skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in reference to the 'Crazy President' Problem:

>that isn’t how mental illness works (it tends not to flare up in a totally unexpected way among otherwise “sane” people)

This might not be how Mental Illness works, but it could present itself in the case of Alzheimer's/dementia. I don't have a study to link to, but plenty of anecdotes having worked as a caregiver. I've worked with patients in early stages of dementia that could go from being completely lucid and rational, to being completely unaware of their surroundings, and back to baseline within the span of a few minutes.

I'll leave any speculation on Trump's cognitive facilities to somebody else.
Really great write-up as usual from Mr. Hunt! Some bits that I found especially amusing:

Auto-response email from the company says "To add additional comments, please reply to this email". The email address it came from is "noreply@surebet247.com".

Troy's opinion of gambling: "Granted, gambling merely amounts to a tax on people who can't do maths"

:)
Money (or options, RSUs, or other potential gamble that you'll get money) are handcuffs, you can't be loyal to someone who has you in handcuffs, even very nice ones (unless they're the fun fuzzy kind maybe, but that's a different situation).

Save your loyalty for a nice non-profit or co-op doing some good thing that you feel passionate about in your community, just give your employer your time until such a time as things change and you feel it's no longer worth it.
Thank you for starting this thread. Although I personally don't sacrifice nearly as much as the other commenters, all of you are inspiring the rest of us to do better!
I disagree with anyone saying that RSU's are ideal way to get employees invested in a company's success. In practice, total compensation for an employee is decided by market value of that employee. If RSUs shoot up, you will get lesser base pay, if they go down you will end up getting higher base pay in next appraisal cycle. Your salary might be inflated or underflated (for lack of a better word) for a while but in long term the company will balance it out with market standards.

If you think of RSUs as an investment, then its a different game. However, it is no different than owning stock on NASDAQ. You can get rich if you buy the right stock.

Hence, my perspective. All cash better than RSU. If you wanna buy stocks then just buy from stock exchange of whichever company you want.

Caveat: For startups where you get equity this argument doesn't hold true. There the startup might end up a unicorn and you make ton of money.
>HR is there to protect the company. It is probably tempting to just remove the disruptor instead of being fair

Not only is this 100% true, but it's good career advice for everyone- men & women, people at every level of experience, etc. We all should know this at this point
Oh, OK. Thanks.
The grass is always greener. It can be pretty frustrating to be at a job you’re not very satisfied at because the expected value of leaving just doesn’t make sense. Sounds silly to complain about having golden handcuffs, but it does change the decisions you make (potentially in a way that makes you less happy).
great to see you here! quick question- you wouldn't happen to be BF? One of the first games I played on PC was ARC. Those leagues got me into scripting, which led me to Purdue CS, which led me to my career today.

just wanted to give a shout out to you & JV. you guys had a lot of influence over a generation of ARCers, some of which still play games together. so, thanks, and cool to see this from you. I will check it out and show my engineers
1) I started this project a few years after leaving PopCap. This is the very first public release - only a couple people have seen it before now so there hasn't been a chance for anyone else to build anything with it yet.

2) This is intended for both engine development and game logic. Using alternate languages with Unreal or Unity is nearly impossible at the moment- likely Rust will make inroads there before BeefLang.

3) Good idea.
For those interested in exploring solar, Google has a tool which provides some specific metrics around your home's roof based on satellite photos:

https://www.google.com/get/sunroof
From observation there is no connection between unhealthy workplaces and compensation. If anything, it seems the more you get paid, the better you get treated. There may be exceptions obviously.
D is by far my favourite niche language, due to its clean syntax and ease of use. I am surprised it’s not gaining traction.
So, since Corundum is open source, you can plug in whatever arbitrary transmit scheduler you want. Corundum also supports 10,000+ transmit queues (I have synthesis tested on the ultrscale+ to 32,768 transmit queues). This is super interesting for all sorts of networking applications, as that's a large enough number of queues to give individual flows or connections their own hardware queue, so the scheduler on the NIC can directly control the flow of information leaving the NIC.

TDMA is basically a simple demonstration scheduler that enables and disables queues on microsecond timescales, based on PTP time. One of the original reasons for building Corundum was to enable optical switching research, where data transmission into the switch must be precisely coordinated with the configuration of the switch itself. We have tried to do this in software, but the precision is limited and the CPU overhead is high. With corundum, the schedule is enforced in hardware, so it is extremely precise and does not add any CPU overhead.
This isn’t true when you consider how RSUs are typically granted and vested.

When you are hired you are given a certain number of units based on your RSU package and the current stock price. Example: 400k package over 4 years, current stock price $1000. This means you get 400 units total or 100 vesting per year.

