skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know... I might be having a reverse-survivor bias seeing, being in and contributing to failure, but I've _never_ seen a case where "let's increase our sales headcount" strategy actually did anything (EDIT: i.e. when things are bad. Of course, if things are good, sales is a key driver to growth)

If you need "more sales" to fix it, the problem often lies somewhere else.
I agree and I don't understand why some people are drawn to to STV. Among its problems is the simple fact that it is complicated. By contrast, simple approval voting (given 50 candidates, vote as much as you want and the top 5 candidates will win) will produce results just as accurate, and the math is much simpler -- every voter can easily understand what is going on.
Most commercial surveillance installations are ancient, or rely on ancient ancient infrastructure - there’s not always a need to upgrade if the security guard is able to at least see some blurry figures on a screen from his desk, which is probably enough in many cases.
> TUIs cannot have full use of modifier keys as the full set of modifiers is not sent to processes running in a terminal.

I have hyper meta super and ctrl work, sent through to my curses app. Are you referring to something like gnome or something else intercepting the keys ?
Well, I was trying to diagnose that redis issue specifically, hah! So being in the running environment was exactly what I needed in order to understand the issue.

My temporary fix has been to run a container OS vm instance and run the container, but connecting sql, secrets, etc from my cloud run env is painful (the whole thing I'm leaning on cloud run for in the first place)

I would love to use the new jobs 100% but they're preview in europe-west9 only, both oddly specific and useless for me, heh.

I'm pretty spike on google cloud as a whole though. Interop between their services is getting pretty great, and for me it's simpler than AWS. Their addition of AlloyDB fixes the one thing that kind of scared me about having to move in the future too!
SoftBank Reports $13B Annual Loss
I don't have the technical details, but I work in a field moving from FPGAs to CPU and all solutions require AVX512. These are software defined radios.
The vendors say there is no other way to make it work on higher bit rates.
I think this is a valid comment questioning where one puts their goalpost for their realisation of a funded MVP coming from their idea. The market has shifted alot from what it was 5 years ago... 10 years, 15, 20, 30...

Ideas are what has gotten humanity this far and I am happy to see technological advances, in product that makes me happy, that come from our Haxor within, so to speak.

It is a big ladder to climb between Idea and Product, one step at a time is the only way.

How would one possibly eat an elephant?

Tools are required, for catching, skinning, cooking blah blah... and help from folks can be another tool within your toolbox whilst you fly solo dev.

Is the statement that the elephant is now too big to catch? It is hard to find other hungry folk to help hunt a big thing? Where is the hunting ground?
Where do you get helping from other hungry solo devs to kill an elephant with only your inputs of skill, effort and time?
FUD. This work is very carefully designed not to break multithreaded code. Have you read the design doc?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsD...
I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where we can just refer to people as Americans, instead of just some <subset>.
Perhaps, but trying to become a NATO member has a much higher chance of getting you embroiled in a war than not doing that.

This continued escalation can't help but lead to nuclear war, our leaders are playing an extremely dangerous game of chicken.

If anything, Russia's botched invasion of Ukraine should show other countries in the region that there isn't so much to fear from them, and that NATO can be counted for help even without having to risk triggering Article 5 against a nuclear power.

And make no mistake: a hot NATO-Russia war is the worse possible outcome for everyone involved. If it came to that, it would be objectively better to become a vassal of Russia than living through a nuclear war, for the vast majority of the population.
And note that this is mentioned in the faq.
Isn’t there a Danube Convention? Couldn’t Romania retaliate now that USSR is no longer party?
Being kind of a cheapskate, I've tried chromecast and the Amazon one and then bought an AppleTV device. I haven't had issues like I did with other dongle-like devices with having to restart them when there was a hiccup or crash of some kind - which is especially annoying when watching live sports.

I now have two AppleTV devices

(I use the word 'device' because they also have a streaming product called AppleTV+, which btw has some really good shows, and I think you can get the streaming service w/o the device)
I don't see how government reading through personal messages is gonna protect children. From all the possible solutions, this is the most useless and the most unsecure.
> Being dogmatic about privacy regulations without a solution for the abuse

Should all homes come equipped with always-on cameras, streaming to a government office, to catch abuse? Remember, you don't want to be "dogmatic" about privacy, not unless you can offer a *"solution".

*One of course ignores all the measures currently in place to catch crime and abuse, such as the police, social services, mandatory public schools with teachers and staff children can turn to for help, and all the many methods of surveillance, such as phone tracking, communication metadata, license-plate readers, surveillance cameras, etc.. All of this ceases to exist, and law enforcement is in a world of darkness because encryption creates one tiny corner where they cannot peek - unless they plant a targeted bug.
Soft on crime? Citation needed
>> But until that happens, this "missing money" doesn't actually come out of any US budget; it's just not being spent at all.

