skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems insane for them to even be speaking about that internally given that:

1. It could scare away enterprise customers who look for reliability on a much longer timescale.

2. The extent of their investment into hiring for GCP. [1]

More likely the author of that article is trying to manufacture news.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/google-cloud-single-largest-dr...
Go necessitates so much handrolling. Loops, concurrency patterns, resource management. You can't abstract over much, so you end up doing these things by hand constantly. Therefore you rely on brainpower, ad hoc linters (if one exists), and tests to not blow things up.

Go has its benefits and reasons to use it (especially the network effects around it). But when it comes to the three things I mention, Go is truly pathetic compared to a language like Haskell. It's amazing how much effort is wasted on those activities. I can see why a corporation would not care, but as an engineer I can do better with my time and effort for my personally-owned endeavors.
I can't think of a tech company with more ethical well-meaning employees than AirBnB. Have you actually ever interacted with someone who works there? They even have a pretty strong ethics/value interview to weed out unethical people. If you don't believe me, go apply for yourself.
A minimal layoff survival guide
You can enable this through the Accessibility settings. It makes sense to be the default but I’m glad they made this configurable.
Speaking of ads... Search results now show "Editorial recommendations" products above the search results, but are really just ads. It's getting increasingly difficult to trust anything Amazon shows me as being actually beneficial to me.
On a related note John Carmack recently ran into this issue

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1215844056091320321
This is a misunderstanding on your part as the system was/largely still is simply different There was no government mandated minimum wage but the pay in sectors is negotiated and fixed by negotiation between employer and employee representative organisations per sector. The rise of new kinds of pay models to undercut these systems fueled a push to in addition introduce a minimum wage. For most places the minimum wage does not replace the negotiated rates but just covers sectors for which there's no negotiation system.
Realtime Data in Apache Druid – Choosing the Right Strategy
> I get an overwhelming sense of guilt

That guilt is proportional to the value you place on your work-time/daily output. The guilt will subside as your output importance does.

Also, the grass often appears greener, and many in academia are mired in its doldrums too.
Then it turns into everyone turning off all their notifications. What was originally a reasonable amount of notifications on a smartphone 5 or 7 years ago has now grown to such ridiculous amounts (often notifications for things I don't even care about) that the apps competing for my attention are cannibalize each other and consequently they've collectively destroyed the market for my attention, by me choosing to turn off all notifications.

Notifications have essentially become a "tragedy of the commons" problem. Everyone optimizing for their self interest ended up creating all losers.
Australian Telco Optus Uses Uploaded Driver’s Licence Without Permission
I find it interesting that Illinois and New York's leavers seem to have much more income banding with respect to destinations than California's, which in turn seems to at least partially be related to Californians not going to Florida.

My first instinct is to assume that well-off-ish retirees in Illinois and New York retire to Florida, while in California they just stay in California. (Though other possibilities exist: for example, California leavers could be in two groups for most of the exit states, and so happen to average incomes out more than for Illinois or New York.)

I also find it interesting that the income-destination pairs of leavers for those two states seems like they might indicate potential easy presumptions about general political and socioeconomic status compared to California. Curious if there's actual data backing supporting these obvious presumptions.
The console is flooded with CORS errors. I thought maybe it was the Firefox enhanced tracking protection but disabling it has no effect.
Ask HN: Rework in Large Companies
How do large companies like Google / Facebook / Amazon etc avoid rework by their employees? Is there a process in place?

For eg: A lot of data analysis is done every day resulting in interesting insights, for which answers may already exist, perhaps done by a different team / business domain, not shared cross-functionally or even if it is shared, hard to keep track of at such a large scale. Is there already a solution to this problem?
Quines are fun! My favorite generalization is the quine relay: "This is a Ruby program that generates Rust program that generates Scala program that generates ...(through 128 languages in total)... REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again." https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

The same author also has a radiation-hardened quine, which still emits the original quine even if you delete any(!) one character before running it: https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine

But coming back to traditional quines; the most common solution is of the form:

> The following string followed by itself in quotes: "The following string followed by itself in quotes: "

This is by no means the only possible solution: If you view the compiler/interpreter as a function then a quine is the fixpoint of that function.

So, if your "compiler" is `cat`, the shell identity function, then any string is a quine! A fork bomb is also a kind of quine. The quine there is not the code itself, but a process running the code. That process is "interpreted" by the kernel, which dutifully creates an exact copy of the fork-bomb process.

I've never sat down and tried it, but one day I want to write a quine of the form: "Initialize a PRNG with this seed and print the first n bytes". Probably there's a language which lets you get the required code small enough that you could brute-force the correct seed.
A very mature approach, more power to you and i will certainly be checking out your warez.
> That sounds wonderful, but it's economically impossible, except for the rich.

