skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting the CFO got more than 3x the CEO, and more than 2x CEO + VP. Does anyone know the reasoning behind that?

It seems a bit shady to me in general for a CFO to be paid large performance bonuses.
> Of course, that's just not what anyone is saying anyway.

Except David Benatar and Sarah Perry, maybe?
Grokking Lenses
It's the idea behind "no ex-post-facto laws" part. It's illegal to sell a car without seat belts, not because someone may be injured in an accident, but that there is a law requiring seat belts.

Otherwise all activities could be found to be harming after the fact. Note that this doesn't apply to civil suits.
it's really pretty simple: caring more about politeness than about the core of people's arguments is both intellectually dishonest and endemic on this site.
> Men tend to be ok with dying at work. I’m exaggerating a bit but historically, we were doing nothing about safety in 1800s until women started working in factories too.

> I’m focussing on men because they die 11-18x more than women is all Western countries, but most of those deaths were in worker jobs, and if we include service industry, I’m sure the difference is tighter. But still a multiple.

I think you need to qualify those deaths a bit. On a long enough timeline men and women all day at the same rate. If it's while at work that absolutely makes sense given that women didn't "work" like men did until recently.
I think you're just trying to justify an unjustifiable test to protect your ego.

First, if you're just hiring assistants from the Philippines they could just have someone else take the test or get around it some other way.

Second, you have no good data to support this hiring practice. You're free to use it, but it's no better than just hiring a random person from your pool of applicants. You might as well screen based on their favorite color too to just make up filtering criteria.
According to Wikipedia "The entire mass of the Earth at neutron star density would fit into a sphere of 305 m in diameter"

So I assume 610m in diameter would be 8 earth masses?

That's still 4000 times less than 10% of the mass of the sun
Seems this is based upon data up to 2019. Would be very interested in seeing the data for 2020 and 2021 down the line.

I see China is a large factor in this increase and wondered what the tax rate was, it seems that it is one of if not the lowest based upon https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/global/pdfs/en/China_...

I then wondered what the history of that tax was and from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022610/
it does seem that it has not seen the yearly tax increase that many countries have and it was in 2015 the last time it increased with the last in 2009.

Looking more into it, China does seem to be changing and I suspect given this link (which as a URL I think is lovely as it says it all) https://www.who.int/china/news/detail/26-05-2021-who-and-the...

Which with political drive, could see things change rather fast and that for consumption would be a major market impact as currently the consumption in China alone sustains the market and be nice to see tobacco fields re-tasked for things like food in the years ahead.

Though like many, 2020 and the whole COVID-19 pandemic would certainly of had an impact and for some, they might of slipped back into the habit having given up, others may of taken it as opportunity to give up for health reasons and I suspect many overall will either give up or be motivated to give up for health reasons/concerns. With that in mind, it will be sure interesting too see the data over the years too come.
Not intentionally misleading, of course. But I too first misinterpreted "RAM is getting smaller" as RAM that has smaller storage, which is counter to experience. But that's the size dimension I confront in everyday life, not the physical dimensions of the chip. I knew I must not be getting it, but I didn't think of the physical size until I read the article.
ShellCheck starts in a few milliseconds on my machine, easily fast enough to run on every character press. Haskell's runtime isn't like the Java JVM, and GHC compiles to machine code, not interpreted bytecode.
Do you also think the world was black and white back then?
In a more perfect world the headline would read, British Cops thought they were raiding a bitcoin mine and instead found a weed farmer.
Nobody walks in LA [1]

What a neat way to remember something. Nothing flashy, just simple maps and pictures and HTML. I've never been to LA, but it's cool to see it from a walking point of view, and not just the overhead pictures of highways that I'm used to seeing.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80WyBxo0Hto
https://github.com/ndmckinley/terraform-provider-dominos
Seems you can see some of them on their company linkedin page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/anthropicresearch/about/
I wrote a browser extension that could be used or adapted for this purpose.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-tab-url/

The description contains a link to the source code.
I tried to build a non-tree HTML parser that stores tags

<em><p></em></p> would have become a linked list of four nodes <em> --> <p> --> </em> --> </p>

To efficiently find siblings there are forward/backwards links from <em> to </em> like in a skip list.

I have implemented this list, but never actually used it that way. It became too confusing. So I now remove mismatched tags, while creating the list, making it equivalent to a tree. Now I probably should rewrite it to not actually store closing tags.
No one would be surprised if this was about the US, but it's that "euro" symbol that makes it surprising.
What does age/race/gender have to do with this?
60 DWPD was the original optane development result, but the final product that we can buy is 10 DWPD.

My issue with DWPD is that you can have the firmware complexity pretend the drive is good while losing space... I prefer to have really solid "100.000 writes per bit" 50nm SLC flash memory cells with less magic.

