific race definition than the supposed lack of diversity. What if in those they call white, many are women, many are young or old, fulltime or partime, idealists or pragmatists, some kind of attributes that could actually matter for writing ? I d be more worried if all journalists are students of the same school of thought than if they were all blue-skinned.

And I say that myself as a minority where I am (happen to be white-skinned western europe pigment variant, italian hair-colored, northern continental medium sized, but live and work in China...) where Im still probably graded as part of a non diverse "race" in my company's corporate diversity index :D

And when the government in China asked me my "self reported racial origin" last census, I said "Other: Normandy", not sure what exactly they want to mean by "westerner" as opposed to "vietnamese" in the multiple choice combo box...
1) won’t condense on the rest of your spacecraft.

2) won’t corrode your thruster as much.

3) Chemical and fire safety aren’t concerns.

4) Is a fluid already so doesn’t need to be heated to flow.

Also, being monotomic makes it easier to model everything. A more complex molecule could have weird chemistry that ends up producing solid particles that impinge or maybe condense on your spacecraft (coating lenses, etc).
I also see ads.

To be fair, I seem to recall them having no ads on their Covid pages - but I see ads there now, too.
> Gender is an immutable characteristic? That's debatable

Actually I don't think anybody's debating that - transexuals say that they were born as whatever gender they identify with, they just say it doesn't match what their body looks like. Everybody seems to agree that it's immutable, even if there are people who can't seem to quite agree on how it's identified.
> For example a "random number generator" that just has a large hardcoded list of random-looking values and loops over the list may pass a test if the list is long enough that the loop can't be detected, even though the values are decidedly not random.

Even cryptographically secure RNGs have fixed periods, they are not infinite. What's important is how long that "list" is. So for purposes of computer randomness, a long fixed list may indeed be okay if it is truly long enough. It will need to be truly massive to pass Diehard though.
> an aerospike-based Starship wouldn't need both vacuum and sea-level engines and could use the same engines in space as it would use to land.

In vacuum, an aerospike will not be as efficient as a maximally expanded traditional nozzle. If you could conjure an aerospike raptor from thin air, you'd still probably want the vacuum engines there, but you'd of course want to replace the sea-level ones with the spikes for higher efficiency immediately after stage sep (when all 6 are firing).
You’ve just made an analogy to a situation that ~never happens in complex profession which ~none of us have direct experience in at a professional level. Thats fine, but it doesn’t really help with reasoning.

An estimate serves the purpose of allowing you to say “well the deadline is in 3 weeks and our best estimate is that this will take 9 weeks. Lets save ourselves the effort, cancel the project, and do something more profitable with our time.

In your analogy, that would be the equivalent of… jumping out of the airplane mid-flight, confident that you can just ride brooms to Iceland because thinking of this as a life-or-death decision is incorrect.
I meant that these devices come with security features that the users don't even research beforehand, and blindly stick them on the Internet without even changing the default password. Google for 'public IP camera directories'. There's people monitoring the growth of their cannabis plants in their 'secret' attic, all public for everyone to see (including law enforcement).
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> "The ends don't justify the means" is an opinion that varies based on the ends, the means, and the person making the opinion.

How many societies that went down the totalitarian path that would do it again?

We're not talking about spending 4min/day brushing your teeth to stave off gum disease in old age here, the means comes with some pretty damn serious downsides.
Isn't it a luxury to be able to put down money for a journalism degree tuition in the US? I think this may already be explained quite well for the US higher education system, how do these ratios compare to journalism degrees'?
A favorite of mine is Thrust Augmented Nozzle or TAN, where, at low altitudes, extra propellant is injected into the nozzle (not the chamber) to prevent flow separation and to increase thrust, albeit at lower specific impulse. Think of it as a bit of an afterburner for a rocket engine.

https://www.aerodefensetech.com/component/content/article/ad...

More thrust even at lower specific impulse at the start of the flight can save you a significant amount of gravity loss, engine mass etc.
If I'm a regular human being who's trying to purchase an actual product with Ethereum, is any of this helpful to me?
It depends on the developers process of coming up with the estimates. If they're breaking down the tasks, thinking of all the things that can go wrong and factoring in contingencies, sequencing them understanding dependencies, and work other than delivering code, data migrations, support, monitoring, and so on, the estimate could be thrown out without anyone ever looking at it but the developers would have a much better understanding of the project and a good sketch of a plan of attack to make the time making the estimate all worthwhile.
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Author here. No architecture specific processing currently. Most of the magic happens in zstandard (hat tip to this amazing project).

