skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree with this statement.

Stock pump is great when you plan to sell later, realize dizzying share price gains, enjoy stock splits, and take loans against your portfolio; that's how it works now and I get it.

But something glaring about this situation makes me feel rather uneasy. Since the market has transitioned from dividends to price hikes, the price performance is fully baked into the economic equations that investors count on for profits.

I can't help but feel something is untoward about the ponzi-esque mechanics and tax sheltering implications of buy-hold-sell-buy the dip-hold. Regular (not rich) people are much less insulated to market downturns and the big players as well as corporate officers are bound to value short term performance, stock buybacks in lieu of dividends, pr-driven policies, and doesn't this even further incentivize insider trading activities and concealment of environmental issues, HR abuses, and other externalities?

What is the real point of the stock now? It is so much farther divorced from the fundamentals of a business and tilted towards this emotional stock market yearly performance corporate raider stuff. Doesn't the stock market have to keep recording historic record highs, or else this all comes crashing down? Does it really matter at all what a company is doing so long as the share price climbs at a rate above inflation? Shouldn't the smartest move now be to buy mass market ad campaigns for "Buy AMZN!"? I mean, if you squint at it just right it looks like if that works, corporations would be obligated to do just that.

If its all truly this fake (so to speak) and its gonna be fine, aren't I an enormous idiot for not quitting my job, liquidating everything, and just buying and selling shares all day long? (I suspect the answer is yes.)
RCT: A 5-day course of Ivermectin was found to be safe and effective
We've made great leaps in safety measures since then. I'm not convinced we've made much in the way of progress in terms of miniaturization, simplicity or cost of operation though, as you can see from the ludicrous cost overruns seen for basically all recent reactors.
It doesn't seem to include an automatic updater.
Regulators investigating Autopilot in 30 Tesla crashes that killed 10 people
If you're interested, I referenced this and used the technique to estimate the quantity of STS SRBs recently:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9261/how-many-soli...

Oh, no.... The date on that post is 2015... "recently"... I'm old...
That's technically true, though Hasura is a well-funded startup with a $99+/mo cloud offering and Enterprise features while postgraphile is one main open-source developer who has support contracts available and accepts donations (the "pro" package is pretty minimal and costs just ~$25/mo).

You can get started with Hasura for free which is great, and you can run it on your own servers (if you want to manage a Haskell service) which is also great, but in practice choosing Hasura means you're relying on a company for your backend and choosing postgraphile means you're relying on an express plugin which you can get a support plan for.

I'm not saying one is the better choice than the other for this reason, many would prefer the funded company.
The question I have is this, is amazon doing well because of this? Or in spite of this?
I've never found Facebook or Instagram fun, but Tiktok is an absolute delight. The serendipity they put into the recommendations is key.
Development methodologies exist to solve product development problems, not the product problems. In that sense, an organization that adopts TDD necessarily focuses on the tests (as part of the development process), by definition.

The problem is, TDD is a poor development methodology.
mapy.cz unfortunately wants iOS 13... ;-)
Confirmed.

We found a problem! Let start a startup: "Intelligent code review tool for smart developers, which want to keep comments in their code up to date". The tool will use AI to learn which parts of code are modified often in unison, and then propose to check them also during code review. It will also check for copy-pasted code blocks, and for snippets from StackOverflow with known bugs. The tool will reduce code review time by 10%, reduce number of bugs slipped trough code review by 20%, improve time to ship by 7%, bla bla bla, and instruct the coffee machine to prepare a coffee just in time for the review.
The Title was slightly edited to work with the allowable length at HN.

Original Title: Safety regulators are investigating Autopilot's role in 30 Tesla crashes that killed 10 people, report says
That seems potentially easy to explain given that some of the bigger (higher volume) exchanges support USDT and not USDC.
That's a lot of faith in the strength of a small strip of paper, I'd probably rip the thing several times just trying to make it like the video

Did they have stronger paper back then?
My condolences, that doesn't sound very nice. Unless you're a frog, in which case, congratulations!
I've always assumed they did this for games like LoL.

Bots already exist, so the foundation for automated play testing is in place. Take the basic AI and add some functionality to track the effectiveness of various skills or loadout across plays. Using A/B/n testing to choose the most effective character strategy would probably highlight overpowered loadouts within a few thousand game-test-hours.

They could probably take analytics from real players and do what's outlined above and get a reasonable idea of the impact a change will have.
I love how positive and fun the content on TikTok is. It really is a breath of fresh air, never fails to bring a smile to my face.
To a large extent, yes. We like to say that cryptocurrency is like international waters: if you have your own boat and some know-how you can easily get out there and do whatever you like. But not everyone knows how to sail! There's still a lot of need for barges and cruise liners to help average people get from port to port.

