skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems incredibly cynical. She pretends to step down to try and do damage limitation, then when customers, investors and suppliers are surprised they are still dealing with her she decides, actually, the heat is off and she'll just cancel her stepping down. Notice how through all of that she's actually not really dealt with the problem in the first place - only the PR impact. Now having changed literally nothing, and not addressed the issue she's decided she can move on and wants to sue the reporters.

Oh and to really put the icing on the cake she gives a statement saying she's been doing some deep soul searching and reframed all of the issues as just

>“When I think back on ways I’ve phrased feedback, there have been times where the word choice isn’t as thoughtful as it should have been, or the way it was framed actually wasn’t as constructive as it could have been,” she said. “Those are not, in the eyes of our leadership and the eyes of our board, terminal, unsolvable problems.”

Well firstly, the eyes of 'our leadership' appear to be... guess who! And apparently, creating corporate policies to publicly humiliate employees and denying them private spaces to talk is a matter of how she "phrases feedback"? Pressuring workers to work extra outside of work hours and at anti-social hours? Badly phrased feedback. To me this just screams "I didn't do anything wrong but need to handle PR for the IPO".
Woah I didn't know they got that back from Google! Google was the owner of duck.com for years
You might want to skip chapter 4: https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...

And take the rest with a bit of salt given that this was Kahneman's comments on the research in that chapter: "Disbelief is not an option. The results are not made up nor are they statistical flukes. You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true."
do you really think a billion+ dollar company (Plaid) would "steal all your money"? That's a pretty silly statement. More realistic to think they have shitty security practices and could be hacked. FWIW, I worked at a large bank for over a decade and a fintech after that, the fintech had better security practices.
I have emailed a developer in the past and they apologized and as far as I remember, I haven't had that issue since then. So I think it depends upon each developer.
Previous discussion on more recent post on the same incident from same blog: https://ar.al/2020/01/13/apple-says-no-and-what-that-means-f...
I absolutely hate clickbait titles like this. Moreover, in the case of a serious topic like climate change catastrophising every g-damn piece of information doesn't make it easier to get people to engage in the topic.
Twitters relevancy to the wider world and your actual customers is extremely exaggerated simply because so many journalists rely on it to make their lives easier or are actively addicted to it.

End of the day it’s just a glorified Internet forum. Would you oust a CEO because 1000 Reddit users commented against them in a thread? Not likely but it’s about as relevant in the real world as a twitter outrage mob.

Not commenting on Away CEOs actions specifically. Just saying that hardly anyone has a twitter account. Hardly anyone with an account actually uses it and out of those who do use it most of the content is driven by a small group of actual addicts of the platform and shouldn’t really be taken as seriously as it is.

It’s not the real world, it’s a lens that magnifies a tiny and specific sliver of the world and gives it false credibility beyond what it actually has.
Note that a SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN is shown when trying to access tink.com at the moment. Says the certificate is only valid for cloudfront.net.

Edit: the website itself also returns a 403.
> Cite some, then

I cited several quotes from Marx claiming he planned to abolish private property. Did you not see that? It doesn’t matter what he called it, if you’re promoting one outcome for everybody, you’re promoting equality of outcome.
I'm very sorry for your loss.
Why not just turn off the tracking identifier?
IIRC, there are “anonymized” OKC datasets out there already. Given the nature of the data and a few bits worth of information, it would probably be really easy to deanonymize the dataset.
I guess he just couldn't stay Away
How about a ban on establishing a database of individually identifiable user profiles? Restrict data storage to anonymised statistical usage only. A technically possible way to achieve this is using a system like Keybase which could transfer profile data ownership to the individual.
I teach (technical) founders how to do sales at SalesForFounders.com.

What my work has taught me is that...

a) some founders are motivated by improving their customers' lives

b) some founders are motivated by building the best solution to a problem their customers have

c) 'a' founders are more likely to be successful and less likely to give up than 'b' founders
Tool: How big is the burned area in Australia – compared to your region
What's a blackpill? Is this a twist on the Matrix's shtick with red and blue pills, but with a black one, signifying that this truth is somehow morbose or dark?
As a Turk, I Believe that all games I play are of American or Japanese origin.
The brain is obviously an organ and not a machine, that was just a metaphor. The article goes on saying exactly what you're saying.
> Yeah, I was thinking that getting stuck on micro-USB for an years or decades would have been a less than happy outcome.

It would have been wonderful.

