skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> making this language "nicer" isn't going to help anyone.

What is this a reference to? Do you think at-will employment has something to do with woke language or am I reading this wrong?
It's all different people upthread - it's a conversation rather than an argument. Also, most jurisdictions have a safety net for those who lose their jobs, so people often get to maintain similar income until they find their next job.

(Most welfare systems have plenty of woeful traps, though, and I fall on the side of 'People should not lose their jobs over a disrespectful letter', but I haven't read it.)
The terminology is confusing and the article isn't doing a good job of explaining it.

"Rootfs" is an im-memory virtual filesystem used to hold the root. The bootloader will read the initramfs into ram before executing the kernel, then the kernel will use that in memory data to construct the rootfs filesystem. For non root partitions you would use a loopback device or tmpfs.

Since system is a normal partition, the kernel can use the normal disk/filesystem drivers as a root device.
The key thing I think is you have to keep the user in control.

I have the same rant about excessive animation in the user interface, and on reflection it is not exactly the animation that is the problem, sure, it is the exasperating factor, but the underlying problem is that you have removed the users control in favor of the animation, however, that being said, keeping the user in control requires an interruptible animation system, which requires more moving part and is harder to get right... probably for the best to just leave off the animation entirely.
It compounds them. Government has no incentive for real results, union leads to highly overpaid employees who are frequently caught not working on the clock.

Two separate problems for sure, both bad for the rest
It could be a cleaned up version of the widget minus the warts. Applications wouldn't need bug-to-bug compatibility if it was a conscious choice to upgrade to a new widget.
i also asked this on twitter so just putting some replies here:

- Doug Engelbart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

- Twilio https://avc.com/2016/06/best-seed-pitch-ever/

- Stripe - "7 lines of code"

- Netlify - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-websi...

- Heroku - https://12factor.net/ and git push heroku master

- Cloudflare - https://mixtape.swyx.io/episodes/cloudflare-at-techcrunch-di...

- Node (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY&feature=youtu.be) and Deno (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA)

- Firebase (reportedly) - https://twitter.com/_davideast/status/1537864335715860482

smaller companies/less impactful pitches that i still like

- Redux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs

- Stackblitz https://twitter.com/sulco/status/1537867531511287808?s=20&t=...

- Comm https://www.notion.so/commapp/Comm-4ec7bbc1398442ce9add1d795...

- Mongodb https://twitter.com/mongodb/status/1192530877148008448

- Let's Encrypt https://twitter.com/mbleigh/status/1537866383710511104

- Figwheel-Clojurescript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-kj2qwJa_E&t=598s

- Svelte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao
I'm kind of disappointed in myself that I, too, needed this, as I read "supreme court" and my brain immediately assumed the US.
The prickly pear thing is pretty straightforward, it's part of the founding myth of Tenochtitlan and the Aztec empire. When the Mexica were wandering from Aztlan, they had a battle where they cut out the heart of a demigod named Copil and threw it into Lake Texcoco, where it grows into a prickly pear. Awhile later, the Aztecs are ready to settle down and their patron deity Huitzilopochtli told them to look for the eagle eating a snake. Eventually they come to the lake and see an eagle sitting on Copil's cactus heart eating a snake, so that's where they founded Tenochtitlan and where the Mexican flag comes from.

There's no single way we figure out symbolism though. Sometimes it's pretty obvious, like Copil's heart. Sometimes you can just ask people (ethnographic analogy). In other cases people use the symbol as a reference to the deity and you figure it out from context. Sometimes writings and rituals straight up say it, or you can figure it out from related cultures. And sometimes it's basically a pun, where the words/symbols look or sound like something else associated with the deity.

The biblical name of Adam vs Adamah (dirt/earth) is a more familiar example of the last one.
The actual grant to regulate commerce goes as follows.

