skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not referring to the report. I'm talking about the FAQ. The answer is disingenuous and I believe purposefully written to make people unfamiliar with the details to believe MIT found out about the "revelations" in September or at some point around there. There was never a revelation. It was known.

> Senior members of the administration were aware of gifts the Media Lab received between 2013 and 2017 ... They knew in general terms about Epstein’s history – that he had been convicted and had served a sentence
In the UK, ordinary families don't have access to large amounts of ready cash - the money they intend to spend on your house is currently tied up in their existing house. So if you want the deepest pool of buyers (& hence to realise the best price for your property) you have to accept being part of a chain of house buyers, all of whom need to perform a dance where they simultaneously sell their houses to each other in order to raise the cash they need to buy the next property in the chain.

It should be unsurprising that this process is widely regarded to be more stressful than anything other than death in the family or divorce.
Silicon Valley,while hilarious,has tons of invaluable business lessons.I think I could probably even say it's one of the best series about business. It covers absolutely every aspect of building, growing, maintaining and ultimately selling a business.
If only homeless people could be part of gamergate and QAnon...
The Era of Personalised Apps
Wouldn't it be better to start from the server side? IIRC they at least have UEFI over there.
Should We Be Following the Iceland Sustainability Model?
I think the idea is that "destruction" of evidence (the initial suicide tape), failure to gather evidence (specific cameras not operating the night of his death) and failure of protocol (him somehow being able to strangle/hang himself as a high profile person hours off of suicide watch) while not evidence are definitely cause for suspicion.
Not for small companies that generally do less than $2M in revenue.
Not in the picture: the President of the United States and very close friend to Epstein, Donald Trump.
it's the 64bit leap from the acorn risc machine, for crying out loud, it's its own goal, wantable for it's own sake.
pity that riscos will never be 64bit lol
Sure, all about internal marketing, right? :D

But there was nothing like that on the market at that time anyway.
More Americans are killing themselves at work
And the benchmarks I saw show you paying much much more for it than for x86 but get far less perf in return.
It's as valid to say that eating your free lunch provides strength and saves energy to support you on the way towards the goal.

There is nothing inherently praise worthy about suffering. Preferring comfort does not make one weak.

The author is generalizing their personal values to others.
Thanks for sharing! I knew this was "a thing" but I don't usually know the names of all these logic and philosophy things.
Human connection can be had in many alternative ways, with a lot less drama and controversy.

Reading these posts full of hyperbole, one would think human society couldn't exist without Facebook.
They don't "hunt" animals, they eat the eggs, removing the ability for the birds to reproduce. They devestate native bird populations that did not develop with pressure from rodants and lack defenses.
I like async support, but always, in async examples, doesn't the await keyword just block anyways?

I like to see the usage of async inside of a main loop, where other things can be processed while waiting for the async response to come in.

Further, not all applications have the idea of an event loop, so async may not be needed, but it's useful to have the option.

I use async operations to multiplex operations in a queue. The linux scheduler can handle the execution time slices for me, I'm not going to build a scheduler, but the queue controller's role is to accept jobs and handle timeouts and results of each async operation.
If you haven't already seen it, you might search around in /r/cripplingalcoholism on reddit. Most of it is random things regarding advanced alcoholism, but there's a surprising amount of, well, sober information on things people have tried, etc. Exceedingly non-judgemental.
I'm also an ex-Googler, and was at Google when the Rosenberg affair broke. Sergey was nominally head of Google X (the reporting org that Google Glass was in) at the time. Whether he was actively doing anything other than boning his employees is another matter; I had a number of friends in X (including in Glass) and his job largely seemed to be to cheerlead various X initiatives at the time.

And the role of HR and legal is to minimize the company's risk. Just because the risk doesn't materalize doesn't mean the risk wasn't there. The way sexual harassment claims usually play out (if both parties have competent lawyers) is that the company pays out a significant sum of money and then both sides sign non-disclosure agreements and waivers to further liability. The point isn't to go to trial, the point is that the threat of facing a sympathetic jury incentivizes both parties to work out a settlement.

There was one very obvious aggrieved party in to the Brin/Rosenberg affair in Hugo Barra, Android's VP and spokeperson and Rosenberg's ex-boyfriend who quit to head Xiaomi's international efforts right as the affair broke. Presumably Google gave him a generous severance package to not disparage or sue the company, which is why you haven't heard him disparage or sue the company.
The set of people who are hard workers that frequent Hacker News and the set of people to fall for "get rich quickly" schemes are disjoint.
indeed.

onboard audio is questionable in quality typically anyway, being some strange monstrosity (ac97 lol... intel-hd-anything)
> Germany today definitely seems better than Nazi Germany

Meanwhile we had to drop a lawsuit against the NPD because the most vocal and hateful all turned out to be law enforcement. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, especially with the AFD reaching a nice 14% support.

