skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sense of it is that most of these are Russian propagandists trying to sow dissent in America, and that's why the popularity of the phrase tends to peak for two months are so and then die off for six months before resurfacing.
Yup. Free shipping to Selawik & Angoon! Whether those locations can supply enough electricity to run this monster is another conversation :)
I have difficulty seeing Unicorn (the scooter company) here as anything other than an intentional joke on current VC. They call it Unicorn, they put nothing into actually making a product, and they close up shop immediately after spending all the money on growth -- unlike with Wag, that really doesn't seem like something accidental.
I have always wanted to build that service even though never got a chance yet. I even have the domain registered for it (experthours.com). There is the generic clarity.fm and then there is sites like codementor.io. But I am not quite happy with both. The idea is that you will be able to connect with someone who is really good at 1-2 things and then give you tips as a consultant. They won't do the project for you but guide you. Something like that.
Well written, I enjoyed it. It is a fictional story, just because something like that seems like it could happen in the world doesn't mean its reality. I think it plays into the desire we have to have order in the world, some unknowing or unseen force driving things and the world is not as chaotic as it really seems. Its the same thing that drives people to theorize about what is really going on behind the scenes about other events, e.g. suicides, plane crashes, etc.

The economic system is driven by greed, there are countless other companies that have essentially been vaporware with no serious amount of foreign investing like WeWork had. Stock symbol GTAT was one that went bankrupt on contract to make sapphire screens for Apple. They weren't a scam but way over promised on what they could do, fooled Apple's due diligence to spend half a billion dollars on a plant in Arizona to make these sapphire screens. Both American companies, GTAT headquartered in New Hampshire and mostly large US institutional investors as their main shareholders.

WATT is another one that I know of and have been following, claims the ability to wireless charge phones not on a mat but in a given area or in a room. However they is no feasible way they can simply overcome physics on that: radio waves follow an inverse square law for power density and they won't get the type of power delivered for that and other reasons. Using a mat if you want wireless charging is about as good as its going to get for the trade offs that come with that. Anything else just doesn't seem economical or able to provide enough of an advantage for people to buy it.. getting that advantage is going to be really hard especially with the technology the company is developing, cause inverse square law. Also wattage for charging a phone is increasing, and we're now seeing power adapters using GaN and delivering 40+Watts in a small form factor... the gap will continue to widen and they won't be able to overcome physics. Yet the stock was as high as 15 or so dollars a share in the last year. Now down to around 2... in this market that is no easy thing to do. Heck even Apple couldn't get it right to make a mat that could charge 3 different devices at once and had to cancel it because, once again, physics.

Enron is the classic example for vaporware and downright fraud. If any entity was hit the strongest by that it would be the state of California having lost billions in economic activity due to the rolling blackouts that company imposed on the state for years to make money.
A periodic reminder that Apple was one of the founding partners in the conspiracy (with Google and others) to cheat employees out of billions of dollars of wages due to illegal anti-poaching agreements.
> Finally, ask your team leadership for help

Finally?

Surely the whole purpose of team leadership is to solve exactly this kind of problem. If the leadership is any good then asking for help will be regarded as positive not negative and will one to get expert, targeted, advice.

So instead of 'finally', I would recommended 'initially' or possibly 'immediately'.
Honestly, and I'm being really frank here, a lot of the management "expertise" at fortune 50+ firms that come from traditional (re: MBA) tracks has just two tools in their toolbelt:

1. Meetings to "align"

2. Cracking the whip.

That's it. That's all they have. They have poor insight into creating team chemistry, culture, focused work environments, mentorship, long-term planning, QA processes, sourcing efficiency feedback, etc. - all those things that are crucial to boosting productivity and creating supersonic teams. The people that really know their stuff and can work miracles are people that have been in the trenches for 20 years, regardless of profession. And they hands-down make the best managers.

That's my honest 2 cents, it's a bit of disgruntlement from working in large enterprise environments with engineering and technology.
I still don't want my computer to be tied to my display
this was a really good episode.
I might be mistaken about MacOS, but it definitely doesn't exist on centos, ubuntu, debian, or alpine--at least not their headless/server variants.
I was a Senior Engineer, was promoted to Manager, then to a Manager of Managers role. No MBA.

I work for a Fortune 10 company. This is the path almost all of my peers followed. Some version of this track existed in every company I've worked for.

Change companies? Or accept some open minded mentorship from the people who succeeded in this track at your company. (I encounter a fair amount of folks who want leadership roles but are going about it super wrong...)
> macOS Server is still a thing

It is? With no server hardware except for maybe a rack-mounted Mac Pro ( which doesn't really strike me as server grade hardware)[0] and most of the actual server services gutted[1]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro#Mac_Pro_Server & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Mini#Mac_mini_Server

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/24/major-changes-macos-server/
(Replying to a child node because we've hit a HN depth limit I believe).

