skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.

I think the ideal would be that it just happens organically - your employees get along, groups want to spend time together outside of their employment, you reap the benefit when they're working in it. It's invaluable to know what makes people tick and how best to work with them.

If the groups don't form naturally, maybe try to 'seed' some. Stick some cash behind a local bar, ask if anybody wants to go karting after work, pop along for an informal 5-a-side on Sunday morning etc. Never force it, though.

I was made aware of a 'fun event' that didn't get enough uptake to hit it's KPI. Therefore people were encouraged to press-gang their people - and you end up with a bunch of miserable people all resenting the intrusion into their personal time and everybody involved.
> the 'bad games' couldn't be that bad on purpose.

Is it the same reason that hazing create shared trauma which we cope with by forming bonds?
As a 20+ year vet, what worries me is when someone starts talking in terms of good or bad.

It's a spectrum, not a binary. There is code that's just egregiously bad. There's code that's just egregiously good (and it's not clear which is more expensive to produce and maintain). But the vast majority falls into the grey area in between those extremes.

The other poster (koonsolo) has just seen enough different codebases to have come to the conclusion that it's not nearly the most important aspect of a projects success. And I agree with them on that point (wholeheartedly in fact).

Developers concentrate on it because it's what they're in all day, the same way that a DBA is going to concentrate on the data model because that's where they're at all day.

But in the grand scheme of things, developers way overblow the value of great code. I also have reservations about the claim that most developers even know what great code _LOOKS_ like, I've seen too many terrible codebases that were claimed to be well designed by their creators.

My point is that if the code isn't actively causing you problems then leave it be, and stop calling it good or bad. Call it what it is, working code that doesn't need to be bikeshedded over.
50% of option trading is luck. Robinho of is meant to reduce risk...
Also to be clear - I think it’s great to hear this perspective and putting together the interview is well done. I’m not trying to criticize you nor the merit of talking about this topic - it is well worth it.

I was just asking, since you develop these kinds of interviews, what do you think would be a good way to get the other side of the story and talk to big tech practitioners who do not agree with the leap to reinforcement learning?
Thanks for the love :). For the record yes we've been working hard, but also yes, we've been doing well from it.

I will say that people are using spaCy for free because that is what we asked them to do. I chose to make the library free and open-source when I first released it because I had the idea that I would be able to make that work out for me, if I could make this thing that would be useful to people and if they could be convinced to adopt it. And in order to convince people to adopt it, we've been telling people that spaCy will stay free and that we'll continue to work on it. So everything's going to plan here. Even if things weren't working out well for us (and they are), the fault would be entirely ours. I don't think we'd have any right to suddenly say, "Oh none of you jerks are paying, how unfair".

(For the record, we make money from sales of our annotation tool, Prodigy: https://prodi.gy . If you're reading this and you like spaCy, check it out ;)
That does not change anything.
If you pay for a fixed amount of storage and only use it partially, you should also monitor free storage sdso you know when you waste it.
You talk nonsense.
Is that 4 unpaid hours a day? That's some devotion. I'm not trying to be sarcastic...
so whats stopping a hedge fund from paying them $$$ to "suspend" trading on a particular stock for a given time frame?

If what they are doing is legal, than certainly that would be legal?
I'm sure a lot of companies are like this but not all. The one I work for is huge (50k+ emps) and is very much like a family. One of our engineers got a really rare, debilitating disease and they kept him on even though he couldn't work for 2 years and they helped raise thousands of dollars for his medical bills. My manager even helped me find external jobs when things weren't improving here. Probably rare but it happens. My coworkers here are easily my best friends.
I believe this whole GME and AMC deal was perpetrated by the owners of those companies debt and pushed through by people who owned a mouthpiece on WSB and other platforms.
Way too many coincidences.
Everyone left that has been trading stocks for 2 days will be holding the bag on this and will be left with nothing as Blackrock and Burry and others have already liquidated their positions.
Two basically bankrupt companies that owed debt suddenly funded/bailed out by autists? 600 mil in debt repaid by selling stock on AMC? Anyone else think like this?
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Naked mole rats mimic the dialect of their colony’s queen
Busted...I usually do!

Just thought this was a Stallman writeup. To be fair, the titles are usually similar.
Ask HN: To techdriven founders/startups – pains and fears in accounting/tax?
What are your pains, screw-ups or fears related to accounting & tax? Where you in seed phase or post market fit?
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Isn't multi-armed bandit a simple reinforcement learning algo? It is used in reagent's introductory tutorial: https://reagent.ai/rasp_tutorial.html

Replying here to sibling: Thank you for the feedback. I think it is fair to say this interview does not explore in depth the issues that these techniques can cause and it certainly only presents one side. I think the recommendation to get more than one perspective is a good one.

