skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they could solve that without rewriting the whole platform
Well millions of people believed the Trump Russia election hacking conspiracy theory despite having no basis in reality and having never seen any evidence for it.

Maybe after that was exposed people became a bit more skeptical of such narratives. It follows the same recipe as many social engineering tricks you get taught about in basic corporate security education but it really goes back a long way to low tech confidence tricks and scams -- a huge problem, a sense of urgency, and you mustn't ask questions otherwise you're a bad person.

Not saying covid or vaccines are a conspiracy theory, just that it follows and easily recognizable pattern that has been abused in the past. And people recognize patterns even subconsciously.
you can buy fractional shares on just about every platform now. i bought $10 worth of nvidia stock today on RH, even though a full share trades for like ~$250 (i didnt pay that close attention)
While not HDR, I'd think colour calibration would be fairly important for signage.

If your company red is too washed out, or one section of a video-wall menu board is inconsistent brightness, it looks bad on your brand.
It is novel and interesting because it compares the value of an image taken accidentally by a security camera to an image taken intentionally by a photographer. The author states that our value flows like the wind and photography captures it, which I thought was correct since photography is to record a moment in a constantly changing world.
Stripe recruiters were the worst I've dealth with in the past twelve months.

Extensive talk about a position. Then ghosted.
Then invited for an interview with the hiring manager, who then cancelled last minute. Invited to do an ad-hoc interview during one of my work meetings. Denied and asked for different time.

Ghosted.

Definitely dodged a bullet with these guys. Some companies think because they're growing they can do whatever.
> "Optimizing” the ethnic population distribution by increasing Han population shares

This "optimizing thing" can also be translated as genocide? (sarcastic)

>I have met some academic China Studies researchers. They're a very interesting bunch -- not at all what you'd perhaps expect, and in my case either madly interested in history, or the development of the language, or the interaction of the society with the rest of the world. I'd never met someone in a China Studies department who was interested in Chinese politics. Eventually, one academic got drunk and told me the reason: criticising The Party was a career-ending move, not just for you but often for your department as well. Those archeological digs you wanted to go on? Those students you wished to go on an exchange, in order to improve their mandarin? Your ability to enter the country without fear? All gone in an instant, systematically recorded in a database of "bad things" and never regained. [(S)he was highly critical of the regime after a few glasses of wine, naturally, especially the way in which much archeology had apparently been concreted-over with little regards for history – not to mention the treatment of the Chinese peoples.]

Fearful dystopia.
It has been worth it for me. My quality of life here is far higher than back home in the UK, I've found a city and state that I enjoy living in - 300 something days of sunshine a year vs grey skies in the UK - and the salary delta is outrageous.

Although, I didn't move strictly for work - I intended to build a life here, and my initial visa was dual intent for that reason.
Our son went to a waldkindergarten (forest kindergarten) which was great, but the elementary school situation seemed a lot different. He basically failed the try out day in two different schools (we moved), the first said he was too disruptive, the second that he was too quiet. Both wanted to send him to the special ed school far away. So we sent him to a private Catholic school nearby instead. It was okay, but strict, and they were pretty bad at technology. His new public school in the states has vastly nicer facilities, much friendlier staff, no school uniforms (fuck that shit), knows how to use email, and of course it's been easy for him to make local friends.

Oh, and the fact that in Bavaria you need to decide on your life's path at fourth grade I find pretty stupid, too (tracked schooling after that year).
The joke is that’s largely what happened when the west brought their tech to china
Netflix Wants at Least Five New Shows a Year (2013)
How Masculinity Contests Undermine Organizations, and What to Do About It (2018)
hey danrocks, bear in mind if you discuss details of your experience with pc, you run the risk of outing the senior leader you consulted in step 10.

You may wish not to do this. As much as the feedback would probably help Stripe and possibly even yourself, given the post you've written, it sounds like it may put someone else's career on the line.
I know but the parent comment and original post said something like “less reliant on coal” which is a relative interpretation and your “leveling off” comment illustrates my point about how relative figures get misconstrued because you can’t exactly become less reliant on something when your consumption remains the same.
Are you also arguing it's "dangerous" for Michael Hall (aka notorious serial killer Dexter Morgan) to walk through an airport?
OH then maybe it's meant to be the indian flag behind the person but collapsing the layers to a single colour blends it together making it look broken.

