skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked with Citi as a partner, as a client and as a service provider in various other banks and fintech companies, and I'm so not surprised. In fact none of my colleagues are.

The problem is Citi itself. It's always an absurd amount of indian subcontractors who aren't paid to care but just to look good on a cost cutting plan (so they do their job), a disorganized / panicked organization who seem to never know what's happening when and follow mega-processes rather than solve problems.

My bank has those, but we can take shortcut if we must - not Citi, can make you wait 2 months for a csv file via sftp, and then pretend to be ready when you finally discover it's a frigging indian contractor writing the csv rather than an automated process... we were like "guys seriously why are you even lying about it" when it all came crashing down with crazy errors never seen in the UAT. Turns out the automation guys were late and they made an effing human do the prod version meanwhile ...

In another company, working with Citi on a completely different sector/group/vertical, I spent nights with their tech guys in India figuring out their own system and why they couldn't work... and they had less clue than me, it's absurd.

They seem to work in very split team where americans will do the high level design and then outsource to dev + support + deployment teams, ofc isolated from each other, in India. So nobody US cares about any actual implementation detail of anything, the 3 indian teams don't know each other, and nobody feels responsible of anything. It's absurd I've had multiple separate experience of the same thing, with me and my colleagues doing the connection layer between various Citi stakeholder who had no idea about each other.

There was even a time where a Citi country team in Hong Kong begged us to introduce them to the Citi country team in Singapore, and show them their product and processes...
That screen is terrifying.

I expect to receive a Jakob Nielsen newsletter, soon, discussing this.
Check out Linus Tech Tips for a review of gaming on star link: https://youtu.be/Fh1a2K9ZgNA
This is dose-dependent. You're comparing alcohol abuse to heroine use. That's not a fair comparison.

You should also examine the proportion of heroin "users" who become abusers. You should then do the same comparison for alcohol use.

I'm willing to entertain the notion that the risks of heroin are overblown. I'm even willing to believe it. What seems entirely unsupported by evidence is the notion that alcohol and heroin are in remotely the same league.
Random question from someone who knows little about transmission, but aren't CVTs closer to giving the best of both worlds?

I've driven automatic transmissions all my life, but I've really enjoyed my CVT transmission because I can go into a seven-speed manual mode (that I mostly only use for engine braking).
How Centrism Loses, Even When It Wins: A Mathematical Model
What's a FAAG?
In this case, the grounds for dismissal are for wearing headphones during working hours. Drug test results can be positive for things done outside of working hours.
Another benefit: wannabe thieves won't know how to drive your stick shift.
I’m thinking of this in terms of hot spares, not cold spares.

If you insert a cold spare to replace a disk — yes, you have to write the full disk.

If you migrate a disk from a hot spare to an active disk, it’s already largely populated, so you only have to write the missing chunk.

At least, that’s my limited understanding/reading. I’m not sure I fully grok what is happening as there aren’t necessarily dedicated spares in this setup.

But I think the difference in your scenario is hot vs cold spares.
Deep PostgreSQL Thoughts: Resistance to Containers Is Futile
> This seems weird. There are all sorts of novel mistakes all the time, even by very competent groups.

I think the point is more that it’s entirely reasonable to assume that the receiver of the funds, in good faith, assumed that this wasn’t an error.
I wasn't subscribed to any publications on the right (though in addition to the left-leaning publications I already mentioned, I was previously a WSJ subscriber once and an Economist subscriber a few times) so there wasn't anything to unsibscribe from.

I don't see misbehavior on the right as a justification for lazy, manipulative groupthink by the NYT, or outright bullying. Especially when they are clearly capable of good reporting.
Somewhat off-topic, but important.

Note how this path wouldn't be possible if all these hosting companies went out of business thanks to competition from big cloud providers. Then think about what this means for the future we (in IT) create for ourselves and for newly minted IT professionals.

I commonly see people on HN deny that there are any major shifts in overall system complexity happening right now. "Everything always seems complex if it wasn't created when you started in IT". Ok. If the complexity of newer tech stacks is an illusion, why don't you hire the OP to manage your containerized micro-services via Kubernetes? He's starting his career in IT right now, so he should have no preconceptions you allude to.
So many comments in this thread are misconstruing Hart's arguments. He's not being open about his drug use in order to encourage everyone else to start using opiates and amphetamines willy-nilly. We can't just keep applying the same Reagan-era drug prohibition policies and expect anything to change.

