skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When someone gets notified by their monitoring system that a server was unavailable (because it rebooted) they might investigate and see that the IPMI logs don't mention power loss

Power failure would require both of the power feeds in the DC failing simultaneously and would be easily verified by contacting the DC and asking if they had any power outages reported at the time. Of course there are cheapskates who don't go for redundant power supplies so it's possible but would be indicated in the IPMI logs
Hard to factory farm a sheep
If you’ve vested any, which is usually 25% after the first year, and then monthly for the next 3 years. You get to keep those shares if you can buy them at your strike price. If you get laid off, you may only have 90 days to exercise (buy) your vested options before you lose that right. Some companies more recently are extending that time.

In the dot com crash era it was common for your options to have a strike price higher than the stock price (under water) so no sense in exercising them, since they are worth negative.
It seems like they haven’t even read the Wikipedia for Sunk Cost Fallacy.

In case any SoftBank homies are reading this, here you go. You are investing in the Concorde.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

- Thomas Jefferson
To qualify as IRS Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), they have to expire shortly after you're no longer an employee; some companies these days offer options than will instead become non-qualified and have a much later expiration, but that wasn't common in the dot-com boom.

For companies that expect to survive for years after the layoff, they may give you X months on payroll, and then Y months severance. Your options expiration because of no longer being an employee would generally start after the X; but I think most of the layoffs then were immediate --- the companies needed you off payroll ASAP, so they could stop paying healthcare and what not.
In most jurisdictions it's called "improper passing" and it is widely up to the discretion of the officer.

It's not explicitly illegal to change lanes in an intersection but it is often unsafe.
I can only assume he meant a manned flight.
A Path Towards Reasonable Autonomous Weapons Regulation
I find it incredibly ironic that Mark Zuckerberg claims that the 5th estate he helped create has no gatekeepers. In fact, Facebook finds itself the largest gatekeeper of speech the world has ever known. How our society deemed it fair and prudent to allow a private corporation to 'moderate' and prioritize billions of communications a day... that I'll never understand.
Not by default, but it could. Send a monolithic stream of 1500 byte packets with some padding to obfuscate transfer rates and you can really disrupt that kind of thing.
SwiftUI Is Still the Future
I have heard a few unique perspectives about Bougainville Copper.

Rio Tinto held an old-fashioned and anglosphere-centric view that the government represented the people. The idea that negotiating with a government in Port Moresby was different from negotiating with the locals; and the idea that the situation would devolve so badly were both foreign to senior management who were used to stable and representative democratic government.

Bougainville was quite a lawless place. As it turned out Rio Tinto should never have tried to invest there but it isn't obvious how they could have known that in advance. Should they not have looked to the PNG government for law enforcement? Should they have resisted the PNG military? Morally, possibly. Practically it wasn't obvious.
Maybe it's because Google keeps your previous queries and knows more about what you're looking for unless you wipe previous searches, whereas duckduckgo doesn't do that. It just gives you the standard results resulting in a bimodal results curve. For some people those are perhaps better than a concerted AI attempt from Google. Just a hypothesis though, no proof.
To me, part of the problem is the supply of colleges. There's so many of them! Every state has their big state schools, and their smaller, private, low acceptance rate "institutions". But then there's a billion small schools that no one has every heard of, and I'm not sure who is even going there. But I may be biased and don't understand having gone to a big state school.

Maybe they were created to fill demand that is now drying up. But if you search for any US state like: "Ohio colleges", google will show you "100+ more colleges" for majority of states.
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CU was a travesty of justice. Money is not speech, money is power.

It's not about proving incentives, it's about complaints like the OP being brushed off without satisfactory evidence.

Do I have a good solution? No, but I do think that we need to continue to talk about "trust" in the business community. And I was kinda cranky atm.
> The engine accelerates ions confined in a loop to moderate relativistic speeds, and then varies their velocity to make slight changes to their mass

Wouldn't that change in momentum also have an equal and opposite reaction on the accelerator?
The scale is so different that it’s not really the same thing. It’s like comparing a mortar to an orbital bombardment with rail-guns. Yes both involve sending a projectile at a target at high speed but they aren’t remotely similar.
This is why I wish HN had downvotes. This article/author deserves no attention/spread. It is a waste of our time.
I suppose whatever metal is used in a cumulative charge, a significant amount of it gets dispersed far and wide while a jet of the molten metal is piercing several inches of armor.

Copper, lead, whatever else, should contaminate all around as fine dust.
You have an engineering degree, but you wouldn’t call yourself an engineer?

What do you call yourself?
Chrome was also found to be secretly downloading binary blobs for execution, we should not be trusting Chrome's sandboxing exclusively to protect us from the internet, we can't even trust Chrome itself. [0]

In-browser sandboxing is more for attempting to isolate tabs from accessing one another's state. It can't be relied upon exclusively for protecting the larger host from the browser itself.

