skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of happy right now that I didn't decide to dedicate my life to this when I was in my 20s and went off and did something else. I would have been awfully frustrating to spend 30 years in a quest to find nothing new.

Hopefully at some point someone cracks open the desert, but I'm somewhat skeptical that it'll happen through the high energy frontier.

My bet is that quantum computation and decoherence is where it'll be.
svn doesn't support loosely distributed operation. You need a single central server and all contributors need accounts on that server. That server ends up being costly to provide for projects of non trivial size. Git "won" because it didn't have those two problems.
I admire your effort to try to parse it, but I don't really think we should, or can: it's not a topic that can be explained in 280 characters, one can only fit so many layers of implicit ironic quotation in a tweet, so…

Don’t make convoluted points about discrimination on twitter. It's not suited for such points.

If you need to, draft something deliberate, long-form and edit it several times. Have a close friend review it, edit some more, and link to it from a tweet, but everything about this thread tells me no one gained much by being exposed to it. As a CEO, he should have known better, learn to communicate clearly and in the right forum, and not force you & others in a futile exercise on exegesis.
Downsides of Solar Power
I mean the perceived viciousness mostly stems from power imbalance (when it’s between tenured and untenured) and having a lot to lose. Two tenured assholes clashing is at best unpleasant.
Wow, nice to see Pensoft and taxonomy make HN, also chili peppers, yum.

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Admittedly, in the US, they could probably set up an entity for tax purposes. Their real identity would still be somewhere in the chain but not necessarily easily discoverable by the person you're doing work for.

ADDED: As others have noted, there are probably legal issues with that entity effectively acting a full-time employee. And, of course, the entity doing the work can't get any employee benefits.
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Jeff Bezos, at least in the case of the Washington Post.
I really hate how cryptocurrency has sucked all the air out of the room with decentralization. The two are only somewhat related.
>So maybe what we need is the right breakthrough in math?

Funny you mention that, only recently I was reading a review paper on the state of constructive quantum field theory [0]. In the outlook section the author writes

>Why haven’t these models of greatest physical interest been constructed yet (in any mathematically rigorous sense which preserves the basic principles constantly evoked in heuristic QFT and does not satisfy itself with an uncontrolled approximation)? Certainly, one can point to the practical fact that only a few dozen people have worked in CQFT. This should be compared with the many hundreds working in string theory and the thousands who have worked in elementary particle physics. Progress is necessarily slow if only a few are working on extremely difficult problems

But they also say

> It may also be the case that a completely new approach is required

This kind of mathematical physics is generally considered a part of mathematics rather than physics, and this paper is talking about formulating a rigorous mathematical framework and elucidating conceptual ideas rather than about making new predictions, but the idea that new mathematics is required is certainly not a crazy one.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3991
Fidelity has a free program called FidSafe: https://www.fidsafe.com/ That will hand over documents once dead.
No: the will to power is greatest because you have (supposedly) power over the creme of the creme.

As silly as that but Nietzsche had it right: the will to power is one of the primordial forces.
You're right, almost gottem good
I'm frankly super confused about salaries right now. Currently job hunting in Europe and the other day when a recruiter asked how much I was looking for I gave my current salary as a minimum of 65 euros/h and the recruiter kind of chuckled and told me that if I'm a good match I could ask for like 90. Okay, sounds great. So a few days later I was having an initial interview for a senior ML position and when asked how much I expect (recall this is Europe so let's generously divide the US salary by 4) I said 100k. From my point of view I'm still low balling it because I wanted the job, but apparently this was far too much because the interviewer was incredulous and basically ended the interview on the spot. Told me that was more than they pay any of their senior positions.

Doing the rough math, 60 euros/h, 8 hrs per day at 48 weeks > 100k. So yeah. I just don't know what to say any more when this question comes up. It seems to be random to me what is going to be an acceptable answer. Usually I want to continue the conversation and discuss it, but instead it just seems to cut things off immediately.

I find it really frustrating that they make you guess what they are thinking and then either laugh or act like you're some kind of high roller. I mean, I need a job, so like, if you're going to choose me based on my ability to pick a random number you are thinking in your head, how about we do that at the beginning of the interview instead of talking for an hour first and giving me the impression that things are going well?

In any case, just ranting. What's a good rate for a senior SWE or ML engineer in Europe these days? What can I get away with asking for without getting this reaction?

