skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this notion - other comments here are saying micromanagement is a symptom of a trust shortfall (which can be true), but where I’ve seen it most is managers who aren’t as adept at communicating direction or feedback and fall back to dictating how they would do it.

I’ve found there’s quite a bit I could do as their subordinate to coach them surprisingly - open conversation about what kind of direction was useful, what kind of feedback was valuable etc went a long way to mature their ability to manage people.
Sounds easy but in practice how do you deal with the many multigenerational households?
I think the most hamfisted ones stand out the most, so we might be underestimating mean quality. Not sure it matters though.

Twitter sockpuppeting is a recurring red herring, not just regarding china. For all the attention it receives, it's not a major component of any major effort. FWIW, I don't think anyone's is particularly slick. It's not intended to be. At best, it's about algorithm hacks and generating a veneer of debate.

As "sentiment analysis" becomes integrated (intentionally, or accidentally) into recommendation engines and such... these may be more about fooling machines than people. Not saying this is a factor now (or ever, necessarily), just that stuff can look lame but still work.

This article seems to be referencing registered lobbyist budgets, which is another relatively minor component. It's also relatively easy to obscure, or act through proxies. In some cases, proxy can be fairly nebulous... relating to what you call structural propaganda.

The most visible parts are not necessarily good indicators, is my main point.
Show HN: So Why Superstrings?
wanted to post a "text Show HN" here to make it more accessible for feedback / thoughts, if any

for better format ~ https://superstrings.substack.com

So Why Superstrings?

if future built by folk who fork n create things,
even though there is right now quite actally zero (0) market for a copyleft weblog, given we’re in it for the longview & to be real pro-level wild paperback writer, to create a build-a-block styled web-share-build creation sounds nice in the sense that a blog like such equipped w/ optionality to offer one to:

- build a new build-a-block styled blog & make new ones

- adopt a block & reinvent a story into a new movie (or short film), new podcasts, etc. & sell commercial (CC BY-SA 4.0)

- or just to share a learning like simple, succinct, so fresh & so clean clean

& meantime be a way to give back / pay forward in a manner kinda sorta way 90s

// to build together
And those people get infrastructure spending in their areas that NYC dwellers never use too.

What you are pointing out is a fundamental issue with taxes; the only hope is to have a systems that citizens feel is mostly equitable.
Personally I loved every bit of the GME show and I'd love to see short sellers get squeezed on TSLA as well.

Shove it to them. We don't need pessimists in this world.
Long working hours are killing hundreds of thousands of people a year, WHO says
And now 7 years into Handoff existing, we still don't have Handoff/Continuity for music.

Drives me nuts that Spotify's works so well and Apple Music (by the company that invented handoff) doesn't have it at all.
You say that, but similar articles about Google directors and such like have historically generated a lot of upvotes and conversation. Yet this and others have been flagged to hell and back the moment it reaches the front page. The fact that this story keeps popping in and out of the flagged state shows there’s a lot of people vouching for it and thus a lot of interest. It definitely feels a little off how different the Gates submissions have been flagged vs similar topics from other companies.
That's not true though, the tree stop growing at a certain point and is really carbon neutral until it dies and decays into the ground and new ones replace it.

By removing trees and planting new ones, this process is sped up and more carbon is removed from atmosphere.
Magisk developer John Wu now works for the Android Platform Security team
Rather sure the intelligence agencies know. They would just scan the spectrum looking for communications from Mars.
Yep, it was a sad day when they switched from vinyl 45 singles to digital.
> risk to young healthy individuals is negligible,

No.

https://twitter.com/Samanticka/status/1393188103586816001?s=...

>> Think of a virus where 70% of kids are totally asymptomatic, less than 1% have severe symptoms, and less than 0.05% die. Phew that's no big deal for kids then! Don't worry about them!

>> Oops actually it's polio in the 1950s
> whoever was in charge of those decisions seems to have lost decision-making power

I guess we're both speculating here, but even if the same people were in charge, I think they breathed a sigh of relief when they realized that the personal computing segment had spiced up again. From about 2014 to 2019, Mac revenue basically plateaued in line with the entire laptop market. People were crazy about phones but laptops had hit a wall.

When you have to sell laptops to people whose yesteryear laptops do everything they need, you start adding random bullshit to the product because you have to capture the market's attention somehow. I think this is how we ended up with the touch bar. It's a step backward, but it's flashy and made the product look fresh(er) despite the form factor being identical to what they were selling in 2013.
>Michael Burry is long puts

....so short?
>The "Russia is invading our country" narrative is only held by some

Yh. Non-ethnic Russians.
AirPod Pro and Max will not support it.

https://www.imore.com/airpods-max-dont-support-apple-musics-...
DLQ is the way to do this. Nothing silly about it.
That's with a direct stimulus, though. I'm sure if someone put a fake "energy weapon" gun next to your or my head and pulled the trigger, we'd probably start feeling psychosomatic symptoms, too.

