skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hol' up.

While in bankruptcy, some fools ran up the price of Hertz stock. Then, while the price was up in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings, Hertz sold some new shares to the same fools. The final result of the bankruptcy wiped out all of the shareholders.

While the buyers were obviously fools, Hertz should have known that zero shareholder value was a likely outcome. How was selling more stock in that situation legal? I see that the sale was quickly shut down... but it shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Roblox pisses me off so so much as a parent. There are some good games but it's mostly wading through an ocean of shit. And the vast majority of games that are popular are clickers that incentivize children to pay money to get more for each of their clicks.

And it's full of scams. Kids spend $10 for a hat or something in the game and it doesn't end up working in all the games and there's no recourse. It's a true free-for-all wild-west.

What we can learn from it is: 1. Making games easy to make and distribute. It's honestly amazing what kids are doing these days. I give Roblox a lot of credit for this. 2. Roblox has become an awesome way for kids to communicate with each other, they share their username at the playground.
Roblox is.

This is just a near-NCAA tier play by the company to make money off child labor. Change my mind.
It doesn't have to be binary. Consumer is responsible for making sure packaging ends up in the trash/recycling bin, but manufacturer is responsible for making litter-resistant products and packaging. For example, if your product is wrapped in thin plastic that comes apart in multiple pieces when you try to take it off... it's going to be a high litter risk compared to a can of soda which is a single continuous piece of aluminum.
'Nasdaq' for trading recurring revenue gets backed by Benioff, etc.
And Myspace was often hideous but that didn't matter.

It seems like a solid platform for young creators. They never played the classics anyway, so the million clones is probably not an issue.
Oddly? Have you ever been on a team with a few people who were just phoning it in, while you weren't? It's pretty annoying.
Richard Stalman and others that believe the GPL is generally the best license are not against ever using the MIT license. Stalman has been willing to be pragmatic and support tactical choices of other licenses besides GPL when licensing.

So it is worth having some deeper thoughts about what the implications are for different licenses of coreutils. When does using coreutils create a derivative work that requires GPL?
When I watched my kids play Roblox, I realized it is a social media platform that happens to use games as the medium. Roblox shouldn't be compared to Games Platforms any more so than early YouTube should be compared to Television.
Git cleaning: how I learned to love commit hooks
waiting for js bundler written in Rust
I feel like this could have been overcome by Java Web Start, which at the time it was released was too little too late. Even embedding applications as applets could have been a good solution.
Why would people not use the data? Would they stop having questions?
If someone were to release an open source reference implementation with s thorough test suite, would that be able to work around the lack of a spec?

And beyond that, are there any loopholes to workaround the need to pay for a spec?
> “Most Israelis think that intelligence is pure and slick,” he says. He came to see IDF intelligence as blunt, dirty work. “Old school things,” he says. Like blackmailing gay Palestinians, he explains. Or threatening to cut off medical care from people with health problems. Or threatening the families of people with health problems. But when it comes to criticism of 8200, K. is an anomaly among his peers. Many are more like Raphael Ouzan — true believers.
IE was not bad at all, at least technically and at least when it was still being actively developed (i.e. <<ie6), compared to its competitors.

The bad things (and what the web page is mostly complaining about) are the political shenigans from MS; e.g. bundling it with Windows, and then slowing down development significantly when they got to the monopoly position.

And for those that believe MS is now politically better than it was a couple decades ago, just try a recent Windows 10 build. Not only it _still_ bundles Edge as if the EU court ruling was a joke, it will periodically nag you about making it your default browser, even in completely irrelevant places such as Settings.

This is all like 20 years ago except that no one seems to care about desktop browsers anymore.
I did the exact same thing but what you are describing is (imo) not the kind of filter bubbles that are problematic.

Unfollowing and tailoring content to your interest is great and makes a lot of sense. The issue arise when dealing with news. If Facebook is your main news source and you decide to unfollow any medias, you can end up in a bubble where the world news you are presented with are really skewed to reinforce your world view which ultimately could lead you to full own fake-news consumption.

That being said, inflammatory political posts by your friends are not news.
What assurances do you have that said containers are washed between uses?

A restaurant will wash their stuff to make sure that you're a return customer. But a big advantage of once-opened / once-disposed containers is that I can suddenly trust random street vendors with no relationship to me.
The Privacy Mirage
I think he is being paid to, not sure if he would choose to personally.

