skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest that in the other cases it was far worse... In the housing crisis we bailed them out. WTF did we bail out a company that backed a bet they couldn't afford to pay? Let them fail. As to the acts of pharma companies, some of them rightly deserve to be crushed. You can execute a person for killing, you should be able to execute a corporation for the same.

Facebook is hardly even comparable. I don't think FB should be crushed, but I think FB should be more transparent (as should most corporations imho).
> I don't agree with giving churches tax-exempt status just for being churches (I do agree with giving nonprofits tax-exempt status)

Tax exempt churches are a subset of tax exempt nonprofits.
You can pry my stable sort algorithms out of my cold, dead hands.
As far as I know, reporting paid student loan interest is a "required" form according to the IRS.

I remember looking up information about it at the time to see if I could just not report it, and that did not seem to be recommended
If you insist on co-located, you will miss out on plenty of good engineers who will just work somewhere else that is distributed.

That said, if you have someone in leadership (especially high up the chain like a VPE) who is all about "butts in seats," your distributed team is designed to fail. And I'd argue that that leader is probably doing their part to ensure it fails to prove themselves right about co-located being better.
I'm not convinced it's a zombie. Name a currency that's existed a few decades and does not have backing from any of those.
Funnily enough, when I do design interviews, I often ask them to design a chat client - not the whole design, but bits and pieces, like the db schema or the API of the service.

What the interviews invariably show is that a chat client is not simple. It's extremely complicated, especially when you want it to work at scale. If you think it's a "simple" app, go ahead, try to make one - even on a whiteboard.

I can completely understand why instant messaging can get you $700 million in revenue. As for the losses -- they are invested in the future of the company and I think are justified.

"How hard can it be?" is something we ask about "simple" stuff everyday, and the answer if you dig deeper is almost always "Much harder than you think."
Then I would argue for leaving them permanently reclined. An inch or two of recline isn't really "recline" given the initial bolt upright setup. I don't see the tiny amount of recline affecting emergency egress...it might even improve it.
it's cool that you hang around HN, but this kind of response just exacerbates the big problem with Google these days: unless you can get to the top of HN, or picked up by TechCrunch, you have no hope of getting any resolution for any of the bad things that Google does. Whether you have incentive to fix it or not, the reality is that you refuse to acknowledge these "false positives" or give people any recourse to fix them.
feature request: make O(k) bright red, like O(n^2). As it stands, it looks nice and pleasant like O(1) but it's honkin' terrifying.
If I am right, if you delete all elements in F14, there will be no tombstone. However, if you delete some, there may still be some tombstones left. You may still need rehashing due to those remaining tombstones. In that sense, F14 is not eliminating the worst case; it makes the worst case happens less often. Then the question is how "less often". This probably depends on the access pattern.

What is your access pattern? Are insertions and deletions frequently interleaved? Or do you insert a batch and then delete another batch? It will be interesting to have a micro-benchmark to measure how the F14 strategy works in practice.

> I believe khash does as well.

Yes, khash uses the traditional tombstone solution. It rehashes in the same space when there are too many tombstones.
So... my business school covered all of that. Probability, statistics, linear algebra, diffeq... and yes, boolean algebra in the context of gradient descent. Even Markov chains and neural nets. Needless to say, there was a lot of math.

Interviews at top business schools are nothing but partitioning and mathematical analysis. Google “business school case interviews”. Modern business is analytical and quantitative. Over 50% of my classmates came from software development or engineering backgrounds. This mix is not at all unusual.

I think your reaction may be to the PHB types — who aren’t good at any of that but they have soft skills (aka people like them) so they get promoted. Honestly the biggest truism in business is that it’s better to be liked than to be good.
Weightlifting is very technical. If you want to compete in weightlifting (or just perfect more complicated lifts than the power lifts), go do it. I'm not aware of weightlifting (properly coached) being any more dangerous than powerlifting - anecdotally, I know more injured powerlifters than weightlifters.

