skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Last year, a committee of independent directors from Alphabet’s board hired a law firm to investigate its handling of allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships by current and former executives as part of its legal defense against shareholder lawsuits over its handling of the matters, according to documents viewed by The Times.

Let’s sure hope they investigated Sergey and Larry too, unlike them, at least this guy got married to his office romantic interest.
I recall going to man a booth at a trade show, and being warned about VCs and VC-wannabes just asking a lot of questions of everybody. They aren't interested at all in your product, they're (only) interested in you as a member of the tech community.

They go around collecting data points to get a gestalt of current and future trends. I recall talking to at least two people who asked a lot of very general questions after segueing away from our product.
Holy crap, that is some story.
There are plenty of 12 inch memory foam mattresses on Amazon that are in the $300-$400 range for a Queen size, including shipping. I'm happy with the "Zinus" brand.
beauty is not achievable.
If workers are 5x more productive and wages are flat after inflation, why are profits also flat (after inflation and population growth)? This isn't a case of the corporate oligarchs taking a larger share, this is the pie not growing as fast as that 5x productivity improvement would imply.
Have you tried to getting a patent? Does this help in any way?
Nor is it a default for someone in great pain, 24-7.
The article doesn't specify, but in those cases, there should be some form of informed consent.

I don't want Geico pulling my record unless I request a quote. They should be barred from doing so unless I explicitly grant permission.

I don't want Schneider International pulling my record unless I'm interviewing for a job. They should be barred from doing so unless I explicitly grant permission.
>Why would you get paid shit wages

I'm not sure we're working in the same industry / living in the same world.
It's a bit contentless and an example of the vapidity and 'community' that infects open source projects that get legs. Your e-mail is in your profile, and coffee between two human beings can be coordinated via such a mechanism, but then you wouldn't get to show off how connected you are, I suppose. You literally responded to someone criticizing the conversation to follow up that, no, indeed, the criticism has merit, and for some reason we care that you know who Myles is. That speaks a lot about what's important to you, and people who aspire to be like you, in this industry. I would have figured those who have watched other industries create "boards" and "foundations" and other charities where the seat on them becomes a brokered commodity would take pause before subjecting tech to the same drivel.

Also: what "baseball?" Are you alleging you're behind the scenes in tech and we should all be privileged for you sharing this glimpse into how the world works with us? What an honor. How do we get to be as cool as you, dropping first names in HN comments of people who've created authority for themselves with mailman and an open source project? There's no baseball here, just vanity positions created to pad resumes and people who follow you on Twitter fawning over two programmers getting coffee.

I have an @apache.org e-mail, too, it's not a status symbol, but you do you
China has been using the last 19 years to do just that, building out their infrastructure and R&D (and in other countries, too, see the Belt and Road initiative) while the US has bogged itself down in the middle east. In 2003 when the US went to war in Iraq, the US GDP was 8 times the size of China's. Today the US GDP is 1.4 times China's. The Chinese economy has grown 24 times over in the last 25 years. The US economy has about tripled (a little less) in that time.
80% of male attractiveness comes down having a good haircut and clothes that fit you.

Assuming you're in SF and have a high-paying software job. Find a hair stylist in a mid-range salon who you can actually talk to, show them some pictures of haircuts you like, and let them find something that works. If you find a professional and are OK paying them a bit extra, you'll get good results.

As for "clothes that fit", I have a terrible eye for that, so when I go shopping I just ask a more stylish friend to come with me, or I just ask the shop assistants a lot of questions. Again, they're professionals. They know what works.
Nobody at the traffic light made fun of my 2008 third-hand Toyota Yaris either - I guess it happens in some part of the world, but I'm not sure where.

I mean, to make fun of my Yaris someone has to:

- Stop right next to me at some intersection

- Roll down the window

- Somehow convince me to roll down my window when I'm enjoying my Brahms and not even looking at them

- Yell "Hey your car sucks!"

...why would anybody go through the trouble? -.-
If it's anything like the one they teach at Georgia Tech, this is a quite difficult course. Boneh's a great instructor though.
I believe that's also not one but two episodes of Silicon Valley. The second time they believe they've figured out how to avoid it happening to them again.
> As some Twitter users pointed out, maps that claim to show the size of the affected area by "overlaying" Australia on to other continents like North America and Europe are not completely accurate.

> This is due to how how the curved earth is distorted when flat map projections are made.

Hm, this seemed wrong as the images looked correct. Using https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYzMzA1NTk.ODg5NTU3MQ*... I checked myself, and images looks correct, both when comparing the US and Europe with Australia. Am I misunderstanding something?
Interesting. Will there be a nationwide push to hire more men to make up for all of this inequality?
Same and it was a fantastic deal. Even without the holiday discount, Costco sells it for $599 which is close to 50% discount on Casper's $1095 price. They brand it as 'Casper Select', but it's essentially same as the the original.
That Fitbit joined the Google fold can be bad news for Apple Watch this year?
I used aiohttp and it is quite good and solid (I also like that it comes with type annotations, which enables autocomplete in PyCharm), I did not have chance to compare it to FastAPI.

