skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Obviously the site itself leans left."

There's a difference between a large amount of users who lean left making posts and comments that align with their views and what looks to be an obviously coordinated effort from a few dozen powermods and powerusers who seem to work 365 days a year to shape the content and discourse of the site through what appears on the frontpage and in the default subreddits.
I think you have just described the open source code review model.

edit: and science in general?
Some interesting parallels to today, but also differences, notably the popularity of streaming.

Here is a related study on the impact of COVID on movie-going in US:

Exhibition At A Crossroads (Nov 2021) PDF: https://thequorum.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Exhibition-...

About the study: "For Exhibition to thrive, it has to win back those who used to, but no longer go to the theater. This study looks at who those people are and what would get them to return"

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All respondents in the study were asked to self-identify into one of five groups below. (Which do you identify with?)

Avid movie-goer: frequently go to the cinema/move theater

Infrequents: only sees one or two movies in theatres - no change change due to COVID

Reluctants: returned to theaters in spring, stopped when Delta variant emerged

Hopefuls: Same as the 'reluctants' above. Returned to theaters in spring but stopped when the Delta variant emerged

Likely losts: haven't been to theaters since the pandemic began; don’t see themselves returning in the future.

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Could upgrades to the theatrical experience would bring people back? Respondents in the study rated the following features positively:

- More space between seats

- Newer seats

- Ability to order food from seat

- More large format screens

- Enforcement of phone usage

- Fewer commercials
Not absurd at all and it doesn't need to be framed as a handout either.

The US should have a single land tax and every American should be paid a citizen's dividend out of that. A "UBI" easily emerges from this fair and rational tax system.

Economists across the political spectrum have advocated a single land tax. How we would force politicians to enact it is left as an exercise for the reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_tax
Ey up duck, ever since I was cut and carried to me British trouble and strife, I've had to learn lots of slang it's done my lump of lead in.
> If other people find crypto mining fun, valuable, or meaningful, then how are you able to claim they are wrong when you're relying on 'entertainment' to justify Netflix, etc?

They’re using orders of magnitude more power for one thing, but also they clearly do not consider this as entertaining as watching Netflix because if they did they’d be talking about that. Nobody says they love random hashes, it’s always about how much money you can make selling them to someone else. NFTs theoretically could get closer to that but most of the salespeople never mention the artists’ names, much less give a reason why the aesthetic merits justify a high valuation: it always comes down to “buy high, sell higher”. Twitter’s NFT integration is a great example: they’re not linking to them because anyone cares about the artwork, it’s not new that you commission art, but it’s highlighted on profile pictures because people want to say “I spent a lot of money on this receipt. You can buy it from me!”

Contrast this with the early days of the web or smartphones: yes, lots of people talked about money but that was because a much larger group of people were having fun doing things that they couldn’t have done before. The point was to actually build something, not just put up a sign saying you spent a lot of money on something you didn’t have to.
> In my experience reading scientific papers, "we conclude" is just a pretentious old-timey way to say "I think". It never actually meant anything more rigorous, it was just the norm to write more pretentiously and inflate the certainty of conclusions.

A person of a certain age remembers specifically being taught to obscure weak I-statements with impersonal statements that one could conclude are more rational if they do not think about them too hard.
https://blog.kwatafana.org/
Of a similar vein, I can heartily recommend the book How to Manage Your Slaves by Marcus Sidonius Falx.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manage-Slaves-Marcus-Sidonius-Trilo...
This. We were asked to always write down questions the candidate got right as well as questions they got wrong so there was a documented, objective reason why they were not hired.
> a trillion dollars annually?

lol. source / evidence?
It's only a scam if you assume the first year you work there you are as productive as the 3rd. It takes most people at least 3 months just to get started, let alone actually contribute. Based on that, I don't think it's unreasonable to pay less for the first X months etc. That's all this is really.

It's pretty standard in Finance that you're not eligible for a bonus until you have been with the company for a full year for exactly this reason.
Not all decryption is doing exactly the same things in reverse. For example, with CTR mode (and thus GCM mode, which is CTR plus GMAC), you call the /encryption/ routine regardless of whether you're encrypting or decrypting data. This means in an embedded environment you can save die space because your program doesn't need the e.g. AES decryption routines too.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/CTR_encr...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/CTR_decr...

(Note the bold text)
Employers should have training for interviewers that includes discussion of protected classes but it's not that hard.

Don't ask questions that are irrelevant to the interview. If you need to make pleasantries, stick to very broad questions, eg "how's your day going so far?", "How about this weather?". There's no legitimate reason most of the protected classes should come up in an interview.

Sometimes people will ask "where are you from?" or similar during an interview, and that's in the off-limits category.
I have some issues with Legos, but a lot of these criticisms do not at all match my experience.