The older I get, the more I want to be a 'jack of all trades, master of none' in terms of fitness, but that's just a personal bias. I don't have the patience or the motivation to ever learn how to do a snatch or squat clean properly, but I see the appeal.
Why should nonprofits be tax exempt?
Stories are what the world is made of. They shape how we think. They determine what is “common sense” to us.

Change the stories, and you change the reality that we live in.
The bigger problem is how to define what Google is and split it. Many of their platforms post losses like youtube, because they can afford to spend their ad money to prop it up. If you split away youtube, youtube would likely fold. Similar thing with android, Google props up android so they have an ecosystem they can get data from to use for ads. If android was split off, it would have no income stream and likely fold.
No, what I'm saying is that Uber has thousands of engineers and hundreds of web projects, and it's a bit silly to suggest that if one team releases some net positive thing, the cost/time for getting every Uber property to benefit from that thing immediately is zero, and that by not doing such trivial work, Uber is a bad bad dog.
You don’t even technically _need_ a program if you’re just doing it for fun.

I work out twice a week, bench both days and squat/deadlift on each of the other. Some days I do 6 sets of 5-10 reps, some days I do heavy doubles/triples, whatever I feel like doing, depending on how I feel that day. I’m almost 40 so I’m sure if I had started 15 years ago I’d have way better numbers.

~325 wilks with a poor squat because of an old hip injury (it’s less than my bench)
I genuinely never thought I'd see a fully distributed db. This is the magic bullet people been looking for in terms of having a simple ish db compared to complex data layers.

Incredible work. And supporting full postgresql.

This does sound a lot like a marketing post. But me no cares. This is pretty awesome I'm rarely this hyped for a technology.
Doesn't work on Acrobat, Win 10 either
Justifying or defending something based on a quotes is recipe for contradictions and disaster.

For every quote, you can find an equal and opposite quote.

"Actions speak louder than words." vs "Pen is mightier than the sword."

"Many hands make light work." vs "Too many cooks spoil the broth."

It's like the bible, I can find a quote to justify pretty much anything. And then I can find a quote to denounce the same.

I think it's silly to advocate for physical activity with a quote. I think it's better to defend physical activity because it keeps you healthy physically and even mentally. I used to be a big quote collector ( from benjamin franklin to the bible ). I'm not any longer.
Help me out with the attribution please, I couldn't find it. (clarification: It came by as an image maybe a month ago on probably my facebook feed, searched but couldn't find the specifics, so wrote up my recollection because it brought up a good point related to HR Block and Intuit lobbying against free options)
Maybe AI/ML is actually broken..
Fintech giant Fiserv sued by Pa. credit union for 'baffling security lapses'
It is not difficult to put a <figure> in Wordpress with some code inside it.

Some things you either have or you don't. Accessibility is one of those things. Either you think it is actually important or you don't.

The Uber comms team also need to be living and breathing accessibility. It is part of what comms is about.
Funny you mention AOL. There used to be a magic formula for how many concurrent SMTP connections, how many emails/minute, etc, you could pump at them before you silently went into spam.

I worked on a team with a large (real double opt in, not spam) email list. We had to pay for a bunch of AOL accounts to figure out the trigger points, so that we could get our email updates out overnight without tripping AOL's spammer logic.

And there was a time when they had dominant email share like Google has now.
What is the injury rate for parking enforcement or process servers?
There are two situations where I wouldn't harass my coworkers for asking sort related questions.

One, I've asked. Not implementing sort, but implementing complex compare() functions for sortable values. There are many things I can accept as flaws in a coworker but inability to deal with 3 conditionals at once isn't one of them. And I've had people (interviewed or worse, worked with) who can't sort by last name, first name, age.

The other is the "I gave you code now tell me what's wrong with it" answer but that's not writing a sort algorithm, that's detecting that someone needs a better one.

