skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of us would prefer to maintain a cognitive Chinese wall between the companies we deal with and our underlying opinions about them, and would prefer that the companies have the same attitude towards us. I'd like to be able to criticize specific products and policies by Google, for example, without putting my entire Google account at risk. It seems like that's how it works with Google or even with (post-Jobs) Apple, and that's a good thing.

The last time I bought a new car, though, I filled in the manufacturer's survey in painstaking detail, calling out points I liked, aspects I didn't like, and a few things I considered ridiculous or unacceptable. Apparently my responses not only made it back to the local dealer, but earned me a reputation on the sales floor as a dissatisfied customer -- or worse, an unsatisfiable one.

It never occurred to them that if I were really annoyed or disappointed in the car, or had any kind of personal beef with its manufacturer, I wouldn't have wasted time filling out the survey in the first place. I answered the survey honestly and comprehensively because I plan to buy more cars from them in the future and would like my input to be considered.

Companies need to understand that the opposite of love isn't hate, but indifference. When someone takes the time to criticize you in detail, you don't have to take it as a declaration of war. You can always ignore them if you don't feel their input has merit. From hearing all these anecdotes over the years, I'm under the impression that Tesla takes things a little too personally.
I love this so much that am debating turning it into a native screensaver.
And it would be great if we, as a society, had the capital to invest in them. But instead we've got WeWork and Bird.

California has been drinking the kool-aid for a bit too long, this is just exposing the pitfalls of allowing wealthy VCs to choose winners and losers by funneling billions of dollars into ridiculous and unprofitable ideas.
It's not that it's unjust; a shareholder lawsuit is conceptually incoherent.

The idea is that, in your capacity as owner of the company, you sue the company for screwing you over, and it pays a fine to you. But that makes you worse off, because it makes the company worse off, and you own the company.

In the best case scenario, where the suit is costless and 100% of the fine goes to shareholders, the shareholders come out of the suit no worse off -- and no better off -- than they were before they sued.

In any other scenario, they come out worse off.

Imagine that I accidentally hammer my thumb and sue my hammer for the injury. I find it guilty and have it destroyed. How did my situation improve? All that happened is that I'm down a hammer.
"I'm seriously considering if I should try to predict the most robust regional response and look at moving there post crisis or the next 2 years or so. I think there could be significant differences. Not necessarily who is suffering the least, but who is going to emerge most vigorously."

Same...always better to thrive than to survive and we all get to choose :)
> No, it doesn't. Unless you only buy services from VC-financed startups?

I buy things using my salary which trickled down from the VCs and shareholders.
usually very close to stock, fast monthly security updates but slower on full version number bumps
There seems to a large contingent of linux users who are somehow completely immune to garbage user experience. It's really impressive.
Yeah but there are market makers on the stock market that deal in illiquid securities, and somehow manage not to die out either.
$20M is probably at least two orders of magnitude less than the total losses people suffered as a result of this lie. It is almost certainly not "appropriate" in the damages sense. It may be a sensible fine ($1k may be a sensible fine to someone who has no money); it does not cover damages whatsoever.
That penance is reserved for small investors. They are Frank Wilhoit’s out-group in this matter.
Same with me I got AirPods, now I never use any other headphones (which I used to love).

I feel gross when I call them 'magical' but they sortof really are
Ask HN: Autocratic leader has set up fake FB accounts. How to report it
Autocratic leader has set up lot of fake FB accounts to manipulate public opinion via comments. Where can I report it confidentially?
Here is a movie of automatically-identified active regions covering 1996, as a comparative:

http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/mdi/mdi-tarp/mdi-browse/ql-mta...