People are never going to stop using these drugs, so we should take steps to make their use safer. Thanks to widespread education, most people know the basics about how to drink safely (e.g. don't drink and then take NSAIDs). Because alcohol is sold legally, nobody has to worry about going blind or dying from moonshine. We should be applying the same principles to drugs like opioids. You should be able to buy them in precise dosages and know that they're not contaminated with something way too strong like fentanyl. People should be educated about unsafe drug combinations, which is the other major cause of overdoses.
> Since memory is no longer a (significant) space constraint in 2021

Is this definitely true in the context of astronautics?
Beyond Burned Out
Doesn't this violate Isilon's patent on the virtual hot spare? https://patents.google.com/patent/US7146524

It expires in nine months, which perhaps explains the timing.
WFM on firefox 85.0.1 on ubuntu 18.04. No problems looking up a user and getting the 3D model. (well, it's slow because it's in virtualbox on an ancient Macbook Pro because my new one died and is away for service but's that's tangential... unless the slowness is a factor in it working -- I've seen stranger!)
I got back as far as 2017. Neat tool, awesome view :-D
No doubt it was the wrong coffee maker for them. I don't think it was well designed though. I think it was "eh, ok" designed for the happy path, and very poor for the unhappy (but probably pretty normal) path.

I think what threw me is the "grinder off" button with a red light. The red light made sense in the context. But, if I were designing this, I would have a "grinder" button with a green light that was default "on", indicating that grinding was imminent. There was no green light on this part. It was red or off.

That would have been consistent with the rest of the interface, where a green light on the "brew" dial meant the timer was set and a red light meant the coffee had brewed.
Literally as we speak. It's in production, but the process of deprecating proof-of-work will still take a couple years.
Decriminalized isn't the same thing as legalized. Legalized means that you will have multinational companies promoting heroin nonstop through massive advertising campaigns. That would completely change peoples' usage patterns. Like how many people would smoke if tobacco was legal? Answer: many.
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I guess they need some tectonic shift to really to start listening to the customers. Another example, I get long list of options in a LOV and guess what, it is not sorted! I have to go through each value until I find the needed one.
can we have the same for gitlab too? please.
I honestly don't know what I would have chosen for a different career path, but what I do know is that I would not choose technology or anything that deals with internet connection.
I once designed a 3D "code city" representation of a codebase, which looks a bit similar:

http://quantifiedcode.github.io/code-is-beautiful/code-city/

There are companies that offer such visualization commercially, e.g. Sereene. They might not be very useful but management goes crazy about them I heard :D
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> I am not dismissing anything

Then you've totally missed the point. People aren't arguing against the creation of a government research agency, they're arguing against the creation of one which makes it even easier for those in charge to put it to corrupt use. Remove the secrecy clause and the majority of the opposition disappears.

That this inscrutable agency is being set under a government with a record of misappropriating public funds for their personal gain is an aggravating factor and only servers as further proof as to why it's a terrible idea.
For some reason the first post there is "Is Covid19 pandemic a Hoax?". So it probably triggered something with the bot.
Is this tech news?
You've just described Silicon Valley outside of San Francisco proper.
The structure requires repairs and maintenance over time. If the owner keeps up with this cost, there isn't as much reason for the structure itself to decrease in value. Some homes can be outdated and need a remodel, but that gets baked into the price as well.

Land is finite, and becomes more in-demand as the population increases. When homes appreciate in value over time, I reckon that's mostly the result in land being more in demand and/or asset inflation.
I wanted to better understand the experience. I've known several addicts in my family. My wife and I adopted a deeply addicted family member's son, who was born with severe problems from her drug use.

Bear in mind, I am willing to take vacation from work and go cold turkey as needed. I do this a couple times a year for caffeine, just to be sure, and the headaches are brutal.
So this is in the Twitter thread[0] that sparked this off:

>I’ve personally seen harassing messages sent by PJ to other Organizing Committee members. Heard him denigrate other colleagues. He and I had a meeting, where I begged him simply not to attack the union. He told me he was slacking with Sruthi and that she had “called me a piece of shit and asked him to tell me.” I told him that we weren’t going to disrespect each other. He said “Well let me stop slacking with Sruthi.”

I think that's toxic, don't you?

[0] https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1361789128006897668
The best way to zeroize (as much as can be done closed-case without dedicated research) an M1 mac is the following, as far as I can tell:

* boot external USB installer media

* run `diskutil zeroDisk force /dev/disk0`

* run `nvram -c`

* power system off

* system will now fail to boot anything, including external media, because it has no firmware available

* put system in DFU mode [1]

* plug in USB-C cable to the correct port (only one usb-c port can be used for this purpose) and connect to another mac running Apple Configurator 2 (which, sadly, is only available via the App Store, so requires an Apple ID, and also requires internet access to activate the attached M1 device)

* Restore IPSW such as [2] (note that this is for 11.2.0 and is no longer current as of a week or two ago)

This is the best way to get an M1 back into as close to a "factory" state as possible. Unfortunately, it requires an Apple ID (to use the App Store), so you have to dox yourself to Apple (email and working phone number, at the minimum) to get the Apple Configurator 2 app. (If anyone knows how to copy an App Store app from one mac to another, freshly installed mac, and have it work without logging in, please email me.)

