skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it is different if the customer is technical, but non-technical people are often painfully imprecise.

A "bunch" is not a valid item count.

They are going to be dissatisfied by whatever colour "red" is chosen. Or with the sequence of steps to get to a goal in a paginated step flow if not ironed out first.

If something is going to expire, they need to specify the time along with the date and whether it is attached to the user's timezone or UTC.

They are going to say Firebase when they mean Mixpanel because they might have Googled something and badly misunderstood it.

You are trying to do a structured activity based on the thoughts of someone who often isn't.

Given the choice between writing code that gets tossed or a tedious and repetitive conversation where I am endlessly asking "can you be more specific?", I choose writing code. Someone else can have that conversation.
The last thing the world needs is yet another effin' social media network. Sorry. Been there. Done that. Next.
accepting US candidates?
Google lost $5 billion, that's not it's expenses.
Also keep in mind that it's already doing what pre-F9 rockets did: go up. The RUDs so far are on landing attempts. Landing is a whole lot harder.
I think the CEO as influencer is on the wane and with antitrust and regulatory reform coming we will be looking more for politicians who can unite and provide social leadership. Trump took a lot of oxygen out of the room and now is a good time for up and comers like Buttieg and AOC.
It would be really nice if there was something in the browser header to indicate whether 1) The user had a touch interface and 2) The user had a persistent on-screen cursor (both may be true) but, leaking that information also opens the door for more accurate browser fingerprinting so I guess, once again, we can't have nice things because of advertising.
There's also an upside-down emoji smiley with its own distinct mood. Hopefully services don't start translating (: into that, they're used quite differently!

https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-upside-down-face/
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Don’t compare revenue to GDP. Especially for a low margin business.
The first dose prevents hospitalization. Right now, for every second dose we give, that's a decision to deny someone a life-saving dose in favor of someone already protected. What a strange prioritization to make.

The bright side is that, if the rate of vaccination continues to increase, those denied the first dose now should still get the first dose soon after. Let's hope we don't hit some manufacturing bottleneck.
Great question! As a team of software engineers and data scientists, we relied on observability tools like Datadog to build reliable infrastructure for products, but were really surprised that it didn't exist.

We're not 100% sure you can't just use Datadog for this, but it seems to be shoehorning a technology to a usecase its not designed for.
Jeff Bezos to leave Amazon CEO post after 27 years, become executive chair
if something happened before the internet or since, but it's archived properly, did it really happen? :-P
There is no TPM required for either of these, AFAIK. iMessage and code signing both predate the T1/T2/M1, where there was no "TPM".
A direct paternal-line descendent of Dante, which Sperello Alighieri might very well be, would essentially share a copy of Dante's Y-DNA, which is about 2% of the human genome. This is comparable to something between 2nd cousin (3.13%) and 3rd cousin (1.5%).
Vlad said live on air (in Clubhouse) in conversation with Elon Musk on Sunday that the clearinghouse increased their requirements from (IIRC) 30% to 100%, and that the formula for calculating that was "not transparent" and had a component that was "a multiplier based on their opinion".

RH negotiated with them all Thursday last week and reduced the required payment from $3B to ~$0.7B. So it sure seems like the DTCC made an arbitrary decision to jack up systemic safety cushion that resulted in the RH clients turning very sour.
I have two pairs of headphones AKG K550(4 years for personal) and Sennheiser HD380(2.5 years, work). I use them daily, they should last a few more years for sure.

Companies should be rewarded when producing something that last. Externalities and disposal should be included in tax rate.
The church is continuous from the Roman era though. Both in the East and the West.
That kind of works in theory or for people up there in decision making ranks. For engineers down in the trenches it might not be such a motivating factor because they don't feel their individual contributions matter as much. It might motivate them to stay and slack off without getting fired until the company does an exit. So one might suggest giving devs equity would motivate them not to their maximum potential, but rather to the very minimum which will not get them fired before the cash day.

Also I'm sure we could come up with examples of people who got a good amount of equity just because they were there among the first employees and then not working at all because, well, their profit was already locked in by just waiting for others to do the hard work.
What happened to Boring? I think the big difference with Boring is that the tech that goes there are vastly different than the software-hardware integration in his other companies.

