skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Black" is a racial category for those who identify with the African diaspora: https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9105661462

"PoCs" is for people of color, all those identifying as non-white. It's not racist to use these terms, it's racist for you to denigrate them as "boiling people down". Thinking these terms are racist is a property of whiteness. I highly suggest that you read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fragility by Robin DiAngelo so you can have some introspec into your white fragility. I'm being sincere.
Depends. On the particular habitat and human(s) ;-)

Ones sensoric deprivation is another ones stress.
The winners takes it all....
It's better not to reference global variables in private functions.
That makes more sense, thanks for the post!
The supply being massively saturated is also what makes a union impossible to form. The over-saturation of supply means there's plenty of people willing to work a non-union game dev job because the alternative is no job.

Also the EA-Blizzard-Activision-Ubisoft studios do consistently deliver quality games: COD, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, etc. Formulaic, perhaps, but it's tough to claim that these aren't quality and popular games. Valve, on the other hand, have only produced Half Life: Alyx in the last decade (you could include Artifact, but it flopped).
Hades definitely has more interesting game mechanics, but it's more of a Roguelike ARPG than a classic ARPG.

I also find its enemy design and atmosphere lacking in consistency and quality. It just doesn't have the dark, dangerous, and foreboding feel that Diablo 1 and 2 have mastered.
> What the heck was their PR department thinking?

You must be new to RH's PR team. This is the same company that tried to roll out a 3% savings account, but had to pull it back because they deceived the public about it actually being a true savings account[0].

But the best part of this campaign was they got to keep all of the customer acquisition (even if some churned) to people they could upsell into brokerage accounts. Legality and ethics aside, this probably netted them more customers/money than the perceived mishap of the rollout...win for the PR team.

[0] - https://clark.com/personal-finance-credit/robinhood-checking...
Plus, as soon as you make that a metric that is penalised by Google, how long do you think it'll take until ads are distributed from some rotating nondescript domains?

(See Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law )
Yes because Robinhood really cares about it's users.

SEC Charges Robinhood Financial With Misleading Customers About Revenue Sources and Failing to Satisfy Duty of Best Execution

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321
Your analogy would hold if there was a way for taxi drivers to vaccinate against transporting criminals who are in the middle of committing a crime.
I'm sympathetic to the bad timing, but that's just part of business. If I decided to do a start-up in 2001, right when the market crashed and funding dried up, well, bad timing--that's unfortunately how it goes. Your family members started a business, and running a business comes with risk. COVID (and the resulting rent moratoriums) was a black-swan event as far as risks go, but black-swan events exist. I'm very risk-averse, which is why I don't hang my shingle out there and start a business. I was once a landlord too, and got kind of screwed so I definitely will steer clear of that risky business in the future.
Feelings alone do not make a rational standpoint. This ex-pressing (pressing outwards) of our feelings was the problem of romanticism, and it has to be balanced with what the reality tells back at us.

In other words, people don't seem to be saying they shouldn't have shared their feelings, but when they did they should have been ready to receive the criticism especially on logical results of their reasoning.

Not using products you've already purchased and enjoyed is most likely not an act of virtue, it probably changes nothing materially in the world to make it a better place. However, it is a display of purity in protest, which might inspire others to take action to the extent they are impressed by it, but it mostly feels egosyntonic for the person who does this demonstration.

Hence the criticism of virtue signaling; it is not the virtue bit, it is the signaling bit, divorced from the essence of being virtuous.
Technically you don’t need to know what a container “is” to oversee Docker and Kubernetes production environments (knowing that it’s not a VM is a plus, but then you already knew that by calling it a container rather than a VM). A container can just be a container, and you can leave it at that.

If a zookeeper starts talking about jackdaws and crows in an interview, who’s the one being obtuse and trying to show off their knowledge?

The important thing is that the animals are taken care of and the zoo visitors are happy.
>hotels

Fwiw some countries, including Japan, require the hotel to keep a record of a copy of your passport/residence card (for non citizens at least) to meet regulatory requirements. It's not up to the hotel to choose to collect it or not.
That's very interesting, because I had observed exactly the same when I tried to implement a rogue-like in Java some years ago. For example, I had to decide whether there should be different subclasses for spell books, the different weapon types (e.g bows vs swords), drinks, etc. or just one big Item class. Closely related to that, another decision I had to make was whether object or character properties should be implemented as class members or as entries in a hashmap (where the latter is a class member). At the end, I had the feeling that I was implementing my own class/object system on top of Java's one. I guess in other languages, like lisp, this is not really an issue.

IIRC I already wrote that here on HN, but I think implementing a simple rogue-like is an excellent exercise to get familiar with any programming language.
If they can get them comparable in weight and power this could be neat for size size reasons. For the same weight but ~1/4th the size is interesting.
I understand the impact a problem on a credit report can have for most people.

