skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because just as individual contributors change employers a lot, managers also change employers often enough that the reputation of mistreating workers doesn't stick to anything.

My own employer recently hired a handful of senior HR folks from Uber. They started after I joined. I hate it, but what can I do? I know they were present at Uber during Susan Fowler's very strange year; I don't know if they were actually the people making decisions. And if I preemptively quit, what is my guarantee that the next place will be any better?
Maybe they BuzzFeed's remaining employees should unionize to keep this same shit from happening to them.
> BuzzFeed is trying to avoid honouring the spirit of employment conditions their staff worked under

Which on its own could support the idea that if a corporation can't self-govern to be fair to its current and former employees without asterisks and gotchas, some greater (e.g. government) or counter (e.g. union) authority should hold the company accountable.

I do believe that all BuzzFeed employees should be entitled to their PTO if they were misled to believe they would get it when they worked there. As for whether unionization or more regulation is necessary here, I do not know enough about the issue to form a strong opinion -- the above observation was just an observation.
I think the Toronto-Waterloo corridor is more commonly referred to as "Silicon Valley North" than Ottowa now. Hopefully it doesn't become too similar to actually silicon valley though it's pretty nice as it is.
In my experience, no other category is so heavily gamed by shady marketplace sellers on Amazon than electronics. Search for wireless headphones on both Amazon and Best Buy and it’s night and day what you see returned. I’m bullish on Best Buy simply because it’s not a free-for-all of cheap foreign knockoffs.

Retail of yesteryear might stand a chance because employing buyers who actually curate merchandise to be sold will become a value add again.
I noted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014504 that this benchmark is basically a garbage benchmark because it's not properly comparing apples to apples. It doesn't even manage to use LLVM's optimizations on the IR properly, which should raise major red flags about how valid the comparison is.

Besides that, LLVM IR is not all that different from C. LLVM essentially originated as an implementation of the abstract machine described in the C standard, and most of the semantics of LLVM essentially align with the equivalent semantics in C. There are some additions for things that don't exist in C--bitcast, vector types, unwinding/exception handling--and there are knobs to turn down some of the undefinedness in C (e.g., you can choose whether or not integer overflow causes undefined behavior, and you can vary the alignment of load and store operations). But using LLVM IR directly isn't going to expose any extra optimization opportunities that you couldn't have already expressed with C, potentially with some extra gcc-isms (such as vector types).
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19007302
RFIDler – An Open Source Software Defined RFID Reader/Writer/Emulator (2013)
Thank you. Those videos illustrate the concept much better than any others.
What are the best alternatives to Webpack in 2019?
Ask HN: How did you bootstrap your startup?
Yeah, it's most likely a normal failure. I only said "a bit" suspicious. I suppose it will takes weeks to get a cable ship out to Tonga to fix the breaks. Oh, a comment elsewhere says not so long.
Hackero – The news feed for all your hacker news is going crazy on product hunt
Ah, but man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944605
Before you complain about down-votes, how about telling us what you're on about?
There are some Julia-based matmuls which are very close in performance with OpenBLAS, showing that it can happen. Written by an undergrad too.
Good list but not so underground.

`git commit --amend` is frequently used if you're using Gerrit for code review.
What Happened to the Texan Who Became the Goebbels of ISIS?
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it happened. I wouldn’t be surprised if it never happened, too, but I don’t think it’s at all a fair summary to say it definitely never will. It’s not at all reasonable to call it impossible, and Oracle, Microsoft, or random Linux developers could all do it if they felt like it.
The reason why Windows has this stuff is because it never was particularly supportive of remote terminals. Going back to DOS days, when writing a console app, it was either the kind that only needed print, or else you basically had full control over the screen area, changing individual characters, colors etc in a random access way. The first approach would use DOS output functions that allowed for things like stdout/stderr to work. The second approach couldn't be redirected properly.

