skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scam is the wrong way to look at it. Basically, it's like airlines charging you fees for overhead baggage. If you can get into a big tech company without back-weighted vesting, of course you're going to take that. The difference is on the margin.

Developers who went to tier C schools, 3.X GPA, 2-sigma IQs instead of 3, they have a shot at getting into Amazon and actually making way more and getting much better equity than they would working in IT at their local HR company (<$100K salary, negligible to 0 equity)

Again though, if you are capable of getting into any other FAANG, of course do it.
> if you are in favour of the rule of law, rather than people being sent to prison based on personal moral judgements of juries

They clearly violated their civil rights repeatedly over a period of years. They were already found liable for damages and paid out millions of dollars. Illicit activities & sex happen in undercover work... It's much more disturbing that the organizations sanctioned running operations that included having a 3 year plus romantic relationships, fathering children and proposing marriage... with non-violent activists... rape is not the right charge and shouldn't be shoehorned but that is such a gross violation and misuse of powers that should face criminal punishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_relatio...
https://archive.is/AYu04
This sounds like the type of thinking that put us here in the first place.

US companies sold the US out when they moved our manufacturing base to china and handed them the future.

Now we should give up our negotiation leverage so the chip shortage lasts a bit shorter?
There has been a sea change on this in the last year or so. 2.5gbe is really starting to hit the market in a big way, multi-gig has gone from "why would you need that" to "in systems by default", and it did it all of a sudden. I did a mITX build on a B550 board last summer (so, not the super premium high-end boards) and all of the options I was looking at had 2.5gbe ethernet.

Going forward, both AMD and Intel have built 2.5 gbe controllers into their cpus and chipsets, so if partners want to use it, it's there. As such you will see it start to be rolled out even in consumer products over the next couple years. The initial rollout was hampered by a few "light errata" with intel's controller implementation (basically it didn't work at 2.5 gbit speeds at all, oops) but we're a couple gens into it now and it's going forward. AMD has one on their chips as well (if not faster, I want to say AMD has 10gbe in their dies for Ryzen Embedded usage).

(expecting it in a 2020-era product, however, is perhaps not reasonable, like I said this is something that has changed mostly in the last year or so. Although granted a Thinkpad is not a consumer product so maybe it should have been ahead of the curve. But I don't think multigig had penetrated even professional spaces that well in 2020, except perhaps 10gbe in certain high-end segments.)

The gotcha with multi-gig has always been switches, very few cheap switches existed and the ones that did were mostly SFP+ and not 10GBase-T (i.e. you either need new wiring anyway, or you pay $50 a set for SFP+ adapters). This is somewhat better with 2.5gbe, there are now some 8-port switches under $200, but it's still a long way from 1gbe where you can get a nice 8-port for like $25. Hopefully it is a matter of volume and prices come down over time.

I'm a little miffed that 10gbe got passed over - 2.5gbe seems like a half-measure, and the wiring argument isn't very compelling to me. If they implemented 10gbe you could always allow fallback to 2.5gbe if that's what the signal quality can support (many <10 meter Cat5e runs are good enough for full 10gbe anyway) and it's a much more significant step than 1->2.5gbit. And the economy of scale here is significant, if consumer stuff goes 2.5 then that's what gets made and 10gbit remains expensive.

Anyway currently I am eyeballing the Netgear MS510TXM - this does pretty much what I want in terms of giving me a few SFP ports for fiber links (or server usage - SFP does have lower latency), a few 10gbase-T links for consumer PCs with Aquantia 10gbit nics, and a few 2.5 gbit ports for consumer junk. At $500 it would be nice if it was a 12-port, but it checks most of the boxes at least.
I own its little brother, the PPC512DD. It is in fully working condition. As I understand it, the only difference is the amount of memory (512K vs 640K) and the inbuilt modem of the 640.

At some point I'll fathom how to add an external ISA slot to it, as apparently the expansion connector is compatible.

Also, way back when the Amstrads were current, I upgraded my desktop PC 1512 with a NEC V20 (or was it a 30?) for that little bit of speed increase.
Unions are in bed with the government.
briton, just making a joke about how you sometimes see people from all corners of the world land in mexico and take their chances with los coyotes for the journey north
Everything can be a single-file if you're brave enough.
> To retain talent, HR departments create complicated frameworks of titles, levels, and pay bands that are designed to give employees a reason to stay and continue striving.

HR is an easy target to blame.

The true culprit is leadership. More and more line managers are divorced from the actual process of developing, promoting, and retaining employees.

Of course managers will pushback, saying ‘isn’t that HR’s job after all?’ So no one takes responsibility.