It seems like every time a connector starts to reach the critical mass of adoption where I actually have a reasonable ecosystem of chargers and cables and devices, they go ahead and change it - usually for the worse. mini-USB was great - I had phones, accessories, the lot with it. Then they changed it for the weaker and more symmetrical looking (but still not symmetrical) micro-USB and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth - but it was was still simple and functional and is now ubiquitous again. If we had stayed there I could have dealt with it, despite the odd annoyance - for a brief, shining moment, I could charge my phone at my friend's house and vice versa. Now with USB-C it's all gone to shit again:

- I have a new phone that charges over USB-C - but only fast charges with the included adapter, which looks like a regular USB-A wall adapter + A->C plug but actually has some proprietary magic in it. Something about "unusual fast charging standards".

- My laptop came with a USB-C charger but the plug failed after some months, its microscopic contacts losing their spring.

- Needing a new charger because soldering a USB-C connector is quite daunting, I bought an Apple wall charger because it uses a replaceable cable. I discovered later that the cable is apparently nonstandard and incredibly expensive. I bought an unbranded one, at no small cost.

- The unbranded USB-C to USB-C cable failed again after some months. I bought an official Apple cable, to even more considerable expense. That worked, until the port on the laptop died. The laptop sits dead for now.

- Since I now have a 85W USB-C charger lying around, I thought I'd try it on my new phone. But if I plug the Apple adapter into the phone it makes very loud and alarming capacitor noises, especially when full - enough to wake me up in the middle of the night when it gets to 100% (and it takes until the middle of the night, because it doesn't fast charge).

This is a shitshow. Give me back my micro-USB. Yes it's annoying to insert, but at least they last more than a few months, have a single standard, can be soldered, and don't fry devices.
Causality is not a problem for physic. For example, electron can move faster than speed of light in a medium without violating of anything.

The problem with FTL engine is that Cherenkov radiation alone will convert any FTL object into ball of plasma.

The only way for material object to survive FTL speed is to travel in the it own space-time "bubble". The only natural object with properties of such bubble is black hole. So, warp drive is possible to create, in theory, if we will be able to create an artificial black hole like shield.

Moreover, the only way to reach FTL speed is to throw something back at FTL speed. It's not possible to create any material fuels with FTL exhaust velocity. The only way to throw something at FTL speed is to throw it in it own space-time bubble.
That's the thing; there are very few ways to go up in those businesses. Either you become a manager or foreman, or go back to school and return as an engineer, project manager, or similar. Or maybe start your own company if you have the papers / certs / connections. Going from a regular skilled worker to those positions can take 10 years, easy.

The guys I worked with almost 15 years ago still work in the same company. Still toil away in the same positions as before, while occasionally inquiring me about engineering school or similar.

I noticed that as soon as they started getting close to 30, got wife and kids, they started to ask around for better options.
Indeed, numpy is awesome. I used to do my computational experimenting (some of them including neural networks) the plain way (using classic data structures, the languages' built-in arithmetic operators and functional facilities) in many different languages. Once I've tried Python with numpy my mind was blown, it's so much faster than anything. Now I feel like I enjoyed writing functional code more but given the performance difference I can hardly imagine coming back. So the very reason I use Python is performance.
How does it normally work when one company acquires another? For example, I still see LinkedIn under LinkedIn Corporation, not Microsoft. Is that because technically LinkedIn is a separate company that Microsoft owns? Are there cases where Apple has changed publisher name for existing apps? Is there a standard operating procedure for this?
Is chess a dying art-form? The advent of AI
Reply All is a good reminder to keep everything... unserious. :)
> Would you say that the main reason to use a software instead of code is to onboard non-coding business partners

That is usually a key selling point of GUI based ETL solutions. Relatively non-technical users, that know little of coding but do understand their data and what they want out of it, can put together basic (and sometimes not so basic) data flows and debug them.
I get ads in German public broadcasting for which I am (effectively) paying a tax. I get ads in "premium" streaming services which I directly pay (!) for.

Fuck everything about this.
So they can pay and be allowed to break the law?
I've been using VS Code for most of my software development lately. However, there were always some issues where the Vim integration did not allow keyboard navigation everywhere. This is a list of settings I collected to allow a deeper integration.
But even if they had known about MCAS, I think I read somewhere that they had 30 seconds to diagnose the problem before it put the trim in this configuration.
This is a very interesting question.

I've always wondered what the backlash would be if a studio were to release a Call of Duty style game from the point of view of middle eastern factions resisting the illegal invasion of their land and massacre of their people.

Because it seems to me that these FPS war simulations are very close to reality (ie using real location names and sometimes actual 3D rendered versions of said locations) and are somehow being used as a propanganda tool to get most people on board with whatever the political agenda is at the time. I know this sounds very conspiratorial and I'm open to counter arguments but I can't shake off this feeling. Hope I'm wrong though because this is rather depressing.
Incidentally I just noticed that in the Git code and frankly I found it confusing until I remembered this discussion about the tool "learning" stuff.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11149363/
Vital in the sense that this is one of the opportunities life gives you to either demonstrate greatness or be a bit of a weasel. If you aspire to be more than a weasel you can find a little bit of Cato inside yourself, take what seems in the short term to be the tough road and respond with integrity.