Please see our new applicability section which explains the result in a bit more detail:

https://github.com/elfshaker/elfshaker/blob/1bedd4eacd3ddd83...

In manyclangs (which uses elfshaker for storage) we arrange that the object code has stable addresses when you do insertions/deletions, which means you don't need such a filter. But today I learned about such filters, so thanks for sharing your question!
In Tim's interview with Elon Musk, Elon mentioned[1] low combustion efficiency as one of the major disadvantages of aerospike engines compared to the more traditional bell nozzles used on Raptor.

I wonder if Pangea has done anything in an attempt to solve that problem.

[1]: https://youtu.be/cIQ36Kt7UVg?t=408
What's the best way to start changing company culture like this?
Large communities will literally genocide you and everyone who shows a hint of sharing your belief system, do it through euphemism so he general populace has plausible deniability, burn all the books that refer to you with any sentiment other than poison, and imprison anyone who mentions you in passing while smiling.

With your reasoning, feudalism is the most accountable form of government, safest for minorities.
Not if I'm trying to pay for something like a $10/month recurring fee!
It's not in private beta. The first phrase of the post literally says "Fig is generally available to the public for download".

Anyway. I agree - requiring an email address to start testing the product made me instantly uninstall this app. Unfortunate!
"Anti" racists are professional victims. Don't engage with them. They will always find a way to twist a disagreement going against their favor into an oppression narrative.
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Somewhat related tweet thread from today: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1461633512344326146?s=21

Don’t talk to journalists (at least if you work in tech, but probably outside of it) - they’re not your friends and your incentives are not aligned with theirs (and they’re not looking to tell the objective truth).

You’re better off writing your own articles about what you’re doing. They historically owned distribution, but they don’t anymore. We don’t need them.

If you do want to interview, find a smart individual. Like Zuckerberg’s recent interview with Ben Thompson of Stratechery. The difference in quality between someone like Byrne Hobart, Ben Thompson, Sam Harris, or Scott Alexander compared to someone at the NYT is night and day.
So the blockchain is for the rich, got it.
The same is true for the art world. Female dominated in every art school I know, male dominated at the well-paying end of the success spectrum.

And I can safely say that I have not ever noticed any discrimination against male artists while studying it. Quite the contrary.
From someone who's spent 15 years in industry (from time to time being subjected to corporate training) and a dozen years as a prof where I've used Blackboard and Canvas:

An LMS falls into the class of software where the purchasing decision is made several layers of management above the actual users. At least in the case of LMSs sold by for-profit companies (I don't know about Moodle, but Canvas is basically Instructure Inc) there are zero incentives to provide a product which actual does the intended job, rather than ticking all the check boxes in an evaluation process.
Does “white” include “Jewish”? :’)
Oh I'm well aware, I work on this stuff, but I'm still curious about their system, and any on-orbit data they might have. We're working on krypton Hall thrusters right now in our lab and trying to characterize the differences in operation. There's some non-obvious scaling factors we're working to understand in order to try and better optimize thrusters for krypton operation. We have a recent paper (free pdf) about this at pepl.engin.umich.edu/pdf/2021_JoAP_Su.pdf.
> but realizing what the reasoning could be in retrospect (sort of reverse engineering)

Not in this situation. While the chess engine performed a network guided non-deterministic search and returned a result, its neural network did not. With tools like in the paper, we can now map the network's internal states to something close to human relatable concepts.

Even without such tools we could observe what lines were productive by analyzing a few ply deep and comparing with other moves we could have made. It's closer to something becoming obvious with hindsight, where seeing what works compared to what you thought of helps to highlight the flaw in your plan or something you missed, while reinforcing your understanding of the engine's moves. That scenario is a common enough one.
Nobody was saying that every app needs to run in the background to deliver you notifications. I was arguing that for some apps background functionality is essential, and such functionality is obstructed by OS vendors, who strive to tie all background work to push notifications.
I get paid in the EU, move it to the UK, and then send it to my US account. All in all this takes around 2 days and costs around $60. Wish I was paid in crypto and had quick $10 transactions instead (albeit offboarding it into fiat would cost a bit too, because of exchange fees).
Hi all, I made a desktop app which records your focus session and then replays it at high speed so that you can recover your lost train of thought very fast. Typically, it where it would take me 10 minutes or more to remember exactly what I was coding, with Trici I am able to do that in less than 2 minutes, many times in less than 30 seconds.