This also largely explains the huge churn of talent in the Great Resignation.
> And 60% of the US population fall for this marketing?

Sure. They spend more money on it than any other company does.

> Google makes 80% of their revenue from ad sales and they can’t convince more than 40% of people to buy their supposedly superior OS?

First off, this is a false dichotomy. The 80% you're referencing is not what they spend on actual marketing of any of their products.

Secondly, I don't believe I ever called Android superior, or even insinuated that superiority was a component here. The average first-worlder doesn't give a shit about what the "superior product" is, this rings true for every market: cars, computers, TVs, and cell phones. Everything is disposable in the end, as long as they get their money's worth they're happy. Such is life under capitalism.

> The rest of the industry has had 20 years to catch up with Apple if it were that easy, they couldn’t?

The rest of the industry has no interest in building walled gardens and exclusive experiences. Apple is unique in that they have a massive software ecosystem of protocols and applications that they have made impossible to use on third-party devices. If any other company tried this without a majority share of the hardware market, it would be a suicide mission.

> Also Google has how many active and failed messenger apps in the last decade?

I don't really see how this is pertinent. If Apple really wanted to change the world of messenger apps, they could put iMessage on other platforms (hell, they could charge a fee for it if they want extra capitalism cookie points). They didn't.

The argument here is that Apple has no right to abuse their position in the market to extort developers for an arbitrary amount of money without competitors in that space. Apple is the largest company in the world; their antitrust scrutiny deserves to be through the roof, and actions like this are going to ultimately bury them when regulators come knocking. You're entitled to use whatever you want, but this isn't about individual technology politics (as much as Apple would like to frame it that way). This is about a large-scale failure of regulation, and the complete lack of consequence for refusing to build technology that empowers everyone.
I don't understand why you seem to be so sure that there is indeed "no bread inside"? If an investor buys a share of GME on the stock market, it does not matter at all if they buy it from a shorter, a retail investor or even from GME itself. A share is a share, there are no "empty bags" being sold. Shares also don't go off like bread, so if you get your share back at the end it is like nothing happened: you still own one share and it is of exactly the same quality as before. Unless you are a VERY large investor, having your broker lend out shares also has zero impact on being able to sell it at any time.

A short seller making a bet that a stock goes down by selling the stock is simply the same (but in reverse) as someone betting the stock will go up by buying a stock. The underlying business is not affected at all.
There's some good stuff in here, but I feel like a lot of valuable context was left out to accommodate the author's unique formatting style. Not everything needs to be reduced to a one-line zinger.
> imagine a world where we could tune in to neutrally-moderated longform debate on policy

We had something of that world. Firing Line was on air for thirty years, and many other countries had or have comparable programmes.

It's been a long de-evolution, not a radical destruction. Every innovation in media communication was that little bit faster, that little bit more palatable, but it's a one-way street, and hard to reverse.

My mother (born 1951) can't enjoy any film made after 2000, they're too frantic and they stress her. My ex-girlfriend (born 1996) couldn't enjoy any film made before 1990, they were too slow and they bored her to sleep. I have to put effort into reading books rather than relatively short essays nowadays.

I don't think there can be an implosion, at this point. We need a future generation, sometime after Z, that will grow up thinking that ten-second TikTok videos are the peak of uncool and something only old stodgy zoomers can enjoy.
what a poor comment. What would've been nice if you could've explained what I'm missing.

For the record I work at a different big tech company and was given a massive sign-on bonus. I also have received an offer from Amazon in the past. I know how to read levels.fyi so I'm not sure what it is that I'm missing exactly.
These are internal soc components, for this very reason.

Not sure if we are agreeing or not...
What slogan have you heard is "A slogan that is supremely dunkable by one side yet scratches the itch on the other is going to surface like curds in spoiled milk". No slogan is going to be 100% perfect because it's compressing an enormous amount of political opinion and legal implementation into a few words. IMO "Defund the Police" worked because it got a lot of people talking. The detractors were bad actors and not actually interested in implementation.
If I'm reviewing a CV I'm not going to ding someone for leaving a job a few months in, but I am going to be asking some carefully worded questions about why you left to work out whether you left of your own accord, or you were asked to leave before the probation period ended and the company were stuck with you on a three month notice period. (Its possible the US market is different in this regard, where as far as I'm aware everyone is on 2 week notice periods all the time)
I don't know for sure, but I imagine that for something like Slack which already has to support multiple browsers on multiple platforms (because it has a browser version as well), not shipping a browser seems like it could be a reasonable choice.
I get your point indeed.

