skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No company does a group relocation without expecting to lose several members of the team. They're essentially all RIFs. I've tried to keep my analysis as dispassionate as I can in this part of the thread. I think the facts as asserted in the article speak pretty clearly, and the bulleted list I provided upthread recites those facts pretty much directly and in ways you haven't disputed.
Finally a company has the guts to move us from the straitjacket of x86. I hope this is just the beginning of much needed innovation in CPU architecture. Due to the MS/Intel duopoly we had to suffer x86 for decades with few real options.
What sort of 'proposal' do you suggest to deter unethical business practices and encourage the prosecution of white collar crime under existing laws?

The problem with white collar crime isn't a lack of ideas, it's a lack of will among prosecutors and judges to punish it.
Not published unfortunately but I should, really!

In the past I tested importing dumps of the full HTML and CSS documentation docset from MDN and:
- Importing files in a directory is relatively fast: I import batches and it can import hundreds of pages in a few seconds
- sadly there's no bulk operation yet to insert arbitrary json documents (unless they are stored as files in a folder), so that's quite slow.
- full text search and querying indexed (JSON) properties is fast (double-digit milliseconds for searching several hundred of relatively large documents with paged results)

I do need to do some compared benchmarks with similar data stores though.
I wasn't intending to engage in name-calling; I apologise if it came off that way.

I agree that the earlier story should have directly mentioned the severance Coinbase offered to employees who left. That being said, the severance was pretty tangential to the point of that earlier story: that different companies have very different policies on workplace activism, and Coinbase was taking a hard line on politics at work (no politics allowed at work).

That being said, the NYT omitting a salient but tangential fact in a different story about Coinbase written several months ago hardly smacks of conspiracy. I try to read news articles on their own merits, giving some consideration to the agenda of the publication (and, as I mentioned earlier, the NYT has a perspective just like every other publication). To me, Coinbase didn't really provide anything to refute the allegations in this story in their "prebuttal", and the portrait of the company that the NYT paints seems pretty convincing.
Is this some sort of platform, like Upwork, but for German speaking developers? Because it feels that way after I've read all of it, including the jobs listing at the end. Didn't sign up though.
They are no more evil than any other business. We live in an era where a certain philosophy has taken root, and government is much weaker than in the past.
Some cities make it really hard to reasonably commute (for business or pleasure) from more moderately-priced properties. For many other cities though, a 60-90 minute drive--or sometimes train--does, which is generally reasonable for a sometimes commute or a night on the town. (And remember that many of the tech and other good jobs aren't even in the city; they're out in the suburbs somewhere.)
I love your phrasing... “soften the blow.”

I’m trying to imagine this 45 year old CVS VP of Product stuffing the channel with opiates & hiding the analytics on one hand. And on the other hand feeling real bad somebody somewhere ODed.

These emotions - they belong to two very different people. Who don’t like each other at all.
Learning is nice and all, but if you didn't document well, and regardless probably the first time the next guy needs a feature that exists in off the shelf solutions, that code will likely be ripped out pdq (given the problem space was non-trivial).
Ah ok. Any idea how extensive the programme is and what weight it's given in relation to overall testing?

Obviously if this is the only / main input to the R number then my previous comment is crap and I retract it. Otherwise, I think I gave reasonable examples of how the sampling has been skewed, in good faith.
They also tend to get done very quickly. Or aren't actually worth doing.

I've yet to find a job, as an IC or manager, where I had 8 hours worth of tasks worth completing.

Oh, there's usually -work- enough for 8 hours, every day, if I want, but it's actually a negative effect to try and do so. It means I'm getting involved in decisions I don't have all the context on, am not responsible for, and am not empowered to actually change (and thus just getting frustrated and probably pissing someone off), or I'm trying to work on something that requires buy in from other people, that hasn't been prioritized for them, so is going to die on the vine anyway (and, again, frustrate me and piss them off).
Let's Solve the File Format Problem (2019)
The employee's. If someone makes a complaint to HR it might easily be illegal to investigate then broadcast it to the world accompanied with a "this employee is full of it" style message. Doing that might, for example, damage that employees prospects of finding employment or reveal specific personal details. Certainly appalling form, probably illegal.
While I would love to endorse these comments they come across as pretentious posturing, no more than a 4chan LARP session.

None of what you just said is going to happen.
A solution (ha!) to that is to make good coffee. Seriously.

I always liked the smell of coffee but never drank it since it made my heart race and it never tasted like it smelled.

Now with a cheap burr grinder, a French press, a scale, and coffee beans I make great coffee. I grind the beans coarse which is for the French press method. My formula is 30g ground coffee per 450g of water, brew for 5 minutes.

It's amazing how cheap coffee beans can taste great. Hints of chocolate, caramel, a toasty note.