Windows inherited that model, and mostly just kept developing it until lately.
Wow. It looks like Urbit.
Cyberthieves Stealing from Homebuyers Wiring Money
yep i fully agree with you
Matmul is a very common operation, you get problems when you have more exotic computations.

As an example where it got harder for me to find code is numerical CDF function approximation for bivariate / trivariate normal distributions. This is of course just my example, but I'm sure there are a lot of similar operations that are really hard to rewrite because the math is so complex.
CrossUO: The True Open Source Ultima Online Client
> it looks like jumping stilts allow you to deliver a lot more energy in a short period - for instance, running up to 25mph, or jumping over cars - but you pay for that with significantly increased calorie burn and the use of many more muscles.

I wonder if they could be used for more efficient exercise.
That's why I like B&H Photo now too. All genuine products, sold by them, with real reviews. Their shipping is a little slower and they close Friday/Saturday which is frustrating but overall a good experience.

They even do price guarantee if you contact CS which Amazon discontinued.
indiehackers.com and there is also a slack channel mvphacks.slack.com where developers can get together to build an MVP.
I found a documentary[1] on Masahiro a while back and it was mesmerizing to watch him work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiPNqeMS8E
Does CloudFlare support HTTP/2 back to the Origin yet? Or are they still afraid this will destroy the selling point of their Railgun feature?
You can see the prongs go around the wheel, not directly underneath it.

The videos linked to by improbable22 make it easier to see this.

My (very limited) understanding of radial tires (or at least steel belted ones) is that it would be bad to stress the tires in that manner for long periods of time. But lifting the car by the tires this way for a few minutes should be OK?

It would be interesting to learn what tire manufacturers feel about this. (Of course they probably would want to disclaim liability because there's no reason for them to want to bless this).
If they go that route, I hope they have the sense to create their own union instead of going with one of the giant established organizations.
> There's no indication that this guy would've radically changed his career by moving to the new position

Job interviews can offer plenty of indication regarding how different the new position is.

Article seems to have the same basic idea as https://xkcd.com/1768 - When in doubt it's better to leave.
this link is _fantastic_ , thank you for sharing it, i haven't heard this argument before .

First: For a given constant T > 0 there exists C > 0 such that Temp(earth) <= T implies Energy(earth) <= C

> Right, if you plot the U.S. energy consumption in all forms from 1650 until
> now, you see a phenomenally faithful exponential at about 3% per year over
> that whole span. The situation for the whole world is similar. So how long
> do you think we might be able to continue this trend?

> Alright, the Earth has only one mechanism for releasing heat to space, and
> that’s via (infrared) radiation. We understand the phenomenon perfectly
> well, and can predict the surface temperature of the planet as a function of
> how much energy the human race produces. The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth
> rate (conveniently chosen to represent a 10× increase every century), we
> would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years. [Pained expression from
> economist.] And this statement is independent of technology. Even if we
> don’t have a name for the energy source yet, as long as it obeys
> thermodynamics, we cook ourselves with perpetual energy increase.

> At that 2.3% growth rate [of global energy consumption], we would be using
> energy at a rate corresponding to the total solar input striking Earth in a
> little over 400 years. We would consume something comparable to the entire
> sun in 1400 years from now. By 2500 years, we would use energy at the rate
> of the entire Milky Way galaxy—100 billion stars! I think you can see the
> absurdity of continued energy growth. 2500 years is not that long, from a
> historical perspective. We know what we were doing 2500 years ago. I think
> I know what we’re not going to be doing 2500 years hence.

> If we tried to generate energy at a rate commensurate with that of the Sun
> in 1400 years, and did this on Earth, physics demands that the surface of
> the Earth must be hotter than the (much larger) surface of the Sun.