Personally, I'd be all too happy if we stop interviewing people expecting answers that would never pass a code review. I'd say it's hypocritical but it's not even that. It's just wrong headed, and gives bad information to the candidate.
The tl;dr here is that "ls" can be much faster if you disable colorizing files based on the their file capabilities, setuid/setgid bits, or executable flag.

LS_COLORS='ex=00:su=00:sg=00:ca=00:'
Roger Stone had posted multiple videos of him at a shooting range so its reasonable for them to assume he was in the possession of firearms.
MtGox paying out with the remaining funds.
3 kids of my own, lost a lot of sleep with them early on until they got into a workable routine. I advise to be careful of mistaking the battle for the campaign. You want to win the campaign, even if it means losing some battles. In this case, turning to co-sleep is attractive because it feels like you're winning the sleep battle easily. However, in the campaign that is life with your children, this is a losing strategy if the co-sleeping has a negative effect on your relationship with your spouse, particularly when it comes to intimacy. Remember that your kids also need your marriage to work well over decades to come.
Similarly, giving in to defuse a tantrum is a short term win that will cost you over the long run as your child becomes insufferable, self-centred, and fails to achieve age-appropriate levels of maturity.
I think the point still stands. As annoying as any of these technologies can be for someone maintaining a mail server, the unfortunate reality is that we don't live in the early web utopia anymore. There are people seriously trying to bypass and break these systems, which is why these protocols are needed. Being angry at them doesn't solve the underlying issue.
How did Pope Gelasius label her apocryphal when she was born many centuries later? Something seems wrong with this story.
People absolutely use it usefully, that it can be used as marketing fluff is a far more recent thing. If it's never been used usefully and isn't now, there's no point arguing about it because that war has been lost and if it has been used usefully redefining it makes no sense.

Arguing about definitions is easily one of the least relevant parts of any discussion so I'll leave it here. I just wish AI topics didn't always have someone say it wasn't "real AI".
> Uber's criteria for what qualifies as an acceptable car has dramatically declined to the point where even Taxis are sometimes "nicer"

In my travels to the US, which almost exclusively meant Houston, the taxis were always very basic, "boxy" cars; not sure about make/model, but they always felt "cheap".

Meanwhile in Europe, a lot of taxis are Mercedes E class saloons, or high-spec saloons from other makers.
It really got worse. In the past years (always the same IP, good reputation, DKIM), I had a few mails land in the spam folder of gmail users, but it did not happen very often.

This week I encountered the following situation the first time:
1. I received an email from a Google apps (or whatever it is called) user. My response to that email landed in the spam folder.
2. I exchanged one or two mails more with another person in the same organisation without problems.
3. Suddenly my response got rejected. I tried sending via various means such as via Thunderbird, via mobile on 4G, via mobile on Wi-Fi, changing the content slightly... No chance. My email got rejected. In the I ended up calling the person from number 1 on his mobile to get the second person's mobile number...
Needless to say, I have been less than pleased.

Person 1 was very surprised about their spam filter misbehaving, but at least I can now offer an excuse by pointing to this blog post...
For most intents and purposes, pursuing a degree entails attempts to become educated.
How about buying a book from them?
"because computers simply don't make decisions that have legal relevance"

The computer is automatically firing people, that seems like legal relevance to me. It is making the decision (on some level) without human input.

High frequency traders buy and sell without human interaction. Is that not another example?

If there were an error, as with the Outlook example, there was absolutely no human input, so obviously there wasn't intent, therefore it isn't legally binding.

