skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could just say “As there is a conflict of interest, I will not comment on the substance of this tweet.”
I work there. This is a nice rebuttal I think. Most managers I know don’t actually care whether their directs are in office most days anyways. Personally I can’t wait to be back in office, working alone all days is very depressing and I miss the low-pressure socialization afforded by colocation. Virtual communication has improved, but offers no replacement for this IMO. This is a me thing though, and I certainly get shit done with folks working remote, I just end up knowing them way less.
Yes 'use strict;' is a great analogy! I mentioned that here with regard to Perl 5:

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/blog-roadmap.html#the-...

It turns out that bash's "shopt" can be co-opted for this, and that's exactly what Oil does. For example, after 'shopt --set parse_paren', you can do this:

if (x > 0) { # parens are now Python-like expressions, not subshell!
echo "$x is positive"
}

Yes I agree bash could have done this. But the bash codebase is very fragile and things often break. The maintainers are very concerned about breakage.

Oil is written in a way to make breakage less likely: with principled parsing and a detailed code representation using algebraic data types. I'm surprised at how much language evolution this style has enabled. It makes me optimistic about the project's future!

Although we still tons of work to do with the C++ translation -- writing a shell is hard either way!
> Same thing with Elon Musk and the Hyperloop; what does he know that thousands of people…

Damn! What’s with Musk and electric cars?
Given that the 8.6% return is contingent on those funds being loaned out to third parties in a manner that involves risk (like margin trading), I am highly skeptical of their ability to not lose your money on the timeline of a decade. The trustworthiness of Blockfi doesn't matter if they mess up and end up loaning money to someone who ends up unable to pay the bill - and the person on the hook if the borrower does not pay is the lender of the capital. Not Blockfi. Why do you think the interest rates are so juicy?

If it was as safe as you seem to think it is, why didn't they just pony up their own money? 8.6% is far above any standard investment vehicle at the moment. For a safe investment, it's free money!
What is this "lie" you speak of? Actually, can you please list the other ones too? It's not fair to readers to make a tantalizing claim like that and then not give them enough information to make up their own minds. It's practically dripping with duck fat.

Re Bookface: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Re YC founder usernames- it can't be secret if it's in the FAQ, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#yc.

None of these things are secret and to the extent you or anyone is curious about them, all you need to do is ask.
As a person who thinks for themselves, I find all these woke people very bigoted, close-minded and discriminatory. My opinions are attacked and unwelcome.
Considering the context is it smart to read that article?
The playlist is easier, but if you like the grid view, pasting the following into the browser console seems to work:

style = document.createElement('style'); style.innerText = 'html:not(.style-scope)[typography] { --yt-link-line-height: 4rem; }\nytd-grid-video-renderer #video-title.yt-simple-endpoint.ytd-grid-video-renderer { -webkit-line-clamp: 10!important }'; document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(style);
Kids today are still doing it. See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/. We’re just old.
The workplace is inherently political; it consumes the vast majority of workers' waking hours for years, and decades. Corporations have vast, measurable influence in peoples lives, both good and bad. Why are the workers, to you, not permitted the agency to bring politics to work?
> Unfortunately Graeber's book went for the headline instead of analysing them more clinically.

Really? I thought he actually did divide "bullshit jobs" into different categories (5 of them total) in his book.

But I am not even sure that your 1,2,3 is so separate. Isn't creating jobs that nobody needs and nobody would notice if they went away also alienating and, consequently, toxic? Isn't that just a matter of extent?

Anyway, I agree that free markets cannot be a solution to any moral problem, because participation in markets is by definition symmetric and voluntary, and so they cannot consistently impose any values. (But the people who push the markets do want them to, for ideological reasons, appear as if they are inevitable, and this requires the capability to resolve moral ambiguity.)
I find that getting up really early in the morning to work on the things I want to, then switching off from that to spend the morning with the kids works well. Being really consistent with it every day has led me to complete a few of the projects and learning tasks I've been working on.

At least then when I go to work I'm already satisfied.

For some people I imagine that night time would work best instead.
> you would be able to go after the bank for negligence

Sure. But not, generally, the government. (Banks are a regulatory edge case.)
NY shrink tells Yale audience she fantasizes about shooting white people in head
Forget a Coke (never mind they have other non-alc fizzy drinks) The don’t carry Aspirin (or Advil or Tylenol, but whatever, but Aspirin, WTF?!
Appreciate your point but it's quite possibly the most 'USA' comment I've ever read.

Lets stop assuming these things happen elsewhere to the same greed fueled extent.
WalMart definitely has an image issue for me. In my town (very low crime), they're the only store with clear theft prevention in place.

You walk in through a one-way turnstile, they have a permanent police presence, clear loss prevention people randomly throughout the store, and someone doing loss prevention just after check out.

