skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked with a fair number of Indian developers though our consultancy contracts.

I must say skilled and excellent engineers are few and far between. I am talking orders of magnitude. Some have even slipped through the net after we've used the consultancy to hire people, only to learn they've known little to nothing about software once they were sponsored, we've sent two back like this and it was very emotional and messy.

When you find a skilled developer they really shine but it seems big
consultancy companies have a hard time allocating skilled devs where ever you are in the world.

Lessons learned were lots of work hours needlessly wasted when we eventually paid extra and hired some graduates.
The definition of emergency in this context is pretty close to "someone's gonna die if I don't make this transmission". He knows this. Every amateur radio operator knows this. He didn't make a mistake.
Pod: Putting Oil Back Where It Belongs with Peter Reinhardt, Founder of Charm
If you don't mind a proprietary hosted service, try Google BigQuery.
My USD account is with a local bank - most countries AFAIK allow residents to open foreign currency accounts in USD, EUR or GBP at least. Here they are pretty tightly controlled because foreign currencies are not legal tender, but I can live with those restrictions (can't transfer money to FCAs in other banks, can't transfer more than a certain amount of money per month within the bank through electronic channels, can't have anyone apart from yourself deposit cash/checks in the account, etc) as long as I can make reasonable purchases off my card without worrying about the payment being blocked.

I've used Wise in the past (their borderless account) but had my account deactivated for no discernible reason, which was frustrating. I'd use their direct-to-account transfer service, but because of central bank regulations passed in 2020 they are no longer permitted to send/deposit naira in Nigerian bank accounts. This actually cut off quite a few people I know from receiving international payments - some scrambled to open foreign currency accounts, some got pushed to receiving crypto whether directly or through now-existing platforms like Sendcash. So now I just get my salary through regular old SWIFT transfers - my employer takes on the transfer fees, but I still get debited $20 for receiving them.

You're right that being paid in crypto is unrealistic for a company like Intel, because giant multinationals like that either have a local presence (Microsoft has an engineering office in my city) or have huge relocation budgets (Amazon, Google, etc usually move hires from here to offices in Europe). Some smaller companies and startups will offer to assist with relocation, but understandably will take local talent over someone that needs to sort out a visa and work permit the vast majority of the time.
Your statement isn’t really accurate.

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/defi-dexs-web3/
Cocktail of chemical pollutants linked to falling sperm quality in research
From 1:

> Neo-Nazis are attracted to the town because Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess was once buried there. Though his remains were exhumed in 2011 and his grave was destroyed, far-right extremists still flock to the town year after year

And that's why all those dead after Nuremberg were cremated and their ashes were spread in rivers and seas. Nobody wants neo-Nazis shrines.
Interesting that they mention the Chief Product Officer, Surojit Chatterjee.

I remember reading about him as the guy who got over $600 million [1] in compensation for 15 months of work (factoring Coinbase’s high share price at the time of its direct listing)…mind-blowing

1 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-14/google-ex...
I'd agree with this but also add that it's important to know the benefits of each algorithm compared to others in the same class (i.e. when you'd use each sorting algorithm).

It also helps to be able to adapt an algorithm when the vanilla version doesn't quite cover what you need. I don't think I've ever had to implement a well-known algorithm from scratch at work - I'd just use a library for that and spend my time focusing on business logic.
Twitters job is to make money, so if they can monetize bots nobody has any problem with those.
This is a pretty vague and poorly thought out petition. It leads with the collapse of NFTs, which has little if anything to do with Coinbase or its execs; it complains about infra/tech debt but says nothing about why that's bad, much less the execs' fault; fluff like "a generally apathetic and sometimes condescending attitude" is not actionable; and much of the phrasing like "the wisdom of the crypto industry" (lolwut) reeks of amateur hour. If the goal is to convince the board or shareholders to vote them out, this is not the way to do it.

The one valid criticism is that they had a wildly ambitious hiring plan that they had to scale back in a hurry, resulting in severe fallout. However, any such plan had to be approved by the CEO, it's not clear to me why the Chief Operating, Product and People Officers specifically should be ones falling on their swords here.
"One weird trick" is still pretty much the first way to go for most recommendation systems that are large embeddings focused. see torchrec, nvidia's hugectr
Even on paper sounds dystopian, to be honest.
I think the parent was sarcasm
On surface, it sounds like 360 feedback which is pretty standard, am I missing something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360-degree_feedback
How will Telesat launch their satellites?
IMO, a significant contributor to Tesla’s market success was that they were willing to sell cars at low margins. That’s what got them a decade of having no competitors in the market subset of desirable EVs.