Regarding database access, my recommendation might not be popular, but I really like asyncpg[1]. They basically dropped DBAPI and instead created their own API that functionally matches PostgreSQL, giving you full control and increasing performance.

As a result of that you probably won't be able to use ORMs (there's SQLAlchemy driver, but as I understand it is hacky and you are losing the performance benefits).

Personally I compared my code with and without ORM and there's no change in number of lines. If you use PyCharm and configure it to connect to your database (I think that might be a pro feature) it will then automatically detect SQL in your strings provide autocomplete (including table and column names) and provide highlighting, removing all the advantages that ORM provided.

[1] https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg
The ignition source is really not relevant, that's the final step in a long chain and will happen naturally at some point. We should just disregard the arson narrative entirely (not that it shouldn't be punished, just that it's not an independent variable to be discussed).
This is what I was thinking as I read the article. Is this legally actionable? I'm guessing not, but you probably have a fresh understanding.
I'd add that for #2 they don't need to persuade people to change their vote with the adverts, or even mislead them (although the latter may help).

All they need to do is target adverts reminding you to vote to the people who will vote the way they want.

Facebook ran an experiment in 2010 that shows they can definitely increase the chance of individual users voting: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-a-facebook...
Jeffrey Kaplan, in his book "Start Up", would talk about how Microsoft would do this in the days when it was particularly powerful.

Think about it this way: You always want to learn about opportunities and potential competitors. The biz dev team may say, hey we should maybe acquire this company, and the product people may say, no this is a good idea but we should copy it. It doesn't have to stem from a sinister intent.

The same can be true of interviews! Sometimes companies interview very senior people as a way of gathering business intelligence. People can be flattered and want to talk about their successes.
Also, unattractive people would feel like shit in this environment.
An appropriate article for Medium.com! ;)
I had to buy a mattress last year and did a pretty deep dive into the world of mattresses. What I learned is that there's no meaningful research on what's "best", and sleep experts say that it's 100% personal preference (and marketing).

So I bought the cheapest thing on amazon with the best reviews in the size that I needed, which was maybe 25% of the price of Casper or Leesa (and those are about half the price of a traditional mattress). It's absolutely fine. If anything, I sleep better knowing that if I destroy it or have to move, I can just throw it out and buy another one.

One note: if you read enough reviews, you'll notice that some budget foam mattresses can have a smell to them. I assume this is the main thing that "premium" foam mattresses have actually addressed, but obviously it's not advertised as "we have the least smelly product!".

It's really as simple as finding a well reviewed hunk of foam, or at least it was for me, as mine arrived odor-free.
It's illegal to construct firebreaks ... in certain places? At certainly times?

That sounds quite incredible to me - a quick search turned up plenty of WA firebreak building guides, as well as the Brush Fires act of 1954 which seems to mandate construction of firebreaks by landowners in certain situations.
> I was told there was no longer a job for me as a result of a “reorganization,”

He writes as if his morals made him leave but he basically left only because he was fired.
Strictly speaking, it means you can still have a wealth tax, it just has to average out to the same amount per person in each state. Which would go rather poorly for the poorest states.
Are there any studies on the ethical and moral presumptions in taking miscreants' money?
Is it required to shun miscreants?
Is it an approval of miscreant actions if the money is taken?

Is it that the miscreant may come back and say "this is why I do it, so I can give.."? Would a simple public disclaimer "we not only not condone, we vehemently oppose ..." at time of donation resolve this? What makes taking with a disclaimer hypocritical?

If you were dying of liver cancer, knowing a a new liver would save you, and a murderous dictator walked up and said, here is my matching liver, would you take it?
Big scary numbers drive the climate change narrative.
Amazon’s flash sale site, my habit, was launched this way.

Source: I worked for a flash sale company they did this to.
Einstein, 120 years ago...
Related to this, in case anyone is wondering if Cryptography II course by Dan Boneh will ever be offered on Coursera (It's been listed forever but without a start date). He mentioned that it will but most likely after this book is finished.
Boeing papers show employees slid 737 Max problems past FAA
I need sources for your theory that it will be an effective way of motivating the desires behavioral change, yes. After all, if you simply look around then you can see it doesn't work.
Ask HN: How to deal with All-or-nothing mindset?
I've have this mindset when I'm trying to solve a problem when working on a hobby project.

When I encounter a problem, I _must_ output code at peak efficiency and optimization or it just isn't worth it.

If I'm working on a project at work (or at school) time constraints / teammates counterbalance my tendency to lose much time working and/or thinking too much for a little problem that should be solved in a relatively short time.

