skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're wrong.

At the same time, HR does regularly help employees avail themselves of resources (communications with health insurers, 401k providers, etc.). So in that sense, they are "there" for employees.

As far as I can tell, HR does a few things:

1. promote the idea that the company is a great place at which to work (market the company to potential hires, tell current employees about all the great perks, downplay negatives or ignore them)

2. answer most general questions of current employees (benefits)

3. document statements given to and taken from employees (hiring them, firing them, workplace allegations, rules violations, etc.)

Most of it is designed to protect the company but some of it is sometimes the only way to get something if you're an employee. If you ask: "where should I go to set up my 401k?" or some variation, you are pointed to HR.
Michael Collins obituary: Apollo 11 astronaut dies aged 90
> The webdev ecosystem is so broken

Allow me to correct this statement: The Javascript ecosystem is so broken.

Working with Clojurescript and Elm is an experience that will make most developers fall in love with web development again.
The intermediate image of globe with particles dispersed only through the northern hemisphere is because of the Coriolis force?
Superintelligence is overhyped. If you want to understand why then follow Mellanie Mitchell on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/MelMitchell1/
Which can yield amazing results physiologically, including a markedly increased incidence of cancer :/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

This is one of my favourite things. It's an incredibly old, historically important text in a dead language and it's just a customer complaint.

>"You have put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said, 'If you want to take them, take them. If you do not want to take them, go away'.

3750 years ago some dude was still showing up and trying to rip people off and pull the "cash in hand" choosing beggar play.
I see you have never worked on a C/C++ project.
Yet it wasn't until relatively recently that they stopped selling Kaspersky at major retailers. Even if they have an FSB connection they are basically saying, well we now know that company we let get loose on millions of consumer desktops and enterprise/government systems in the US is connected to Russian intelligence. Oops!
Show HN: Iacbot – free tool for scanning Terraform in Git
... Isn't TFA entirely about Amazon exaggerating their value creation and abusing the fact that said concept flies over many peoples' heads?
I'm sure it's less disk space because it has less deps but the most of the RAM and CPU usage in CRA is Webpack so I'd be surprised if that changed much.
If you think Revolut is good, you should try Bunq.
While I generally support Signal's mission, let's not get too taken in by their own PR and its triumphal tone, however satisfying it may be to thumb one's nose at the powerful. (People tend to trust the PR they like and distrust PR they don't like - let's think critically about of all of it.)

Based only on this post and the Cellebrite hack, Signal appears overconfident, taken with their own press clippings, and making enemies. That's not behavior that leads to good security: Paranoid, worried about the next vulnerability, and utilizing excellent risk management to prevent conflict are what I would look for. How does it help their millions of users when Signal provokes a leading forensics firm and the U.S. DoJ?

Could you imagine a security team at a company doing this, making problems for the company? It would be absurd. Maybe Signal feels they need the publicity.
> Can I send/receive the same messages I received on my iPhone?

Nope. Apple doesn't extend their messaging protocols to developers like that. But it does work perfectly fine on Android! There's both a QT5 and GTK interface for it, both of which are pretty fully featured and actively developed, and it syncs with your phones messages over WiFi or Bluetooth.
It doesn't really mean anything in layman's terms. It's a transparent lie: If one were to actually take it at face value it would imply that Tesla plowed $1.5B into a "store of value" whose liquidity they were unsure of. It would make no sense. If they wanted to test liquidity they could have quietly bought and sold just the 10% position before YOLOing in the $1.5B.

Tesla simply sold just enough BTC to book enough profit to meet quarterly EPS estimates.
I don't since I'm pretty young, but a few people I follow do talk about it. Check out Greg Doucette on Youtube qho talks about it a lot. (Although I think there are better sources online and you should ask your doctor)
That's correct. He could have gotten home without the LM. (See Apollo 8, which didn't have an LM at all.)
There's a fantastic example of this from fall of 2019. China was using an iPhone 0day which was extremely complicated to do internal surveillance, and the C2 for it was happening over http.
> As I explained, in typical transactions value is created for both parties.

The value created in a transaction is orthogonal to the total sum of money exchanged in the transaction. That was the meaning of the criticism.

You are correct though in that the author worded it very unfortunately, which undermined the critique.
How about other languages that use GCC/LLVM, like Zig, Rust, Ada, or for that matter FORTRAN?
> If your web site does not include ads, FLoC is already disabled

Citation? Here's what the FLoC explainer says:

> All sites with publicly routable IP addresses that the user visits when not in incognito mode will be included in the POC cohort calculation.

https://github.com/WICG/floc#sites-which-interest-cohorts-wi...

This sounds to me like all sites, whether they contain ads are not, are used to cluster users into cohorts.
It worked too. Most folks don't mention or know about it.