Also, what's up with people asking this question in the first conversation? I feel like in the past you would go through a couple of rounds and then get to discussing what they could offer you but now it seems to be the other way around, and they are not willing to counteroffer if you guess wrong. Maybe just my perception, but I find it weird and difficult. I'm always fine and more or less comfortable in interviews until this question comes up.
Buying a Brand Store is also the only official way to have full control of snap updates. Someone at Canonical must have been taking notes from Microsoft -- take away control from users and sell it back in an "enterprise edition".
how does this work within the us where employers need to have your tax identification?
I don't think that's what he is saying, lol
AlloyDB is not serverless, cockroach is not Postgres, and fly doesn’t separate storage and compute.
Why do you say "this Supreme Court"? The make up of the court has changed dramatically since.

I don't think it's better now. Just different.
The Problem with Modern Architecture
> Sometimes you want to feel an adrenaline rush. Sometimes you just want to tend a garden or walk a forest.

And that's where Rust comes in. You're tending your garden, keeping your base in order and then people come with rockets and C4.
I'm reading their extended culture docs at https://kraken-culture.notion.site/. I agree you can't get what I'm saying from the main article in the post. But that culture documentation is really something.
It’s really weird to give him this benefit of the doubt, given his post in /7.
Nobody is overpaid. Salaries, live everything else, follow a trend of Supply and Demand. Currently SWEs are on high demand pretty much everywhere in the world and salaries reflect that.

What should we do? Educate/Train more SWEs!
@dang

Any idea why this was flagged?
At first it seems like he's making a logical point. After reading HIS replies in threads, seems he's more interested in being obnoxious
You must not have experienced this brand of activists yet. They are toxic to the entire team and organization in which they are present. They sow division, intolerance, hatred, bigotry and exclusion unlike anything I've seen in decades of work experience.
I did a postdoc at a top 5 institution and found it to be an ideal transition point into the startup world. I was pretty sure a few months into it that I would leave academia, and spent as much time as possible beefing up my coding skills and doing a startup on the side/finding a cofounder. I even hedged my bets and applied for tenure track jobs in the meantime. This may not work for everyone but it was definitely better than doing a full time industry job during those years which would have made any substantial entrepreneurial activities much harder to do on the side, and not nearly as good for networking.
Yep, for exactly two or three years tops.
Cars are crazy expensive right now and carmakers have shifted production towards huge gas guzzlers. It used to be just American car makers that did this, but Honda quit making the fit and when we bought our current fit they the excuse that we couldn't get a new fit because the factory in Mexico washed away in a flood... But they had plenty of CR-Vs made in the same factory!

So I don't think it is a good time to buy a car.
A few potential reasons: In games the rewards are much more immediate, even if we play a game that requires waiting. Gardens and forests may not be near, available, or accessible when gamers are ready to relax. Gamers may not be physically able to partake in such activities. You might need to pay or buy something (shoes, a car, a park pass, garden mulch, tools...) to participate.
Which obviously means someone else is the best selling author of the past eighteen years.
I think we need more details to answer this question. Can you describe your workflow with more details? Maybe even with some code examples ?
Alluded to a Saudi hire of some sort.
At least Canonical and SUSE are doing the same with their extended support contracts. The patches are being produced, you just have to pay for them.
> Application 1: In-Place Swapping

Warning: if x == y, then instead of swapping, the two values are set to zero.

So this swapping trick works only for x!=y.

---------

The other tricks are interesting, and likely hold the key to some kind of parallel programming trick, as a sequence of XORs is trivially parallelizable through the prefix-sum pattern.

All of the other tricks are O(n) number of XOR operations, while parallel prefix-sum is O(log(n)) depth and O(n) total work.
For how long? That is the question.
"It might be that many software business models don't work when engineers cost $400k/year."

followed by

"TIL some software engineers making $400k view themselves as Marx's proletariat."

I'm getting the feeling that most devs here agree that SWEs don't need to make that much.
De-commodifying the internet, block by block
Washington state non-competes are definitely enforceable. The link you gave cites a salary cut-off of just $100,000 for employees or $250,000 for contractors.

Which means you can enforce a non compete on Wa against employees if they’re paid more than $100,000. This easily covers all technical employees at Microsoft.
I think you are confusing export with consumption. Russia's fossil fuel production is mostly slated for export, and thus they are very sensitive to the international demand for said fossil fuels. In comparison, US production is mostly slated for internal use, so international demand does not impact the economy as severely.
Health data is only part of it, and there needs to be more regulations about what and when it can be collected, stored, digitized, transmitted, sold, etc. Every aspect of this needs more regulation and much of it needs to be prohibited entirely. Regulating just sale/licensing of the data is not enough, but is obviously a necessary part of it. We need to also regulate the conditions under which this data is collected and stored as well. Informed patient consent is needed before digitizing any patient data, let alone before a doctor entrusts that data to some SaaS provider. Patients need to know which SaaS provider is storing their data on their servers, and have the opportunity and right to veto it without abstaining from medical treatment. Furthermore if the patient does opt into the third-party recordkeeping, they each need to be contacted and asked for consent if that company is ever sold or otherwise acquired, and given the opportunity to have their data deleted instead of transferred to the new owner of the company. Just because I consent to Small SaaS Provider A having my records 5 years ago doesn't mean I consent to Conglomerate B buying out A today and getting all my data in the process. Consent should be confirmed at every single time a new company wants to possess it, let alone transfer it or sell it.