Yep sure, I can open an issue to add a setting for this. I suspect it will be rejected but that's OK; I think an issue is justified because I use git and magit very intensively and have been unable to escape the `git commit -m` mental model.
For the 2nd point: would you suggest a useEffect hook that has a dependency on the search key? With the current search() call replaced with an update of the search key state.
Can say the same shit about any language.
Nike Patents a System for Tokenizing Shoes on Ethereum's Blockchain
>Apple appears to concede that Nuvia is targeted to servers and Apple doesn’t make servers

While I don't disagree with anything you are saying, I will note that Apple is kinda back in the server game, given that Mac OS server is still a thing, and now (or soon) there is a rack mounted Mac offering again...

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro
Chinese scientists raise alarm about LCD screen pollution
The real problem is the idea that you need a return on your money.

You don't. If you're a multi-billionaire you can spend the rest of your life wasting millions a year on super-expensive toys and prestige houses and whatever else you feel like amusing yourself with, and you're not going to run out.

The irony is that this kind of gameified wealth chasing is itself paper-pushing makework. At best it's a financial version of Minecraft - building a pointless but showy thing just to prove you can - with the markets as the gaming environment.

WeWork, WagLabs, and most VC investments contribute absolutely nothing of value to the world. If they didn't exist, no one would even notice their absence.

Meanwhile real problems - climate change, political stability, creating a dynamic culture of scientific innovation and creativity - go unaddressed.
I've just been mentally saying "ASCII Cinema" I know it is objectively wrong but it's what the name is saying
Conda virtual environments and Pip are orthogonal. Pip can be used to install into venvs. But as to why use conda rather than just the standard library venv module (python3 -m venv venv): conda can easily manage multiple python versions. In my experience, it's the most hassle-free option compared to something like pyenv. I personally use conda just for managing venvs, and don't use its package manager functionality at all.
Prolly this: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/370/ruining-it-for-the-rest...
It is unreasonable to believe that they stopped simply because of that minor slap on the wrist. I’m sure they’re just much more careful now; tens of billions of dollars are on the line.
While "turning into Reddit" is a tired cliché here, I have seen a slowly-increasing trend of unjustified and irrational downvoting here. It's nowhere near reddit-bad, but it is significantly worse than when I joined eight years ago. I have seen an increase in longer-term users commenting on undeserved downvotes of other people's posts, which tells me I'm not the only one seeing this.

Unfortunately, I think the cat has left the bag. Removing the censorship feature from downvotes would counteract most of the damage it does to discourse, I think.
Sound reasoning but then you’re thinking in the long term interest of the company. Visa went public so the individuals who jacked up the prices will probably make a big bonus on their quarter numbers and be gone, rich, or promoted before the backlash hits them.
Very mesmerizing; too bad for the usual animated-text-overlay thing so popular these days.
Agreed.

As a resident of Ann Arbor, MI, I am an opponent of all the high-rise developments. I've seen general prices rise, I've seen traffic start jamming, and I've seen days with much lower air quality.

I prefer to see cities managed like an interconnected ecosystem rather than a simply supply/demand chart for housing.
Well one argument is the same as for patents -- the prospect of having sole use of something for a while is an incentive for its creation.
At least around here most terminals will allow you to swipe after 3 chip failures, but it's still a pain.
This is (at least, typically) the case. A friend of mine who was born in Shanghai but is now a Canadian citizen had to go through an arduous visa process to get a job in her home city.
I'm not sure who is "They" here. Well...ok I have a bit of an idea of one or two people ;)

But for 90% of the transputer group at the time it was very obvious that we needed alien language support. We had to spin up a compiler group, which took time. I seem to remember we also OEM'ed some compilers from outside vendors before the internal ones were ready (memory hazy and I didn't work directly on software there). I had direct contact with many customers, specifically discussing C language support and I don't at all remember anything like what you describe where 3rd party products were deliberately not mentioned.
Why Are Voice-Over Actors Not Nominated for Oscars?
I'm wondering why Saudi Arabia doesn't just buy the S&P 500 like any index fund. It doesn't seem that hard to diversify? Is it not possible at their scale?

Norway has a trillion dollar sovereign investment fund and they seem to be profitable and uncontroversial?
And this is news?
How do you reconcile your principle of "every man" as the overarching concept, with the fifth amendment, doctor/patient, lawyer/client, married couples, executive privilege, etc. There are many examples of privileged exceptions to "every man".

I don't see how "every man" would ever allow the government to demand a tool maker change their tool for the purposes of future evidence collection when that tool has "privileged" uses.