In the US, sure, but there are other countries with other models...
Great piece of history. Can someone explain the difference between TTL and CMOS chips?
Should have used fossil :)
OpenAI Plays Hide and Seek [video]
What's funny is that the link within the article "The Arc of Collaboration" is saying basically this. A tool has to be transparent and should not steal your focus from your productivity app.
> but the Actix project has had a consistent history of introducing unsoundness through

Then you can stop using Actix and create a better project or fork it and fix these unsoundness bugs and call it ActixSound. I do not see the point to rally up the crowd and raid his Github in the name of soundness. This reflects poorly on the Rust community.
Impressing with performance is one hell of a goal for a demo.
I would recommend looking into Katherine Levine Einstein's research on the concept of "Neighborhood Defenders".
>>US/EU, and other laws all seem relevant.
>What does this mean?

For context, the US has arrested people who have never set foot in the US and held no assets in the US ... for breaking US law. So when it comes to "the internet" nowadays I assume I have to comply with all major countries' law, not just my own (USA). Or at least it could be helpful to know other countries laws (EU) as they compare to my own (USA).

> In the US there is no law for this.

If the FBI seized the website, I would be led to assume there's probably at least one law covering it.

> The data still belongs to the user

If I'm one of the affected users, can I see what of my data was leaked? Wouldn't I have to download the leaked data to do that? Would that be legal to download? Would it be legal for someone else to provide my own leaked data to me?

> the people that hold it should only ever be doing so with permission.

This would make http://haveibeenpwned.com/ and Google Chrome's password checker illegal -- and probably 90% of security researchers would be outlaws. That seems like an untenable policy position.
NY has not been putting up housing at an insane rate. Housing in NY is actually being constructed at one of the lowest rates in the last century. Adjusted for business cycles (we're in a peak now), NY is building less housing than they have build in ~100 years, and Manhattan is at its lowest density since the 1890s. The current period is only a "boom" relative to 2009-2012 when basically no new housing was constructed.
Amazon, or Wal-Mart in the Sky, is truly an incredible company and business. But a good name is worth more than $. If they continue these negative business practices their brand equity will slowly continue to decrease over time. The general public is not yet as wary of their power as most HN readers but it won’t be look until a new competitor (or preexisting) starts nipping away at their bottom line.
Congress, nay, government in general, has neither the capacity nor the ability to affect the price of anything, in the long run.

Lest we increase prices through the introduction of more regulatory in efficiencies in what would have otherwise been a free market, our government should not interfere in matters of a private enterprise.

~ Adam Smith

(just kidding, but he would probably agree)
For normal retail channels, yes, anything sold through their storefront is considered sourced by them.
Or remote work, in which case you don't have to leave your apartment at all if you don't feel like it.
Germany mulls extra research funding for committee-burdened women
I think that's reasonable.

The issue that I would see is a situation where the new construction causes property value to drop and therefore the original residents cannot afford to sell their homes and move to a neighborhood similar to the one before the construction. If they cannot afford to move away then its really not a meaningful say.
Anti-trust fear offers some protection to companies like Netflix.

I wonder if health insurance companies have the same protection given Amazon's moves into the space. [0]

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-jpmorgan-roll-new-healt...
SF and NYC in a nutshell: High taxes to fund entitlement programs like "affordable housing" and the homeless industrious complex, high regulations that only allow mega corps to succeed, landlord unfriendly laws so no chances taken on good borderline tenants, and no firearms for law abiding citizens so criminals are emboldened.
> but apparently Debian copies all the code into its own repositories and doesn't make clear how to update it.

Debian always keeps the maintainer's patches separate from the "clean" upstream code. I'm not saying that it can't sometimes be hard to do major updates but please don't blame the Debian folks for that, it's not cool.
It makes no sense to blame AirBnB (or any form of demand in general) for a broken housing market where people can't build more supply.
Yes it is. Internet Explorer had something like 95%+ share on all browsing traffic and then someone brought out a better alternatives (Firefox and at the time Chrome). Internet Explorer is no longer dominate. It is now dead.
My personal opinion , DO is in a middle of nowhere. There are huge vendors like aws google Microsoft, and there are cheap vendors eg hetzner. DO is not as advanced as big guys , lagging behind a lot and still not as cheap as most of the cheap vendors , the only great things about them is their docs. They are great.
If you're keeping it private, none of this applies. I'm talking about "hey that project is bad, I am now maintaining a competing project, please use it instead."
And we yet to see any actual real-life problems with these "unsoundness" problems. Most of these issues raised in Actix were about theoretical problems.
Usually some sort of price discrimination. Let's say Brand X pays $5 to produce something and sells it wholesale for $15 to stores, for a retail price of $30. Assume Amazon fees selling at $30 are $10, so Brand X can sell on Amazon at $30 and get back $20. A third party could divert goods from a retail store, say they pay an extra $1, and price at $28, and will net $18 from Amazon and be left with a profit of $2.