PS: If you're looking to go even deeper, following the zeroDisk you might wish to create a 100% blank/empty hfs volume on the disk0, and then "repair" it, which will TRIM the free space (99%+ of the disk) at the disk controller level as well. This may or may not have the same effect as writing all zeroes. You'll likely have to use `diskutil` to do this, as Disk Utility is mostly garbage.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-2/revive-...

[2]: http://updates-http.cdn-apple.com/2021WinterFCS/fullrestores...

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Boston is a major tech hub.
If the intent is to help readers verify the story, surely an identifier for the court case would be more useful. However, the article does not explicitly identify the case (Citibank NA v Brigade Capital Management, 20-CV-6539). It does at least name the Judge (Jesse Furman) and includes a link to a "Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law" PDF document from courtlistener.com which identifies the court case as well as the identities of the two individuals named in the article. I hope that link stays operational for the sake of anyone who intends to actually verify the article.

If the intent is to just provide the reader with more relevant information, surely the identity of the development firm behind Flexcube would be more relevant. Again, that information is conspicuously absent. It seems Flexcube was developed and distributed by Oracle.

If this sort of behavior is the result of "journalistic standards", then maybe it's time for those standards to be revised.
Unless they're cheap no one is going to buy them. Those hash rates are terrible. I get 50MH+ on my 2080ti at around 200W. Why would someone buy hardware that's worse than a 2 year old GPU?
At least until petrol is on sale, manual gearbox cars of the sporty kind will probably keep going up in price due to scarcity and the fact that they’re engaging to drive and the performance is limited by skill unlike autos, which are limited by the tech of the time.
It's basically a joke because the Outer Space Treaty has already defined rules for planetary colonization and they don't allow Mars to be a "free planet".
> Equity comes third. If you work for a FAANG, maybe equity can move higher up (though it remains to be seen how long this will be true).

Tech companies are the largest companies in the US economy these days. They are the economy. For better or worse they're now too big to fail, and in some severe recession they would end up being bailed out like the banks were in 2008 since the alternative is a complete economic implosion.

I treat my RSUs as cash that has some variance to it (less variance than crypto, and roughly the same as the stock market overall). I even auto-sell them.
The article subheading states:

Airbnb needed an East Coast home.

Why particularly an east coast home vs. just another home? What's the strategic benefit of the east coast in particular?
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Well if a mainstream institution makes a similar argument then they are missing the whole point of privacy, there is the usual point about how everybody has something to hide. If you do not think so then please forward me all your private account information and <i>i promise</i> to not look into everything you have done on them. Even just taking that arguments and dissecting it to reveal the hidden agenda behind it is way too much effort.

But the main point is that there is no need to explain why you need basic privacy, it is already revealed why you need it when the NSA goes on a manhunt when somebody reveals that they can search every information on you with a single click. Or when the big five get their shady practices revealed they get defensive and start making bull crap points, or that there are laws on privacy for a reason. Their arguments always have a ton of flaws because they are only after an agenda, public shaming is the answer to their bull crap. "If you aren't doing some shady stuff with that binary then why aren't you releasing the source code?"
The Seafarer was a fantastic read. Thank you for sharing!
Its more a comment on how popular your light beers are, and they seem to be in the low 4% range. We also say your cars can't go around turns, don't take it too literally.
More articles supporting your viewpoint until your viewpoint is agreed by all? This is incredibly patronizing.

Can’t you think for a second that people can have a different opinion, and that doesn’t need to be somehow corrected/educated out, but just understood?

Viewpoint diversity matters. Not everyone believes in feminism, very decent people believe in different gender roles for men and women.
I just studied economics.
> On Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I'm a good hacker (imo). I found this interesting, particularly because I was around during the 80s when US culture basically considered Japan to be an unstoppable machine. Watching the course of Japanese economic, social, and political history over the past 40 years certainly satisfies my intellectual curiousity.
I don’t know which name to look up, and there are no defaults.

Any recommendations for nice skylines?
Listening to that you really want to punch the Melvin CEO in the face.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

and

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

are such iconic phrases, they bring a ton of good memories to my mind. And I never even finished Zork or Adventure!
How do we know there isn't workplace discrimination or what the actual issue is? It seems that would be something only the company and their employees can answer.
It's like stealing candy from a baby.
The names are public knowledge anyway given they were listed in the lawsuit. Anybody who blames Arokia Raj, his boss, or Vincent Fratta is either lazy or a fool.