That would explain it!
3D printer ink is alive
Related: http://forum.cantorsys.com/viewforum.php?id=12

(Apparently much of the site is in Russian -- but Google Translate seems to work OK on it...)
New Zeland Gov to push for international ban of autonomous weapons/killer robots
Finish the interview, and provide feedback if asked why it was a 'no'.

Interviewing isn't just for fun, and even if you don't get the job, you can go through the interview to practice, and hopefully to figure out what went wrong.

If after 20 minutes they just say 'I think this is a no so go home' I wasted a lot more than 20 minutes and got nothing out of it.
Our system elects Members of Parliament (MPs), who then choose the Prime Minister(PM) from the pool of MPs.

However what that means is that at any point the MPs from the majority party can oust the PM and change them out with another MP.

This has become more common recently with several of our sitting PM's being 'knifed' aka backstabbed in recent years.
> Built-in cell modem that can only call home?

Doing that to get around a feature they put in themselves just seems like conspiracy theorizing at that point.
It was clearly incorrect in the article.
Just one more reminder that when one puts something online, it stays there forever. The innocent photo of someone in his 20s dancing naked while drunk at a party that today could award him bonus social points among peers, would destroy his political career 30 years later.
In that case it was the blind leading the blind. The advice that founders give each other about how to game HN routinely backfires. Unfortunately, people are so conditioned to conflate "feels like it should work" with "actually works", that no matter how much we repeat the contrary it seems to have little effect.

Thanks for the reply - you had me wondering for a minute what the hell I wasn't remembering.
Yeah, this won't work.
Unless there's some consideration (i.e. money) changing hands, contracts like that are worth nothing but the paper they are on.
Had similar experiences with two companies few months back for Senior MLE/Lead DS role. It seems practice of ghosting after selection and verbal commitment to offer is widespread. It's terrible practice they ask you to resign and join asap saying that offer will be made in few days and then they ghost. What a waste of time of everyone involved !
It's not like China is hiding this stuff. They do this to themselves as in their own employees regularly steal schematics and technologies and spread it all over the place.
“Linux is a free set of buggy device drivers” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660437
I've had my eye on this autoscaler for a while now, has anyone had experience running it in production with a large rate of node churn?

I think combining the scheduler and the autoscaler into a single entity makes a lot of sense, both from a latency/performance perspective as well as a data sharing perspective - we have some complicated rules on when nodes are eligible to be terminated that are tightly coupled to the lifecycle of certain pods in the system, and as it stands we have to implement all of that logic with the assumption that the scheduler may (re)schedule pods concurrently while we are performing terminations. For this kind of application where pods and nodes are tighly coupled, having all of that logic in a single place is pretty attractive to me.

Another really signifigant (and unexpected to me) scaling limit for us has been ratelimiting on behalf of the cloud provider... I believe that since AWS leads development of Karpenter they have also optimized a lot of the API calls Karpenter makes to try to more efficiently use the API Quotas in AWS that each tenant has, and this is one of the main reasons Karpenter caught my eye in the first place.
It's best not to say the opposite of what was intended, contract or not.
Thanks for the reply, mholt!

I would have expected way higher numbers there, but going by that ratio you’re absolutely right. Regardless, thanks for the great work on Caddy, it’s rock solid.
K&R was a real masterpiece.

This book, though, attempts to be something different. Writing history that's accurate and making it interesting is not easy. If it's non-fiction and a long time ago, you find that most people can't remember much of anything, and certainly not any dialog.

I found from my book's reviews that a couple people wanted something more like Kernighan's. Oh well. That's not what I wanted to do, so I'm not sorry. Other people have done that.

Like one of the reviewers said (a 5-star review):

There’s no doubt that this book has a limited audience. In my opinion, to find the book interesting, you need to have a pre-existing interest in computer history, Unix, and programming (in that order). If you already have some familiarity with using Unix (or its derivatives) from the command-line, that will certainly help you understand the significance of many of the items that Kernighan discusses. If you have no prior experience with Unix, then I don’t know why you picked up this book or read this review!
Many people could, if the publisher had any interest in their genre, or it was fashionable, or it was about the right genre story, or whatever. But publishers have limited time to shepherd a book through the publishing process so choose their horses.

