skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So let me see if I get this ... finally, Uber does the only thing that can get it profitable: raise prices and control costs. And this blog finds a way to complain again

What he's saying is that this isn't what they did - their profitability is a balance sheet artefact caused by Uber selling parts of itself off (and incidentally getting over-inflated shares as payment). The main problem with this is that the bits of a company they sell off can only be sold off once.

The fundamentals of the business remain, and despite improvements in revenue vs expenses the reported profitability (using dubious accounting) is no more than a one-off event which they can only repeat by selling more of the family silver and not by running their actual business.
Immigration is not currently possible. I'm still quite new to the work force so i guess I'm being easily affected by these thoughts.

The contracter route seems feasible and actionable. I'll give this a serious shot. Thanks for bringing this up.
The Tiger That Was a Wolf: Lessons from Julian Robertson
I didn't consider Motorola a Chinese brand but apparently they were sold by Google to Lenovo in 2014 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility
It seemed like a pretty opened ended question -- no caveats I see.
Could you possibly post a link to the video you refer to above?
Google is not saint with this as well. My Admob account was blocked twice for 30 days because of "suspicious traffic" and the second time I didn't even turn on any Android device or emulator, not to mention any of my apps.
Happens on the mobile version but not the desktop one.
Slides were definitely for more serious photographers many of whom mail ordered film and sent it off to Kodak or someone else for processing--though I'm sure it was still a distinct minority of film sold. One of my rituals when taking a vacation where I'd be doing a lot of photography was to place an order with B&H (via phone) for 20 or however many rolls of Ektachrome and Kodachrome.

I actually wrote an article for CNET when Kodachrome processing was eventually shut down. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/countdown-to-kodachr...
they've been given a bunch of tactics. and sometimes it takes weeks rather than years.
I especially like the Therac-25 [0] as a good example for software engineers. A literal concurrency bug between the UI and radiation emitter caused at least 6 people to get massive overdoses of radiation. Think about that next time you're using a multi-thread/multi-process library!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
>I see everyone thinking this is about “free speech.” It is not.

Says the people blocking access.

>the risk created by the content

What risk? Fearmongering is always the first defense of those who wish to limit free speech. "Something will happen if we don't." Can I get a crystal ball like yours from amazon?

>no one else who should was stepping up in spite of being aware of the threat.

What threat?

>Encourage you when these issues arise to think of them in the rule of law context, rather than free speech,

Free speech should trump the rule of law. When it doesn't you end up with tyranny.
SPF and DKIM no longer have any real value. Just look at SA and the values it assigns by default to mail with those headers. Couple that will the fact that spam now has valid SPF and DKIM - just makes them pointless.
Smoking is also enjoyable and gives people happiness and satisfaction. That isn't the point.
The point is that cancers caused by drinking/smoking/being obese are preventable by behavioural changes.
but then you're switching to less paid career path, don't ya?
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll [1]

Pulling a small thread of trivial inconsistent accounting value to in the end exposing an international spy ring.

I grew up in the cold war, so I have always been interested in what went on. First recommended by a lecturer at Uni. The book reads like a techno-thriller but happened. Full of technical detail, I learnt a lot about UNIX system when I first read the book.

I would still say the book offers a great primer on computer security concepts and the logical processes people use to understand a systems. Always good to be reminded of that from time to time.

NOVA made an episode based on the book [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo's_Egg_(book)

[2] https://youtu.be/PGv5BqNL164
The oldest book in my personal library is from the eighteenth century and frequently talks about the Catholic church ſucking money out of England.
I'm not sure there was any one thing.

I will say there was a big negative - teaching that society is a meritocracy and to have integrity. I would be much more successful and happy if they told me how crooked society really is.
A brainstem map for visceral sensations
What software/program do you use?
"All that’s grown in CA supports humans."

This can be said about anything, but what matters is whether its is better to do something else to provide the same support.

California only produces 3% of the country's hay. We could just grow a bit more elsewhere to compensate. Ending alfalfa in California wouldn't be a big deal. It's an extremely low value crop.

Meanwhile, to grow this tiny amount of alfalfa we spend more than double all household water use in the entire state. Including swimming pools, toilets, showers, everything.

It's inexplicably foolish.
Same here but I have the Pixel 5. It's been a great experience for me.
Wikipedia is among the greatest accomplishments of humanity. Anyone with an internet connection can learn about anything.

That's not to say that Wikipedia is perfect, but it is certainly amazing.
Pass some of the workload to the people getting paid more
and as described, all of whom signed up for it voluntarily and received $100 when they signed up and $25/year for their continued participation.

More comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32712576 .
Funny, because if I can then all the people levying accusations can, but refuse to.

I've googled it, and I can't seem to. I can find more accusations on google, but not any actual evidence of it. I'm not saying it's not true, I just want to see it. If you're asking me to hate a group of people because they're awful, you should at least be able to show me they're awful.
Silent duality here is that many engineers are being paid top-level US compensation without actually living there, sometimes 2-10x+ their local counterparts.

Their secret is negotiation. Many US-based large companies and well-funded startups that pay in those top ranges know very well that there are engineers in low cost-of-living countries who are just as productive for their company, so they will compete for those engineers.

The deciding factor in whether each of those individuals actually makes a regional salary or a top level salary (or anywhere in between) is purely based on whether they are willing to refuse lower offers and only accept the same pay the locals in top-paying areas like SF/NY do. Some employers will never budge, but many will, because you're still worth just as much as the locals they pay the same rate.

TL;DR If you've got the skill, only accept the top range of pay and that is what you will make.
No, just show me that what you're saying is true.
They’re disingenuous about claiming they need money for Wikipedia. They have way more than enough money for Wikipedia, they need more donations for their other random projects.
Mystery as private plane crashes into Baltic Sea
Sounds like a recipe for an unhappy marriage.
I had no idea what Kiwifarms was until Christchurch. The mainstream platforms basically invite people to go to platforms concentrated in more extreme speech by deplatforming legal but controversial speech. IMO it is more beneficial to have mainstream platforms with all manners of free speech than to concentrate extreme speech in certain locations where it becomes normalized without the benefit of mixing in more mainstream opinions. I would not be surprised to find out censorship and moderation results in increased radicalization, etc by concentrating controversial ideas in these 'extreme' platforms rather than mixing them with more moderate ideas.
The benefits of breakfast cereal consumption (2014)
> Several of high-performance programs are already written this way: crypto assembly routines, scientific kernels, sql queries, etc: they are written in a specific dsl which is closer to a mathematical spec than an algorithm, and then they are compiled to a "classical" programing language by a "meta-program".

Can you give some examples? The high performance programs I know of are all written in either C, assembly, OpenCL, or hardware description languages.
Yep SMTP relay is the only sane choice nowadays sadly. Sending your own mail is a losing battle against the email blacklist cartel.
Well, to meet that requirement you must first have self editing code. That pretty much leaves you just FORTH or lisp AFAIK
Scraping data from an app: real world example
Would that be Hashcash you're thinking of?

http://www.hashcash.org/
I've been hosting my mail for 20+ years now, with minor issues. I guess I've been lucky.

Reading the comments here makes me incredibly sad. Every answer that tells me to use a provider misses the point. The Internet was created so that there could be many independent nodes, not so that everybody has to rely on one of several blessed providers. I should be able to run my own E-mail.

The real problem is lack of incentives. The big corps do not care about e-mail. It doesn't make money and isn't easily controllable. You can't turn it into a walled garden and lock users in. So, it gets minimal attention, and only defensive measures are developed.

Either we solve the spam problem, or things will get worse. The big tech corps won't solve it for us.
I talked with him in the olden days[0]. Great guy. Incisive questions, got to the heart of things in very few words.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllJoyn
It's not just burgers and steaks.

Dairy cows turn alfalfa into milk and we turn milk into butter, cheese, yogurt, kefir, cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, cream cheese, ice cream, whey, casein, pudding, flan, caramel, crema, etc.
I agree that the way the answers are evaluated is too narrow and simplistic. That said,

> coming across like a jerk... lack of self-awareness and basic social skills

I see things very similarly, but from the other side of the table.

If an organization is uncomfortable with me asking direct-but-polite questions about potentially negative aspects of working there, and asking such questions gets me labeled as a jerk, that organization is too culturally dysfunctional for me to work for.
not to be confused with the Cool S

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S
That is the problem. Carol is allowed to offer the messaging services for free, subsidized by the advertisement and investment money coming from a rather close community with its own political interests. If Dave wanted to compete with Carol and offer an non-opinionated messaging service, he won't be able to do it because Carol is offering services below cost. The network effects make competition even less viable.

In this example, if the anti-DDOS service providers were forced to charge their customers proportionally to the used resources, the market would have 20+ players as opposed to just a handful, and Cloudflare would instantly lose a considerable amount of paying customers by deciding to take sides.
It's really disgusting to see someone argue that people don't want to pay for quality, when old phones worked. Now, the pilpul here will be to claim that those old phones totally didn't actually work, they just appeared to basically always work, so it's totally the same thing; it's not.

The fact of the matter is that old phones may not have been formally-proven to work, but basically worked. The new phones aren't formally-proven to work, and basically don't.

> People just don't know what they're demanding.