(Fyi Not American.) That seems wrong, because America does already spend so much on their Military budget to have a 'preventative' presence plus standing force ready to respond. They spend each year keeping that force built, trained, operating etc .. regardless of if it's used.

That seems pretty obvious too, I don't know if your argument was made in good faith?
Did you try just clicking through their main corporate website? I don't understand why you would make this claim without checking.

https://www.blog.google/press/ (filter for headshots)

https://about.google/commitments/#responding_to_crises

https://crisisresponse.google/recovery-resilience/

https://about.google/stories/

https://grow.google/, https://grow.google/grow-your-career/, https://grow.google/grow-your-business/, https://grow.google/certificates/

https://learning.google/, https://learning.google/school/

https://www.android.com/enterprise/

https://careers.google.com/locations/seattle-kirkland-bellev...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbfo3d7J3mB/, https://www.instagram.com/p/CZUlQ4OBDee/, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1524472870885339141, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1518607578376425474

This is just scratching the surface, I'm not gonna spend time clicking in to every blog post and article. Again, their target market is basically the entire world, and most people in the world (and the US) are not white men. So I would not expect the majority of pictures to be white men, and indeed they are not.
Out of curiosity, what is the supporting evidence for the alternate "zoonotic transmission" theory? As far as I know there isn't any.

We know for a fact the virus was present in the Wuhan lab.

We know for a fact it hasn't been identified in bats in the wild.

Is there a different theory as to the origins?
- don't ignore critique but instead aim to understand it; the person providing it is taking a social risk to give it to you.

- there is no substitute for solid user research (no competitor research, sales, marketing, ...); you need to understand the clients journey before you can start to think about how to add value

- the emotional journey of your client is the only thing that matters

- get rid of everybody who doesn't understand that; you want the organization to value making your (potential) clients happy and look beyond the numbers.

- your cash cycle will dominate your life, don't start a business without understanding rough CAC and earnback times.

- competition is not just companies that do similar things to you; it's every possible alternative way to solve the clients' problem. Make sure you actually have an advantage.

- seniority is the ability to deal with uncertainty; some people are senior just by their attitude alone and teach themselves how to succeed. Others will always ask for more definition and are terrified of admitting they don't know something.

- only senior people add value to startups; you can bring in more junior people when you are a scale-up and there is a lot of clearly defined work to do.
Technically, that is not quite true. He sold $10 billion borrowed pound sterling that day, in collusion with others, which appears to have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

Sure had the pound sterling been sound, that would not have been enough. But it was at the time a lot of money, and it's unclear what would have happened had he not done it.

A lot of people lost a lot of money that day. Not just speculators or stock-traders, but many home-owners lost their homes, a lot of businesses defaulted and many people became unemployed as a consequence of what happened that day.

So, there's some motivated resentment against him.
> What can they do with CSAM data?

> Government can't blackmail citizen, they can't use CSAM scans for other purposes, they can't even authorize a scan, because that's the justice system prerogative.

In the United States, legal blackmail is called a "plea bargain". You agree to admit you're guilty of a crime, even if you aren't, in return for the government not pursuing harsher charges against you. This occurs without trial, because of course the whole point of the plea bargain is to avoid going to trial.

Why would an innocent defendant want to avoid trial? Well, good lawyers are extremely expensive, and public defenders are extremely overworked. Also, police will often say whatever they need to say on the stand to get a conviction and justify their arrest. How many cops are ever jailed themselves for perjury?
Great design and designers exist everywhere. There's nothing extrinsic to the companies in the US, Europe or Asia that makes any of them better at design. It's all about the internals of the companies themselves.

I would say, however, that Teenage Engineering is "small" enough to take the kinds of risks that bigger companies just aren't able to do (even with much more money). Here's a fast company article (https://www.fastcompany.com/3016739/more-than-an-office-teen...) from 2015. They claim wide variety of backgrounds and keep their facilities modest. At the time they released the first incarnation of the OP-1, they had 30 employees.

Contrast that with KORG, who a few years ago created a "lab" in Berlin staffed with superstars with intention of creating ground-breaking music tech (https://youtu.be/Y0NY6iUqbEM). They clearly poured A LOT of money into that venture. Similar kind of hipster vibe, but what became of it? I don't know but it seems like Teenage Engineering is doing just fine.
Salaries aren't based on profit per employee, that's just an upper limit. They're based on the market (ie. what it would cost to replace you).
I'm sitting here running the 200th uptime monitoring service, laughing at the notion you have to be first to ship a solution to a problem.

Build something good, that people want, and iterate rapidly as feedback comes in.
There are only two ways to hold USD: physical cash and database entries at the Fed.

The former is really inconvenient, especially if you want to transfer money. The latter is only available to a select few companies.

