skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thesis DOES fall apart on basic scrutiny

Based on what?

To be serious for a moment, it has been repeatedly found that "prospectus conservatism is positively related to underpricing, with the relation more pronounced for technology than nontechnology firms" [1]. While the ability for "prospectus conservatism...to predict the firm’s post-IPO operating performance" has historically been limited to non-tech IPOs, it's plausible for that effect to now incorporate all IPOs.

> the chart doesn't support shit

The chart's underlying "data" are shit. It's "guy rates mission statements." It's a joke.

(Or maybe it's not. Bullshit isn't something one can objectively measure. It's dependent on context and the specifics of the observer.)

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grace_Hao/publication/2...
My favorite sharding/load balancing algorithm is Highest Random Weight, or Rendezvous hashing [0]. It has all the benefits of consistent key hashing without the hotspots, and it doesn't require any coordination between nodes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_hashing
Illegal drugs don't recalled. If you get a tainted batch from your dealer and it kills your friends, what do you do? File a class action lawsuit against "Tommy the drug dude?"

From the article:
> FDA says there was a risk that it might be contaminated with opiate prescription drugs like morphine, which were made in the same plant

Yeah, contaminated with morphine (another drug of legitimate use), not pesticides that break down into hydrogen cyanide, rat poison, or whatever else might be present in whatever illegal drugs someone might be taking.
At least in the EU most milk packaging is lightly coated with silver on the inside which helps with durability, don’t know how it is in the US.
Except.. it did happen.
MDMA actually lowers my heart rate. My heart rate can go above 200 easily (without any drugs) and MDMA never allows this to happen.
Found a small blog post about it since I was wondering what it looks like: https://erossel.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/beamdump/
Currently, no, because I don't have any legal options where I am currently living, and my own experience and stories like this have pushed me away from black market products.

But I believe that these are a much better product, when manufactured by accountable, regulated, legal companies.

I hope we'll have more safe products available going forward, instead of a ban that helps sustain unsafe black market products.
Some people are better at pretending to be excited than others. Recruiters for example are very good at it. Not all engineers are bad actors.
I mean, depending on how far you go down that rabbit hole, people who have personality disorders shouldn't take drugs that help treat their disorders because they alter their perception. You're more than entitled to that belief, but I know plenty of medical professionals who would point out that you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

We're all unreliable narrators. We want to believe we aren't, but we are. If you accept that, you can begin to understand that this isn't existing in a vacuum.

Let's say I smoke pot to relax, staying at home for the time I'm under the influence and generally just sort of hanging out. But I can also be aware of the fact that by it's nature, there's a possibility that I will be unable to determine when I need relaxation and when I need stressors for <reasons>. I can come up with all sorts of ways off the top of my head to deal with this potential problem.

You do you man. I hope you're happy. Free will and all that. You might be trying to engineer your best life. I might just be killing time. Objective morality doesn't exist though. It's all trade offs.
A whirlwind tour of the Mender client architecture using Rust
Is it possible for investment funds to become insolvent?
Probably doesn't matter now, but including #, %, < and similar characters in password helps with that. :)
Uber (lost money on the IPO), Cruise (just delayed their launch, still have no product or revenue), they bought Boston Dynamics (super awesome technology but the business doesn't seem viable), Light (really awesome idea to change mobile photography, but seems an obvious failure at this point), Zume (a pizza chain buildings robots that's raised hundreds of millions of dollars...they do not have any production robots), Nuro (another overhyped self-driving startup, because Uber and Cruise weren't enough billions)...this is not an exhaustive list. I have repeatedly said SoftBank is some of the dumbest money in the Valley, and I stand by that proclamation.

https://www.businessinsider.com/running-list-softbank-invest...

Now that said, it is expected that most investments in any VC portfolio will fail! Something like a 70% failure rate, with 20% being moderately successful, and 10% being very successful is considered very good for the VC industry. But at the end of the day it's ROI - you make money or you lose money. I think SoftBank is going to lose more money than all the other VC firms simply because they started with more money to lose.
World of WorkCraft
I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting, but I was expecting something more than brainfuck encoded into "(Debian) version numbers".

I think I was expecting it to be about the semantics of the sequence of numbers and turing complete metric for deciding if a sequence is valid or not.
Lots of used car brands doing that now. "No Haggle Pricing"

I have noticed their prices are consistently lower than the asking price at high touch dealerships. Especially when you remove hidden feels like "Doc fee" .

I will likely buy from a place with a fair advertised price sooner than walking in at an advertised price of 125% aiming to negotiate it down to 95%.
Neuron EV Unveils Hub, a New Paradigm of Transportation
Psychology, sociology and theology (and more logys?) was never meant to be sciences. We can blame the enlightenment for that idea, let’s revert them back to renaissance activities
Publishing Go Modules
the whole article is unfairly dismissive of a lot of different practices that people find personally beneficial. I'm sure there's at least a few staff and customers of Peloton who feel better about themselves because the company mission statement says they're "selling happiness", or people at spotify who like to think they're "unlocking human creativity".