As a programmer, I want the cretins claiming to be programmers to face justice for their disgusting work, about which they're so smug and condescending.
I've been self-hosting since 2004. I currently route via a VPS. The only issues I have seem to be with outlook.com/hotmail.com/etc - free Microsoft accounts. That goes to junk, though replies seem to work fine. Paid Outlook365 seems fine.

Even after speaking with Microsoft's email admin team on the phone a couple times, I still have issues. It's kind of infuriating.

I have properly configured SPF+DKIM (selector rotated daily)+DMARC, and I've gotten set up with dnswl.org.
A New Materials Paradigm Is Overdue
Here’s an idea

Make a new protocol for this decade, that isn’t email.

HTTP is supported nearly everywhere SMTP is. Just build something over that, and this time around make sure to avoid SPAM bullshit.

People shouldn’t be able to just message you based on your address. They receive a capability to email you. People can be empowered to give out your capabilities. If a particular such branch leads to spam, you simply cut off that branch and boom, no new user can reach you with that capability anymore. Hashes of Public keys can identify users.
> When so much extra money can be made by just providing a simple workflow for your primary use case

Perhaps the product managers at the company thought of a different use case as their primary use case or optimized for a user persona different from you.
It's not just location that warps salary. I've worked with plenty of people senior to me that contributed less than me but got paid more. The only solution I've found is to change jobs
Your company is gaslighting you. None of those reasons are valid. The first one is the closest to the accurate answer, but the real answer is "because we can hire people in your area for this rate". Try contracting, for a US company, for US rates; set a rate that's comparable to what other US contractors charge, and don't take clients that want to negotiate your pay based on your location.

You might also try building some reputation on Open Source projects with a strong community, the type that's regularly being hired for. Get referrals from your colleagues in that project for people looking for employees or contractors. Cite the rates your colleagues make, and don't accept location-based reductions.

(Also, make sure you have a job or contract lined up before you leave, unless you're really confident you can get one at the rate you want.)
I agree that these are blatant lies. Unionizing seems impossible? I'm not sure what it entails and how would one even go about it.

Someone else mentioned about taking up contract work, which seems like something I can give a shot at.
1 crime can easily be more than one vicitm.

also you too made the exact same error. you discounted the victims of the criminals. yes the 1 innocent wrongly convicted is bad but what about all the innocents that are victims of the criminals. You absolutely have to add those innocents to your total of how many innocents you helped

if you catch 10 serial killers and 1 happens to be innocent you still saved 9-18-27 lives in exchange for one innocent. If because of over zealousness of zero innocents being caught you only catch 5 serial killers you saved 1 extra life and forfeited 5 to 15 others

You arguably believe what I'm saying. no law enforcement can be perfect so it's guaranteed that innocent people will be mistakenly convicted. The only logical conclusion is if you truly believe there must be zero innocents convicted then you believe law enforcement should not exist since there will never be perfect law enforcement
re the memory, More RAM won't help, the bug was that docker would eat all the memory you give it. The mitigation was to limit your WSL memory.
Is your argument based on the idea that cows are the only food humans can eat?
If you're sending through someone else then you're not self hosting!
There is also Simutrans-Extended (https://bridgewater-brunel.me.uk/) — a fork that adds even more detail and realism to the simulation and tries to achieve better game balance.
> That's interesting. In my career (embedded development) I've learned to do the opposite. Always use signed unless you have a reason not to. Even if a value can't naturally be negative, use signed. Use unsigned only if you need the extra bit, or if you're doing bitwise operations.