In these cases, the symptoms always come on totally unexpectedly and abruptly, and immediately dissipate if the victim walks away and return if they return. And they just so happen to only occur in Havana and Moscow rooms with American and Canadian spies and diplomats (aka probably undercover spies, in many cases) in them, with the exception of these three reported DC/Virginia cases.

I could write like a whole 20 page essay on this with all the circumstantial evidence that makes me think it's likely legit. I recommend reading that GQ article in full if you haven't (https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro...).

I think it's likely some percentage of these cases are psychogenic, and it's even more likely for the DC cases, but I think it's more likely than not that a lot of them are real. It definitely might not be some kind of microwave weapon, but whether it's just some kind of noxious chemical or some crazy invention, I'd bet on it being real and deliberate. I'm a very skeptical person and tend not to buy conspiracy theories like these, but I think there's enough substance at this point to consider it likely, IMO.
Fooling around with an employee is certainly much better than some of the other stories floating around. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4lqt_JLrGU
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Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes
Who says? Actual question.

> TUIs are meant for compatibility

Nonsense. Our machines don't even get GUIs installed.
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For context new the US budget for Sinophobic Propaganda is $300 million (https://i.redd.it/zfxq7nwhtny61.jpg)

Compared to $10 million from China last year

I'm sure no to relief for asian americans getting attacked by this scape goating
As options can grant the buyer significant leverage with each option representing 100 shares, the sum they came up with for the article title is likely a misrepresentation, and if the bet goes wrong notably less money will probably be lost. Either way I don't think articles of this nature are particularly useful however.
A static blog generator: https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog (See for an example website: https://plurrrr.com/ ).

I made it open source because I wanted it to be part of my resume.

The project is small (around 1 kLOC) and hence is easy to keep active.
The only new reveal is the dollar figure. Burry has been very openly (and vocally) short on Tesla for a while now. He has been Tweeting a bunch about it since September last year. Tesla shares are up ~75% since those original Tweets.

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" applies to both amateur traders and the most seasoned investor/genius alike.
Short sellers aren’t pessimists. They’re realists.
Pics or it didn't happen [0].

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/completed-missions/pic...
Spanner is a strongly consistent system leveraging Paxos. Yes, with sufficient redundancy you can reduce the likelihood of a partition. You still want to know what the guarantees of the system are. Spanner guarantees that if a transaction can't be agreed to by a quorum of nodes, it will be rejected. Ergo, favoring consistency. That guarantee matters, no matter how infrequent partitions are.
Supply cannot respond that quickly. This will take a couple of years to run through the economy properly. Stuff like industrial metals are clearly at a fairly early stage (the issue wasn't the recovery but that the chattering classes convinced everyone that the economy was going to shut down for years).

Speaking generally, you don't need to predict where the economy will go next year either. If the economy grows 10% but people decide they need to hold more cash, you are going to lose money. You need to move beyond the first-level (and sometimes it is perfectly legitimate to just observe...I remember people saying that shipping had run its course earlier this year...a lot of these stocks are up 100% YTD). You have to understand the fundamentals and how people interpret those fundamentals.
sounds like your team is in good shape...

so move on to things that can keep them that way..
tools, training, etc.

Maybe schedule time to talk about long term project goals..
the big refactor that everyone knows needs to be done, but can never get approval for. Then get management to buy-in :-)

Or talk to some of the other departments to see what 'hidden' problems they have - some of them might be up your teams alley.
It sounds like the short thesis is centered around Tesla’s revenue coming in large part from regulatory credits.

If you take out credits and crypto, they look like most other car manufacturers, struggling to make a profit.

> As more automakers produce battery electric vehicles of their own, ostensibly fewer will need to purchase environmental regulatory credits from Tesla, which they have done in order to become compliant with environmental regulations.

> In the fourth quarter of 2020, Tesla’s $270 million in net income was enabled by its sale of $401 million in regulatory credits to other automakers.
The downside is that this approach seems to only be available to nation-states that aren't particularly governed by rule of law.
Couldn't they have invented a non-standard codec that used data transfer to support this though?

Like, I know this isn't trivial, but I could send a FLAC file between computers right now, and this is hardly a recent thing. Couldn't they conceivably use some HLS-esque thing on top of bluetooth to accomplish this?

Granted, I suspect the issue might be bandwidth being too low to make this realistic.
one thing i learned, do not short scammers!
That was my first Mac, so maybe it is a MacOS issue not M1.

