skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while ago I used paypal for transactions and I left some in the account so there was 100 grand. Six months later I tried to take some of it out and they froze the account despite no other recent activity. They said they'd keep it six months. Eight months or so after that, I asked about it, and they said they needed to freeze it for another six months. So soon we'll be at basically 18 months after the funds were earned.

The whole thing is dumb though, so I honestly don't even attribute malice. It's a ~17 year old account and I've processed millions(?) of dollars through it. The killing they earned on the transaction fees dwarfs the interest they earn on the float over the period of time they are holding it. The only way this wouldn't be the case is if a lot of people just give up and never get their money out, which, frankly, sounds possible. So either they do this intentionally because people give up, or they think I'll never sell stuff online again (I sell stuff online, right now), or they're just kindof dumb and have an overactive suppression team.
AMP – OpenJSF
Just to know different opinions:
If AMP restricts the use of javascript, how did it end up under the OpenJS Foundation umbrella?
Thank you.
> If you still manage to get the ordering wrong even when you're forced to write the name of this macro... then programming is probably not for you

Humility is key to prevent disasters, and ordering will be gotten wrong as long as there is no type checking and we are relying on people to double check the ordering. A mistake can happen because of a temporary lack of attention, tiredness, confusion, distraction, interruption… I hope any experienced programmer is aware of this, or maybe they should avoid programming?
Here is the article directly as a PDF from Erlang.se web site: http://www.erlang.se/publications/icfp97.pdf
I implemented this after dinner tonight: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/show-video-icon-and-or-vi...
CaaS – Command Bar as a Service
A "Trial Period" where someone has a one shot (say every 5 years) at contract work for about 6 months is one thing.

Permatemps are another.

Hiring to fire just sounds bottom-rung skum level.
The biggest one might be https://screeps.com/
Probably very much depends on what you do with Blender. I've been trying to port my exporter plugin from Maya to Blender, and it has been nothing but frustrating. It's been quite a while since I wrote it for Maya, but I remember the Maya API (C++ and MEL) to be well documented, well structured, and quite pleasant to work with. I was always amazed at Maya's basic architecture: Every UI action maps to a command that is run by the interpreter. This makes scripting very easy.

Blender's Python API on the other hand is very poorly documented, and - to me - seems poorly thought out. It's not really designed as an API, it's just exposing the existing C++ code, and usability is not a concern. It feels tacked on, leaving lots of gaps. Somewhere I've seen a quote by Ton Rosendaal that Blender is for artists, not for coders. If you want Blender to be a competitor for Maya that seems very short sighted.

The one thing that impressed me though, was the speed by which the Blender devs react to tickets. Hats off to them!
Is it too snarky to suggest his fans don't read?

They can, but they're just not interested

I'd guess same is true of fans of every politician

Just moreso with trump

The medium is the message

You can't reproduce the hatred and clown show asthetic with long blobs of text

You need tv

Twitter

Anything inherently devoid of the possibility of meaningful conversation, thinking, thoughtfulness, etc.
Lawmakers Call on Google to Conduct Racial Equity Audit
I think that line of thinking will be quickly replaced. Better culture, free food, people, environment, etc. all mattered when employees were expected to spend 8 hours a day at work (and often longer). If more companies allow working from home, then that trumps a lot of the other perks because employees can make their own perks such as more flexible hours, shorter/no commute, living where they want to instead of being forced to live close to the office, etc.
Aneurysms.
> All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda, which refers to their “jointed appendages,” and so do shrimp, lobsters and crayfish, noted Jerome Grant, etymology professor at the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture.

I assume they mean entomology, unless they decided to interview linguists for this article.
I think it's more dependent on your WFH practices. My current employer is fully remote (but always has been) and I think the junior engineers generally get up to speed with the senior engineers quickly.
It's super easy: democracy is a blatant lie, and capitalism is while mostly true, is also partially a lie. They are still good things - we should see them only in light of alternatives, and only alternative is communism, which is a total, complete lie from any angle you can look at it, and it quickly descends into violent coercion to force people to do... well anything at all they are supposed to do voluntarily in a normal society, just because communism doesn't work.

Cynical view of democracy is that it's a society where the government is artificially made weak enough by all this checks and balances bs so it is unable to destroy our lives.
Europe is made up of 27 countries all with their own tax laws. You can't make generalisations like that without significantly more detail.

Here in the UK my employer can and occasionally, but not frequently enough in my opinion, does pay for my lunch.
You mean like catering at all hours or a bag of bagels and some fruit and maybe some snack sized chip bags
Love the actor programming model. Wish other languages had native support for it.
I have the same story. I'm sad I missed it.
Suicide drones (aka cruise missiles) have been on the forefront of any first strike mission the US have conducted in modern times with manned planes being relegated solely to roles where they need to drop larger quantities of cheap munitions or fly Close Air Support missions.

