skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not really, because “company” is a generic term for any organization of people with a common business purpose independent of whether it has a distinct recognized legal recognition, existence, or treatment separate from the constituent individuals.

This isn't really true. A company doesn't include the employees of the company, not the way I used it and not the way the parent used it. So it doesn't refer to a generic term for any organisation of people with a common business purpose. It really only refers to those which have some category of legal framework.
Deficit spending is only a problem if you have full employment and I'd rather have full employment than a fiscally irresponsible government (not taking on debt is irresponsible).

Remember, for each fiat dollar there is one dollar of debt. If companies, rich people, the government or foreign nations don't have the debt then you and your fellow people must have that debt. A government with a surplus is a basically rich man "hoarding" his money (0% interest is almost equivalent to hoarding). Creating debt is a prerequisite for increasing the money supply, the same way buying or mining gold is a prerequisite for a gold backed currency. The inability to create enough debt is preventing wealth from being created.
Ctrl f promotion / bonus

- Once the world returns back to normal, people who have more “face time” will grow faster in organizations. (https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-showing-your-face-at...)

Default brain drift will be exploited by career climbers. It will be one of the most powerful reasons WFH efforts will be weakened.
But the Born rule required empirical content to come up with. Empirical content which is (possibly) fundamentally random.

You can't simulate that (fundamental randomness) purely classically. The classical world can be simulated with Turing machines, however. And we know infinite pen-and-paper maths can simulate any Turing machine.

How do I get from pen-and-paper maths (doing simple turing-machine-like operations/computations) to a truly random event, a necessary component for a quantum measurement? So when I'm doing my pen-and-paper maths, I have to go grab a radioactive atom and use the time it decays to somehow seed a random event into my simulation.

I do not know of a way to think beyond classically, or beyond the above notion of pen-and-paper maths.

Or are you saying some abstract high-dimensional vector really does ontologically exist in some even higher dimensional space? What space? Not spacetime, that is 4D. And even then how do we reduce that spread out WF to definite values in your ontology.

Math is not an ontology, unless you want to go the Mathematical Universe route.
German panel recommends Covid vaccine only in 12-17 year olds with risk factors
I refuse to use proctoring software in my classes.

The COVID-19 monitoring stuff is a little trickier. Universities were between a rock and a hard place - don't do enough, and you will have an outbreak on campus, and there's a lot of town-gown pressure to then blame the students for everything that subsequently happens. Do too much, and you're deep into the lives of your students.
Well, those providing credit ratings (the rating agencies) were not the same as those selling the debt (investment banks). But more than that I think it's unwise to be so certain about intent - how do you know they were deliberately getting the ratings wrong, and not making a giant mistake? The rating agencies did very badly from the crisis, so it's hard to argue that they also saw the whole thing coming with premeditation.

I also think your explanation of the GFC overlooks what was an extremely multi-factorial situation. Most explanations would allocate some causality to changes in regulation, changes in global debt dynamics. Securitization aside, it was the peak of a huge borrowing/lending boom not unlike numerous previous financial market crashes.
Google is a bit ... more interesting case, at least known. Namely they fucked up early in history by using local timezone, and when it started biting them it proved cheaper and easier to use that as the one global timezone rather than make everything base on UTC. Since then I heard it referenced as Mountain View Time.

OTOH, they could add translation on website for it...
> Seriously though, rsync is your friend. :-)

Even rsync might not be atomic enough for some situations[1] since it'll update files as it goes rather than in one huge transaction at the end.

[1] I worked on the World Cup 2006 site for Yahoo! and we had this issue - solved with 'rsync --link-dest' and swapping symlinks.
The DevOps Misunderstanding
Wow that's a really big claim. Is there any research or reason you claim elementary teachers, specifically women, were pushed into the job (or to teach lower grade) because they aren't as good at math?!

That's a big statement.

Without research it's pretty absurd and comes off to me as sexist.

Though I think I get maybe the intention that sexist ideas and gendering subjects has created an education gap.

The teachers i know do it because it's their passion and many have post grad degrees and advanced training despite not being paid enough to cover the loans without income based repayment..
I just want to add that yes, evolution by natural selection is a mechanism that can help us understand how the natural world came to be as it is. But not entirely. There is also sexual selection for example which leaves species with traits that decrease their pure chances of survival as an individual (think of peacocks dragging along that ridiculous but beautiful tail). And maybe there are more effects, yet undiscovered. I know that group selection is still often a center of debate. I like David Sloan Wilson's work about it [0].

So, yes evolution by several forms of selection is pretty well established but by no means do we fully understand how the natural world came to be as it is today. Which is nice if you ask me.