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

There is a long road of interpretation from there to telling a manager of a restaurant that he has to hire black waiters. And the important bits of it all came in the last century. It is certain that the Founders never INTENDED for Congress to have its current authority.

It seems unlikely that the Supreme Court wants to create the chaos of overturning all of that to go back to the original definition. But it is within their official authority to do so.
I'd love to see this for the old Slavic gods (e.g. Perun, Vales, etc).
You need to provide all of the libraries referenced by the core dump (at the specific versions and compiled with debug symbols) to get gdb to produce a useful backtrace. It's been a decade since I've done professional C++ development, so I'm a bit foggy on the particulars.
Yes! Check out the Healdsburg project: https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/news/healdsb...

"It was a desire to shade the recycled wastewater, not capture the sun’s energy, that first led city officials down the road to the solar installation, Crowley said. The city hoped to prevent algae from blooming in the two ponds — which hold treated water from the city’s municipal sewer system."

They were going to pay to cover the reservoir, and instead they get paid for the solar output.
Did anyone go to jail over it? No. I doubt anyone was even fired. It was settled for $415 million split 4 ways between the companies involved[1]. So it's "illegal", but in terms of repercussions experienced by the offenders I'd say it's up there with a $150 speeding ticket.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...
What a weird comment on this site especially.

99% of tech work is salary and now also stock-based.

Overtime protection is simply not relevant, because our work is not hourly.

We can talk about whether this is a good or bad thing and the general culture of crunch in the tech industry, but it's not BC-specific, and also arguably got WAY better since the pandemic
These articles, which show up here in spades, are of course insightful and as far as I can tell factually accurate. But they all follow a similar model in which the author concludes that because the quirks that macOS exhibits fall squarely on the functionalities that he cares deeply about, that the product is condemnable for all users. Or worse, he infers that only the vast unwashed masses of non cognoscenti are the only ones who can put up with Apple’s shenanigans.

Of course, there’s much lamentable about some of the design choices in macOS, and they irritate me - a little, sometimes more - but as I read this latest diatribe, I was surprised that the author spent such a sum on a new M1 Mac without evaluating its fitness for his use cases.
Please use editors.

I typically get two different people to edit my blog posts...
I have been using a Fairphone 3 in NA since it was released. As long as the device supports the same frequencies used by your American cell carrier, it will work well. Any package forwarding service may be used to receive a Fairphone in NA.
That is very good, but roughly in line with other comparable companies. It's not "worth more than the rest of the car industry" explosive
Yeah it's pretty hyperbolic
If that's the attitude you want to take then I wish you luck. It sure sounds good and principled to say such things, but there comes a point where you're no longer building a better society and simply witch hunting. Being guilty by association has a long, storied history in law.
The future is notoriously difficult to predict.
My relocation from NYC to Miami has been nothing but roses.
My point is simply that CoL changes aren't fixed and fluctuate. I think it is weird to call it a CoL raise if you are guaranteed it even if CoL doesn't change or goes down.

I'm not sure where you are getting that inflation has been pegged to anything. 2% might be an average, but it has gone everywhere from -2% to 6% in the last two decades.

Besides, inflation is not CoL.
This means that we need to learn how to build transmission lines with less steel and concrete. Use more aluminum maybe? More plastics and carbon fiber? More glass?
> if a developer can reason about the state changes of their app without redux, they should do so if there are performance concerns. Right?

That is correct :)

However, I'm not sure how many developers will be able to maintain the project and keep the invariants implicitly ingrained in the codebase by the smart developer who can reason about mutable state changes.
Sometimes tools that seem to help us make us more reckless.

I wonder if tools like grammarly have this problem..
Ok so keep fleshing out your idea. You believe that the state department, et al, are some of the secret rulers of the world, and they puppet the president. The president, both Trump and Biden, were puppeting the ... UK establishment. And the UK establishment were puppeting the judge who is formalising the extradition of Assange.