Whatever the interruption, whether it be the weekend, a Zoom call, switching to another important task, Trici will help you recover your lost train of thought very fast.

One of the biggest advantage I have felt is to be able to start work quickly when I have the time. I.e. if I have a 30 minute block of time, I am not going to spend 15 minutes thinking where I left my previous work and what investigation I did trying to fix a bug. I am able to see that in a minute and proceed.

Looking forward to feedback from the HN community.
This needs to be confirmed, but on the live event they said the loss was due to strict requirements around proper storage of the document which the seller didn’t feel the DAO had satisfied. EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29277129#29277637

This was an interesting ordeal. One comment on Twitter suggested we may have seen the start of a new phenomenon, “money swarms” [1], in which groups of Internet people can raise really large sums quickly for some goal. Bit of chaos energy to be sure.

FWIW I think at least some of the people involved in this feel a very genuine connection to what they were doing. People who get excited about DAOs right now differ a bit from the earlier extreme-libertarian crypto; they’re into the idea of active participation in government rather than no government at all. It’s not much different than the 2010 conversations that Occupy folks were having on Reddit, when that seemed like a big novelty.

1. https://twitter.com/co_eq/status/1459987329511145477?s=21
Are you saying that men tend to take more leadership responsibilities?
Currently, the USA population is 60.4% white [1].

So, whites are under-represented in big tech (50.1% white according to this post) while over-represented significantly in tech journalism (80% white). That's difficult to understand: why is there such a bias in favour of white people in tech jornalism, but not in tech in general??

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-states-po...
> From someone who knows little about this -- what is the advantage of this kind of engine?

Take a traditional bell nozzle engine. The shape of the bell is designed to redirect the exhaust in the correct direction, but one of the design parameters for the shape is the ambient air pressure. If you design it to work at a specific altitude, it will be less efficient at other altitudes.

The aerospike is more efficient over a broader range of altitudes. (That is, if you take the average efficiency over a wider range of altitudes, the aerospike wins. If you pick one altitude or a narrow range of altitudes, the traditional nozzle wins.)
> still had way less overhead than XML or BBCode

That's why I like Textile and Markdown so much. If I'm going to type out all the overhead tags, just like me go full-on LaTeX.
Before we choose more efficient languages. How about first limiting low-code and machine-learning systems?

I am sure we can shut down hundreds of servers just by not abusing image-captcha, blockchain and cloud for everything.
It would also disincentivize legitimate lawsuits.
Can you talk a bit more about what ELF-specific heuristics elfshaker uses? What kind of preprocessing do you do before zstd? Do you handle offsets changing in instructions, like the BCJ/BCJ2 filter? Do you do anything to detect insertions/deletions?
Come on now, you have to know that's a gross exaggeration.

It's arguing that no deal between two parties is unethical as long as both parties are clearly aware of all aspects of the deal and their consequences and neither party is coerced into agreeing to the deal.
Ford is worth $60billion, Tesla $1 trillion. Tesla is doing a better job than Ford.
> Again, it is key that the institution is accountable and not some repressive apparatus of a totalitarian state.

In that case, doesn't the institution become the totalitarian state?
It depends on how they estimate and how familiar they are with the code base. I know developers that have been nearly spot on consistently with modifications and maintenance work.

The wildly inaccurate stuff seems to come from new work with loose definitions, manic developers, or situations where the work is billable hourly and outsourced.

Sometimes it's good to have an old, graybeard developer on the team :).
Why DAOs create the most organizations of today?
This week, ConstitutionDAO (https://www.constitutiondao.com/) made an effort to purchase a rare copy of US Constitution in an auction organized by Sotheby's.