As you say, we are tweaking this theory.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sloan_Wilson
The variants where the host does not know are also worth considering. If they’re just guessing and happened to not open the prize door by chance, you’re back at 50/50. If they have a hangover and you think there’s a 5% chance they forgot where the prize is and still just happened to open the doors correctly, well that makes the math even more interesting.
Around 1800 Switzerland was invaded by French armies so it's not really true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_in_the_Napoleonic_...
How to move a 400-person hackathon online
I've been doing some poking around and just found some confused people on Twitter. Bandcamp themselves appear to have said nothing at all as yet. Hopefully this can get resolved fairly soon, as Bandcamp is a pretty great platform and over the last year they have had a number of "Bandcamp Friday" events where they don't charge any commission on sales, so that's the best time to buy loads of music from your favourite Bandcamp artists and give them as much support as you can. I doubt that will last, but I know it's been welcome to a couple of my friends during the pandemic.
It is not declarative. The simple fact that the playbook will ALWAYS be run in the order you specify, even if a later step is (technically) a prerequisite of a previous step, means that you are in an imperative mode.

Puppet is declarative, you simply say "these things must, or must not, hold" and a combination of user-declared and inferred dependencies arrange the sequencing, which can be different in each run (as long as the before/after dependencies hold).
I think maybe they mean something along the lines of, you, the individual, provide the capital and the labor and take on the risk, and then you "share" some or most of the revenue with us.
Good lord this one guys's mess up address bar OKR pursuit finally stops.
I'd rather not support my favourite band than use PayPal. Good fans don't pay bands with PayPal.
I think your ideas about what a certain age can do are heavily skewed by the overall state of your area's education.
This webpage use a significant amount of CPU constantly for no apparent reason (as far as I can see it is mostly a static webpage). What the hell ? Is it mining crypto in the background ?
How to make hoverboard at home with simple matterials?
Lest try this out.
https://hoverboardsinfo.com/how-to-make-a-hoverboard/
Perhaps I should have said "organise capital" instead of "distribute wealth". I mean they cause it to be available to certain people.
> It's a pretty tough call.

It’s actually not a tough call. It just reveals how broken the system is.

There should be a way for drugs to be experimentally approved, where patients can only take them with extra consent / oversight (e.g. recommended by an ethics committee, or after a 6 month waiting period & clear understanding of side effects), specifically for cases where the potential benefits outweigh possible risks. Alzheimer’s sounds like a good candidate, or near-fatal diseases (6-month-to-live cancer) - you literally have nothing to lose! Another example is a pandemic, where the vaccine was experimentally approved, but presumably only because of the enormous scale & economic benefits (but the individual benefits are equivalent, or even greater, in the cases above).
I've interviewed quite a few people in order to assess their technical skills. Here are some takeaways:

1) I look at skills, not grades.

2) I look at skills, not which university someone went to.

3) I look at skills, not weather or not they someone to university.

Just read the docs and practice in order to learn relevant skills. You can done quicker than those to went to uni, have more practice in a shorter amount of time and not have any debt.
> * told to have this run in k8s since everything runs in k8s

I've seen a production system handling one request (which takes a handful of ms) every 2 seconds (work hours only, mind) in k8s running 8 pods. It is quite breathtaking.
Interesting insights into the TOS of Paddle.
Have you compared the TOS of Paddle to FastSpring?
I don't understand how the imprints on websites help with scams. Could you elaborate?

If someone is scamming people, it wouldn't be too surprising if they do include the imprint or include incorrect data there, wouldn't it?
Behind the Green Screen: a look at visual effects working practices today (2020)
Whats wrong with eating with your hands?
I think its usually a very pre-arranged time (like once a quarter shortly after the quarterly earnings since you cant know what's in the next quarterly earning if the previous one just happened).

Besides, are there really bad and good times for the company? Its not like the company itself is affected, just the stock holders. Management wants stock to go up because management usually owns stock. So screwing you would also screw themselves.

Last of all, if you dont like the blackout periods, you can just setup an arms length plan to bypass it https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule-10b5-1.asp
Sort of, there’s a convention used throughout the standard library of returning {:ok, output} or {:err, error} or nil. That makes it really easy to compose functions/check for errors.

The equivalent of do-notation would be with statements I think:
https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/basics/control-structure...
> As a general principle, the capital is wherever the seat of the Executive and Legislature is based from.

That's what people call a de facto capital. Still the EU intentionaly has no capital in its laws.

> The symbolic rhetorical cover is interesting, irrelevant

It's in no way irrelevant nor a cover. It's the reason Strasbourg was selected as the seat of the parliement in the 50s.