Boring is probably mostly hardware with very little software.
Consider all the horrors that large nations have inflicted on this world. You might conclude that they are an even worse fit for the position.

In my country it is illegal not to subscribe to the state TV channel. The same cannot be said about Amazon Prime.
Amazon started 3 years before Netflix did.
Yes - that's part of magic - as the founder you have the latitude to go to any level of the corporate stack and critique things. Jeff could probably go to any Amazon distribution center on any random day and start critiquing at how things were being packed inefficiently in boxes and people would fix things in the next hour. It'll be interesting to see if Andy Jassy can metaphorically do similar things.
The key points were that he believes the scientific community is scared to discuss more SETI related research for fear of redicule and job impacts. It sounds like he thinks it is impacting the science too as someone will gladly create a proposal to look for liquid water outside our solar system, but scientists are too worried about getting shunned to look for the molecules in industrial pollution (arguably a better use of time assuming that the hunt for water was a proxy for what they really wanted to do) on those planets instead. I think looking for water on exoplanets is still pretty relevant though and is useful to know even if you believe ET doesn't exist, so I don't really understand his argument here to be honest. I agree with what he's saying regarding string theory and other related fields that are very hard to run experiments on. In his eyes, they're more outlandish than SETI research as they can be made to fit a lot of different models. He is not against that kind of research, but is arguing that if you're okay with string theory, you should be okay with SETI.

I still feel like he's being a little brash in assuming Oumuamua is an alien vessel. I think it's possible, but likely there is another possibility that we haven't thought of.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.25.20219048v...

Page 25.

Actual infectious disease scientists. There are two conclusions you can draw from these graphs:

1) The vast majority of 'positive' PCR tests do not need > 30 cycles to demonstrate presence of virus.

2) Actual, employed, doing-the-work scientists do indeed use > 30 cycles, and publish the work, to demonstrate facts with actual scientific merit.

Of course, your buddies who tell you that "it's bonkers" are a reliable source, right?
I don’t think pleasure is really the goal. The goal is systems that don’t fail spectacularly on unexpected inputs ...
I didn't spin anything. The comment I was replying to said that 95% of faculty donations went to Biden. Biden was the conservative candidate - he respects institutions, supports gradual changes to the status quo, and goes to church regularly.

What I was doing was being a bit facetious, by using the plain definition of the word conservative rather than the contemporary stretched definition referring to a movement that is better described as radical populism. And I obviously don't believe that colleges are full of conservatives - that was a reductio ad absurdum.

My actual point is that it's foolish to be looking at that 2020 presidential race as a proxy for conservatism on college campuses, especially tolerance of conservatism, when the candidate calling himself "conservative" is nothing of the sort. Put another way, shunning Trump supporters is in no way shunning conservatives.
Was it ever named “relentless” at some point? I’ve heard that was the original name, relentless.com still redirects to Amazon.com.
This was my thought even before launch. SN9 could explode on the pad.
Oh wow JACK and Ardour are awesome, didn't know about the Amazon connection
Easy way to screw up leadership in your team
@Storiaron:

"Yeah yeah, I didnt. Doesnt mean i wont feel like tieing my belt around my neck after seeing half/entire house worth of money disappear.

It's so weird, because i'm still 200-300%+ on gme. If you told me a month ago that i'd feel like killing myself over it i'd have laughed."
I'll try "Places I wouldn't want to work" for 400K, Alex.
If you mean the boat

https://themarketherald.com.au/magazine/the-pursuit-of-comfo...
I actually monthly donate to Wikipedia, but after some of the things I've seen I think it's better to stop it.

However useful the project often be, it's no longer something I'm willing to support as a charity.
This article misses the key point... These were "normal" people and not rejects from society.

People's news source is ultimately the best predictor of what they will believe. Fox News and other media falsely portrayed the election as stolen to get more views, but the result was people genuinely believed them.

A person who genuinely believed the election was stolen would rightly take action to defend their rights.

To prevent this from happening again, hold people who tell lies accountable civilly and criminally.
Uh oh, that means that in two more tries it will be relighting too many engines.
That’s “Dev Ops” consistency, not architectural consistency.

Insisting on architectural consistency might mean every service needs to use a relational database, and have an exposed API. But a pub/sub or map reduce, may not fit neatly into that architectural model.
I read Peopleware last year and totally agree, it's the masterclass.