If it's too bitter you brew too much or the grind was too fine. If it's too sour or ashy tasting it wasn't brewed long enough (seems counter intuitive I know!).

I've gone from sugary, milk or cream loaded coffee to just black. Anything in the coffee now ruins it for me.

edit: related to all this talk of coffee and insulin coffee guru James Hoffman did a test of coffee and insulin. He used a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device to measure his own metabolism.
The File Formats wiki seems to indicate The Unarchiver and a few other open source tools support this format:

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/StuffIt

Edit: as does the ReStuff page actually.
Helps if you go to the asteroids instead of the moon.
16 Psyche has tons of the stuff just lying around.
>>> They don't face real consequences

Who's they?

It's so easy to hand-wave about "them" and "the system," but I don't see how you're helping people unless you're helping to make concrete proposals or helping to identify specific policies by specific people that need to be punished and/or prevented in the future.
What do you mean by "go all woke"? You are being very vague, maybe you should be more specific.
> As for actually doing research, thinking about it, and bothering up to come up with a proposal... I guess nobody actually cares THAT much.

Spare us the snark, it's not helpful. You should know that one cannot just draw up a proposal to bring criminal charges; only a very small number of people have the legal authority and resources to do that.
He seems to be confusing working long hours with working hard. Those aren't the same thing. I would even argue they're in conflict with each other. Nobody does good work when they're "obsessed" with something. Obsession is a sickness. Everyone eventually learns that you need moderation (in all things) if you're going to be around for the long haul.

Most software in the world is utter trash and I at least partially blame maniacs like this guy who keep people up hacking on it until they fall asleep. I wish more people would do what most people think of as "work" from 11-4 and spend their mornings and evenings thinking about how to do that work _well_ instead of just faster.
As virus explodes, LA County issues a stay-at-home order
One possibility is to bring it up in the interview, and ask probing questions. The downside to this is you might not get hired --- but if that costs you the job, maybe you don't want to work there in the first place? I wouldn't. The upside is that either way, you'll be sending a pretty strong signal that this article "broke through" and that people care about it; companies do tend to pay attention to things they hear in the recruiting process. You don't have to throw away your market power; you can deploy it.

This is a company that took the time to write a damage control pre-buttal to an NYT story, so you can safely assume they have a canned answer about it deployed to their recruiting teams. So the key here would be the "probing questions" part.

And, who knows? Coinbase might convince you that their heart is in the right place on this issue.
Whenever someone says “liable” I know they’ve stopped arguing about justice and begun arguing about proper application of laws lobbyists purchased from Congress.
GM Seeks Banking Charter (yes, the car company)
That's just a fork of Ubuntu LTS right? There are many many lightweight Linux distros that are probably much smaller.
This is such a curious SAH order

[..] The order advises residents to stay home “as much as possible” and to wear a face covering when they go out. It bans people from gathering with others who aren’t in their households, whether publicly or privately.

However, exceptions are made for church services and protests, “which are constitutionally protected rights,” the county Department of Public Health said in a statement.

Retail businesses, which make much of their profits during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday seasons, are allowed to remain open but with limited capacity, including nail salons and other personal care services.

Restaurants in the county already were recently barred from in-person dining. They can still offer pickup, delivery and takeout services.

Beaches, trails, and parks will remain open, with safety requirements.
[..]
I'd like to live in that world too, but since we don't I think it's reasonable to ask for suggestions that apply to the world we DO live in.
What's this based on?
Inclusion doesnt mean quotas.

Say that 30 times real fast and ask a new question
pandoc is magical software. One of those rare examples of a tool that does everything you would hope it does (and more) and nearly always does so correctly or as expected.
How this extremely biased and negative comment hasn’t been downvoted, I have no idea. Or perhaps there’s some kind of double sided irony here I’m missing.

Either way, what’s being described is a process to refine materials to be used in space, where currently sending similar materials from the is prohibitively expensive.
Not for you it isn’t.
I didn't have language learning in mind at all. If for language learning, completely different. Tools for it are great, I also learn Japanese and mainly use yomichan + voracious and plan to switch into using mpvacious.
I would be delighted to get text copy/paste/selection semantics back from iOS 1. There’s just no excuse for the modern pain.
Thanks for your most informative post. Elecrochemical oxygen extraction from lunar regolith has been a thing for decades, experiments have even flown on the Vomit Comit to demonstrate effectiveness in lunar gravity.
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This is an almost ironic response to the article for a couple of reasons that caught my attention (read: not a bad response, just somewhat ironic).

The first was mentioned by someone else in the thread whose response i can't find again due to opening this in a different device: why is it more valuable to hear advice from winners than, say, a failure from their mother's basement as you put it? In relation to the article's key point, that's very conventional (hence the irony) :)

The second thing I noticed was the assumption that a successful person knows their success or could explain it to anyone -- I haven't found this to be true and can personally attest that I can rarely explain my own to someone else. But there are definitely other reasons I can't, not least I'm just a poor explainer.