> Copy that for China, but I can't imagine it's worse than Mao.

Blindly killing and starving your population for a rebuild from "scratch" vs. systematic eradication and organ harvesting. I am not sure if that counts as improvement, of course we get cheap crap from it so you might count it as a win.

> Isis is fucking up the middle east and MBS is terrible, but at least women have some rights and their courts aren't an absolute complete joke anymore.

Now if only some weird self styled world police stopped starting wars every few decades under the pretense of bringing peace. There are decades old pictures where the smoking ruins still looked a lot more western then they do now.

> Go back 300 years, and you could kill your wife almost anywhere for almost any reason.

And yet at least in Germany there were explicit laws covering "self defense against ones wife"[1]. While parsing that text hurt my brain (old German spelling + old German letters) the law text itself doesn't seem to paint the man involved in a good light from the start. So one attempt to find a law text in a language I can read and one success vs. "almost anywhere for almost any reason" - maybe I should play the lottery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio_Criminalis_Carolin...
You could clearly see the plume going twice as far (as NZ) into the Pacific on the satellite photos. Apparently it made it as far as South America. Once it gets into the upper atmosphere, the jet streams and currents take it far. That said, it probably has little impact on humans when its that high up.
Occam's razor isn't a law, just a heuristic.
Oh wow. He was a god to every drummer I ever played with.

Lots of black armbands.
> what? no. why would that be the case? You lose a single disk's performance due to the checksumming.

I think they are probably referring to the write performance of a RAIDZ VDEV being constrained by the performance of the slowest disc within the VDEV.
How hiring managers are embracing remote workers
There was a documentary 10 years ago about the history of the band. IIRC the band's first drummer was very talented but for whatever reason wasn't working out. The drummer had an unusual role for rock drummers -- he was actually kind of the "frontman" in the sense he would handle the audience patter, introducing the band, etc.

They found Peart working in his uncle's animal feed shop out in the countryside. He was an amazing drummer, technically speaking. Unlike his predecessor, Peart seemed to be a total introvert, and also didn't seem to mesh well with Lee and Lifeson (best pals since middle school). Nevertheless, he proved himself to be a creative leader, writing many of the band's most memorable songs, and crafting lyrics with meaning that go beyond what most hard rock bands were putting out at the time (see 2112 and Moving Pictures).

He took a long hiatus from music about 15 or 20 years ago after the deaths of several family members, and toured North America on his motorcycle. I always wondered about that trip, and what he was able to discover.
There is still a question about crowd size of Trump inauguration. Just because media, and in this case MIT Press, repeats something doesn't necessarily make it true.

Here's a 3D from CNN, of all places, where crowd size could be seen by yourself:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inaug...
> The source code is a bit of a tangle here. There are magic numbers (https://wiki.c2.com/?MagicNumber) all over the place, plenty of god classes (https://wiki.c2.com/?GodClass), and in general you will have to do a bit too much archaeology to figure out what a particular class or member function is supposed to do (the function and class names don’t give you enough, and there are no comments to help out). There are a few WTFs in here, like the "int i, j, j;" in Script.h.\

> This is not really out of the ordinary for successful, released, real games.

Maybe these supposed anti-patterns don't really matter as much as we think they do for successful software? Given that plenty of successful software has them.
Why is this downvoted? Insofar as I understand economics, it’s a factual reality. The middle class and up are benefitting from immigration driving down the price of food and services in this country. If you’re a low-wage-earning-potential male, given our levels of inequality, why would you want to be a wage slave if you don’t have to? You aren’t going to significantly improve your lot in life by throwing 40+ hours a week at a job that barely pays the bills. It makes you feel like a loser doing the work, and you don’t get to bury that feeling in anything, as you spend all your money just getting by.
x86 may be locally optimal, but I don't trust it not to be a dead end, or at least, have its lunch eaten by something else; I personally am interested in non-standard configurations just to make sure that we can try new things.
I think the question to be asked is why you wanted to start a company in the first place. It's obviously not an end unto itself. Maybe you think of it as a way to get rich. In that case, I think you could justify staying at whichever company on the grounds that you have the things you want to be rich for, and therefore don't need to get richer. Also, staying at a company promises much more secure wealth. Maybe you wanted to start a company as a status thing, because you thought of it as the thing that cool people did. In that case, it makes perfect sense that the status boost you feel at your current company steals from your desire to start a company, since they both achieve the sans goal. Ditto if your goal was to contribute to the world by making things. I'm straining to think of decent goals that can only be achieved at your own company. I think those were the major goals, and staying could be described as settling for a lesser prize, not changing goals altogether.
Electoral map shows just six states are in play this year
> He’s up for spending more time with his wife, Cindy, a hospitality executive whom he chatted up at a cable car stop about a quarter-century ago, and their four grandchildren.