This of cause meant that the navy gradually took over the "first strike"/"suppression of air defenses" from the Air Force and the F-35 was born as an attempt to bring that back into the ranks of the Air force as stealth theoretically allows the F-35 to almost compete with submarine launched cruise missiles.

The problem is that the F-35 is way to expensive/fragile for the CAS role and might be so expensive to operate that it begins to make sense to depend entirely on missiles and drones for pre-planned strike missions, making it kind of the modern equivalent of post dreadnought battleships.
Strolling Cities: An Experiment of Visual Poetry Generated by AI
Google makes money from ads as well. Why would they do this?
Off topic, but how does switching jobs along with your coworkers work? Do you guys all switch around the same time or is it more of a coincidence? Was it luck that you all passed the interview or was it more of a package deal where your current company wanted to hire you all together (ie, all or nothing)?
> It just depends on your definition of

This is the moment in an online discussion where we all lose 50 IQ points, so thanks for that.

"Scam" has a well understood meaning in modern legal and economic systems, and that's obviously what I'm addressing, not some other ideologically-charged alternative definition that you're now invoking as a debating move that amounts to little more than trolling.

(As for middlemen - for as long as commerce has existed, middlemen have been derided for inserting themselves into transactions that were already happening, by people blithely handwaving away the fact that those transactions were not, in fact, already happening.)

Your insinuation was that YC trains the founders it invests in to deliberately build long-term money-losing companies, which is demonstrably false and also highly implausible.

Philosophical discussions about the deeper nature of things are also of great interest to me, but not like this.
My impression of democracy is that you have to fight for it everyday, every election, every law that passes. If you get passive there are many hiding in shadows ready to bend the govt away from what's best for the people. Fist step is to understand why system works, if there is hope to keep it working. Capitalism seems to work for 70% of the stuff and yes that need to be acknowledged.
You're conflating a lot of different things in your response.

The F-35, as a low-observable, sensor-linked, MANNED platform, has an important role to play for striking targets in a jammed, high-threat environment. That's all I was saying. I'm not defending the PRICETAG of this ridiculously-expensive and (IMO) poorly-managed boondoggle, just the unique capabilities of the platform. I think the US procurement system in the 21st century is badly broken and has probably contributed to an erosion of our overall military overmatch. I hate gold-plated profiteering junk and argue that hard, realistic training + rugged, simple tech will deliver an economically-viable force that punches above its weight. It's like the US learned all of the WRONG lessons from the WW2 German mil-industrial complex. But my solutions aren't sexy, and definitely aren't a license to print money. Probably why my personal interest is in teaching the militaries of developing economies how to "level up" their capabilities quickly without breaking the bank.

>>>What new threat are we facing here

See my other response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27376597
Genuine question: I read this article, and then read parts of it again, and I’m still not sure what it’s trying to add to the current discourse on the lab-accident theory?
If you work from home, you can spend all that time you would have spent commuting finding friends instead. Go to bars, find common hobbies/interests, join a rock climbing gym..
Payment Prediction Can Help Make Your Operations Ultra-Precise
There’s a very strong counter argument.

First, exams like Gao Kao, Bac, SAT are indeed “meritocratic” in that they tend to predict success…because success” tends to mean “does well in this exam” rather than later outcome; to the degree they predict later outcome they reflect a pre existing network, wealth, etc on the part of the students.

Now knowing how to speak with people and having some informal network support can make things run smoothly and even in some cases “better” — I think there’s little argument to that.

The problem with these pre-existing networks is that they become intellectually and socially inbred (in the US just look for example at the networks that led to the viet nam war, or the crowned heads of Europe, or the churning (over the centuries) dynasties of China).

A society built on hybrid vigour is likely to be more resilient and capable than one built on the “fitness” of legacy-based entrants. The latter is a flawed definition of “merit”.
If you concentrate on making the app useful to your customers, they'll use it more often. Time that you spend repackaging it as an Electron app could be used to improve the app's functionality.

Also, many apps these days are web-based, so I'm not sure why having a shortcut in your start menu would be any "stickier" than having a bookmark in your browser's bookmark bar. A web app would be accessible from all the user's devices, not just the one it's installed on, making it more likely to be used.

And if you unnecessarily make something a desktop app when it could be a web app, you'll annoy your users by using up their disk space and RAM and wasting their time waiting for installations every time there's an update.
It is not what is human. It is also, how you raise those kids. Ars you raising them in bully house boarding school full of abuse? You get different results then if you raise them with different values.
How do you do, fellow humans?
They treat those distribution warehouses like plantations and the workers like ...you know
I strong recommend the Database to every companies.

OceanBase is a Distributed Database with more than 11 years history, There are more than 100 companies running with OceanBase.

What's more, It is Alibaba behind OceanBase, OceanBase has been run with all kinds of user cases in Alibaba's Ant Group.

As we all know, OceanBase is the record-holder of TPCC, OceanBase break the TPCC record in 2019 and 2020, http://tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results5.asp

What's more, OceanBase break the record of 3000GB TPCH in May 20th 2021.
http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results5.asp?resulttyp...
Those are in fact the key Amazon best practices which other companies are most likely to adopt.

I expect we'll see some business best sellers promoting them as well.
I think this was a good interview; I was glad to see Nilay Patel ask about the potentially analogous situation between Apple:Spotify and Spotify:Artists. He didn't just ask and let the answer alone, he followed up too.
"The mass man produced in this way must be treated as what he is: a calf, and he must be kept a close eye on, as a herd should be. Anything that allays his lucidity is good socially, and anything that could awaken it must be ridiculed, stifled and fought. Any doctrine questioning the system must first be designated as subversive and terrorist, and those who support it must then be treated as such." Günther Anders

Edit: this is not an extract of the article
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This seems to fit the pattern: websites about typography play with typography until it's broken, those about web design in general are more likely to not render well in older or simpler web browsers, and those about security are more likely to fail even on the TLS handshake stage due to overly enthusiastic cipher suite restrictions.

Reader mode is commonly suggested to deal with it, and one can configure FF (possibly other web browsers too) to always work in a similar way by disallowing web pages to change fonts and by setting a minimal font size. Combined with a global CSS to set colours (another step towards reader mode), it makes most texts on websites legible, as long as they don't mess with finer font rendering settings.
World War II happened largely because the Great War happened.

I'm comfortable describing the reasons for the Great War as "dumb". Your mileage may vary.
These are all signs of a vast over supply of talent. I can’t imagine anyone would willingly work at such a company unless they had no other choice.
Funny. I felt the exact same about college classes as wfh. 90% of the time, classes were unnecessary, and I could do the readings and exercises on my own to learn the material better. Everyone also said office hours were so great, but I always found them a waste. On the flip side, no professors know my name, and I can't remember them either. In contrast, my wife went to a popular liberal arts schools, has several professors she still keeps in touch with, used her classes to make connections, and generally had a totally different experience. I think people are just different.
As a kid I rode around in a bigger station wagon, the Mercury Montego, which was 223.1 in (5,667 mm).

Now I drive a Ford E350 that is 236.7 in (6,012 mm). It's 3.45 feet longer than your Outback. I think it's the smallest car that will hold my family. It looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_E-Series_wagon.jpg
Which is totally irrelevant as baking soda isn't a PPI.
The Need for Slimmer Containers
Yeah, unrelated things decades ago were wrong or something therefor... uh, something.

I'm not really interested in doing research for you.
Coronavirus: Latest news on the pandemic, the vaccine and the end of the state
If there's ransomware on an employees's laptop you simply throw it away and give them another one. And have them go through a lot of security training after.
I would hope that my moral compass doesn't depend on the current culture, so only now.

Current culture probably thinks I'm a terrible person anyway.
Check out Actix for Rust
Gates missed his opportunity to give it the poignant name Terror power.
plenty, but again, it's entirely country, speech, and type of speech dependent.

if anything, for general real "speech" purposes, hosting in the US is the best to do. it does not have for example UK's libel laws, most of Europe's laws against Nazi support, etc.
> their lack of attempt at building an operating system like Android and iOS.

They did build "Facebook home" almost a decade ago tho. They should probably regret not pushing android manufacturers to use it on their phones.
Judge Judy Is Taking Her Gavel from Broadcast TV to Amazon Streaming
I don't want things modern and clean. Please stop making things modern and clean. I want things that are human and have some kind of soul left in them instead of being antiseptically scoured of anything resembling personality.

I also want programs made for adults who know how computers work, and are capable of leveraging complex but functional UI to actually do stuff with some degree of sophistication. Making programs more and more like a Playskool toy with every update is, by definition, regression, not progress.