They also intuited/gambled/stumbled upon (pick your verb depending on what you think of it) that “electric and fast” was enough to compete against non-EV cars with much better finish.
They were pocketing 25% of the interest payments and providing near-zero additional value to customer on a single-item portfolio. They could have at least bought an InsurAce policy for 2% and they’d still have a 15% margin for doing nothing except batching transactions.
Surely, Bitcoin will save you from the government?
Crypto attempts to solve the problem in the same way that web protocols and web standards do. Define a single shared spec that spans all geographic borders, rather than a spec that is reinvented at each jurisdiction.
For a start, call it what it is: fancy lane assist. That will remove any blame on the company side, but as it stands now it is a deliberate malicious marketing on tesla’s part.
It really bothers me how people foam at the mouth about this when there is far more direct evidence of much worse abuses in Israel/Palestine than Xinjiang, but somehow Xinjiang is the next holocaust and China is Nazi Germany. CIA and State Department propaganda at work.
What are you even arguing here?

I have continually provided you with clear true facts that you either misinterpreted or ignored. With further evidence that you drew incorrect conclusions you then doubled down on your initial unfounded position.

I am left with no choice but to conclude that you have nothing constructive to provide to this conversation.

Is your point that the conviction doesn’t literally say “voter suppression”? If so you don’t understand how the US legal system works either.
If you don't have a government you can trust, the only solution is to fix the government first. Because without that, any database is irrelevant.

You need something that's going to help you solve disputes and enforce contracts. If the government isn't competent or your enemy for arbitrary reasons, they'll just ignore any evidence you can point at and do whatever they want to anyway.
That is the very issue I consider. The Daily Stormer block was done to an entire business which is a different thing than prioritizing some posts over others from the same source.
It is worth discussing cloudflare’s decision to block the Stormer. But that is different than Facebook’s optimization AI choosing to not show me posts from people I choose to follow.
Both are potentially concerning and complex, but I consider them to be separate topics.
3M Antwerp PFAS Calamity
I never said that. At. All. You didn't read shit.

That is so few words to completely mis-characterize and manipulate the intended meaning of what I wrote.

Big tobacco used to use catch phrases and one liners similar in vein to what your doing here in order to manipulate and obfuscate the complex statistical results that effectively showed tobacco kills people.

I offer a lot of words. Read it. And offer a response that matches the nuance and complexity. Stop manipulating sentiment because you know people are too lazy to read.
> Can you have freedom of speach while trying to take it away from others?

Ah, the paradox of tolerance at work.
An expected value of -35%?
They seem to conveniently hand wave away that rather vital part.
If it's any consolation, that compensation was in Coinbase shares and options at the IPO valuation of ~$320/share, meaning it's been slashed to under a fifth of that at the current $64, possibly less if the options are under water now.
> Also, we have evidence the physical universe hasn't been around forever: the Big Bang.

That's not exact. The Big Bang model brings us really close to the start of the known universe, but it doesn't describe what happened before that - nor dictates that it was really the beginning; the mathematics collapse into a non-descriptive degenerate singularity that doesn't need to match reality anymore. By this model, it is possible that there was some physical process before it that caused it and has been going on forever.

Also, the Big Bang model doesn't preclude the existence of other universes far away that were created by the same process, that we simply can't reach because they're out of our scope of causality.

> God is outside of space and time, whereas the physical universe is inside of space and time

That's a cop-out. What does it mean to "exist" if it isn't related to space and time?

> The physical universe obeys the laws of physics and God doesn't. So just because God can do something doesn't mean the physical universe can.

What if the physical universe dictates the laws of physics? Then you don't need God as an entity to explain existence. Unless you want to call the physical universe "god", which is on itself a valid deistic proposition.
> It wouldn't be better "in every way", though. A blockchain is much more resilient; the equivalent would be to have hundreds or thousands of redundant SQL databases around the world and somehow keep them all in sync.

Technically true, but also completely pointless. An organisation running an SQL database doesn't need hundreds or thousands of redundant SQL nodes/copies to reach the level of robustness required.
Why do you expect this? Bitcoin is supply limited, but you can take trading fees over and over forever.
Migration of a Dockerized MySQL database with SQLAlchemy and Alembic
Probably because it’s nearly impossible to wage an internal campaign against a Founder/CEO with 60% voting power.

https://www.afr.com/wealth/people/crypto-billionaires-fortun...
> What is the worth of: a visit to my friends; taking a surfboard to the beach; taking a load of firewood to my parents; an emergency 2AM visit to a suicidal acquaintance; taking my nephew and his friends to the skatepark; helping a friend move; picking up a Craigslist chair.