However, since in hobby projects I don't have such constraints, I lose too much time researching optimal ways to solve a problem and not get any work done. Eventually I lose interest not having got much work done.

Does anyone have experience dealing with this mindset?
> Let’s sure hope they investigated Sergey and Larry too, unlike them, at least this guy got married to his office romantic interest.

One of them, at least.

Another one, whom he had a baby with, was allegedly pushed out of the firm.
Isn't an acre the conventional unit of area in the United States where NPR is produced? Why use something unconventional and add to the confusion?

But if they used km^2 then almost everyone would be able to visualise it, as almost everyone knows what running or walking a km feels like.
Likely depends on what you're reading - look at the cloud in TFA. I take it Prisonplanet and donaldjtrumpjr probably aren’t your go-to sources?
Ben Grosser – Podcast – Twitter Demetricator
There might be also factor of women not getting benefit from associating with men.

You can't assume that all decisions were made by males only.
Which is fine, but I was addressing the comment I was replying to, which basically discounted the entire concept of DMVs selling driving records to insurance companies and trucking companies as "fucked."
What's the point being driven at here? Is it minimizing the deaths of Australian wildlife, or is it making a quip about the sheer scale of cat hunting activity?

If it's the former, that seems like a bad comparison. The Australian wildfires are destroying ecosystems on a scale cats don't really do. And a much greater variety of wildlife is dying than what cats will typically kill.

Finally, wildfires don't support life. They're naturally occurring things, but they are not an activity occurring in the support of other life. Cats kill to hone hunting skills (or simply to hunt, if they're actually hungry). With that observation we can impose a reasonable normative, which is that we don't need to accept wildfires the same way we accept predator activity.

Put simply: I don't see that these two things belong to the same category of destruction.
They both “stepped back” shortly after the announcement of this investigation, so it seems likely they were also examined.
>At the same time, insurers want to know for liability purposes all drivers list at policy residences and when a driver's license is suspended.

What they want is irrelevant, and what they need is not-this. They'll find out someone's license is suspended when a coverage event happens, and that's it. Similarly, the police will know your license is suspended before insurance is in question.

There's simply no need to be proactive about getting that information because there's no risk to them for not knowing. Same with addresses and pretty much everything else not on an application for insurance at the outset.

I simply don't see how "liability purposes" fits.
That's very true. We definitely are more lenient towards people in different ways depending on their gender, and there are a lot of relaxed social expectations that men have compared to women.

Still though, I think there are dimensions of this where this is less true, perhaps in ways that men are expected to seem "confident" or "strong" or "independent" which I think can be stiffing. The typical men's section of a clothing store normalizes a lot more conservative wardrobes compared to women. I wish I had better words to explain it.
I just spent 1600+ on a (really nice) new queen.

I spend a lot of time on my mattress... might as well buy a nice one I really like (Stearns & Foster)
Agreed, sadly. I have a CPAP and it's just deeply unpleasant to use. It isn't worth it.

Dismal compliance numbers say that many to most people who try CPAP feel similarly.
However that may be simply because there are more retired women than retired men (the former living longer than the latter).
Read the linked excerpt, it's excellent. It is specifically a warning about the impending WW2, and an argument to keep the US out of it.
Here is what a 6070 km² square looks like: https://i.imgur.com/kEFBxZg.jpg
The 1% are much more satisfied with their lives than everyone else, survey finds
This sounds less like a developer and more like an Adam Neumann type. So, not the worker drones who do the unsexy job of putting stuff together and making it work, but the charismatic Don Draper type who goes to pitch billionaires on the "vision".
This is very painful to hear. I've tried selling my main company to 4 different buyers now... every single time we get past the LOI phase, they see all our financials in plain sight, and there's always some stupid hangup/ghosting/sketchiness exactly like in this article.

Very disappointing, considering how transparent we are up front sending every financial, and there's no real 'discoveries' later that would change their mind. It's just general terrible flakiness.

One guy's excuse was that his brother had put all his money into collateral without his knowledge, and that discovery phase was a waste of 5 months.

This last one, we thought we learned our lesson so we demanded proof of funds, as well as much more thorough checks....... and they just magically ghosted us LITERALLY after I FedExed the signed agreement... so after months and months of due diligience. They change their mind after about 100 confirmations from their lawyers, accountants, financers... and just ghost hours after I send it.

It has been greatly discouraging to me, as the 3 serious attempts to sell have essentially crushed our momentum, and now the company is dying/dead. I won't say that its a direct result of it, but we ran it very conservatively during these times as not to upset anything, and those were the times we needed to be running more aggressively to keep up with competition.

The company is essentially insolvent now, with a large amount of debt. I also made the bad mistake (I was quite young) to originally put the company card on an Amex applied for by me (I had 820 credit at the time). Because of inability to pay back debt on this company, my personal credit is now destroyed.