As far as VCs and investors are concerned, I have seen all sides of that coin. There definitely are VCs and investors who are always and only out for a quick buck and others who think long-term, act with integrity and respond positively to it in others. In my experience the more you can surround yourselves with the second type the better your life will be, although as a public company, Boeing doesn't have that much opportunity to pick its investors.
Fantasy game maker is taking on a big rival: Amazon
OkCupid has a lot of in-depth personality data that is a total privacy nightmare if leaked to anyone

Don’t you remember this? https://www.vox.com/2016/5/12/11666116/70000-okcupid-users-d...

OKC has been problematic for years now.
Neither Grindr nor OkCupid are non-profits. As the apps are free as in beer, if you don't pay with money, you pay with your data. If they didn't sell data, how would they make money? How would they get those valuations? If paid dating services do this, which they probably do, I agree it's scandalous. But in this case, it's more or less implied. Of course it's sad that so few people are aware of this fact.
Nobody’s going to force you to learn anything. If you’re comfortable with your existing skill set, you can probably get by on it for a very long time.
What does it mean to "wonder whether the symmetries truly exist"?

Isn't that a question to be answered by experiment?
Aren't there some thumb rules for writing fast python code?
Even then those numbers are western. I guess it's easy enough to learn - I'm useless at languages but learnt to recognise arabic and urdu numbers. At least almost every culture in the world has a base 10 system for encoding numbers -- learning Gujarati numbers in addition to your native number system is trivial.
There are European game studios as well.
Consider housing assistance programs. Using rough numbers. Say you make $25k/yr. And benefits are capped at 26k. You get 500/mo towards rent, or 6k/yr. Unless you get at least a 6k raise (add ~30% for taxes, 7.8k) you would be stupid to take a different job or even a pay raise.

Warning: There's probably a bunch of mathematical errors ahead.

This example does not take other assistance programs into account like snap/EBT, fuel assistance, cars for low income families, Medicaid benefits, etc. Snap/EBT can be $200+/mo iirc, fuel assistance 200-1k/yr, Medicaid for a family is $600+/mo. Assuming 100ebt/mo, 500 fuel/yr, 600/mo Medicaid that's an additional 8.9k.

6000 housing
1200 ebt
500 fuel
7200 Medicaid
~15k
×1.3 for taxes = 19.5k in benefits that cap if you make 1k more.
25+19.5=44.5k

The parent earning 25k would need to nearly double their income to fill the gap between left by benefits they no longer qualify for.

This didn't consider health care deductibles, dental (children get dental on Medicaid), or out of pocket expensive covered by Medicaid.

My health insurance plans max out of pocket is 8k. Add that.

Low income Families are also eligible for school lunch assistance, subsidized day care/after school programs.

School breakfast and lunch at my school was 5.5/day/180 days. ~1k.

Day care, summer programs,holiday programs, and after school programs can add 20k/yr.

Add another 29k. (37.7)

Which brings us to 78.2k

This parent who smartly took advantage of every opportunity they could recieves 200% their take home in assistance. Now after filing hundreds of forms to take advantage of these programs how much time do you think they'll have to spend towards tripling their income?

How much time will they even have to spend with their children between the constant battles with bureaucracies for benefits and their job to spend with their child?
> Frogs and certainly embryos are not self-aware.

The evidence indicates that frogs are most certainly self-aware[1]. Embryos are potential intelligent life.

> Nothing more nutritious than animal foods.

Maybe I was unclear. I believe we will create better alternatives.

> Sadly, I don't think you could convince those militant and violent vegans set on destroying as much intelligent plant life as possible.

While there are indications of a degree of plant intelligence and even some self-awareness, edible plants generally rely on being consumed in order to proliferate. I do think it is in our best interest to protect plant life though.

> I don't know how you sleep at night knowing that trillions of animals are being killed and eaten by other animals every day.

I have no problem with animals eating each other.

> Also, the most environmentally friendly diet is the hunter-gatherer diet,

I agree. Unfortunately, it's not practical for 8 billion people to forage this earth. Also, it doesn't leave much time for advancing ourselves.

[1] https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/11/jeb197467
Amazon to seek order to block Microsoft from working on DoD's Jedi contract
An interesting one, on a tangent, this morning on my work windows10 machine I had a Chrome notification telling me about the latest plurasight deal. First time this has happened for me, it is an interesting use of the notification system!
There are many factors to consider before you decide when to outsource or to develop your product in-house. The first thing you need to understand is, when you talk about outsourcing your product development, it is not just about programming. Programming is just a part of a successful product development strategy.