Over the years I've been trying to minimize my dependence on credit reports. It's been frozen for most of a couple decades, and I'd like to keep it that way. I've paid cash for vehicles, use secured credit cards, put down a deposit for my utility service, have a pay as you go phone, rent from people I know, and hope to remain self-employed, or work for people who know me enough to know that I can be trusted. I'd rather not deal with BigCorp. I realize that not everyone wants to or can do these things.

But that left me wondering about what would happen in a trial to get a judgement if someone was able to fraudulently open a line of credit in my name. I'm hoping that a judge would require more than a forged signature to seize my wages/assets. Personally this is what I worry about, not so much my credit report.
Overmind is a favorite of a friend of mine. Are you a tmux power user? Any particular pros/cons to overmind worth mentioning?
>The DTCC waived the additional capital clearing charges for all clearing members prior to market open on January 28th.

Source? And for how long?

>All DTCC clearing members satisfied their requirements before the market opened.

That says nothing about the requirements they'll face later, as a result of trades made on the 28th.
gambling is strictly chance (with the exception of Poker). While there is chance involved in any company's success, they can heavily influence it with decisions along the way. Intelligent traders learn about these decisions and invest. Dumb traders don't. Sometimes life lessons are learned the hard way.
That is exactly what I was thinking.

Elizabeth Holmes.

I think even if you are a private company, lying is still a type of fraud. And private companies still have shareholders. Just because they are not public companies doesn't mean they can just lie to their shareholders, although perhaps it is more difficult to prove?

The only area that I can think of where you can get away with lying about an industry or asset is when it comes to crypto. You can make sky high predictions and because they aren't labeled as securities there is no victim. Because they use the word decentralized there is no one responsible.
> Robinhood walks a really fine line between a reputable broker and legalized gambling. There isn't much difference between Robinhood app and a casino app. I'm surprised they have been allowed to turn stock trading into a game.

Mostly because not everyone is bound by that distinction. Many people recognize that the need for there to be a difference between financial games is purely cultural or religious.

Even the delineation between positive expected value games (buy and hold investing) and negative expected value games (table games at casinos) is not so binary with derivatives.

The reason this discrepancy exists in the US is because states regulate casinos and property and the federal government regulates the subset of property that are deemed securities. But despite the supporting culture, the Federal government is actually quiet on gambling, except to maintain a prohibition on financial services helping transfer funds to online gambling, allowing states to maintain their monopolies.

For me, it doesn't matter, I like to know the rules or lack thereof for whatever game I happen to be playing. For me, energy is better spent towards fixing structural issues, such as DTCC and antiquated mandates on long settlement times, which should be much shorter.
Ferrocyanide anion has a complicated looking structure but it is easy to synthesize.

The input materials are hydrogen cyanide (cheaply produced from methane and ammonia via the Andrussow process), calcium hydroxide, and iron(II) chloride. Combined, they form ferrocyanide.

Despite the toxic hydrogen cyanide used in production, ferrocyanides are nontoxic because the cyanide is so tightly bound to iron. Potassium ferrocyanide is used as an anticaking agent in table salt.

I have made Prussian blue before by roasting dried blood (organic fertilizer) with sodium hydroxide, extracting with water, and letting it partially oxidize in air. Blood provides both iron and nitrogen. This was an industrial process, historically, before artificial nitrogen fixation.
Wow. What a stance you’ve taken. You will no longer play some old games. Not every hero wears a cape.
Using the right tool for the right job is important, here they chose Elixir and it’s working well for them. There’s no need to be this disgruntled with your ill informed opinions about the Erlang VM (gc not very good - no it’s just optimised for different things, latency being one). The Elixir core team have recently released nx-elixir which allows much faster maths and allows mutability as the calculations happen outside of the runtime, so you might want to look at this before you make assumptions.
Seems like good place to work.

Complaining you are being bullied? Let's hire a company to bully you some more, this time professionally.
It definitely need a FAQ somewhere, from Backup, Uptime Guarantee, to where are the Server / DC located, etc.
1. That's a very specific type of penalty.

2. Business taxes aren't the same as individuals taxes.
Ask HN: What do you want in an office space?
I took a position to help stand up an IT department for a local manufacturer. In the next year or two we'll be bringing on some more staff to help maintain day-to-day operations and it got me thinking: what do technicians and engineers want in a workspace these days?

I've WFH for the last 6 years as a software engineer but am coming from a large enterprise (also manufacturing) with a sea of tall cubes.

I've heard lots of pushback from 'open' office concepts and get the concern. But what do you find effective in a workspace?