I found the article intriguing for a lot of reasons, not least of which is I always see a bit of myself in nerd content like it. I found myself thinking of all the conventions I absorb and recall when I realized I'd absorbed them. On the other hand, I'm renown in my family and among friends as completely unconventional and am generally The Weirdo. The resolution of that tension is intensely interesting to me. How I see all the conventions in myself, but near no one else seems to see it that way at all.

More to the point: given the option, I'll read the advice of a failure in a heartbeat and ponder it for days. I've never found advice from "pros" or success stories to be nearly as interesting. If you can, explain why opinions from winners is more interesting to you. Genuinely intrigued and curious to hear a different perspective.
Twitter wasn't making the relevant responses really visible. _kbh_ pointed it out
Do you have inside information that this was the case? Because I'm sure that would be quite compelling to hear.

To clarify, I assume the generous severance you're referring to is not the generous severance Coinbase offered employees as part of their no-politics-at-work approach, because the timelines don't match.
PS5 eBay “Scalpers” Efforts Undermined by Gamers Uniting via Fake eBay Accounts
I've got a dozen presentations [1] that all use reveal.js. I like it for presenting at live events because I just host them on my public website [2], and if my machine were to die, I could just borrow one from an audience member.

- [1]: https://github.com/tlhunter/presentations

- [2]: https://thomashunter.name/presentations/
You are, due respect, basically just making this up. Companies publish investigator reports of bias and discrimination somewhat regularly. It's possible that Coinbase contractually can't disclose the reports they've already commissioned --- in which case they probably ought not to have tried to refute the article with them --- but they can certainly commission a new one that they can disclose. It's a 600+ employee company; the cost of the report is a rounding error.

As it stands, the kernel of Coinbase's defense here is "we paid for a secret report and it says we're great". Reasonable people can find that response unpersuasive.
It's a small thing that can catch some low symptom cases in the absence of randomized testing. It's not the most effective thing but I don't think it's theater.
Despair related consequences are a vehemently ignored aspect of lockdowns and the forced shutdown of economic activity.

This is only the beginning.
I've at this point had (at least) eight friends die from opioid overdoses in the past ~10 years. I myself was nearly one of them a long time ago.

It's really disappointing to see this bullshit.
The ones which I was motivated to work on the most, that kept me going and learning.

What you should build depends on what you want to learn. I built a full-stack app to learn server-client, a B2B application forced me to learn DevOps. Now I'm back to algorithms and Go by working on https://cuelang.org

What would you like to learn?
What are the "cheap floor treatments" and why would drywall or a house made of wood mean that a house won't last more than 30 years? There are plenty of houses built in the 90s with wood that are not just fine, but look practically new and modern.
The comments link at n-gate points back to HN?
I absolutely love this program and will heartily recommend it to anyone I meet who seems like they might vaguely be in the audience for it.

Dare I say, it's even better than Cosmos?
> This essay [...], without evidence or data, implies that some of us know the formula for success.

PG isn't claiming to know "the" formula for success, or that anyone else knows it (I doubt there could be such a thing). He's identifying and exploring traits that, from his considerable experience, seem to correlate with business success in a very narrow field, startup companies.
Redaction is commonly used on sensitive, non-germane information - this is not an unsolved problem.
> Each individual's story is corroborated by someone else having a very similar story.

Our culture is full of anecdotes and stories that serve as a warning why this is a very bad idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
I'm not sure who this product is for.

Don't get me wrong, it's beautiful product design.

But at $4500, with straight bars, it clearly isn't for racers and at that price point, not for commuters either.
The code examples look like this[1] on Firefox with Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled. I had to disable ETP for it to render correctly.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/lIiQuE6.png
This is the problem posed by “SJW” entities in a nutshell. Of course racism exists, and AAs have been one of the big targets for decades.

But even considering another alternative explanation to something related to discrimination gets you on the list of racists/deserving-of-cancellation/etc. There is always room for debate, especially in a case like this where information is sparse. Forcibly shutting down anyone who wants to exercise their thinking is just socially acceptable censorship.
This comment is a good example of an insidious trend that has existed throughout America's history, which tries to offload any agitation against racial discrimination onto white outsiders. In the past, race riots and protests were often blamed on Northern abolitionists, communists and Jews, basically "white agitators who aren't from here". You see this same trend today, when protests are blamed on Soros-paid white agitators from "out of state" and Antifa.

