skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd put Wells Fargo at the top of that list -- specifically Carrie Tolstedt and John Stumpf.

If their actions weren't worthy of jail, the law should be changed. They created an incentive system which guaranteed that lower-level employees would act badly.

Instead, even after clawbacks, they retired ahead of the game by 8-9 figure sums.
Since I'm too lazy to write a mail: Scala has optional semicolons (they are infered).
Maybe they tried cox regression and it didn’t work. I’ve used that model and went with logistic regression before
What amazes me is that they do not test this extremely specific uarch code when a new uarch is released.

On the other hand, I think the hack is not in using the pause instruction itself, but that crazy backoff algo. For example Linux uses pause too (via rep; nop) in lots of places. But not in a exponential loop (that I'm aware of).
MAID is "not bad"? It's the shittiest shitcoin, a coin that has nothing but marketing and a number of unworking prototypes developed by cheap outsources. How is that "not bad"?
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I think the 'seizing by Libyan Government' thing is a bit of a red herring.

I wrote this on ZDnet way back in 2011 on this topic https://www.zdnet.com/article/dead-ly-urls-and-authoritarian...
I find the "FP jargon" and "math-babble" to be annoying, but not nearly annoying as the sort of infantilization sites like this engage in. It's a common trope to "dumb down" complex topics into cartoonish explanations, but in reality it only makes the content more confusing, while simultaneously insulting its readers by treating them like children.

No, I don't need a "cartoon intro to DNS over HTTP" to understand basic networking concepts. Nor do I need a story about "Dr Frankenfunctor and the Monadster" to understand functional programming concepts. Even when I was a teenager reading about OOP, I didn't want to read about the "Car class inheriting from the Vehicle class" or the "Dog class inheriting from the Animal class."

When reading technical content, I always prefer prose that treats its readers as professionals, rather than five-year-olds incapable of understanding complexity without resorting to vacuous and incomplete analogies. The problem is that complex topics are complex. By their very nature they rarely fit into convoluted analogies, and would be better explained by simple use cases and examples.
They were deployed on a large scale in the Soviet Union. They're not patentable, so it's difficult for private companies to make money out of them. Phage therapy could still be developed by a government-owned and run health service.
Ivy League is overrated, trust me here. I got a MUCH better value in my state university for graduate school than I did spending $40k (had numerous merit scholarships) per year on an elite education which is highly impersonal and un-tailored. Those schools are businesses and you can provide one of their products(learning CS) to yourself. Good on you, don't worry about not going to those very overpriced schools, which are increasingly the playground of the rich and the narrow few who get there based on merit. I knew many, many kids who got there on sports rides or on daddy's donations and when it came time to make comments in class, they were silent or contributed the banal minimum.
Swift, on a typical project, will do around 20. Not K, just lines/sec.

To compare a historical compiler with your Swift numbers: In 1989, Turbo C compiled 16K lines per minute on a ho-hum machine. The computers today, 30 years later, are more than 60x faster, so one would expect compilation speeds exceeding 16k per second of swift code. Turbo Pascal compiled about twice as fast as Turbo C at the time.
> difficult -to-impossible to misuse in such a way as to cause a deadlock or race condition

Rust doesn't solve deadlocks or race conditions. Rust only makes it hard to accidentally share a memory location, but that's only a very small part of the problem, race conditions being a fundamental part of computer science, being baked into any language that supports expressing and joining asynchronous processes.

I would be generous in agreeing with a statement about Rust making it a little more difficult to end up with a deadlock or unwanted race condition, except that's not true when compared with many other high level languages.

Also nothing is impossible until you prove it via formal methods (e.g. TLA+).
It is. It is being called 'dancing pig problem'.
The banks are constantly caught with defrauding their customers, but all they do is pay whatever they made in a month through that fraud.
I have tried designing an application around Haskell's error monads in the past, and it was an absolute disaster. There was so much typing. The types became really hard to understand and the program structure became really rigid. I do not know that it can't be done better, but I've heard prominent Haskell guys say that combining errors (or any monads at at all) sucks in practice.

And I've got zero problems with just handling errors procedurally. I realize that errors simply combine very badly: If there are many possible error kinds the best you can do in the end is usually to just quit. That's not what they promised on the tin :-)

So in the end I just write procedural code and I'm careful not to get into situations where many different kinds of errors can happen. I select a few error cases that I care enough about to handle. Because handling even a single kind of error means a lot of complexity on top of a software project.
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Ripping off the government gets you a governorship. See Florida governor, Rick Scott.
French air traffic control 'causes third of Europe's flight delays'
I wouldn't call them "poor" in this case. WASM is super cool and has a hopeful future, but productionizing wasm apps is currently still quite difficult in practice - it's still missing a lot of relevant tooling (debugging is hard)
Very interesting. Noticed apart from wrecks near the coast the number of wrecks seems to be pretty evenly distributed and probably continues out beyond the purple border?
I'm programmer and I'm always saying (something like this) - the program / AI can be able to do things the best way how it can be done the best way by its programmer(s)

My point is - this is completely nonsense. IT world and Real world are two difference worlds.