>Arthur Andersen was charged with and found guilty of obstruction of justice for shredding the thousands of documents and deleting e-mails and company files that tied the firm to its audit of Enron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Arthur_Andersen
I’d say it’s likely they were instructed to sit on it until the time is right
Won't it led to an instant annihilation?
Cholesterol/saturated fat will clog your penis arteries which is the leading cause of ED. (In fact ED is one of the first symptoms of heart disease, the No.1 killer.)

Nutrition Facts has a page about testosterone, I'd suggest you start there: https://nutritionfacts.org/2017/05/16/foods-that-affect-test...

edit: link to a video about ED vs diet: https://youtu.be/OVXzT_RBxFk
I’d like to see the numbers: the webpack config CRA eject gives you is a monster.
Same goes for MacOS, though the best experience is of course going to be with KDE or Gnome.
February: “As we _currently_ intend to hold these assets long-term”

March: sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of them

April: “As we _generally_ intend to hold these assets long-term”

(emphasis added)
It's such a ridiculously large organization that I think broad generalizations are going to necessarily fall short - I also have the general impression that Accenture is highly proficient at burning money but there've got to be a number of good departments and teams buried somewhere in there.
Indian Government recently made Twitter do similar things. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/26/twitter-under-...

Do you know what's worst? A guy was booked yesterday for Tweeting he needed oxygen cylinders which according to a state government is spreading fake news. https://thewire.in/government/amethi-up-police-arfa-khanum-s...

While COVID hasn't been kind to the people of India, The current regime's attempts to curb democracy is quite disturbing.
Flower Summit 2021 (The Friendly Federated Learning Framework)
It's Soros's tutorial on market manipulation, old news.
While I despise Cuomo, I'm a little leary about condemning politicians about their actions back in the early days of the pandemic. Taking action is sometimes necessary even with incomplete or bad information, and it will sometimes turn out to have been the wrong decision. That's inevitable. It would often be worse to have an executive that is paralyzed in fear of making a decision that turns out to be wrong.

Now, the post-facto coverup, that doesn't deserve any benefit of the doubt. That's just sleaze and corruption.
> There was no was way for him to return to solid Earth unless the lunar module came back.

Where did you get that idea from? This is the first time I see someone claiming something like that.
I think it’s much more likely for both these orgs to be telling the truth when they’re accusing their enemies of doing bad things than it is when they’re denying that they’ve done bad things themselves. It’s not a simple case of one consistently telling the truth, and the other consistently lying...
Data security is cool again
To be fair the fracking thing is a last 5 years thing, until about 2-3 years ago the all in cost of fracking wasn't competitive with saudi arabia/iraq.
The speedup from tools like esbuild, swc, etc. are not because of the language they were written in but because they're competing against Babel. Babel is this single-threaded highly-extensible behemoth. On top of this, you're encouraged to install dozens of plugins, and each plugin has access to global state.

The new transpilers have worked around this problem by introducing various limitations. esbuild plugins literally can't modify the AST. It's basically a way for you to run a command on a string/file. So sure, if you redefine the problem as string transforms rather than AST transforms, you can get an O(N) speedup...
Bottled water should be banned, even if just for the amount of plastic waste it generates. There's also research that shows the water can be contaminated with high levels of microplastics. Research on microplastics is fairly new but you can research that for yourself.
Judges taking their word for it is exactly what happens when you respond to a subpoena. That’s literally how it works.
The amount of mass exhaled as CO2 at night is nowhere near as much as the loss through perspiration and evaporation. Water loss happens pretty much constantly and is why one dies of dehydration after a couple days.
Some features seem to be, like the virtual input. Others work between desktops, like clipboard sharing, remote keyboard, and run command.
That is not true. They jettisoned the Eagle's ascent stage and returned with Columbia.
While this is true, "My Phone" doesn't do a great job of staying consistently connected, and it even fails to do a lot of the features that Connect can offer. I still prefer Connect on Windows.
Disclosure: I work at Avanade, an Accenture subsidiary focused on Microsoft-based tech solutions.

An agency is by definition a financial institution that has organized brains for rent at a significant mark-up.

Accenture's moats are risk, scale, and (as a result of scale) the depth and breadth of their partnerships and the services they offer.

Whether they execute them well is often beside the point - nobody else is willing to do it at all at the risk and scale levels being proposed.
Like if an organization with >500 000 employees across the world is the same everywhere. You might have been working with incompetent people, but it's not my case. Successful projects are delivery every day.

My worst experiences always come from working with Americans and I don't come to the conclusion that all Americans are incompetent.
The media control and censorship here in India is definitely getting our of hand!