I'm not a psychologist or something, so this is my opinion. But once you have empathy, you must be a real psycho to not feel a damn at that point.

I cannot imagine having empathy but then totally lacking sympathy (in a sane person).
First time doing this type of visualizations. I have this one tailwind.ink which will visualize a color palette on their luminance, chroma and hue values, but it's not really representing the algorithm behind.
You're obviously entitled to your own opinions, but your experience as a software developer doesn't reflect the experiences or thought process of the average American at all.
Google has pretty good work/life balance - it's much more of a "lifestyle" company now than Apple/Facebook/Amazon. I get the sense Netflix is heading in that direction as well.

You're still working on pretty complex codebases and tough technical problems though, so while you usually do not need to pull extra hours outside of business, you really do need to concentrate intently while working.
Why ask a question if the answer is to just not do the thing you're trying to improve?

If someone asks "how do I get to this place" with no other context and the advice is "stay home and do nothing" that doesn't seem patronizing to you?
Awesome, thank you so much for the suggestion. That is one of the reasons why I am active on here.
> E.g. Bitbond is a German company doing an investment products on top of Stellar. They've been working with the German financial authorities (Bafin) and are also partnering with a few big banks.

That's interesting, not being German I hadn't heard about them.

> There are also plenty of traditional enterprise consultancy companies that have been working with various customers to implement e.g. blockchain based schemes for carbon trading, or solutions related to logistics or sourcing materials. Not all of that might succeed but it seems that trading/inventing some new crypto currency is not a goal with these projects.

That last part seems to fit with what I've seen in the companies I've looked at: they were pivoting away from what the cryptocurrency people call a blockchain to a ledger restricted to known parties since they're tracking existing business relationships anyway and things like efficiency or offline/low-connectivity support are important.

> During the dot com era, it all looked like a bunch of hippies going on about digital highways and crazy stuff like that.

That was definitely present, but it wasn't anywhere close to a majority position by at least the middle of the decade. You definitely had the hippies but also a ton of distilled capitalism: companies seeing new businesses which weren't previously viable, companies seeing advantages from moving their business online, selling services to the previous groups, etc. The Wired crowd got a certain amount of publicity but there were an awful lot of boring companies spending considerably more money.
Taking equations from physics out of context to bolster social science claims isn't unique to psychology, other social sciences like economics have done the same thing with little more justification. The rationale behind this approach is simple marketing, in that 'using more mathy stuff' will sell better to the general public than non-mathy hand-waving claims will.

However, the practioners of this approach don't seem to understand that physical equations are constructed by analysis of empirical experimental and observational data on one hand, and theoretical mathematical development on the other, within limited scopes of applicability. Copying equations from one area of science to another willy-nilly like the article describes is just ridiculous - would cosmologists studying general relatively just plug in quantum mechanical equations in the hope of getting a 'mathy explanation'?

Here's another example from 'mathematically sound neoclassical economics', which does the same with 19th century physical science equations:

> "The strategy the economists used was as simple as it was absurd—they substituted economic variables for physical ones. Utility (a measure of economic well-being) took the place of energy; the sum of utility and expenditure replaced potential and kinetic energy. A number of well-known mathematicians and physicists told the economists that there was absolutely no basis for making these substitutions. But the economists ignored such criticisms and proceeded to claim that they had transformed their field of study into a rigorously mathematical scientific discipline."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-economist-has...
I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all solution really, I mean I for one would be a miserable alcoholic within a month if I was forced to live in an urban or even suburban environment. I also work with people who are the complete opposite and can't stand being outside cities for long at all.
There are a lot of other programs at work. Access is a mess, but 0 earners with children qualify for about 50k in benefits between SNAP, childcare assistance, housing assistance, medicaid, and CHIP.
Doesn't Amazon provide a shuttle service for employees? Microsoft does, so does Google I believe. There's also a reasonably good bus system here, and they're working on light rail.
Yeah it's really hard to take you seriously when you criticize people for doing exactly what you did. Just because you did it earlier doesnt mean you are morally superior in any way.
you have to put the disclaimer "usually" because people will downvote you for being "too certain". There is also the haters who are like "I know a friend who lives in a rural town that has great public transport so you are wrong on everything!"
Likely a scam. Don’t expect any raises from this.
Good Economics for Hard Times, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Great introduction to current social issues and how modern economics can help us make sense of them.
As far as I'm aware Valve does use ML (called VACnet) to detect cheaters. At the time of the GDC talk[0] it was only implemented for CSGO but it could've expanded since then