There was a blog post a while back where he more or less said "I am being paid to add Rust".
I think recommendation algorithms provide a useful service, but I think the main issue is that for a lot of sites there's no way to explore the content _without_ that algorithm which is heavily biased in your favour. Things you dislike are minimised and slowly hidden from you to make it seem like no one likes these things. Things you enjoy are proliferated to make it seem like everyone likes these things. This gives a warped view of the world. Showing a random article 10% of the time isn't going to help with that. An experimental interface I worked on last year (and am working on) is using classification systems to let people explore the books of Open Library, https://openlibrary.org/explore (beta warning :) ). The idea being that you can quickly dive deep into a topic you're interested in, but just because you're interested in "Science", that doesn't mean the "Arts" or the "Religion" bookcases adjacent to it will become any smaller. You're always in the context of the bigger picture of the entirety of human knowledge.
No, they're stock arguments. They're "fundamentals". Did I look at their balance sheet, no. But asking questions about their competition and likelihood of being around and healthy in a few years isn't meme.

Even "Hey this has short 140% of float" isn't a meme stock thing.

The definition of "meme" stock is it being a meme - is it getting hyped up on social media and reddit with inside jokes and collective action (as much as they pretend it isn't collective action).
Chinese VPNs are recording world data on a scale [including ExpressVPN?]
SMTP is an interesting protocol because the server opens the session with the banner, unlike HTTP where the client speaks first. I think a better question is why does the banner exist, and what purpose does it serve?

HELO/EHLO gives us a way to negotiate ESMTP, which is what practically everyone uses today.
My son's best friend is pulling down $1K/year doing Lua scripting and object modelling for people on a subcontracting basis.

He's 15. He acknowledges he could be pulling in a lot more money if he spent 2x or 4x the time on it. Or dropped out of high school, perhaps.
Even sqrt(x * x + y * y) is wrong. I'm slightly ashamed to say that I learned of the C hypot function only a few days ago. I've been doing this wrong for decades.
I never said anybody was working for fun. The disabled people to which I am referring are certainly dependent on others for their care. The livelihoods of most people in the demographics I mentioned are not dependent on a part-time job like that.
Even something as seemingly innocuous as milk and eggs can be a big deal. Suddenly spending more? Maybe you have guests. Maybe you are hiding refugees. Might be innocuous, might be life and death.
Remember, Bill Gates thought this was all a good idea. Maybe he’s not our omniscient savior after all?
Ya, I think recommender systems assume a filter bubble. I'm not an expert so hopefully someone can correct me, but filtering based on ones existing interest seems to be the use case no?

What I'd like to see is something that can select for quality, and not for interest.

I think this is what you often get with human manual curation. For example, I can happily read a well written well researched thought piece even if the content speaks to opinions I don't currently hold. Or news source that at least appear to have done their research and provide ample evidence and facts, no matter what the content is for.

Similarly with entertainment too, friends can recommend some new great war movie even if I'm not generally into war movies, or some new great book even if I rarely read fiction, etc.

I don't really know how to judge quality though. When someone asks me what kind of music I like, I tend to answer I just like good music. What does that mean? I'm not sure. Could machine learning figure out what that means if it trained on my personal liked music tracks? Would it learn the qualities I'm interested in, or would it end up only learning my personal preferences at the time?
You're correct that obfuscation of Java libraries has nothing to do with Java stack inspection/JVM security... but the latter is what the article talks about and what is cited above, so not sure why you have just now brought up decompiling obfuscated Java libraries, which is, as you say, totally unrelated...
Ideally you can use the libraries provided by your linux distribution / vendor, and they can do the heavy lifting and economies of scale can be taken advantage of.

Even if you're not actually running your code on Debian / RHEL / whatever, using libraries that are distributed by those vendors where possible is a good start.
We actually have several run clubs that run with Charge Running. You can share which class your joining with your Run Club and see everyone on that same leaderboard and chat room.

Regarding pricing, that's definitely a fair point, and something I think we could easily change. Thank you for the feedback
If games are digital art, I made this interactive 2d space station as a teaser for a game I've been thinking of building.

https://i.redd.it/y5ezuwoc2re61.gif
MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle teacher after Bezos divorce
Does anyone else think it is sad that working the soulless machine of trading is where millennials are looking to find their livelihood? Our faith in hard work is dwindling as we find the whole system is rigged, so we are all participating in this craziness (yes you too, with your 401k).
It's a good point, and actually some of our users already have this local queue implementation anyway because they want to send webhooks asynchronously. So it's definitely something to keep in mind. We already make it easy to query the service for what webhooks were delivered, but we also let you use the API with idempotency keys to ensure messages are not accepted twice.

I agree about all the issues you outlined though. One thing we plan on doing in terms of internet being down and cloud provider not having routes: have a lot of endpoints spread geographically in every region, and maybe in the same/nearby data centers.