If everyone is measuring NVMe vs. SATA how come I can't find anything interesting when googling? It's only popular articles about the high level difference, "the plug is different"... I would like benchmarks with apples to apples CPU usage while having alot of concurrent data in flight simoultaneously!
I can't second this. Everytime I'm in the US I'm scared of all the friendly, smiling people, asking "How are you?" in such a friendly tone, it's delightful. Of course it's faked, anyone knows, and dare if you'd reply with "not good, my aunt just died". Awkward situation ensues, everybody tries to get out of the situation ("and what would you like to have for breakfast tomorrow?").

Now replay the same situation in another ("non-friendly") culture. Most of the "not-friendly" cultures would invite you to a free beer, asking what happened etc.
That's a very different claim than your parent post.

Portable generic VM (like the jvm but for anything), sure why not.

Having web browsers allow arbitrary access to hard disk? That's something else.
Back when I was 19 I learned you could steam vegetables in a rice cooker, you can actually live very cheaply if you don't eat meat. I think I probably spent about $10 a day on food, compared to now where I probably average between 30 to 60 a day
It's actually quite shocking how, when the primary idea is "dump money into the economy," giving the money to people instead of banks or firms is so controversial. It's more socialist and more capitalist, if you believe in that sort of thing.
CFO writes the checks?
Human–Animal Communication
Relatedly, Garagin might've been picked to be the first human in space due to his winning smile.
Auto_explain is a pretty great tool to spread knowledge on yea - I've actually built out a lot of functionality related to our DB handle where I work and one of the features I added was a software configuration to establish a threshold that could also be impacted by other runtime variables. We've used this to track specific classes of queries over time and figure out what's going wrong and it can be advantageous (if you know a query sometimes does run long) to capture explains of it executing quickly - sometimes you'll get really helpful information like the query planner changing it's mind when passing a threshold of so many rows and know clearly what you want the query planner to decide to do.

If you're a small enough shop to consider it I highly recommend setting up something to automatically explain queries meeting some criteria on production or using some analysis stack (like new relic) to just capture all the query executions within certain time windows.

These tools all come with costs and should never just run continuously on production if you're getting no benefit from them, but the value can be quite significant.
Right in statistically mostly it does / they do.
There is another twist, what if the future generation is doomed to die with the solar system, shall we even care "future generations exists" or not? Or shall we start spending 90% GDP to work on space travel research right now so that the future generations can exist? The whole idea of juridical ruling on “duty of care” to future generations exists is just ridiculous.
Good to know. I'll look into it.
> I think it's also our responsibility as commentors to provide civil counter arguments so that other readers are able to see both sides of whatever topic is being discussed while not being pre-disposed to either angle.

it literally is not. The idea that all topics have equal both sides is not founded in any actual reality, it is a device used by those who would push falsehoods to demand an audience. Falsehoods do not deserve equal footing to truth.
Engineers are rarely good plumbers.
I hope we’re not truly a consultants nightmare, but we’ve got quite a few of these covered in pgMustard (15+ tip types) and working to add more.
There's actually still a fair number of people who get their first COVID-19 infection and never develop any symptoms at all, although it's a lot less than the initial research indicated early on in the pandemic: https://jammi.utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/jammi-2020-0030

But a much bigger problem is presymptomatic transmission, which is why this disease was able to spread so steadily. Aside from that, there are people with symptoms that are so minor they never even consider themselves sick (although hopefully today people are more vigilant about this).
“MICHAELSOFT BINBOWS” isn't what you think it is
Is it? European/Dutch & US rhetoric can be quite different... but the actual policies are not, at least not in a sense relevant to this issue. In fact, the US cut people a bigger piece of the covid relief money than did most european countries.
Work was among the Pandora's box contents. I solve others' problems all day long and I am left with my personal problems after a day at the office.
Yeah, I love Charter's service (they took over Time Warner in this area) but hate their billing practices. However, with little choice in this area (the other one is 'AT&T' - automatic nein), one has to 'grin and bear it.'
I have to agree, if I want to start a competing reservation platform I would take this "opportunity" to launch it, but because big corps (almost a monopoly for booking.com) are helped in difficult times this makes it almost impossible to have competition or new small players that would have been advantaged by not having the weight of the big players.
There are no ads with premium.
Interesting that this outrage has only started appearing now when there are moves to electrify transport, and was somehow never a problem for all previous generations of electronic processes - which have relied at least as heavily on cobalt.
> I find it more interesting to ask the question "why do people spend so much hobby time writing interesting programs in Rust?".

Maybe just as a learning experience or to be able to say "I know $hypedLanguage." Nothing against rust on my side, but at least for me, time spent on writing something in a language new to me is in no relation to my perceived usefulness of that language.