Second: Energy(earth) / GDP(earth) >= K > 0

> Then in order to have real GDP growth on top of flat energy, the fractional
> cost of energy goes down relative to the GDP as a whole.
> How far do you imagine this can go? Will energy get to 1% of GDP? 0.1%? Is
> there a limit?
> if energy became arbitrarily cheap, someone could buy all of it, and
> suddenly the activities that comprise the economy would grind to a halt

That is, assuming we want Temp(earth) <= T for some constant temperature T,
then there exist positive constants C > 0, K > 0 such that Energy(earth) <= C
and Energy(earth) / GDP(earth) >= K > 0 . Therefore GDP(earth) <= C / K .
I've never found this argument convincing. "This is not the bad part of the organization. This is the part they spun up to help bolster their reputation so the bad part can continue to make money".

That said, it's a bit tangential to the core issue here. People should get payed out for their accrued PTO.
Could be because they're companies. And it's not like BuzzFeed has a reputation to lose.
Apologies. I cut and pasted it. I couldn’t edit it on time.
read your contract when you get hired, people. You shouldn't expect anything more than what's guaranteed right there in front of you.
Talk to the person that hired them, and see what sort of references they came with.
A lot? I would guess the slides are meant for advanced undergrads or first year grad students in a physics program. ee how the math-y parts of the slides are pretty sophisticated (e.g., bessel functions) even though the programming part is pretty simple?
Terminals have been able to display images since the VT200:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
Because Amazon don't drive the package..? Or fly it in a lot of cases? In fact Amazon has recently been moving away from USPS to "Amazon Logistics" which means even less package co-mingling/less environmental efficiency.
Wow. Props for the effort and passion.

If I were him, I'd be wearing a helmet when I ran. I can't image what a 25 mph crash would feel like, from a couple of feet above standing height. Yikes!
I've worked for many companies that don't pay out accrued PTO - PTO at those companies was use-it-or-lose-it. But I also understood that going in, and I understood that when I read the employee handbooks and explanation of benefits.

It seems folks might have overlooked that bit of their employment. California is obviously a large exception. However, if an employer doesn't state that you get a particular benefit, or fails to explain how a benefit is managed, the onus falls on the employee to understand what they're signing on for. To expect otherwise drips of entitlement.
> Other commands like stash, checkout and branch are equally simple

Ok, so they are the simple because you say so? Stash in all but the simplest cases is a sure-fire way to shoot yourself in the foot. Checkout is a weird guy, he does too many different things, and what's up with the double dashes? Super-weird! Also beware that any of your branch names happen to match any of the file names in the repo :O.

> I think where people express confusion over git is that they don’t expect to be interact with revision history

This is one of the things that confuses beginners about git, but it's not a confusion about git cli. You are conflating the criticism of git cli with criticism of git. Git is good, git cli is (notoriously) bad. However, eventually you'll (hopefully) learn the proper incantations and then using git cli will seem simple to you.
What makes you believe those were valid use cases for those in charge back in 1970s? Just because some hobbyist wants to run a real time game on a terminal worth thousands of dollars doesn't mean that others are going to accommodate that.

The most likely reason why they never bothered with key-up is because they were an evolution of the teletype, and inherited its protocols. That was the use case, not a generic human interface.

But even if there was some explicit consideration of this idea, I'm pretty sure it'd die almost immediately, because carrying information about keystrokes would double the bandwidth of an average session, and we're talking about the time when typical transmission speed was measured in baud, and 4- digit speeds were considered fast (the first terminal supported a maximum of 2400 baud). You need a much more profligate culture to add support for things like that "just in case".
>In what sense is Bird Box a “box office smash?”

the article you're commenting on makes a pretty thorough case for why it is a box office hit.
I always enjoy buying old things on sale at the super market. My favourite is cheese (not that there is much of a selection in rural Japan :-P). They've got this relatively nice artisan gouda in the grocery store which is insanely expensive. Once it goes past the best before date, it's marked half price. I'm always thinking, "Thanks for ageing my cheese" as I buy it ;-)

My wife calls me the "Half price king" because I wander around looking for things. Bizarre stuff you can get on sale includes wine (where they have no room on the shelves and have to sell their old stock to accommodate the new stock -- companies pay for placement!), but also stuff like cultured butter or yogurt (yogurt fermented with a theromophilic culture by a reputable supplier will last months and months), natto (well... I like it), pickles, etc. I also look for beef that's gone off colour, or deep sea fish that's been kept frozen. Also, fruits are often great just before they go off, so as long as you intend to eat it that day, you can often get really good discounts.