Along with Mythical Man-Month, it's clear that we didn't need any other management books.
Not really, AFAIK this is the only part of systemd that really caused an issue, and it was because this is a capability that really needs to be provided by the OS and can't realistically be maintained as part of a desktop environment.
Another amazing test flight! Can't wait for SN10. I understand they have already started the last step of construction which is fitting the Raptor engines to SN10. Should be ready to fly very soon.
That's an interesting bit of history I forgot about.
Guanfacine isn't as popular because stimulants work better for most people.[1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5532417/
I want to know who is the author? Creating this document took a significant amount of time and effort. A "whois" on the counterfeitstock.com site or inspection of the pdf document reveals nothing.
If Google is practicing real financial controls it's the same.

Mainline airlines don't practice real financial controls so they can say "first class passengers subsidize coach passengers, otherwise we couldn't make a profit."

That is, they claim they can put together two unprofitable businesses (first class and economy) and somehow get a profitable business.

If it was a local restaurant that did this people would realize it was bogus, but make it a CEO who is also chairman of the board and people think "he gets paid 100,000x more than I do he must know what he is talking about".

All the airlines that do business that way have one thing in common: they usually lose money. Airlines that don't do business that way make money consistently (e.g. Southwest)

People are going to let American and Delta get away forever with the claim that they have no choice but to lumber forward with their broken business model and it just isn't true.
I don't think that the OP is arguing for "always" sticking to entrenched players, but rather for people to face the reality that the agility of startups come with drawbacks in their service (even though it's often not apparent).

It all comes down to making informed decisions. If you're just using RH for "playing around" with some surplus money, this lack of liquidity shouldn't be as important for you (as compared to, e.g., the ease of use, or low fees...). However, if you're using RH in a "serious" capacity, this (reliability) should definitely be something to seriously consider, since you may not have the guarantees that you can take for granted with traditional players.

The true problem with the RH situation is the lack of transparency throughout. It really does no good (and comes off as very "slimy") if third parties have to expose their business model or why they're having issues. A little transparency would have gone a long way for people to be sympathetic to the startup. But then again, I guess that harms the "magic" factor of a startup.
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I do not agree all those are the same as rando OSS on github BTW.

Because of that problem, I have always maintained we need a way to better fund some projects.

I would love to see the display system funded and all the good stuff worked out properly. For me, the network features and general flexibility of X is worth some money.

When I ran SGI machines, that money was paid and the display systems were flat out awesome.

If it does not do those awesome things? Meh, can just run Win 10.
Can we keep this kind of bs comment off HN please? Thank you.
Also they require my full time.

"[...] Employee to Devote Full Time to Company. Employee will devote full productive time, attention, and energies to Company’s business, the business of its subsidiaries[...]"

and give me company benefits

"[...] Company will provide Employee with standard company benefits, which will be adopted and defined at the discretion of Company.
(c) Employee will be eligible to participate in additional company benefits, as defined within the sole and absolute discretion of Company, which may include health insurance, dental insurance, vision, and 401(k).[...]"
This is nonsense. It's not about national pride. The UK authorised Pfizer first.

We knew back in December how effective just one dose[1] of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is, at stopping death. See figure 2 on page 28.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download
Financial theory says that if you want to maximize return and will accept more risk, you should leverage the market portfolio, rather than taking undiversified single-stock risk. There exist 3x leveraged S&P 500 ETFs such as SPXL, which Portfolio Visualizer says has had a CAGR of 32% from Jan 2009 to Jan 2021, with a high volatility of 46.21%. You can get even more leverage by going long S&P 500 futures directly.
Can you explain why you think this will happen to undersized teams more often?

If it's an indication that something is wrong with the team, I think that's still helpful. For instance, if the team does not have the right experience and are often blocked waiting for someone else's answer to a question, it might make sense to work on team composition. It's not about blaming people or teams, but about improving flow.
If the users aren't willing to fork, then having them run away to osx (where, by the way, everything is also imposed on you) doesn't seem that great of a loss.

Part of the joy of open source are the freedoms it gives you, including the freedom to fork a project that doesn't meet your needs and make it so that it does. This works as it should pretty often - look at the gnome2 forks, the systemd-less distros etc. There's plenty of choice out there, and plenty of opportunity to get involved.