I personally believe that people new to programming love rust because they get compiler feedback instead of runtime errors. Given what is currently en vogue, rust does stand out there. OTOH, if looking at some old, boring languages, you already have that. Minus the hype.
The Canadian Bank Note company, the company that makes Canada’s physical currency, has for the last few years employed Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas, ina division called “CBN Nano.” They have recently filed patents on techniques for atomically precise manufacturing.

Anti-counterfeiting is apparently big enough business that the Canadian government is finding this traditionally conservative company to develop full-on Drexlarian nanotechnology…
I don't understand the lamentation over a culture of overwork. What other method is there to get ahead as an individual other than out-competing your peers? My understanding of life as a young professional in China or Korea is that the competition is almost unbelievable to someone from North America.
In the article, it's mentioned that they took €100m in state aid — even more egregious than the mere €65m they took from the Netherlands alone. And that, while Booking.com gets discounted tax rates and strong-arms the Dutch government to pay even less through an "innovation box" [0]. Not good at all.

> In 2018 alone, the company received a tax discount of $435 million in the Netherlands, or about €385 million. Thanks to this bait from the state, not only will Booking’s headquarters remain in the Netherlands, but all income generated worldwide by the company will immediately flow to the Netherlands before being taxed elsewhere.

[0]: https://happyhotelier.com/2020/04/18/booking-com/
Slightly confusing is better verbiage. I had to think for a sec (I have had cache memory on the mind, which is "smaller" than main memory).
Just a causal reminder that solar sails, beamed propulsion, mag sails, photon rockets, etc are all examples of propulsion methods free from the tyranny of the rocket equation which require no onboard reaction mass. There is really no need for exotic physics if that's all you're looking to accomplish.
The fed always hoped there would be some inflation. Japan has been trying to print the hell out of their situation for awhile now and still haven’t seen the levels of inflation they’d like.

I wonder how premature the current siren calls are.
> but the role of the judiciary isn't to be an legislature-of-last-resort.

True, but in a common law system part of the role of the judiciary is to decide how the laws are interpreted. Civil system have a parallel set of problems; you can push the complexity around but you can't get rid of it.
I would go so far as to say this issue is not limited to FOSS software, but the tech world in general. There is a gaping chasm between the pie-in-the-sky sci-fi dreams being promised for the world of tomorrow by the techbros of today and the way work actually gets done in 99% of the world. Throwing computers at the problem won't help anything.

No offense meant to people who are working on solutions to the world's problems, but the optics here are those of a problem that doesn't necessarily benefit from the added technical overhead of the solution. If I'm understanding the linked website correctly it's not a single software package but an organization for groups developing their own software independently for specific food pantries. Maybe there's some kind of intention to collaborate on these projects or combine work toward general-purpose pantry management software, but it's not clear from the site.
Venmo is still the worst example of this I've seen. Putting every financial transaction you make out into a newsfeed, by default.
Great extension, yes. There is overhead when enabling the timing and buffers options, but sometimes it's not big [1]

But auto_explain solves only part of the task – you can see what happened, but cannot see the answers to "what if" questions. ("What if I used this index?")

[1] https://www.pgmustard.com/blog/auto-explain-overhead-with-ti...
This whole series was fantastic. Highly recommend.
I, too, enjoy sci-fi. :)
Would be very interesting to learn why this was downvoted. I am somewhat loosing faith in humanity recently. If people express their negative feelings towards someone who thanks another person and is politely trying to clarify his previous message, I am not sure what future do we all have.
“Why”s make you wise
I would love to be able to just type the command line in; dragging blocks around is really slow and unnatural. But probably I'm not the target audience...
1% loves pandemics.
Thank you! Joust was a sort of second-tier video game back in the day and I felt it never got quite the love it deserved. I bought the Sony PSP solely for its implementation. This is wonderful.
But can you do it well?

Infinite self-joins are not elegant in relational algebra. They are very not elegant in SQL (recursive CTE's are soo ugly). Last of all, they are super inefficient in almost every RDBMS.
Interesting how your comment so abruptly fell from the top of the thread!
So that invites an obvious question: Why isn't the competitor available on that next street too?

Some streets are more expensive to dig on than others. Perhaps prices are higher and competition is lower there for that reason.

Don't get me wrong; I don't trust the broadband providers to do anything but try to extract maximum revenue from their customers. But I also don't immediately trust too-simple explanations that confirm my biases. The story here is more complicated than just moustache-twirling greedy corporations.
Really wish this was available on a mobile device. Would be a great way to practice while I'm waiting on something.
SEC Charges BitConnect Promoters
Kind of an aside, but I found the Mongol shaman depictions in the Turkish show "Dirilis: Ertugrul" absolutely delightful. Example scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcAw4tChlc
Frankly, that's a load of krapp.

These platforms have had very large societal effects both through the spreading of misinformation with things like QAnon, and from the censorship on information pertaining to elections, and this entire pandemic. It is hard to say what to do for those that so gullible as to believe everything they read or hear.
The cited video was broadcast in December 2017.