Alternatively, maybe a store had overstock and sold the goods in bulk at a loss.

Or sometimes they sell the same products cheaper in another country, and it turns out to be cheaper to buy there and import to resell here.
What if you are a recurring sequence of Boltzmann brains pooping into existence, lasting mere seconds but correctly temporally sequenced as to form a continuous consciousness?
> Feel free to laugh at me but I often miss MS Access layout tools

Hell, I miss Paradox. In DOS. There was a direct relationship between the tables and the UI so you got CRUD as a side effect.

I built several real application using it, but the best was a true "enterprise" application used across three facilities. The "backend" was a Netware file system and the key to making it scale was to cache necessary data locally and batch writes to shared tables. Contention had to be avoided, not because Paradox couldn't multiplex readers and writers, but because the performance was so poor.

It was still spinning when I moved on. Have no idea how long they maintained it, but I'll bet whatever they replaced it with cost an order of magnitude more. It was a part of every dollar of revenue that outfit earned employing ~1000 people.
In my experience, California still tries to claim tax residency based on owning a house there (on the basis that it is not a rental in this case), despite moving out of State a decade prior and visiting infrequently. It doesn't matter if you own a house, have a job, and all the other accoutrements of a life in another State, they'll still harass you about paying income tax. Even if you are staying in the country but in another State, it still might be a good idea to dispose of all CA-based property.

When it comes to taxes, California has a serious stalker vibe.
One thing I’ve noticed is that expatriates from blue states tend to bring their politics with them when they move. Denver’s influx of out-of-staters was a big part of why Colorado moved from purple to solid blue, and now the same thing is happening in TX as folks flock to Austin and Houston, GA as the black diaspora returns to Atlanta, and NC as the Research Triangle booms. Heck, even Utah’s starting to look more purplish thanks to its tech industry (and the CA imports that inevitably come along with it). It’s going to be exciting to see what happens when Texas reaches its tipping point.
No. I'm saying the ownership of land is not something that has, for centuries, been hidden.

So if you are going to argue "we should be able to hide the ownership of land", you need a reason.
There's also less room to move. It's much harder for someone whose been doing PCR for the past 6 years to go "You know what, screw this..." than there is for someone whose been working on the analysis of large datasets in say, physics.

And, perceptional-wise, leaving for industry is often seen as a failure.
Eh? This is China's first time trying to build a commercial narrow body airliner, isn't it? So its not like they used to have the capability and forgot how to do it, they're developing it for the first time.
> A lot of people lack the critical thinking, distancing and math I consider fundamental.

Mother in law took my partner and I to a "flipping houses seminar" with one of the TV hosts (by which I mean there was a cardboard cutout and some vague promise that if you signed up for the course there might be some meet and greet at some point).

They boasted "10s of thousands of members, some of whom had flipped 30+ houses with us!", and "We've financed 100 million of purchases".

Wow, exclaimed people, that's a lot of money! And for only $4,995 for the course!

And then I pointed out to MIL that at, say $100K a house, that formerly impressive $100MM investment was only 1,000 homes flipped...

... from 10s of thousands of members... "some of whom have flipped 30+ homes".

So, extrapolating, the average person that went through their course flipped... maybe 0.025 homes.

Faced with that math, she put away the checkbook and we left at the intermission.
If it's OK to demand a project use only Rust and not unsafe Rust, then it must be OK to bitch at every C or C++ project and demand they rewrite in Rust. If that sounds absurd, that's because it's supposed to.
There are more returns than ever before.

A lot of times when you receive a <$20 product, you just don't bother to return it to China and wait 45 days for a refund.
The average human's genes are not that great as to deserve preserving. I certainly see the benefit from preserving the genes of the woman who lived 122 years old, though.

I don't think it's bad to find sex repulsing. I mean, sex is inherently disgusting. It involves naked bodies and bodily fluids. You can'g describe sex in a way that doesn't sound repulsing.

Besides, people can have children without having sex through IVF. But if a woman is repulsed by sex, I can totally see why she would also be repulsed by pregnancy.
Just because something is common doesn't mean it's okay.
"either force-migrate them to a higher cost service tier, throttle them until they leave, or maybe just slow down their service.
The key to remaining competitive in cut-throat industries is knowing where to spend your limited time and money."

How does this apply to Planet Fitness in any way?
Both are true. I obviously can't trust that maintainers will do what they SHOULD do via common sense and online civility, so I SHOULD vet them appropriately.