For us, we want to help people who don't really understand private and public keys to get out and take advantage of the new paradigms being built in cryptocurrency. And for people who do understand these things, we're happy to be a gateway to take advantage of the centralized infrastructure and put everything back in your control on your own hardware wallet.

As for being a market maker, our goal is to guarantee best execution anywhere. This requires some fancy footwork on our end, but even after we take the spread, we want to offer you a price as good or better than you can find on any other exchange, net of fees. And that includes DEXs! We will make all these prices transparent so you can see the Hedgehog price as well as whatever Uniswap, 1Inch, or Matic are offering.
> Much of TDD mantra is less about development but about (perceived) correctness,

I have (seriously!) never heard it reference like this at all. Every introductory article, every book, every tutorial, every video about TDD (or BDD) that I consumed, emphasised that it is about "workflow", about "a way of development" and not about percieved correctness.

Do note that the crucial different is that TDD > automated testing. In the sense that with TDD you write automated tests (that live in a test suite). But that "writing tests" or "developing a testsuite" is not nessecarily TDD.
No way!

I posted especially link to the PCem Forum where all users discussions and content was removed with no sorry!
If the crashes are intentional panics caused because of detection of a memory safety issue, more crashes there are actually good; in a C program they would be silent buffer overflows or memory corruption that don't manifest until later, or may not manifest at all until it becomes a security issue.
>Very clearly, the point is performance.

Yeah from my understanding from former Amazon folks it is hyper performance oriented. The outcome (as far as treating people) might suck, but the motivation seems to genuinely be performance.
As long as you also clarify that their consumers must be following the news where that's announced.

With us technical people it's more likely, but not necessary for others that may have just heard 'use a vpn' and went to the App Store, searched for 'vpn' and prepaid 3 years.

Hide my ass VPN is still up - https://www.hidemyass.com/en-us/index
I got it. It one line and includes the word test so I just ignored it. It wasn’t scary but it wasn’t clear what it was.
The mesh material is extremely thin. As long as you're focusing past it, you don't see the mesh itself. Just maybe the color of it, which is why black mesh is a popular color.
It is open source. If someone doesn't like a decision they can fork the codebase.

Mozilla's Gecko has been beaten down to sub-double-digit market share, they're less relevant right now than when IE6 was >75% of the market. They have no power to influence the direction the web moves in. And yet life is going on better than ever.

If you want a counterbalance to stop Google making the important decisions, Firefox has failed spectacularly. And yet Google doesn't have any power to move the web in a direction it doesn't want to go - because their engine is open source and that is what actually matters here.
Yep, here's another a 90 second clip demonstrating how Sinclair is a rightwing media news org, also using the same forced talking points across the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
I’m at AWS and the doc focus meetings is my favorite cultural force of working there. I was surprised to see the article leave out the benefit to author of forcing them to clarify their thoughts and get evidence to support their claims. I am always way more prepared to discuss and defend my proposals after writing a document, even if I thought my idea was pretty clear before writing it.

A drawback, if you want to call it that, is it can be exhausting. Both on the consumption side when you have to review lots of deeply technical and nuanced things all day and be on your A game, or in having to constantly write documents. As I’ve gotten more senior it has taken the largest part of my time now. It also seems like a lazy answer from management can be “well write that up in a doc and we can review”. Feels like you can’t discuss anything without a doc sometimes. But still love it, net net.
That's how I view my employment. My company does not pay me to work for them. They pay me to not work for anyone else, including myself.
Roswell was a cover up, so the Soviet Union wouldn't know we could detect their above ground nuclear tests via sound carried in the stratosphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul

I strongly agree that if the Nazis, Soviets, or any other opponent had technology of the sort that allowed antigravity, history couldn't have unfolded the way it did.

I have zero faith that space aliens have anything to do with the fuzzy triangles or tic-tac videos. Those have far simpler explanations. See this video by "Thunderf00t" which gives really good earthy reasons for what's been seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th4VlqQyVr4
I use Mozilla VPN, but the program (Ubuntu 20.04) 1+ times per day just closes and it does not have a network kill switch.

So I have to continue to use Firefox's DoH to prevent my university to occasionally take a peek at my traffic. Assuming they don't bother reversing IPs to domain names.
TikTok creators are pushing out so much incredible OC. It feels like half of the Reddit front page are just TikTok reposts (with the logo censored out, because Redditors are too cool to admit they like TikTok content.)
Polygraph Statement of a CIA Applicant
What I've read is that the evidence from encampments indicate that humans tended to hunt smaller animals and foraged for food even when larger animals were in the area. This was specifically in the context of the Clovis people hunting mammoths, but as a complete non-expert I feel I am within my rights to grossly overgeneralize.
You are literally dumber than a rock.
The Lost Termini of Berlin, Part 1. A City to Arrive in (2020)
> While Tether may not be a bank, their users aren't just users: they're holders of Tether credit

Contractually, they are not considered creditors. Furthermore, liability for any loss is explicitly put on the user. (Whether the contract is valid can be litigated though.)