On the downside, I have to warn my wife about buy bread and spices on sale -- some things really go down hill with age.
Because these people don't realize they will eat their own any chance they get.

You know like those mega rich celebrities that preach socialism but hide their millions off shore.
Hacking PostgreSQL [pdf]
'GO dough' makes graphene easy to shape and mold
Python writes to local files using native function open. Javascript has no native function. Because...?

We can open a window, write arbitrary text to it, use the browswer to 'Save as...'. Close but no cigar.

I'd like to use JS for a lot more than the web. MS Basic wrote user-entered text to a file 40 years ago.
Singapore releases framework on how AI can be ethically used
I read the article with fascination, and googled his name to get a website with some media upon which I found a link to a page with a non-clickable link to this video (likely the same as has been featured earlier):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD7ClbhLNOc

As a fellow passionate creator, it pains me to see a video production like this. Having never seen this product before, I'd argue what interests most people first and foremost is seeing the product in action, and what's possible with them (which wouldn't be possible without).

It takes 18 seconds until the video actually shows them being used while worn. 25, if you want to see them running in real-time. The first time you actually get a sense of how they compare to anything else (bikes / cars) isn't until one minute and 16 seconds into the video. It boggles my mind. I understand that not everyone can be a video da vinci, but this video could be 1000 times better in so many ways.

It's literally the ideal product for a click-baity - WE OUTRUN A CAR/BIKE/OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNER - type video. Sure, have a little bit of a lead in, but then show him squaring off against 3 other commonly known modes of transportation etc. etc.

And don't even get me started on that constant heart-beat and increasingly present jet 'woosh' noise O_O.
I think the author significantly misrepresents the argument against copyright assignment. The issue is not the overhead, the issue is control. If you assign copyright to e.g. FSF then FSF has the exclusive right to relicense to whatever they want. Maybe in the case of FSF I trust them not to abuse this power, but in several recent cases this has been used to relicense projects to be effectively closed source---which is almost certainly not what any independent contributor wanted done with their contribution. The DCO is a compromise that retains protections for the project but also avoids stripping contributors of their rights, which is a safety mechanism of sorts against unilateral relicensing on the part of the original developer.
One of the issues here is that PTO isn't always easy to use.

> No one at BuzzFeed told me not to use PTO. I had a lot saved because I was busy and wanted to be there for my team.

https://twitter.com/FranBerkman/status/1089675336407752704

> I have worked more holidays than I can count, and have gone on tough reporting trips where I’ve worked 16-hour days for days in a row.

> I have about a month’s worth of comp days as a result. If I’d been laid off Friday, I wouldn’t have gotten paid for it.

https://twitter.com/juliareinstein/status/108967206892331417...
Speaking of bad benchmarking, also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm1GJMp0QN4&t=17m49s
A company does no more than what's required by the law. I'm not sure I can get upset about that.
Of course "a lot" is the answer. That is precisely my point: for the audience of these slides, speed does matter. :)
The funny thing is a lot of people think the company they work for cares about their wellbeing.

When you realize they don't care about you, they will feel it. And your pay will go up. I guarantee.
The US is just nuts. Are you saying that your earned but unused PTO doesn't have to be paid out to you when you're laid off but is rather at the discretion of the employer? How is that justifiable in any way? Does the bank owe you accrued interest when you close your account or is it up to them to pay it? Why would it be different for PTO?
I am so f*ing surprised this needs to be said.

IF YOU DID WORK FOR A LEGAL EMPLOYER, YOU DESERVE TO BE PAID FOR IT.