It's intended to mollify any concerns of well-meaning whites that POC might actually really be upset with racial discrimination, and actually want significant change beyond superficial proposals.
And with all of this, many people seem ready to accept without hesitation a COVID-19 vaccine developed, tested, packaged and distributed at "warp speed", by huge pharmaceutical companies that have been granted immunity from liability.
The way I think of it is this;

If it's NOW in the Sol system, it's NOW in Alpha Centauri as well. (I guess it's difficult to think in these terms because we always only see a 4.367 years old "NOW" from Alpha Centauri.)

There would be no violation of Causality if you had a ship which could instantly Jump between Sol and Alpha Centauri - you'd simply arrive there at NOW+<however long this Jump took> - whether it's seconds or picoseconds.

If you sent a radio signal "Hi there!" from Sol to Alpha Centauri before this Jump, you'd be waiting for 4.367 years for it to arrive - which still isn't a violation of Causality, because it'd be NOW+4.367 years in Alpha Centauri and the same would be true in the Sol system.

If your faster-than-light (faster-than-Causality) Drive wasn't an instantaneous Jump like above, Causality is still not violated, because you'd still be arriving at NOW + <however long it took> to travel between Sol & Alpha Centauri. Maybe you could only travel at twice the speed of light (twice the speed of Causality), in which case you'd arrive there in NOW + 2.1835 years
There’s no blow to soften. It’s a bribe.

“Your pharmacists get paid $150k to count pills and assess risk. They failed to assess risk, here’s a bonus for continuing to hire people who don’t do their job.”
While occasional humor is welcome, if we reward it too much, then the comments will be full of low-quality jokes. I think most readers here aren’t looking for that.
This is what I came here to write.

“How to think for yourself... let me teach you!”

I’m not sure how reading the advice of one of the most privileged and powerful people in the world relates to my experiences. I am not a VC.

What if I am unable to apply these secrets of “thinking for myself” as they have been generously mansplained, whitesplained, rich-splained and VC-sprained and neoliberal-sprained to me?

Probably my fault.
By the way, if you need to hear it from former CIA director:

>I do not know whether a foreign government authorized or carried out the the murder of Fakhrizadeh. Such an act of state-sponsored terrorism would be a flagrant violation of international law & encourage more governments to carry out lethal attacks against foreign officials.

https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1332400793559949312?s...

Your beloved democracy can be terrorist too. We have good reasons to believe Israel was behind the attack. Even if not in this case, there are a dozen more.
Can you please explain how to build a "larger" app with HTMX?

The way I understand htmx, it will replace the tag itself with an ajax response from the server. This is great for submit feedback and flash messages.

What if you want to click a htmx-button and replace something else outside of the tag with htmx?
I have a hobby project where I have two different kinds of IDs and I have to maintain lookups of one type of ID to another and vice versa. It's a web socket server with no need for a persistent data store.

Rather than maintaining two separate hash maps and keeping them both updated, it was easier to simply have a sqlite instance in memory and do inserts/updates/selects in sql.
Who is going to cleverly move all photons and .99c protons out of the way of the ship? Warping space may turn out to be the easier task.
If you're diligent with your backups, I guarantee you can buy another eBay/Craigslist Thinkpad and get it working before you get a "Genius Bar" appointment.
TSMC 3nm chip fab nears completion
And George Floyd got the death penalty. Seems like if someone makes $46 million (arbitrary figure) from something as shitty as this, they ought to lose $46 million, either by paying back $46M, or by losing something that's worth $46M to them. A leg? A child? Hey offer them some choices.

Getting a bit Saudi-Arabia-ish here, but seems like the law would look, if not like this, then more like this, if it weren't written by the guy who made the $46 million.
I thoroughly enjoy shitposting and consider it a form of entertainment, youtube comments being one of my favorite.

I’m incredibly thankful for HN but not everything needs to be great.
All great things were born out of great effort, but most great efforts do not lead to great things.

The problem with these entrepreneurs that feel entitled to demand great effort from their employees is that they often fail to provide great visions to work towards. Passion is not a commodity.
Thank you for sharing this! Out of curiosity, checked that Sphinx (my defaults docs engine) seems to be capable of doing this as well. https://sphinx-revealjs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ , demo of generated presentation: https://attakei.github.io/sphinx-revealjs/ . Did not compare sphinx-revealjs with pandoc's coverage of reveal.js features though.
It sounds like there's some limited sampling of asymptomatic people but it's not huge?

Hard to tell this page doesn't really give details on how large the longitudinal and survey is conducted.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-number-in-the-uk#about-r-n...
My definition of racism (which I did not share, despite it being the source of much debate) is discrimination against a particular group or groups on the basis of their heritage (ie, stuff outside their control).

So I was confused, because companies (like Coinbase) are being asked to discriminate by raising black employees to an especially high-status position vs, eg, Asians, then getting called racist when they do not.

But if the definition of racism was redefined to "unequal distribution of privileges between white people and people of color" then the accusations make sense.