Initiated by a few internet-native Twitter users with some following, ConstitutionDAO is a fully autonomous group of internet strangers that has gathered around a shared cause. Most members have never met one another or don't necessarily even know who they are – they have come together from all over the world for their mission, to buy the Constitution.

ConstitutionDAO went viral immediately and became a phenomenon never seen before. The group broke records for the most money crowdfunded in less than 72 hours and eventually collected +$40M from +8000 members. The money was managed by a multi-signature crypto wallet with 13 signers (some of them represented anonymously).

Even though the group failed to purchase the Constitution, it's a great example of mission-driven community-led organizations that can achieve phenomenal successes in a short period of time. Based on confidence created on trustless blockchain, people who have never met are able to organize themselves, engage with orchestrated efforts, and successfully conduct remarkable projects. Most importantly, this is all done so that each and every one of the participants feel engaged and being part of the community reaching a goal bigger than itself.

This organizational model creates a strong force for many fields in the future. Think about non-profits, political parties, hobby groups... that are transparently run by their members who are passionate about their mission. Internet and trustless blockchains enable global collaboration across borders, and crypto makes it possible to financially incentivize participants to push the org forward. Future opportunities are countless!

Think about Reddit that is owned and governed by us, the users, and karma would be financially denominated so that you would earn money when gaining upvotes (i.e. creating value to the platform)...

I strongly believe in the future of DAOs and, therefore, recently founded Kleoverse (https://www.kleoverse.com). We want to make it frictionless to discover the coolest DAOs and give you step-by-step instructions how to get involved – either as regular member or as a contributor who gets paid for their work!

If you find it interesting, ensure your early access by signing up today!
I interviewed at a hair salon once. The owner/manager was female as were all other employees. I'm a guy. Needless to say, I did not hear back. The owner told me during the interview that her clients are all females, mostly wealthy, with many 40-50 years old and she basically explained I would not fit in.
I believe the idea with gender being immutable is that people who transition to another gender are doing so to align their gender with what they believe it should be. In this way it is immutable; a person assigned male at birth, who later transitions to female, is no less female than someone assigned female at birth since neither truly chose to be female.
So on the one hand we have folklore passed down from generation to generation, and on the other we have a finding of no documentary evidence for it. But no evidence for much of any other explanation either. Not much to go on either way.

In medieval times, the thinking could well have been "we have to favor the right-handed because the left hand is the tool of the devil."
The automated translation is pretty noticeable.
The only tech writing worth reading is technical.

Everything else is traditional gossip based hype generation. Not a shock it’s a bunch of white people hyping America's financial economic hustle.
You just did the same with TLA ... Thanks to another commenter who explained it
That's not the case in Windows 10?
Humans gonna human.

No one group is particularly more righteous, as much as the recent zeitgeist wants to lull us into this belief. Many people even believe that countries would be better off if mostly women ran it. Well, all you’d have is a bunch of corrupt women instead of a bunch of corrupt men.
Relevant reading as well: https://qntm.org/abolish
Same here. In particular, the Textile way of making headings is far better than MD. The one thing I dislike about Textile is that it insists on treating all line breaks as <br>, which makes it awkward to edit in vim because it encourages long lines.
Education is completely the same: compare teachers to principals or education professors (and within universities, assistant to full professors)
For specifically the doctor version of the principle-agent problem, Robin Hanson published an incentive-compatible solution over 25 years ago: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/buyhealth.html
If you worked in tech for 15 years, what have you done to keep it exciting?
>Why do people keep trying to declare that blogging is dead?

Because the blogging ecosystem now is nothing like what it was 10-15 years ago. It's significantly more difficult to find and maintain an audience.

The main ways a reader can find your blog:

1. aggregator or news site like HN links to it
2. arrives via search engine
3. is a regular reader via subscription or syndication
4. social media

#1 and #2 can bring a lot of readers, but they're transient and and rarely return or subscribe.

#3 and #4 have changed profoundly since blogging's heyday. Social media sites work hard to keep you in their walled garden, and RSS readers just aren't used as much as they once were.

As the article points out, newsletters are alive and well because email is a clever workaround for the issues noted above.
From that very same article:

"There are moments when it is useful to have the engineers (or any kind of staff with specific skills) talk to upper management and talk to outside clients. But those discussions need to go through a specific process, they can not be allowed to happen randomly."