It's a lot of work, isn't it? Why is this a more reasonable theory to you than simply: Assange is being extradited because the lawyers convinced a judge to agree to it - see how my theory involves no puppets, no deep state, no invisble powers...

> no plan, no leadership, no endorsement,

That's not the impression I've been taking away from the three congressional hearing so far. But there's not much point me talking about real world evidence to someone who believes in an imaginary world of deep state puppeting foreign judges to get a website operator extradited
Don't know about the US, but it would be illegal in many countries if workers don't reach the minimum wage despite working full-time. Of course they could fire slow workers (at least in the US, in Europe it's often not that easy), but then they are back at the problem of the submission: running out of workers
Eh, I don't know about this one. I can't stand Musk, but im also not going to believe the company gives 0 shits about anything you have to say that's not helping them out. I'd rather just quit. I spent too many years fighting fights I couldn't win.
Exactly, it means we won't throw you in jail using the state. But Musk argues otherwise, that Twitter must let people use their platform to say whatever they want. And at the same time, people working for him cannot say whatever they want about his company.
Yep the Tether Papers from Protos. [1] On-chain analysis which accounts for 70% of all Tether issuances.

[1] https://protos.com/tether-papers-crypto-stablecoin-usdt-inve...
The canonical answer would be uBLAS.

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/libs/numeric/ublas/doc...

I think BLAS (a C version, not the boost one) is also the library numpy is using, as numpy is not written in python. That's why it is fast, it is C.
I have no interest in getting into the larger story. But it's necessary to keep in mind:

CEO Powell posted the company culture document because he knew the NYT article was coming and wanted to get ahead of it.

This article literally just takes the CEO's culture press release at face value and uses it in an attempt to debunk the NYT article.

Edit:

In short, the article could be titled, "Company's CEO Says Critical Article Is Incorrect."
> It's not the sort of thing someone does for a lifetime.

Quite literally, not with that attitude. So many of capitalism's pitfalls amount to no more than self-fulfilling prophecies.
> That's still a majority of devices where you can't assume that the IMEI is available.

51%. Super strong argument there.¨
Oh right I forgot addiction and obesity are not at crisis levels in America.

This might be how you and many people think society operates. Unfortunately that’s a dangerous delusion. This reductionist argument is dehumanizing and casts the issuer in an unearned air of superiority.

Exhibit A. Trump is likely to be the most shamed person in existence and is to this date entirely unrepentant.

The fact that shaming has appeared to work on some in his mafia cannot be intelligently construed as evidence for the effectiveness of shame as a tool to correct behavior without controlling for confounding factors which has not be done with any serious rigor on a societal level.
Is there a reason not to force a linear typing system (at first) -- a la mercury? To simplify the lifetime analysis? And then in later versions that can be relaxed to affine typing, and then subsequently normal lifetimes?
If you are an anon dev and you share your real identity with a counterparty, you aren’t doing a great job at staying anonymous.

Anybody can start a new crypto wallet and receive funds into it, and then make transactions and keep that value on-chain to remain anonymous. There are a number of anon devs in the Ethereum ecosystem doing just this.

With enough effort your IP might be traceable if you do something like mint a token from a compromised website. But advanced methods also exist to break anonymity in systems like Tor, VPNs and cash which we often consider to have strong properties of privacy and anonymity, and to this nobody would refute as “bullshit.”
Crypto lender BlockFi struggles to raise cash despite discount
Where did you hear 1.5B?

They lost .5B last quarter I think. Not sure if that's going up or down since they're shedding costs. I have no idea if retail trading is up or down this quarter but it sounds like their NFT marketplace isn't going great?

Idk man. I would come up with some serious questions to ask them before signing on.
It's parroted because it's make sense. Every 'imperfection' of an economists idea has led to further concentration of capital in the hands of incumbents. Many of these incumbents have already failed and only exist by way of heinous regulatory choices, only to be bailed out because economists said its better this way or things will be worse (take hostages much?).