Either he had a previous marriage that's unmentioned or that's an extremely aggressive timeline.
The bigger problem is that a lot of carbon offset measures involve planting trees/forests. But forests burn (and will do so with greater frequency as the temperature increases).
The first time not dying going up and down in ‘Veni Vidi Vici’, I was so exited, that I landed on the wrong side of the box ...
Maybe people just want to play heavily modded Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi that they can quickly set up and shotgun to eager nephews all across the country. Just throwing that out there.
I work for a relatively small company.It is simple as well,it sells training. If we'd have to supply all the necessary info to a company that'd take care of it, that alone would probably take months and months and they'd still have to query back and fort every day.
Interestingly, the rat park experiments have been reinterpreted. I am not an expert, but I believe one acceptable interpretation is that rats with a sense of connection and socialization don't press the levers as much.

We are all lotus eaters - it is defined to be "the things I think makes others soft or vulnerable". The author's value of austerity comes across to me like Mother Teresa's belief that suffering is noble and brings you closer to god. I don't share that belief, but certainly have my own lotus behaviors.
Every large or strong human goes through a phase in life where they learn the hard way that they have to be extra careful not to smash things. The bigger you are, the less sympathy you get (you clumsy oaf).

Microsoft is fond of workaholic coders and bizdevs. The number of those who are Big and Tall is small, and the number of workaholic coders who are also weightlifters is tiny. So you look at things that are completely obvious to you and the other person has absolutely no framework for contemplation. And if you are living by the Golden Rule (who has the gold makes the rules) then you don't have to learn anything at all.

But it sure would be nice for the rest of us if they did.
Any examples of something that requires disabling SIP in cracked version and not original? Never heard of it, sounds implausible but then I'm hardly up to speed.

Like I get swapping dylibs, but not why that'd be best done by poking around in /System rather than the binary.
As soon as I started working out, I basically gave up on finding a pair of jeans that fit both my hips and my waist.

Compared to women, men have less choice in clothing and don't drive the market in the way women's choices do.
Hypertension or high blood pressure can affect all age groups (I was diagnosed at 17) but more prevalent from middle-age on wards.

Use case is that having a wrist watch measure your BP, can make it super-easy to monitor. Right now I have a digital one at home but hardly any motivation to use it. BP is well managed with a bit of exercise and medicine so I am hoping the watch will be useful (not withstanding all the questions about accuracy).
There was a time when women weren't allowed to play professional soccer. It can't not have a sexist history.
According to Reif himself, he signed a "letter thanking Jeffrey Epstein for a gift to Seth Lloyd ... on August 16, 2012, about six weeks into my presidency."

So it would stand to reason that Reif knew about the relationship with Epstein, dating back to at least 2012.
Ask HN: How would you use your knowledge in a pre-modern society?
As modern humans we have a whole ton of knowledge that our ancestors didn't, but making use of it seems largely to require the infrastructure of modern life as well. If, via time travel or an apocalyptic scenario, you found yourself in a pre-modern society with no technology but your knowledge intact, how would you put it to use? Of what practical value would common scientific or technological knowledge be? Your goals may be to accelerate human development, make yourself dictator, impress people or anything else.
How do you get it from the language definition? By adding metadata to it?
Can breakup fees be negotiated in these kinds of deals to protect the would-be acquired company? Seems like the company to be acquired bears all the risk.
Former agent admits illegally spying on Sharyl Attkisson, implicates colleagues
Fun fact: Sphygmomanometer is the name for blood pressure meter
There are systems for this use case in place. They don't involve selling data in bulk however.
> This idea that a power differential invalidates a relationship is nonsense.

Why? Seems pretty sound to me.
That's how it works here in the EU - if your job needs a record of (the lack of) any prior convictions, they can't just request/buy it from the police. You have to get the official form that lists that information, then give it to your employer.

It doesn't matter one lick if some company needs some bit of information. The government's role shouldn't be to spy on you on behalf of corporations.
And how do you square that with reality here, where the subject matter experts disagree with the political class, and the armchair crowd appears to be siding with the politicians.

(I'd suggest that armchair quarterbacks are very much the vanguard of the political class, and not some sort of check on power we might like to believe)
Facebook is human to computer.

I consider human connections to be person to person, where you can see, talk to, hear, gauge body language and nuance, and adjust to that in real time. Facebook is a substitute for human connection, and a poor one at that. I see a lot in the news about how people feel more depressed and alone than ever, and are online more than ever and checking their devices every few minutes. So much so that it's to the point that when they actually DO have person to person contact they're still tied into their devices instead of being present in the moment with undivided attention and enjoying that other persons company. I agree that human connection is a core need. I just think we're conflating facebook as somewhat fulfilling that need. I'd argue it's doing the opposite and destroying human connections, in general.
Modal window asking me to subscribe.

