skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can. I'm skeptical whether that'd be true - although I guess it's really academic, because high-profile employment disputes like this are almost always settled out of court.
Woah that's pretty cool. I expected it to be a vimium-style modal if I just typed `%` at any point in time - so for anyone else who was confused like me, it's a prefix in your address bar so ctrl+L then % and then type your query but still, awesome!
Please do not take HN threads into gender flamewar hell, or any flamewar hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27142902.
I agree. The US Government was founded on the idea of transparency, the people, are the ultimate power.

Nothing in the government should be secret forever. I realize we have national security. We shouldn't allow them to hide information from us forever. We need newer guidlines on this. Eg - after the government does something, maybe it should be brought out into the open after a certain period of time - a year - months - whatever - but it is something that we should demand.
Exactly.

It's maybe a tiny bit like SWATing before the police shot and killed one of the victims. Before, SWATers rationalized it as a prank, generally. (Of course, in reality it always was a potentially murderous prank, as most people recognized.) Once someone was killed and the SWATer was arrested and sentenced to life in prison, they got a wake-up call to the magnitude and potential consequences of their actions.

Unfortunately, in this case the ransomers will probably rarely ever face any repercussions (as long as they never travel internationally), since they live under a government that shields and permits their activities as long as the victims are far away.

They might risk getting hacked, like what ostensibly happened here, though this could easily also just be a cover story for them to disappear (and maybe retire for good) so the heat can die down. Could indeed potentially be a legitimate breach by a government or vigilante or rival though, though, due to how much this story blew up.
Multiple US agencies probing world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange
As a German I think it's really interesting to see how America's comparatively weak labor laws, especially around firing workers, are used in this instance in a purportedly justified way.

I wonder if there's any dissonance among those who argue for 'cancelling' someone's employment while also trying to advance workers rights in America. Maybe that intersection isn't very large?
Have witnessed Chipotle’s staff scream at a construction worker because he was using a tshirt as a face covering.

“That’s not approved!! Get out of here!”

Different things are happening
Yep. That’s the story. :)

Lots of Svelte users asked how I built the site so I figured it was worth open sourcing.
Spotted a typo op:

"Slach commands everywhere to make you more productive"

should be "Slash"
More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
I think that eventually, people will roll their own GUIs without using DOM.
Considering I played it on Pentium 2 with a very old 3D accelerator this isn't too surprising.
This was very informative. Thank you!

Reminds me of Workona, which also seemed appealing but didn’t find its way into my workflow.
Sounds like longing to return to the safe space where you can say what you want about others without consequences?
Weird, when I read the article earlier the page content stopped after the 'convars as a gadget' section. That did seem like an abrupt ending
I don't think people object to the language syntax itself, but rather the unfamiliarity and randomness of language conventions. Haskell/Perl/K/Scalaz is full of line noise I can't be bothered to learn, for example
https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops for more of these.
One study from Qatar: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2104974

For preventing infection:
B.1.1.7: 29.5% effective after one dose (Pfizer)
B.1.351: 16.9%

See Table 1 there for more details.
As long as that commentary doesn't interfere with his work life... I guess that would be fine. If everything we ever said on the internet was traced back to our name, we'd all have some pretty embarrassing blemishes. That's because failure is a part of learning, and social media has ultimately removed all of the nuance from failure. Instead of helping people up, we're more interested in kicking them while they're down for a little extra virtue to signal. We're all guilty of this to some degree: it's really just the human condition being exacerbated through the lens of the internet.

This guy sounds like a dick, but he doesn't sound like he's done anything wrong in this situation either. He had appropriate motivation to perform well in his position, and if Apple's human resources are worth their salt they'd be monitoring his performance very closely for the first month or two.
And because he’s a misogynist he deserves any and all bad things that happen to him?

There is a lot of people with stupid ideas in the world. You cannot punish them all just for their ideas.
I made exactly that error when I went back to refactor with my new-found knowledge, so I think that must have been it. Thanks, both of you! /facepalm
Because he was comparing the woman he was dating to his general experience.

You can look at the larger passage as important context. It’s easy to dismiss him still as a jerk, but what bothers me is the idea that one cannot have an authentic experience that isn’t totally whitewashed and ready to be used for an ad for a multinational.

Reading all of the selected quotes in that petition came off to me as thoughts he probably shouldn’t have published, but ones that many ordinary people have that aren’t total monsters. Yes he’s probably got a lot of toxic masculinity hold ups.. but so do millions and millions of people. If you read the minds of most employees at large companies and then put it into words, probably people would be fired left and right.

At some point we need to acknowledge personal thoughts aren’t always the same thing as professional interactions, and that people can also grow, learn and change.