Everything is else at most assets denominated in (= pegged to) USD.

Does your critique apply to all these other categories as well? Why or why not?
> But only since Russia started invading. When news about Ukraine were still all about their corrupt government, breaking human rights, their horrible prisons and more like that nobody thought Ukraine to to 'close' or anything.

But you do realize that a large part of these problems stem from the corruption and the main source of that in Ukraine was (is?) ungodly amounts of money coming in from Putins regime to bribe the shit out of everyone (mainly in the form of selling gas/oil to some local oligarch way under market price and which they then sell at market price). This whole conflict started when the Ukraine people decided to say fuck this and kicked out Putins friend out from power and Russia retaliated by taking over Crimea and give money/weapons to the seperatist in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Gold's intrinsic value is what makes it a store of value. Bitcoin doesn't have that directly - the coins directly don't have any value, but the ledger and mining technology behind it has real value as invented knowledge because it was novel at the time. That's like saying gold has intrinsic value because there are manufacturers of jewelry, but not because of the physical properties of gold.

IMO bitcoin can act as a commodity, but it needs more participation and infrastructure (importantly, the internet) to realize that. Mining bitcoin is cheaper than mining gold though, so that should be a good hint that if Bitcoin is any kind of store of value, it should end up cheaper than gold.
I’m not talking about that part, I’m talking about the part where liberals got 13 percentage points more seats than conservatives while the conservatives got more votes.
I'm feeling pretty smug right now, not gonna lie.
I have tried to keep an open mind about crypto, but generally the arguments I've encountered for crypto have boiled down to "you just don't get it" and said by people with a huge vested interest in crypto.
The more NATO expands, the higher the risk of that war. Russia joining China wasn't even a foregone conclusion, but our leaders are doing everything they can to push it in that direction.
That is a strange choice to spend 400% your annual overall defense budget on a new unproven system.
FUD. This effort is designed to get the benefits of the GIL without its costs. It is very carefully designed.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsD...
It’s not illegal to play Pokerstars in America. Its a states rights issue. Some states allow it and some don’t and the ones that don’t could allow it using their various mechanisms for changing the laws (like California’s props or Florida’s citizen ballots) if they wanted to but they don’t. Probably a strong correlation between lottery revenue and online poker being illegal but that’s just a theory without facts backing it.
$2000 - Teenage engineering worked hard to become an identy product and now can charge for it. If you sell identity, no price is too high. Do I want one? Yes. Do I buy one? No the identity tax is too high for me.

(though I like my Teenage Engineering PO-20, but a Novation Circuit works for my dabbling with sequencing).
What about Apple? I think most Apple products are incredibly beautiful
How to think about free will
I love Jon. It was just a stupid quip about the complaints about food blog recipes, and I recognised the similarity. But the downvotes are probably justified.
So, yeah, the dollar and all the other fiats, for the last 20 years have been crashing at least 4% per year.

That's not a crash, that's more-or-less by design. Currency, i.e. money, is engineered to be inflationary and economists consider the optimum inflation rate to be 2%-4% per year. For the past 20 years we've been on the high side of that target, but we're on target. Inflationary currency encourages investment and spending. Saving currency in the bank is not producing value (there's even a parable about this).
> My point isn't really about the customer - it's about the startup,

Startups are about the customer. Every single thing we do, whether related to tech or not, is to find and satisfy a customer's need in order to make it worth their while to give us money for our product. I think we agree on that, but if you ever disconnect your perspective or decisions from the customer, you open yourself up to going off-track.
What do you mean by “emerging markets”? Goldman Sachs has tons of people whose entire jobs are dealing with those in the common meaning of the term – they manage dedicated funds for their customers! It seems highly unlikely that they wouldn’t have at least some basic awareness of anyone doing business at that scale.

Given the space and the degree to which they refuse to reveal normal financial information, I assume they’re either directly involved in fraud/money laundering or are treating other cryptocurrency companies’ debt as far more stable than it actually is. This is such a common criticism and there’s no reason why you’d keep it this secretive if the news was good.
The "stable" part of the -coin is all marketing. It's true while enough people believe it's true... and if at any point enough people disbelieve it, it'll be everything but.
Salary expectations questions – How should you answer them?
For starters, you seem to giving anecdotes from the US. Privacy laws in the EU differ from country to country but in some places at least, names & faces of people arrested suspects aren't published. And afaik these gross miscarriages of justice that seem to be ubiquitous in the US are nowhere near as common the EU.

> But taking a step back, and acknowledging that someone innocent will get caught by this, as it's just a matter of time at that point, it's not worth it

Couldn't you extrapolate that to law enforcement in general?

It's not clear to me if you're saying that AI specifically will falsely flag people and / or if you're worried about being identified as someone else with the same name getting arrested for something. Either way both scenarios exist without any AI being involved.