Talking about uniting the chakras or elevating your spirit is feel-goodery on exactly the same level.
I never ask that question about the candidate's current or most recent previous employer. Any answers will be guarded or clouded.

Instead I ask what coworkers they still remember from their earlier jobs, and why. This has the double benefit of putting enough emotional distance between now the time they will be talking about, and it highlights the traits the candidate considers important in others. It doesn't even matter if they point out the negative memories over positive ones.

There is one intensely high-signal question but I can only ask that with other Finns. Namely: "What university courses did you cheat on?"
The state of medical sciences is so abysmal we can't even "rule" whether eggs and butter are good or bad. What makes you think this determination can even be made at all?
The bigger issue here seems to be the use of ordinals in the data collection process. For instance, a lot of my CSVs don't have them and R and pandas are perfectly capable of enumerating. Why do you even need to put ordinals in the dataset? Does excel want this sort of thing or something?
Launching the collaborative data maintenance guidebook
You're completely correct, of course. Violence is definitely utterly ordinary. I suppose I meant something more along the lines of mundane or even gentle?... I'm not sure what would have been a better way to phrase it, but I think most people, in the western world, at least, would be shocked at just how violent real violence is because of how it is portrayed in popular media.
The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries
This might be one of the issues of our times: men unable to talk about their feelings, unable to maybe even care about themselves because we learned we shouldn’t and we are afraid how we are seen if we do.

Sometimes beeing strong means to become vulnerable.
> This class of error comes down to our chronic insistence on using stringly typed APIs for path/URI manipulation.

Like most failures, the analysis needs to identify a chain of events involving various failures; perhaps it would go something like this:

1. Industry and libraries commonly use strings for path/URI manipulation.

2. A software engineer did so in the installer and made a typo.

3. Code review did not identify the problem.

4. QA (and the CI process) didn't test on a Mac that was either old enough not to have SIP or had SIP disabled.

5. Many Mac users, especially in specialized environments running custom or specialized kernel extensions and drivers, use macOS with SIP disabled.

6. Chrome is widespread enough that some users in (5) downloaded the update. That subset had their Mac systems hosed.

I would identify (2), (3), and (4) as problems in the chain where Google carries blame.
Notation matters for weight loss? (Building an app with Glide)
Louis Armstrong playing W.C. Handy is a particularly strong album.
Programming AVR with Ada Programming Language
Thank you for the link, I brought the book to add to my collection of Clojure books, Programming Clojure by Alex Miller, Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra has been my favourite so far

Would be good to get a Datomic Cloud book but I don't know of any yet
I could not say. My time at Intel pre-dates Zen.

It is safe to say that Intel is well aware of the capabilities of all their competitors, but obviously not their detailed plans. But even so, even with 100% perfect prediction there are numerous choices of how to proceed.
Perhaps the real problem is that reality does not punish being wrong and reward being right enough.
Except that some like me will just not bother buying from you at all.
I wouldn't have published this.
That's not the problem here.

A statistical error was made, published, and then corrected.

That's possible in physics, chemistry, or biology just as well.
There's tons more to deliver and companies are innovating in the space. For example those prepared dinners you still cook fresh, impossibly meatless meat, delivery instead of shop yourself, direct farm to consumer (powered by ecommerce)
The big issue with the product is that after the first transaction, no-one has any incentive to use your marketplace.

There is a company in my country doing this. They are probably not worth zero tbf but they have a massive issue with people just cutting them out after the first transaction.

And what is the problem with just building a brand? I employ a bunch of dog walkers, I do checks on them, I build a trusted brand...the $300m is a solution without a problem.
> Since water is tasteless...

I think for some people this might seem to be true. That said, for folks who are able to taste such things, clean water from different sources definitely can have tastes that differ based on the minerality of the water.

I used to think this was BS, but I changed my mind after doing a deep dive into wine, in which flavors like minerality of the soil, local flowers, and the like are definitely represented in finer wines.

For an over-the-top water example, check out this video:

https://youtu.be/rg3Mr6e1KMo
"Why do you want to not be destitute? Also, tell us you like us!"
Rapidly moving lead will kill you faster than asbestos, there might be a few tactical uses for such a garment.
Can you tell me the formula which will approximately give me the max TDP used by a recent Intel CPU based on its rated TDP?
> Pardon my ignorance but how many heart attacks is too frequent?