In urban Europe (the one I'm familiar with, at least), I find public transit, then renting cars/vans and straight up calling cabs/Uber when needed is still absurdly cheaper, particularly with European gas, insurance and maintenance prices, and somewhat limited parking space. Sure, the odd 100€ cab fare to urgently go somewhere far hurts in one shot, but according to my own numbers for where I live, just having a used car lying around "just in case" without any mileage is 304€/mo.
I was already thinking of taking it this summer, but you convinced me to do it for sure.

Thank you!
Right wing activists have been doing this kinda stuff wrt Israel on campuses for decades. I agree, this kind of intolerance should be stamped out. The question is: whose morals become law?
It is, unfortunately, the new libertarian ... "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" has become "I can swing my fist where ever I bloody well choose and you had better move your goddamn nose if you don't want it broke"
I'm unsure how you've managed to compare a worker from a totally different country with very different living standards and costs to one in the US.

Adjusted 200 or 300k gets you the right to live comfortably in the US.
That sounds like a 360 degree review, but with less granularity.
Security Vulnerability in Gitlab: Sending Requests Through Jupyter Notebooks
Exactly. If you have a candidate who can design good systems, solve complex algorithmic problems, and play nice with others, then I’d say that’s a pretty strong candidate.
They didn't break the law, so you don't lock them up. In the end, they still have that fundamental right.

But if you act as an idiot abroad, you shouldn't be surprised when they send you back.
Heh. You kid, but to dare is to do (albeit via NFTs): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CMVPUomG2SS4ITMQ8283VJlC...
> Only in the United States do we have such protections in place to prevent the government from retaliating against the individual for voicing a critical opinion.

I'm sorry, but were you educated in the US? That's just blatantly false, and on the level of a Russian praising their army's success in Ukraine.

In the EU, Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand and some other countries individuals are protected from retaliation if they're critical of their government. In fact it's the norm for democratic countries. Of course some pretty government officials might try to abuse their position in personal retaliation (happened in Germany recently) but that's why all those countries also have an independent judiciary to control such potential abuses.
Public opinion matters in all contexts, as rules and court decisions about rules are made by people, who invariantly are members of the public.
I don't think it is a paradox. As soon as your practice of free speech limits other people's ability to practice free speech, you are not actually practicing free speech, but attacking people's freedom of speech.
You should watch this couse: http://justiceharvard.org/justicecourse/ .

Free humans are not free to kill or enslave. Free speech is not free to hate.
A related idea is depreciation.

You haven't lost $700 by buying a pair of skis. You have exchanged $700 in cash for at least $500 in a pair of skis that is now previously owned.

So you might lose, say, $200 immediately for the privilege of buying something brand new. And then another $100 if we include up-front the effort to sell them to someone else.

But the rest of the money is still there, in the shape of skis.

As you use the skis they will depreciate in their second hand value -- this is when the money is actually lost, bit by bit. You can estimate how much the second-hand value of the skis are with 10 uses, 100 uses, 1000 uses, and so on. This is the real cost per use.
This could indeed be seen as bullying or discrimination.
Except it’s not based on broadcasted identifiers which is what you’re citing.
Made me chuckle. There is a telltale template to how Quora answers are typically.

One point of time, it used to be a great discussion platform. But the low quality answers & hi-quality gossip, overtly aggressive "Be nice" policy (to the point every sob story has a happy ending, with cupcakes & unicorns, without taking any names or identifiable information) & login wall to view answers has made the site so so poor.

Pinterest & Quora are piles of flaming junk at present.
> Nobody wants neo-Nazis shrines.

Ironic, considering the Pyramids at Giza are literal monuments to slavery.

Free speech -- i.e. the free exchange of ideas, ergo the natural extension of freedom of thought -- is a fundamental and transcendental ideal, and it's a hill I've died on and gotten downvoted for plenty of times. Germany, Nazis, and the USA probably won't be around 200 millennia from now, but the ideal of free speech certainly will. We think too much of ourselves and of our times.
The last 2 years IMO was "put up or shut up" time for crypto and IMO it just didn't manage to do it.
If you're in the US:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Emphasis mine.

There is a beautiful expansion by Blackstone. It makes me proud of this place:

> The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the Revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion and government. But to punish as the law does at present any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published, shall on a fair and impartial trial be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty. Thus, the will of individuals is still left free: the abuse only of that free will is the object of legal punishment. Neither is any restraint hereby laid upon freedom of thought or inquiry; liberty of private sentiment is still left; the disseminating, or making public, of bad sentiments, destructive to the ends of society, is the crime which society corrects.

Citation: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1-2-1/ALD...
I think this theory is right.