For example, there are a crazy number of Lego shapes these days, but the degree to which they fit together satisfyingly — even in unexpected ways — is amazing. And I love this about Legos, and it's so much more interesting than just blocks. My kid builds whole scenes and detailed models thanks to the wide variety of little "unique" pieces.

And from what I've seen, sets these days are big idea factories: My kid will build what's in the instructions a couple of times to learn it, and then will take things apart and do his own thing with it, make his own creations. I love that he gets an example and learns new techniques with these big sets and then applies that to his own ideas.

The branded Lego stuff I don't care for — I'd rather kids think about actual space exploration rather than Star Wars, for example — but I appreciate how Legos are designed and sold right now.
> But how do you check whether you can actually evaluate that assembly with the given ABI?

I'd avoid assembler unless its separated into an architecture specific file. Otherwise this hack is asking for trouble.
The piece is written by a member of the posse [0] who can be, as I think the above quoted piece demonstrates, somewhat abrasive

[0] https://medium.com/@OmnesRes/the-circle-of-data-thug-life-81...
64 here. I do occasionally dream about going elsewhere for beaucoup bucks (not that I'm complaining about my TC), but also, I do really love what I do, who I work with/for, etc. So I acknowledge the trade-off I'm making -- good W/L balance, very low stress, but not as much money as as my principal engineer friend @ Amazon makes.
Awesome! That was really annoying, happy it's getting fixed.

I hope this also removes the confirmation on Apple Watch. So much potential but having to click "Yes" twice defeats the point. I stopped using them.
I recall some story about the 90'ies after the fall of the Soviet Union when all the mobsters got loaded and bought fancy German sport cars, which promptly broke down due to the poor state of the roads. Whereas the local simple but rugged cars continued working just fine.
So we are going to raise taxes on the middle class to give free money to people that choose not to work? Every single family would then do a calculation to see if its worth the second earner working or if they make more just staying home and getting a UBI. I would not be ok going to work to pay people that have decided that they are fine living on the UBI and don't want to work anymore. Seems like a pretty antagonistic solution to the problem.
I feel justified for being pro car egostically by looking back at the pandemic.

When employers and politicians herded workers through tightly packed public transport with zero effective protection (partially due to lack of discipline, partially due to lack of investment), I felt save & secure in my movable tin box.

Yes, I am paying a lot for that box.

And, do realize, that public transport is and will be for the plebs. Even if it's green. Not spoken in derogative manner, it's just that. Noone of high enough status is going to bike or limit themselves in any way, shape, or form. If they do bike, they'll be taking the car when you aren't looking or helicopter in. That probably still is going to solve the problem of mass transit, but the few who are not mass are going to continue to enjoy unlimited individual and privat transport whereas the rest of us won't. It's a decline in a dimension of freedom and not recognizing and admitting that fact is dishonest.
Thanks, but I really meant "stealth" as in radars, not financing :-)
> If Microsoft locks down their environment, I believe they are in danger of losing their dominance on PC.

I don't think Microsoft cares about dominating the PC anymore. Their continued efforts to make Windows user-hostile suggest to me that they don't want PCs to even exist. They want everyone using a locked-down walled-garden tablet OS and paying for cloud services.
Hello All,

I am looking for somebody that already has a sophisticated mailing operation, and I have the rest. Anybody interested?
I get at least 5x the emails from Amazon as Google/Microsoft/Facebook. And lately I've told every single one until they have fully remote teams, I'm not interested and to stop emailing me. And yet almost every other week, a new one messages me.
That would be really great if you could write more about that! Sounds incredible.
>I draw a line at supporting kernel level anti-cheat drivers

Especially given the poor record of video game companies to take security seriously [0]. Even Rockstar's cash cow game [1], there was the lowest of low hanging performance fruit available that was not addressed by any ongoing effort. Why should I believe that any game company rushing to push some release out the door is going to take their kernel patch seriously? Security is hard and Intel/AMD/professional kernel devs screw it up all the time.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjwd8n/hacker-drops-steam-ze...

[1] https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

Edit: fixed the formatting
> And of course you need a car since public transport isn’t a thing there.

What? Seattle has one of the most utilized public transit systems in the US.
I think they wanted to give the APA a chance to make the right call / improve, and it also seems they found the peer process valuable and they wanted to get that feedback.

Seems like it worked out.
There's a tool which shows this easily: https://github.com/tlkh/asitop
Maybe Imposter Syndrome got to this one?
Which success is not in part due to outside circumstances?

If it's not your parents' wealth, it's your upbringing, or your genes, or the people you happen to know, or where you happen to live, or the time at which you come up with an idea.

Doesn't mean that the success is undeserved.
At times like these I wish scihub were still giving access to articles published after the start of their court case in India..

I would really like to understand precisely what they mean by neuron-like computing.

edit: there's a good amount of detail in the publicly available supplementary materials https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/science.abj7943/su...
I think this is probably a better top line comment on this thread. I don't think that London is car dependent.