This movie was made from the science data products, but it's just a browse product for convenience. See also:

http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/mdi/mdi-tarp/mdi-synoptic/

1996/12/31 is in Carrington Rotation number 1917.
I think he means an "If you do a side-deal we kick you off our platform" type of thing, referring to cutting out the middle man
Mike Zamansky has a pretty decent series which focuses mostly on third party package features - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49kBWM3RQQ8&list=PL9KxKa8NpF...
3 months severance is California law and part of the CA-Warn act. Nice they covered cobra till the end of the year.
Yeah, reviewing the repository there’s a lot of high level language code now, so that probably removes most of the benefit of assembly. You’re still calling into the OS a lot.

Some of the other low level systems (like the Mac) had a trap system that wasn’t so far away in cycle count from user code. But in these days of needing 10,000 cycles to bridge a system call it’s best to do whatever you can to avoid calling the OS.
I have no problem with the statement. But as a HackerNews comment it is far too reductionist. At the very least, in my opinion, it should have been accompanied by at least mentioning supporting information if not actual citations.
that's cute :)

I know my kid would have really liked something like that.
how do you find the hours in law compared with working hours in tech?
Good idea, this is also a feature on Google Calendar. IME it is not used much unfortunately, and the challenge is balancing the work a user needs to do up-front vs. the benefits. Definitely thinking about creative ways to get this information though!
If we assume that Al-Qaeda was behind the attack, it's hard to imagine how high-ranking Saudis weren't involved. Given what we know about Saudi funding of Al-Qaeda.

Also, given what we know about CIA funding of Al-Qaeda, it's not a huge stretch to suspect US involvement. Or at least, a bungled entrapment or outright rogue operation.

It's hard to guess what US allies might be involved. Israel is a popular guess. Especially given its oddly close relationship with the Saudis, and its entanglement with US intelligence agencies. And then there's the fact that Mossad agents were trailing the Saudi terrorists for some time before the attacks.

But then, it could literally be anyone. And the Israelis and Saudis might have been framed.
Investors chose Theranos for the same reason they chose WeWork. It's not because they're making sound investments, it's because they have more money than they know what to do with, and it's becoming increasingly obvious that they don't deserve it.

Must "unicorns" are taking advantage of various levels of market fraud, on one side you have Theranoses, somewhere in the middle you've got WeWork, and far on the other end is Uber. All unproven, ridiculous ideas that are not making society better, but rather serve solely to funnel money into the hands of a few wealthy investors.

The American dream is finally dead, and it's SV that killed it.
Coronavirus: Captain Tom Moore's NHS fundraiser tops £10m
Regardless of whether there is a reflow, translate() allows you to do subpixel animation [0]. It will always be smoother than animating CSS position [1].

[0] https://css-tricks.com/tale-of-animation-performance/

[1] https://www.paulirish.com/2012/why-moving-elements-with-tran...
It's true this kind of stress and feelings are universal, but doesn't mean it's not a potentially serious psychological concern. Parents who feel extremely overwhelmed with lots of young children in the house are understandably stressed out - and yes, should be encouraged to consider therapy to help them manage.

I would recommend reading munificent's comment above about therapists as "mental trainers." I think everyone should consider seeing a therapist at least at some point in their lives. The idea that therapy is only when something is medically wrong is at best misguided and at worst dangerous.

When I suggested OP considers therapy, I didn't mean "uh oh, sounds like you're clinically depressed, DSM-V states that a loss of interest..." And the word "consider" is doing a lot of work there. OP's brain is clearly trying to tell them something, and having a knowledgeable certified professional to talk things through with is simply prudent when it comes to something as profound (and risky) as reconsidering your career.
It doesn't make them bad. It makes them disingenuous. This Tweet did not do any damage to people who has held onto Tesla stock. It did damage to short term arbitrage seekers that were trying to make a profit by being the first to act on the news. These people were at one point shareholders, but they likely weren't shareholders before the Tweet and likely aren't shareholders now. I don't and I assume the general public doesn't have a lot of sympathy for that type of trader.
Newsom announces $125M fund for undocumented immigrants
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121585/

From article:
We calculated the number of paralyzed children each year which exceeded the expected numbers (assuming a NPAFP rate of 2/100,000) and the results are displayed in Table 2. A total of 640,000 children developed NPAFP in the years 2000–2017, suggesting that there were an additional 491,000 paralyzed children above our expected numbers for children with NPAFP.
If there’s any damaging or damning info, the people should hear it and decide how to respond. If the truth has been told to us already, then nothing could be that much more damaging. If we were deceived from the beginning, then that has already resulted in massive amounts of damage.