Ask the following questions yourself.

Do you have deep domain expertise in your target industry?
Do you have prior expertise in planning and prioritizing product development roadmap?
Do you have experience in validating hypotheses based on real customer feedback?

Do you have experience in architecting a scalable technology stack to accommodate customer demand?

If the answer to the above questions is “No”, you should definitely consult with a person, or a team who is experienced in “Product development”, not just “App development”. I repeat, there is a huge difference between those two.

Again, this can be a time taking process and you’ll definitely have to spend some money on it, but I'd say it’s worth the investment.

On the other hand, if you are a good product + project manager and understand some tech, you can hire a bunch of freelance devs and execute the project yourself.

So, it all depends on who you are.
Yeah and if you look at the Python program with the best performance compared to C you'll see that it spends all its time in gmpy2, which is exactly the same library C uses. Python still manages to be 2x slower.
I haven't read the 2nd one, so I should have just said that read the latest that you can. The main contents can feel quite dated for any edition, but there have been updates to fit the times that I'm not sure are in earlier editions than the one I read (i.e. the 3rd edition).
For those who don't know, 3DBuzz was a small pioneering company providing training material for 3D content creation suites.

At the time, it also was the only place where you could get training material for Unreal Engine (3/UDK). I can only imagine that quite a few people in the industry first got their start on UE through that material.

Moreover, it was a community with a forum/IRC and had a podcast running for a while. While I wasn't an active member of the community, in its heyday I used to visit the site daily. It was a great place.

As the founder Jason Busby struggled with terminal cancer, the site died down.

My gratitude and regards go out to Jason's family and everyone who was involved with the site.
A bit of a tangent, but I'm loving seeing Monaco embedded in more projects like this.

Monaco is the editor from VS Code, extracted and officially supported as a standalone component to use elsewhere. Internally I think the extraction work is pretty complicated, and the setup isn't effortless, but the resulting user experience is excellent imo (much like VS code itself). This all looks great!
Yep, and if you a dynamic language:

Node 6.72

Or just a modern language with nice quality of life features:

Rust 1.72

(All of these are seconds)
"Social media" make it seems like some separate entity, it's still public sentiment. You have also bought into the framing the company has used to make itself seem like the victim by referring to "mobs" having power, rather than a company and CEO facing backlash from the public finding out about its terrible culture behind the scenes, as it rightly should.
I'm doing something similar on my Pixel 2.

In the end I have very few apps that send personal data to ad companies (I've blocked as many ad and tracker networks as I could), and I've prevented most apps from showing me notifications unless I really want them.

You'd be surprised how much battery you save with all those things disabled.
Just in case if you don't know read "Deep Work".
I've never thought about it but it makes a lot of sense. Just thinking about the few times I had to write some hacky code to get something to work and given the complexity of video games it is kind of expected.
Generally speaking, if an article is trying to lead you to a conclusion, that conclusion is specifically stated. Not everyone knows how to write, though, so sometimes it isn't there. This is typically rare, because people that don't know how to write often state their conclusion 5 times in 5 different ways and don't realize it. That isn't the case, here, anyway.

The point of this article is to give you what could be some surprising information; that giving away a game can, in at least this circumstance, can lead to additional sales.
Perhaps it's related to this?
https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/13706

IIS crashing in crypt32.dll!CryptMsgClose() after a web request
Ever notice the people who advocate this are almost all in white collar jobs?
Tons of paperwork must be submitted to the App Store, then you wait. Constantly getting the feeling this might not happen without abandoning your user base. The mental torture is what’s gets me... they should just have 1 or 100 clear steps and you know when it’s done, it’s done.

It’s frustrating to the point it’s a topic we raise with our customers during the initial requirements gathering phases of app development. I’ve seen our startup clients go through this all the way to one of our clients that’s a 30Bn publicly traded company.
Thanks for the detailed response. Tbh that sounds pretty hard to me. I guess for people who can easily find a new job (e.g. tech) that might not be a big deal, but I feel sorry for all the people who don't have that luxury (e.g. unskilled blue-collar worker).
Logging your time for 7 days helps you use it better
thank you for the pointers
>I would say this is an example where a duopoly is useful for consumers. The duopoly allows consumers the ability to use a credit card pretty much anywhere they want in the US

Going by that reasoning a monopoly would be even better, as the card would be accepted everywhere.

The consumer pays by lack of innovation and high scheme fees.
Does Nagasaki not matter? It rarely seems to matter these days as it's almost never mentioned.