skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to see mental health problems, force people into social isolation for 18months, tell them strangers can kill them by not hiding their faces, food and surfaces are contaminated, there is conspiracy to eugenicize them encoded in history books and symbols, words don't mean what they think they do, truth is what you make it, their neighbours are part of a plot, reinforce the filter bubbles of the information they consume, elevate and exalt unstable personalities, debase the media of the culture they trusted, reveal that their electronics are spying on them, and wait for it - then give them access to cheap and plentiful THC concentrates on every corner. How do you think that's going to play out? It's a perfect storm.

Some of my close friends are among what I call the professionally sane (they work in mental health) and they seem as susceptable to delusion and paranoia as anyone. I don't worry about being crazy anymore, as when you see what the bar is, I only need to be be less crazy than most of everyone else. 80th percentile is sufficient for most purposes. Post pandemic, mental health isn't something you manage or exercise, it's just a poker game.

Like a fox. ;)
When I was younger, I held the "nothing to hide" PoV. But now I think about it more critically, like "how could [...will!] these surveillance powers be misused/abused?"
I'm all for dropping off the grid in a sustainable way.

I'm not sure that tree-shaped houses covered in glass are a good way to achieve that. In the future we're facing most of these buildings look like they'll be solar ovens in the summer and painfully cold in the winter.
Good negotiation skills = good communication skills. Communication is a skill that 80% of the engineers I meet don’t have. Don’t be upset that someone negotiated a higher salary than you when they were hired, you could have tried just the same.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have a simple system to keep track of the notes you take?

I ask because I also started taking notes, primarily because I want to write about some of the things I come across. I write an investment newsletter (https://playingfordoubles.substack.com)

I probably need to get myself some type of filing cabinet to keep track of articles I'd like to revisit in the future.
People complain about the the many ways Amazon is crossing moral lines. Instead of asking to tax rich people, how about fixing the inadequacies of the government so that Amazon can't transgress moral lines as often and make as much profit?

Saying "tax the rich" as a fix to a problem shows a lack of critical thought.
> If you actually extended lifespans by a significant margin (say to 200 years) there would be other knock on effects that would completely derail the global economy & markets

Re-structure? Sure. De-rail? No. One could imagine our current low-interest rate environment (interest rates and time horizons are fundamentally linked) as a first step towards that world.

You're highlighting a problem of retirement savings running out and the labor pool diminishing. These problems offer an obvious solution.
"Do you want to die?"

Someday, yes.

"Life is already inequitable as it is."

Which is why my statement was commenting on the equitable nature of lifespan in the fictional system.

"At the very least, everyone should be able to live as long as they like."

How do you propose to achieve this? Specifically, how would resource availability/consumption and indignant support systems be able to support it?

"There's also no absolute law of politics that dictators rule forever or indefinitely if they also happen to be immortal."

Nobody suggested what you are saying.

"No, the problem is ecological disaster."

For which increasing population would greatly contribute. Population is a major driver of consumption and there's no evidence that we can even support our current population sustainably. Your comment about scaling seems to be implicity acknowledge this.
Couldn't this be caused by a bad merge?

Not sure how Google manages their merging and release process but there are conceivably several stages where a bad merge can occur and go unnoticed - possibly at a stage close to release and after testing.
That's really cool! I'm hoping to have it grow to a point where it can be sold too. If you wanna share some FBA wisdom, I'm all ears :)

But it's really encouraging to hear about other people that have done it since what I'm facing right now is mostly fear TBH, Idk, fear of unknown, fear of failing, and whatnot... I'm thinking that to get over that I'll just pick a few products, order 50 or so from Aliexpress, learn the game and scale from there.
This looks like a great alternative to Gumroad, Sellfy, and even Etsy and Shopify. I hope this takes off, as I like this freemium pricing.
Useful for tracking citations of your favorite white papers.

Or in one extreme case of mine, to monitor for that obituary of a certain folk who refuse to sell their rusted classic car on their property. (Because, I covet it).
I'm assuming that at 550 miles up, the beneath-the-horizon range will be quite broad, but as equally, I'd assume further-off satellites to be slower and more conflicted, given the density and interference presumably increases.

I just don't see how - sans external requirement - pointing up isn't more efficient.

- ed. Ok, sorry, I get it. Aim in any direction and you have access to more satellites, even if further away. Pointing up isn't 180º access. Reception is probably less than 90º, I guess? My bad, I'm dumb.
> He bought Oculus, he bought Instagram, he bought WhatsApp

Three great purchases. Lots people stopped using Facebook and exclusively use Instagram nowadays.
Noted, you can [dead] my post if you haven’t already. I’ll refrain from personal attacks in the future.
From the article:

> The line should read "if (key_data_.has_value() && !key_data_->label().empty()) {" but instead of "&&"—the C++ version of the "AND" operator—the bad update used a single ampersand, breaking the second half of the conditional statement.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like it wouldn't be possible in a language that didn't conflate boolean values with bitvectors.