The only people who would lose are those within political organizations.
Looks interesting, would this be a similar to what AWS API Gateway offers but then in a self-hosted manner? I am looking for a simple version of AWS API Gateway so I can hide a bunch of OpenFAAS functions behind a common domain and also have some trigger where when I request URL like /images/[id]_small.png it will automatically resize the [id].png to a small size and return it. Just this reawriting of url to the OpenFAAS function is where I am lost.

Would I be able to use Gloo for that?
The behavior described in the article can be seen in all dementia patients.

The article is written like it is a rare and unfortunate story which we watch from the sidelines, but only the age of Lee makes it unique. Many of us will experience exactly the same with a beloved one ( probably a parent, maybe a significant other).

Every single part of the story except the age, all the changes in the behavior —small and large—, how hard it is to live and/or manage someone with dementia, how difficult it is to come to terms with it, etc, happens to an awful lot of people. It's just that it's not a subject people talk easily about.

Last but not least, doctors are often the worst offenders in the progress of this disease. Most doctors only care about the "now", solve the problem at hand, send the patient home and be done with it. Surgery, psychotropic drugs and other forms of treatment can speed-up dementia progress. Alas, there is no incentive to research, document and act on this.
I hope in that situation you have the cash on hand to cover those margin calls. And even if you do, a lot of shorts would be getting screwed by behavior that is unethical and illegal. I'd rather people not lose money because of blatant lies by the ceo than have the stock shoot up unchecked to fulfill your little fantasy
Ask HN: A VC was racist. I called him out and he blocked me. Is this OK?
I wonder if this will ever end. I enjoy following Andrew Wilkinson (of MetaLab) on Twitter, and I admire his work and tech advice. The incident happened after he insulted Saudis, specifically calling us people cutters, after a tweet from Trump. I sent him a private DM, respectfully telling him that these hateful statements are not fair at all. He deleted the tweet, and simply blocked me. This incident is bothering me since that day. Is he supposed to insult people, and we should just let him be?
It didn't even occur to me that this would need to be explained. Up next we should talk about why it was bad to leave VCRs paused for long periods of time.
Well, given the time constraints, and the fact that the previous paper was had a much weaker setup yet claimed efficacy, I think this paper is a good idea. Incidentally, it's not the only such paper; a chinese analysis from the early days came to a comparable conclusion.

Even based just on this evidence, the case for HCQ looks very, very weak. The only positive report was riddled with caveats that could easily explain a false-positive, and other reports see next to no effect.

Note that it's perhaps not so interesting whether it has some effect; for this to really matter, it needs to be somewhat significant effect (in the real-world impact sense, not the statistically measurable sense). And even a small sample can reliably detect large effects; several studies have now not found such an effect; ergo: it doesn't exist.

If HCQ has any benefit whatsoever as applied once very sick, the benefit is likely too small to matter much in terms of mortality. And it's unlikely to be relevant whether it works beforehand; there's no way to make enough to give it to everyone which is what you'd need to do if you wanted to significantly impact the pandemic if HCQ were prophylactic.

It seems very unlikely at this point that HCQ is going to matter much in the course of the pandemic.
If they are non-qual options, why not make them 10 years like other companies. Why the short expiration? I'd rather have ISOs and the chance to cut my tax burden in half. More importantly not having to pay taxes upfront to exercise the options. Doesn't seem employee friendly.
Elon Musk encourages his supporters to view him as a wrongly persecuted underdog, victim of numerous nefarious conspiracies from established industries. Claiming that his critics are seething short sellers is part of this.
Unfortunately for your position, it’s considered to harm all investors when a key executive mouths off like this.
I've been there and only learnt that this "wait to be chosen" attitude never pays off. It's rewarded, but the reward is a pittance compared to what that energy could buy.