My critique is that the short term is all that matters because accountability and culpability aren't available to institutions and individuals because they are too important. There is seemingly an infinite amount of labor arbitrage to make when you can make horrible medium/long term capital decisions that appear good because of short term market gains, all because the fix (govt bailout) is in.

Does you think capital has product value without the application of technology or labor? Why is the most important aspect of the equation the least valued?
What's your plan to ensure the whitelist is responsibly curated?

My guess: it'll either have everything on it, or every N years we'll get a new brand of government mandated Asbestos Free Cereal. No thanks.
Except the kind of people who donate to something like that think that all conservatives are nazis.
Yeah, it's obviously an urban legend

People will do an update on their site, which includes removing GA, then blame GA exclusively for tanking their rankings. All of which is probably coincidental to an algorithm change that was going to de-rank them anyways
They have every right to criticize Musk from the parking lot.
a) Any insurance has a regulating effect on the market. As the insurer is interested in minimizing payouts.

b) How would you take over (especially short term) ownership of a bank without having any idea about how banks work? Don’t get me wrong, the revolving doors between regulators and regulated are a problem. But I fail to see how just removing the door altogether is a successful fix.
The Yak's Rules
I think it may mean that the poster thinks that changing "at-will" to "just cause" is a language change rather than a procedure change (which now routes discipline and dismissal through a union intermediary.) It's the only way I can make sense of the language: that people are being sensitive snowflakes because they want these nicer words to be used.
The flip side is that a union shop, especially a recently unionized one, is much more tight-knit. I still have close friends from a union struggle years ago. And you have job security, collective bargaining power, and Weingarten rights for the duration of your time at that company.
I don’t understand what did they refuse to do?
Yeah, this seems remarkably unworkable. 10p per user is a really high cost. I have to imagine that sites like Facebook or Twitter will fight hard against this. It’s far more onerous than GDPR.
Fair and Interactive Data Graphics from a Scientific Knowledge Graph
A checkbox is a thing to toggle off/on to select a state.

As I understand your description of the app it toggles itself off and the user toggles it on. That's not a checkbox but a button. If the user can toggle it off that's more like an undo-operation, still not a checkbox.

Of course in the sense of "checked as done for the day" it is a "check"box. But it is a little unexpected without contex when reading about a "checkbox".
Yes, I have tried Pepcid, Loratidin, Certirizin and also Montelukast with no avail.
It's likely well-suited for that, but in general hydro + floating solar could be ideal as the power infrastructure is already in place. Pumped hydro is not 100% ideal as the drastic changes in water level can cause some problems with designing a solid system.
Personally I find the talent in Vancouver in general to be subpar, I think its one of those things in life that you get what you pay for. Immediately for the same role in the US, the Vancouver engineer takes a 30% pay cut, not including the exchange rate.

Staff in Vancouver are constantly burnt out and its not hard to see why: restricted supply of housing makes rents very expensive, city centres are hollowed out as ppl have less disposable income, very low social trust and dynamics just offer work as a form of escapism.

Vancouver just isn't fostering environment, it's ripe for exploitation and the top talents do not work for local employers. The ones that know their worth know Vancouver, out of all places in Canada, is the last place that pays people what they are worth.

It's not even the fault of ppl living and working in vancouver but just the culture here that deprives and oppresses flourishing growth.

It's like everything here seems borrowed from other regions and a subpar imitation of them all.
Absolutely recommend Defector. Hands-down the best place on the internet, just a joy of skilled folks who love and care about what they do, no funny business.
I have a friend who was an engineer at Amazon, and it sounds like tech jobs at Amazon are a nightmare, too.
Yes I'm aware Mac OS isn't a panacea either (used MacBooks/PowerBooks and Mac mini on and off alongside Linux since 2003). But I had such a craptastic experience with PC hardware lately: on my 3rd Dell Latitude/Precision with battery and other hw defects ootb sent by customers for work within 8 months, and my 2019 Thinkpad has a stuck trackpad - miniscule as it is - due to completely unused mechanical parts (buttons, think point, and whatnot). Meanwhile, M1/2 MacBooks leave x86 notebooks in the dust performance-wise, and have left PC notebooks behind in terms of screen resolution for a long time now, also wrt trackpad and keyboard, and value retention, it's not funny
I understand that speculative trading exists.

I'm saying people will continue to speculate on soybeans because they will always have some value.

With a purely speculative asset, the market will eventually run out of "bigger fools". At that point, any speculative trader will look at the asset and say "Why would I pay more for this than the 0 dollars it is worth?"
> inter-window introspection

This oxymoron is a pet peeve of mine. If it's inter-window, then it's just inspection. Introspection is when something inspects itself, but people seem to think it just means inspecting anything technical.

Great post though, I just needed to get that off my chest
Have you heard some of the horror stories from the game industry?
> The problem was that the necessary control flow and varying parameters around it meant you had to call it once per value from python (and you had to generate a lot of values).

Sounds like a Numba use case.
Who in their right mind would say that a collateralized borrow has 0 chance of losing money? That's the whole point of requiring collateral
I've written several rants about "ToList considered harmful". I think it is unfortunately too easy to (ab)use and often ToArray is better overall for the use cases of a reifying a query only to simply iterate it later (more than once; otherwise leave things lazy).

That rule of thumb "are there calls to Add after this query" is the biggest one where "you might need List<T>" (and even then maybe you are taking a too imperative approach to something that could be reified differently).

Though often I find what projects really need are ToDictionary or ToLookup, especially ToLookup, a lot of C# developers sleep on that, because it doesn't have an Add and doesn't implement ICollection<T> and you have to search NuGet for a mutable ILookup<T> implementation that you can just `new` yourself, but ILookup<T> is often the best shape of reified results that have multiple iterations of subsets. Take your O(n^2) operations and make them more O(n log n) or whatever if you pick the right key(s) for your subsets.

It's not uncommon for me to start a performance optimization pass on a C# app simply by doing a Find All for ToList and removing every single use.
Not everything must be gamified and "improved."

There's nothing wrong with the humble checkbox. It is simple, utilitarian, and easy to understand.

The "most satisfying checkbox" which you have crafted (that which I am still unsure is satire or earnest) is convoluted, needlessly complex, and a visual disaster.
Their tech is quite decent and open source too:

https://github.com/nytimes

I think the BBC does something similar as well:

https://github.com/bbc/
hi back!

posted today? i dont see it on the youtube

how do you like my old "in 7 mins" pitch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HjnQlnA5eY happy to take feedback
Would be interesting to make "virtual windows" where you take a camera on the hull and just stream its feed to like the in-flight entertainment system or a wall mounted monitor.
Cars are this big advertising moving billboard. Car companies employee thousands who work in cities built around these plants. Having employees driving around earning high paying wages spending it around town has a big influence on the rest of the town/region.
actually.. it should be possible! Search Homomorphic encryption, I don't know much about it, so I hope someone here can expand on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
I've transferred my funds to Mercury and have no plans to keep a Brex account open for current or future funded startups. The fact that you end your reply with "If you believe we made a mistake..." shows that Brex is still blaming the lowly SMB users and not taking responsibility for the problem. That's like apologizing to somebody by saying, "If you believe I offended you, I'm sorry".

I know you won't do anything about this, but you should seriously reconsider your Chief Communications Officer if you're serious about targeting startups (reasons at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31780900). Assuming they're advising the customer communication for this strategy shift, you're getting terrible advice as evident by the poor response here and in the press. This was a huge opportunity to reframe Brex as being all about funded startups. Instead Brex is coming across as arrogant with no concern for customers unless they have boatloads of money and fit into the strategy. It's very unbecoming to startups and sounds like how Oracle would communicate to the world.