Let me know if there is anyone specific you recommend I talk to.
This narrative seems to be wrong from what I am seeing.

Yes silver is going up, but that seems to be more in response to the market uncertainty, and already having a supply issue.

If you go on Apmex, JM Bullion, etc. No one really has silver in stock. For example pre order of Silver Maples is at $8 above spot. Historically that tends to be more like $2-3 area. Their websites were all crashing from demand over the weekend too. Its not WSB doing that.

Edit: Other reason Silver has been trending up is Covid and potential stimulus. Metals are typically a hedge against inflation, and a massive stimulus is likely to cause inflation. The supply tightness has been around for months at this point, but extra bad this week.
If they push changes, Apple knows it.
Canberra, Australia was built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne as well. I think it was the closest city that was midpoint between the two largest cities.
Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes
Ask the CEO a question as a prize? Can I forefit my winnings?

Maybe it's me but I can't think of any question that would produce an answer of information I didn't know and actually want to know. From any CEO.

What would you ask Musk? Or your own CEO if you had the chance?
Yeah and sadly using the index in those scenarios could be even more worth it due to the high selectivity it has.

Is PG smart enough to avoid that if the query patterns are frequently or exclusively covered by the index?
Live Snowstorm in Manhattan New York City
Everyone eat a spoon full of dirt and call it a day
Not at all fun when you're actively involved in mitigating these, though. Pretty rough and sometimes scars you for life.
tldr: "we added complexity into our system to make it safer and that complexity blew us up. Also: we cannot scale up our system without everything working well, so we couldn't fix our stuff. Also: we were flying blind, probably because of the failing complexity that was supposed to protect us."

I am really not impressed... with the state of IT. I could not have done better, but isn't it too bad that we've built these towers of sand that keep knocking each other over?
> Grow TinyPilot to $600k in annual revenue

what a great goal this is. looking forward to see you update this next year!
Sure sure, everybody has heard all those arguments. What's new here is the idea, and it's hard to argue with, that living with waves upon waves of infectious disease, on purpose, for years, is itself an extreme position that unduly restricts the economy and personal freedom, for longer than a proper lockdown would. And it also kills more people, and something ought to be said about their right to life & liberty.
Have you looked up the diseases domasticated animals can have?
The next pandemic could be from them.
I love this:

David Spade (Kuzco): It was me and Owen Wilson. We were going to switch jobs. I was an emperor and he was a peasant, and Carla Gugino was a princess. The first time I did my voice, I was naïvely saying, “What do you want? This kind of guy? A deep voice? Or an emperor like, ‘Ooh,’ a highfalutin guy?” And they said, “No, just your nasally, normal, annoying, sarcastic voice.”
Try "inter-" and "intra-", in a Boston accent. It makes a big difference if your analysis is interprocedural or intraprocedural, but they both sound the same in that accent...
It's not, China's great firewall don't block all foreigh servers they only block a few, it's more of a distance and internet infra problem. Not saying it's indie game's fault but it's true very few indie games have online multiplayer and very few really made it awesome, most of the time networking is not worth it for smaller games, a lot of awesome local multiplayer games won't even consider online. And yeah strategy/turnbased games definitely will be better.
Men have had much more dangerous lives throughout history protecting women. I don't find this to surprising, although it is interesting to note.
Have you heard of any coronavirus variants coming out of South Korea, China, or New Zealand? No. That’s because they don’t have uncontrolled spread there, which leads to mutations due to the virus’s exposure to heterogenous immunity in the population. So uncontrolled spread doesn’t necessarily shorten the duration of the pandemic.

All of which is actually incidental to the point I was making, that the hygiene hypothesis is about exposure to dirt and pathogens that prime your immune system for healthy responses. You can have healthy exposure to dirt without exposure to whole classes of viral diseases. No one’s going to say you have to catch Ebola to solve the hygiene hypothesis, for example.
How are you going to do a short squeeze on silver, which is not being shorted?

The real crime? Quite possibly, more than 100% of $GME may be currently owned by investors right now- thanks to shorting more than the available shares. If true, that would be clear evidence of fraud at the highest levels of our market.

Silver is quite the distraction from the real show today.
Who actually shorts silver? Seems like something, non-reddit related is buying silver. Probably all those places that keep advertising on conservative media shows. They always keep saying that silver will overtake gold, lol.