Personally I think the democratization of publishing away from formal publishers is one the best things to happen to publishers. The gatekeepers kind of suck.
It's unlikely. Solid has had this performance profile since 2017. React hasn't really budged. Fundamentally different approach. There are different types of performance to explore but raw performance for small things is not something React is going to "catch up" on. Might be worth a read: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/javascript-frameworks-per...
UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill
I was curious about this:

>"I get asked for references."

Is this still common? I thought these were such a potential liability in the US that nobody even asked for those any more. Is that just not true in SV maybe?
And there already are machines that will put the milk in too. I'm not a fan of how they come out but you can pretty much automate a latte now.
Drivers are mostly not too hard, you just have to do them. USB seems like a challenge though. If your driver model isn't too wild, you can repurpose drivers from the BSDs and Linux. And maybe even windows networking drivers if ndis works for you.

A 1.0 launch really doesn't need to support everything. It just needs to support a large enough handful of common devices. Hell, Apple OSes barely support any hardware.
I think we’re about to see this trend reverse - and fast.

Countries/EU started passing intense laws and regulations that means companies start operating differently in different places. Faang will stay for a while but listen to how many HN commenters skip the EU for GDPR reasons. We may soon see national scope app stores based on recent anti trust cases.

No one even tries to work inn China anymore. Japanese internet is still using Yahoo, and india is on-shoring their own industry fast. Russia practically has their own internet like China.

Big hosting companies are setting up smaller and more frequent data centers in each nation. Just look at the AWS Korea and Indian data centers as a map of what’s to come. Or cloudflare selling “hosted nearby” services. They’re selling shovels for a world where data hosting has national borders and export laws.
Wow, this brings back memories of my final project for my "programming for Engineering students" course in the mid-80s.

I wrote a DOS TSR program (remember those?) which would pop up a window when you pressed a key sequence and present you with an ASM86 REPL.

You could selectively 'save' pieces of code, and then when you exited the window, it would paste the saved code as inline assembly code (a hex byte array surrounded by some Turbo Pascal syntax) into your keyboard buffer - the assumption being that you are running the Turbo Pascal IDE, of course.

The TSR itself was written in x86 assembly, which added a level of complexity. I would have given and arm and a leg to be able to do it in a high-level language like Ruby.
These two lines are deeply ingrained in the minds of a whole generation of programmers. They start a graphics mode of size 320x200 with a 256 byte palette and you can start dumping your pixels in the 0xa0000 segment right away.

I am yet to find a modern graphics programming environment that is so comfortable and easy to use as this.
Direct link listing her books on librivox:

https://librivox.org/reader/103?primary_key=103&search_categ...
Boeing Was Set on the Path to Disaster by the Cult of Jack Welch
You can certainly make "intended to" explicit, and it's obviously better to be clear, but it's unnecessary. Keep in mind the entire point and heart of the accusation is the malicious intent. The accusation is clearly not "you're a horrible person because my email fell off your inbox!!", but rather "you saw and yet deliberately ignored my emails because you were actually trying to gain information while pretending to want to acquire us".

As such, you rebutting with "I never ghosted you" would not be equivalent in any shape or form to "I reply to every single email in your inbox" (or whatever) for you to feel you might somehow be accidentally telling a falsehood if you happened to miss some email in your inbox. "I never ghosted you" in this context would be a direct rejection of the purported intent—i.e. the accusation you were purposefully ignoring someone's emails because you were actually trying to fish information out of them—because, absent the intent, that accusation wouldn't have been made to begin with. You can make the lack of intent explicit if you want, definitely, but it's already implicit in the accusation, and so would be in implied in the rejection of that accusation.
Manufacturing has economies of scale, in a global market there will inevitably be winners who win by being bigger than all other participants. Why wouldn't the global economy settle on a single manufacturing power eventually?
I had an analogous experience with Toyota's self-driving division, Woven Planet. Not nearly as bad, but some similarities. The recruiter had three calls with me first, asking rote questions that were clearly scripted. She asked the same questions multiple times. Afterward, she had me fill out a form with my experience, strengths, weaknesses, etc. She had me read the profiles of various people at the company, and insisted I read through the entire website as well.