There's not much use in complaining though. Firefox has been a lost cause for years now.
I think this is a wise investment for them given that they have stakes in Codecademy and Udemy. They could probably build a more integrated school. Kinda like having their own flywheel.
Software devs share info and help each other, then go learn a new language from Codecademy if they need extra help, plus more. The result? $0 spent on marketing and they have 2 gigantic investments that work together for effortless product based marketing.
If it was lab leaked, how come Italy had infections by September 2019? [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...
This. Your overlords do not care what you think. Your overlords know what is best for you. There will be no feedback. There will be only compliance.
As a postgres dev, I do feel that the lack of in-person conferences over the last 1 1/2 years caused a perceptible slowdown in some areas. But I also can't stand working full in an office most of the time.
3 fifths of gin in a week would destroy me for that same week, I would be worthless.
"culture" is not just what happens in the office, it is the processes and norms of the company. They are more important remotely, not less.
How Do TV Shows Make Money
Yes I was holding back. In fact one could go farther and say Nathan is… but again, trying to be charitable, you hit the nail on the head there.
A few publications have extensive info on this. One of them is Remote How (https://remote-how.com/). Seriously, they did a release around last year with hundreds of remote companies. You can email them to see if they'd be willing to share their list with you. They have a great pulse on the world of remote work.
Chrome stable 89.0.4389.90 was released on March 12: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/03/stable-channel...

Version bump in nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5f8b95113983c8f31d63... on March 13 (one day later)

Released in nixos-unstable on Mar 16 11:11:22 UTC (four days later)

Backport to 20.09: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/26ba8cd77b5a4408799f... on March 13 (one day later)

Released in nixos-20.09 on Mar 16 16:31:31 UTC (four days later)

Again, four days is not great for a Chrome zero-day. NixOS doesn't have a professional security team, and if you need that assurance, maybe you can't use it. But please don't exaggerate and muddy the facts.

Most of the delay is due to hydra having to build everything that came in ahead of that change on the master branch, and sometimes the master branch is just broken.... I wish there was a fast-track process that could bump urgent security changes ahead of other ones, but it seems like it could complicate things a lot.

Of course, as I said above, it's relatively easy for you to update your local install without waiting for all that, if you're aware of the release and its severity.
I would rather pay the maid to spend 5 hours to clean the whole house once a week, while I take the kids to the park or to the beach.

Same thing applies to cooking, groceries, errands, etc.
Republicans made a huge mess by politicizing everything. This article in the first line starts by assigning blame to "liberals" (like liberals are one entity?) Americans voted in chaos and got their chaos.

If we had leaders we could trust, and weren't turning every little thing into a political game with two sides pitted against each other we wouldn't have a media that's already primed to be calling out that administrations constant bullshit. I don't know how else you could have expected anyone to act? We don't trust you, and now in hindsight we were all expected to put trust in a theory that came with a side of racism? Boy who cried wolf in real life, it has consequences as we see.

If you want to root cause the mess you need to look at why the media responded the way it did and not at the response of the media and the public it self.
> Managers simply cannot hire people just to fire them because they do not have the final say in who gets hired and who doesn't. They can offer an opinion, the same as all the other 4-5 interviewers in the round, and then the bar raiser makes the final decision.

Having been part of debriefs, this is not correct. Bar Raiser is there to help the panel make a decision, not be the sole decision maker.
Exactly.

Remote work promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Parsers, decoders and decompressors consume streams of bytes. The bytes from these streams come with no type info. Type safety happens on higher levels, once these byte streams are already parsed into something else, at least partially so.
Gotta re-arrange those deck chairs!
There is no data about long term effects, so my education doesn't matter.

Also, focusing on liberty is not selfish. It is a false dichotomy that liberty leads to less safety. In fact, loss of liberty means the loss of different kinds of safety than the virus takes away.

Right now, in the US, we have the safety that the government is not just going to haul us away to reeducation camps if we hold opinions that go against the official narrative. Lose liberty, and that safety is gone.

I focus on liberty because I don't want my posterity, or yours, or anyone's, living in a dystopian dictatorship where they fear for their lives every day.

If you call me selfish because of that, I'll accept that label because you just made it meaningless.

Oh, and I have a college education with statistics and a bit of experience in chemistry research.
> any fresh hire could never truly know if they passed interviews

Always get large a signing bonus.
This is actually somewhat true at all major cloud companies. Google, Microsoft and Amazon all have very limited usage of their own commercial cloud services among engineering teams.
This is exactly my experience. I am the only one in my team working in another city and this is just ridiculous how many times I am feeling exactly these feelings (disconnected, left out, and sidelined).

I am dealing with an insane amount of issues that would have never happened if everyone was in the same office.

It really depends on the culture of the company and the team, and it appears that mine has not managed to change enough (whatever they claim).
Yes, hash tables need to iterate in either a guaranteed order (usually insertion order) or a guaranteed to be random order. Either choice make sense, but one of them needs to be picked or people will create bugs like this.
We're only dopes in the version of reality they're trying to create.
The full photo it was cropped from has her posing mostly nude:

http://www.lenna.org/full/len_full.html

While the test image itself doesn't show much, the fact that it originated from Playboy magazine is widely known – and presumably has contributed to the image's popularity. It's a sort of in-joke: you can't understand it just by seeing it, you need the context. But it's an in-joke that recalls sexist tropes.