If the stock prices goes (up/down) the number of units do not change but the total value does. This could result in significantly (more/less) for your total compensation in a way that cannot be achieved by what you have described due to the timing differences in when cash from base pay becomes available.
Yeah, it is insane. I know someone who works for the state of Virginia. All purchases must be through one of these small businesses. But a lot of them are just a single person with a laptop who just goes online to the actual vendor and orders it and adds a considerable markup. The state organization is not allowed to buy from the vendor directly. I'm not opposed to jobs programs but ostensibly we can find some that actually provide value.
Oh I am well aware. Laptop coolers are barely good enough, without exception. It's fascinating really, it's like they want their systems to run at close to throttling temperatures, so they last a tad bit longer than their warranty.

Doesn't bother me, I've got 2 hands and 2 eyes, anything can be modified with those. Except encrypted BIOSes, for now :D
I understood your previous comment that you're already in a situation where it's taxed; I was thinking of someway to have it cost the advertising company money even if it only serves to have them put out the flyers on sunny days.

I was thinking more as tool for insurance and/or attempting to force the company to pay for the cost of an exterior detailing of your car since they plastered something to it (with the help of the weather).

In many US areas there are online police reports for minor incidents and the purpose of the report is almost solely so that you have a record for insurance.

It may also help if you call up the company (or publicly shame them with a tweet) to ask for reimbursement for the cost of a car detailer to remove their litter from your car without damage. Having a police report means you could put it all in the hands of your insurance company who have lawyers on staff or use it as part of the negotiation with the company.

Maybe enough police reports about a given company and you could petition the council to revoke that company's ability to flyer any longer?

I know I'm probably dreaming that it would make a difference. The only time I've had an experience with this a friend used twitter and got a public apology from the company along with some monetary compensation around the removal of the ink residue from the windshield.
That probably would be wise. But how long until "But they're owned by BuzzFeed!"
NetFPGA is a toolbox for network-based packet processing. It is not a NIC, and their NIC reference designs leave a lot to be desired. Corundum is specifically a NIC.
History of Mel Brooks: Both Parts
Well if we're counting options as well, the median is probably around 0, but the mean will skew a lot higher :)

If we count RSUs only, then the stock already has to be public, and it probably heavily weights towards FAANG and a pretty high average.
Or 0xDEADBEEF :-D
Since D has scope guards - any plans to add deterministic destructors? i.e. RAII a la C++.
There's a lot of rivalry amongst women too, it just plays out in different ways and different domains. You can even see this in OP's distrust of the "soft skills" 'team' - that part of the enterprise is precisely where rivalry tends to matter the most.
IME, the best way to find these is through geocaching, it's really a fantastic way to find local and rarely-travelled gems.
It's a way to avoid the "fat models" problem (models files with too many lines on them).
Stadia doesn't run on fairy dust. It still uses CPUs & GPUs, and the more people use Stadia the more it will need. And since Stadia uses AMD GPUs I don't think AMD would be that sad about selling more super high margin enterprise GPUs to Google.

And of course you still need that local client to play it, which might as well be an AMD-powered ultrabook. At which point Stadia just resulted in AMD selling up to 3 products instead of just 1 (GPU & CPU in the server + APU in the laptop)
> The perfect is the enemy of the good.

As often said when trying to push a bad solution instead of a good one. Replacing coal plants with gas plants is a bad solution. Rapid deployment of nuclear+renewables is merely good. Perfect would be overhauling the economy to be less dependent on growth and much less carbon intensive.
Rainer Moormann's [0] recent statement concerning current nuclear costs Germany is facing in a single case:

"
Here an info about #NuclearWaste. A particularly bad kind are the 900,000 HTR-balls from Hamm and Jülich. It is being considered to export them to the USA against the resistance of the ecosystem. Would cost about 1 billion €, including transportation. From the globes, 4.4 TWh, i.e. 0.15% of the German
nuclear power was produced. If disposal would be generally so expensive, we would have 700 billion €, but even with LWR=factor 5 cheaper (more realistic) we would end up with 6 times what is available (24 billion €)
Addendum: In the USA the graphite of the spheres is to be gasified and the CO2 is to be released into the atmosphere together with the radioactive C14. It's a military facility, they're allowed to do that. In the EU this would be excluded in the civilian sector. But it makes disposal cheaper.
Here detailed information on the Jülich spherical castors
radientelex.com/Stx_18_748-749...
There are a total of 453 Castors with balls. The castors are however smaller than LWR castors (25 t instead of 120 t)
One more addendum: The acquisition costs of the 455 castors alone were almost as high as the value of the electricity generated with the balls.
And one more thing: The transport is to be carried out by an armed special ship, some dozens of trips would be necessary
" [1]

(sorry, dirty twitter unroll & deepl translation)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Moormann
[1] https://twitter.com/MoormannRainer/status/120112832873803776...

