skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead, these bits of banana (galaxies) getting pushed along and pushed farther apart because the break (space) is expanding between them.

This sounds a lot like an explanation to dark energy, but really breaks my understanding of our universe expanding at an accelerated rate[0].

[0]: https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-universe-accelerating/
> Your whole argument is basically "users are too dumb to deal with freedom"

No, it's not.

> you can already side load apps on Android and you don't really see any of that which you mention?

Yes, actually, you do see this! Most of the Android malware is from sideloaded apps, although some of it comes from Google Play itself.

> People aren't saying Samsungs are "insecure garbage" as far as I know.

No, they're saying Android is insecure garbage instead. Just like they'll say iOS and Apple is garbage.
Freedom of contract is pretty well respected in the US, there are very few exceptions where carve outs are made where people are not allowed to contract freely. So its not clear what a “smart contract that breaks US contract law would be”, its much more likely for a smart contract to be a outright scam or illegal though, in which case good luck finding the funds or whom to sue.
The article thoroughly fails to prove its claim. They had two separate divisions working on competing projects, sure. Was that bad? Did that actually hurt them? The idea that they would have built something better if they'd been on friendlier terms, if they'd talked to each other more, seems to just be blindly assumed.
I learned that lesson the hard way when I was a teenager.

I'd semi-automated the generation of emails to parents about how their kids were doing at summer camp. It was basically just a script that asked various questions and pulled various data about the camper from the database, then used that to generate a letter that could be used as a starting point and edited to be more personal (or, if in a rush, just sent as-is).

Long story short, due to user error, a value of 0 was set for a camper's behavior/politeness/helpfulness rating, which resulted in a joke sentence that I'd written as an Easter egg getting slipped into that particular report. Cue egg on my face when a parent calls in, baffled about the otherwise normal report containing a casual aside about how terrible their nice little girl was.

After that experience, I always assume that every string in the code will inevitably be seen by a real user/customer.
That’s not how the vast majority of index funds work. Most s&p 500 index funds are market cap weight, not equal weight.

A fund weighted by market cap only needs to sell shares when/if shareholders decide to cash out of the entire fund.
>> It routinely manufatures fake news and rumors...

For which there is and should be plenty of room in a functioning society that is free to voice its opinion, however "pro-chaos".
Metromile Is Hiring Be Engineers
Not at all, the reason you may think so is that you're very used to representing numbers using a base 10 number system and in that system it is inherently impossible to represent pi. But if you change how you represent numbers, you can represent pi exactly. What OP did was represent pi using a syntax inspired by a programming language, which is just as valid a number system as any other formal representation as far as correctness goes, although of course as a human I likely would not wish to express most of my use cases involving numbers using a full blown programming language.

That said, one can perform all of arithmetic using that system and represent any property of numbers that could be represented otherwise.
Citric-Acid Cycle, Krebs cycle

Glucose, Acetyl-CoA, Pyruvate, ADP, ATP, NAD+, NADH, NADP, NADPH
Mailhog is nice too.
You might be confused. The "price > 0" refers to the price of TITAN. TITAN isn't backed by USDC at all. IRON is (ideally) backed by 75% USDC and 25% TITAN.
This was a great story and it reminds me once again that little in the world of business is new. I wanted to share some thoughts on this paragraph:

> Today I find it ridiculous that a major corporation would allow huge groups to silo to this degree, to fail to communicate, cooperate, and share, and to allow them to build overlapping and competing products. To allow this kind of animosity to build between employees of the same company. We’re talking about thousands of engineers involved here, between the two divisions. Seems like something that could have only happened in the crazy 1980’s, but I am betting if enough people read this far, we will see comments to the contrary.

This happens very regularly and it is to the detriment of both the company and employees. I'll take the tech giants as an example, although this probably applies to other enormous organizations as well. Google displays this internal competition in one way, with a scattered, inconsistent, and ever-changing strategy for products like Chat that many on HN have joked is caused by promotion-driven engineering and cut-throat focus on personal gain. Amazon allows multiple teams to go after the same opportunities, with the mentality that it is better to have two horses in the race. Microsoft had inter-org competitive dynamics throughout the 2000s that was captured in the famous organizational chart of tech companies (https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6) - although that culture may have changed under Satya Nadella's leadership.

Large companies are less like small businesses and more like small countries or governments. So naturally, politics arises - but companies are new to it and do a bad job of dealing with political dynamics. So when they allow internal competition, they don't even manage to create a "fair" playing field. More typically, there might one team that is chosen to be the "survivor" by an arbitrary executive decision, or there might be a part of the company with more resources that out-paces the others, or the company may just make effectively random choices, or whatever else. This can leave talented teams and employees jaded, frustrated, and burned out. It can also create immense distrust that those affected carry forward with them into subsequent jobs or their personal life. As for the products and the company - the best ideas don't necessarily survive this, and the loss of talent eventually accumulates towards the fall of a big company from its peaks.
> So who should you get mad at then?

