skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are protected by US corporate law. The debts of a corporation are the responsibility of the corporation. A corporation (Inc.) is treated like a person from that perspective. If a corporation runs out of money and cannot pay its debts and declares bankruptcy, the management is under no obligation to cover the debt, and the debt holders are out of luck.

A CEO (and other company execs) can be held personally liable only if there is fraud or other illegal acts. Mismanaging a company, or even simply working hard and not succeeding, are not illegal.

American firms can take on much more risk, so we tend to see both many more failures and many more successes.
It's the principle of "if Muhammad won't come to the mountain, bring the mountain to Muhammad". Or whatever other name you prefer, same principle.

The hubris of the technologically competent, one so often spied on this website, is to believe that those unwilling to join them on the top of the mountain don't deserve the mountain, rather than that a ski lift should be installed.

It's as though the democratisation of technology over the past thirty years has completely escaped their attention.
The paper and project STOPCovid mentioned is available at

https://www.stopcovid.science/
If they follow Ubuntu, I'd wish they name it Cinco De Mayo for this version.
No-Nonsense Guide to Reopening Your Office
I just tried it on toast, and I'm going to have to agree that it's as bad as margarine.
Appreciate the feedback. I’ll keep it in mind as I contribute my time and dollars to the political process.
They're arguably worse than the $20 alternative since the Apple wheels don't even have locks.
10 years ago, who would have thought a $1000 phone would be ubiquitous?

Such luxury, in our pockets.
Yes, it is really just a different set of tradeoffs now.

It isn't just notarization, it is also that notarization requires app hardening which has very strict rules. Shipping an app with 3rd party binaries that supports older versions of macOS is especially tricky to get right.

Also using direct distribution you have to deal more with Gatekeeper.

One particularly fun issue is that if you distribute your app as a zip and a user downloads (to their standard ~/Downloads/ folder) and runs it, then Gatekeeper will use path randomization (aka app translocation), which effectively makes the app look like it is on a read-only volume. Older versions of the sparkle update framework would not show update prompts if on a read-only volume (as what's the point?), and therefore if a user continued to run an app from their downloads folder they would never get updates!

Apple made this change without informing any developers that their users could be left behind for a while. I imagine this security feature prevented users from getting many security fixes.

The way to disable the app translocation is to have a user manually drag the app to their Applications folder, which is why so much software is distributed in DMGs now with the Applications folder symlink.
Giving descriptive names just harms intuition building in the long run.

I've been writing Haskell for over 5 years and to this day when I see <$>, <*>, >>= in my code I don't substitute English words for them.
I want to know who has actually accepted a cloud vendor's lockin...and then regretted it, had to change, and wished they'd done it up front. I have yet to meet them.
It's a bit frustrating (and concerning?) that their data repository [1] seems incomplete; the most important seqences (GM12878 / HG001) are missing from everything but the raw data directory. This is the sample that most laboratories would likely have readily available for comparison to their results, but for some reason they have omitted to deposit their final results for it (unless I'm missing something ...).

[1] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/human-pangenomics/index.h...
There is nothing about this statement that would make it more readable than simple for loop.
Looking forward to WebRender starting using Vulkan instead of OpenGL on Linux.
Microwave Thruster Makes for Clean-Burning Jet
> (For windows/mac only btw)

What do you mean? It's a website.
I'll admit I'm not exactly doing a great job of selling it on that page, but this is what other QR sites refer to as a 'dynamic' code that you can change the destination of and see how many people have scanned it, etc. It is essentially a link shortener/redirect service in addition to the QR code itself.

You could, for example, run marketing campaigns and change the destination of the QR code for each subsequent campaign, and see their performance.
The first article does not claim that it quotes another article as a source instead.

The second article is a clusterfuck, it is not even wrong. Long story short: they asked 300 caucasian women if they were "sun-loving" or "sun-phobic", assessed their "apparent age" by a panel of people (how objective) and then calculated a vague correlation.
Especially when Array(N).fill(0).forEach((_, key) => ...) gives you the same exact functionality without the second eager array if you're seriously trying to avoid for loops.
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Shattered the Myth of College in America
Model who born in China becomes internet sensation with her fast posing skills
This article makes an interesting point. It is more than a year old, which means there has been ample time for the research to be replicated, expanded, challenged, or even debunked. Has there been any new development in this regard?
Keep trying to understand, asking questions, trying stuff first hand and eventually it'll come! The "Hask anything" sticky in /r/haskell is a friendly & pseudonymous way to ask questions too.

One thing I've noticed working in Haskell: Everyone is an expert in different things. Very rarely do I meet a Haskeller whose knowledge or interests subsumes another. That's part of the fun. Everybody doesn't know some terms!
I made another comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086939, but essentially this is a link "shortener"/redirect service in addition to the QR code. So there is a recurring cost on my end, it doesn't actually _directly_ point to your URL
Interesting. It’s a hydrogen generator.