Edit: Typo
In the Stand Alone Complex timeline, Kusanagi is literally several different people throughout the story. She assimilates memories from a few different sources (the tank in episode 2, the Laughing Man, and Kuze, Puppetmaster in the SAC:SSS movie). It's implied (and made explicit in other GitS timelines) that the only reason she is able to do this and maintain her sense of self is because she was "cyberized" as a young child and had to figure out the answer to the question "who is Motoko Kusanagi?" independently of her physical form.

She even has a line towards the end of the SAC:SSS movie that says something like "next time you meet me I might be a completely different person". But there is indeed a "base" personality that she tries to hold on to (e.g. via her watch) despite the wide range of memories she acquires.
Unfortunately:

E183: User defined commands must start with an uppercase letter
>OP didn’t say significantly.

True, but he or she implied it: if it weren't significant, it would be a disservice to the advice asker to distract him or her with the information.
I don't know if it's a consequence of their GC, but go is significantly slower than Java or C#.
I think they mentioned ReplayGain with AAC and ogg formats, but it's possible they use some custom implementation. There's a good deal of information[1]; it is indeed not peak normalization:

> ReplayGain is different from peak normalization. Peak normalization merely ensures that the peak amplitude reaches a certain level. This does not ensure equal loudness. The ReplayGain technique measures the effective power of the waveform (i.e. the RMS power after applying an "equal loudness contour"), and then adjusts the amplitude of the waveform accordingly. The result is that Replay Gained waveforms are usually more uniformly amplified than peak-normalized waveforms.

Generally we indeed target both up or down in loudness (although 'up' is quite rare, typically high-end recordings of classical or jazz or otherwise very dynamic pieces).

Honestly, everything I read screams that Spotify really hired the right people to make these decisions.

Now I only have to rent about their handling (or rather, lackthereof) of metadata — how hard is it to display an actual first release date? but meh. Audio quality is great, no question about it. I just wish they'd stream FLAC in very-high quality + "quiet" environment settings (the "pure hi-fi" experience so to speak), but that'll come in due time I suppose.

[1]: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain
Not as of January 01 - there's a new regulation this year that imposes a sulfur cap on fuel burned by cargo ships [1]. Most ships must now burn more expensive and cleaner fuels. Some ships - mostly larger ones - still burn HSFO but they can only do so because they've installed "scrubbers" which clean the emissions to reduce the amount of sulfur emitted into the atmosphere.

It's an open question whether scrubbers are really helping or just a diversion from purchasing higher quality fuel, but it's only economical to install scrubbers on the very big ships and so the large majority of the ~50,000 strong merchant marine fleet don't have them installed.

[1] https://ihsmarkit.com/topic/imo-2020-regulation.html
My experience with Midori people was a little like the jokes people tell about BMW owners and vegans.

You knew who they were because they wouldn't stop talking about Midori. It's a neat project, I liked hearing the stories.
It's easy to accept the Chinese narrative when you don't get the full picture due to the CCP propaganda that has fully infiltrated western media. The US "system" is full of issues and for all its faults, it is still governed by rule of law whereas in China, your life and well-being are at the whim of a dictator.

Funny how US citizens are so quick to react at criticizing their own government but people in countries like China cannot even do so without being censored or arrested.
You'v no had haggis curry?
Safe FFI Between Rust and C++
That's known as the "Samson option".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
> Late in his life, Claude Monet developed cataracts. As his lenses degraded, they blocked parts of the visible spectrum, and the colors he perceived grew muddy. Monet's cataracts left him struggling to paint; he complained to friends that he felt as if he saw everything in a fog. After years of failed treatments, he agreed at age 82 to have the lens of his left eye completely removed. Light could now stream through the opening unimpeded. Monet could now see familiar colors again. And he could also see colors he had never seen before. Monet began to see - and to paint - in ultraviolet.

https://www.downloadtheuniverse.com/dtu/2012/04/monets-ultra...
Basically, everyone's just estimating. The original chart assumes 60M pairs of AirPods sold according to Kuo's estimates with an ASP of $200, while the author of the "correction" tweet is citing his own estimates at 35M pairs sold at an ASP of $162.

I'm not sure who is more trustworthy, but it generally seems like most people think $12B is too high and Cybart (the correction tweet guy) is closer to the actual sales figure
>The same conditions do not exist in the US.

literally false according to the stats i posted that you didn't read (or discounted).

>How progressive are we if we help ourselves / our families and people who are genetically like us but we don't provide the same support to other poorer nations.

i don't understand? are you mad at finland for not being progressive enough? originally your point was the US couldn't be as progressive as finland is because of oil? and immigrants? i don't think you have a coherent point.
New Release: Tor Browser 9.0.3
Which Clojure can also use.
As someone who has worked in affiliate marketing for 20+ years... 10 cents per clicks is very very very expensive and non sustainable. Many affiliate programs are getting thousands and thousands of clicks per day, there are solutions that can handle that for under $100/mo.
HR will never be your friend, nor will they advocate for you. They're there to protect the company at all costs, not you.