So.. going from 820 credit, making hundreds of thousands profit per month... to freelancing to pay bills with a 590 credit. Such is the life of an entrepreneur and the brutal lessons one learns along the way.

PS... I found out later our accountant had dementia, and did all our taxes wrong. My biggest advice, have an accountant who is really on point, and accept absolutely nothing less. Don't fall for the illusion of the pain of having to "retrain" someone if you don't think your accountant is 100%. Just find someone who is fucking good, and if they show a red flag, find someone you fully trust. My business partner has also been ruined in the past by incompetent accountants.
I bought a latex mattress several years ago, and will never buy another mattress. (Literally, they last 50+ years) Feels great, available in a range of firmness, no weird smells, never deforms, doesn't get hot, and naturally insect/mold resistant. I think I paid 1300 USD for a king size.

I know that's only tangentially relevant to the topic at hand, I'm just mentioning this since I had trouble finding much info on them. Latex is not promoted or advertised much, since they have very low markup compared to other mattresses; the store would much rather sell you a "hybrid" (usually 1/2 latex and 1/2 memory foam). But if you want to pay 2x as much to get something that lasts 4x as long, what you want is simple, boring, 100% natural latex.
This analysis is continuously being done. You can find it for your country easily. In most developed countries a ~5% gap exists. This is usually attributed to men being more aggressive in negotiations.
> and if you have Boeing stocks in your portfolio, then you are a shareholder, so maybe you should go to jail.

Personally, I'm not opposed to that type of thing happening - I always thought a company being "public" is an oxymoron, since they only serve the shareholders (just look how Facebook prefers to serve its shareholders/execs over democracy... but I digress). If you can't fund terrorist organizations without consequences, then I think there should be equal consequences when your demands for your share values compromise the safety of society. Also, might cause people to keep the companies 'in check' if their own butts were on the line too... But that'd be another whole discussion for another time...

The whole point of consequences is to discourage future bad behaviour: "Wow, that guy's and his family's life is ruined now! Shit, I don't want the same thing to happen to me, I'd better be more careful than he was!". But if all anyone gets is a slap on the wrist, or find a scapegoat, then really what's the point of laws (especially when a nobody gets years in jail for a minor crime, but some high-profile execs can charm/buy their way out with little consequences).

More and more of this reveals that there was very little "involuntary" things happening - they were quite deliberate in what they did, and knew what they were doing wasn't on the "up and up" and compromised safety (with even someone saying "I wouldn't fly on one of those!").
It should be noted that Electrek is clearly biased. From wikipedia:

> Their positive coverage of Tesla has been criticised by some automotive journalists. Its main authors have disclosed ownership of Tesla stock, substantial profit from referrals to Tesla, and ownership of Tesla cars.
Not interesting, just light on facts. It says the procedure is now banned for cosmetic reasons after a few patients were "disfigured".

How where they disfigured, since the legs are as far apart as can be from the face?

If it's the leg that looks ugly afterwards, can't the leg be fixed? Was there a bone problem? An infection ??

I don't think I would go that fact personally, but if there was something possible for the chest, I would seriously consider it.

Pumping iron can only take you so far. The bones underneath set the actual limit.
Early VR is 1960s ... it's been around longer than personal computers.
(oh sure, for military and experimental applications for the most part for a long time - and with a really high price tag - but it existed!)
Huh? Are you talking about hazard reduction burning?

Hazard reduction burning is not illegal in Australia [1]. I don't know where you got that idea from.

It is also legal to create a firebreak [2].

[1] https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/resources/publications/hazard-red...
[2] https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/18453...
I actually find it's the reverse of this for me. I'd almost rather be forced to lose weight at this point because then I think I'd have a better chance at accomplishing it.

Trust me when I say I want to lose weight but have started to succeed multiple times only to eventually fail in my internal battle of will
Yes, and the doctors and nutritionists he talks about probably didn't know about these incredibly basic concepts either? You might not know this but nutritionists are professionals who give people advice about healthy diets.
This is preying on "wellness" concerns. Casper convinces you that a problem exists where it previously (probably) did not, that your sleep is suboptimal, and that only they can fix it for you. Prehistory, humans slept on beds of grasses or reeds on the ground. I still think 80% of your sleep quality is determined by what you do in the day: caffeine intake, amount of physical activity, overall stress level.

I have a Casper. I found it way too firm as a side sleeper, but it was too late to return it, so I bought a $100 memory foam topper from Costco to make it more squishy. I could have saved a lot of money by buying Zinus mattress from Amazon and adding the topper, but oh well.
The managers of those well paid engineers are even more well paid
Did medium just start blocking content if you dont log in? Used to be an annoying popup..
He likes dem white women.