For instance, suppose I consent for Fitbit to track me five years ago. Then Fitbit gets bought by Google. It should be illegal for Fitbit to transfer that data to Google without my consent, and illegal for Google to receive that data without my consent. It shouldn't even be legal for Fitbit 5 years ago to secretly store that data on rented Google or AWS servers without telling me which company they are subcontracting my data out to.

tl;dr: Possessing any data about people should be considered a toxic liability and a huge regulatory pain in the ass. User data should not be considered a valuable asset, but rather an evil that you loath to touch at all unless there's no other way.
Yeah, that’s fair as an argument from first principles.

But speaking from a more practical standpoint: we know, empirically, that there are a lot of transgender people out in the world. We know that many of them feel much healthier when they are able to transition, in various different ways.

It’s not just an appeal to authority, it’s an appeal to a fairly significant consensus in medical science. Which feels better to me.

We just don’t have any meaningful evidence for “I identify as black so I can say the N-word” being anything other than an annoying troll argument. Or at least, I certainly haven’t seen any.

But if you want to talk about race/gender as social constructs, that’s a whole ‘nother conversation — one very worth having!
The market forces work the other way. If Safari can't do something, like say if it can't work with webgl 2.0 until four and a half years after every other major browser adds support, devs will avoid using it and middleware will have to maintain support for webgl 1.0 longer. This slows down adoption of web standards and affects everyone.

The only property that benefits from dragging your heels on webgl 2.0 adoption is the App Store, which could see its influence and revenue easily be cannibalized by progressive web apps using modern gpu rendering. And would you look at that, those are exactly the two web standards Safari has dragged its heels on.
I program professionally in both languages and in my experience the two are very different when it comes to functional programming. FP is viable in JavaScript, if imperfect. And as the language continues to evolve to better support that paradigm its community continues to embrace it. But Python’s choices seem to be actively antagonistic to FP. I’d like to be able to use a functional approach in Python when it makes sense but it’s too hard, too awkward, too flawed, and too against the grain of the language.
I am at a loss as to what you are recommending as a course of action.
Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75%
I don't see where you took the n-word from, but even that to me as a non-american is peculiar. As much as I don't think the word should be used as a slur, people have lost jobs over using it when quoting someone else or even using it verbatim when enumerating things that should not be said which to me is insane.

In my mother tongue there are no "words-than-must-not-be-named" and I struggle to understand the logic behind it.
It reminds me of that Paul Grahams text "What you can't say" http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html:

"I can think of one more way to figure out what we can't say: to look at how taboos are created. How do moral fashions arise, and why are they adopted? If we can understand this mechanism, we may be able to see it at work in our own time.

Moral fashions don't seem to be created the way ordinary fashions are. Ordinary fashions seem to arise by accident when everyone imitates the whim of some influential person. The fashion for broad-toed shoes in late fifteenth century Europe began because Charles VIII of France had six toes on one foot. The fashion for the name Gary began when the actor Frank Cooper adopted the name of a tough mill town in Indiana. Moral fashions more often seem to be created deliberately. When there's something we can't say, it's often because some group doesn't want us to.

The prohibition will be strongest when the group is nervous. The irony of Galileo's situation was that he got in trouble for repeating Copernicus's ideas. Copernicus himself didn't. In fact, Copernicus was a canon of a cathedral, and dedicated his book to the pope. But by Galileo's time the church was in the throes of the Counter-Reformation and was much more worried about unorthodox ideas.

To launch a taboo, a group has to be poised halfway between weakness and power. A confident group doesn't need taboos to protect it. It's not considered improper to make disparaging remarks about Americans, or the English. And yet a group has to be powerful enough to enforce a taboo. Coprophiles, as of this writing, don't seem to be numerous or energetic enough to have had their interests promoted to a lifestyle."

And I don't agree with having someone else's taboos enforced on me.

