skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wonder about this when it comes to the longer term viability of tech-focused PE firms. The following seem to be absolutely truisms:

1. The second a company is bought out by PE, all the good employees run for the exits. Corporate America isn't exactly known for its empathy and compassion, but working for a PE-owned company means you can be sure the ownership gives 0 shits about anyone working at the company. I have never heard anything but horror stories of those working for PE-owned shops.

2. Given #1, it means the products of said companies always turn to shit pretty fast.

This makes me really wonder about how PE firms can really work their financial magic in the long term. Perhaps they're just better at extracting value out of companies that are already declining in the first place, so they just suck the blood dry before they discard of the carcass?
As much as unstructured data makes me uncomfortable, I think something like this is probably the future of data keeping.
If anything the main problem with the imac is that you're forced to pay for a very good monitor even if that's not what you'd like to spend your money on.
Yes. We use both Teams and Webex (I haven't used Slack for videoconferencing so I can't compare), and they seem comparable.

There's a 49 on-screen participant limit, with a 250 participant limit overall.
I think I have it. I just haven’t encountered that with my banks. There may be some requests that cross domains, but none of them drop me on a payment page that looks suspect.
Thinkpad T14 Ryzen also has 400 and 500 nit build-to-order screen options.
At the end of the day life isn't fair. That's said, if you look at last year's season when Ferrari had a more decent car (far worse thank Mercedes still), Leclerc with all his lack of experience and poor judgement at times, slaughtered Hamilton in qualifying. That genuinely makes me question if Hamilton's success isn't largely a consequence of Merc's well known superiority. On that topic, I think even Bottas has all the qualities and skills to beat Hamilton but he is mentally losing the battle. Imagine if Hamilton had to face someone like Leclerc, Vettel, Sainz, Russel, or even Raikkonen despite his age or even Riccardo or Hulkenberg. If you look at the biography of each one of those, they had it considerably more difficult than Hamilton.
If you think that's great, you'd love this website:

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How often do you think this type conversation happens?
Just thinking out loud: but maybe tesla can expand some kind of rental program so curious people can try before they buy.

Or charge a daily rental fee if it’s returned within 7 days or something.

Probably people curious about the tesla are the issue.
the fact that they are applying for such positions means it's also likely that they are considering outside positions and that if they don't get an internal job they are likely to take an external one and leave the existing position uncovered anyway.

This in my experience vastly overestimates the competence of middle management. Most programmers are not employed at FAANG or startups but at companies that view them as a cost centre and a replaceable cog.
This makes me feel very frustrated. Facebook logic seems "As we have to remove QAnnon posts, we will also remove Extinction Rebellion posts.

They are NOT equivalent! One is a cult that promotes terrorism the other one is a environmentalist group that calls for civil disobedience. One calls for the kidnapping and assassination of politicians, the other one for walk-ins on roads to get media attention. One calls for a war on race the other on improving the environment.

Both are in the "extremes" of some political compass but are not equivalent by any sane interpretation.

"Enlighted Centrism" is a recurring joke. Facebook is just punching down on the working class and the left because they do not respond to the citizens but to other mega-rich people and corporations.

I cannot wait for Facebook to be strongly regulated, and to be forbidded to run an advertisement company with data stolen from its users.
It's possible that someone somewhere made a mistake and the bill never made it to where it should go. They were working on getting a larger water pipeline installed AFAIK. The factory construction wasn't stopped because of this though. People film the Berlin site with drones daily.
There has to be a rule for rules to broken. English orthography is practically irregular (although it's vaguely, chaotically regular if you subject each word to an analysis based on most probable language origin.) Figuring out how to pronounce a word you haven't seen before in English is only slightly easier than trying to figure out how to pronounce a word you haven't seen before in Mandarin.

> Isn't that the point? IIRC, English was originally about 50/50 Saxon and French - most of the fancy / unintuitive / rule-breaking words are French loan words (e.g., "rendezvous" & "accomplice" are French, "loan" is old Norse).

Also, it's far worse than this. The Normans changed the spelling of English words that were unpronounceable to them by adding a bunch of letters. One I remember is that the reason the "-shire" suffix is confusing is because before the Normans it was just "-scr".