As an alternative idea, is it possible to use a laser to break the bond between hydrogen and oxygen, in a water molecule, to release the hydrogen?

Kind of how a laser was used to cool atoms, by knocking off energetic electrons from the molecule. But this time, in reverse.

Asking for a laser physicist.
Zig seems to have arbitrary compile-time code evaluation, but not the kind of AST generation you see here[1]. Nim macros seem to be a closer analogue[2].

[1]: https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle/blob/master/gems/rpn.md...

[2]: https://nim-lang.org/docs/macros.html
It’s so frustrating that automation and command-line is treated as almost second-class citizenship on macOS.

You know how I log into a remote server securely without ever entering my password? I enter the command "ssh" and the server name. Why the hell isn’t notarization implemented, effectively, as "notarize appname.app" where all the details are resolved securely, just as magically, to your developer keys?

Yet if you upload something to the App Store, you understand Apple’s backwards mindset completely. The whole concept of a 6-step wizard that you have to CLICK through, EVERY time, for EVERY update, confirming stupid little things that should be in a config file, means that Apple has no idea how this stuff really ought to work. And that means that Apple must not use this themselves. They have to have some secret, simple, tolerable process internally which is why they never improve the tools that literally everyone else must put up with.
5kloc is about 10x larger than musl's existing (old) malloc in source lines. I suspect lots of that is low code density, comments, etc.

I have to lookup what exactly mimalloc is/does every time someone mentions it, because the readme/documentation isn't very descriptive except discussing extensions outside the normal API. I didn't have time to dig through this again today. But I did look at it in some depth on several occasions in the past and it really wasn't suitable for or comparable to what we're doing in musl.
Calendly meets Zoom meets Stripe
Just a small correction, 5 years old isn't adolescent. Adolescent is more or less a synonym for teenager.

I was left a bit confused.

Though this lead me to look up development stages which was interesting [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_human_bod...
Unless you specifically negotiate something in the employment contract up front, they could just fire people and only pay out the notice period.

Severance pay is voluntary. So of course they can decide how much they want to pay.
I mean, as an American... I'm not even sure why companies give severance pay in the first place. It doesn't feel like something they should be obligated to do.
You guys don't generally use a stick shift. A clutch would probably have caused a few teeth marks in the steering wheel rather than a car hurtling down a motorway.

I too am impressed that a child so young managed to get out so far but yes, he had a very long run of luck and so did a lot of other people.
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That's part of why Germany has fewer entrepreneurs.
I so wish we could have this on iOS...
Did the kid actually pull over to the shoulder?
Have you tried Linux Workspaces?

(Compared to Cloud9, I greatly prefer Workspaces, but still use Cloud9 on occasion for a few niche use cases)
Mostly because there are fewer new enterprises. People mostly only take the safest bets.
I got super excited until I realized this was only for Android.
Somehow it just doesn’t feel right to burn trees to produce clean or green energy. It might work on a small scale but not sure about doing it on an industrial scale.
A brief history of people refusing to wear masks
It is the Redditization of this site.
How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model? Five ideas
Disclaimer: I work at Gravitational.

We build an open source solution[1] to deploy autonomous Kubernetes clusters into on-prem or air-gapped environments but it's also useful for limiting cloud lock-in (even has its own "IAM" built in). Of course, you have to also limit your use of proprietary services (which definitely has its trade-offs) but might be worth poking around if you believe reducing lock-in is worth it.

[1] https://github.com/gravitational/gravity
I got comfortable with Lisp using http://www.4clojure.com/

Learning through games like this is a big help because they provide:
1. clear and approachable goals
2. clear feedback on whether you've achieved the goals

Maybe Clojure isn't what you're looking for but maybe there's a similar service for a language you'd like to learn.
Thanks for the comment.

This project is not open. A non commercial license is in direct conflict with what is the commonly accepted definition of "open" (source or hardware) [1].

Normally when hardware projects claim to be "open source", I give them a pass as they sometimes have the code or other firmware under a GPL-compatible license even when they have the hardware files under a proprietary or non-commercial license. This content is not providing any source or other files under an open/free/libre license.

This project is "open washing" and should not be considered an "open source" project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license

> " ... Licenses which only permit non-commercial redistribution or modification of the source code for personal use only are generally not considered as open-source licenses. ... "
Because no crime has been committed. If we locked up everyone who had left their keys out or some equally dangerous thing, we would have to lock up every parent out there.
First, can you talk a little about how Nim's macro system is more-powerful than Lisp's? That seems like a fairly broad claim, and unless it allows you to influence the compiler at compile time (and maybe even then), I am curious how that works out.