If you're unwilling to exercise those freedoms, then you're just whining about the stuff you're getting for free.
Imo, it's a good way to keep people who're functionally minor deities in terms of absolute power busy and somewhat productive for a long time.
Have they considered that tenure track positions are pretty far along the education pipeline?

Best way to get "diverse" tenured hires is to get "diverse" grad students. And the best way to get "diverse" grad students is to get "diverse" undergrads.

And, shockingly, getting "diverse" undergrads can be achieved... by investing in whatever "diverse" community you want to grow.
About #2
Wasn't so sure about typescript so I tested it to confirm that it worked.
But in Python3, the default arguments are evaluated at module time loading if I am not mistaken. The following will display roughly the same timestamp

from datetime import datetime
import time

print(datetime.utcnow())
def show_ts(d=datetime.utcnow()):
print(d)

time.sleep(5)
show_ts()

where as in TS, the 2nd one will be roughly 5s older:

const now = Date.now();
console.log(now);

function logTs(d=Date.now()) {
console.log(d);
}

setTimeout(()=> {
logTs();
}, 5000);
The crew will produce new art and new entertainment, like any society before them. However, the new productions will be constrained by the limited resources of the society.

In some sense, the crew will be like a small group of survivors living in the ruins of a great empire. They see what their ancestors were capable of, but they are unable to replicate most of it. The legacy content in the old Netflix library was created by a society with the same technology but vastly superior resources. Its creators were often more talented than the best and the brightest of the current generation, and they certainly could draw on a much wider range of life experiences.
From your link:

“That same week, Robinhood released software that erroneously reversed the direction of customer trades, which meant that a bet on a stock going up was turned into a bet that it would go down. Mr. Tenev oversaw technology.

Technological issues continued piling up. In 2019, customers discovered that Robinhood’s software accidentally allowed them to borrow almost infinite amounts of money to multiply their stock bets. Last March, as the pandemic hit the United States and the stock market gyrated wildly, Robinhood’s app seized up for almost two days, leading some customers to lose more than $1 million.”

I like disruptive businesses. But sometimes I think SV fetishizes the “move fast and break things” mantra without understanding that it may sound cool without appropriately acknowledging the risk it brings.

I’m sometimes labeled as a codger but it makes me cringe when people espouse that attitude on projects that can ruin someone’s livelihood let alone on safety critical code that can end someone’s life
Ubuntu ships with a patched version of GNOME, default experience is completely different.
I would go even further. If I am building a next gen electronic wallet (which happens to be a side project of mine) I’d build in a full week of escrow-like mechanism by default.
Sounds to me like you may be an employee, not a contractor. Again, consult an employment lawyer in your place of residence, pity they made the venue for conflict resolution US based, that pretty much tanks your chances of some simple solution.

Even so, an employment lawyer may be able to get your a settlement as an alternative to a whole pile of bad publicity.
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Consider the following sequence of events:

1) Custom initiates $300 purchase of some stock.

2) RH sends customer's $300 to counterparty.

3) After receiving the $300 and before delivering stock to RH, counterparty goes belly up.

Forbidding RH to use customer funds in that manner prevents that race condition.
Amazon is buying all warehouses and displacing regular stores. If it fails people will have problems buying things that they use to buy from local stores.
Not often, no, and for that reason. If you do a web search for the terms 'audiophile' and 'ABX' you'll find quite a few reports which are quite fun to read.
> Given that multi-national corporations exist, it seems obvious that companies will have greater wealth than nations.

That doesn't follow because every non-totalitarian country has multiple corporations operating in it, in most countries a much larger number than the maximum number of countries a corporation could possibly operate in.
Personal data are so if they can be linked to an identified or identifiable person.

So in itself an URL would need to not only contain information that may be deemed personal but also information to identify that person.

In the case of logs I think the criteria are most likely met when considering that time, IP address, and metadata such as URLs are often collected to stored together. These 3 pieces of information together may then most likely become (sensitive) personal data.
"A governments responsibility is solely to its citizens who also control it by vote"

And most Western governments are now abdicating this responsibility in the name of political ideals and the stated notion that non-citizens have the right to demand a place in the nation of their choosing.
Ah got it, $5Bn is the 'operating income' so although they made $13Bn, they ended up spending $18Bn.