Also, British English tends to Anglicize French pronunciations, like "herb," "valet," etc. French borrows aren't the major thing making English difficult to read and write. French orthography is also pretty bad (and Portuguese.)

obligatory: http://zompist.com/spell.html
Ask HN: Is there a programming language that has this?
I was thinking about cloud architecture, serverless to be specific. That how it sucks to develop in them but but it allows for really good scaling. Then I wondered, is there a programming language where every function call could be a serverless function.

Imagine a compiler like chrome v8 engine which analyzes code on runtime and figures out which code path are more resource intensive and manage them. So what if same way compiler notices that certain code path executions take longer and start spreading them on other threads/cores/machines like kubernetes and orchestrating all of it behind the scene.

So you as a developer don't worry about that.

Let's take javascript

suppose every promised function had potential to be it's own serverless function, depending on resources usage, compiler can either run it on main thread or delegate to cluster.

let data = await getData();// compiler sees getData takes time and is put its own serverless function or something.

I feel this could be ground breaking. Automatic app scaling based on runtime analysis of code paths.

We could have do this right now, with external a library in js using something like this...

let data = await SF(getData(123)); //SF spawns new serverless function based on body of SF...

but it'd be better if it was implemented at language level. I'd like it if chrome team did it.
Not quite sure if I follow you here.

The lying, deceit and manipulation I refer to as performed by otherwise psychologically stable alcoholics is different because it's usually employed to cover for the lack of control over their drinking - things like taking sick days when hungover, lying about drinking, coming up with plausible reasons for "needing a drink", and so on.

Thus, unlike in ASPD alcoholics, the behavior originates from feelings of guilt, shame and remorse - which, inevitably, is "handled" with more drinking. The key difference is that in empathic alcoholics, this behavior will cease if/when they give up drinking.

I used alcoholism as an example because I couldn't really think of anything apart from addiction that would make an empathic person engage in a somewhat comparable behavior for prolonged periods of time, despite feeling remorse.

It's normal for all people to lie from time to time, but that's not "consciously doing sociopathic things". ASPD/NPD manifests as such a massive, sprawling, unpredictable and destructive web of manipulation, lying, gaslighting and callousness that I'd personally say it'd be impossible for an empathic, healthy person to even come up with something that mimics it.
There are beginning to be data on this available around well defined, young, and ultra healthy groups such as athletic leagues. Look within a given league at these long term effects / organ damage / health problems among those who recovered to rule out a lot of the self-selection or other variables.

To some of your other points, the high end leagues are quite well medically documented, and the individuals are quite healthy.

That said, it also appears for some individuals, initial “long term” damage (ongoing heart or liver problems three months after recovery) may be less or gone some six months in.

Seems answers are as yet by and large unresolved. In situations where one does not yet know the actual risk, one may prefer an abundance of caution over unknown “calculated” risk given the long tail of possible effects.
> I wear my heart on my sleeve (is that the right usage of that term?)

Maybe? It means "I make my emotions readily apparent", which might not be what you meant.
there still seems to be a an opening for a Confluence alternatives. Any takers?

People who outgrow Confluence go to Sharepoint.
Yes, ABC-D elicits a response while D-ABC doesn’t
I wonder how the SDI guys used to refer to targets getting taken out by lasers. Oh wait, they didn't have to worry about it as it never worked!
Interesting. My mortgage has always gone the other way - initiated someplace small and unheard of, and then bought by a name-brand bank. Just luck or the draw, I suppose.
Yes, this is why there are so many shooting deaths in the UK, because they have strict gun control laws /s. I see this argument all the time from otherwise intelligent people and its amazing to me. Why bother making murder illegal? It will only stop law abiding people from killing anyone, and criminals will still murder people! Yes I know this is a reducto fallacy, however the argument you're making is fundamentally that no laws should ever be created for anything since some people are going to end up breaking them. The argument I hear commonly sited is that guns are easy to get in Chicago, or Mexico, which both have very strict gun restrictions. Although this is true, it fails to take into account that the guns are so easy to get because of the incredible lax rules in the nearby suburbs/across the boarder. The reason guns are being used to kill people in Mexico is because how stupidly easy it is to get them in Texas.