Developers who do the thing you don't like.

> Every single app developer?

No, just the ones who do the thing you don't like.

> The incentive alignment is pretty clear: if Facebook and users let them, devs will show ads.

Google and Apple pays devs show ads. Therefore all games have ads, right? No.

I don't buy games with ads. I have plenty of options.

> Either the app is good enough that people will endure the ads (in which case they will always preser two revenue streams to one)

Again you're arguing that all games that can have ads, do have ads. This is proven wrong by the world. We have two gigantic app stores with 5 million apps between them. None of the apps on my phone have ads.
If you're going to compare Perl with Ruby make it Perl + Moose then redo your benchmarks. Otherwise it's an apples to oranges comparison as Ruby has built-in OOP. Ruby was built on top of the best bits of Perl and with its blocks and metaprogramming it is arguably the most advanced scripting language. Python fails to match Perl and Ruby due to its half-assed lambdas.
> I would caution against just jumping into this

I don't think that anyone needs caution warnings about starting an ISP... more then likely they know that it isn't like drinking a cup of coffee.
My cursory view of your personality is that you would feel the same misery if you had spent all your time with your kids and none of your time chasing your dream to build a company. Many people find peace with meditation, therapy, exposure to nature, exercise, limiting caffeine / alcohol, natural medicines etc.
I'm almost certain this thread is just a transcription of a Joe Rogan podcast
I don't think you can compare JS to Scheme, I've heard of that meme though. Also, JS suffers from a lot of fragmentation in tooling and frameworks, so the problem is not just the language.

As for a third party service argument, you're just stretching the goal posts there to fit your argument.
I would say definitely yes. While Rust asks the developer to worry about things they don't in other "memory managed" languages, its ergonomic and expressiveness add to the productivity. Once you get used to Rust, it becomes a net positive from a productivity side; at least this has been our experience, and you get a much more efficient and robust codebase.

However, here are the following caveats:
- If you have a client or employer project to do now, and you are not yet familiar with Rust, do it with your language of expertise. Rust has to be learned before starting a new real project with it.
- The real challenge is the cost to train an entire team on it.
- Obviously, universal languages do not exist, so if you do AI, especially modeling, use Python (for now), web stuff use JS/TS, mobile stuff, Kotlin | Swift | Dart/Flutter. You can do some Rust on mobile and even web with WASM, but those are very niche use cases.
> China specifically agreed under the terms of the transfer to allow for Hong Kong's continued independence in domestic matters until 2047

Independence in domestic matters is still there in Hong Kong, as it was before 1997 (at that time also chief executive is not elected). Hong Kong earlier worked under common law system and it still has the same system (China system is continental law system). Nationality law was enacted using provisions of basic law which provided a thin layer between one country and two systems. Also this is in response to threats of using Hong Kong as launch pad for attack on China in cold war.

> They graciously agreed to return them for China

Lived long enough in Hong Kong to know it was anything but gracious. UK left because they milked enough from Hong Kong and risking a war with China for a small gains were not worthwhile.
You can't say that without knowing the details.

I've definitely seen issues where the engineers at the keyboards that day weren't at all at fault, and were just doing exactly what was asked of them, but systemic issues caused something like this. You can blame poor tech hygiene by the whole team, and lack of foresight by the manager, but most of that would be 20/20 hindsight.

This is why blameless postmortems are a good thing, because humans are simply awful with hindsight bias.

Best thing to do is just figure out how not to do it in the future.
Love the concept, and nicely executed! But what is Kafka-specific here? It seems like this illustrated guide describes any highly scalable, persistent pub/sub system
> But if we take the wavefunction of QM as complete, which Many Worlds does - the most compsci-like interpretation - then randomness is fundamental according to theory.

MWI is an entirely deterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics. Absolutely no randomness is involved which is one of its most appealing properties.
Being added to the S&P 500 does not prevent price discovery in the stock market. There are still enough active funds and active traders that stock prices can go up and down for stocks within the S&P 500, and sometimes stocks fall out of the index if they fall enough. Doubt that will happen with tesla anytime soon though unless there are some really bad announcements for their business or future.
While I agree, as a current resident, I also witnessed the insane destructive behavior of Apple Daily, who did exagerate quite a bit the situation and was far from a neutral observer. I'd even say that telling kids the police murdered 2000 people was not exactly helping them strategize rather than throw themselves in desperate waves at the police... These guys all pushed the situation towards a point of no return for the communists, which could have been instead worked around.