(I'm adding to what the op said)
As far as I understand there are no pathogenic moulds that will grow on hard cheese (it is too acidic). Just to be clear, this is not the case for soft cheeses (camembert, brie, some blue cheeses, really soft washed rind cheeses, etc), though. If that starts to go off, throw it out. The pH can get up all the way to 7 on those cheeses, so they aren't safe.
Ah, and here come the downvotes. Mention responsibility and entitlement, and get hammered here.
> Because not every employee was complicit in that...

Companies like Amazon frequently get skewered for a single sensational negative event at one of their warehouses. That one negative event is then extrapolated and taken to mean it's very common (thousands of their employees are forced to piss in bottles), with zero evidence to support that premise.

Why should BuzzFeed and its employees not get to enjoy the media propaganda and sensationalism turned right back on them? I fail to see why they'd be immune to the same negativity they're helping to build up in the US culture. Working for any part of the BuzzFeed machine, they're all complicit in helping to cultivate numerous of the nightmare cultural problems eating at the US, including the entirely rotten state of the US media industry.

BuzzFeed News helps to pay the bills for BuzzFeed and helps to keep the whole brand alive and kicking for another day to spew more garbage into the culture. They are in fact directly linked because of that.

To use a crystal-clear, point-proving example: employees that help create bombs for the military industrial complex are not complicit at all in what those bombs are used for? For example, blowing up school buses. The countless employees that help support all of that and make it possible, are not complicit in any way? Obviously they are. Work for a corporation doing terrible things, you share responsibility for its output. Every part of BuzzFeed's organization assists the core BuzzFeed company.

The only way that context would be dramatically or entirely reduced, is if they spun off BuzzFeed News, strictly separated it financially, ditched the brand and removed all BuzzFeed influence and control. As it is, they're all part of the same company.
I wonder who buys dvd/bluray anymore... after netflix.
This x1000.

If a benefit isn't spelled out in black and white, it should be considered non-existent.

Example: I used to get a ham at Christmas time. This was a gift from the company (i.e not in my contact). We had a bad year in 2017 and there was no ham - that's fine.
> Psychiatry possesses an inherent capacity for abuse that is greater than in other areas of medicine. The diagnosis of mental disease can give the state license to detain persons against their will and insist upon therapy both in the interest of the detainee and in the broader interests of society. In addition, receiving a psychiatric diagnosis can in itself be regarded as oppressive. In a monolithic state, psychiatry can be used to bypass standard legal procedures for establishing guilt or innocence and allow political incarceration without the ordinary odium attaching to such political trials.

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

Is that "inherent capacity for abuse" overstated?

I'm less afraid of the corrupt psychiatrist than of the one sincerely convinced that people who think like I do are sick.
Yes, that all boils down to accountability for one's own choices. They made poor choices, that's just what it is. Now they're clamoring for something that wasn't promised to them. There's a degree of responsibility that these folks are tossing out the window in favor of entitlement.
Um, ya, I think you are missing the power disparity there.
Hard cheeses are acidic (usually around a pH of 5) and salty. There are only a few types of mould that will grow on it. Lots of cheese producers grow wild mould on the rind of the cheese and it is perfectly edible.
Can we get upset at the (lack of) law?
The article feels like a variation of survivor bias to me. I think his friend was right and the author got ‘lucky’ to land a role in a successful company. He could easily have landed in another toxic or stale company.

Alternatively, you could probably find another story about an engineer who left a similar situation and founded a unicorn company, so in comparison, would this author have ‘failed’ because he didn’t go down that road?
Vitamin D supplements aren’t living up to their hype
For every new hire two people have to be fired or quit.
Which parts of their news is fake? Aside from some recent claims by the current Presidency (who claims that about any non-positive reference), I’m unaware that they’ve invented anything, in part or in full, to claim it as news.

They may be annoying as all get-out in some aspects of their overall operation, but you’re claiming they make shit up?