There is a continuum between a human doing everything, and a human doing nothing. At some point a legal line is crossed. On one side the computer is following a humans instructions, on the other it is working independently. Where is that legal line, what happens if a computer enters into a contract when working independently?
why is this downvoted? you can't say anything that might cast Roger Stone in a sympathetic light, even if it's true?
Speaking of shadowsocks, I really feel sorry for the author.. I believe his final words were "I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing"
what is an Isilon? thanks
Effectively, yes.
Saudi Fugitives Flee – U.S. Officials Look the Other Way
Taking this one step further, in the context of holographic universes and the possibility of the universe existing inside a black hole like structure. Given the limited possibility of knowing what goes on inside a black hole from our point of view 'from the outside', we can only guess at what really happens to matter that falls 'down' inside one. But if a singularity inside a black hole does exist, we can deduce that perhaps matter is compressed infinitely toward the center of black hole structures. This compression of matter maybe taking place all around us on the scale such as our universe has, but only loosely mirroring what we think happens in the heart of black holes. Is time a scalar in this sense? Who really knows, but similarly I suspect dark matter and dark energy would become an anomaly similar to what is discussed in this paper. I can't really comment on the math, I'm no expert, however the concepts are intriguing to say the least.
Yeah no idea. Personally I prefer to reserve nazi and white supremacist labels for those who actually are. And beyond that I try to avoid labels. Getting fairly tired of the whole thing, really. My friends who tend towards more typical conservative views view me as very liberal. My liberal friends view me as conservative. Ha! Turns out I'm both, depending on what issue we're talking about.

We paint with very broad brushes these days, mostly to win arguments I think. Hard to say who is really at fault at this point, but I think in America our politics are just going to get nastier until some other country grows a sack big enough to attack us again.
the "will of the people" in the midwest isn't to have their manufacturing jobs sent to other countries. So yes, there absolutely is a dichotomy.
so anyone who has been at a shooting range needs to be raided by a SWAT team when arrested for white-collar crimes?
I would agree with you, if that ever happened in the United States.
You have conveniently missed that there was already an app for ordering taxis before Uber for me.

Also, yes, it's not much of a shift. I'm not arguing people rebuild it or have something together but the shift from:

Call cab firm and say where you are

to

App calls cab firm and says where you are

is not massively innovative. (edit - particularly when it has been done before)

I know it's fun and cool to be snarky, but you have clearly missed what I've said and equated it to something wildly different. Please put a little more effort in to your comments to make them more useful.

The Dropbox comment is amusing because that's a complex thing users would have to do and doesn't support what Dropbox supports. Switching from one app to another is really quite different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_EMC_Isilon
Yes, you can get an idea of what shape people are in by looking at the 'team lift' threshold for picking up boxes. I recently assembled a weight storage rack which came in a team lift box and had cautions in the instructions that if you wanted to move it around you should use two people.

I snapped a photo of my 16-year-old (not some massive ox of a child either) picking it off the ground with his middle finger.

+1 for deadlifting. Also easier to coach than the squat. Personally I think the hex bar deadlift is the safest movement for untrained people as it reduces the technical issues. I haven't experimented on people with this but I would intuitively suspect that some form of Zercher or strongman influenced move would be another good thing for the sedentary (obvs with lighter weights) as in Real Life, many objects are not conveniently barbell shaped.
Really odd, it's like failing to report donations. But i guess they filed it.
A taxi in Europe is akin to an "airport limo" in North America. The differences are astounding.
"File integrity checks added by North Korean developers shows that piracy is a concern and suggests the existence a warez/cracking scene in the DPRK"

Fascinating!
The parent mentions this is going to be provided by a Chinese company - while they can't control your satellite on the ground, they can control theirs in orbit.
I eat eggs every day. Also spinach, onions, garlic, broccoli, sometimes wheat grass juice. Most of my protein is low quality soy from adv formula slimfast and I know that isn't great. Whey protein disturbs a wound in my stomach which I am still waiting to have doctors look at.
I already knew all of that. Are you saying the NYC didn't exist before the eerie canal was built? Are you saying NYC wasn't the largest and most important city in the US before the eerie canal?

So the eerie canal joined the hudson with the mississippi. The mississippi is 2300 miles long, the hudson river is 300 miles long. So which is the more important river?