Details:

* Space is separate from the rest of the facility (think 15' x 30' box)

* This space will probably be home to 2-3 people.

* Most of our systems will be cloud-hosted but we do have some on-prem equipment that is going to be in a closet within this space, if that's helpful.
I don't think backend people deny frontend is hard. The problem is frontend is hard for all the boring reasons.
I had a margin account long before RH, back when I was living on a grad student's salary, along with options trading approval. Even the big brokerages with trillions in customer assets have been handing these things out like candy for a long time.

All RH did was substantially reduce fees and make trading a little more exciting for unsophisticated "investors."
If DF is too daunting try RimWorld. It's based mostly on DF, but has graphics and is considerably more approachable. It's also heavily modded and with mods can get just as complicated as DF can.
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This makes sense. It’s easy to speculate on the right thing to have done, after the wrong thing has already been done. In the heat of the GME pump I’m sure things where 100% chaotic at robinhood HQ
Ask HN: What unsolved “hair on fire” problem have you been experiencing a lot?
I wanted to see if any of you experience something so annoying you'd pay to solve it! I'm working on Hitsnag.com btw.
Ha! The Pinkertons are still around in 2021, and working quite hard.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...
One reason why we made http://brokenbrokers.com/ is because brokers are so unreliable. Nearly once a week, outages prevent individuals from trading DURING TRADING HOURS.

In one poll conducted in the FinTwit community, about 70% of individuals said they could not trade because of an outage at some point. Wild.

We're hoping to bring light to this issue, and hold brokers responsible.
The limitation is more about the number of players we can have in the same area—if you had a bunch of players equally spaced around the globe, I'm pretty sure we'd saturate the Ethernet link before running out of CPU on a big (say, 32-core) VM. The CPU cost (and outbound network bandwidth) of a player scales with the square of the number of other players who can potentially "see" them.

In my scalability testing, we could handle upwards of 1000 players in the same 50 nm by 50 nm square on my 8 core dev workstation. That's pretty far beyond the limit of what would actually be _fun_ to fly the sim with. It becomes pandemonium even with 100 planes in the same area. We could easily do a dozen pockets of 100 planes in the same area even on our current 8 core VM.
That's just a "No true Scotsman". Your definition of "virtually no requirements" also seems to be circular with this architecture failing or not. People have created a chatroom with 2 millions people connected at the same time with Elixir on a single box https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-.... Your ideas about performance are not based in reality.
Knowing the popular protocols is an advantage you wouldn't have with "alien communication". Encryption in general doesn't try to hide itself, it just tries to hide the payload, so things like packet/frame structure, headers, handshake and so on can be relatively easy to pick up, because they're not hidden in the first place.

Consider how unsophisticated the Enigma machine looks to modern eyes. Now throw some modern encrypted traffic back at them, would they even understand there's signal in there? Unlikely.

Those are just few decades of difference on the same species with the same tech history.
Pico8!

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
Given how the racist twitterbot AI turned out, along with L4 autonomous driving by 2017, I suspect that Copilot is going to suffer most from an incredibly high velocity of churned out security bugs and bad code. SWEs are probably going to get fired for using it and companies will need to ban it, even if the legal problems don't take it down.
Have they changed something? It shows up in your finder/explorer as a drive like any other USB drive. You can drag and drop books into the documents folder.

If it's azw3 stuff, push it through Calibre to mobi, then drag and drop like anything else.
just curious why does it even matter ?
Arguably we have had the industrial successes we have because of the caution about unions. Unions definitely have incentives which hold back innovation and productivity increases (in the economic sense).

But also I didn't say union laws are bad. There are some specific industries/occupations in which unions are A Good Thing. What I said is that the laws we have around unions are really non-ideal and lead to worse outcomes for everybody.
No need for the /s. This is precisely the level of simulation Toady is hoping for, and there are many equivalent examples already.
When I travel I use airalo to get local e-sims for data and pay probably something like $10 on average for 5GB for 30 days. (Another option for people who's phones support e-sims)
That's half of it. The other half is that trading is "commission-free." While technically true, it belies the economics of payment for order flow which results in poor execution. Rather than pay in commissions, users pay in poor prices on the trade.