He might not be the one for this, but I think the public response feels very snap for someone’s life. Probably almost no one signing that petition actually read his book or learned much about him in order to put things into context and perspective, yet they were easily wanting to ruin a man’s life.

NB Perhaps he deserves it, I don’t know. But I’m wanting to withhold judgement, and I don’t have enough time or cares to actually investigate him.
One study from Qatar: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2104974
Some people brag about knowing which bodega to go to buy Mexican Coca-Cola but people who shop at BHFM know they can easily get Nigerian Coca-Cola and half a dozen other country's local variant. One of these days I'm going to take my friend's daughter who loves noodle bowls down there just to blow her mind on the aisle of noodle bowls.
Could part of it be that Apple prioritizes apps with in app purchases?
You're describing one of my favorite mental models: https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
thank you, fixed the typo :)
> After this story was published, a Venmo spokesperson told BuzzFeed News: “The safety and privacy of all Venmo users and their information is always a top priority, and we take this responsibility very seriously.

The $THING_WE_FAILED_AT of all $PEOPLE_WE_FAILED and their information is always a top priority, and we take this responsibility very seriously.
app stores are not the place for software that generates no revenue
Nationalistic flamebait is not allowed on HN, regardless of what country you're talking about. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The writer seems to be fighting a battle that's already lost, against an imagined degradation of the status of engineer when the engineer term was never afforded the same status or responsibility as MD in medicine or JD in law. Medicine and law come with a set of legal responsibilities, government licensing, personal liability for incompetence and harm to others, and the threat of having your title stripped away. Engineer was only ever a certificate by the non-governmental ABET for college programs. Any employee deploying a degree of "ingenuity" to a problem for his employer is an engineer. If his ingenuity results in planes falling out of the sky, his employer is legally responsible, not him.

Of course, Professional Engineer (PE) is entirely different with similar legal responsibilities and sanctions as medicine and law. Maybe if the terms are too confusing PEs could do what lawyers and "doctors" did and start calling themselves Doctor Machinarius (DM) and stand among the ranks of MDs, JDs, and PhDs. Of course, that would require a regulatory body with actual teeth and government power instead of ABET.
I was digging around in a closet at home and found my 3 CDs for q3a... Mac, Windows, and the Linux version. All retail copies which I have purchased.

what a timeless game. all these years later and it's still so much fun to play.
Isn’t that on the publisher more than the person?
The problem is the US doesn't have any jurisdiction over Russia, and the Russian government turns a blind eye to these activities (and sometimes works with certain cybercriminals) as long as Russian citizens aren't victimized. Not only will they not extradite, they won't do anything at all to address it. So another government would have to resort to extralegal methods like what ostensibly happened in this case, if it isn't a smokescreen. (I think either scenario is plausible.)

(This isn't some anti-Russian screed or anything; this is just one particular point where the Russian government is IMO behaving improperly. I could elaborate if needed.)
Step 1: Throw every smart refrigerator, thermostat, doorbell, light switch, and speaker into a lake
Did John Doe get the cities to pull up all their streetcar rails and make life without cars much more inconvenient, or was that public policy project undertaken and pushed forward by the large oil interests?
You can feel however you want, what matter for downloads is how other people feel about it.

To make people feel anything about your product you will have to find ways to bring it in front of people and intrigue them. That's a billion dollars industry. Ad placements, collaborations, creative writing, graphic design, branding...

These don't come for free, you can make it yourself or pay someone to make it for you.

You say that your value prop is huge but I failed to see the value, it looks like the stock calculator in iPhone and the description doesn't tell me anything because the stock app is already ad free etc.
Forgetting the context surrounding this quote (which makes it no where near as bad IMO but I also acknowledge other readings are reasonable), I wonder if this hypothetical would be a proper analogue:

> García Martínez describes [men] in the [Wall Street] area as "[douchey] and [egotistical], cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit.”

That's the sort of sentiment I've heard over a drink about any number of places/topics, but I don't think it should be a fireable opinion to publish. Bonus points if you can explain how above example is different without using the word 'power'.

Edit: I've also noticed others posting quotes from the book where he uses equivalently inflammatory language against men, himself, people he worked with at goldman sachs (aka: my toy example pretty much does also appear in his book), etc. My opinion is this paints the book as more of a gauche satire against everyone/everything in his life.
I don’t at this point. I have been playing around with the idea of a release or something similar. But people tend to expect a lot when a new language is shown. I don’t know if anyone would be interested in just reading about the language and then not even being able to use some light playground or anything.