I normally have one in some days-months. Taking propafenone as prescribed by my cardiologist made me have them many times daily. What I mean under a heart attack is episodes of tachycardia and extrasistolia. To my surprise these never happened to me under MDMA no matter how hard and for how long I f-cked.
Imagine this from another perspective. Let's say you saw somebody trying to suggest that the abortion debate was about murdering babies versus not murdering babies. What is your response going to be to them and to such a notion? Of course it's foolish, at best. It is taking an extremely complex topic with significant nuance and then trying to distill down into the most emotionally charged, and deeply misleading, one-liner.

And it does nothing except drive emotional responses. It's not like somebody is going to sit there pondering, 'Wow, you know - I never realized that murdering babies was wrong. I agree with you. Thanks so much!' Obviously nobody supports arbitrarily murdering babies, nor does anybody support arbitrarily imprisoning children. The emotional responses you're going to get are not going to be productive. You're going to get love or hate. No discussion, no progress, no nothing except an ever furthering chasm.

By contrast if we frame issues as they actually are we can rationally discuss them with one another and perhaps point of things or ideas one side or the other had not considered. And even if we disagree at the end of the day, perhaps we can at least have some degree of understanding of why those we disagree with think in the way that they do.
The chip never did such operations... instead they ran it as both a secondary processor and a math DSP. The operations otherwise were entirely software, and conventional.

Another interesting one was the SA-1 chip used in a few games, such as Super Mario RPG. Its a SNES-compatible 65C816 that is 3x faster, has its own RAM bank, and can interrupt and be interrupt the main CPU, among other features, and was used to offload a lot of things, including some graphics tasks.
Have zoos had their day?
> a stronger position because they are more willing to risk or even break the relationship to get what they want

IMO the treatment of such power speaks volumes of a persons character and would either attract or disgust me ...
Honestly I would, in microscopic quantities.
It's a totally different core and ISA FWIW, they're just both designed by ARC. The ME one is a pretty standard RISC, and the SuperFX one would be difficult to call a RISC given that it's two address, has pretty complex memory instructions etc.
I ran payroll for a 20 person company (US) for seven years, not a single person asked for or received a manual check in that time frame. This was between 2005-2012. I was the only person there under 40 years old.
Your numbers are off, though your point still remains. If the client jumps bond you lose $50k, but you got $9.5k from it for a net of -$40.5k or an 81% loss. It would thus take ~4 good bonds to cancel that one out.
There's too much power in them being considered sciences, which is why they'll remain that way.
That's more verbose than just having arguments though, right?
Most candidates will probably be prepared to answer this common question. Nonetheless...

as if being prepared for a question is a bad thing
It's not really pushing religion as it is an act of kindness. I don't really understand why someone would find it offensive for wishing them better health as it's the intention that counts rather than what faith you hold.

I'm not religious at all and I still say "bless you" since it's from the culture I grew up with of wishing others well. If anyone finds that offensive then they certainly have more issues than I do.
They are adjoints. William Lawvere's "Adjointness in foundations" as well as Godel's "Completeness theorem" say that much.
uber (see stock), cruise (tbf, everyone overvalued the AV space), slack (see stock), zume pizza (come on), brandless (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/report-softbank-backed-bra...), compass (https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-backed-real-estate-bro...) ...

Which investments are doing well? Maybe Paytm?
Your situation gets more complex if you have CCTV to proves your not there or somewhere else. Crux though would be that if they don't find you soon, laws in play dictate how long that CCTV can be held.

So imagine in your fine example that you later in life end up with the police taking your DNA for something else, even if to eliminate your DNA from forensics upon an aggravated burglary at your partners flat as an example. The police computer then pings about the previous alleyway crime and this is years later. You now find that proving were you actually was back then, harder than more recently. CCTV from a bar you was at - all gone due to data protection retention laws that curtail how long it can be held. Google - nope as some law came in that stops them keeping that info.

You kinda get down to the situation that your only assured safety from past and future crimes is to self monitor and track. Heck - I literally bug my own house and carry a tracking monitor due to tangent issues, to protect me from such mistakes/abuse etc.

ALso having done Jury duty, it's not just the evidence and opinion of guilty or not, but how that evidence is presented and the impact of the dominant alpha's in that jury. Whilst that should not be a factor for the most enlightened (general makeup of posters upon these forums), the population has few discriminators upon the makeup of juries - age, not below average IQ and criminal record or mostly - lack of.

So privacy laws are great and have many upshots, they can equally have some downsides. Why I feel that choice should be down to individuals and sure, opt-out by default. But you can start to see why opt-in also helps, so you can clear things up in a timely manner and not suddenly 15 odd years later get arrested for a crime you did not commit and the quick simple proof has long gone, making innocence much harder to play out.
There aren't many discussions about religion on HN but a topic related to it should prompt some, and I have no other outlet. Reddit isn't a very good place for it either.
You seem to be saying that it’s not really about “justice” at all, but rather that it’s purely about defending people who have done a lot of visibly valuable things. Did I get that right?
Consciousness is a fundamental property of reality. So fundamental that it is actually the substrate from which all reality is possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_...