You can't discard facts because they don't suit your worldview. I will personally stop this pointless discussion.
I've seen people enter their email into those intrusive "sign up for our newsletter" popovers because they think that's the only way to bypass them. Which is probably one reason why sites keep using them. Not everyone is as web savvy as we like to think.
"When a program is installed on the Windows platform, some components of it may run with privileges, regardless of which user is currently logged on to the system. "

So i understand that a normal program may have code (for example DLL loading code) which runs with elevated privileges.
BitClout says they have funding from Sequoia Capital, but Sequoia Capital's site doesn't list them as funded by them. Hm.

I wonder if that huge transaction volume is the same money going round and round.

While you can't redeem BitClout tokens from BitClout, two sites claim to have a secondary market. One is "down for maintenance." The other has an order book with one ask and zero buy offers.[1]

[1] https://app.bitswap.network/register
I lock my doors, and have wooden dowels in the tracks of the windows to keep them from being opened from the outside.

Getting footage of a person breaking in to your home and stealing your valuables seems pretty pointless to me. Unless someone gets murdered during the break-in, the cops won't do anything with it.

All you're doing is advertising that you have valuables worth monitoring.
They use whatever to convert all the currencies of the world into your base currency, usually USD/EUR. Then they transfer that to you, and you pay more conversion fees if that’s not your actual base.
If you don't mind doing it, you can reverse engineer it to remove the VM detections / make a stealthy VM.
How do they handle the load balancing with that much traffic?
> I was going for some Leetcode based exercise

Oh no! Please! It helps neither the candidate nor the company. Will any of the leetcode exercises map to the job the candidate will be interviewing for?

My preferred way is this:

1. Introducing the candidate to all the team members with whom the candidate is going to work, if selected.

2. Pair programming with few of them on actual task or some similar task.

3. Solo programming on a problem that somewhat maps to one of the tasks the team is working on.

4. Asking the candidate to present the solution to the team on the whiteboard and candidate taking questions from them on the presented solution.

5. Vote from the team members on hire/no-hire decision.
This is pretty common and something that bit us last year - enterprise Outlook 365 (or some extension? idk it was def only O365 though) added some security features that would make a HEAD request to any links contained in an email. This messed up our (admittedly antiquated) process for activating users and resetting passwords as it consumed the one-time code our systems generated for them, as you mentioned. Because the app that handled this was old and in the process of replacement we didn't want to invest too much time in rewriting it all, so a quick and easy fix was to have a handler specifically for HEAD requests to those activation and reset resources. The link protection started issuing GET requests a little while after, so we ended up having to add an extra confirmation step so the user had to click something after the link was followed.

To be honest the original process we had maybe wasn't 100% perfect - users can double click links for example, and would see a message that the link had "expired". So from a UX perspective we maybe should've had the extra confirmation step before activation/reset to begin with. But I'm in two minds over email providers following all the links in your emails, it feels a bit creepy
> That is however the implicit claim of Critical Race Theorists.

You have provided evidence that it is the implicit claim of exactly one critical race theorist.

> which is why I'm challenging your support for it now.

This is a strawman. I began this discussion by pointing out that this very claim is counterproductive, which is why I'm not a fan of DiAngelo's work. Reasoning in the abstract about marginalized groups and the systemic issues they tend to face is not the same as asserting that they individually have all the same views or background.
Not even going into the office ever. The management and credit theif managers are going to put up a huge fight and okay room of mind games about that tho.
They're probably only aware that Safari and Chrome display different things in the address bar. If they don't like Safari they'll switch to something they prefer.

Usually it'll follow a pattern like:

"Hey friend, my browser is a bit rubbish, I can't see the page I'm on."

Friend uses Chrome and demonstrates how it doesn't do that.

"My friend's browser is better because the URL is clearer. I'll swap to that one."

Non-technical users will usually follow recommendations like that before they considering looking for an option to make the browser work the way they want it to. Configuration isn't something most users do unless it's either suggested by the application or there's a button literally in front of them.
As long as the host doesn't accidentally open the prize door, it doesn't matter whether he forgot or not. To test my statement you could write a simulation where the host randomly opens a door.
Something like that was in HN two days ago:

Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails (2017):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27431999
I've found that my remote work meetings neatly break down into 3 categories:

- direct engagement -- 2-4 participants
- broad forum -- 5-12 participants
- fly-on-the-wall -- any number, but my contribution will be 0-4 sentences

Of these, the broad forum has the least clear attention level requirement. The usefulness of these meetings is determined by the skill of the moderator, to steer the conversation flow towards the primary subject and ensure the relevance to most attendees. Unfortunately, many colleagues are still reluctant to have their cameras on, which makes gauging the interest level very challenging for the moderator.

I can frequently take fly-on-the-wall meetings (and sometimes even broad forum) while out walking, which is a nice plus.
> The pair arrived in Odessa, near the border with New Mexico

No, it isn't.
There are some fun things to be found near modern day Seattle, WA.
> This function reads a file from disk and writes back to it every time. If filesystem write audits aren't enabled there is no way to determine if the most recent write of "true" was the only write.