I have been considering doing an Ask HN to see what people felt should be included on an initial ‘release’ or showing of a language. Maybe I should.
Accepting the hypothesis that he adopted an abrasive public persona in which he says crude things as a personal marketing technique, and doesn't actually believe the things he said about the value of women, the failure here is that neither he nor Apple predicted the fairly-obvious need for him to pivot away from that persona.

A bit of public commentary along the lines of "I was trying to exaggerate what I saw as the flaws of this system, to draw attention to them; I know now that this approach didn't work for many people, and I'm sorry about that", and the upset of his imminent coworkers might have been diverted.

But just being caught by surprise by it? Definitely someone screwed up.

(The email to that journalist linked elsewhere is evidence that said hypothesis might be flawed. Certainly, the apparent unwillingness to make anodyne "I'm sorry for my past actions" comments is suggestive on that front.)
This is not a debate about "cancel culture". This is about a awful person who should not be hired into a leadership role where he is directly responsible for people he has treated horrifically in the past. And, like most narcissists, the evidence is in his own public statements and actions - not applied by the media or any outside group.
That read like a reasonable summary to me. What makes you say it’s biased towards AGM?
Now they need to register every aaaa... domain from ~20-50 characters so all you need to do is hold the "a" key for a little bit.
not to worry ! Lots of cytokine inhibiting drugs on the market, like anti-tnf drugs and anti-IL biologic drugs. All for the low price of about $5-10k/month. Ask your doctor about ustekinumab/adalimumab/vedolizumab. May cause cancer, demyelination and death.
(I'm past the edit window, but to be clear—I don't actually think they screwed up the aspect ratio! It just has that look to me.)
Is the waitlist thing reflecting a true concern about availability, or a desire to give a perception of scarcity and allowing those "selected" to use the service early to feel special about it? If the former, why show how many people have signed up for it?

Either way, why have you "shown HN" a product that isn't actually available for HN to use?
Workplace injuries.

"Never ascribe to malice what can also be ascribed to incompetence."
22,000 downloads of a free app at launch is no big deal. It's free and he's having to pay for hosting for the backend. I can stand on the corner and give away dollar bills too.
Hillary Clinton: "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?"

https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorabl...
I have a master of science degree in computer science. Where I live that is not that attractive anymore. Interviewers are like, oh this new framework, you know about this? They don't even pretend to be interested about the science part of programming.
Wait-list required and no demo? No thank you.
Another example is why app level security is so important. Why shouldn’t games allow arbitrary code execution? It only matters because the access space for programs is still so broad.

People complain when applications on Mac request permission to access files, but that makes such a huge difference. It’s time for kernel level permissions to be standard on desktops.
As pointed out by the preprint, the same effect is observed in serval other common vaccines (BCG, Measles, etc.)

Trial data for the mRNA vaccines has not yet indicated an elevated risk of experiencing a cytokine storm.

There’s really not much to get excited about here.
Workplace injuries. Better to blame adversaries than leave yourself liable for a payout of millions in Workers' Compensation claims.
For me it's a todo list. If I'm playing a game, researching a topic, and so on I have a window with tabs in it for that one thing. This works well enough and it feels nice shutting the window for closure when I no longer need it.

The problem is when I have stuff that sits around for longer like the Fast AI course I'm doing. That window is taunting and mocking me.

Edit: Looks like I have this in a tab because I meant to finish reading it. 7 months. I have a problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737026
https://archive.ph/zYjry
The offices are usually based in the areas where the founders live. The founders typically live in expensive locations because that’s where the funding is.

You’re setting yourself up to be a second class citizen from the get go unless the founders move.

You may as well just ask for people founding businesses to be remote first to begin with. That’s an easier ask than asking people who are founding businesses to setup remote offices and treat those people nicely. I’ve never seen it done.

I haven’t experienced any politics being shoved down my throat. But, idk, I am accepting of people and somewhat tolerant of others beliefs (white supremacy isn’t one I am tolerant of though...). So, there is that.
https://api.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Shadow of the Beast was one of the most impossibly hard games to play of all time. But that sounds
and music.
How long can a hiring manager at Apple give to evaluating a candidate? Reading a book will take 10+ hours. In this case it would obviously have been a good idea for everyone (although an emotionally well-adjusted hiring manager might read it and not realize that it would create such a shitstorm).
> I wonder if there's any dissonance among those who argue for 'cancelling' someone's employment while also trying to advance workers rights in America.

This is basically the rhetoric of the current Democratic party in America. It's still a better dialogue than what the RNC is working with ("Keep giving celebrities money and we'll fix it eventually!"), but the amount of people who blindly lead where their peers follow is staggering.