And as much as he trash talks Warren Buffet, I think he was basically following his advice of “buy what you know.” He just got burned by amazingly bad market timing.
> I do find at least amusing to point out you started this thread with a comment that adamantly stated that "There's nothing unique or special about it [blockchains]"

> Only to immediately follow it up by conceding your main point > "he PoW system used is one way to prevent Sybil attacks when distributing work among untrusted peers, and that's it. Novel, neat, but useless"

I don't see any goalpost moving. PoW is not blockchain.
It’s a bit disappointing that an article purporting to educate us about something we should know but may be unaware of, is completely wrong about the example of how an airplane climbs - you don’t climb by pitching up, you have to increase power.
What happens if you get hacked and someone steals your house NFT?

Have a trusted third party transfer it back to you? Or give up your house to the hacker?
A zero-dependency WebAssembly VM with a Web GUI debugger implemented in Rust
Did we read the same article?

William Wang, president of the program's student government body, drafted a letter that was signed by more than 80 Chinese students in the program and sent to the administration on Thursday evening, then sent to all program students on Friday.

"We left today’s colloquium because we felt that the atmosphere in that room was extremely hostile towards us," the letter stated. "At that moment, we were not sitting in a classroom; we were crucified in a courtroom for crimes that we did not commit."
My reading is: because it says theres so few of the tablets from this time period, they assumed the other museum couldn't possibly have an 'undiscovered' one?
From your linked post:

> after decades of often huge projects in many nations there is not a single industrial fast breeder reactor working satisfactorily

The key word is "industrial." I assume you mean this as a synonym for "commercial." Let me emphasize the part of my original post, which you are replying to:

> Nuclear waste is only a problem *if you don’t allow breeder reactors*

There have been, as you link to, dozens of research fast breeder reactor in almost all the nuclear-signatory countries. Many of these "research" reactors operated continuously for decades providing consistent power, and were only shut down when the plant reached end-of-life. They were/are operated by government-run research organizations because only these organizations have the authority to run new / unapproved nuclear reactor designs. And they remain unapproved for commercial use due to political reasons ranging from general fear of nuclear power, lobbying from energy companies (for whom traditional designs are more profitable, externalities be damned), and fear over nuclear proliferation since the uranium-based reactors technically produce some weapons-grade material in their fuel cycle. The last point is a major one, but manageable if there was political will to do so.

We know how to build fast breeder reactors economically. We're just not allowed to.
> You can "first day of class" think of it as the implied series 1/(s-p) -- p the pole, s the Laplace variable -- exists and converges. And in particular you want that series to converge on the imaginary axis which means it does not diverge in the frequency domain (Fourier transform)

If this was the first day of any class I took, I would have dropped it before the second day.
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Here is another take, when I compare two things on price, I take the price difference and apply 5% compound interest on it for 30 years. That about how much I would save if I put the money on my mortgage instead. Or when the mortgage was paid off how much it would earn in my retirement savings.

Also, now I have two kids, I always think how much its going to cost my kids. Sure I could buy a $1000 phone now, or I could leave my kids $10,000 extra in the Will. :)
That eould be great, Musk trying to "Ghosn" out of it.

Ghosn: Carlos Ghosn, former CEO of Nissan-Renault, held on Japan for some white collar crime and illegally smuggled out of Japan, with the help of a former Green Beret and his son, to Libanon, Ghosn home country. Since then he is no longer CEO and wanted internationally by Japan.
I'm not surprised really. Given how big a product like this is, how many people would actually have worked on this section of code itself.
Employees Crave Asynchronous Work
It took less than two years for a Republican Congress to pass the 22nd amendment in 1947 from FDR's death. If the Republican's want Musk as a candidate they have time before 2024 if they immediately move to vote on the amendment and pass it to the states who will be holding legislative sessions next year.

I doubt it would happen, but I'm also not betting on it.
before becoming a psychotherapist I was a vehicle tech at Jaguar cars for 20 years.

I therefore view all cars as modern day horses and anyone who pays a small fortune for a car must be absolutely stupid, blind to the impact of market forces, the effects of advertising and a general lack of personal awareness around socialized narcissism.

The same for phones.

I have never bought a new phone. For years I have only bought second hand android phones a few years old.

I recently bought a Oneplus 6T for £100 and installed lineage 19.1 with Android 12. running perfectly. Who would want for anymore than that?

Paying $1500 for a phone which is the equivalent to a months wages for those on minimum wage is obscene to me.
Link, because I assumed it wasn't out yet since the author hadn't provided it: https://jbconsulting.substack.com/p/on-shelter-futures-part-...