After all this, she insisted that I sift through all the publicly listed positions and give her a sorted list of the ones I thought I was suited for, along with a checklist of how I matched each qualification. She then asked me to only select one, even though it wasn't clear what each group did or which role I was best qualified for or interested in. Then she asked for open slots to start doing interviews. Lastly she asked for a salary range. I let her know my FAANG salary, and she gasped and paused a bit. She quickly ended the discussion and said she'd call me in the next couple days with an interview schedule. Then she ghosted me for a month. She eventually mailed me and let me know they weren't ready to move forward.

By the way, the Woven Planet website is a mess, and the company probably is too. You'd never guess they are an automated driving division. They have all these ideas of a "future city" they are building and are paving over a section of land near Mt Fuji to build this "future city". They've hired Japanese speaking foreigners to do all these touchy-feely motivational videos that have nothing to do with self driving vehicles. Complete lack of focus. I lost a lot of respect for Toyota after this experience.
I don't know, Brave has always broken more sites and failed to block more ads for me, than either Chromium or Firefox with uBlock Origin.
Yeah but the quality is pretty mixed. A lot have performance problems, and maintenance is spotty.
>"I run a $XB fintech, ..."

I've seen this term a couple of times no in this post. Might you are someone else explain what a "$XB fintech" is?
Interesting tidbit, in Sweden an offer over email (or verbally IIRC) is legally binding. It's quite common that you will only receive /sign the actual contract on the first day of work. Obviously this leads to confusion when hiring people from outside of Sweden.
Laws around law firm ownership also limits their size. They can’t have share holders and traditional corporate structures as we typically see in big biz.
OK I've saved the HTML of this page... just in case :-)
That's not really the "HN team," though. What you're describing that the partners did is scummy, but makes sense when you realize that partners and dang have effectively an adversarial relationship when it comes to the quality of HN. People invested in you have strong reason to try and ensure your popularity here; they very well could have just tried throwing tips at you to get you to manipulate the site better.

Most people can't stare at the News source for an hour straight without getting a headache, let alone a rich investor type. They wouldn't find much of value in what's been publicly released of it, anyway (the released source is ancient and includes little as far as quality control goes).

If what you're saying is based in truth, you were probably just getting tips from someone with a strong financial incentive to have brute forced their way into understanding the site the manual way (throwing posts at it) rather than someone who had any genuine inside knowledge.
> Drivers are mostly not too hard

Except when they are, which is anytime something is poorly documented, which is pretty much all the time. Let's not even get started on vendors who don't WANT you to write drivers for their hardware.

> Hell, Apple OSes barely support any hardware.

Would be interesting to see an OS target specifically Apple HW to make it a bit easier on the devs.
When I read article saying and showing how Airbus is failing badly on its paint and Boeing is only slightly mentioned in it it does look to me like an article to build up certain emotions against Airbus.

I'm quite scared of modern journalism and how facts can be used to manipulate and mislead people.
A company with over 50 engineers that wants to be seen as a startup is a red flag for me. I usually stop reading their job postings as soon as I can detect this.
I run a fast growing, succesful business. I only schedule first interviews for 30 minutes anyway and rarely use the whole time. It's just my nature, I get to the point of things quickly.
Do you also drive the store to the car? Hey, it's not a contract, so why not?

It's not a question of "Legalese English". People should used words in the proper order to convey an idea, instead of using them in a backwards or random order.
As TFA itself answers, "no". But I can give a different reason: nix is too much of a barrier of entry, relative to Docker.

Docker might not be simple; there's a lot of moving parts to manage, some hidden gotchas, and networks are a mess. But it's comparatively easy, and once you bake an image, it's pretty simple. Dockerfiles are basically just sh. Package managers are the usual suspects. Images are easy to distribute. It's very familiar.

Nix is not easy. It's a new syntax to learn, it's a new way of building, it's an entirely new way of thinking about the problem. But in the end, it does simplify packaging in the Rich Hickey sense of the easy/simple dichotomy. No braiding of packages and shared libs. But using Nix is not so simple. There's all kinds of bindings and bodges and bespoke shims to make it all work.

History tends to show that easy+non-simple things beat out simple+non-easy things (devs are lazy). Easy-kinda-simple vs non-easy-kinda-simple-but-long-term-gains? No contest in my opinion.

I think Nix is a beautiful idea but it's an uphill battle.