It's look like Google needs wake up call.
You're suggesting, then, that the spinlock implementation is not merely slower on some CPUs but actually _incorrect_? It seems more likely that your software had some combination of a deadlock and a race condition exposed by different lock timing -- inserting delays in execution is one way to expand race windows to reproduce these kinds of defects.
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What we do with the spin lock classes that we use in our products is a SwitchToThread call:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...

If the SwitchToThread call returns False, then the code reverts to a Sleep(0) call instead.

Credit to StackOverflow and Joe Duffy's excellent article on this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1383943/switchtothread-v...

http://joeduffyblog.com/2006/08/22/priorityinduced-starvatio...

However, as mentioned in one of the SO replies, you still need to make sure that you don't use locks that use loops on calls like this when those locks will have to wait on anything long-running - you're just going to burn CPU/battery needlessly. So, only use such locks when you know that the protected code doesn't involve any long wait states, or modify the code to back out even further into a proper kernel wait after looping X times. Personally, I agree with second SO answer and don't like such constructs, and would personally say just go with a straight-up kernel wait if there's any question about whether such conditions could exist now or in the future.
If corporations are considered people in the USA, will this corporation be punished for spewing thousands or more of tons of pollution onto our streets and lying about it? Oh no, corporations can't be tried like people, they just get to use their money ("free speech") to be people, but when it comes to accountability, only one man is responsible?
Well, that makes me feel better about my lack of (titular) success. On the one hand, I'm paid well as an individual contributor and I do actually do work that I can see the results of, but on the other hand, my title is nothing impressive and my workspace is four feet worth of one of eight twenty-foot long tables in a 10,000 square foot open office bullpen... right next to the wall of Important People who have offices with doors that can close.
It's a different beast, but I would love to know how the CDC-6600 dual screen console was controlled. I have no idea whether it had internal memory to keep a character-based display list or whether all tracing was controlled from the host computer. Does anyone have anything on it?
>I hope this new trend of crippling software, after a set time period, comes to an end.

I don't really disagree with you but the idea that a piece of software you buy will run forever is an idealization. In theory, you can supposedly run some unupdated, unpatched app on a similarly unupdated OS in a VM forever. In practice though, you'll increasingly have problems running a software version that's long out of support.

The time scales are different of course; the app will likely run for a few years at least. But, as some point, you'll probably need to upgrade.
Interesting article by Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital.

China is taking the lead.

“All lists of private companies contain degrees of subjectivity and error, but the Wikipedia ranking of unicorn start-ups by value offers a peek into the future. For westerners, it should be disconcerting. Of the top 50 entries, 26 are Chinese and 16 are American. There are none from Europe. The Chinese also dominate the proportion of the most valuable of these companies. Of the top 20 with an estimated market value of over $10bn, 11 are Chinese, six are American and two are Indian. ​​“
The rhetoric by these gaint media companies about how "we're merging so we can compete with Netflix" is a con.

They say "we have to get more vertically integrated like Netflix to survive", but Time Warner Cable is already as vertical as Netflix! They have their own production and distribution already, and Netflix isn't an ISP.
>presuming the powerful and guilty will walk free

By and large, they do. The fact that this incident makes to the top of the “news” is testament. If things were different, an exec going to jail would be as commonplace as a convicted felon going to jail, and it would hardly be newsworthy.
> Good for Germany

Sadly, in the "Nash game" of international commerce a country wants to keep other countries' companies on check, while leaving its own free to pollute (elsewhere) and bend regulations.

That's the reason for having international regulations.
Wi-fi is an important threat to human health
Yes, but if the face is 1200mm, you do see it as 1.2 m. I rarely like the intermediate units (1e1, 1e2, 1e-1, 1e-2), as they feel like bikeshedding.
Which made me chuckle for very similar reasons.
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I'm sure it's an interesting technical challenge with huge amounts of complex, nuanced debate involved, and it could have a huge impact on health care.

