skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate on the data loss bugs. I recently had to restore from an Arq 6 based backup and ran into some issues where it seemed like if the screen saver started during the restore it would just stop restoring but would not give any error. I was able to get all my data back by disabling the screen saver, but seemed very strange.
Actually, I've heard that chemistry departments are a standout in terms of abuse and that seems true just from the students I've talked to at my institution. There's like this weird old school attitude of "this is the way we've always done it" so I'm going to pass you through the flames too. Add that to the motivation of "if I can just get through this then I can get a cushy pharma job".

Come to think of it, the news stories I remember (just off the top of my head) of advisors pushing their students to the point of suicide were chem. advisors.
This is absolutely true but let’s not pretend this family didn’t violate the law here either.

Like, there should be a middle ground between “if you’re rich enough, you get away with anything” and “it’s acceptable for a person in finance to share insider information with family members so they can profit.”
> to boast about it

What the actual fuck? Why would anyone who loves their wife or husband choose to enter such a program? (Best-case scenario: a few years of data produced this anomalous result, someone noticed it and decided to draw attention to it, and it has since scared away all married students, so that there will never be any future data points to contradict it.)

Still, from what I know about medical school and residency in general, any place that periodically assigns 24-hour work shifts just because is ... perverse.

Edit: Ok, it's not 100% "just because"; there are some rationalizations. https://www.ama-assn.org/residents-students/residency/3-tips...
That book is $900. Must be out of print. This book may be similar https://g.co/kgs/MLZWGh
I keep telling myself I enjoy living in Europe more than the U.S., but when I see these numbers...
Exactly how I see it.

Good code builds and compounds on itself. It makes every developer on the team more productive. Its not just about the output of the single "10x" developer. Just having them on your team increases your whole team's output, even after they've left. Sometimes other "10x" developers build on top of that work.

Bad code also builds and compounds on itself. Same argument but in reverse. At some point the codebase becomes so unwieldy, someone will have to convince the manager, that a complete rewrite is arguably a better option.
From the article:

> In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington today filed criminal charges against Viky Bohra.
It's a fair point. They would use more decimal places than that if it were necessary, regardless of whatever a double-precision floating point does. Since it's not necessary, the double is adequate (and already widely available by default across programming languages and system architectures).
If uptime was your only metric...
I mean, indeed. But it’s good to get some air (wearing a mask, of course) anyway.
With the proper editor integration, that would sell me on Zig; that's easily in my top 5 features that keeps me with Lisp.
Here's some of my learnings about getting promoted for those that really want to play that game:

- Only the perception of your work matters

- Attend the social events and get in good with the bosses

- The countability of your major achievements is important. Make the list long, too long to hold in the mind

- At the same time the gravitas of your best achievement is also important since that will be the soundbite that is shared about you behind your back

- Get allies who can proselytize about you behind your back

- Be the best. The difference between one and two is bigger than that between two and three, as far as promotions go

- Take credit for your work (use pronouns I and Me when talking about your work, not We) and do not allow others to take credit for your work

- If it's a teamwork situation with other people on your level, don't do most of the work, because the credit will end up being split 50/50 in the eyes of the bosses even if you did most of it

- Make a very good first impression

- Shape the narrative around the role you played in the success of the mission/team/company

- Get the bosses to make a soft public commitment regarding your competence

- Even if you have a really good boss, all of the above is still important, because they are fallible humans and aren't omniscient

- Actually do good work, it'll make the above easier
This is horrid. What's going on here is that the targeting is going in both directions. They target the race because of the culture.

In general if you live in the big cities but follow the cultural standards you will not be touched regardless of your race.
I'm told this is a common path, at least in CS. apply to a phd program to get funding, do some research, take some courses, then drop out because you "just can't handle it" once you have enough credits for your free masters degree.
Flatten the curve means new infections, not total cases. Its primary purpose is to slow the rate of spread to avoid health services becoming overwhelmed.

See the graph at https://flattenthecurve.co.uk/ for an example.

You could pursue an elimination strategy after flattening the curve, but generally the approach has been slow things down and keep them manageable until a vaccine is available.
just wanted to say, i really like Jackbox's games and its really fun to see you here! i've been exposed to your games via youtube vids and it feels weird (but cool!) to have that intersect with HN. would love to read more about how you use CRDTs to make it all work! (i'm pretty clueless re: multiplayer games so even a high-level explanation would be interesting)
OldUnreal releases Unreal Tournament v469a patch
Didn't know about Tridactyl, thanks! This is a really cool extension!
> looking at AMZN stock price it has risen consistently since IPO.

We might have different definitions of "risen consistently".