One should really put the entire browser in a sandbox where it can only access data and functionality necessary for its operation. Nothing more.

How one achieves that, what tools is at their disposal, is greatly OS-dependent and that's the core of my point. On Linux systems, the out-of-box configuration for most distros is to just run the browser on the host with no sandboxing. It's not sufficient.

Flatpak is one of the active efforts to fix this. If you run firefox or chrome from a flatpak, it will be run in isolation, and accessing external host resources will be done in a controlled fashion via portals or explicitly enumerated mounts in the manifest.

As mentioned elsewhere, I used firejail in the past but now prefer systemd-nspawn containers, often ephemeral ones that are spun up and thrown away per browser session.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/17/debian_chromium_hub...
This really hit me in the feels. Thank you. I wish more gov workers were like this.
On reddit today someone asked how much karma is worth or something to that effect. It could be worth a great deal to a marketer. Someone with an early sign up date and lots of karma could easily sell them selves to a marketer.

I sense reddit is full of sock puppets and sell outs. How can it not be?
The people behind patent trolls should be put in jail. Essentially they are dangerous for society.
I had several friends and coworkers end up in this situation. Lucky for me, I started late enough that my options were underwater before my first year cliff and stayed that way...
>Ironically a lot of money can be made in downturns if you know where to look and how to approach it.

Can you expand on this? I'm honestly curious about what machinations begin once a company dies or the market sinks.
Most liberal arts colleges are elaborate play centers for post adolescents that also offer classes. My own Alma mater, Washington & Lee, esp. matches that. I am not sympathetic.

I had great classes but I could have gotten the same education without the fluff. I bet without the fluff the cost would have been half or even cheaper.
Fear of buying a computer? Or awesomeness of instantly having a computer appear from the ether when you need it?
this is when you use !sp instead of google :)
Baby’s Soft Suede Tassel First Walkers
More than your question? Perhaps.

I think that the phrase "Trust but verify" is apt.
This collection of games is quirky and fascinating.
Yes, but at a certain point you will have automated away most of the labor that needs doing.
RTFM: Generalising to Novel Environment Dynamics via Reading
A hillarious way to teach pure virtual functions or interfaces
I read the linked sources and that statement is 85% of clothes disposed are sent to the dump and 15% are recycled. Not that 85% of what is produced is sent to the dump in the same year. Granted its all going to the trash eventually.
Did you file 83b election when exercising at market price? If yes, you already paid the taxes (which were $0). If not, there may be taxable income at vesting periods. Talk to tax professional. I'm certainly not one.
Huh. Personally, I merge master into my feature branches to keep up to date instead of rebasing - I find it helps the tree match the actual actions that were taken.
To be clear, the profiling of Powerpoint in the middle of the presentation was a stunt, planned in advance. I just didn't tell anybody I was going to do that.

At that point I was an ex-Microsoft person giving a talk at a Microsoft conference using Microsoft tools to profile Microsoft's presentation software. It may have been a cheeky thing to do, but it was so much fun.

I'm not aware of any publicly available video but I did a writeup of the issue:
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/powerpoint-poor...
I understand why one might expect r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse to have similar results, since they're both politically extreme subreddits. But after having worked in SEO for a pretty long time, I can't conclude that Googlebot is evaluating political affiliation with n=2 examples on n=1 sites. Instead, incoming links quality/quantity, popularity, competition, newsworthiness, age, and dozens of other ordinary differences between these pages and queries are usually the reason. Even the underscore in The_Donald likely matters.

It can get pretty frustrating to rank #1 or #2 for a query, and not rank at all for a slightly different, higher-traffic query, like using the plural, a hyphen, different capitalization, or an article.
WeWork reportedly postponed thousands of layoffs, too broke to pay severance
An engineering graduate, or an engineer-in-training. You can call yourself an engineer once you have several years of experience, pass some exams on law and ethics and whatnot, and get a professional designation.
I was director of research for a live video over the internet startup. This being pre-Flash video, it was quite a bit of engineering. We had live events, interactive sessions with popular bands, and game shows. Then in about a month, it all disappeared. I returned to the video game industry, which I'd been trying to leave for some time... After a stint doing a PS2 game for Pandemic, I went into visual effects.
>I think the Japanese meaning encompasses any kind of roundish object

As in Chinese, 金玉 also means "gold and jewels" in Japanese, i.e. treasure, so the semantic distance to testicles is not any smaller. Presumably someone might have heard of "family jewels".