I'm sure other stores in our area have loss prevention, but they hide it much better. WalMart is the only store where I feel like I'm being scrutinized for wanting to buy the products they sell.
Really I shop walmart first check amazon for products not available. Usually works out cheaper. Etsy for which products?
I find alternative data to be a fascinating world, your idea reminds me of CargoMetrics which is doing a similar thing in the shipping industry. Just wondering -- if and when you reach the scale where a substantial segment of the supply side of the electricity market is using your service, is there the possibility that your algorithms can be subject to a reverse self-fulfilling prophecy (e.g. you predict a downwards demand shock which leads producers relying on your forecasts to scale back generation, but because so many producers are doing so in tandem there ends up being a power shortage)? Also, are you exclusively targeting the supply side, or do you have plans for a consumer-side offering as well? I feel like there would be immense potential for an integrated "smart" power grid especially with the rise of planned smart cities in the Asia-Pacific region so that might be another interesting application of your forecasting. Congrats on the launch, looking forward to hearing where y'all go from here.
What I'm curious about is why I'm not able to flag comments. I have 8633 karma yet users with a much lower number appear to be able to flag comments. I'm assuming I lost this privilege because I had comments that were flagged?
The Ashley Madison Hack: What Exactly Happened?
strong "I hate this shit" vibes that I don't get other places

I got that at Safeway on Market/Church in SF. But in other places I've seen Walmart and other stores' staff have been much happier and nicer. Even though these chains try to have consistent experiences across locations, there is a pretty large variability from city to city.
I wonder what happened with Walmart’s partnership with TikTok and if they’ve given up on their social media/e-commerce ambitions:

https://www.vox.com/recode/21448460/walmart-tiktok-amazon-de...

They were very eager to beat Amazon on bringing the QVC style online video commerce that’s super popular in China to the U.S., but I haven’t seen much about it since. I guess like convincing teens to buy clothing that their favorite influencer was wearing from Walmart.com was too tall an order.
I don’t think there’s a big crossover between things people buy on Etsy and things they buy on Walmart.

I wouldn’t say they’re replicating Amazon, they’re a brick and mortar chain with thousands of locations. That’s definitely a potential edge over Amazon.
switch the letters of my username.

that's what I think of you.
No one is arguing that Bitcoin is stable. I was simply pointing out that the USD is not as stable as you presume on a long-enough timescale. In fact it loses approximately 100% of its purchasing power per century.
Things like the often cited Corruption Perceptions Index are determined the same way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
When you click on a comment timestamp to view an individual comment, do you see a flag link? If not, you might want to contact the mods to see if there is something else going on.
It depends on the team. Daily standup is good if you need help or other need help from you. It's fine that you're still investigating things and need/raise issues ASAP for the team to know and maybe fix it for all the team.

It's a team effort/collaboration that makes daily standup useful.
Yes I'm glad that message is getting through. Although I also want to add the other perspective: Oil from a clean slate. I'm working on "A Tour of Oil" doc that will show that Oil is not encumbered by much legacy at all.

Even though it evolved from bash/OSH, and is in fact the same interpreter parameterized by some global options, it is a nice clean new language :)

It's surprising how much language evolution was enabled by "shopt" options, principled parsing, and algebraic data types!
This whole thing is about a COVID shot!? Yeah petty on all sides sounds about right to me.
I have 3 kids and get up at 4:30am every day to work on my own stuff. From 7am they're awake so I spend time getting them ready for school, etc. Then I go to work. Over the years I've found that getting this going consistently is the key. Even if you only get one good hour in each morning it builds up to quite a lot of satisfying work very quickly.

It did take a few years to become consistent though.
Don't you know how Reddit started?
You can also listen to the audio of this story

https://www.economist.com/media-assets/audio/071%20Business%...

archive.is is of course blocked in some countries

If just want plain old text

curl https://amp.economist.com/business/2021/06/05/why-the-bullshit-jobs-thesis-may-be-well-bullshit \
|grep -o "<p.*</p>"|tr -cd '\12\40-\176' > 1.htm

firefox ./1.htm
I'm glad these shakeouts are happening

I'm not a cis white male and I'm not internalizing oppression

but obviously (to almost everyone) these are unfalsifiable standards that self-proclaimed far left extremists have created to invalidate everyone's thoughts but their own

if anyone hasn't been exposed to this experience, the people that want corporations to "use their platform" for things unrelated to revenue are also believing that all aspects of life are political for people that aren't "cis white males" and if you're any combination of minority/woman/LGBT and disagree with that then you're "internalizing oppression" because to them we can't have independent thoughts. For me, these "allies" are worse than the silent apathetic people as well as the overtly prejudiced/racist people. Primarily because they're unpredictable and even more reactionary to having their world view challenged.
Is Evanston really a college town? I was in grad school there and its so close to Chicago it just feels like a suburb. I've never lived in a true small college town. In Toronto my university experience was even less of a college town feel with the campus right downtown in a city of millions.
all stable coins can blacklist except DAI
FWIW, attackers are also constantly trying to exploit vulnerabilities in your AnyConnect appliance...
For further context, having seen the original post, there were also details on which questions made someone qualified and which answers were “unprovable”.