Most of the US is, large parts of the UK are including many of our cities.

My argument is that London is a happy middle ground where you can cycle, or get the tube, or ride the bus, or use a car, and all of those work and that's fine. If anything the car is probably quite a bit less convenient than the others, mainly due to the geometry issues outlined in the article, and you have to really want to drive for the sake of it.

Though it's probably a good way to frame it. Car dependence is bad, having cars is not. My street is full of them yet I also live ten minutes away from a few different tube lines. Best of both worlds and this means I use my car maybe 50-100 times a year instead of 500+.

I have another friend. From my house at this time, I can cycle there in ~20 mins, drive in ~25-30, get the bus in ~55, the train in ~45mins or walk in ~1h20min.

Most of the time I cycle. So am I cycling dependent then? No, I'm just choosing the best option! It'd be annoying if it was gotten rid of out of some quest just to remove cycling because someone didn't like cycling or whatever.
I haven't seen a shootout like this with zig, is it comparable?
The less exposure one has to these concepts the more tempting it becomes to skip the reasoning part.
Try other browsers; grid view still works in some of them (Chrome IIRC).
> As a result China could not build the plants it needed to meet its own consumption, forcing them to buy chips from the same vendors that everyone else is also trying to buy chips from.

How a fab that didn't exist yet can affect current demand?
Privacy regulations may force Meta to shut down Facebook, Instagram in EU
Is John Carmack still maintaining his .plan? I haven't checked in years but there's no harm in trying to finger him.
So, a gated community without actual gates? I mean, suburbs where each house is surrounded by a high fence/wall, security cameras etc. (what you are probably referring to) are not nice either, but "real" gated communities are nevertheless something different...
Can I ask if you're Hindu or born in India (only if you are comfortable sharing)? Because I don't see many outside of those 2 circles knowing of this text - and I'm really looking for a different interpretation / view of it, rather than the traditional one. (I am neither, if it matters)
That is how the newer American cities are laid out as well. Look at a map of Los Angeles or Dallas-Fort Worth or any other sprawling American city and you'll find the exact same layout as Tokyo: many small cities that grew into one giant city, with many of them having their own "downtowns"/"CBDs".
A Short Comment on AlphaCode
You may enjoy this article that argues the door desks were both more expensive & possibly more about marketing an idea to employees than actually saving money - https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2011/10/16/the_true_story_of_th...

Either way the door desk is an interesting piece of tech history.
If you decide to go that route, hire me. I can be useful there.
iPhone September filled the internet up with people that never had "don't believe a single thing you read there" driven into their skulls. 4chan posting was and is a performance act. The attitude isn't the problem, pretending like context isn't a thing is the problem.

When the internet media and regular media merged one of two things had to happen. Either expose how much of a performance act the old school media was from jump street. Or make the idea of believing everything online at first pass a reasonable position to have.

Q anon grew and continues to exist precisely because it is in the best interests of "respectable" media outlets to not teach media literacy to their consumers.
Wow! I have appropriated quite a bit of elisp snippets from them through the years, no idea they had a blog too. The emacs resources on that site are unparalled.
For all intents and purposes, the answer to your question is no.

You can find a handful of ROMs that are actually free on MAME's website:

https://www.mamedev.org/roms/

There aren't many and none of the really famous titles is free.

I would imagine that posting links in HN to such content would be verboten. Perhaps it would be acceptable to offer a hint. There used to be a site called Pleasuredome that shut down recently. They were the place to go to obtain any and all ROM / CHD files. I would suspect that if one were to search using the word "Pleasuredome" along with other obvious related key words, one could quite easily find what one was looking for.
What happened in 1930s? People don’t want wars and delay the inevitable until wars came to them and they can’t escape anymore
Earlier in my career, which is not too long ago, I behaved exactly as you've described. It was not worth the risk of seeming "difficult" or "demanding" as someone with little experience, to be asking for (ostensibly selfish) changes from my manager. It seemed much less confrontational, and often more lucrative, to simply find work elsewhere.