The police in the United Kingdom DONT HAVE GUNS, because the general populace dont have them and the number of per capita gun deaths is < 1/1000 what it is in the US [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
> Dell’s 2-in-1 stick to a permanently soldered-in-place SSD

long time fan anf consumer, but bye....
Just because a piece of code is licensed under GPL doesn’t mean that the copyright owner(s) can’t license the code under another license, aka the license to Apple. The issue comes when an entity is using GPL-ed code that they don’t also own the copyright to.
If the functional units of DNA are composable then the computational complexity of the problem decreases dramatically. We can use symbols instead of functions and derive an abstract algebra of life.
Can You Train Yourself to Accept Rejection? (2017) [audio]
The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity
I don't see the point. There are rules now, so not following them would indeed make it your fault if someone gets sick because of your actions that were not in accordance with the rules.
If Fox News or NYT doesn't run a story, is it censorship?
The "press" is free to express their speech, but they are not obligated to uphold your rights. That is on us. Tech is no different.

People have been fooled into thinking that just because the platform is a open to anybody, that Twitter/FB has to act without bias. Bias is allowed. These aren't free speech outlets. There is no such thing. Your rights are not given, by twitter, they are taken, by you.

The double standard is that the platforms can both censor content, while at the same time they are not legally responsible for content posted by users. It should be one or the other. They have their cake and eat it, and that is why they have so much power.
Yes, SS Richard Montgomery:

The ship was wrecked off the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, England in August 1944, whilst carrying a cargo of munitions. About 1,400 tonnes (1,500 short tons) of explosives remain on board,[5] which continues to be a significant hazard.[6][7]

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

Tom Scott: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R9u41aeItss
There's going to be Thinkpad X1 Nano this December, it also looks very interesting.
How Healthy Are Programmers?
> The Mac client does NOT work and have not worked for at least six month.

That's odd. We have lots of macOS-using employees (myself included) doing this every day.
Your contribution to humanity is appreciated by the rest of us being sparred the bastards going after you. Fight well my friend!
You can already see an example of this happening at this site. All the "Go Tucows" "get winzip" buttons. That's where the internet turned to shit. So it's not quite 'the good old internet', that was before that :P
It is if it also increases battery life by a similar amount ;-)
possibilities of formating tickets information, and flexibility to definie project specific workflows.

JIRA in its default state is fairly sane. People who hate it, usually with a white-hot burning passion, really hate the ham-fisted customisations their own organisation has done to it.
God bless scientists. We might not have flying cars yet but this is almost as good.
Bullshit, not only the bit about enforcement of restrictions to your freedom to prevent you from harming others (can't drive at 200kph, can't drive drunk, etc), but also the bit about gun controls is objectively wrong.
I believe humans still require vitamin B12 which we can only get from meat, however you can supplement this via plant-based milk and other ingredients.
Thanks for the thoughtful response! To be clear, that wasn't a loaded question -- as someone who hasn't thought too hard about this, I really did want to hear your opinion. :)
In the Early Modern period, "scythe" was actually spelled "sithe". The spelling changed to resemble a (false) classical etymology.[1] A similar thing happened to the words "island", "ache" and "tongue", which were originally spelled "iland", "ake" and "tung".

See also "some" (originally "sum"), "friend" (originally "frend"), "delight" (originally "delite") and "could" (originally "coude").

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe
Agreed.

Modularity is just a strategy to mitigate bad design, not the cause.

Modularity enables divide & conquer, specialization, etc. Conway's Law is a good thing.

Architecture is the visible design choices, defined thru interfaces.

It'd be amazing if we divined some new strategies. Like maybe GA or the newer stuff.
Wow, miss this a lot - Back when content was truly king. Literally, people had websites to be helpful to others.
Open a website in 2020 and it will be either of these:

1. Popup randomly spits IN YOUR FACE - "Do you want to sign up for my <some stupid email series about making money>?"

2. Some dumb chatbot destroys your ear drum with a sudden bleep - "Hi, do you have any questions about our pricing yada yada? Reply here"

3. clicks download link - Fancy form popups up - "Enter your email to receive the PDF"

4. Opens website - "We care about your privacy - look at all these 200 million cookies we collect about you. Accept to continue"

5. Random Google login prompt with my face and email on a third party website I just discovered exists on the internet - Would you like to sign in into this website using your email xxxx@gmail.com?

6. Some marketing guru who "made it" flaunting his Lamborghini teaching you how to get rich online with a small greyed text next to his fucking name "Sponsored"

Sigh. I really wish we could undo a lot of things in the web development space and kept it simple.
Alchian-Allen Effect
> Two things: first, you don't need every hospital to be overwhelmed for it to constitute an issue.