Edit: I was wrong[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27923785
Way to go with the attempt at obfuscation, but China is actively engaged in imperial encroachment on Taiwan, abused Hong Kong and is suppressing any and all dissent, and are imprisoning people based on ethnicity and religion in concentration camps. They also threatened Japan with nuclear first strike just in the last 96 hours.

The Africa situation, the spread of misinformation and obstruction with regards to covid, and the endless parade of human rights abuses in their manufacturing infrastructure are also front and center in the world's eyes.

By all means, though, continue with your narrative. Obviously China is just a force for good in the world, and is just misunderstood because of all that nasty CIA propaganda.
As a frontend dev I would probably stick to the original design if presented with the new one. The new one is inconsistent and looks slightly outdated. Not saying that the original design is perfect though, or that the new one is crap.

On top of that, it has some other weird stuff going on, which might be beside the point, but it still caught my attention. For example, why is every input field now a dropdown? Are you really going to select colors and pixels in a dropdown? It just makes it feel sloppy.
God put it there...
Pharma companies won't fund research because they don't consider the risk-reward tradeoff worthwhile compared to other options for their resources.

Off label use in endemic, and it does give a path to play with some things clinically; however if you formed a company around this idea and could have been demonstrated to do it, you'll be pulled off the market so fast it will make your head spin.

What you are really talking about is about funding the research that wont work, in the hopes that eventually you hit on something that does.

If you do hit on that and can rigorously demonstrate it, market access will not be a problem.
I hope that this is used for good, and not evil, but knowing "gamer" culture all of these individuals are going to receive harassment and doxxing. There's a lot of money on the line for Blizzard and those involved in professional "esports" by extension. This is why people don't speak.

I hope these individuals will be able to find good work elsewhere when blizzard inevitably ousts them. California should be fining Blizzard into the ground, but given Blizzards response they've calculated out how much it'll cost and figured it's cheaper to do this.
Product Documentation Series: Product Vision
Equal purely engineering skill no? There is more to bring an effective engineer than a coding metric
> Because I want to be paid the same as equally performant people. I want the company to hire equally qualified people and pay according to equal performance.

Without pay transparency you wouldn't know regardless so I'm not sure what your point is.
Nothing. But the reality is that it's in the company's interest to secure labor as cheaply as possible. If Charlie had competing offers and negotiates better pay than Daniel who did not, this isn't discrimination. At least not discrimination on the basis of protected class, it's discrimination on the basis of competing job offers. Swap out Daniel for Danielle and it's no different.
If your job is to allocate money to the actual doers, and they don't get it done, is it the allocator's fault, or the doer's fault? The best case is when you get the authority but no responsibility for failure, which is precisely what many modern American middle-adminstrators do.
I can confirm that benzos cause rebound anxiety. I have a small supply for as-needed use. A single dose will help significantly that day but make the next day or two worse. But that doesn't mean they aren't useful.

They are extremely helpful since I'm bipolar. They give me a buffer for highly stressful events, so I'm not dealing with both anxiety and the event. Having anxiety the next day sucks but avoiding a manic or depressive episode is worth that.
How is it different from, well, Google Alerts?
If you found it interesting you may like a free web game I created two years ago... https://boolean.method.ac
> the serifs in Computer Modern are thicker than the thin stems of letterforms.

1. Is this really true? I went to the bookshelf and pulled out three Knuth books, and at least to my eye, the serifs don't look noticeably thicker than the letter stems in the unbalanced way you mentioned. The exact proportions could be found by checking Volume E or generating proofs from the Metafont sources (haven't tried that), but this seems like the well-known problem with the "spindly" Type-1 versions of CM that many people use today, than in Knuth's actual Computer Modern as in his printed books. (See https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/361722/48 for pictures.)

2. Is this any worse in Computer Modern than in Monotype Modern, the typeface that Knuth was trying to reproduce? This is the font used for TAOCP Vol 1 first edition (1968), Vol 2 first edition (1969), Vol 3 first edition (1973) and Vol 1 second edition (1973). Those books were typeset with hot-metal typesetting (on Monotype machines), and in fact when Addison-Wesley approached Knuth in 1962 (when he was in grad school) to write a book, he was excited because he loved the appearance of their books. The publishers' move to phototypesetting could not recapture that look, and digital typesetting was starting to become feasible, so he took up the problem himself: he wanted to reproduce Monotype Modern so he needed TeX to typeset it, and Metafont to specify it (and Computer Modern was the result).