The headline is misleading because it implies they admitted being bit as part of the probe.
Any “solution” to the problem of excessive power of platforms that is based on the “individually do the harder thing” is bound to miserably fail.
I think this kind of fallacy should have a name by now.
This the perfect opportunity to suggest a relevant book: "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia" by Michael Booth. He's a Brit who married a Dane, relocated to Denmark, and was struck by the cultural differences between Scandinavian cultures and his own. So he wrote a book.

In it, he observes that smiles and jokes and easy conversation are more common among Brits and Americans than many Europeans, and suggests that, as you proceed northward and eastward through the continent, facial expressions tend to grow more sober and the tendency toward small talk fades. Not that these peoples are more unhappy, but there is generally less inclination to idly chat or joke around.

The author offers numerous observations, interpretations, and interviews regarding local perspectives on 'happiness' during his travels. An insightful read that doesn't take itself too seriously.
You have a point :)
it reminds me of the early LEGO robotics programming setup - and how NQC (not quite c) was much easier to use for those with familiarity with programming.

Part of the problem is there are hundreds of ways to use unix tools to get the correct response, so you'd need an entire shell and output parsing to prevent frustration.
Ah, so even in theory, we could use such a drive exactly once.
No, because SQL copied all the good features from NoSQL.
I'm not saying you're wrong when I say consider the following: if every individual had a bunch of free money and decided to not work, then the next day they drive to the store and there is no one working... what do they do? Didn't you just cause a ton of inflation?

At the end of the day, money doesn't solve problems. Work being done solves problems.

How that should affect policy... I have no idea but I can see both sides of the problem.
The quartermaster runs the show on a pirate ship. The captain gets all the fanfare.
Speaking of jobs, at least in America, smiling is helpful even getting the job in the first place.
The only problem is that this is arguably a political decision by a non-political employed role.
If you replace "middle-aged white man" with "soulless corporate stooge" nearly anywhere this phrase is used, the replacement term will fit. The term "middle-aged white man" is a caricature of the extremely wealthy and powerful, even though (I believe) it is a misleading and inaccurate portrayal.
Having a family doesn't make men work less. It's more usual for the opposite to happen.

One of my many disagreements with feminism is that it has somehow persuaded itself that this is somehow a privilege for men, and not an intolerable and sometimes literally fatal burden.
> Otherwise all activities could be found to be harming after the fact.

Right, but that's not the case here - that's not what the court is doing. If they were levying a fine for past damage based on todays knowledge, it would be ex-post-facto.

Agree the tesla example isn't great, if that's all you were responding to.
Thrilled Andreas has managed to receive enough community support to be able to take this big step and is able to focus on Serenity OS fulltime.

SerenityOS is an inspiring from scratch grassroots OS effort which plans to build the entire POSIX OS, Kernel and core Apps from scratch, one of the Apps their is their LibWeb browser engine complete with their own LibJS JS VM which already passes the ECMAScript test suite. One of its USPs is that the entire OS is contained within its single source tree where anyone can make changes to its code-base and instantly reboot the OS in seconds with the changes, never seen this done for an OS before, the turn around time allows for some impressive dev iteration speed.

A good preview of this hackability is in his Diablo port, whether it's missing C++ APIs, unsupported lang features, missing SDL port impl, toggling kernel features - it all gets done in 1 sit down session to produce a shiny new Diablo port:

https://youtu.be/ZOzZ8R4gphE

Andreas videos on developing LibWeb/LibJS is one of the best resources I've found explaining how to implement a multi-process web browser, e.g. in this video he goes through the HTML Specs which have enough info in them to develop a HTML spec parser whose behavior is the same across all browser engines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZdKlyXV2vw

It's been awesome to see LibWeb/LibJS evolve over time, every time he sits down it gets a bit more capable. Typically it's to implement features for rendering a different website. Here's a nice example where LibWeb gains missing JS APIs (including eval) to render "Canvas Cycle" JS demos:

https://youtu.be/b3a5V45LLss which he optimizes in his next video https://youtu.be/tGmaO8agfY4

With full control over the entire OS, Kernel, GUI, etc. It's got lots of tightly integrated innovative features like its GUI GML language for creating native UIs where he creates a GML Playground in this video https://youtu.be/1QYBvTy9QKE then uses it to be build the OS's new Font UI Picker dialog in the next https://youtu.be/Fa9SwYfH2NI which is now so sophisticated that the WidgetGallery has been converted to using it https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/5741

Since Andreas is so productive he's the only developer who I'm able to watch live coding which makes for an inspirational background score whilst coding, his commentary explaining his thoughts whilst he codes is so informative that they're basically HowTo's on how to implement each OS/App/Browser feature.