Low contrast between text and background, bonus points if the font is really thin.

Highlighting text does anything other than highlighting text (e.g. opening a menu to share quote on twitter)

Scrollbar highjacking

Clicking on background takes you away from the article (TechCrunch used to do this)

Scrolling down takes you to another article (some news sites do this)
I would caution people against taking SOLID as a measure of code quality. That’s a trap. SOLID is just a set of object-oriented design principles, not laws. If you take the guidelines too seriously, you will end up with a damaged code base which is difficult to read or understand.

Having spent quite some time in id Software code bases, I will defend them as being high quality, but whether or not they are SOLID is not something I really care about. The SOLID guidelines also regularly conflict with YAGNI.
I'm planning a startup around a programming language just for board games.
It is actually, but it requires AMD or Intel to care. AMD could easily make an AArch64 CPU that is x570 compatible, it would require a BIOS update for sure but they could do it. There is nothing Physically stopping them from making a CPU with all the interconnect bits needed and a ton of AArch64 cores... other than there is really no fiscal incentive to do it.
Hi David,

I'm a boardgame designer and a member of the NYC Playtest group. I don't personally do virtual prototypes, but of those who do, Tabletop Simulator is the one they all use. I'm curious what you see as the key differentiators between your app and Tabletop Simulator?
It looks like he used his Kaggle competitions to gain a job at H20.ai :(
Gosh, this brings back sooo many good memories. If you haven't played it yet, you must! It is an excellent game, with superbly simple gameplay and excellent music!
How do you distinguish legal cabs? I live here, and locals tell me half of Bogotá's 40,000 taxis have fake taxi licenses. Nobody's ever told me you can tell them apart.

Even the police and politicians here use Uber.
I fucking wish some of the companies I've been at sold to the highest bidder when they had the chance.

Exits are better than layoffs.
Oh, it took me over 4 hours (maybe even 5 or 6) but my memory is fuzzy enough that 4 was the lower bound I could confidently say. Same with my death count. 1000 is the lower bound, it could have been 2000-3000 range
I wish people would name names. That would discourage this type of behavior.
It certainly could and did for thousands of years... but it would be very different. If facebook went away you would just get other companies springing up to fill the void (Snapchat, Tiktok, etc). That’s how you know it’s a core need.
For what it's worth, her car is a 2016 Subaru. The fake shifts are very subtle when driving gently, and noticeable if you hit the gas hard.

I'm curious if Subaru changed their shift programming at some point, or if it's subtle enough that it escaped your notice.
A 4-credit course is $5000 and a 3-credit course is $3900 (don't ask me why the cost per credit for each are not the same). There is also a one-time $200 transcript service fee.

With that said, if your employer has an educational plan that can cover the cost, then it is definitely worth pursuing. I am working on a AI graduate certificate and have just completed CS 221. The level of rigor in instruction and course work is far better than any online MOOC course I've taken.
Hmm. Not quite. Part of introspection is listening, to yourself and to others.
> I would venture a guess that "property tax" doesn't quite feel the same as a wealth tax to most people

I mean, who cares? This is a tax on people with eight figure fortunes we're talking about. The only issue at hand was can the unwashed masses grok the basic concept here. The answer is of course they can. Sometimes you pay tax on value you earn, sometimes on value you give away, and sometimes on value you have. We all do it all the time on all three counts.
On the basis of your extreme pedantry, please consider killing yourself. You would be doing the world a massive favor.
>The fact that the woman has additional options to avoid the consequence doesn’t absolve the man of responsibility

I disagree. Having more options does in fact alter the level of responsibility.
"Requires domain knowledge" is not the same as "unremovable," so it's a valid question.
I couldn't tell if this was different to https://boardgamearena.com/. But that site does license the games it uses.
Recent versions of Windows have gotten pretty good at identifying programs that aren't responding and offering to close them; it's gotten pretty rare that I actually have to open Task Manager to close a program. macOS, on the other hand, never offers to kill a hanging program-- it'll let an application beach ball for hours until you go out of your way to force quit it via the Dock or keyboard shortcut.

At any rate, the applications that make up most of my daily work are all really stable these days-- we've come a long way since the Classic MacOS and Windows 9x days where application (and OS) crashes and freezes were a daily occurence.
Needing an SD card to boot is especially annoying because the pi 3 did have the ability to boot from USB and I think network with no SD card present.

EDIT: To be clear, non-SD boot on the pi 4 "will be added in the future via optional bootloader updates"[0], so hopefully this is a temporary complaint.

[0] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
> Maybe these supposed anti-patterns don't really matter as much as we think they do for successful software? Given that plenty of successful software has them.

There's more than one variable involved. You can write successful software full of anti-patterns, but you'll probably pay for it in some other way (like increased QA effort or a low bus-factor [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor