skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt that you need to sell your soul to work for Goldman, but those two examples don't seem particularly striking to me.

> We had multiple "partners" (super senior, old-school MDs) tell us: "At Goldman, there is not publically available org chart." Fucking dead wrong. I raised my hand at each of those bullshit meetings and said, "I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. There is a website where you can view and search the org chart." (It was amazing -- no lie/joke.) Each PMD was so "surprised" to learn this. Not sure if real, or encouraging people to do face-to-face networking.

It's a big company - it seems entirely plausible to me that it could have been an honest mistake and he just didn't know that it existed. And the goal of having an organization where people are free to collaborate with others outside of their org, and employees at all levels are able to voice their opinions, seems like a valid aspiration to fight for... even if in reality it doesn't work that way.

> Second, they showed all these weird propaganda videos about how Goldman is closely tied with the US gov't, especially during World War 2. So weird, creepy, and out of date! Many senior partners leave Goldman and enter US politics. In American English, they call it "the revolving door" (between private industry and politics). Many democracies have this problem. But why celebrate it? Fuct! The whole thing felt so sleazy. Why is this important to non-US citizens? Many people looked bored and only read their mobile phones during these 90 minute(!) videos.

It's not uncommon to show "propaganda" videos to new hires when they join a company - to try to motivate them by showing them the impact that their work can have on the world. And yes they do often come across as a bit creepy. It's also not uncommon for companies that have been around for a while to be proud of their history - which probably explains the WW2 references. I also don't think there's anything inherently wrong about working closely with the government - the US government provides a lot of useful services for its citizens after all. Corruption of course is another matter entirely... but I can only assume the video was not promoting corruption.

Surely you must have seen worse things than this in your time at Goldman Sachs?
>"Japan has never addressed the issue with any nations that they invaded in WWII"

The Japanese made peace with and paid reparations to the vast majority of (but not all) allied countries, including Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_Betw...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Francisco
Twitter isn't a community, it's a platform. There's nothing at all wrong with community engangement. Platform engagement and the advertising model that requires it are the problems.
highly recommend a few books if you haven't read them yet. plenty of of ideas to steal from there:

from "Decisive: How to make better choices in life and work" https://www.amazon.com/Decisive-Make-Better-Choices-Life/dp/..., you might be presenting a false choice at the top. Is there a feature to prompt people to propose alternative paths?

from "How to Decide" https://www.amazon.com/How-Decide-Simple-Making-Choices/dp/0..., can you add a feature to list options and assign probability and cost weightings? (essentially risk/probability/impact scoring)
Meh, since 2017 - on a monthly DCA strategy (with no sells), annualised returns are;

- BTC 15%~

- ETH 35%~

700% cherry picking the data / lacking info on the trading start.

(Above numbers assume you buy at open price 00:00 first of every month)
Yeah that's exactly it. If you're in that "Trough of Sorrow" (and statistically speaking most startups in the world are at any given moment), YC and everybody else will not touch your startup even if you had resumes that would have been impressive enough to get your foot in the door with just the idea.

Ofc if an applicant made it past the "Trough of Sorrow" and reached PMF on their own, it's a no brainer, any decent VC would be throwing money their way at that point. For the rest of the applicants though, it just feels a bit backwards to me how YC seems to rather bet on founders with impressive resumes who have built nothing over similarly impressive founders who have proven that they can build something tangible, but need some help getting it past this infamous "Trough of Sorrow" that most successful startups are known to have gone through.

But hey what do I know. Surely they have the data internally to back that up right?
Oh, I’ve always thought this would be a great job. I agree with other posters about 35mm films. It’s very like my preference for vinyl — there are aesthetic aspects of the experience beyond perfect reproduction of the source material. And maybe similar to liking mechanical watches — there’s something attractive to me about mechanical complexity, even again at the cost of precision.

Cinema 21 in Portland had a union projectionist for many years. Per union rules, he projected his license during the opening reel. One day it stopped, and I never got the story why. https://www.cinema21.com/

The Hollywood in PDX also shows a lot of 35mm films. They’re a non-profit, and some years ago they had a funding campaign to buy a new 70mm print of the 2001 re-release. Seeing that on the big screen was unreal. https://hollywoodtheatre.org/
I dunno, in about 2/3 of our clients the security team could be summed up as ivory tower that throws decrees and enforces half-useless constraints.

Like, we HAD TO change our passwords every 30 days.... but our default modus operandi was not having password auth in first place + hardware tokens for authentication, which made whole password thing totally irrelevant, but no, security, change your password you don't use every 30 days.
BitLocker does validation of the Platform Configuration Register (PCR) in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). It does this to prevent a whole slew of exploitation techniques.

PCR banks 0 to 7 have well-defined values, so an accumulator in the TPM hashes the values and BitLocker uses the values as part of the encryption key derivation algorithm. If the PCR hash changes, the BitLocker key will become invalid.

However, BitLocker can have several "protectors" as they are called. One that is enabled by default is a "Recovery Key" protector, which is not protected by the TPM. It is a 48 digit password that must either be printed, stored on a non-encrypted medium (like an USB device) or uploaded to an Azure AD or Microsoft account.

Your colleagues must have enabled BitLocker themselves, as it is not enabled by default. They must also have been through the "backup recovery key" process, as BitLocker requires manual user interaction for this part.

It sucks when there is an update to PCR banks - and usually the update won't install if PCR7 binding is enabled - but users that enable advanced security features also have part of the responsibility to ensure they don't get locked out of their own systems.
It’s the Langrangian vs Eulerian specification of fiction
Denormals are not flushed to zero merely by `mov xmm,rax` - they can't be, since xmm is also used for integer arithmetic, and the CPU doesn't "know" whether it's an FP or integer value at the point of the mov.

Your gist demonstrates this: notice in the bottom right that xmm0 contains `v2_int64 = {0x1, 0x0}` so the bottom half containing the result is nonzero. (The top half is zero as it's unused).

The "info" command rounds the value to 0 for compactness, but if you run `p $xmm0.v2_double` you will also see it is nonzero when interpreted as a double (I get 4.94e-324).

A fun aside: that `mulss` instruction you stopped at is just there to raise an underflow FP exception; its result is discarded. https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/595c22ecd8e87a27fd19270...
I host the SMTP server I use and keep my programs on my personal website. By whitelisting I mean it's like when an e-mail field only accepts addresses from Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and a few others. Realistically, very few people use my programs, but I have noticed some users, because they put my code on Github for their convenience.

> An expert can only be an expert on a repository that they have a history of contributing to

This is what I mean. Not everything happens in a repository like this. Unfortunately, I'm in the overwhelming minority here, but I still wanted to comment on this.

> If they still chose to give bad advice then I would be disappointed.

It's something to consider, for it will happen.
I don't actually see why the taint must trickle up.
This is pretty neat! It's great to see relatively recent advancements in machine learning, put to use for child education.

A few questions for @Cherian:

1. I see the ASR usage, but where does computer vision come into play?

2. Are you training and/or fine tuning asr models to deal with the speech characteristics of children and new speakers?

3. Is the asr all cloud side, or do you have it running locally in some fashion?
Now you can have business "trips"
In France, where their attitude to adultery is rather relaxed, Freemasonry is often a coed activity.

Hiding affairs under a seal of masonic secrecy would be dangerous business in America.
Did the MPAA rake you guys over the coals for licensing fees given Google's size?
This culture is fostered deliberately because the blood-thirsty crowd is a good weapon in the hands of those who control the information flows.

Ironically, the comment you replied to stayed on top of the thread for about 30 minutes, gaining upvote after upvote, and then instantly got kicked down to the bottom, while still showing the original score.

This is very different from the usual time+score-based ordering and looks 100% like a manual override. Strange response to trying to be objective.
Spent about 4 weeks learning perl at an internship 10 years ago. I believe that is one of the biggest professional mistakes I ever made. There is literally nothing I would recommend doing with perl over python.
Would you have preferred more prosperity, but soundtracked only by the Bay City Rollers, Pink Floyd, and Cliff Richard? Or the angry DIY spirit of punk to emerge?
That is entirely users doing that. Admins didn't touch those comments or even see them...I've been dealing with nothing but the queen all day and didn't even look at this thread until now.

We don't flag comments that are critical of YC companies; we moderate HN in exactly the opposite direction, as I've explained many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That's not to say we don't moderate at all—but we do considerably less than we normally do.
Ironically, one of Patreon's CEO's bands is named Scary Pockets.

They're good, too.
Maximizing community engagement, trolling and advertising are related. They're different heads of the same multiheaded demon.

All 3 are concerned with attention. Are hungry for it.

If social media could be optimized to deliver engaging conversation to everybody then the demon would be slain. Because the hunger would be satisfied.

Does that sound right?
Given that SQL Server was originally licensed from Sybase (for Unix) makes this a full-circle moment.
Aren't reddit reviews already influential, isn't that why the site exists in the first place? If you're right, then it follows that this is already probably happening :)
Funny how achievements always get credited to the overpaid management but blame gets spread around...
Plural Money, Socially-Provided Goods, and the Principal-Agent Problem
That's a shi[p]load of razor blades .... (Old joke — ships used to be literally melted down to be made into razor blades.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/10/02/from...
The Queen is dead.

I've dreaded writing these words for quite some time now, because to me, she's become the prototype of someone who hasn't been quite alive for some time now, but still embodied the spirit of a nation - a nation arguably in perceived decline, but still somehow held together by the almost poetic and optimistic belief that as long as the Queen is alive, the nation will prosper or, at the very least, persevere.

At the same time, I feel relief that even the Queen may die, and life still goes on. May she rest in peace.

The Queen is dead.
Have you ever had to do your own accounts receivable, fraud detection, government compliance, and subscription management?
I leased 85,000 hectares of land for $1/year for 5 years. What can I do with it?
That's been bugging me since the start of the digital era. Slightly defocusing the projector should work, shouldn't it? Or perhaps someone could create some advanced optics to spread pixels out.
Not pointless, but nothing like as powerful, true. Any lock-in can create market power over a subsection of the market, however small, illegally; but small potatoes stuff is rarely prosecuted. Huge potatoes are rarely prosecuted, post-Bork.
Much more likely Musk impulsively put an offer for the company with few contractual protections then got cold feet (probably from both macroeconomic and geopolitical environments).

If Musk had the intention to spend $1 billion (minimum cost to him to sever to buyout) to “force Twitter to come clean”, he would have left standard due diligence clause in the contract. He also intended to require high confidence user authentication and pivot away from advertising, so the current bot counts wouldn’t matter to his future Twitter business model.
Voter registration, not votes. They can tell if you’re registered Democrat or Republican, not if you actually voted for Biden or Trump (even if it could safely be inferred).
Civilization 1, 4x made it big
Just a nerdy blog post about a childhood introduction to a video game.
I'm glad he got rid of the black mourning line. It had gotten really
cringey when you thought someone's passing deserved but didn't get it.
I believe the Prince Hall lodges were always proper Masonic lodges, they just derived their charters from Irish then English lodges, rather than from the American lodges. They were always fully legit.

It took a while for American lodges to recognise that.
It's easy to goose profit margins when you don't use automotive grade parts and skip quality control.

Consumer Reports stopped recommending Teslas because of the abysmal quality of their vehicles. And every Tesla owner I personally know has said their first Tesla will also be their last.
That's a clever insinuation, and since you've had many HN accounts in the past, and used them to abuse the site in similar ways, I'm going to be a notch less charitable than usual and conclude that you meant this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771519 as an innocent-sounding smear.

For anyone worried about this kind of thing: what the commenter is insinuating is, in fact, just what we don't do. Here's tons of past explanation about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

In particular, we flagged zero comments in this thread and unkilled a bunch of comments that users had flagged.
and had nothing to with Patreon at all
Also see lexica.art

Its recently updated to use CLIP for image search. This means now you get images based on description, and also matching images, allowing you to find a prompt to generate certain kind of results.

You might want to do something similar here.
BGP just makes sure your packets get to the right location. If routing shifts in the middle of a TCP connection, there's no magic that makes a new machine that didn't SYN+ACK the original connection pick up where the old machine left off.
How should I interpret your argument? Are you arguing that any publication that uses this keyword is dismissed in a popular context, or that you specifically dismiss the piece whenever you see this keyword?

If I assume that you're arguing that you dismiss, it is difficult for me to imagine a 'balanced' version of this piece. As far as I can tell, the argument of the piece is essentially: "Forcing people to espouse political views as part of a tenure process is hurtful to academia's mission of discovering truth, here are specific examples of a doctrine that folks are being forced to espouse, this should concern us." I find this line of argument unobjectionable. If I 'balance' the argument, it could become:
a) Reasonable people disagree about whether forcing people to espouse political views should be incorporated into the academic tenure process.
b) Some universities don't do this, so it's maybe a trend, maybe not a trend.

a), though technically 'balanced', seems false to me facially; I confess I have not met anyone who thinks that politics rather than pursuit of truth should drive university hiring. I have difficulty imagining someone making this argument in good faith.
b) is very similar to the content of the article, which posits it as a growing trend, but with an explicit qualifier. I don't think it adds much for the careful reader.

What do you think though? Is there something I'm missing?
Yep. The “Genghis Khan has died” post was a total shitshow.
> VCs make many mistakes betting on the wrong horses

A poor analogy. VC is more like putting 20 horses in a race, hoping that 1 horse will win billions of dollars. The other 19 horses usually make approximately $0 in comparison to the winner.

VC is not zero-sum. Most sports are zero-sum and most sports betting is worse than zero-sum due to house take and taxes. Using sports for analogies with business often gives invalid intuitions because of this.

I think you are also making a fat tail error, the opposite of survivorship/selection bias[1]: you see heaps of failures so you are not properly offsetting correctly for the small percentage of big wins which is the theoretical modus operandi of VC[2]. A majority of VC funds fail to return enough for their risk, but that alone doesn’t tell you whether investing in VC funds gives a poor return: perhaps one VC fund returns 100x, perhaps an investor is willing to pay for investment diversity, perhaps other reasons to invest in what superficially appears to be a poor performing sector.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me...
I guess that works in theory, but Americans don't generally "forget" to tip. Every time you sign a receipt there's an explicit line for a tip. Apps like Uber have a button you have to press to not leave a tip.
> I think there have always been flat options available.