The blame rests on the software vendor who built such an atrocious product and decision makers at Citibank who chose that software, in my opinion.
For a given aperture there's a limit to the angular resolution you can get which means you can only see objects above a certain size from orbit. The highest resolution we had in 2013 had a resolution of ~.3m/pixel. That's too large for anything beyond rough mapping for things like landing or a vague plan for driving.

TL;DR a decent camera at <1km is hard to beat from >100km no matter how good the satellite camera is.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1140/whats-the-hig...
> That coupled with the fact of how heroin is treated in society makes it worse.

So this is sort of a problem with treating the thing "Heroin" as bad, versus treating the Heroin Addict as bad. Society makes it worse, mainly, by tossing addicts in jail and I'm generally against drug laws as they stand[0]. But making "everything legal" doesn't reduce the impact of the law on drug users as much as you'd expect. At least, anecdotally, every addict that I've known personally has had run-ins with law enforcement because of their drug use but having nothing to do with the drugs, themselves. In one case, a friend ended up with an "impeding traffic" charge when he fell asleep in the left-turn lane at an intersection.

The story, as it was told to me, was that he chased a few Vicodin with a single beer, which resulted in him registering a 0.03, but he fell asleep in an intersection with his foot on the brake pedal. Despite this, he passed the field sobriety test, but the officer judged him to be intoxicated, and he was arrested. Apparently he was supposed to get a blood test; he was taken in early on Saturday and held until Monday, but they didn't do the test until he was "on his way out". It turned up nothing and he got out with a lawyer bill.

[0] I'm convinced that things are so bad/ineffective right now, that I'm pretty close to support of all-out decriminalization (of possession), simply because it reduces the impact of addiction on the addicted.
But, the response here seems to be "this is too dangerous an idea to talk about, or consider" which seems really shitty.

It's been 45 years since it was first established that heroin CAN be used safely when accompanied by a social ritual. Part of the problem IS the mindset and stigma around addiction, and that "insanely addictive drugs" have full power over people, and there is no ability to moderate their use, which is false. People are either 100% sober or a social pariah. The response in these comments mostly confirms this sort of black or white thinking. Maybe somebody should ask if its the lack of social ritual / social controls causing the problem, not the drug. Maybe society is failing otherwise responsible drug use by making all users outcasts. Or is a spectrum and complex interaction of multiple issues, and not just drugs. "This is too dangerous of a conversation to have" puts us in danger of not having productive conversations.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201111183716/https://www.harva...
The names were in the court documents. Publicly available information at this point.
I can see several items currently on the front page that have nothing to do with tech.

What's wrong with this one?
Ok, but you do need to be accountable for your opinions. If you’re talking about the need for redemption that I 100% agree that people change and need the opportunity afforded to them to be able to change.

But if Person A asks Person B for help fighting discrimination and Person B says ‘nah’ then my opinion of Person B will change. I don’t feel I’m wrong for that.

If Person B then goes and makes a podcast calling out Person C, D and E for doing the exact same thing then Person B can expect quite a few others to change their opinion of them also
Robinhood CEO Calls for Realtime Securities Settlement
CEO of Robinhood Vlad Tenev testified today at the hearing of the House Committee on Financial Services over the events surrounding GameStop and other stocks back in January. At the end of his testimonial, he called on Wall Street to implement realtime settlement:

"I want to highlight one more thing. The existing two-day period to settle trades exposes investors and the industry to unnecessary risk. There is no reason why the greatest financial system in the world cannot settle trades in real time. I believe we can and should act now to deploy our intellectual capital and our engineering resources to move to realtime settlement. Together we can solve this."

Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfEuNHVPc_k
I agree, but I'd note that as you've pointed out, Germany essentially has systems in place to mitigate the default behavior that arises out of the 'few players' problem. Almost all countries do.

The US has plenty of healthcare regulations but none that successfully tackle cost. Nowhere near enough work is done to force price transparency, and it's not just that this data is known but not displayed (like a Pharmacy's formulary) but rather that it's often _not known at all_ because there's so much money sloshing around, people just stick their finger into the wind and pencil in their best guess.

I think the German model is actually the easiest for the US to achieve and one with the best outcome - a public option under the ACA would be a great start. A *default* public option under the same scheme would be pretty much all we'd need to have the same framework to build from.

I think I read that 75% of Germans choose the non-government option and the rest stick with it. That seems like a very healthy balance.
I bet that was on a list of considerations and was dismissed.
One dude left his 3 and 5 yo kids in his locked car for a full hot afternoon with no water while using in the heroin den in my appartment complex in San Francisco.
He was not a bad guy, just a totally confused person. When we told him what could have happened, he realized his mistake. We never saw him again.
"Pay no attention to the second densest city in the country over there."