Why do so many people insist on being aloof and unhelpful in communicating to users of their software? What is so hard about offering a modicum of context for what people can expect of you as a maintainer? It's so ideologically rigid and unreasonable.
>Seems most people here are either rich retirees or people whose families have lived here for a long time and made a ton of money with real estate bought before prices exploded

Yep - I lived there between 2015-2017 and this about sums it up.
That's exactly what costco does though.
Million of people are not rational and naive? I doubt that.

Look, the costs with Uber are pretty straightforward: you have car payments, insurance, periodic maintenance and finally gas. People really aren’t too stupid to realize that their Uber income doesn’t cover their car payment.

IRS has a nice estimate of average cost of driving, it’s 58 cents per mile. If you are doing more than that, you are making money, and at Uber you make significantly more than that.
I think you’re both way off base on this one. Index funds by their nature pretty much replicate the index, it’s a mathematical play generally with no position on dumping or actively positioning on any stocks.

This was always the climate problem, neutral is not ex-climate stocks.. neutral was maths, just matching the index.

Pure indexing was not taking a climate position.

This is why this is so huge, they’ve reset neutral and are challenging others to do the same.

If they gain net inflows into their updated index products this will move fast.
The Wayback Machine links don't seem to work anymore, unfortunately.
Faggot alert
agreed that it is being stretched. perhaps a better metaphor would be not just opening the door, but building it.
"I'm wondering if either of those models is transferable to STEM academia. Are there particular sub-disciplines where professional success and sane hours might be more compatible? Similarly, are there tenure-track or quasi-tenure track job titles that split the difference in tolerable ways?

I haven't researched these well enough to have clear answers. But it's worth discussing."

One of the easiest, and most important things, academia could do is make pausing tenure clocks have both less stigma and be easier to do. Like, automatically opt-in for both men and women.

Unfortunately, it's much harder to pause grants, which is its own problem.
Are you saying that that's a good thing?
> There’s more women in law and medicine, which are equally, if not more demanding.

There exists plenty of gender disparity within these fields. Many more women in pediatrics, obgyn and family law, many more men in surgery, for instance. I'd like to see a study of these disparities to see if the subfields women choose have the benefits this author suggest is a major cause of women leaving STEM.
Wal-mart has a hideous reputation among the general public and that doesn't seem to stop them. Walmart grows YoY every quarter.

I'm not certain their reputation will change much so long as they can still ship a product to my house in one day for less money than at a physical store, and have effortless returns.
> My claim was that disgust with sex is rising.

> What do you make of these data points? I think they successfully demonstrate that interest in sex is falling.

You're equivocating between disgust and lack of interest, but these are very different things. I wouldn't have bothered asking for a source if you had blamed falling interest rather than rising disgust.
Yeah, the shuffles are awesome in AVX-512.
You'd be surprised how prevalent that attitude is, the people with good paying jobs doing it for "extra cash on the side" say they don't care about the pay rate or unionizing or anything and so the going rate for these little delivery contracts is super low.

They advertise that you'll make well over minimum wage when in reality you'll hardly ever even meet min wage. They could easily guarantee a min wage, which should be no problem if the drivers are all really making so much money, but they obviously don't.

People say "well the drivers shouldn't do it then, they should get different jobs. if it doesn't pay and they keep doing it they're stupid", and then go on to order food from the app and tip $0.50 bc "hey, I only spent $5, that's 10%!"

Drivers are essentially depending on tips to live just like a waiter. They might take home $4/hr from the app. So every time you order you have the chance to make it right for the driver and pay them for doing their job by giving a decent cash tip. IMO $3 is the absolute minimum, $5 is normal. If your reaction to that is "whoa that's way too much what did they do to deserve that?" you're a cheap bastard.

Sorry for the rant, I just did this job for a while and got treated like dog shit by the customers and the companies for efficiently and politely indulging their every whim on demand at any hour, and it makes me sick to hear people who aren't starving living in their cars depending on work like this to survive talking about it in abstract terms like they have any idea. We really should have a period of compulsory food service work for every teenager in this country, seriously.
Sure, however this isn't false otherwise. Non-diverse opinions aren't bad by default, and ultimately the main concern here is thinking the opposite, that diverse opinions are always right.
That's a very long-term outlook. Unless you own beachfront property, it won't be happening in your lifetime.
Or he will lose the reputation, that's what.
Try some melatonin spray. Does wonders for me
>people who already volunteer their time for my benefit have to follow my rules when doing so

Ok.
I work in the health sector and honestly, it comes down to a couple things:

1) They have more data. It's not clear that it's better.

2) That difference is, to the eyes of many of us, showing up, making things worse, and then "pivoting".

3) I get to decide what I want to do. I want to add a project on X? I go work on it.
Yeah, I don't think people have thought that far.

Seems easy enough for the broken up Instagram and whatsapp to instantly declare insolvency and close up shop while conveniently getting jobs for the newly formed Facebook photos app that would also be conveniently released at the same time.