(Which I'm sure some people will read as "I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SAY <<N**R>> AT WORK", but I don't think I can help those people other than ask them to re-read what I wrote)
Counterpoint: Sailaway does model real-world travel time and distance, although in that case it's the whole point. I actually kind of wish there was a Euro Truck Simulator mod or something that would make the distances realistic too.
Or rather people get higher wages, meaning they can afford a more expensive house, pushing up the prices of houses (as there's a fixed number {in a given location})
Only a negligible fraction of storage will be batteries. They cost more. Only lithium, the most expensive, is fire-prone, among battery tech.

The alternatives are cheaper and cause no such problems.
So true, lol. Stoner by John Williams does a good job of showing this.
That's such a "think of the children!" argument. Yes I was there for that thread and it was sad when it happened, but such is life. Privacy is more important than whatever this is.
I am very tempted to apply because it’s remote too, but do you also pay independent of the location?

Also, do you ask leet code style questions in the 1:1 rounds? More details would be appreciated
Stability is worth something, but is it worth 2x?

Unless you're extremely unlucky (and many engineers are far from living paycheck to paycheck and can afford to take some risks) you're better off with the "unstable" company - even if you get the sack after 2 years and then take a year off until you find something you really like, you're better off than if you worked 3 years at the company with the lower offer.
Yup. Feels like if this ever started to suceed in gathering traction, OFAC would shut it down.
FYI, previous submission got lots of comments but was flagged...

[flagged] 16 point IQ difference between identical twins raised apart (psypost.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31304371

Submitted by TedDoesntTalk | 38 days ago | 29 points | 51 comments
Spanish Mechanic Wins Lawsuit Against Tesla for Selling Him a Defective Model 3
>(bought a new phone? Let's keep the old one even if it has a cracked screen, just in case... <throws phone into drawer full of hopelessly unusable and outdated electronic doodads>.)

Never been poor; me and my whole family have always done this. I just forced them to get rid of their standalone DVD player. They have remote controls for devices going back to the 90's.

The cellphone example is even better; you'd be a fool to immediately dump your old phone. It's small and easy to store, and if your new phone craps out or gets lost or stolen you may very well have a use for another phone that works right now. I have phones going back 2 generations.

This is just frugality and contingency planning.

Scarcity mindset is more like, "I have $300, I need to spend it before it goes away". That's what keeps people poor.
It helps to have a more concrete example rather than one designed to be a straw man. I know someone who passes as white, but you'd never guess that she has a black father, making her ethnically as black as Barack Obama, and well above the infamous one-drop rules ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule ) that would have allowed her to be denied civil rights under segregation. By that criteria she's black, but she doesn't use the word in question. We can ask whether she should use it, or should want to use it, or should be able to use it, and that might be an interesting conversation, but not one with any hope of having a useful generalizable outcome; the context differs too much from person to person.

And since racial slurs carry much different, and much more charged connotations than gendered pronouns do, trying to draw analogies here seems almost deliberately designed to generate argument rather than discussion.
I’d email HN directly (email in the footer), and ask if this is an appropriate use of HN. (@ does nothing special on HN)
Inconsistent Thoughts on Database Consistency
Guess comment is (SUSE/openSUSE/Micro) (RHEL/Fedora/CoreOS).
Yes, what you say is true. My argument was very poorly made.
I suspect this is a myth. I used svn for years and don't remember merging being problematic. In fact I remember it being better (less need to manually merge) than today's git. What svn couldn't support well is: zillions of branches. So branch-happy workflows would kill the server. Today's PR-style would probably work ok since it mirrors how we typically worked with svn -- small frequent commits to trunk. Branches only used for maintenance on past releases.
I'm in the automotive industry and the biggest fan of EVs in general. I was even home-building an EV before I moved to the city.

I think we still have a lot to figure out with our charging infrastructure, in cities where often it's hard just to park. I want an EV badly, but it'd be a constant struggle to keep it charged.

There's also an issue with car companies generally not making the cars I want anymore, though I understand this is a me problem. There's not a nice plug-in hybrid small convertible, even if I could charge it.
Not that I'm in the market, but this page has the sales pitch stuff on it, and it's pretty interesting reading:

https://aircraft.airbus.com/en/aircraft/a320/a321xlr

According to a few other sites they appear to cost between 130 and 140 million. Looks like they've sold some already too.
12ft.io has a very low success rate for anything I’ve tried.
Fed hikes its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a point
This is such a weird complaint given that Erlang exists, with tail calls, and proper async, and..., and is used to create complex software
Dolezal wasn't acting in good faith? Wasn't she heading a NAACP chapter? What does good faith look like?