Thanks again for the feedback!
Those are two different pages with two different sets of information from the same person.
Alternatively, try to find an industry where your calcified skillset and knowledge remain valuable for 20+ years if possible. These seem to be more on the business and finance side rather than engineering side of things.
> next to a common action (mute/unmute yourself)

I agree with this point, but if the designer had a phone call in mind (with a pre-pandemic mindset), then the design feels more reasonable.

In a one-on-one call, 'mute' is much closer in intent to 'hang up' - i.e. I am not currently participating in this call.
Love Italo Calvino. For people interested in getting into it, "If on a winter's night, a traveller" is probably the best place to start and isn't a tough read.
> Chewy absolutely dominated the pet market for e-commerce.

Indeed, I think we get as many Chewy boxes as Amazon boxes. Of course three dogs and three cats will do that.

Chewy used to send every customer a handwritten personalized Christmas card each year. I think they had every employee spend some time writing these cards when they weren't busy.

Later they switched to printed cards using a handwriting font, but those early years of handwritten cards certainly left an impression.
What kind of reasoning is this? Not all mathematicians are interested in or capable of computer programming.
It's a fair point. But some stocks can be more exposed than others.
Is there am American industry that is heavily unionized that is globally competitive? Education, policing, auto manufacturing, and steel come to mind for me as both heavily unionized and significantly poorer quality in America relative to comparable peers. Maybe the entertainment industry though? I'm genuinely curious
> not doing half-assed "problem solving" presentations without any preparation or analysis.

> I want my engineers to take their time, model problems, explore different approaches, and find solutions

So, you represent "whiteboard interviews" in bad faith as 'half-assed faux problem solving', and then you state all the things that I personally believe a whiteboard interview shows about an engineer's approach.

Listen, I am sure some roles don't require someone to ever problem solve, and that's fine. But if you think a white-board interview where you get to see someone approach a new problem, vocalize their common approaches, speak about the trade-offs of their approaches, and discuss how they'd implement it is closer to "half-assed" than "modeling problems and exploring different approaches", that's a you problem and not a me problem.

Your haircut strawman is par for the course in this thread.
Why the heck is this so strongly downvoted?

This seems like a reasonable point — maybe I’m just missing something.
This comment is a great example of something produced by an online bubble. I'm sure if you talked like this in real life most people on your street would have no idea what you're talking about, because you're referencing niche ideas from niche internet subcommunities.

It's a problem because it alienates you from your irl community
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava
In Norway the usual form of ID for anyone without a driving license used to be your debit card. Banks have mostly stopped issuing cards with profile pictures on them now, as they don't want the responsibility. But the national id card has been delayed for a decade. So many now have to bring their passport to buy beer...
Quote: “This is commonly referred to as a spanking tree.”
I think their point is that the top commenter engaged in an informal fallacy by painting a jaded picture then saying at the end of it China somehow wins, without any amount of narrative/justification. To me it seems like you could skip all but the last two words of top commenters comment to see their message.
Agreed, though I'm partial to Invisible Cities. ;)
Okay, so go code in Fortran and be happy. Why are you complaining?
I think the author's own illustrations disprove his point. Most users do not tab between fields, they mouse. Given that anywhere on an input is clickable to focus, and the cursor rests to the right, a user is more likely to linearly click down the list on the right hand side.

I suppose user testing would prove things one way or the other, but my money's on right.
It takes two to tango. Or maybe it's just a two-way street.

Sure, I decide who to interact with. But I make that decision based on how they post. They post, in turn, based on how other people react to their posts.

About half of the things on my FB feed never get a single like or comment. I'm not sure why I still post them. Some of my misses:

"Judge permanently dismisses charges against [Breonna Taylor's boyfriend]": https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kenneth-walker-breonna-taylor-j...

"TikTok assures users worried about Myanmar that they're aggressively monetizing the situation": https://www.theonion.com/tiktok-assures-users-worried-about-...

"Here's why Texas is still without power ... and why other states are vulnerable too": https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/02/why-the-power-is-...

Here are some things that got multiple interactions:

this image mocking TX Gov Greg Abbott: https://i.redd.it/wlq9vk0k9ri61.png

this meme about Gamestop: https://i.redd.it/vdfzutt6b4e61.jpg

It's easier for me to post low-info, high-emotion, easily-consumed polit-ideological junk food and get likes than it is to get attention with a link containing some information or argument, or even just inoffensive satire. Explanations are out, newsfeed-optimal screenshots of brief text are in.