Personally I was falsely flagged because someone driving a car with a number plate that belonged to me was caught over a dozen times driving ridiculous speeds and it took me the better part of a year to convince the justice system it wasn't me. All because they didn't know how to update some database records with the other guy's name and despite the fact that no human ever claimed I was driving that car (the other guy said it was him not me, the car leasing company said it wasn't me, plenty of paperwork was provided). Massive pain in the ass (and nowhere near as serious as CSAM) and it required lawyers and court appearances but I'm not advocating to abolish speed checks.
Der Weg ist das Ziel!
FUD. This effort is very carefully designed so that such programs continue to operate correctly.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsD...
Not "Trump style". I have not heard any claim (Soros-associated or otherwise) that the Brexit referendum was "stolen". Plenty of accusations of dishonesty and dodgy campaign finance on the Leave side, but the vote tally isn't really contested.
Assuming what has been already sold is actually possible to build
You should drop #3, Poland and Lithuania are former Soviet states and late joiners of NATO '99 and '04 respectively so NATO effectively "annexed" former Soviet territory around part of Russia. Arguing that this somehow means that NATO is more tolerant of having Russian forces "within its borders" is absurd since they were the ones that expanded those borders around Kaliningrad.
Yes, LTS support is 2 years.

Debian releases are supported for about half the length of RHEL releases overall, LTS included.

Debian “Stretch” for instance was released in 2017 and support ends 2022, so a 5 year cycle.

RHEL on the other hand has a 10 year cycle, and offers extended support beyond that:

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 8 delivers a ten year life cycle in Full Support and Maintenance Support Phases followed by an Extended Life Phase.”

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/#mas...

With Debian upgrades are realistically being planned every 2-3 years as the release approaches LTS.

That makes for a lot of extra upgrade work (about 3x more) when compared to the 10 year RHEL life cycle.
> "Normal" investing is complicated, and stacked against regular people.

You buy a low-cost index fund (either S&P 500 or total market (Russell 3000, Wilshire 5000)), and depending on your risk tolerance, a bond fund as well.

You can have global diversification with one ETF or mutual fund:

* https://www.youngandthrifty.ca/picking-the-best-all-in-one-e...
There's a slight problem in your use of "everyone". You, personally, don't know or have sampled everyone. You are using it as a indication that "people warned" and "people should know", given people warned other people.

Saying you can't believe people didn't know is just showing lack of empathy in how others form trust. Many of those people form trust by looking at a screen and seeing a nice website with nice logins and nice charts. They look at things with dollar signs and say, "that's a good number there". Others dig in and are curious about how things work. Some laugh when people complain about how much power proof-of-work takes and believe it is the eniventible conclusion to why we don't see aliens out there.

Don't be the wurst person. Be the best! See that all humans need our help from an understanding technology perspective. Know that software can be implemented to take away their choices, or give them more choices than they had before.
Given that Russia couldn't even cleanly occupy Ukraine, it's laughable to suggest they could attack NATO countries such as Poland and Romania.
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
English-as-mother-tongue speaker here, currently living in a German-speaking country, also with two kids who have been raised with both English and German spoken in our household, giving them a huge edge at school with near-perfect English scores since day one ..

My experience with the Germans not wanting to speak German with you while you stumble over everything, is simply that they want to exercise their own English, and its just not as fun for them to wait for your marble-mouthed nonsense to parse. ;) But its not, in my experience, due to any xenophobia or general prejudice - more of a fact that its a lot of fun to speak a non-native language with a native-speaker. Germans are after that "I can speak English well enough!" acknowledgement, which - unless you've really, really studied hard for it - you won't really get to experience, either, speaking German .. for a few years, I imagine.

But, its really important to keep up your skills no matter what your friends and family do to dissuade you. I'm at the point, 15 years into life in a German-speaking country, where I can speak near-flawless German with strangers consistently, but any time I try with someone who is familiar with me, it turns into an embarrassing mess .. But I encourage you to keep trying, its really fun!
Less offer, similar demand. European tech companies could pay more, but they don't need to because they don't compete as much for workers. If you ask for more they have no trouble finding someone else who will take it.
This article was funny and had a good moral wrapped in it. The part where he pays his competitor is priceless. "A tear rolled down my cheek for every single digit of my credit card that I entered in their app"
> "Normal" investing is complicated,

Buy a broad based, low cost index fund. What exactly is complicated about that?

> and stacked against regular people.

How so?
I’m not that old, but I’ve already realized that get rich quick schemes sometimes work but ultimately fail for most participants.

People who engage in this stuff get very little sympathy from me. They were complicit in an obvious lie because they thought they’d make some easy money.
I meant “sales” as transactions, not “sales” as in the department or role.