It was crystal clear what the intent was and the poster was called out for it. There was a strong negative reaction.
Too many conference recordings without a touch on refactoring the broken mapped function ?

Wish i could have a real `array.map` just like in javascript.
Totally agree. I've seen it go both ways, one where it's a total drain and waste of time, another where the best thinking, best solutions and ideas all came out during stand-up.

I suppose getting that right team is what makes an awesome manager though right?
There is no “think” there is a quote from the public health officials who make the rules right there
I've actually just been reading a lot of history books recently and wanted to check out some old bibles. I found this and was absolutely floored. The detail in the artwork is amazing, check out the map on page 75!

https://archive.org/details/1611TheAuthorizedKingJamesBible/...
> (NOTE: This is computer software! He actually learns from you!)
Yep , I agree. They don’t need that boat anchor of a brand for something like that. New name, new colors, new atmosphere and of course, charge a bit more for the frills.
https://e-job4coins.medium.com/how-to-use-addmefast-to-get-f...
The only societies who determine that cryptocurrencies have negative externalities are the ones that are controlled by criminals in the highest levels of their government. Just google a map to see where crypto has been banned. (Note that many these may not even appear as criminals and project a legitimate image to their public)

Here's a thought experiment: If you're a political party that had taken over the government through criminal means such as election fraud or more coercive methods such as a disinformation/propaganda campaign or a coup, the first thing you will do is to make sure that you have control of the money. Since cryptocurrencies are too transparent and undermine the absolute control of state-issued currency, these will be seen as a threat to the criminal government and will be the first thing to get banned.

We can quickly see that the world's worst criminals at the highest levels hate cryptocurrency, and prefer to use the existing paper-based technologies instead, that allow them to be more opaque and retain absolute power.
Imagine comparing China's one party genetically culled government to an actual functioning democracy
> Not charging him for breaking and entering.

Why not? He did that.

> Not charging him for cfaa charges.

MIT didn't do that. The federal prosecutor did.

> Not treating like a laptop plugged in is a felony.

MIT didn't do that either.

> I think had MIT asked the prosecutor not to prosecute then the case would have been dropped

I don't know what you're basing this on. Everything the prosecutor said at the time made it clear that they wanted to make an example of Swartz and would have done much the same thing no matter what MIT and JSTOR said.

> Without MIT and JSTOR saying Swartz committed computer fraud

Neither MIT nor JSTOR ever said that. Charging Swartz under the CFAA was the federal prosecutor's doing.

> The case existed because MIT wanted it to exist.

I think you are mistaken. I think the case existed because the federal prosecutor wanted it to exist. That's not to say MIT made no mistakes, but we should put the blame for the CFAA prosecution and the threat of decades in jail where it belongs.
Just a personal preference. I will only install windows on physical hardware for gaming or GPU intensive purposes. I don't see much advantage to using ZFS on a VM guest except for bitrot protection. This can be accomplished using SMB share on zfs dataset on the linux host.

For my day to day programming and devops, I virtualize Windows Server for all my desktop work that I have to use windows for which is anything I cannot do on Linux which is not too much actually. Just use it for Remote admin of IPMI's, VCenter, IIS, SQL Server and Visual Studio for rare coding scenario's.

On linux, I even use WinSCP which solves all my change request code syncing to remote servers. With ZFS on root, its awesome. Only time I ever lost a linux server is when windows update on another drive screwed up the boot sector on my linux drive. I cannot count the number of times a windows blue screened permanently for me.

I swore to never depend on windows again and switched to Linux for good. May switch to OSX in the future once hardware becomes more reasonably priced (M1 chip appears to be awesome).
Didn’t /u/maxwellhill deny that after she was arrested?
You know you're in a bad place when you're engaging some "petty drama" by invoking generalizations about the "Black Community."
Another rabbit hole to explore is http://thecyberbuddy.com/ which I found linked on the wiki elsewhere in the thread
The post specifically told others how to skip the line, which was lying about their profession to say they were one that was qualified but that then people on site couldn’t prove.
Microsoft wins U.S. antitrust okay for $16 bln purchase of Nuance
Oh yes that's clear, but it's also bloody clever and you get points for that. I'm sorry if my reference seemed like a swipe; I was just trying to speak duck with you.