AMZN traded as high as $105.06 in 1999 down over 94% to as low as $5.97 in 2001.
The person you are responding to did not claim they made a profit, but instead, that they are motivated by it.
Ah crap I had a long reply but hit refresh on mobile and lost it..

Long story short, we did this with great success. Instead of a feature we made a separate app that people actually pay for more than the main app.

It is a "shut up and take my money" kind of thing, and being a small business, that is the only type of development we could justify working on.

We had many other ideas which we discussed one way or another with customers, but none got that "I need it now and here's a cheque" reaction.
Yeah, it's really shitty behavior, but are you surprised? YouTube is owned by Google, a company that routinely culls features or products not used by at-least a billion people a day.

They aren't going to change their behavior - this is how Google rolls and it works for Google. They only want popular, cool stuff - and catering to the disabled and less fortunate isn't popular or cool.

I doubt much can be done about this... Try to avoid their services, when possible? Don't give them money? Encourage others to avoid Google?

It's frustrating having no recourse.
The graphics were unreadable for me as well. I'm running Safari 14.0 on macOS 10.15.6
It's not like BASH is special and doesn't have any tooling. You can test BASH just as well as anyting else, use shellcheck for linting/checking, it has editor support, etc.
The best part: "Add this page to your favorites"

The link is javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(location.href,%20document.title);
> China wants to be better than and more powerful than the United States of America in every possible way

Citation?
Just to be completely clear, this was satire. The professor who wrote it is very well-regarded by his students.
Well, that’s because it was literal children going after rare usernames who then pivoted to dumb crypto scams.

Which reading this complaint, sounds like the same dumb criminal mindset as these people.
Matt Levine again: https://mobile.twitter.com/matt_levine/status/12835030809784... :)
I think Martha Stewart was a classic example of "do not talk to the police" but maybe I was wrong...

woeirua said it best

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24622010

> This family will likely be ruined by these charges. Even if they successfully defend against these charges, the lawyer fees will wreck them financially.

> Meanwhile, Mr. Musk has literally gotten a slap on the wrist for multiple flagrant violations of securities law. There are definitely two justice systems in the US. The ultra-rich do not play by the same rules that you and I do.

I think I can extend it to Martha Stewart and Michael Flynn.

> In December 2017, Flynn formalized a deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to plead guilty to a felony count of "willfully and knowingly" making false statements to the FBI, and agreed to cooperate with the Special Counsel's investigation.

> In January 2020. Flynn moved to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming government vindictiveness and breach of the plea agreement.

> The United States Department of Justice announced that it intended to drop all charges against Flynn on May 7, 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Flynn

What kind of circus is this?
Some more good discussion here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24598923
Linux isn't the end of the list. You can also include everything from Gitlab, HashiCorp, and Elastic and they make quite a bit of software.
Had this never happened, all those GPUs would have spend many long nights doing nothing. Gamers have a disproportionate number of powerful PCs, and the people that contributed their GPUs did it out of love for the game, not for some greater societal good.
These are show prosecutions. The really big frauds have been going on so long that the SEC will look foolish if they bring them down. This is just showing that they are doing something.
Using material information from your white-collar job to do some inside trading isn't the go-to example for the "two justice systems" of the US. You'd have to be immensely privileged, almost certainly in the top 10% income/wealth bracket for the entire USA, to have access to & be able to effectively act on this information. To put it in other terms: this person wasn't a capitalist, but they were a member of the professional-managerial class. I'm not shedding any tears.
!hackernews works.
There's a BIG difference between discouraging people from voting by threatening to beat them up if they do, and discouraging them from voting by convincing them that none of the candidates are any good.

The former is criminal. The later is normal politics. Conflating the two is deceptive.
I don't even know what feelings strike me most about this post. I think this post draws a really sad image about the poster.
I have started my computer programming career in Minecraft, about 10 years ago and I don't know if I would have had the same motivation to do it without it's capabilities, community and problemspace.
Sometimes, if you have nothing positive to say, rather say nothing.
Well, this is kind of like asking the throughput of an individual Worker instance. It doesn't really matter, because the system automatically spins up as many as you need, and so the overall throughput is effectively unlimited.

For Durable Objects, applications should aim to make their objects as fine-grained as they reasonably can, so that the limits on one object are not likely to matter. Meanwhile, the total capacity across all objects is effectively unlimited.

Anyway, we don't have numbers for these questions yet. This is an early beta and we still have a lot of low-hanging fruit optimization to do.
How can you post on HN at a time like this?
Thank you for policing other's language. Wouldn't want to stifle discussion with a micro aggression.
> Even if they successfully defend against these charges

They’ve already admitted culpability:

“All three Bohras have consented to the entry of final judgments permanently enjoining them from further violations of the charged provisions, and ordering them to pay total disgorgement of $1,428,094, total prejudgment interest of $118,406, and total penalties of $1,106,399.