Ofc a strong and self assured nation would be able to swallow it, and China shows us how weak and self doubting it is, but I won't cry too many tears for that newspaper.

I'm even a tad annoyed Lai is presented as a glorious press freedom figure when I felt reading it that it was on the abusive side of freedom. I guess we all need now to redraw the line at which we collaborate vs resist and Im not yet at the resist stage.
HK is the financial gateway between China and the Rest of the World and that's how most foreign direct investment happens.

It's because HK is open to the world and also China, but ROW not really open to China.

China, by 'taking over HK' really implies that HK shouldn't really enjoy fee access to world markets.

This is unlikely to change though as the situation benefits everyone financial and it's not based on human rights rather it was based on transparency, commercial law, accounting standards etc..

So as long as investors stay protected, that commercial law remains in place, they can get their money out, that balance sheets still mean what they did before ... it's probably just going to stay that way.

China doesn't need to change those things to control HK, all they need to do is clamp down on the political system and eject anyone 'causing trouble'. Which they can do.

If China went after foreign account holders, or if vaporware mainland accounting standards start showing up in HK companies it may eventually be a problem, but I don't see why that would change.

Due to the fact the lease to UK was a set timeframe, China holds all the cards here.
No one should be excited about anything related to Google. It works til you need support, then is too late.
mRNA Vaccine Causes Lipid Nanoparticles to Accumulate in Ovaries
This is something I don't understand as well. Why didn't Hong Kong choose to become an independent state when they had the chance? They could have thrived like Singapore does.
I feel like I’m missing something. It appears, from where I sit, that you made some screenshots and an equivalent of a coming soon page. I can’t download the app. Again… I might be missing something.
What was this board originally dedicated to?
Okay, so, I figure a post that goes "those darn kids in amazon senior leadership!" is probably not made entirely sincerely
Seems like someone accidentally published their test code into production. My instinct also tells me that HBO is using Spring Boot and that a missing or misplaced annotation is also somehow involved in this accident.
>Training them to play nice may not be possible.

I'm autistic. It is possible for the socially inept to learn to be less of an asshole and to have better interactions with other people. I did it and we should expect everyone to make an effort to be kinder.
IMO the alternative is not clearly better either. A certain amount of internal competition and diversity is healthy, but not too much nor too little. Putting “all your eggs in one basket” can also end in disaster, and the worst case is arguably worse.
I came to say the exact same thing.

This is absurd. Why should the company that made the product know how much I'm using it?
As far as I know genetic construct design remains a mostly manual process because the decision tree that goes into creating a viable clone is complicated to say the least. There are a lot of variables to optimize, from choosing the right expression vector, to cutting and gluing the right genes at the right spot. I think that in many cases, the science behind genetic engineering is mostly empirical. Biologists will often spend a long time to figure out how to express one particular product, and then apply that knowledge to similar products, but if they move to something vastly different, there is no guarantee of success.

Automating the process is a valuable effort nevertheless. I think because of it's complexity, it would require a combination ofknowledge-graph based reasoing, with AI.

There are databases such as Addgene: https://www.addgene.org/search/catalog/plasmids/?q=Cas9, in which you can search existing plasmids created by the scientific community. I think this could be a valuable resource for a machine learning approach.
If this was a marketing ploy, it is genius. The amount of play this email is getting is ridiculous. Brilliant move if it was planned.
> The massive difference in performance in this case is due to fcp using fclonefileat and fcopyfile under the hood

GNU Coreutils' cp, the thing you use on most GNU/Linux systems, is not the "Classic Unix cp".

It has options for copy-on-write cloning via kernel-specific methods.

COW copying is opt-in probably because it's not a true copy. If either file sustains damage, both are toast.
We don't cry tears because of the kind of journalism, we cry tears because it was on some level journalism or at minimum freedom of expression and the clampdown means the same it will happen to you if you try that route.

Anyone who contradicts Putin and gets any stickiness or popularity ends up dead. You don't have to agree with Putin's antagonists to realize why that is bad.
If "quite a few" non-directors make more than average American cardiologists either:

A) your company is engaged in disturbing monopolism;
B) your company is engaged in disturbing labor exploitation and arbitrage; or
C) your company is engaged in disturbing environmental destruction.

Would love to be proven wrong. Am I?

Edit: option D) is that American cardiologists are not as exclusive and skilled a labor force as I would prefer to believe ;)
A California hydro-power plant will shut down for first time
When I was doing CS in college, bad commenting was an academic requirement: As in your grade would be worse if you commented appropriately.

Over multiple courses including software engineering, comment quality and or correct use of comments was never in the syllabus.