It did catch up with them, but the headline marketing remains unchanged.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321
Well this company is DONE.
GCP Product Managers, here’s an idea that will rain you with cash: managed vitess to replace the severely underpowered cloudsql offering.
If you want to commit fraud without any trouble from regulators, go start a decentralized crypto currency.
You can play sampled audio out of a PC speaker. All it requires is simulating a 1-bit DAC to control the switching directly.
yeah, I think the big information is CATL is industrializing NA ion batteries and specifically calling out supply chain partners to do so. Its one thing to have a lab result, another thing to industrializing, forming upper stream supply chain and its own manufacturing capacity. The latter will need serious cash, time and human resource investments. CATL is a public traded company, margins, revenue is crucial. They also have pretty good lithium ion NCM and LFP batteries, and are researching solid state Li batteries so they know a thing about battery chemistries. They also in pretty serious competition with other battery makers and supplies big name car brands. So for them to throw their own cash at this new technology means they see long term advantages. I think time will tell what it will end up with.
Blizzard might not be targeted at the younger demographic, but teenagers still play CoD, which is made by Activision. ActiBlizz also owns King, which makes games like Candy Crush, which kids also play.
Choosing at random I found ISO 105 Textiles — Tests for colour fastness

It has about 100 sub standards, and per the ISO website each one costs ~50 USD, or $5,000. Just for one aspect of working with textiles.

Maybe it's less if your buy the entire ISO 105 block? I didn't see it listed. Either way, it seems very expensive to be ISO compliant.
Originally the purpose of investing in equities was not to day trade.
>Even though they're in Low Earth Orbit, there is a just enough atmosphere to cause the orbit to decay slightly over time, and this has to be compensated for by boosting the orbit

Just to expand on this a little (since it's gaining new relevance with the lower LEO and VLEO large constellations getting planned/launched), orbital life times drop non-linearly with altitude, atmospheric drags plays a big role fast until hundreds of km above the Karman line. An oldie and simplified but goodie site here [0] gives a decent basic overview. Remember that this will also vary, the atmosphere is affected by temperature and other factors.

Particularly since the ISS is manned and mass was very restricted, its altitude is a tight balancing act between high enough to not need to boost too often for comfort/practicality and as low as possible to reduce radiation exposure and stay away from the inner Van Allen radiation belt, which can get quite low indeed on occasion based on solar activity and geographic areas. It does mean though that ISS reboosts have to happen fairly regularly.

One big area of current interest this has an impact on is orbital debris lifetimes. There's an excellent Gabbard diagram animation [1] on Reddit that's worth a look if you haven't seen it before. You can see the decay rate very visually. Having constellations be very low is valuable for passive fail-safety in case of loss of control or collisions.

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0: https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/orblife.htm

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/ld4vlq/gabbard_diagr...
Aside, but there seems to be a much higher level of collective cognitive dissonance with Michael Jackson, perhaps because of his stature in popular culture. I'm guilty of this myself - my brain sets a higher bar for evidence, perhaps unreasonably.
Any injection comes with the risk of severe allergic reaction, and sometimes they are pretty much impossible to predict. You can do something about this by requiring them to show you the epinephrine injector and checking to make sure it's in working order and not expired, and making sure they have the right training, but you are putting your life into their hands no matter what you do.
The actual bug here was a mistake in handling of liquid volume. The cats were ingesting a tankard’s with with each lick, and they’re smaller than dwarves, so that killed them.
1) The NSCC (DTCC) confirmed that all parties met their depository requirements.

Even if they had not met the requirements (again, which they did), a depository requirement change is not an extenuating circumstance in the least. That is part and parcel of this business.
That paragraph calls it "one of the worst oil spills in American history," and links to an entire article about it. What underhanded editing do you think has happened here?
It is a tradition by now
> The thing that gets me about “virtue signalling” is this built-in assumption that no one does anything earnestly, and that every action is performed according to how it’ll be received.

This is because the people who use the term 'virtue signalling' consider morality to be transactional and cannot comprehend the idea that someone might actually be virtuous or have moral standards beyond which they will not tread. The term itself has now become its own 'virtue signal' to people who hold a particular viewpoint.
my reply from another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28000245
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I have apps running in docker and I also deployed apps to VMs. I would get this answer wrong according to OP. Honestly I don't see how this knowledge is necessary.
I think it's fairly important to say that a container is a process tree, not necessarily a single process. A lot of things wouldn't behave properly if a forked child process wasn't part of the same container as its parent.

(Of course, it might not truly be a tree either, because you can use tools like nsenter to put additional processes into the PID namespace without them being children of the container's PID 1. But a tree is the common case.)
This is a WSB conspiracy theory. What in fact seems to have happened (I'm going from a reported account in Fortune) is that the NSCC substantially waved a multi-billion-dollar collateral call that would have bankrupted Robinhood because they halted trading in the meme stocks at question. WSB has taken this to mean that NSCC was unconcerned with the collateral risk.
Anybody can edit the page to add citations and info. I checked the last year of edits and nobody has done it except for someone, probably based on this news cycle, simply adding the word “anti-union” with no citations, which was of course rightfully reverted.
Dota 2 has been in continuous development since 2011. The players have been kept quite happy.
What's the Evidence Guiding CDC's Latest Mask Policy?