Although I agree with you that the fourth amendment was not made to make it hard to get a warrant, only to restrict warrants to specific, narrow searches with evidenced probable cause.
you're not allowed to have a fire pit in philly within 15 feet of a building
Every time I read a Stephenson novel I have to break through that first quarter to a third before I'm fully taken in. It's like a dog or cat finding a comfortable position to sleep in. Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, all require me to push through that first part before I can get comfortable.

I had tried (and failed) to read Crypto about 3 times before I finally broke through and realised his plotting wasn't bad, he just couldn't set it up right, or something.
I think Bay Area real estate is a good analogy. Almost everyone is making more money than they were 10 years ago thanks to the tech industry, increases in minimum wages, etc... So technically everyone is wealthier, even after accounting for inflation. But thanks to increases in wealth inequality, the real estate market has gone bananas, resulting in the average resident feeling worse off.
It's true that even the sophisticated bad guys will accidentally leak info and leave a trail that can help police, but it's also true that mass surveillance significantly increases chances for false positives. The idea of all law systems in the world is to first protect innocents, and only then punish the guilty. Mass surveillance works vice versa, they know that it will affect a number of innocents by mistake, but are ready to accept that in hope that it might make police work easier.
"Non-linear transfer function" is a generalization of "quadratic payments." "Transfer function" is a general engineering term meaning a mathematical description of the output of a system in terms of its inputs. So the "transfer function" of a payment is its output (what you get) in terms of its input (what you pay). Normally that transfer function is linear: if one apple costs a dollar, then N apples will cost N dollars. (Actually, that's only true up to a point. In the real world, if N is large enough, N apples will cost you less than $N.)
Best known !== Best
Haha, what a cynical, bleak and fascinating read.
I am not the author of the blog post, but I am the founder of OpenFaaS. Here is an example with database access - https://www.openfaas.com/blog/serverless-single-page-app/
We just went through weeks (and still ongoing) arguments about China exerting it’s censorship influence on US companies - and getting them to comply. US universities are under increasing pressure to monitor Chinese students for fear of espionage. I don’t think you’re going to get the FBI to drop their reasons for asking this in a public S3 bucket. Asking questions about how a mainlander was able to gain this access is absolutely reasonable and prudent - it’s not a slur. What’s unique about China is the scale - that’s it. US institutions are pretty weak right now, and China can, quite literally, throw a lot of people at the problem.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/28/728659124/fbi-urges-universit...
There are organized movements to make this happen, such as https://conventionofstates.com/.

Personally I am concerned that such a convention would lead to major changes (in the wrong direction) on individual rights and issues like privacy, censorship, and accountability for the powerful. On the other hand the original constitution is slowly becoming unworkable due to years of contradictory case law.

"A republic, if you can keep it." Wise words.
Awesome! Love it!
Spectre may have changed things, but for a long time a user->kernel switch didn't imply a full TLB flush.
Are you saying that hypothetical law would be unconstitutional, or just silly?
Administrative bloat (think about all the jobs that have dedicated people that used to just be the side job of a particular professor) and all the BS you piss money away on when budgets are dependent on what you used last year (which many university department budgets are).
Participated in what? After flights were grounded no Saudis were in the air leaving the US until September 14th. We have known this for more than 15 years now. It is extremely disappointing to me that this old disinformation is currently the top thread under this submission.
‘Adulting’ is hard. UC Berkeley has a class for that
For the UC system, here's a tool that gives a breakdown: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/revenue-an...
Yep, and corporate profits have been pretty flat since 2011 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP
I guess some simple (probably too-simple) possibilities are:

1. They aren't just trying to beat inflation. *

2. Viable ways to make money change depending on the scale of the money you're trying to tie up. A lot of things don't scale (or, maybe better said, scaling them requires additional competencies and may ruin the margins that made it worth doing).

3. You aren't the only one out there competing for opportunities. There's a lot of money out there seeking return.

* I'm shooting from the hip, based on my (potentially flawed) understanding of some reading I've done over the past few years on the body of Capital as Power (CasP) theory being built out by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler among others.

When they frame Capital as Power, one of the important implications is that it isn't an absolute quanta--it's a relative measure (i.e., power describes a relationship--one can have power in some relations, and not in others).

By framing it as a relative measure, they also suggest that attempts to increase one's capital are less about trying to beat inflation than they are about trying to gain power relative to others. I'm not sure I can unpack this in a very concrete way, but some implications are like:

- You could just beat inflation in a high-growth sector for a decade or two and still lose large amounts of power relative to the big players in the sector, and effectively end up transitioning from having enough power to check the other participants to having too little to keep them from pushing you around.