If the candidate was misled in the hiring process, and the organization (which is the sum of its people) is dysfunctional enough to result in that outcome, it's not unreasonable to think asking for it to be fixed may be taken negatively by the folks who put you in that situation.
Historically, BTC has not been willing to make changes like this. The community is culturally (and I would argue pathologically) opposed to even minor changes, which I think would be even more true when more divisibility would lead to potentially lowering the value of existing user's token by reducing scarcity. I'm not convinced such a change would be feasible given those constraints and if it's not the maximum divisibility of BTC is quite low assuming it becomes some kind of world currency - if I can only have ~250k 'units' of currency the smallest amount of 'money' I can spend becomes quite large.
don't care didn't read
Design for Spatial Interaction
To be fair, it was his to burn, wasn't it?
Sorry I can't picture this - had he taken it off it's hinges and put it on a couple of stools?
Just like anything else David Lynch does, the answer is always "Wtf?!". But I still love his films and Twin Peaks.
Not me. I can do this forever, and would prefer it. Seriously, fuck going back to the office, you can have it.
It's a huge number that only makes context when looking at the absurd scale of capital markets globally. BlackRock has written on the cost of liquidity [1]. Unfortunately, much of the institutional research on this topic is in a walled garden, so we plan on publishing on this when we have our own data. Treating it as a Fermi problem, the market cap of US equities is ~50T and 140T notional of US equities traded in 2021. The global market cap is 125T (I don't have trading volumes there). FICC is much larger than equities.

Portfolio returns compound exponentially, so even small inefficiencies matter big time.

[1] https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/whitepaper/vi...
One can only hope that the counter-party was Melvin Capital.
Very nice. Have you built any other algorithm visualizations? I have a very strong interest in how algorithms are visualized so that they are more easily understood.
25 years of a loose confederation of unpaid developers working on a code base with frequent updates and improvements. If this is the worst that can be said about it, they're doing pretty darn good.
I was going to say the same thing. Let's say your toilet breaks, who's going to come over and fix it? You're not going to automate a plumber in the next 50 years...
Yes, it's also a bit awkward with increasing inequality.
The sets you are looking for still exist today. For example:

428-piece, 1-foot cube, $55, 4 minifigs, 1994: https://brickset.com/sets/6571-1/Flame-Fighters

540-piece, 1-foot cube, $69, 5 minifigs, 2022: https://brickset.com/sets/60320-1/Fire-Station

LEGO just has a much much larger catalog now than they did back then (200 sets vs 800 sets.) But the classic style sets are still there for you, if that's what you want.
Using 'Git rebase' to Perfect Commits
Finally Amazon is realising their trash comp won't get them any hires in the current market. They were not even close to being competitive with other FAANG before. Couple that with the bad culture and I'm sure they were feeling the pressure to get new hires.
No, I don't think it actually did. It was created by prison abolitionists, who believe in abolishing prison as a whole, an end to punitive jailing and moving to restorative justice with a community problem-solving system, like that advocated by Danielle Sered.

The police abolition movement coined the slogan.
> strongly implies something that the movement allegedly doesn't actually support

Who do you mean when you say "the movement"?
Neither of those benefits, if they exist in a state, negate the hardships of a low salary. Thinking of paying off the loan which got you the job as some sort of luxury is wild. We could also just pay them more so loans didn't need to be forgiven.
Is Microsoft a really cozy place to work? Shopify in Canada is similar with weak comp, but it is considered a great place to work.
Yes, but "people" also used the same arguments to describe the failure of facebook, snapchat, airbnb, amazon, etc. A sort of unsophisticated "these businesses are stupid/illegal/throwing money away" bearishness.

The reason those bears were wrong was because fb, snap, and airbnb are network-effects businesses. If ride-sharing had turned out to be a network-effect service as well, the bears would have lost.

I don't remember any arguments back then talking about why Uber was not a network effects business. And it's actually quite subtle!

For example, why did AirBnB win? On the surface homesharing seems VERY similar to ridesharing and yet it's behaved very differently as a bushiness and has not been a race to the bottom.
I don't think it's bad!

I posted my comment before the comment thread become full of people telling the OP they are wrong or bad, which I find very bizarre!

I did think the OP was not super clear about why they actually left, so I took a shot at summarizing what I think I got from it, to see if other readers shared my reading.
I've had two companies that switched technology between recruiting me and the start of my employment. It was a bit irritating, but provided an interesting way to learn something new on someone else's dime.

I've also been at a place where I was not allowed to program in C, but had to do all the code reviews for the people programming in C. The "logic" was that since I was doing the code reviews, I shouldn't program in C since no one would review my code. I sometimes wonder about how I encounter these situations a bit too often.
Auctions, deep learning, formal methods and discrete optimization, it seems like you got my list of things I want to learn and turned that into an amazing solution for a giant problem. Congratulations to the team, will be watching from afar and rooting for you!
I went with OSv (another unikernel) for a previous pet project and, while I really loved the concept, I found the tooling to be immature. This project’s tooling and documentation does looks better so I look forward to trying it out.

One thing I find missing with these unikernels though is IPSec support and Firewalls. I’d love to throw a unikernel image on DigitalOcean and have a secure software-defined IPSec tunnel.
Those people will just come back and find a way to destroy/cancel you. They don't go away so they work outside the system to undermine you. That is probably what we are seeing with this whole Joe Rogan 10 part saga.
Most companies I have worked at have many more backend devs than they do frontend devs. There may be an issue with the number of jobs and number of applicants not being equal for both roles.