Of course, but you need a significant amount of hospitals to be overwhelmed to cause significant excess death. Remember, we're trying to minimize excess death of all causes, not just COVID-19.

> Second, every successful preemptive measure is by definition an overreaction. Perhaps you don't see more overwhelmed hospitals precisely because lockdowns are effectively preventing that.

Sure, but that insight doesn't really help. Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. Given that neither Brazil nor Sweden had a lockdown and given that neither of their healthcare systems collapsed as some models predicted, my guess would be that a lockdown isn't necessary to prevent such a collapse.
Thanks for the answers. Your model does sound promising, and I see you have gathered as much meaningful information as possible before human trials. Good luck and hope it exceeds expectations!
No, paying with money is subject to AML/KYC while paying with attention is exempt. Lower friction. This is why micropayments-with-money hasn't taken off while micropayments-with-attention has exploded.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006703
Can science fiction map a positive future?
> Interesting. So it's as much an x86 legacy issue as JS and presumably JS followed x86 because it was more efficient to do so (or maybe by default).

Most languages don't start with a spec, so the semantics of a lot of these get later specced as "uhhhhh whatever the C compiler did by default on the systems we initially built this on".
That actually brings up a point that upsets me somewhat: The Spanish Internet feels inaccessible to me because I don't know where the interesting parts of it are.
There is no conspiracy against Tesla. People here pretty much universally love new great tech. Extremely few people here work at Tesla competitors.

I think most of us are just tired of the endless cycle of hype/lies/exaggerations.
Yeah, Apple’s fixation on tight manufacturing tolerances is absolutely nuts with their screens. They give them zero room to warp or bend so they just shatter. It was not fun when I had to manage a fleet of them. With around 200 laptops total we constantly had a stack of 10 rotating in/out of the Apple store for broken screens.

The only thing worse is the fact that the duty cycle on the USB-C ports is so stupidly low. We ended up getting everyone these little port saver things because we got tired of sending laptops in for worn out ports.
These are the same people. Nathan Myhrvold is who you're thinking of -- he was the former CTO of Microsoft, and among other things, now runs an outfit called Intellectual Ventures, who did both that work several years ago and is responsible for this paper (I wasn't sure at first, but there are references to Intellectual Ventures Labs further down into the paper). IV is either a research institution of a patent troll or both, depending on your perspective, but either way, they don't generally commercialize the ideas they come up with, they just license them.
Herbal remedies to plants: Supplements derived from plants Herbal Remedies Tips
re: the latter, the company doesn't have to be declining - although that usually makes it easier to buy. The transaction from the point of view of a PE company is a very different game than say, a product person looking at what could be "done" with a company.
When you're clearly going beyond what is expected in a normal friendship and into what would be a relationship?
"There are beginning to be data on this available around well defined, young, and ultra healthy groups such as athletic leagues. Look within a given league at these long term effects / organ damage / health problems among those who recovered to rule out a lot of the self-selection or other variables."

I'm aware of one publication, which showed 4 athletes with heart-inflammation markers in a sample of 26 athletes:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

If there are others you're aware of, I'm interested in the links.
"...scientists have also believed rain can erode a landscape quickly enough to essentially 'suck' the rocks out of the Earth, effectively pulling mountains up very quickly."

I do not understand this, unless the point is that rainfall, by eroding valleys, reduces the weight of a mountain range, allowing tectonic forces to raise the ridges and peaks faster than otherwise.
fwiw

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24720801
The robot dolphin that could replace captive animals at theme parks one day
There's also plenty of left-wing and far-left sources that are just as unreliable as the other side. Ignoring one-side over the other without evidence or on 'source says' claims will confirm your own bias.

'Fact-checkers' can be biased in 'selectively' fact-checking claims made by either person and not checking 'ALL' their claims. Look at all sides of the political spectrum, uncover the full context that some may deliberately omit and then come to your own conclusion of the actual picture. [0]

[0] https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
Isn't it more like that their itunes terms of service violate the GPL by imposing additional restrictions through the terms of service? [1] Actually learned about it the first time. How many people buying iphones actually aware of this? Never seen much ranting in the FOSS community either. Guess the fight for free software is long lost, if app store monopolies are not torn down soon.

[1]https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store...