- You could lose money (absolutely) in a crisis, but still significantly increase your power relative to others.
It turns out that you don’t actually own a team in the property rights sense: you didn’t assemble it very well if they all decided to leave.

This is the market pricing the work. If someone else came along with a wad of cash and hired them, you weren’t paying them enough.
Another great cost saving idea of Ronald Reagan was the closing of all the mental hospitals, supposedly to be replaced by community clinics (which never happened). The unrolling disaster of homeless with severe mental illness continues, on and on and on. Thank you, Ronald Reagan. What a legacy.
I'm by no means a Python expert but I recently had a small project where I needed to convert the output of an SQL query to a parquet file, and I settled on using fastparquet to do so.

I first tried using pip under a venv to install it, and I ran into dependency hell. I needed various dev libs and build-essential on my ubuntu box and I ultimately couldn't get it to compile llvmlite correctly (linker issuers and way too many LLVM versions).

I finally gave up and tried miniconda on a fresh box per some advice here on HN. I simply installed it, ran "conda create -n myenv fastparquet" and it just worked first try. No extra effort involved.
They (the universities) are constantly begging for more money, too, in the form of grants. According to my professors in grad school, tuition revenue is a “drop in the bucket”.
Yeah, the Philly MOVE incident led to 64 other buildings burning.
Easily set up and manage your Affiliate Store
Russian Cows Use VR Headsets to Increase Milk Production
Lots of git clients like Fork have pretty graphs for browsing your history. Even the terminal client can generate graphs in the git log if you give it the right params.
In many places, the frost line is more like 3 to 6 feet, than 6 inches.
Asking questions about how Raytheon mishandled access to sensitive information is not a slur and is totally reasonable.

Asking why Raytheon allowed anyone of Chinese origin to work in proximity to that data is not reasonable.
> It is implemented via taxes

The purpose of taxes isn't to take from the rich and give to the poor.

> Also who are you?

Huh? I'm nobody, why are you asking?
This irritated me so much that I disabled "OSXNotification.bundle". No more popups.
It's largely a game or done for the novelty value, I think, for many of them - kind of like buying a certificate that says you named a star or an asteroid.

I ran across one that had my name as a .com (something I'd obviously want), had a bunch of back and forth for several years, once or twice every year, and eventually they realized - ya know - nobody with this name is ever going to pay the exorbitant price they wanted, then they let it lapse. Picked it up for $10 or so, instead of $15,000+.

Some of the very short domain names that map to abbreviated company names in China can still be valuable, or if they're somehow truly unique, but for the most part, domain squatting is a dead end for 99% of the domain names at anything less than a very large scale.
Do links or GPS coordinates exist for this on Google Maps, Google Earth, or other publically viewable GPS imagery?
Useless administrators. There has somehow been an increase in administrators over a time period when the introduction of computers should have cut the number drastically.

> At public research institutions specifically, there has been a particularly marked rise in the number administrators. In 1990, there were approximately twice as many full-time faculty at public research institutions as administrators. In 2012, the two groups were nearly equal.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...
2.3MM on diversity employee salaries: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11852
Hm, doesn't look like the package is concerned with looks.

The value is in the fuzzy filtering - which is delegated to another library (Fuse.js) .. so the actual value is just the slight convenience of not having to wrap Fuse in a hook yourself.
That was the point... this kind of sinister backcronym is common in military and intelligence.
Because the creator doesn't experience any per unit cost of content distributed only google does and the unit cost of bandwidth is so close to zero it would be hard to enumerate.

I do buy things. I agree to buy them before I fork over my money and I reject deals that I perceive would disadvantage me. That makes me a smart consumer.
I find this a very weird thing to be upset about. The cost is a drop in the bucket when it comes to the price of a house, and I imagine plenty of people would like having an outlet there even if they don't drive an electric car. I'm sure there are lots of pernicious regulations, but this doesn't seem like a great example of one.

Electric cars are up against a vicious cycle: no one will build houses to accommodate electric cars until a lot of people have them, but most people won't buy an electric car if they can't charge it in their garage. So if you want people to drive electric cars, which the government rightly does, it makes sense to require that new houses are built with electric cars in mind. Yes, Teslas are expensive, but the expectation is that the houses will still be around once electric vehicles are more affordable, and it's cheaper to prepare for them now than to retrofit later on.
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> Y'know who else did that? Shockley Semiconductor.

Steve Jobs himself also recruited some folks from Apple when he left to found Next.
Their "xc" is C with language extensions to support CSP style parallel processing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XC_(programming_language)
> Did any of these production problems relate to the MCAS malfunction though?

I mean, the concern would be that MCAS is just the tip of the iceberg, and that similar fuckups exist within the planes due to this management trouble.