It's been a few years. Maybe it was a temporary state, or the stores didn't have flat available. Or they were only in specific sizes.

In any case I've not connected it to my network, and it's happy to act as a dumb screen.
I think most people would prefer William, but if you'd have waited over seventy years to become King of England, how likely do you think it would be that once you'd finally become King you'd pass it over?

Charles is going to milk his kingship for everything it's worth.
Similar to that, I used to find it hard to watch a movie in a different cinema where the projectionist didn't pay too much attention to detail when framing.
Sure most of the picture was on screen but for like 30second more attention it could be great on screen
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch Slow Motion 16mm Film
With the rising costs of everything in your weekly life, taking on a ridiculous SF mortgage when there are flexible WFH options just isn't worth it for many.

I wonder how many SF based tech companies are waiting for their multi-year leases to expire.
That seems really unlikely given his impulsiveness in the past with that $420 stock thing. It seems much more likely he was gonna make a pretty suboptimal investment (which is why Twitter's shares spiked after he announced his intent to purchase), he realized 'Oh shit, this is kind of a bad idea' and will probably take Twitter down so he doesn't have to throw away money. If there was any noble intent from the outset he would've tried to hard to back out if the deal
dang, Paul Graham is British; has it factored into your decision of keeping the comments deferential to the Queen.

My condolences to British people who held the Queen at high esteem. But frankly world is a bigger place than Britain and America. Not everyone from the British former colonies will appreciate the Queen. if they express the feelings about the monarchy in a respectful way; do you see an issue?
Ask HN: Windows 10 WSL2 or Macbook Pro M1??
Hello HN peeps,

Been debating between the two but wanted to get ideas from folks here who have had experience with both!

What are the cons of going with a Windows 10 with WSL2 (i7-1260p) machine as opposed to an M1 Macbook Pro which has the same hardware specs as the Windows but costs twice as much?

Is there anything only possible on the Macbook and not possible on the Windows machine? (Except for iOS-specific development)

Thanks!
Why yes, especially post-Bork, lock-in (and much else) is overlooked in many, many instances. But then, the Sherman Act was passed to hamstring previous "restrain of trade" suits; and was suspiciously rarely used. John Sherman was the brother of General Sherman who ran an urban railroad before and for part of the Civil War. The powers that be serve themselves while pretending to serve the people surprisingly often.

Lock-in isn't necessarily illegal (or even avoidable.) Note too that lock-in that's a necessary consequence of IP such as a patent is legal, for the duration of the patent, and no longer.
It was a freak event - act of god - sort of thing. It was a temporary encampment for guests. The tent was in the middle of the camp and the only one that got plucked. They were heavy canvas-like material and anchored down. It was a full on sandstorm with winds over 60mph if I had to guess. Strong enough to make it hard to walk straight. Most likely a dirt devil (mini cyclone) swept through the camp since the sky was clear of sand clouds moments after it happened. The wind lasted most of the night. The hosts were deeply apologetic, and I got the feeling it was a rare event.
As does Google, Airbnb, Amazon, Facebook... This seems to be a recurring theme here on HN of late.
Watch for the post and you'll find out!

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Could be as simple as "they just whined from their security ivory tower so we just made developers doing actual code and ops doing actual ops do their job".

You want people focused on security, but separate security department all too often just becomes annoyance that doesn't understand business, or architecture, just drops decrees.
"screen door effect"? I don't know that one.
For us who don't feel for the monarchy or think it has minimal impact or significance on our lives, the next couple of weeks (or months) is going to be grueling as we have to stay quiet, bite our tongues and bare the over-the-top ness of this situation to not offend others. I was disappointed in this moderation warning.

The ex-prime minister of the UK who led us through a pandemic where hundreds of thousands died has just said it's the UK darkest day. And, I have received an email to say my kids nursery will be closed due to the situation, and they will be talking about bereavement for the kids. He is 2.
Maybe not for the cinemas as much anymore but people who do projection mapped art installations are having quite a great time these days. It's pretty specialized knowledge on how to project for stuff like the inside of domes.
Would it be fair to call this a bug in nextafterf? If this FPU flag is enabled it would seem like returning a denormal here is incorrect as it isn’t representable in this cpu in this configuration.
So was the queen. The kind they practice is a lot more occult than your common highstreet homeopath, and more akin to the kind espoused by Czech magician Franz Bardon, and other occultists that the likes of us will never have even heard of.
This is 5 years old. What's the current state of the art?
Nvidia Hopper Sweeps AI Inference Benchmarks in MLPerf Debut
I've always found heartcombo/devise's wiki to be a really easy read. I recall it was very helpful without too much info when I was just getting started. https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/wiki/How-Tos.