In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington today filed criminal charges against Viky Bohra.”
> Bohra’s Husband and Bohra’s Father-in-Law had spent more than $850,000 on purchasing Amazon call options and common stock in order to trade

> Amazon’s stock price increased 2.87% over the prior day’s closing price.

> In total, accounts belonging to Bohra’s Husband, her Father-in-Law, and her 10 Mother-in-Law made a profit of approximately $664,000

Am I stupid?

$850,000 * 1.0287 = $874,395, which is $24,395 profit.

Where are the other ~$640,000 coming from?
And how does one deliver value, in detail?
People in countries under US sanction lost access to their private repos recently: https://www.techworm.net/2019/07/github-developer-us-sanctio...
Haha I guess you don't fall into the bucket of knowing how the game works can bring some measure of inner peace.

A cool related read, https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-..., sounds like you're referring to "posture talk" in that context. That whole series might be interesting to you as well, especially in relation to organizational trust expectations.

I think for me, if I really did care about expectations of org trust and morality as must-haves vs. nice to haves, beyond must-have legality standards, the civil service calls, right? I wish the corporate beast didn't call for such pragmatism, and I'd be a lot less at peace if I didn't see really good operators make it to the top using their own tolerable measure of this behavior (as in personally, ethically, and competently good).

Anyway, I feel you! I guess I can only cycle back to my last point:

> it's an interesting quirk because this is important stuff to pick up on for good, talented, non-A-Hole peopl who do want to find a way to do good in existing corporate structure. But it's naturally sort of a toxic underbelly of work culture, and many are opposed to learning it.
I think it took about two months before I was no longer tempted to switch back to Qwerty to get my speed back (my original keyboard layout had a toggle). I don’t recall any issues with switching keyboards, just layouts.
This seems catastrophically bad.
Censoring (as in bleeping) doesn't prevent the damage. It's like a phone autocorrecting "duck" to "f*ck". Putting a star there doesn't undo the "damage" of getting it wrong.

Autocorrects solve this by omitting the word from their dictionary altogether, so if a false positive happens it's from duck to luck, not duck to something censored.
Right, stocks go down after earnings all the time, even when earnings are good, because investors want to capture some of that value. There is often a pop a day or so later, but it's not so simple to time.

And given the relatively low amounts we're talking about in this case, even a perfectly-timed trade not be as beneficial since it is going to likely be behind those who are making the same trade in larger volumes at the same time.
"vote. It's not going to change anything."
I thought the same thing and viewed source in case there were some clues. Turns out:

> <noscript><strong>We're sorry but cluvens doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.</strong></noscript>

Seems like it doesn't work properly with JavaScript enabled, either.
stick a couple of PTFE or UHMWPE gliders on those feet to solve it.
These are not the same laws so it’s dumb to compare them. If Musk was caught front-running the market with trades before earnings them you would have a point.
I'd say they die.

There's not really a better analog in biology. Even in the case of sexual reproduction, the new life carries tons of epigenetic state across the creation boundary, and is more akin to fork(2) than exec(2).

A ceasing of operations and erasure of all current state seems more like death to me.
Asana S-1 IPO Analysis
Depending on where you want the various symbols, you might find a custom set of keycaps that match what you need for the ErgoDox.

They will cost a lot more than you expect (low volume manufacturing).

This is one example, plus others others in the same subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechGroupBuys/comments/iks5r5/gb_ka...

Personally, I bought a set with a few daft symbols, as I can easily remember that the biohazard symbol is Ctrl, and it gave a bit more flexibility.
> We're not observing an increase in successful connections after rolling back a recent change. We're working to evaluate additional mitigation solutions while we investigate the root cause.

Oooh that's panic stations.
Who are you, just the regular, salt of the earth type rich?
the search query would be TLS encrypted. Amazon snoopware wouldn't be able to see it
> Take a round about route to hike up the price with some made up excuse about an accident.

never experienced this. does that actually work? I thought the initial quote was binding.

> Driving dangerously because you're on 5 apps and hitting cyclists

I've certainly had some aggressive uber drivers, but nothing that stood out as less safe than the typical cab experience.

public transit is great when it goes where you need it to. unfortunately I live in the US so...
Still, from what I know about medical school and residency in general, any place that periodically assigns 24-hour work shifts just because is ... perverse.

It's worse than you think: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-n...

Once a person has taken on the debt from med school, it's extremely difficult not to continue. Residency programs know this.
> Answer by Michael O Church

The author of this is a notorious troll best known for being repeatedly fired from his jobs (AFAIK he's actually never held a management position) and banned from HN, Wikipedia and Quora for sockpuppeting etc.
A lot of this blog post topics are expressed in the Gervais Principle, which is an amazing (and long) reading I strongly suggest to the candid souls [0].