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTiP0zKF9bc
I tend to stay out of these discussions, precisely because I have such negative associations from PHP 3-5, but I don’t want to shit on anyone (or make anyone feel shit upon) who uses PHP today. The language and ecosystem has clearly improved and matured a lot, and while I don’t have any interest in revisiting it, I respect that.
You may well be right, but this is too casual an approach toward what purports to be science in a nominally good journal. Modern science is amazingly well insulated from “in-house” criticism after the review process. As a result crap can flourish. We need more data/analyst wasps.
Fully appreciate that it's a very large sounding but very real number once you start unpacking the scale of capital markets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30247693
I think he got it right.
Related to this, but is there ANY explanation out there from proponents of UBI that would clarify how UBI can be done sustainably and perpetually, without causing runaway inflation where UBI is always below poverty level anyway?

I'm obviously too retarded for such an advanced concept, but in my head there's no scenario where a utopian UBI-based society is possible, even with more advanced tech. To allow everyone to have food, shelter, and other necessities regardless of their usefulness to society, at the very least we'd have to have severe birth rate restrictions, strong law enforcement, and other fun authoritarian systems that would no longer qualify the environment as a utopia in the eyes of UBI supporters.

Seems like yet another liberal pipe dream that is entirely disconnected from reality, though I'd love to be proven wrong, if anyone has some good reading suggestions on this subject.
What is middle aged of any relevance???
Not to mention University of Washington is like $12k/yr and is a great school for CS. Literally a signing bonus at a large tech company is enough to likely pay off that amount assuming you went without scholarships or other tuition reductions.
There will still be those who spend all their UBI on drugs or whatever and have nowhere to stay. Do we just let them die on the street since there's no more social safety nets?
As a pretty bad FPS player (was ok on consoles but never got the knack for aiming with a mouse in the same way), matchmaking works well enough for me. My better friends are always complaining about hackers, but I almost never encounter them.
According to some gamedev friends, Apple is the single worst platform they support (at least for anything that isn't Apple-only).

And it's not just things like outdated APIs (OpenGL), but various tasks related to preparing a distributable program in this time (with codesigning etc.)
A version of this happened to me too, but luckily the reason I was trying to login is my account was being shut down because my credit card had expired.

I was able to get through to tech support, but their mechanism for unlocking my account was horrible. I still owe them some trivial amount (<$100), but the tech support team said they had no way to bill me for it unless I could log back in.

So at least it's biting them both ways.
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> no language with GC gets closer than a 2-3x the time of a non-GC language

I think you're saying that no GC language gets withing 2-3x of the fastest non-GC language. There are slow non-GC languages.
I am against UBI because I think we aren't there just yet with technology but I do agree that we need a way to ensure that "everyone can eat" when the time comes.

Right now we also need to look at how we can provide job for those who are affected by automation and not just say that the coal miners need "learn to code" and move.

Edit to add:
We have some industries that are highly automated, ie. semiconductor manufacturing. Yet they still have raw inputs that take non-automated work. If we were able to develop a complete automated line, I would support gov/private group "socializing" the output.
Do you use any GUI? In Windows I use TortoiseGit, and in Linux I use Git Cola. But sometimes I have to use the CLI for strange cases.
Hmm, I don't think that's the middle though:

Proponents of self-sustainment as the way forward advocate off-grid lifestyle that provides energy and large amount of food/materials internally / within family or homestead. A house and a plot of land, and some fruit/veggies/animals, with solar or geothermal, etc.

In my mind then, a 5,000 people town is as much on the other side of the spectrum from that, as a 5,000,000 people town.

In fact, in North America, small and medium towns in my experience (Minnesota, Manitoba, Ontario) are quaint and lovely, but worst possible compromise - no self-sustaining benefits of independent homestead, but with limited to no public transit, no high density dwelling, spread out infrastructure. You cannot live without a car in a small north american town - modern or old. They are beautiful lovely historic worst parts of sub-urban without the urban/core.

[edit/disclosure: In fact, I live in one now (moved there for love:) and it is fascinating how much we get none of the benefits of either farm or downtown living. City Council repeatedly rejects calls for public transit, on probably awful unspoken grounds of not wanting "undesirable elements". We do have a cute main street and the 5% of population who lives on or around it can probably walk there. Literally the rest of 95% of population MUST own several cars to live. I'm always amused when healthy 25 year old SF-downtown dwellers promote bikes as solution to everything - that's just not going to be relevant to the aging population of Canadian or USA snowbelt sub-urbia:]
Says it's secure, Github shows 76% of the code is in C. I see the word "secure" in a few places but it's just stated without any indication as to what about this makes it secure.
Ah, whoops, [0] was meant to link to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30245059