It could be silver is being bought simply because the stimulus announcements. Probably not the only reason but raining helicopter money instead of allowing people to work will always drive up inflation.
I agree with him. It's indicative of more idealism than practical sense, which is indicative of inexperience.
It's frightening how much censorship there is around non-consensual views on covid. Sure there are a few nutters blaming 5g masts, but there are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the way it is currently being handled. The Great Barrington Declaration has numerous signatories from well respected scientists, however it is dismissed, without any debate and lumped alongside antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists for taking the wrong view.
Gold was a currency. It evolved from rocks in the dirt, to gold coinage, to paper coupons, to whatever the hell instrument it is today.

You stored your gold in a bank, and the bank gave you paper coupons to redeem it. People traded the coupons because it was easier than trading the gold. This is the birth of modern day banking.
2014 do you guys even know how to DuckDuckGo? https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/11442671-gerald-klein/309...
Since the collateral requirements were based on their net position, sells reduced their collateral requirements while buys increased it. This was a risk management decision and since they don’t profit directly from the price moving one way or another, it would be pretty hard to argue it wasn’t just risk management to protect the rest of their users from RH running out of cash and going into receivership.
Yup. All the people who were long conspiracy theories up to Jan 6th have exited that market and are now spilling over looking for something to get involved in. This includes the over-excitable news coverage.

I note in passing that silver/gold marketing has a long history of association with the alt-right. There's always someone telling you to buy silver for the apocalypse.
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The DTCC (clearing house) should answer some questions around how they came to their decision, how it was communicated to market participants, and if they were lobbied:

https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1355356755690139650
Not to throw too much water on the joke, but in fact modern urban dirt has a distinctly different microbiome than the earth we'd have traditionally lived on. Everything coevolves.
An HAProxy back-end server port change gotcha
> China now has a dozen satellites made of countries formerly being playgrounds of foreign political games.

Curious which ones these are? North Korea, Nepal?, Pakistan?, Vietnam?
So here's the thing: there's plausible deniability at play here. RH isn't the only brokerage to suspend/limit trading in volatile stocks.

The reason given (liquidity issues for the broker and clearinghouse) is entirely plausible.

While it's possible, it's (I believe) very difficult to prove that that's what happened, and frankly, there's a more obvious answer. Hanlon's razor applies here.
With new Covid variants looming, We have to step up our vaccine game
The game isn't the point, and to that end, picking the right game is critical. I mean, if you don't like games, but are interested in chit chat, you can make small talk over a game of war or go fish. That might not be possible over a game of league of legends.
>This usually works well, under the rationale that "upstream provider does this for a living, so they must be better than us at this", but if you have too unique needs (or are just a bit "unlucky"), it can fail too.

Heh, a while ago I joked that one way to scale is to "make it somebody else's problem", with the proviso that you need to make sure that the someone else can handle the load. And then (due to the context) a commenter balked at the idea that a big player like YouTube would be unable handle the scaling of their core business.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170685

(If they're really blaming it on AWS, it really takes guts to do it so publicly, I think.)
> How are you going to do a short squeeze on silver, which is not being shorted?

How do you know that? Or how would you know the opposite? Is this actually publicly reported?

(I note the original story is from the NY Post, the "Biden Laptop" newspaper, which also raises questions)
You need better co-workers.
Your friends and family will listen and politely nod along to your complaints, but only a co-worker will truly appreciate your wrath, deeply sympathize, and then one-up you with some scandalous piece of gossip they heard about the target of your rage.
Intent matters. In your hypothetical, they wouldn’t be able to rely on the argument of risk management if their risk profile hadn’t changed.
Republican lawmakers want to use pro-Trump rioters to undermine peaceful protest
Not everyone desires materialistic things, live performances included. I love live performances, but I think most people are not really capable of appreciating "top" live performances anyways - to them, a big mac is filet mignon.
Yes they do and it's in the TOS of every single retail brokerage account you sign up for.
Free storage is what matters because it makes it very obvious when you are getting close to a disk-full outage.
Just say no to friends, family, and all the human things that make life worth living.
It was even worse back then. At least with the App Store, I can set my parents free on it and they won’t get a keylogger or remote access tool installed unwittingly. Not to mention malware back then slowed the computers down to a crawl and was a pain in the ass if not impossible to remove. Now it’s just holding it and pressing the little x.

I remember that reinstalling Windows was a regular thing to do to get rid of the garbage.
This is such utter nonsense.