I wish you addressed my comment rather than posting a bunch of quotes. But I can see this won't go anywhere. You are entitled to your opinion. I'm sorry I could't change your mind.
The problem there is twofold:

1) Many drivers from your town would likely geofence themselves to your town, reducing the supply of drivers that will drive to the metro area, increasing wait times and driving up prices, making riders unhappy.

2) Drivers would use this feature to avoid driving to "bad" parts of town, making transportation discriminatory. (In ways that are illegal for traditional taxi companies, so Uber would eventually run afoul of the same regulations.)

It's a shame because there are reasonable use cases for a geofencing feature (you seem to certainly be one of them), but it can be easily abused and can hurt the rider experience depending on locale. (Not saying the rider experience is inherently more important, but certainly Uber/Lyft would see it that way.)
>"why aren't more rational people shorting it?"

I imagine it would be hard to get the borrow just now or I'd probably go for it.
Yup, I've had the same thing. Just kinda amusing and ironic since I didn't happen to care about that event but it makes one nervous about relying on spam filtering.

On the other hand, once you train it a bit, it is mostly remarkable good. For me, switching from fastmail.fm (which was pretty good itself) to Gmail gave me a big improvement in spam control.
I honestly don't see it. I wouldn't call it unkind or snarky, I wouldn't call it flamebait. It's funny, it brings to light a, I would say significant, problem with the system we have. One of those "It's funny but it makes you think" situations. And it's sparked quite a bit of thoughtful comment.

Help me understand.
Curious: did people notice that you can click on each algorithm and click the blue button to get a detailed write up of how it works? (Or is that too hard to find?)
His is the one newsletter I haven't unsubscribed from going on 4 years...couldn't agree with you more.
Notre Dame Reborn as a Greenhouse? Architects Propose to Replace Roof with Glass
I've failed plenty of squats before back when I used to do powerlifting, and it's not scary at all. You just let the bar go (i.e. release your grip and let it roll off your back), and fall backwards after it. You might end up with a bruised ego, but that's pretty much it.

I have seen a newbie fall forwards though, and that can be scary and dangerous. But they fell forwards because their form was horribly wrong.
This is the exact opposite of what an 'elephant in the room' is.

Webster:

>Definition of elephant in the room
: an obvious major problem or issue that people avoid discussing or acknowledging

Your comment is not saying anything new that hasn't been repeated ad nauseam already. Your comment is not enlightening anyone about the hitherto unknown great evils of China. Any topic remotely involving China will illicit dozens of responses such as yours with the exact same hysterical, copy-pasted examples. The fact is, people can't seem to stop discussing or acknowledging the problems or issues mentioned - which is fine I guess, but they are certainly not the elephants in the room you describe them to be.
That's probably because becoming a taxi driver in places like London is extremely hard (https://www.theknowledgetaxi.co.uk), while becoming a taxi driver in Houston is probably as simple as "do you have a license?"
> groups of people acting in concert

a better description would be "acting under contract" to produce returns for 99% wealthy shareholders at any cost whatsoever to the environment, to the economy, to other corporations, or to under-represented members of society.
I think Uber can easily make money if they function more as a marketplace and less as an opaque transportation company.

Their job is to connect riders to potential taxi providers (which is what they are, since they're all 'contractors'). Contractors could have a rating that's viewable before accepting a ride offer from the driver.

Fire almost all of their staff, just need a skeleton crew to keep the webstore and ride-match stuff up. Stop wasting money on self driving stuff, it's never going to happen. Take a flat rate per-ride, done.
That map makes me think of another very interesting map:

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/02/162163801/o...

Not that they are related- but the mysterious & provoking bands evoke eachother.
Musk, SEC Settle Legal Fight over His Tweets About Tesla
Possessing a firearm and handling it responsibly should not be justification for a massive pre-dawn raid. Especially when the target has no violent record, worked at and later cooperated with multiple federal agencies, and was a regular guest of the White House for decades without incident.

There was no evidence that the officers making the arrest would be at inordinate risk.