I just described my bad experience with M1 with Big Sur. Not sure who is to blame.
What we really need is more basic research into vaccines. We need a solid theory of vaccine safety, so that we can inject people on the first day of the pandemic.

How can we ethically get such a theory? Cancer. Tailor make a vaccine targetting the particular cancer cell a given patient has. If you give this as a hail-mary to those with a bad prognosis it becomes a win-win.
> You don’t need to challenge every instance of vague similarities.

I would agree if Nreal were a supermarket chain or an airline, but since Nreal is (arguably) in a gaming business Epic's lawyers might decided that it's too close to their own trademark.
Cross-core interrupts and syscalls are slow. The caches for any memory to be transferred have to be flushed on the calling core and its APIC would have to interrupt the destination core to start executing the syscall, which means entering kernel mode on the calling core to get access to the APIC in the first place.

If the goal is low latency then staying on a single core is almost always better. To effectively use multiple cores requires explicit synchronization such as io_uring which uses a lock-free ring buffer to transfer opcodes and results using shared buffers visible from userspace and the kernel. io_uring has an option to dedicate a kernel thread to servicing a particular ring buffer, and this can also be limited/expanded to a set of cores. I have zero experience with io_uring in practice and so I don't know what a good tradeoff is between servicing a ring buffer from multiple or single cores. The entries are lightweight and so cache coherency probably isn't too expensive and so for a high CPU workload that also needs high throughout allowing other cores to service IO probably makes sense.

I think newer x86_64 chips also allow assigning interrupts from specific hardware to specific cores to effectively run kernel drivers mostly on a subset of cores, or to spread it to all cores under heavy I/O.
This is my favorite example:

https://twitter.com/chenweihua/status/1334561058799964164
If you have Sonos speakers you can do all of that for any music streaming service that they support
This is still very contrived. If all housing does is signal income, then why is housing so much more attractive than an expensive car or an expensive watch?

Even in places with low demand stable access to housing is still attractive. It's just rarer in places with high demand. This is reproduced in many cultures, for example in some Arab countries "renter" is an insult to someone you are dating.
Puts and shorts aren’t the same thing.
It can't run Intel-based OSs or VMs, of course, but the latest version of Parallels Desktop runs ARM-based Linux guests on M1 Macs, as well as the Windows 10 ARM preview. (VMware has implied that the next release of Fusion will support Apple silicon as well.)
Haven't smartphones made it obvious that they can? How many times have you checked your phone today? If they're not literal mind-control devices they're certainly putting thoughts into our heads that wouldn't otherwise be there.
This is widely-cited and has become a bit of a trope among many people here in Switzerland, but one famous example that isn't usually looked upon with pride today is the extremely delayed granting of suffrage to women in Switzerland (1971 nationally, 1991 in the last canton), or the current same-sex marriage referendum considered long-overdue by some. There are a few other human/civil rights along this vein that, at least to me, point to the possibility of a better system that can balance direct democracy (at least in the sense of modern Switzerland, California on a state level, etc.) with some longstanding sense of inherent rights.
Idk, seemed like Melania Trump is fair game to many. Funny how intelligent immigrant women get dragged by liberals when they don't align with them ideologically.
I've heard that such debt contracts have been retroactively-changed to be paid in gold instead of the hyper-inflated currency.

I cannot find evidence to backup such claims, has anyone else heard of this or have an expample?

And like another user suggested, what's to prevent the government from passing a law that changes debt contracts?
How does this work? The article assumes I should already know the mechanics of it, but googling only seems to turn up a bunch of the same sorts of articles.
>Chinese propaganda is just so... Tone deaf

Ironic, seeing as Chinese is a tonal language.
Teslas price is just too high. I think they will be very successful and become a big, dominant car maker.

But their price only makes sense if they end up being the only car maker left.

That's not realistic. Building an electric car is not that hard, especially if Tesla already did all the hard lifting for you.

For a while I was thinking that the battery play - becoming the number 1 battery supplier - will justify the price, but what I see right now looks like there is many players, old and new, moving in.

I won't short them tough, in the end I'm just a dog on the internet and have no clue how stonks work.
There are plenty of self-hosted dropbox alternatives that don't do that.

I get that not everyone is a "take matters into their own hands" kinda person, but it's worthwhile to at least look into it and see if it's something worth pursuing for you.
That can't be propaganda, because it is from the US. Only the Chinese and Russians do propaganda, primarily through sneaky television stations that are openly owned by the state and think they have a right to broadcast opinions on US politics.
we need rational thinkers. over optimism can be just as dangerous as pessimism
> $530 million bet

> long puts against 800,100 shares

I find the title misleading. Unless I misunderstand, Michael Burry has not actually put $530M of his money at risk. He's made a much smaller, leveraged bet. $530M is just the notional value.
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I was sitting cross legged during a long civ session and using my left hand to balance part of my MBP up.