> isn't Tether legally required to sell or transfer assets to service the redemption

Sadly not… From the contract: “Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all.”

In fact, US citizens are already disallowed from redeeming tokens, and have been for years.
The reason why so many people are talking past you is almost no one has had a boss that says "just ask for a higher salary" and most bosses act like the king of shit mountain for giving you 1% more than you got last year.

One of the most common pretenses used? Family.
We're a family, we work like a family, everyone here is a family. Wouldn't you work overtime for the family? You should sacrifice for the family. You should die for the family.
I don't know about you, but in my experience, getting Cargo to work has been a much bigger pain than make/meson et al.
> TDD encourages an architecture with lots of indirection so that it can achieve the necessary polymorphism for injecting dependencies in test.

This is a language/library thing. Some language/libraries let you do TDD with very little indirection, a table of mocked dependencies as compile-time configuration, and all of the mocking events happen in code in your tests.
They are where Unity 3.0 used to be around 10 years ago.

However Unity now is capable of supporting such kind of productions, with the respective increase in learning complexity and development teams scalability,

"Oddworld: Soulstorm at Unity GDC 2019"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8uAUPGZb3I

"The Heretic short film"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQZobAhgayA

Using such engine for a basic 2D tiles game or shooter is already over budgeting.
You have no attachment to the content you see on Tik Tok. Facebook and Instagram are social network based. Tik Tok is not.
I agree with you that comcast is incompetent, but everything becomes cheaper and easier over time and network hardware/software products that perform "deep" packet inspection at line rate as well as provide analytics on that returned data are now trivial and pretty much table stakes for Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto et al.

Specifically for detecting if a user is not using their DNS, yes you could correlate a user's http requests (unless you are using ESNI the requested domain is in plaintext by design) with traffic logs on their DNS server and observe that there was no DNS request to the ISP DNS server before a request was made, I don't think that would be necessary. Most users use the ISP default DNS - that's your baseline. If most customers hit your DNS X times per Mb of web traffic, then someone using a custom DNS is going to stand out like a sore thumb.

Again, 100% agree that ISPs are not very technically competent (to put it mildly), but as time marches on the ability to both capture and more importantly analyze and report on that data is becoming cheaper and easier. ISPs want to get value from (sell) your data and vendors want to sell ISPs subscriptions to analytics and other platforms that bring them reoccurring revenue. Data from customer DNS is one of the most valuable sources of information an ISP has and I would be surprised if there was not at least an attempt to know how many customers did not use it.
There is no political content right now, my point is that in case of escalating conflict or proxy-conflict with China they could absolutely run disinformation through this channel in a way that is somewhat transparent to their users to spark anti-war counter-movements in the US.
The edge of the solar system is a blob, 3D map reveals
> From a shareholder standpoint, it's an incredible business.

If you're trading the stock, sure. But if it's unsustainable it's not a buy and hold stock to fund your retirement

> From a sustainability, humanity or... really any standpoint that isn't "how much money can I make off of trading this stock/receiving dividends", it's disturbing.

It should be disturbing for shareholders (not "sharetraders") too. "Sustainability" is often thought (in America at least) as an externality (e.g. environmentalism).

But they are strip mining their workforce: when turnover happens in weeks or even days they run the risk of running out of hourly workers -- something it's been reported they worry about (though don't seem to be able to do anything about).

They are also exploiting their own customer base (by trying to permit just enough cheapo and crap/counterfeit products to get their margins up without pissing off the punters).

And while social diversity is also considered by many Americans to be an externality, the reality is that an increasing number of people are graduating who did not grow up with a "just put up with that crap" mentality, which restricts the pool of qualified people available to Amazon for the equally crucial non-hourly roles. If you're a black woman with a CS degree from a good school why would you even interview there?
I think this slightly misses the point of the original phrase (which I agree is unnecessarily unclear) and by extension how it applies to Amazon.

The point of cruelty at the border was clearly to discourage migrants from coming to the United States. The cruelty was the method chosen to accomplish that goal. But the phrase, "the cruelty is the point" functions really to point out that the cruelty isn't incidental to the thing being accomplished. If it were, then when someone pointed out to you -- as progressives did during the Trump admin -- that you were being unnecessarily cruel, then maybe you'd want to try to stop. But "the cruelty is the point" suggests that the cruelty is core to the strategy.