It's very misleading to ignore the influence of the environment when considering how people choose whom to interact with.
Oh, I didn't know it supported Linux also! Thanks
While we on this: I noticed lots of interior design projects, where old pallets are used( Euro Pallet being the most popular). They are all treated with chemicals to withstand harsh environments and definetly shouldn't be used indoors.
No doubt about that. You have to have a premium account just to make and list items for sale.
ok then reformulate that to "even renowned professors can occasionally get high on their own supply and make wild claims"
Want to sell to VPS and C-suite level? Find the ones who recently changed jobs
Maybe just don't have a government where that's an issue, rather than holding back the technological development of society.

Why use mobile phones or credit cards? Or ID cards? or ISP subscriptions? It could all be tracked! Let's just do everything by landlines and faxes like Germany...
Central page for all my music links: https://www.scraggo.com/music/discography/

Bandcamp: https://scraggo.bandcamp.com/

It's guitar/vocal-based rock with fusion and experimental elements.
I don't mean to quibble but I would say that even though bit coin is not a quote unsuited real currency you can apply purchasing powrr parity valuation to it and compare purchasing power of bitcoin compared to other currency like instruments additionally the cost to mint a bit coin is not meaningless, just easy to neglect.
> A factoid is either a false statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
That's just a bubble, not a filter bubble which is a specific type of bubble automatically generated for you, not one that you manually created.
Why would it be illegal?

Hertz was in bankruptcy because it couldnt pay its debts, a capital injection might have raised enough cash to pay off its debts and exit the bankruptcy proceedings.

They disclosed the low likelyhood of such a thing happening but its not the law or the SECs job to make everyone take wise financial decisions.
I don't think you can really understand C++ by reading the standard to be honest. If you're such an expert you can read the standard in its original form, you're probably already a seasoned developer anyway.
A bit out of context for the broader discussion but your comment caught my eye. Try ShareTheBoard.com as a solution to your second problem. You can digitize your white board contents in real time (and save them at any moment). Let me know if you get a chance to use it. Thanks in advance.
In the last 500 years my country has gone through economic Armageddons. In fact we invented the stock market crash. Things never ended.
If you replace Windows with Linux, they need another point of entry.
I agree, and I think my original comment was a bit sloppy.

We already have users that have their own queue system for sending us messages because that's how they deal with similar APIs too.

So I definitely see the problem, what I meant in my comment is that it's similar to other API companies, and it's not unique to us!
Very interesting discussion/thread!
I have been thinking lately, that scientists whom research area is around developing vaccination, might not need to worry anymore about getting grants or funded because of covid-19. It might be considred one of best consequence of the unfortunate epidmic.
Haha, great example! It has had some revisions, my copy is from 2014, but the great thing is that it all remains relevant.

The big takeaway is that humans shouldn’t be required to think like computers when they are interacting with one.

“Warning : Failed to load library”
<ok>

Why did the library failed to load? Why are we being informed? Why does it say “Ok” when it is not ok?

As a lovely example. And on the regular you still have these problems. The daily wtf is full of current day examples.
It benefits them more to maintain the appearance of objectivity while controlling the messaging.

Good PR doesn't try to hide mistakes that are out in the open and will try to maintain the pretence of objectivity.

It would be interesting to see how much WaPo gets the benefit of the doubt when reporting on Amazon here vis a vis RT reporting on Russia:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rt.com
Just another step towards the creation of our digital animas
Good thing Sweden has decent public insurance then...

Don't hold back technology and society just because of a few other issues - those other issues can be better resolved directly. In this case, with single-payer public healthcare.
Each running coach is choosing the music, and adjusting things like tempo based on what the specific workout is.

Regarding copyright, we keep track of each song played, and the number of people that listen. We then send this to the large music groups each quarter, and pay royalties.
If you're willing to trust your restaurant you should also probably trust Coca Cola. Not because I think Coca Cola is more honest, but do you imagine the PR nightmare if employee #832453 captures a video on their smartphone of dirty bottles being reused?

This type of fraud/malpractice is much more likely to be seen in small restaurants with little oversight and loose processes that at a multi-million dollar bottling plant.
That paragraph was jacked up from top to bottom. He pointed out just a few items. Personally, I find your comment to fit the troll bill. At least his was helpful.
Some people are not entirely neuronormal and have few filters.
Israelis have massively more genuine external threat than Americans so they are going to believe in the military industrial complex a lot longer.
I remember some web developers would deliberately build for quirks mode because it was a stable target, unlike the always shifting standards mode.
Sort of. The scenario assumes one is looking for another job via the focus on interviewing. So it's not that much of a stretch to contemplate changing industries if a switch to another job within the current industry requires jumping through hoops too.

I'm stuck in my job like you mention. But this sticking also prevents me from changing jobs within the industry.
The real value creation here would be turning a GET API endpoint into a webhook service. So your service would monitor the service and push updates on changes / diffs based on certain time interval.

Build that and people will flock to you.