It wasn't until the next day that I discovered a painful red spot on my hand. That was a few months ago. While the spoot is no longer painful, it is still there today. The macbook slowly cooked a portion of my hand.

The thermals on those old machines are just terrible, and I have evidence of it :-)
I really appreciated this post by Gelman — I don't always empathize with his writing, but it was a good thing to learn about this side of his experience, him being someone that I think of as being on the other side of that social inclusion continuum. At the same time I agree with you that it's hard to know what to make of it because he did obviously get through it, and the problem is that so many don't, for many reasons.

I have maybe too many reactions to put into words, but the thing I wrestle with most about the phenomenon he's pointing to is why isn't this more fully acknowledged by the community, however you define that? It's the strangling silence about these types of phenomena that is maybe the worst, at a number of levels. When you're going through it, I think part of the problem is that there's no inputs to provide a different perspective, to show you "hey this looks this way but it's not". It's not even within someone's abilities at that point at some level, as you're lacking any sort of realistic social inputs. Then, at another level, why doesn't, say the academic community come to terms with how common these sorts of pathological dynamics are, and how dominant they are in outcomes? Why isn't the broader nonacademic community more aware of these kinds of problems?

I don't think these sorts of issues are without consequence either. For example, this story isn't really about the same thing, but I do think it starts to involve related social problems, that had worldwide implications for COVID, measles, and tuberculosis: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu... . To me one of the worst problems with politicization of COVID science is how unrealistic both sides seemed to get, with one invoking strange conspiracy theories when typical academic politics is trouble enough, and the other seemingly in denial about any sort of problems in academic science.
Half of the country thinks the Mueller report exonerated Trump. The body politic has become completely decoupled from reality.

If it's that easy for Russians to influence our politics, why wouldn't the Chinese perceive that there is low-hanging fruit in running general disruption?
Not sure how it's ironic, since the GME community hates the shorts, and he's betting against the shorts?
What you're describing doesn't sound like micromanagement, it just sounds like a manager who's fussy about all the little details. Some people really care about the small details, but there's a way of doing that correctly, especially when it's directed towards your subordinate (for example, asking why something was done a certain way - maybe there's a good reason - instead of saying it's wrong). If it was done in a way that caused you to leave then it's obviously bad.

Micromanagement is usually more about the manager taking a normal-sized task and breaking it up to steps that are too small to make sense on their own, then checking in with the employee on every step. This blocks the employee from developing their own method of work, applying creative thinking, etc.
This is a great start. More or less all web sites are technically non-compliant with Australian government security standards (ISM) because TLS has diverged so widely from NIST and those standards dictate NIST approved cryptography.

Nobody cares, of course, but it causes pointless conversations and wasted time with auditors.
It looks like all of these are the same

echo hi > out.txt
echo append >> out.txt
sort < stdin.txt
ls /bad 2>&1 | tee out.txt

But here docs don't work the same way:

sort <<EOF # syntax error in fish

I don't really like the here doc syntax so I guess that is pretty good. The && issue is still there on my Ubuntu Bionic machine:

fish: Unsupported use of '&&'. In fish, please use 'COMMAND; and COMMAND'.

ls && ls
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the GME community was long GME, against the shortsellers. So if he did bet against the shortsellers, no it's no ironic.
“The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
Those two situations don't seem to have anything in common other than the use of shorts.
Yes, but you can also “short” puts by selling them.
> this just seems like a gamble rather than the well-reasoned short position based on deep (and unpopular) analysis that his subprime mortgage play was.

A short is a gamble all the time because you don't know the time component. Burry was "lucky" in that it happened fast enough. There are lots of people who want to short Tesla but don't dare to because of the cost involved in it and unpredictability of when their bet would pay off.
nb: According to the article, $530m is the notional value of his puts, not the premium he paid. 8k contracts is a fairly substantial trade on a $566 stock, but it's not as sensational as the headline makes it sound.
face palm you are of course correct
Metro North fares are also pretty high, and the suit-and-tie Metro North riders also aren't the people I had in mind who would be hurt by an extra $330/year tax.

Highway maintenance is another story and you have a good point there.

But I really wish that people wouldn't treat the state's finances like a battle of wills between the poor oppressed Westchester commuters and Manhattan tech bros versus the greedy rural upstate leeches.
Their pricing page doesn't have any pricing. It shows three tiers, each one without a price, and when you click to "learn more" it asks you to fill out your personal information. I'm not impressed.