> As of November 4, 2008, Barack Obama had received more than twice as many publication endorsements as John McCain; in terms of circulation, the ratio was more than 3 to 1, according to the detailed tables below.

By circulation, it was like > 75% Obama versus McCain. Assuming journalist employment is roughly proportional to circulation, that suggests that a similar percentage of journalists are Democrats.
Adding hysteresis definitely helps to stabilize issues like this. Using rolling windows or exponentially decayed weighting has worked out well in my experience. In general, it seems like load based routing can be quite perfidious if you get the heuristic for “load” wrong.

I worked on a system that used total connections as our heuristic, measured by the load balancer. The problem we experienced was that some failure scenarios could cause requests to fail quickly compared to normal traffic. In effect what would happen is that a host would go into a bad state, start failing requests with a lower latency than normal traffic causing the load balancer to route an increasing amount of traffic to the bad host. This happened because the load balancer was only capable of measuring connections and didn’t discriminate between good/bad responses.

We ended up injecting fake latency into bad responses at the application layer which worked to prevent this sort of “black hole” effect.
Lazy Prices [1] is a paper I was looking at for a while (I work on a Quant Research team) that does this in a simple way and the authors had good results. It takes the changes in language in some key sections of financial fillings as signals.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1658471
> Some people claim to be visual thinkers, but there are blind people who are still perfectly able to think. Likewise with deafness. Clearly neither of these can be the only basis for thought.

I don't dispute your conclusions, but I think you might be taking the idea of visual thought too literally. It doesn't necessarily mean a rendered view of a scene, but rather can encompass abstract visual-like spaces such as control flow graphs when thinking through the proof of a program's correctness
Psychology and sociology can be made as rigorous as individuals & institutions care to.

Theology, not so much.
If done right you won’t even know its happening. The best companies setup entirely different brands to segment the market.
Agreed. It’s mostly a non-issue in Australia too because of the law (which includes airline tickets) - https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/prices-surcharges-receipts...
It seems like we are constantly learning more about human microbiomes, but it’s an area I found highly unintuitive. “Poop pill” transplants, food with special bacteria to help digestion, now this. Are there any frontiers still left in this area, like armpits, feet, ears, or other internal systems?
So? You make sure the zip code is left zero filled and the strings sort fine. Admittedly, numbers would sort a bit faster.
Nothing in this world is free, OP
what about food?
I see where you're coming from, but would the subjects be comfortable with all their data becoming public?
The bottled water is produced close to where it's sold. The issue is in countries where the water bottling plant takes up lots of the available local water so the poorer citizens can't access it, and they can't afford the bottled water either. This means they don't have access to any clean water.

One of Nestle's recent CEOs actually went on record to say say he didn't believe access to clean water should be a human right.
It did come from Hugo.
Actually, I'd argue its very easy to dream up entire situations and completely lie about the kind of experiences these questions are asking about. Not saying I've done it in an interview before, but that's my honest opinion.
The SuperFX was pretty dedicated to graphics. It had stuff like a "plot pixel" instruction.
Below a certain age you can make them sit in a room without toys or electronic devices until they decide to be cooperative.

It's not firing, but it can be motivational.

I'm intrigued both by the original idea and your thought of applying it to parenting. I've found that most good management technique turns out to be relevant to parenting.
We have such silly silver-bullet-like talking points at my company. I don't follow them. It is to me too easy to make up/twist past experience to match what the interview wants to hear. Oh yeah I hit that wall and used that clever way to ship in time... Oh yeah I learnt from such and such mistake... not a fan.

Instead, prior to the ITW I define clearly (with myself or an other interviewer) the information I want to hear or the parts of the intellect/emotions I want to feel.

Example: wanna check if the candidate is autonomous? Instead of asking him if he prefers working in a big or small (or no) team and get a generic/boring answer, I will ask the candidate how they prioritize tasks when no workflow can help them. Do they rely on gut feeling? perceived ROI? ask the manager? the client? In this mindset I know directly if there's a clear match, and if not it is easy to dig in their way of thinking with a follow-up question (why/how?).

Takes a bit of improvisation/reactivity but at least I feel like I keep things interesting for everyone in the room when doing so.
San Francisco water mostly comes from the Tuolumne River (Hetch Hetchy reservoir).
mega yachts aren't cheap
I actually purged my online presence of anything risky a few years ago but archive.org still has stuff! Whoops, all I have to do is hope no one goes looking there.

It was all this "America is the Great Satan" from when I was fairly anarcho-syndicalist. Fortunately I cleared it all before it became mandatory to share your social media with immigration officials. Phew!