But in several courses they wanted to see the code heavily commented, to the point where you were just re-writing the code as a comment and getting a green tick instead of a red "more comments!" note. I legitimately believe that my educators just didn't know any better themselves.

These days I live by the mantra: Comment to explain WHY not HOW, since the WHY is lost to time whereas the HOW is often self-descriptive.

PS - [0]Still my favorite comment of all time. I'm still pissed that someone tried to remove it from the article on Wikipedia (in particular as the comment is almost as famous as the code).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...
The countries built of straw
Hilarious and on point. Love it.
It tops my list of impactful books for sure.

I feel like GEB can't even properly be described as being "about" anything in particular. It seems to evade capture in the same way that the formal systems that it describes evade capture. It is almost "about" what "meaning" itself is... Nothing quite like it.
Being able to stop, go back, and look stuff up is huge. Googling the common form of a phrase you want to use is huge. Assuming you have basic reading proficiency already.

I’m learning Thai: literacy is not for beginners here. But I look forward to one day googling stuff like I do when reading Hungarian legal contracts.
Just a note that Apple Daily [0] is a pro-democracy tabloid and is not affiliated with Apple computer.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Daily
What you've written is not pi, it's a procedure for computing pi. Python expressions are not a notation, they fail basic requirements for a reasonable notation (for example you cannot generally determine whether two Python expressions are equal or not).
Some successes are obvious luck (e.g. winning the lottery). Some failures are the obvious result of bad choices or are so egregious they don't warrant generosity (e.g. cheating on a spouse).
Well currently people are denied treatment and resources altogether if they have an addiction. That is a massive problem
The obvious counterweight to China is India, which has a similar population and a rapidly growing economy. However, they're several decades behind China on all fronts (economy, wealth, education, infrastructure, you name it) and with Modi at the helm and COVID continuing to wreak havoc it's entirely plausible that they go into reverse gear again.
Same thinking here. Can’t bite the hand that feeds. The thing is you have to chose a camp these days, it seems. Either the corp or the devs. If choosing devs, i think the biz model would work if it would be a meritocratic limited partnership that actually owns the new TB. As such the interviewer has skin in the game. Maybe like an Order? Or a League? The mission statement is not a match right now.
If someone is wasting time in a meeting on tangents unrelated to the goal of the meeting, the person running the meeting has every right and obligation to shut down the tangent.

This is a problem regardless of the document culture. If anything the document culture gives you an objective standard that makes it very clear whether a line of discussion is on topic.
The raids are just the tip of the iceberg, as the Australia judicial system now shares characteristics of those found in secret states like Russia.

Who would have thought in Australia someone could be prosecuted and jailed by a secret court.

That is exactly what happened to Witness J:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/22/act-j...
Just because those jobs exist is not a reason for them to continue existing. They can find work in fields such as helping addicts instead of oppressing them.
"basic law can be interpreted to suite the needs of how the two systems should be."

There is no independent judiciary in China, the law is whatever the CCP wants it to be.

In this case, they didn't like what some newspaper was doing, so they had it shut down, and put out the PR spin though thought would work best. That's it.

FYI the 'violent protests' were not very violent, and definitely favourable to the loss of freedoms with the current regime.

One option would be to let the citizens of HK make the decision on those things.
You’re bullshitting, as evidenced by how hard China pushed against Trump’s changes. One doesn’t need to crush China to change its incentive gradient. Besides, worst case scenario, the non-Chinese countries can isolate their economies from China to at least shield their own autonomy.
I don't know anything about what's going on, but I'm in full support of anyone bailing on a passion project from which the passion is gone. Godspeed to them.
The reason you have tons of crime in places like SF and Seattle is because of department and DA policy not to pursue these types of crimes even when there's evidence. More evidence doesn't make up for lack of political will.
The home page has a little bit more info: https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/
No however ironically Russians today enjoy vastly more freedom than Chinese citizens.
>The right to govern extends from the consent of the governed.

First I must say that what's happening to HK is tragic, and I very much empathize with their situation, and am not at all in agreement with how the CCP is handling this.

But this is quite the take! I don't know if you're US-based, but by that logic if the Native Americans held a referendum, they would have most certainly not allowed the U.S. government to form on their land.

This is simply a case of Big Stick Ideology, something the U.S. is quite familiar with [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stick_ideology

[EDIT: No, I'm not suggesting that this is right, just making an observation]
I love this idea.

I've tried to push people to make agendas and just generally do some legwork to make meetings run smoother.

There's only been a few times where I've had project managers who actually tried it out. It was glorious and meetings ran so smoothly, but it stopped shortly after.

I guess they found it to be to onerous to spend 5 minutes write an email. I think it's hopeless to expect them to write an entire document.
I think the post might have been referencing how the USSR fractured into a lot of smaller countries.