Second, one of the biggest issues with lisp is that macros end up sort of slow, especially when you're using them + lists to replicate ADTs with pattern matching (versus, say, ML, which can do very fast dispatch based on types). Doesn't Nim fall into that same trap?
LOL I was looking for robots.txt or humans.txt on http://www.humansnotinvited.com. I was disappointed to find neither!
A sunny place where a lot of people coming from a cloudy place have arrived in the last few centuries. Not a fair comparison with "we survived neolithic".
We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial
I think you answered your own question. In the US, entrepreneurs are not personally liable. Now, that's not the same thing as saying that failure won't reflect badly on their reputation. But it is definitely a lot easier to have a comeback career if you don't have to declare personal bankruptcy.
GHC 8.12 Documentation Plan
Thanks for taking the time to pen a thoughtful response. I really appreciate the point about training users to enter login credentials, how it might be risky, and also that this could lead to a false sense of security.

That being said, I do think that these features will overall lead to better password hygiene for people who do not have access to the kinds of info we have (especially where FF warns about passwords shared across sites; that's a feature that iOS does fairly well; in KeyChain, they show a warning label next to a password shared between multiple sites).

P.S. The point about securing a list of sites that you have passwords for is fantastic as well.
Technologies used in neocolonial occupation and conquest will eventually be applied domestically. It's only a matter of time before the US government elites have a real-time panopticon like China and Reapers fire weapons from the air at civilians.
Ha. My personality tends towards letting small stuff go, but I work in management consulting, and so I end up having to be horrifically pedantic about spelling, formatting, etc. with my reports...

Luckily the entire organization is like this, but it definitely extracts a moral cost.
Gardening leave is quite common in the US. No sure whether the term itself is known, though?

Paying out a notice period is very different from severance pay. I can assure you that AirBnB does not have a 14 weeks notice period.

(American companies also pay you out the notice period, and some send you on gardening leave, if they want you out of the office. But notice periods in America seem to be generally shorter, like 14 days, for most more junior jobs. In the UK one month seems to be more standard?)
Radio Corona, May 5: Vint Cerf, internet pioneer and Covid-19 survivor
I seem to recall watching a video somewhere, perhaps on Didyouknowgaming, that Clefairy was intended to be the Pokémon mascot before Pikachu. I could be completely wrong here, but if so that is really cool to think it may have had its own game!
To be completely fair, reading every option under about:preferences is not part of the average user's workflow.
This is a different claim than the one above, which was about incrementing the least significant bit.
Nope, can't say that I have.
Not that we know he’s Mormon, but there is a segment of SV ex-Mormons who escaped to CA.

Kid is jumping the whole unicorn step to Lambo, maybe another example of how Knuth was wrong.
You can try it on a phone but its not designed for it. Theres a separate app version of it for mobile.
Exactly! The primary purpose of the `altool` for notarization is probably to do so in an automated manner, but it will not block while waiting for notarization. So to make this part of automation, nearly every developer needed to add polling loops and parse the response to figure out if it was done! The proper text to wait on also isn't obvious nor documented; if the status says "Package Approved" it may not even be complete yet.

Further, the first version would write status to standard error. Clearly a mistake, Apple did fix this in a future version... which of course broke everyone's automation around it. My polling script now logs the tool's stdout and stderr just in case.
Those are all good arguments for voluntarily paying for severance, or to agreeing to such a payment upfront in the employment contract.

But they are no reason to legally require severance pay.
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This feels similar to Glitch, FKA HyperDev, Fog Creek's developer playground.
Simpler than that: just being sunburnt is a disadvantage, no need to get cancer.
The the most commonly used sunscreen chemical have hormone like activity [1].

https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/report/the-trouble-with-sunscr...
Quite right.
I propose immediately banning any further stories about children driving vehicles. Enough is enough.
They do, but the intelligence of kids is highly underrated. This started with Piaget, and although Piaget has been widely debunked, teachers still believe it.
We should never shy away from opportunities to have our character and fortitude tested. Suffering that can be overcome is crucial for growth as a human.
On the other hand, massive sun exposure also ages your skin vastly faster. Remember this famous photo of the truck driver who got sun on one side of his face? [1]

I've been aware for a very long time that when I don't get enough sun, I have less energy, I get sick more often, and my mood suffers. But at the same time, I don't want my skin to look like leather.

So it's a pretty easy compromise: I make sure to get a couple hours' of sunbathing without sunscreen every couple weeks, whether at a park, beach, or tanning salon (for a few minutes) in the winter. (Basically cured my seasonal affective disorder in the winter.) The goal is to stay healthily moderately tanned (absolutely not over-tanned) year-round. (And if I spend the whole day at the beach, I put on moderate-strength sunblock after an hour or so.)

But I put sunscreen moisturizer on my face and the back of my neck any day I know I'll be outside in the sun for more than a few minutes -- if I'll be taking a walk or eating lunch outside.