My guess is that the opinion you're expressing results from a combination of both the above:

• Yes, what Knuth was aiming for (Monotype Modern 8A, or the look of math textbooks he used as a student, or mathematical journals of a certain period: https://projecteuclid.org:443/euclid.bams/1183544082 ) was very much an early 20th-century / late 19th-century look, and it seems the fashion in contemporary typography circles (I suspect this started with William Morris in the 19th century already) to look down on that period and all that it entails (like larger spaces between sentences: witness Bringhurst's comments about "In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design" etc). So, people au fait with modern typographical fashions don't quite like the associated style (Scotch Roman typefaces, etc), while many mathematicians quite prefer it.

• The poor Type 1 versions of Computer Modern cause the letter stems to appear thin, and even more so on low-resolution devices like monitors, causing the serifs to appear thicker in comparison.

Personally, comparing Monotype Modern (as in the first editions of TAOCP) and Computer Modern (in print, and using "true" CM), I don't think Computer Modern looks worse than the source typeface in terms of having terrible balance or appearing like "a font designed by an engineer"; the issue is probably more the "shared taste" you mentioned: Knuth's target aesthetic was itself different.
As far as I know, the big selling point is that you get to work on video games instead of CRUD apps or adtech or "Uber for X". I've seen several anecdotal reports of people tolerating a seriously sketchy work environment because as far as they know, the alternative is not working on video games.

I'm reminded of allegations of the K-pop industry basically being a soulless meat grinder because it has no trouble finding kids who will do anything to be a K-pop idol.
The subject of this story is both a user and a customer. But apart from cases (like this one) where the advertising is for political campaigns, the goal of advertisers is to sell products to facebook's users. So instead of being customers of Facebook, they are customers of Facebook's customers. The money trail simply has an extra step in the middle. There are surely be some nuanced differences in that more-complex relationship, but overall the motivation for facebook is the same as if they were trying to sell their own products directly to users, which presumably they do sometimes also. Though they probably have to deal with a higher risk of antitrust accusations when they operate that way.
This part really helps put it into perspective:

> In a tragic example of the harassment that Defendants allowed to fester in their offices, a female employee committed suicide while on a company trip due to a sexual relationship that she had been having with her male supervisor. The male supervisor was found by police to have brought a butt plug and lubricant on this business trip. Another employee confirmed that the deceased female employee may have been suffering from other sexual harassment at work prior to her death. Specifically, at a holiday party before her death, male co-workers were alleged to be passing around a picture of the deceased's vagina.

(I had to manually type that out because the source doc is a scanned PDF; might have typos)

source: https://aboutblaw.com/YJw
> Heads should probably roll here,

I disagree. It's obviously a major balls up by multiple people, but at the end of the day this is an organizational failure. You don't fire people for this, you learn from it and fix the organizational holes that caused it.
> I love Tesla for instance but please P/E ratio of 654.03 isn't that the same thing? (it is genuine question)

You can't fault Tesla for idiots buying the overpriced stock, as long as they don't misrepresent their results.
Encryption doesn't matter. Authorization does.

What financial benefit would come from hijacking a satellite? It would be difficult and expensive for both you and the satellite company. The result would be that you would have a risk of serious repercussions. You would get to know that you used your awesome skills for a pointless practical joke. You couldn't really tell anyone else.
Appreciate the feedback here /u/xena —

> This is a nice idea but feels like it could be used for stalking.

So we make sure to only aggregate publicly available information that the creator released and never include pieces about them or from someone else. We also make sure not to aggregate any gated/paywalled content.

The problem with having every creator opt-in is that that we'd never be able to launch the profiles because there are so many creators. But maybe we could have an opt-out? We actually have the ability for creators to claim their profiles as well and make changes/edits. So in theory, a creator that doesn't want to be indexed could hide all the content on their profile.

Does that address the concern? open to any other ideas you might have!
There is 'malaise' in Basque country because of the ethno-nationalist/ethnostate nature of France and Spain, not because of some nonsense essentialism that a country with ethnicities in its boundaries naturally tends towards chaos and malaise. The lack of actual multiculturalism in both those states is what gives Euskadi (and Catalonian) nationalism its grounding.

Same in my country, Canada. Quebecois nationalism exist/existed in large part due to the experience of British colonialism and the awful way that the Quebecois and their language were treated and the dumbass way many English Canadians still talk about them.
I'm willing to bet that we're also going to get significantly better at treating trauma within that thousand years though. The numbers aren't great now, sure, but what about in something like 500 years when we can begin doing complex tissue engineering and replacing parts of the CNS? There are certain things that no amount of medical advances will solve, sure(Not really much to replace after your liner to Mars explodes), but I think that if we found a way to cure aging tomorrow, most people would live well beyond 1000.
I'll try again. We seem to have suffered some context-loss. I'll keep the question and answer close to each other to avoid that.