In this case, since you make sure that the extra size gained by unsigned is not important to you all, then you can also go with signed by default. Basically it is the tradeoff between 1. robust in majority of the use cases 2. capability to do signed arithmetic 3. additional positive integer range. As long as you make a consistent selection and be mindful when you are in the danger zone, it can be handled.
Since this was published in 2014 it gives us some space to compare the article's predictions to reality. While Google has certainly been found liable for having violated some privacy laws there is no evidence of widespread and intentional misuse of personal data at Google. The bigger concern for me personally is the Amazon/Walmart dominance of purchasing data.
Where are PRs in Git?
Interesting! Handing off job responsibilities is definitely an important aspect, especially for more tenured employees.
My mother read bedtime stories for me.
Just like with e-mail, it doesn’t matter what’s in the standard, what matters is what the big providers actually do. If Google (Gmail), Microsoft, etc. will simply show any BIMI logo without VMC verification (which will never happen), then I will concede that BIMI is not a monopolizing standard. It’ll just be a tracking pixel.
Dairy is significantly less resource intensive than meat (though still bad in its own right) since we don’t have to regrow a cow every time it is milked (whereas we do every time it’s slaughtered)
We're interested. I'd love to see this happen. But it does require several different things to change, and rustup wouldn't be the starting place (apart from needing to have support for it).
This brings back nice memories.
Your employer is missing out by not paying by value. I suggest you find a new role at a new company.
Linking “How was it made” straight to a YouTube video led to me closing the tab in record time. Link to a page, embed the video, and a transcript or at the very least a brief text description.
W, v and j were still pretty novel letters at that point. j was typically used as a final form for i/j so you will see things like the roman numeral for 3 represented as iij. V tended to be used for U/V in capitals and u for u/v in lowercase. W was often not a letter that was part of a typefont and writing VV or vv was the only way to represent it in print. The sixteenth century was the point where u and i became the vowel forms and V and j became the consonant forms. Later Latin is inconsistent in its use of u/v and i/j, right down to dictionaries. I remember having difficulty with my pocket Latin dictionary in college because I would often forget that iam was listed as jam in it (and similar instances of an initial consonantal i).
I had been saying for years that proper market pricing for water should solve this. However, it was called out in a previous discussion of this topic that farmers don't get their water out of a faucet. They typically will get it out of wells or rivers that run through their properties. Addressing this would apparently require reworking water rights that have been in place for a long time.
To be fair, the term "paywall" is kind of misleading here; just by looking at it, it's hardly obvious that it also refers to things like "sign up" (or "disable your adblocker", etc). It's unfortunate that less opaque terms like "signupwall" are too awkward to supplant it. (Of course, if they did, we'd probably have the opposite problem, of people pretending something's not a signupwall because you can pay without signing up. If socialdemocrat has any suggestions for a term for this single concept that's etymologically compatible with both of those special cases, I'd quite like to hear them.)
If its unlocked you can install what you like later on. At $165-$300 getting it fully unlocked is trivial.
> How do we know this, especially the swatting?

Out of all things, I think the swatting is the most easily believable. Swatting is commonly done to streamers, such that I am not surprised at all that it would be used for targeted harassment.
It’s time for the US mail service to digitise and fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide a private, secure mail service for all American citizens.
I second this. Another option is the one Manish Pabrai took: do just enough work to not get fired, and spend the excess time and energy building your own business.
That’s the reward mechanism, not the function, isn’t it? You can release it by jumping off a cliff or reading a novel.
Oh, that's certainly been done before

Usually not though
The chart on the zstd site doesn't really back that up for lz4.

zstd 1.4.5 -1 2.884 500 MB/s 1660 MB/s
zstd 1.4.5 --fast=1 2.434 570 MB/s 2200 MB/s
zstd 1.4.5 --fast=5 2.178 700 MB/s 2420 MB/s
lz4 1.9.2 2.101 740 MB/s 4530 MB/s

3% larger size for a nearly 2x decompression speed is a no brainer for lots of uses.

Anecdotally I have also gotten much better decomp speed on snappy on previous generations of CPUs staying within ~10% compression ratio, though I had not benchmarked/tuned extensively nor reconfirmed in the past ~2 years. (Probably this can also vary a lot by implementation, which you're often stuck with based on some other library choice.)
This is really cool! It isn't quite what I expected from the idea of "street view" though; it definitely has a very full map, but it seems like there are only a few specific spots where you can actually see the world (i.e. the "street view" part versus the "Google Maps" part), and it seems like there isn't any way to move when in the "world" view compared to the "map" view. I'd absolutely love to be able to scroll through the whole world like I could in Google Street View, especially if it there were more than one point in time to choose.
Sure! I would never recommend, for instance, Dreamhost, but I set up a company's smarthosting with Dreamhost because the company was already using them. Dreamhost in general, though, is quite spammy.

Linode and Panix come to mind.

Really, though, many hosting companies won't necessarily list "smart hosting" / "smarthosting" as a service. If they offer a cheap VPS and offer outgoing SMTP, you can set up smarthosting through a VPS.

One can even smarthost through Outlook / Gmail, if you really want.
For me, the issue wasn't that I had to fix it frequently, but that when I did it was urgent, stressful and disruptive. Eventually the VDS I was renting had a fatal HD crash and I gave up.
Well, calling them "lies" is a bit out there, but not entirely incorrect, rationalizations is probably the best way to describe it. The reason it's done is because people where you are from take those jobs at these rates and aside from maybe a different tax burden specific to your country, that's about it.

I don't know the size of the company or how the split is regarding the area you're from and the US/EU but they might have allocated budget to employment counting on this split and not be able to pay for a generalized change, hence why they'd offer if you moved, but offering while being where you are could be "dangerous" as other people in the same position as you might ask for raises as well.

I can't make sense of the "trapping" argument however.

Now, those are the reasons I can see for the policy to be in this way, you are free to disagree, as do I, but the only real answer is going to come from the higher ups. If it's a public company sometimes these kinds of things are listed in their releases with some notes, could be another place to look at.