Please, please report that shit, but also prepare your exit interview.
I really like your Marauders Map idea.

I'd been playing around with location sharing, and making a map to see where everyone in my family is, as wall art.

But I completely forgot about how neat the Harry Potter Design was. I'd love to put a skin on it to make it more like the Marauders Map.
Just time it right.. the flies in late summer can really put a damper on your enjoyment of the area.
OP in the article is actually saying that you should NOT bake cakes. (Unless you're working for a baking company, I guess?) The cake is a lie.
"Humans" can adapt as a general abstraction, but we're all too happy to let individual humans die, particularly if they're poor or in developing countries.

Even if you write off those deaths as irrelevant, it still costs money to adapt, as infrastructure has to be built or abandoned and rebuilt, and human capital has to be moved along with it.
Is Pad thai designed? The article seems to have implied that the guy who decided it was a national standard was just a thing his housekeeper happened to make.
The golden rule always applies. There are not exceptions in criminal law for people who want specific crimes committed against them (ie sexual assault).

To further argue the point: if all players were cheating then there would be no competitive advantage to cheating, which eliminates the only reason a subset of players cheat in the first place. Even by skewed standards it violates the golden rule.
> The original airpods I got 2 years ago still work for about an hour and do fine.

In 2 years the battery life fall to 1 hour? This is just crazy unsustainable!
> Thankfully some companies will give you a hiring bonus equal to your unvested RSUs though

I've never head of this before. Seems like 2-3 years of RSUs could easily be over $1 million for someone later in their career. A $1 million signing bonus would be insane.
Breaking solar panels to see how they fail
Not sure to get what you are pointing at by “invasion”, but I was talking about french residents with french nationality.

PS: for additional context, vikings were around the 9th century. I am not pointing at just current trends.
> You were meant to "travel"

You were meant to surf the web ^^.
So the only reason to use tactical nukes are if you're going to use them an extreme case, or you're going to slaughter innocent citizens of a perceived enemy country in a surprise attack.

But that only gets you one free surprise use. After that the world knows your intent and capabilities. So you'd still have to be prepared for an all out nuclear war.

So it seems like if the president cares anything about self preservation, then nuclear weapons would only be used as a deterrent.
Unfortunately, farmer's don't have this choice -- there are no real good actors in the industry. Competitors like Rostelmash, New Holland, and CLAAS have all used the rise of software-enabled ag equipment as a way to monopolize repair. The article describes how farmers are being driven to buy 40 year-old tractors not because they are Deeres. It's because they can't fix the machines themselves.
Let's just be happy that the hike they chose for WA is one that I'm not upset they are blowing up.
in many parts of the world, we've already crossed a tipping point where solar and wind are cheaper than coal. We should be doing everything in our power to make that true for developing nations as well
You might be interested in https://github.com/mvdan/gogrep/issues/32#issuecomment-56866...

When gogrep becomes more usable as a library, it would be easier to write such Go programs easier.

As for the alternative formats, I experimented with JSON, TOML and some custom format that is even terser. It wasn't an easy choice, but I'm pretty comfortable with the result. That being said, there could be a several input formats in the future.
I've gotta say, people linking articles they clearly didn't read is one of my least favorite things about HN.
Interesting how all coments on this one interpreted it as if “qeternity” describes how things are now, instead of how the poster thinks it ought to be. Whereas to me it reads as the second kind. Wonder why is that?
Fantastic article. I'll aways have a soft spot in my heart for Digital Ocean because their paid tutorial program was what got me into devops and made me a better more well rounded engineer. Great writing style too!
You can now earn tokenized US real estate
It's true, the jails are so clogged that pre-trial offenders can be held for months and sometimes years without a conviction in the U.S. Not to mention the indeterminate number of people who just disappear out of the computer system and end up being held for months beyond their release date.
Show HN: Visualizing Your Life in Weeks
Excited to share this interactive visualization builder. I have a similar graphic on my personal site that counts down the weeks left in my life, and lots of people found it either interesting or very depressing (mostly depressing) [0]. So I wanted to build a way to let others see their own!

Based on the waitbutwhy article with the same title [1], this visualization builder let's you see the life calendar for your own life. It also includes milestones of some successful people, denoting which week in their life they reached a certain achievement.

I initially submitted this to HN a few months ago and it got flagged for the title being click-baity, which makes a lot of sense [2]. Though the site itself is the same, I've made the title more accurate and more descriptive and am adding this explanatory comment! Thank you to the HN moderators for giving me insight into why it was flagged the first time. Would love to know if this is still pushing it. Definitely open to any criticism and feedback!

[0] https://galeeb.com/

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227298
Snake Ransomware Is the Next Threat Targeting Business Networks