Your question was:

> why wouldn't you want to be paid the same as equally qualified members with the same title on the same team?

My answer is "because performance is more important than qualifications and once you're in I could give a flying fuck about your qualifications". That's the point.

Pay transparency is a different discussion. I am fully capable of transmitting and receiving pay information without forced pay transparency.
Imagine any protracted conflict, if you can give the other leadership group minor brain damage, you'll more likely be able to out maneuver them.
> recommendations and guidelines we should lose weight and get more exercise

We also don't understand it, not well at least. You can't go to Walgreens, get a shot and be cured of obesity.
Pro tip: Never name your design/aesthetic style "Modern". :-P
The reason this happened is that it wasn't followed by "Google hit by 143 defective product lawsuits".
Agreed, the pricing page was rushed a little, so the "platform fees" placeholder isn't relevant at this point in time.

We will indeed introduce fees at a later date (in ~6 months or so), so I'll definitely be incorporating your suggestion. Thanks for that :)
Cuba Jamming Ham Radio?
As a woman in tech, the problem is that men start hitting on you when they’ve had a few beers. This happens extremely frequently, so much that I have personally decided to discount what people say to me when they’re drunk at company events
To me it seems that of late a lot of members of the management caste are suffering from a sort of collective delusion.
It obviously impacts my freedom of uh, being able to look at big CGI butts?
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
<searches thread for words 'grift' or 'hustle'>
Activision Blizzard is a very large company (10,000+ employees in 196(!!) countries), and this suit claims that a proportionally small number of allegations over the course of many years is indicative of widespread corporate culture. meanwhile, like I said, it pulls in a suicide and dudes drinking and being hungover on the job, as well as pay issues and sexual harassment. notice that I did not claim any allegations were untruthful or lacked merit, merely that the overall picture being painted seems disingenuous. if the suicide connection was less tenuous (or omitted entirely), the drinking/hungover stuff wasn't mentioned, and the suit wasn't trying to paint the whole company's culture in a negative light, I would have no comment except, "cool, assuming these allegations are true, I wish the people filing the suit the best of luck in getting justice." it's the extrapolation of discrete events into a scathing indictment of the corporate culture and the tangential, tenuous things mentioned (as a means of bolstering the idea the the corporate culture is misogynistic) that gives me pause. I don't see a problem with this line of thinking. maybe the corporate culture really is as anti-woman as depicted here—that's for the courts to determine. meanwhile, I find it hard to believe 100% at face value, like many people here and elsewhere on social media are doing.

I don't understand what my sex has to do with this evaluation—you said you hated to "play that card," but you didn't play any card at all, you just pointed out my presumed sex based on my handle, and didn't connect it to anything.
You’re begging the question of why ethnicity implies borders. Borders are purely political objects. Without states, there are no borders. Labeling geographic areas as being primarily inhabited by descendants of a certain ethnicity does not at all imply that there is a well-defined point at which one ethnicity becomes another ethnicity in those areas. You can’t just ignore the existence of the nation-state in discussing borders. It’s the whole substance of the question.

I will note too that your argument here completely falls apart for America.
Ok I was commenting on the false narrative of stronger weed strains causing overdosing. If we talk about concentrates that's a different situation I agree.
Someone is responsible for the organizational units and their processes.

By that logic, almost no individual failure is a firing offense. Many people in the organization are responsible for ensuring that the processes themselves overlap in ways that exclude the possibility of failures like this.

I'm talking about the meta-failure in management's oversight of the processes. There is belt person, and there is suspenders person, and there is a third person who makes sure there are both belt person and suspenders person on staff and that they don't go on vacation at the same time.

Somewhere above the team lead and below the CEO there is someone who didn't do their job.
Nice try. A little bit too much?
It's about heavy use. Heavy use of marijuana can lead to shizophrenia, heavy use of alcohol can kill you or at least severely damage your brain or liver. Not to mention the number of secondary victims of alcohol through drunk driving or violence.
Compare that to marijuana and alcohol is the bigger problem.
If you're reading this, there's a pretty solid chance that you're a male working in the software industry.

It is super, super critical for you to know: this happens where you work, too.

No, not "this could happen where you work." I'm telling you that if you work with women in engineering, they deal with this shit anywhere from weekly to hourly.

It comes from "the nice manager," from a QA on another team, from a tech lead, from a customer.

Misogyny and harassment are happening around you, and you need to be looking for it.

If your first thought upon reading this was "well, I'm just glad that could never happen here," you are wrong, and you need to be on your guard.