However, I think the following is really original content, and worth citing:

> Today I'm working on a quarter that is going to happen in 2020. Not next quarter. Next quarter for all practical purposes is done already and it has probably been done for a couple of years.
>
> — Jeff Bezos, 2017

> The key to corporate opportunism is all there, in this quote. When a normal person reads it, he thinks "wow! Amazon is really thinking long term!" which is perhaps how Jeff intended it. But when an opportunist reads it, he thinks "wow! I can do anything I want for three years and it won't show up in the metrics!"

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
https://old.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/cj4rrp/was_another_l...

Netflix's "Another Life" was so bad that people wonder if it was made bad on purpose. It was absolutely awful, and anyone that thinks it was good loses any credibility about what's good or bad sci-fi.

And I've been developing webpages for many decades, and even worked quite a long time at a precursor to what Netflix is today - yes, an online movie streaming service. So please don't talk down to me like I don't know what any of this is about. You're seriously wasting your time explaining any of that to me.
I think Zig competes with a school of C++ that tries to stick to a simpler, limited subset of C++. Games is one area where C++ is much more common than C, but also where a lot of C++ practices (exceptions, excessive template use, many parts of the stdlib) are discouraged and things tend to be kept "simpler".

I'm sure there are a good handful of other fields that currently write "minimal C-like C++" and I think Zig competes with C++ in those cases.
Two friends of mine who went to grad school said there is one and only one metric to select a graduate advisor.

How many of his students complete their PhD and how long that takes. That's it. There is no other metric. None. You might think 'but...' No! Don't do that.
Agree with this. Ask the users who have stuck around with your product the longest. Their opinions are more valuable and insightful.
Reading through, it looks like the flagging of people as 'deterrence' was already known. What's new is access to the data behind it and learning about the numbers here.
I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language
Is there a well-optimised library out there for extremely fast low-precision trigonometric functions? Could it make practical sense to do this?
Doesn't work for me, I get:

At line:1 char:16
+ $loop = "loop" do {$response = $null; Start-Sleep -Seconds 5 try {$re ...

+ ~~

Unexpected token 'do' in expression or statement.

+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnexpectedToken
Sun used to have a version of make that WOULD keep track of commandlines, and would rebuild targets if they changed.

Meaning with the command:

foo.o: foo.c
cc -o foo.o $(CFLAGS) foo.c

make would save away "cc -o foo.o -g -DFOO foo.c" as part of the rebuild check.

Also, I was under the (mistaken?) impression that some make actions came from a dependency tree, not a timestamp. Otherwise everything would be breaking during any invocation.

One other point about ATIME -- turn it off if you value your SSD.
Category 503 hurricane centered over Redmond, WA
My first CV (from 10 years ago)
Agreed. It always comes down to a base equation of who is willing to do what kind of work for what kind of reward under what kind of circumstances.

After a decade of software being a desirable job and everyone trying to get into it, we can bet good money that it's now a buyer's market rather than a seller's market.
This is super interesting! Thanks for sharing
Most of the elements you'd want on a status page are there, but the tone and structure are really off. I think you nailed it that this reads like an internal communication to a manager, not to a customer.
A social credit system seems like the only logical and humane evolutionary solution for a nation with over a billion people and counting. There has to be a way to filter the signal from the noise.

If you want something different, go somewhere with a smaller population where you can afford that luxury. Quantity versus quality.
Uh this is just wrong, institutions use algorithms to trade, <10 contracts isn't confirmation that it's retail money. The algorithms purpose is to hide the flow, and they mimic order size at the very least.
hey murry, I'm from a pseudo-independant steel (and uranium) producing nation.

perhaps this summary is clearer:
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/us-uranium-mining-nfwg...

"according to the Department of Energy, the desire to enhance the domestic uranium industry is being driven by a demand for low-enriched uranium that will be used in tritium production for nuclear weapons in the 2040s, as well as highly-enriched uranium needed to fuel Navy nuclear reactors in the 2050s"
True, but she wouldn't have had to lie to investigators if she hadn't tried to dodge the loss.
Just politicians filling their boots while pretending they try to help. Utterly disgusting.
it's the combo of high price and low availability that makes the comparison relevant. from a naive market perspective, "too expensive" and "unavailable" is a contradiction. put another way, if it really were too expensive, everyone else would not have bought up all the supply already.
Literati rally to JK Rowling’s defence in row over Cormoran Strike book
>The author makes a bunch of dumb, easily fixable decisions and then writes a blog post whining about them. It’s so tiresome.

Actually, she wrote a book[0] about it.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Even-Millennials-Burnout-Generat...