In countries which did allow the pandemic to spread healthcare systems were quickly overloaded and people died in droves, not just from the pandemic but also from not being able to receive care for other healthcare issues.
I attended the presentation of Tim Berners Lee at MozFest 2018 where he outlined the Solid Project, and I've been waiting to see this project evolve. I'd like to see some more documentation and a 'get started' kind of tutorial to make this pretty abstract concept understandable. Looking around the project pages doesn't give me much incentive to start using it yet.

I'd love to see a 'Solid for dummies' kind of approach in the documentation, things are quite technical still. Some easy to understand examples would be nice!
The NES had a 54 colour pallet with up to 25 colours on screen (without mid-refresh pallet swapping, a technique some games employed to access more colours). By contrast NES.css uses 12 distinct colours. So how exactly is NES.css breaking "that feel"?

The biggest issue I complaint I could make about NES.css is that it's type face has a weird ligature with "fi" which is somewhat distracting from the rest of the text. But even that is forgivable considering this isn't a serious project. And before the obvious comments that "the type face isn't the same as in ${NES_GAME}": the NES, like all 8-bit systems I've programmed on, does allow you to define your own type faces as well. Thus Capcom games have different looking letters to Hudson games to Nintendo's own releases.

I've got a NES and a Famicom (plus a Famicom FDD and 3D System). I still play them regularly. This CSS framework is clearly just a bit of fun but it does capture the general aesthetic of the era. All these complaints about colour pallets, while demonstrably wrong, is just nitpicking of the highest order. And the fact that I got downvoted in my earlier comment for saying "naming things is hard" (a point so true it has it's own joke) is pretty evident of just how ridiculous the complaints are.
It's an inversion of control over your data. Instead of all the data being stored in multiple places outside of your control, your data is stored on a pod and you have better control over what happens to it.
Even FB Messenger has this!
Been following along as your posts have hit the front page ever since I read your epitaphs entry. Very cool product, kind of wish I needed a KVM over IP box now.
Not true. Reddit is not targeting silver. This is a widespread lie designed to drive up silver prices.
It's interesting to me that urban living would be included in the hygiene hypothesis. Intuitively, I would expect all the extra contact and travel to increase exposure to microbes, compared to "everyone spends most of their time on their own farm".
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The ghost of Nelson Bunker Hunt visits Ken Griffin at night in his bedroom.
Synchronization of human sleep with the moon cycle under field conditions
True, but with any managed service, hidden limits and a cloud provider's own engineering (or lack thereof) may come back to bite the top 0.1% (the whales).

One approach to solve problems of scale is to trim down scale and bound it across multiple disparate silos that do not absolutely interact with each other at all, under any circumstances, except for making quick, constant-time, scale-independent decisions, may be.

In short, do things that don't need scale.
Sounds like the review-system (that is, user reviews) that needs vetting.

It's not unique to Apple of course — Amazon customers could benefit from honest reviews as well.
> Contracting COVID-19 may lead to long term health issues.

Uh-huh. And what percentage of people who contract have "long term health issues"? This is just more scaremongering based on self-reporting and anecdotes.
802.3at specifies max 30W at the output port at 600mA so in theory you could shunt that to 5V and get about 5A after losses. Enough to spin up a 3.5" SATA.

But most consumer retail PoE switches are only .3af compliant which give 15W minus transmission losses.
> when the short contract is up

Options are contracts which expire. A short position is not that, it doesn't have any expiration date.

It can be untenable to maintain that short position forever due to costs, but that's a different discussion.
Eh. If something exists, you can probably find people to bet on it.
I won't disagree with this point (companies put forth garbage TOS on the regular), but I am curious to see how this stands up to renewed regulatory (FINRA, SEC) and Congressional scrutiny.

Several brokerages (Fidelity, Vanguard) did not limit trading of GME in any way during high volatility last week, despite DTCC/NSCC's risk model calling for 100% collateral on GME for a duration of time.
Because they have a tendency to fall asleep drunk with a needle in their arm on the toilet, blocking access for reasonable people.

Personally, I never decided that we should put up with this. I don't recall a vote.
The great barrington declaration also doesn’t have a single scientific claim that is backed up with any research.

The top HN comment of any article with more than 10 comments on it will always almost have more content and less fluff than the great barrington declaration.
Solid seems like a great technological idea. It empowers people to own their data and give others and apps access to it. This is empowering.

But!!!! people want useful things. Things that help them solve problems so they want to pick up those things. Solid is lacking these solutions right now.

Where is my todo list, contact app, calendar app, and so forth... all built on solid? This is an opportunity. But, until these kinds of the solutions exist for solid it's going to stay as a neat technology that's not bridged the gap to be useful.
Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years