Setting aside the absolute criminal mismanagement and planning of the Covid situation in the past few months, the fact that the people in power are still applying their brains and might into figuring out how to manipulate the narrative and how to squash dissent in this moment when the country is going through an unimaginable disaster.

Just today, a guy was slapped with some serious charges (which could lead to Jail time) because he tweeted that he needed Oxygen for his Grandfather. [1][2]

I know this is sounding alarmist but I've seen the change in the past 8 years and the country is heading in the direction of China at breakneck speed right now (not in the good way).

[1] https://thewire.in/government/amethi-up-police-arfa-khanum-s...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/mzx3zb/youth_sought_...
This might shock you, but webpack runs on node/V8 which is written in C/C++.
It's buyer beware. Yeah if you own a thing and people will buy it off you at a high price when you tweet buy
then you can make money.
I have some family in the industry as well and they report the same thing happens with every crew, a few of the workers are what you would call "ninjas/rockstars" in software and the rest are just there to do the minimum. Unfortunately it's hard to tell when hiring because everyone acts motivated for the job and their real work ethic doesn't show up until a few weeks later and you're stuck with them.
very very very little
(A) Existing relation with customer (including pre-negotiated MLA that legal signed off on, and ranch rates) & (B) safety of a big company (if project fails, legal can threaten and Accenture will throw bodies at it to mostly-finish).

Anyone who has never worked at a large enterprise probably doesn't understand how time consuming and annoying getting a new legal signoff can be.

I've worked at both consulting companies and customers hiring and using consultants.

When consulting is successful, it's usually because the client knows when they want built.

When consulting is a failure, it's usually because the client is too incompetent to even clearly identify their own needs.

And if the client, who by definition possesses the most detailed knowledge of the requirements, doesn't know what they need then the entire enterprise is doomed to failure.
I Created a Search Engine for Memes
They’re all hired by HALL
It's nearly always about natural resources, just because the US has the largest oil reserves doesn't mean it's going to stop there. And the wars you mentioned are just the boots on the ground (or drones in the air) conflicts. Were still backing coups in Latin America (Honduras, Venezuela, Bolivia) so US friendly governments are put into place that will allow American companies to extract their resources.
Short answer: legalized corruption.

Waste and overrun are not problems, they are the whole point of the endeavor. It is the opportunity to direct those into chosen pockets that motivates the stakeholders. The project itself amounts to legal cover, similarly to real estate now used for international money laundering. It looks like a real project, and something comes out at the end, but the majority of the money moved is just dollars shuffled from public purse to private.

It's all legal, so no risk of indictments. The US is the world leader in legalized corruption.
Sadly, the ex-Accenture people who get exec jobs in-industry didn't learn from the PowerPoint overkill, either. I work for a company completely run by ex-consultants. Who spend all their time sharing PowerPoint decks. The next layer or two or three of management spend all their time building those decks. We get called into meetings to talk about upcoming meetings, and asked to give the content for various slides in those decks. We recently had an influx of new leaders and now there is political infighting over whose format of decks and slides is the right one to use.

I clearly am also being snarky/sarcastic. They do know more than this and they do more than this. But there is a some real truth to the matter, that consultants never quite lose that idea that their job is to do snazzy presentations, and that ends up getting more focus than delivering product.
Err, this isn't correct. There would be be nothing preventing the command module from returning home in the event of the lunar lander not coming back from the moon. Though of course the command module pilot would be a bit more task-loaded.

I think you're thinking of the other way around - the LEM would have been unable to return to earth with the command and service modules. It lacked a heatshield.
Chipotle Sued over Scheduling Practices
The early days of the pandemic the first outbreak was in a nursing home in Washington.

That was when we were still counting the first hundred and contact tracing.

The people running the homes dissented against it. He still did it.

It doesn't take a genius to know you will infect elderly people by sending a highly contagious disease into their facility.

The cover up is beyond despicable, but the original action is indefensible.
Exactly this. Contrary to popular perception, UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, not Tourists From Other Galaxies.
> I have often wondered how rich life could be if we were more agreeable to give to the other the gifts of our marginally unused productivity (rather than giving it to netflix, facebook, instagram, and tik-tok...)?

You think life would be better if we all never stopped working and simply 'did our part' 16 hours a day without compensation?
> He knowingly sent people with covid into nursing homes against the will of the people running them...

Don't mean to be aggressive but where else would you like for the people whose domicile is in the nursing home to go? These are not people in independent living facilities, they likely need 24/7 skilled care.
Allowing the people to go back to the nursing home (aka their home) seemed like the right thing to do at the time. It unfortunately didn't play out so well and I am glad I wasn't the one making that decision.

I think it was a tough decision. The nursing homes could have contained the spread but clearly were incapable of doing so.