It seems to be a good middle ground -- and the possibility of a middle ground seems to be what is ignored in most conversations on this topic. You don't need to choose between being a sun "worshipper" versus never letting a drop of sun touch your skin.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2012/jun/05/fa...
This explanation went far more in depth than I expected it to. Thanks for writing it out!
Travel for current or prospective customers has some of the best ROI of nearly any expense at the company, and this is well understood. To the contrary, everyone up the chain including the CEO is even more eager to resume sales travel.
I had a first year cliff at Google a few years ago. But they might have changed that.

Facebook definitely doesn't have a cliff in 2020.
Conservation in crisis: ecotourism collapse threatens communities and wildlife
I believe the majority of incidents where young kids "drive" end very quickly as minor parking lot or driveway accidents. The above comment might not actually be too far off the mark.
The other point is to bind people to the company.

It's very similar to a sign-on bonus you can claw back in the first year or two.
I am, actually: writing a parser that is bug-for-bug compatible with Apple is nontrivial, and you haven't given me anything so far that convinces me that you realize that complexity and have dealt with it in the way I am describing.
Yeah, that is an unfortunate situation that Ireland has found itself in. I know several of the people I've talked to (most of them native Irish speakers), are really upset about it, having voted for Sinn Féin, and them getting the majority of the votes but not ending up controlling parliament.

Still, at least the outlook will hopefully be decent for me if I do move there this year (depends on how I think economy is going...and if uni's actually do open in September).
I would (and do) expose my database to the internet, because it's properly secured (client certificates rather than just passwords).

I don't run firewalls. If a service doesn't need to be exposed, the port isn't open. Means no worrying about who has access to the wifi (because that's outside the security boundary) and no mucking about with VPNs when accessing remotely.
I do admit that I hit o instead of a, I have no idea why because I am familiar with the difference between the two words, which are not remotely related in meaning.

I'm gerdesj who actually committed the original mistake and not the other person who dived in.
"Direct report" does make some sense, because everyone under a higher level manager would be their subordinate, but it would be strange for them to be trying to individually influence the behavior of an indirect report. Leave that to their manager.
Mostly, but not completely content free.

Lots of people are afraid when negotiating, and the original comment shows that even making big demands up front is not catastrophic. You can still cave in later.
The markets seem to vehemently disagree with that entire narrative.
I've been a Mac user since 2006, and I currently own a 2013 MacBook Air and a 2013 Mac Pro that I both regularly use. For a long time macOS was the marriage of Unix with commercial hardware support (even if tied to a specific manufacturer) and support for major proprietary software products such as Microsoft Office. I also loved the stability and quality of the operating system, not to mention that it looked wonderful.

Unfortunately I've been disappointed with Apple's stewardship of the Mac under Tim Cook. The move toward soldered RAM and SSDs throughout most of their lineup, the increased locking down of macOS (especially with Catalina's enforced notarization), the stagnation of the Mac Pro and then the doubling of price of the entry-level Mac Pro in 2019 from $2,999 to $5,999, and the butterfly keyboard fiasco (although finally completely over as of this week) have pushed me toward a greater appreciation of the Linux/BSD ecosystem, despite its shortcomings. I'm still using my Macs (albeit they're still running Mojave), but my long-term plan is to switch to Linux or FreeBSD, though I might keep a Mac around for Keynote use unless a compelling competitor for Linux emerges. The thought of replacing my MacBook Air with an X-series ThinkPad sounds really enticing, as well as one day replacing my Mac Pro with a Threadripper build.
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Anecdotal, but a close relative was associate director of P&G R&D (Beauty division) for three decades and that figure has come up quite a bit in conversations I've had with him -- he's said all the research they did always just backed up that SPF was the only thing that had serious practical value, that nothing else really matters in comparison (I can't remember ever asking how much skin tone changes this figure though, I should really ask home about it next time I see him).
Never underestimate the strength of anti-capitalist sentiment - it's a common thread in issues like this.

Even people who should know better, like Tim Bray, keep trotting out lines like this:

> So they're gonna get treated like crap, because capitalism.

If you think about it from the perspective of an ideological war against capitalism, certain facts (like people ignoring Amazon driving wages up) start to make more sense.
I found some supporting evidence from bulbapedia "Clefairy was originally going to be the official mascot of Pokémon, but Pikachu was used instead due to the popularity of the anime and Pikachu's familiarity with fans".

Source: https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Clefairy_(Pok%C3%A...

Very cool find about the pink version!
Scaling MySQL databases using Vitess, a sharding system built on Kubernetes
My parents always told me not to go outside between the hours of 10 AM and 2 PM.
I think it would be an "ablated spheroid"?
>> Who Wants to Return to the Office?

More like I want the kids to return to school :-)
Look, we're living in some really weird, bad times. We need a story like this right now. It's cute, it's strange, it's audacious, nobody got hurt.

Just let us have this one, just for today.