That said, my wife is an oncology nurse, and I will bet everything that no machine will ever get better at predicting than an experienced, skilled nurse. Humans are built to read humans.
This is not factually correct.
Whatever software Pizza Hut used in the 90’s for their antique terminals to take orders and serve as cash registers. It was so slow, you could watch individual characters draw and clearing the screen was a multi-second operation. Oh and it used cryptic mnemonics.
>I don't think people should be treated as dollar signs.

You're a bit late to the party, no? Basically mortality calculations and risk transfer is what the whole insurance business is based upon.
My top three would be:

Dune by Frank Herbert (only the first book, dislike the rest of the series)

Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein

The Crysalids by John Wyndham

I've probably read these three books at least twice a decade since the 80s when I was a teenager.

The Complete Robot from Isaac Asimov would be a close forth.

The Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher would be fifth on the list. Hadn't read since a teenager, but about ten years ago tracked down copies of them (and the prequel) and it was delightful to reread.
How have "quantitative hedge funds" not paid their "fair share" of taxes? Are you suggesting that they evade taxes?
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Yes, the vast majority those elites did not profit, either in an economic (they mostly owned land, not corporations) nor more important (they / their sons were dead) sense; something like 1 in 4 young men were killed.

Even at the turn of the century, the foundation of the wealth of the British aristocracy rested on ownership of land, agriculture, and control of the Empire. The Great War disrupted all three greatly.

It was mainly the merchant and upper middle class that owned stocks, ran businesses, and profited from the war, with a tiny fraction of aristocrats benefiting.

Most of the rest saw the value of their land go towards zero, their manors used for wartime purposes while their servants were conscripted away, their sons killed on the field of battle, and confiscatory tax rates imposed to help fund the war effort.

This pattern was repeated again in WW2.

There's a reason Downton Abbey is set on the eve of WW1 and goes into the interwar period — that's when the British aristocracy was systematically taken apart piece by piece.

Common people largely supported monarchical, aristocratic governments before WW1. One reason was because their elites that actually put their money (and their lives) on the line for their nation... although sometimes with disastrous consequences.

Note that historically, the world wars were when wealth inequality dropped the most quickly. The US raised marginal tax rates to 90% during WW2, and most wealth was real assets, which obviously suffered greatly all throughout Europe. In a total war, everyone can give up their lives, but the wealthy can also lose their wealth.
I don't think the company would be able to take knowledge out of my head, though. Paid, uninterrupted training for anything I want? Sign me up!
I’m sure insurance companies will be glad to get their hands on this to use it as an excuse to deny coverage.
Let’s look at some other biases - so one exec from VW (a foreign company) was taken in. How many from GM who are just as guilty? What about the Equifax lot? Wells Fargo? The banks pushing crappy MBSs and ABSs on pensioners?
WCAG guidelines: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/?versions=2.0#qr-visu...

the other commenter was right, 4.5:1 ratio minimum.
Well not an easy replacement anyway, but something that is always useful forever.
Ask HN: Do you read the author's name or article first?
I have long been conflicted about whether I should read the article or the author's name first. On one hand, it's important to accept ideas without further biasing oneself for or against the ideas by knowing who is pushing the ideas. On the other, it can lend important credibility/incredulity and help me set my expectations for the perspective of the author.

My solution has been to generally not check beforehand, unless it is a source that I have found to have low standards and quality that varies widely, such as HBR, Forbes, any opinion page, etc. As a well read and mostly rational community, I would love to hear how others on HN approach this.
I'm sorry, but it doesn't support your example. I would have been making software regardless. Instead I earned less and learned less applicable skills than I would have had I not been suckered by the Jobs reality distortion field. It was a significant harm to me, and it wasn't the last time I fell for the "cool" of a technology.

It's true that my particular weakness was related to an economically productive activity. But although I personally value production more than consumption, production isn't inherently superior; one without the other is just waste.

Steve Jobs is Steve Jobs because he was very good at manipulating both producers and consumers. The (modest) technical improvements of the iPhone over existing smartphones wouldn't have happened without the millions of people who bought the notion that a slicker device in slicker packaging with slicker ads was deeply better.

Instagram influencers are no more shallow than an Apple ad. And I'd say less, in that they have built up personal businesses by entertaining others and finding a way to monetize it. It's not my kind of thing, but it's not essentially different than the travel magazine business. In both cases people go places and get paid to performatively do fun things in a way that's funded by self-promoting merchants.
Ah, because it talks about HTML5 I figured it was used on different online sources through a browsers.
> Wells Fargo executives institutionalizing fraud regarding fake accounts to pump up numbers, should be both an SEC violation and considered consumer fraud

It has been [1][2].