When people say this kind of stuff to me, I try not to take it personally because the truth is that you don't know me and I don't know you; what you're saying is not what you think of me, it's what you think of the image that you've constructed from a name plus very little information. That's not a criticism. That's just how it is on the internet.
I was a nobody in the military and had to get one at my first command until the investigation completed! Also - I heard from buddies still in/contracting that they increased the time period between needing to get reinvestigated? I did contracting for a while afterwards and have considered returning. I miss being mission focused rather than profit but the reinvestigation process/finding a sponsor is intimidating.
Oh hm I should of clarified, I meant more like the human procedures to go forth and run the blacklist function, I'm sure the actual code is documented (and it appears to be - nice!), but it doesn't really matter how secure the code is if anyone inside the organization can execute it.

Although having an un-block function is good thinking since it would allow them to reverse course - no bad decision is permanent.
>On top of that, (b) you added snark ("of course") and insinuation ("on the surface") in a way that strikes me as particularly uncharitable

No this is a misinterpretation or perhaps I thought the meaning was implied. The spirit of what I meant is that of course you would say something like: "HN only downweights things in the interest of the community but never in the interest of YC."

>You've done it again with "Seems reasonable to say, don't trust news about YC on HN", implying that we somehow intervene to distort that, when the truth is that we do exactly the opposite—as I'd just explained in the comment you were replying, as well as on many previous occasions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

It is reasonable. It's called conflict of interest and it's encoded into the way we interpret action, motive and intention. Should we just drop everything and completely trust China when they say they say COVID wasn't a lab leak? Should we just blindly trust you when you say you don't censor the news at all when there's really no way of knowing?

Look I'm not saying you censor the news. I'm saying if you did censor the news or you didn't censor the news what you're saying here would be the exact same thing. Both the person who censors the news and the person who doesn't censor anything will say "I don't censor information." This is completely normal and expected because of the conflict of interest. This is what I mean by "Of course." My statement still stands.

There is really no way of knowing otherwise. Just because there are instances of negative news not being censored doesn't mean that nothing is censored. You can let tons and tons of negative topics through and you can also censor tons and tons of topics at the same time. Who knows? It's a common strategy to let some negative stuff through the filter just to make a news source seem like it's fair and balanced when the most insidious stuff gets burned.

You really can't prove anything here because of the conflict of interest. It is reasonable to say that you can't trust news about YC from HN just like you can't trust news about China from the Communist Party. Conflict of interest.

It's normal. Don't be offended because pretty much every organization or person is likely this. Who goes around spreading negative info about themselves?
Steve Jobs used his means to game the system to make a liver transplant available for himself; his wait time for an organ was much shorter than less wealthy and connected people. I recall no moral outrage over that[1].

A CEO who's smart enough to get their vaccine early should be acknowledged for their cleverness -- wouldn't you want that kind of smarts running a company??

I guess he would have been safer by refusing the vaccine -- oh, wait -- there's a different scarlet letter for that, right?

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.priori...
NASA hired literal Nazis to start its space program.

The Soviet space program was somewhat kneecapped by having its management shift with the political winds as people fell into or out of favor and having good people stuck in marginalized roles because of their political history.

I'd bet good money on the winner being the the model that doesn't care what people believe on topics not related to work.
...but the poster listed several things that ARENT personal to them
I believe GP means that they are not checked at runtime. But I don't think that matters much in case of finding bugs, because you run mypy and it will scream that you are assigning wrong type.

I use it whenever I can and it helped me find many bugs in the code (especially not checking if value is None through the Optional). It also makes refactoring your code in IDEs that understand types (like PyCharm) much much easier.
i suspect that economics is something of a bullshit science, where they draw arbitrary conclusions from hand picked data; (In this case one could ask both sides on what kind of professions they were surveying) also economists always act surprised when a real event like the great recession or great depression happens; other social sciences seem to be less detached from actual reality.
We take credit cards for granted. Look into when and how they were invented, if you are really curious about technology.

Credit cards have a really peculiar, fascinating and turbulent history. The original credit card was nothing like what we have today. Yet here we are.

I can easily see everyone rolling their eyes at and being dismissive of the original credit card idea.

Can crypto follow the same path?

What will it be in 20 years? 50?
I had a situation I gave a method argument a type hint, I then called that method with a completely different type by mistake. The type checker didn’t pick up the error so I got a runtime exception where I’d expect a type checker to catch the issue.

I don’t have the specific example, it was something I observed not so long ago, said well that’s shit, fixed my code issue and moved on. Not being a huge fan of Python outside of small scripts and only using Python as told to use Python I took little interest in the detail as was a case of just get the job done and move on.

It’s been a while since I read the paper I shared but think that mentions it something similar if I remember correctly.
I’ve never heard about cheapened brand products like Tide.

Do you have more information?
It sounds way better to call them heroic. That's reason enough for me.
This comment is literally extremely racist. Why did you bring race into it?