My advise to myself 20yo would be: learn how to deal with people, learn how organizations work, build capital and get onto the money side of things; but don't let your ego get tricked into the shiny tech lead and manager titles as those are only mirages of wealth.
> if you're doing real work, you'll end up having to use hosts that don't have all of your wonderful enhancements installed. It's good to know vanilla emacs.

If you're talking about production hosts, they shouldn't really have vanilla emacs installed either. Not having your creature comforts present on production machines is a feature, like the red shell prompt / terminal background some people use, a reminder to get you to think twice and try to not do things directly in production. If you really must, just use TRAMP, it's amazing.

If, on the other hand, you're talking about using somebody else's laptop to do anything, that doesn't make sense to optimize for, at least in my experience. I prefer not to even touch other peoples' laptops/keyboards.
I am a Muslim (but not an expert), what I know is there is nothing called Islamic economics, it is just a few rules. Humans are left to decide what will work for them.
Yes, they were tailing the Saudis through the US. That was reported by Salon, within days after the attacks. But maybe they were helping the NSA and FBI. And perhaps someone made the call that it wasn't important enough to risk blowing some other operation.
When ventilator comes off, the delirium comes out for many coronavirus survivors
"Perhaps it's time to focus on startups that actually generate revenue and high profits and invest in technology that is a good for everyone"

Thing is, there is a lot of focus on such startups/companies you describe...we all choose what we want to focus on. 10+ years in startups/tech and I know little (care even less) about "unicorns" considering there are far superior companies with legit model and justified valuations.
The preprint you linked (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20054551v...) is a huge analysis based on historical health records (> 300k per condition).

> Worryingly, significant risks are identified for combination users of HCQ+AZM even in the short-term as proposed for COVID19 management, with a 15-20% increased risk of angina/chest pain and heart failure, and a two-fold risk of cardiovascular mortality in the first month of treatment.

Based on that, azithromycin would appear to be a decidedly bad choice of antibiotic to use in conjunction with HCQ. Luckily there are many others available.

Derek Lowe has a recent and much more detailed analysis of all of this. (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/11/th...)
https://baytkoora.blogspot.com/2020/04/president-of-republican-party-warns.html
https://datawaves.io
> the people still angry about this are likely Tesla shorts and day traders

I'm mad about it and my only involvement with the market is through mutual funds and RSUs that are immediately sold up on grant from a FAANG.

He was lying with the intention of manipulating the shares of his company. That is unacceptable behavior for a CEO of a public company.
Most of the links on that page are unrelated to COVID19. Three were related. Are you recommending one of those three? Which?
I would honestly just start out with either Spacemacs or Doom Emacs. There is a lot of information on these 'distributions' and many YouTube videos, as well. These 'distros' will allow you to quickly get a feel for the power of Emacs, because they contain sane defaults that will enable you to get a quick feel of what Emacs is capable of. After doing this, you might decide to scrap them and start with a default Emacs installation that you slowly build up. But that is a huge investment of time and you should at least try these popular alternatives before you go into the crazy time sink of 'rolling your own' system.
I realize that many purists might take issue with this suggestion, but it's what worked for me.
The shareholders that were supposedly wronged didn't get anything from the SEC action.

It's comparable to criminal and civil law existing side-by-side: if you run a red light and someone gets hurt, you'll be fined for the traffic violation. But the victim is also going to sue you for medical expenses, work income missed, and compensation for any suffering.

Of course any compensation here is going to be paid by Tesla to shareholders of Tesla, who own the company anyway. It might make a difference for individuals based on when they are/were shareholders and when not. But absent such effects, it's a really strange system.