If senior management knew about the fake accounts and did nothing or worse, covered it up, they should go to jail. But we have no evidence of that. In fact, senior management had incentives to boost revenue and profit. Fake accounts don't increase revenue. Even before fines, they decrease profits. And we have no evidence of unusual insider sales or exercises while Wall Street was being duped.

Management instituted bad incentives and went up and down with everyone else. Lots of them were fired as the company faced civil consequences. It would be absurd to jail people for something they (a) did not know about and (b) had incentives to know about.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/business/wells-fargo-shar...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/business/wells-fargo-cfpb...
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How is that different from any other advertisement?
How did you determine what is "good" and what is "bad" in pop music? Seems to me like there's a lot of personal preference in music and absolute morality has little to do with the question. You might find the writer Adorno interesting, he takes very very strong stances on Classical musicians and is not shy about calling their work bad or good or some much more eloquent phrasing.
The article seems to me to claim otherwise:

> his life was driven by his one-eyed obsession to fulfil his destiny
> The method did not please Joyce very much because he considered it not imaginative enough, but it was the only way he could work.

What if Joyce wrote not to be enjoyed but to gain a literary reputation? (You could claim that the literary establishment favours books its members enjoy, but I think that's only true if you define "enjoy" in a way that removes all meaning)
In the Soviet Union, they used cocktails of bacteriophage in much the same way as broad-spectrum antibiotics are used, whenever it was impractical to identify the bacterial strain.

Bacteriophage evolve of their own accord, so phage resistance is temporary. Often the bacteriophage strain you need already exists and you just have to find it. This is much less effort than developing a new antibiotic.
This is what it says for DOGE!!

"Such shit, very coin, but HODL for that yearly pump"
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Voronoi diagrams of Penrose tilings are extra cool. There are six at the bottom of this page:
http://www.josleys.com/show_gallery.php?galid=284

I'd love to see it as real tiles. The nicest looking might be pearly-white granite or quartzite, with pink granite for the pentagons. Adding grey into the mix, I think a floor could be done without same-color adjacent tiles. I wonder where I could buy this.
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It's at the very top of the description, just below the globe.

"2,980 large and medium airports with scheduled services from OurAirports."
The non-advanced one - intro, seems like a good fit - and you also get to implement a custom storage for SQLite.
The rule of law is a public good; companies that damage it are imposing a negative externality on others for their own advantage, and should be penalised rather than rewarded.
Technically pirates figured that one out a long time ago.
This is called "Extracting the value from the brand". The implication that, once done, the brand is now valueless, is awkward but precisely as intended. :)
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Ok, I'll grant you "all" is in the defintion, but so is "nearly all". Comprehensive is often used with a modifier to denote that it doesn't cover all possibilities. It also is applied to subjects that can't include all possibilities, or where they can't reasonably be known. Its root word compréhensif also hints at the subject covering many areas, but not all of them; a thorough understanding.

CPAN covers nearly all Perl libraries, and also covers nearly all categories of modules, as they are organized into a hierarchy based on topic, and the modules' naming naturally falls into a hierarchy as well. It's easy to find a module even without a search engine, and thus easy to find out whether you need to make one or whether one already exists. The result is a comprehensive archive of libraries.
How’s this any different on Linux/Mac where you need root to install programs? Also, on a home pc, the user is typically also the admin/root
curl | bash can't install something that persists across reinstalls (unless I've sudo'd recently, which I admit is possible).

The problem with the desktop security model is the controls are ridiculously course-grained.
FWIW my chrome only autoplayed with sound muted (v 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) (64-bit))
Inclusion by http://ourairports.com/data/ in the categories "medium" or "large".

> 2,980 large and medium airports with scheduled services from OurAirports.
"ever" is a pretty long time though.
feudal lords often but not always, strong soldiers. Intelligence and family bonds were also ways to become a feudal lord. The post above reminds us of an important truth (feudal lords fought and died themselves, in great numbers) but risks glorifying the feudal combat system, which resulted in alarming numbers of healthy males dying and maimed early in life.
I hate to pour cold water on this, but medical researchers have been predicting mortality for years.

For example, here's a paper from the 1980's also predicting when a patient will die, also using a couple of thousands of patients' data: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/3816253

And, Google's paper wasn't published in Nature, it was in a new open access journal owned by Nature. In academia, that is like the difference between a really fancy porsche, and a really cheap volkswagen (two very different things, both owned by the same company).
Good point, there are other local talent pools that choose more attractive careers, but that is also a limited resource in a 60M country.
+1 for Red Wings

I got a pair of their work boots (1412, specifically) five years ago. I've worn them pretty much every day since then, and they're still perfectly usable.