>For a Chinese speaker, using 金玉 (gold+jade/precious) to describe testicles probably wouldn't be too strange

金玉 is used in the idiom 金玉满堂, which can either mean full of riches or knowledge,[1][2] so it would be rather strange.

[0] https://jisho.org/search/%E9%87%91%E7%8E%89

[1] "形容财富极多，也形容学识丰富。" (Describes someone who's extremely wealthy, but can also describe someone who's full of knowledge.) https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%87%91%E7%8E%89%E6%BB%A1%E5%...

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%8E%89%E6%BB%BF%E...
What you're missing, in short, is filtration and delivery.

Most hearing aids don't deliver sound directly to the damaged ear canal, but also utilise other sound delivery mechanisms. Like induction. This can help prevent damaging the ear internals further.

They also rarely deliver a 1:1 version of the sound in the world around us, because a damaged ear drum already distorts the sound it receives. There is no need to make it harder for the brain to filter out background noise. These filters can be simple - a dial switch on the device, or they can be complex - adaptive filtering based on the current environment. The filter complexity and effectiveness is usually reflected in the price, but as software gets better and hardware more powerful things are slowly shifting towards a better median.

The higher-end hearing aids can also be tweaked by the specialists involved to avoid frequencies that can further damage the ear, but that tends to be on a case-by-case basis and is difficult to tune correctly for an individual.

But you're right - if the hearing aid isn't tuned correctly, or the individual regularly just turns it all the way up, it can lead to further loss. Which is why many doctors have regular appointments to check the device is in a safe range.

The bad habit of the user, turning the device up, can usually be prevented by better sound filtration. They're turning it up because they can't hear something they're trying to focus on, making it easier to focus at lower volumes can curb the habit.
Correct. Nobody was spinning on a lock. Everybody was waiting politely.

The problem was that the system process held the lock for too long, due to some inefficiency in system restore (root cause not yet understood by me).
Does that mean democracy is unsafe?
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I bet when street signs were introduced, people said "Are we seriously living in a a world where people can't look around at landmarks and know where they are? They need to look at the name written down on a sign? These popular street signs offered convenience that seems to have withered most people's brains"
> Second: It seems dubious that using a feature like system
> restore causes all Write calls to wait for a lock

I agree that it seems dubious, but it is indisputably what was happening, repeatedly.
access violations are generated internally by a single instruction, and all mainstream CPUs guarantee precise exceptions. PMU interrupts for sampling are external so the CPU picks wherever it wants to stop in the program.
Those are wonderful points, and I really appreciate them. I am persuaded that it is important to set a good example of behavior for the kids. (And, perhaps, for myself when I'm talking about things I'm even more ignorant of than I am about J; an example is linked below.)

There is some amount of "social hierarchical information" available, if you look carefully — the original poster in this thread has "karma" of 47, while you have 2957, I have 12549, and dang has 52985, plus 29993 as gruseom, although that's less visible. But of course most of the people at the Hackers Conference don't have HN accounts on here at all, so this is at best a poor guide; and, even for those hackers with accounts on the site, surely it would be a grave error to consider me senior to, say, lutusp, lispm, davewiner, Arnt, tonyg, kens, masswerk, or DonHopkins, simply because my account has higher karma. An even more extreme example is my friend johncowan, who has 6 karma and is one of the major authors of R7RS.

High karma is perhaps more an indicator of the kind of poor impulse control that results in wasting our time trying to educate the deliberately clueless, or in my case just going off half-cocked on topics I don't know enough about, than of actual seniority. All of the people in that list are more accomplished hackers than I am, but they have less karma in large part because they post less, perhaps because they're hacking.

To some extent, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation are similar signals, but consider https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20404735, written by someone who apparently really knew what they were talking about, in depth, in a way that I absolutely did not — "Lol" or no "Lol". And even at best those indicators only serve to indicate social background and literacy, which are only weakly correlated with competence.

I wonder if there is at least something we could do to make voting more thoughtful; for example, put the voting arrows at the end of the comment rather than its beginning, or even after all the replies to the comment. (People could collapse the replies to find the arrows if they were really determined to vote without looking at the responses.) Or use a PageRank-style or Advogato-style trust metric rather than raw vote count, so that the votes of people like the ones I listed above would count for more; or, like lobste.rs, request a reason for downvoting. Fundamentally, though, I think there's a kind of insuperable conflict between thoughtful discussion and hair-trigger interactivity. Long comments rarely get many votes, either up or down, because they take too long to read.

I'm really sick of seeing thoughtful comments like vkou's in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395050, mine in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276994, and eloff's in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20275006 (although it was mistaken) punished by downvotes and even flags like we're filthy spammers.