"The cruelty is the point" would more accurately be formulated as, "the cruelty is intentional."
Demystifying Asynchronous Programming in Python
Years ago I (male) shared an office with a Muslim woman at a research institute in Germany. I was one step senior to her but wasn't in any chain of authority over her.

I don't think there was any problem. The other Muslim women at the institute would come around and talk about the personal and political: «We don't like it because the Hallal store is run by East Asians who also sell Alcohol», «Iran sucks so I want to get married to a EU Citizen», ...
> I've never found auto-migrations in ORMs good for anything less than a 1 day project - it's a world of hurt.

Just to offer a counterpoint.

Every project I worked on that did not have automatic migrations was extremely flawed in other ways as well.

Manually keeping track of your DB schema, and indeed, seeing it as something separate from the code that needs to interact with it is a bad idea in my opinion.

It’s same as ‘infrastructure as code’, database also needs to be ‘database as code’.
It's a great time to play with .NET on Linux/Mac these days. .NET Core (which was for not-just-Windows) became just .NET in .NET 5. F# and C# are both very easy to use.

You can even get a single static binary release that will work on platforms without .NET libraries.

Check out the Makefile and project file in this repo if you'd like an example: https://github.com/eatonphil/dbcore/blob/master/dbcore.fspro....
It was actually a GE invention and adopted by companies across a wide swath of industry. These were the days when Jack Welch was the prophet of business leaders and if he did something, it must be good.

Several companies in Silicon Valley also used stack ranking, for example.

edit:typo
It's very possible to do the indirection at compile-time, set a flag only active during tests.
Spotlight on OpenTelemetry
In sports you have multiple divisions. It is rather "up, down or stay".
TikTok removes or makes it much harder to find content they do not want on the platform. Things that are not the right tone. There is very little political and culture war crap on it. They don't just censor for abusive, CP, spam and so on.
I assume they did but costs were associated - considering they were avoiding envelopes.
Why not?

If you're going to use a tool (be it SQL, NoSQL, docker, kubernetes), your team needs to have/build some expertise in it.

IMHO, using something like an ORM abstracts that layer. It also introduces a "black box" into your ecosystem.

Going by my opinion in the first paragraph above, you'd have to build some expertise in this ORM. Why spend that time when you can just spend time getting to know your data storage technology better?
Using this dark pattern is probably necessary, as it is the only robust way to protect them from being click-frauded.
You can earn only small rewards by watching ads in a single browser, so there is a big incentive to run as many automated brave instances as possible. Then send it all to one wallet and cash out.
But one would need to complete KYC for each instance. You can't move the tokens without it, so it can't be scaled up.
Do you lock the doors on your house? Why bother? Someone could break a window?

Security is about identifying and mitigating threat models.

For example, if you're concerned with mass surveillance an encrypted messenger will stop that.

Just because something doesn't protect against CIA 0days doesn't make it worthless.
Again there's a fundamental difference between call it "bullying" which does not have a good intention behind it and "tough love" which does.

I am not familiar with this case, I am just saying these are two clearly distinct ideas.
Leading Chinese nuclear scientist dies in fall from building
Which to me indicates that it is a fantastic technology if they're still around after 70 years.

Nobody is building new reactors with 70 year old designs though.
Earth has been trapping heat at an alarming new rate, study finds
The notion of cooperative competition seems impossible on the face of things. Perhaps an extremely detail-oriented upper management or structure that exists above or outside the budgetary turfs of both entities could do that, but to do that properly would impose an extensive meeting overhead on both organizations to maintain comms with this other group or the upper management.

And then any action taken on that would feel like a sword falling at any moment on groups, often disbanding them or redirecting them in what feels like an unfair and politically motivated moment.

Remember that people in corporations gain some degree of emotional investment in what they are working on simply due to the economic reasons that they are getting paid to do that, and getting paid is survival, especially in the layoff-happy no-universal-healthcare no-social-safety-net American economy. You work or your life falls apart.

So when I say knife fight, of course it isn't literal knives, but the motivations and survival instincts are the same. People can feel like this is life and death.

Probably why back in the day places like DEC and IBM didn't fire people. You can alleviate some of the life-and-death paranoia underscoring budgetary knife fights with the knowledge that you won't be fired and you can work somewhere else in the company.

Of course that doesn't really exist anymore.
I know this may not be exactly on topic, but do you know when version 2 will be released? My team has been waiting on a single feature from that release for what seems like months (slack in jwt verification time, right now the clocks on our hasura and keycloak servers are off and it is creating issues).