I wonder if Elon Musk will join the lawsuit. He's the single largest victim here, after all. That would be fun.
> "youre too dumb to be in the room with me"

Had a coworker say to a client, "I could explain it you but you're not smart enough to understand it."

Absolutly ridiculous and toxic individual.
opacity and transform (translate, scale, rotate and skew). That's mostly it.

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/high-performan...
>I've managed to grasp javascript fairly easily coming from python, but css seems like this obscure black box that I thought would be much easier to get a handle on.

All I can say is use it, a lot. CSS skills are more of a dark art than anything resembling engineering. And the only way you get good is by trial and error, learning what works best and why.
I still miss the ‘free battery of the month’ club.
What effect size would be a “game changer”?
Depends how old the phone is and how limited the h/w is though - Android is designed to work in some ridiculously under powered devices.

I highly doubt a top of the line phone like the Galaxy or the Pixel would have issues with input lag.

If anything, I get annoyed by how long animations on iOS take compared to Android. Everything feels like it's running in slow motion.
Default Emacs shortcuts are bad for RSI. Even the original author of Emacs has had to cut down pretty dramatically on their coding activity, due to getting "Emacs pinky" and other RSI problems.
I bet there are some aspects to this that lots of people could self-identify with.

I have a bad habit of remembering a past that never was. I think, man, the code used to just flow so easily, and now it requires effort. But I'm just remembering the highlights; if I try a little harder, I can start to remember other days when it wasn't so easy. I forget my missed deadlines and remember my last-minute saves. Revisiting old code now and again helps to shake the illusion loose.

Arranging life to spend a little bit less time on things that feel like work and making a little more time for things that excite you is a good medicine for this feeling and probably something everyone should do anyway.
http://emacsrocks.com is a great introduction.
And that is why I find it hilarious to see everybody fawning over governer Cuomo now.
Emacs is weird. I’ve been using it for a few years and am definitely far from an expert.

Emacs led me to elisp which led me to Common Lisp which led me to scheme which led me to racket, each of which has its own unique set of literature.

I’m enjoying the journey. It’s a refreshing change of pace from the ever-changing, cutting-edge, hyped-up programming world many of us live and work in.

Emacs has also led me to further interest in macros, compilers, and programming languages.

If you don’t have prior experience with lisps I’d recommend Gentle Introduction to Common Lisp, How to Design Programs, or Practical Common Lisp. The fundamentals from each apply well to elisp.

If you want immediate(ish) productivity, id recommend emacs prelude, doom, or spacemacs.
I definitely agree that key executives mouthing off does harm the shareholders; the problem is that these shareholder class-actions against companies do not provide a real remedy to the harmed shareholders.

I also agree that courts are allowing these lawsuits to proceed despite hearing objections like mine.
Nobody is working anymore, and nothing is produced anymore, and people are surprised that the economy "took a hit"?
Ask HN: Which salary bracket are you in?
I am not looking for exact figures (as that would be pretty private) but do you earn above average, below average or exceptionally well?

Could you also please define approximate ranges for those tags?
You're right, it is selfish, such is the nature of capital markets. I'm trying to exploit other's mistakes.

Shorting Tesla without hedging (or some good covering protocol) is a fool's game; no margin calls for me. There's a reason why the IV is ludicrous too.

And I don't think that Tesla is a "bad company", it's merely has substantially overpriced securities.

But what I find truly horrifying is how okay everyone seems to be with highly unethical and dangerous behavior when things are going up. Not just in Tesla, but in so many corporate offices.
There are a lot of reasons small Android phones didn't work. One of the biggest reasons Android went to bigger form factors first was because they needed the extra battery capacity. Android was a bit of a battery hog and, CPUs on the higher end Android phones were pretty demanding. That last bit is likely the biggest reason small form factor Android died an untimely death.
Then appropriate remedies should be pursued, but in what way have Tesla shareholders as a class been damaged? In the net, I would wager that Tesla shareholders are still quite happy with Elon at the helm.