Again, I really appreciate your thoughtful reply. Maybe we should set up an "Old Hats" mailing list or something for discussions like these. Maybe it's possible to rescue HN from the "finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers" JWZ refers to.
DDG doesn't have the weight of history that is ruining google. When you google something and can't tell if it's wrong until you click through it reinforces the weighting of that wrong result. It will keep referring you to that 10 year old stack-overflow post that is no longer relevant because it's 6 major versions behind.
I had just gotten hired as employee #9 by a startup which was growing fast making software network components, and after me three more devs were hired in the next month.

Next month we moved into a much bigger office, with a lovely view and lots of space for growth - then boom, the crash (gradually) struck: the three people who'd come in after me were let go, one at a time, and the rest of us were asked to work part time - volunteering how much part of the time was. We split the office and squashed into a small part.

I worked one day on / one day off for a couple of years (maybe a bit less) while our boss scrambled for sales. He was a great guy, was very open and helpful to us all, and did eventually get the company back on its feet and eventually sold it. The five founders did well, the boss retired three years later, and even I did OK (worked for the company that bought us for eight more years, then also retired.)
> what problems does it solve and how?

Problem: Trust

How: Easier said than done. The key point is to acknowledge that businesses (even those we love), can sometimes do shifty shit.

So if a "reasonable" public complaint is made, the default response is: that is an understandable concern and here is the data to assuage you that your worries are unfounded. Lyft did not do this.

From the article:

Lyft’s hiding of the rider’s fare from drivers, which the company says began rolling out on September 12, came just a few weeks after a Jalopnik investigation found Uber and Lyft take a much higher portion of each fare than they publicly admit. Both companies denied those findings, but refused to provide any raw data to support their claims. Jalopnik used the information drivers could see about each fare, including the amount the rider paid, to conduct its study of 14,756 fares.
That's...weird. Of all the boards Cook could serve on, or not on, he chooses to join a random Chinese business school? It's hard not to think there's a quid pro quo going on because it seems completely unnecessary otherwise.

Would be great to see Apple make further progress on manufacturing elsewhere.
Did you read the post? There were no spin locks waiting for the lock to be released. The ~100 threads waiting for the lock were all waiting in an idle state, quite efficiently.

The problem was that the thread that owned the lock was spinning in a seven-instruction loop.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IWGFF?p=IWGFF&.tsrc=fin-srch

This looks like the upper limit for WeWork. It doesn't matter how much nicer looking their offices are or if they have free beer bashes and parties, those expenses are all tiny when it comes to the bottom line of a multibillion dollar corporation.

Plus, Regus has more desks and branches than WeWork, and is orders of magnitude less expensive.
I also search for <item> sucks as part of my due diligence.
it's not a problem, just like lithium is not a problem and Vanadium is not a problem and (add any other hyped resource) is not a problem.

A lot of this is i believe FUD, and sometimes when i get real pessimistic, i think it mustclever marketing on the part of some of there resource companies.

There just hasnt been enough demand for cobalt in the past. Trust me, once the price gets high enough, everyone will be going back to their old nickel mine core samples and making market announcements.

The amount of cobalt work I did back in 2016 when it first came on the radar is ridiculous. Kept me busy after lithium started to die. But now its all Vanadium.... And Zinc also Gold but Vanadium is the sexy one.

Literally happens every. single. time.
Interestingly this is also the attitude of many money managers (Warren Buffett, to take the best known example). You'd think at least they would take explicit, timed preventive action. Many (most?) of them don't.
I went through something very similar at a startup around 2010 (layoffs, new runway because of layoffs, random pivots trying to find anything to work)... so I guess some things never change!
The state of Oregon does not recognize a distinction between an Engineer, and a P.Eng. Other states do, but it does not.

It's not an unreasonable position.
> Does it strike anyone as strange how much of the economy seems to be built around bizarre, failed, often seemingly blatant scams nowadays? It almost seems as if no matter how transparently irrational and corrupt these schemes are, what’s important is to maintain the semblance of it all, the specific articulation of power.

I remember looking at the Russian economy in 2001 and thinking the same thing.
I support the right to shout that but I have several problems with the way the Tibetan government in exile is set up and the place it gives to their spiritual leaders.

They are a bit evasive as to the democratic guarantees they would give their people. I'm ok to push back China's authoritarianism, but I don't think it is worth it doing so at the cost of making a new Iran.
It seems that the person in question was #2 on the "patent trolls top list" in 2016

https://www.rpxcorp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/t...
My understanding is that the system restore checkpoints happen every five seconds. They hold a lock, which seems reasonable.

The problem is that for some reason on this machine the checkpoint process was taking a really long time. I also don't understand why it was taking so long. It normally doesn't. Something went terribly wrong.

> and if designed nicely, quite fast.

Yep, should be. But it wasn't. If everything worked as it should then I'd never get to write any blog posts!