Yet, that doesn't matter - all the user has to demonstrate in court is that rejecting a EULA causes it to come up again in the future, meaning that sooner or later it is going to get accidentally accepted.
Don't worry, if ya'll are white they'll be fine.
How to effectively use live options flow to gauge stock market sentiment
>It seems like you're saying a fixed percentage of a person's spending is going to the websites they visit, but why would that be the case?

Very roughly yes. Some percentage of a typical company's revenues is spent on ads, and revenues from each customer are obviously proportional to that customer's spending. It's the same thing (leaving aside sales taxes).

Companies try to maximise the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. The effectiveness depends on how many people actually go ahead and buy the product relative to how much the ads cost. If running ads on Youtube is less effective, then ads prices on Youtube would have to fall and Youtube would earn less.

Let's say only extremely poor people were using Youtube. None of them would ever buy a high-end smartphone. How much would high-end smartphone makers pay to Youtube for the honor of running ads there? The answer is zero.

Now let's say there are two groups of Youtube users. One group never buys a high-end smartphone. The other group buys one every year. Now it makes sense for smartphone makers to fund Youtube through their ads, but only the group actually buying smartphones pays for it. So the rich group effectively subsidises the poor group's Youtube usage.

I have chosen an extreme and unrealistic example to explain the principle. In reality, there will be a mix of products. The cheapest ones will be bought by almost everybody in roughly the same quantities, and some luxury goods are never advertised on Youtube at all. But the relationship between per person spending and that person's contribution to ad funding for the sites they visit still roughly holds.

This is what I think. I'm not an economist though. There are certainly many open questions as to how strong this redistribution effect is and what the effect of ad targeting is. But the claim that there is no such redistribution effect at all seems extremely implausible to me.
My hopes for this explanation were too high. I just tested it on my cooworkers. No luck. I reverted to suggesting to write a short simulation script to convince themselves by experimental data.
Yes we do? We've had them for ages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_requirements_for_i...
The idea is nice, but so many inaccuracies. For the default period of 1800 to 2021 more than half of the European countries are missing.
Mark your post as "Show HN". There's no way I will comment on your side project after I was tricked into reading about it.
Devs paired with the best designers don't always make the best product team
beast mode on
SpeakeasyJS – the “mad science” meetup
I find it more stressful to drive automatic. You need to be more careful with the gas pedal to get just the right amount of acceleration, since too much will make the car shift down and rev up. Also there is the risk of uncontrolled acceleration by mixing up the gas and brake pedal and not having the clutch as a double safe.
Good point. To add an exception to the original article then, perhaps the only general method to detect fraud is the trivial method: assume everything is fraud.

In practice though for most goals it's probably better to trade off Type 1 vs Type 2 error.
You don't need to be a scientist to acknowledge that knowledge evolves.

You don't even need to follow a 'scientific method' for that.

The ability to embrace uncertainty is hard to learn, but one that we all should strive for. One that should be praised and lauded.

A politician, leader or CEO making a bad decision on a wrong premis, and publicly acknowledges the mistake (and learns from it), is now often end-of-career. This is toxic. Because such mistakes are a fact of life and the best teacher.
> For an email newsletter, you can see how well it's doing both by the number of subscribers on the list, and also by how many people click through and read the full article on your site.

How is it any more happiness-centric to force people to “click through” again and again to read the full article? This is borderline reader-hostile in 2021.

The big revolution in email recently has been that the email itself is the product. Put all the content there; deliver 100% of the value with one click (the click that opens the email).

This is way better for the reader than having to click 12 separate times just to read a bit.
Completely false. Draw up a probability table for the case where the host picks a door at random (so 1/3 times they reveal the prize) and you'll see.
I replaced my Google Music subscription with a monthly purchase of music from bandcamp of equal value to my subscription.

It feels right.
Probably too basic for your daughter, but check out Breaking Numbers Into Parts. [1] Also, there's Russian Math School, which is popular in some circles.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Numbers-into-Parts-Second/dp...
I never used paypal on bandcamp, and I use to support bands from there. Credit is an option that usually works
Indeed. Avogadro's number too now has an exact value and all that stuff that depends on it has changed with it.
I wouldn't touch Airbnb with a ten foot pole.
> There should be a way for drugs to be experimentally approved, where patients can only take them with extra consent / oversight (e.g. recommended by an ethics committee, or after a 6 month waiting period & clear understanding of side effects), specifically for cases where the potential benefits outweigh possible risks.

There is. See how EMA approved Covid-19 vaccines.
The problem with your stance is that URLs don’t matter.

The only thing that matters is the origin. Sad their data didn’t confirm the obvious.