> Then stonewalled the Feds asking for information about those deaths.

No excuse for that, just lay it all out. The stonewalling was intentional and possibly illegal, he should answer for that.
Also any idea what the VOCs pollution or particulate matter is being released in the air from heated electronics e.g. lcd TV panel getting hit, computer monitors getting hot (WFH running it all day),hot laptops, hot charging bricks for electronics, etc.

I tend to smell the bad chemical smells from these hot electronics in plastic casing, what about furniture and other stuff indoors imparting VOCs e.g. formaldehyde? Surely these things are additive to the things mentioned in the article and bad for our health?
> I miss KDE Connect every time I'm on windows.

Poke around in here[1], I'm certain there's a build that works for most modern Windows 10 machines in here somewhere.

[1] https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/job/kdeconnect-kde/
You can switch to esbuild now or you can switch later, but you will switch. It is superior in design, configuration and performance by orders of magnitude.
You still can do polyfills manually via browserify packages
It's typically faster to calculate a reciprocal (especially at compile time) and then multiply it, but this is often at the expense of precision. In C++, for example, the -O3 flag on gcc will still emit a division (divss) to preserve compliant floating point precision in this example:
https://godbolt.org/z/PY3Wjno4P

However, when we enable `-ffast-math`, we permit the compiler to do a bit more aggressive optimization in this domain (trading off precision), and we see multiplication (mulss) is emitted:
https://godbolt.org/z/KEb1nc43z
At this point, do a little introspection. Did you hear about this last year? From who? Did you find it credible? Why or why not? Is there any way you can grow in your consumption of information based on your findings?
I will also add that there is essentially a ton of overhead built in by construction firms dealing with the city/MTA/PA. The industry generally sees them as being difficult customers who change their mind, plan poorly, and have a lot of change requests. This results in a fairly small pool of firms bidding on projects, the costs being padded, plus overruns and change requests being tacked on as they go for even more cost.
Cryptocurrency Correlation Study
I didn't realize for a long time that there was an interface beyond KidDesk because it was installed on all the computers at my elementary school.

I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
>Which part of that is 'a bit like a public lynching'?

We further resolve that:

We will not support the efforts of any party in the Scala community that provides a platform to Mr. Pretty. That includes, but is not limited to, boycotting events the party organizes and refusing to buy any product or service the party offers.
We will not attend any conference or user group meeting organized or attended by Mr. Pretty.
We will not attend any conference or user group meeting that does not have a code of conduct that is both specific (it must not allow predatory sexual advances in professional spaces) and actionable (it must provide a safe and accessible reporting mechanism for people who have been targeted).
We will not use or promote any software artifacts that are maintained by Mr. Pretty.

I'd rather avoid believing anything within Scala community until its proven.
Like Newsom who gave the biggest non-apology I've seen about getting caught violating his own COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, and then said the recall against him was being orchestrated by white supremacist antisemites (nazis) which is over 1.5 million people in his own state... I'm sure Cuomo will find something similar to say.
I tried it some weeks back but couldn't get it to work.
Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.”
Is he gonna start writing software? Be the change you want to see in the world, is what a zen master would tell you.
It's also possible that sugar-sweetened beverages are a proxy for something else. You can't establish causation with studies like this.
There was a hospital ship he could have used, it only had 179 patients over 3 weeks. There were hospitals made that never reached full capacity. Hell, setup a tent. You're saying the only option was to infect and kill 15,000 people?
Did you take occam’s razor into account? Why is this likely?
This is in some sense the conclusion of a conversation that has been going on for months on TikTok.

People ask Hank Green (of Crash Course/Youtube/etc. fame) questions. Sometime last year, someone asked where the wax went in a candle when you burn it (https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/6890298762032368898). Since then, hank has been in a bit of a feud with the collective of TikTok, who seem to be unwilling to understand that the wax is what burns (https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/6955202282313059590), despite his many attempts to explain (https://www.tiktok.com/@hankgreen1/video/6945244159187897605).

I'm partial to this explanation by another user (https://www.tiktok.com/@tomlumperson/video/69554934350171210...), who also has a great tiktok about bees: https://www.tiktok.com/@tomlumperson/video/69508366516858585....

Now, nearly 6 months later, the same question has made it to the mainstream and is getting asked of Randall Munroe in the NYT.
This doesn’t make any sense to me.

There’s no precedential issue here. Law enforcement can and routinely do demand such data, and in the case of other services they receive it. The only news here is that Signal can’t produce much of it because they don’t have it.

Signal is in fact complying with the subpoena. They’re not challenging anything in court.
My preference is Allman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#Allman_style

But I tend to use K&R or what ever the project I'm working on uses as no-one else uses Allman