Is there any dissonance though? No, not really. Most people have been bullied into worrying about their image more than anything else, so speaking up is a particularly risky move. The intersection is significant, but most people just don't care enough to do their own research or have actual conversations about theory outside of Twitter.
I'd certainly look at this situation differently if Apple based their firing on claims of harassment. Antonio's email is definitely strongly worded. Though I'd want to look at the series of "unhinged tweets" sent by Moore - my perspective on this is that a lot depends on what Moore sent before this. If it was civil, then Antonio's email goes beyond the pale. If it was comparable, then I see it in a different light if he was met with similar vitriol beforehand.
Strong contender for an Ignoble.
That's one of the reasons I won't do game development anymore, the industry as a whole is still very hostile to the idea of open source. I don't see that changing any time soon.
It is very very sad that this has to even be said, but freedom means tolerating things you don't agree with, diversity means tolerating viewpoints different than yours.

Is the US a nation of laws or a nation ruled by mob?
I had two of these moments, both with former top 3 tech giants (they were both far removed from the top by the time we talked).

The first gave us all sorts of access to their products first, presumably to see how our product would utilize them. And we used this as selling point to customers, not recognizing that we were kind of doing advertising for that other company as well as removing a barrier to customer acquisition. Nearly eight months in and that relationship petered out.

Second was more exciting. They came in loud and excited and had recently made some 9 figure acquisitions. They wanted to move quick so they started some technical evaluations. Tons of questions, requests, ideas, meetings, handoffs, etc. After four months of this we kind of got sick of doing their bidding without any timeline for how the process might go. After pressing a few times, they went cold. Our assumption was they were initially interested in a deal but moved into make-it-feel-like-we'll-be-family-soon-so-they-share-way-too-much mode.

I believe the second group was intent on just replicating what we had but I watched them closely and nothing materialized. I suspect given the resources they devoted the project collapsed there or was repurposed to a subsidiary.
Ask HN: Would you buy an NFT T-Shirt that says that you are vaccinated?
maybe?
It's because I like working closely with early users to nail the features and experience instead of opening the floodgates right away.
Definitely agree here. I’ve never associated a physical ruler with the verb rule.
I wonder whether it still uses fast inverse square root algorithm.
Supercharger network is a big advantage for Teslas. Hoping the other charging networks catch up eventually.
Impossible to decouple the pandemic from whatever happened with work from home productivity.

Our management “COVID-paused” lots of projects because of uncertainty.
Mahle's cheap, highly efficient new EV motor uses no magnets
How timely. Just finished watching 'startup' on netflix. Wouldn't be ironic if 'some company' started a darknet for their apps.
The authour tends to write about this topic a lot. I found it more or less reasonable, but they no doubt have a bias.
Feature-wise, here's how Typesense compares to Meilisearch, Algolia and Elasticsearch: https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-...

I don't have comparative benchmarks, but here are some Typesense benchmarks:

A dataset containing 2.2 Million recipes (recipe names and ingredients):

- Took 3.6mins to index all 2.2M records

- On a server with 4vCPUs, Typesense was able to handle a concurrency of 104 concurrent search queries per second, with an average search processing time of 11ms.

A dataset containing 28 Million books (book titles, authors and categories):

- Took 78mins to index all 28M records

- On a server with 4vCPUs, Typesense was able to handle a concurrency of 46 concurrent search queries per second, with an average search processing time of 28ms.

With a dataset containing 3 Million products (Amazon product data), Typesense was able to handle a throughput of 250 concurrent search queries per second on an 8-vCPU 3-node Highly Available Typesense cluster.
hehe, there you go

https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e/blob/2c96f6d58619a29589bac577...
Blame regulation, not financial speculation, for skyrocketing housing prices
Absolutely irrelevant, but I cannot help but remember the nooooooooooooooo button.

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
This is the only reason I use edge over chrome, for tree tabs. I would use firefox but I have noticed significant slowdown on some websites that I use frequently.
Lock downs didn’t last that long. By the time the second wave hit, everything besides large in person gatherings wetback to normal. At least in the mid west.
> Yes people need to take yearly vaccines not to die of horrible diseases. That has been the case for the last few hundred years.

This isn't even remotely true. There's a set of vaccines taken in childhood, a few later. And that's it generally.
> I got downvoted for saying that maybe it's time to treat serious ransomware attacks (infrastructure, security, health, etc.) as terrorism - as in the sense that they're a threat to the national security

Um. Terrorism is basically never a threat to national security.
German equivalent: Being fired with two weeks notice during the trial period (or 4 in first 6 months), no reasons needed or given. Not that much different, unless you got the employer to agree to give you full protection from day 1? (which I guess might be possible in a "they headhunted that dude specifically" contract)
Machine Learning in Compiler Optimization