skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not knowledgeable at all in this matter but the issues here are clear at least to me. Let's forget the conflict of interests he would face when working for both companies. He was charged with bribery, the issue here is that hiring him as a paid consultant was put as a condition for the contract approval. A deal which would benefit exclusively him and not his employer. Quite literally the companies were paying to receive lucrative contracts.
I'd wager that modern synthetic oils could beat whale oil, but now I'm curious what the state of the art is.
I think this can also be split by class and background to provide further clarity. For example, every single one of my classmates (we were all lower income people) and myself are head and shoulders above where our parents were at our age or at about the save level with us facing significantly less work and stress to get here. I have a feeling middle-income and upper-income people have seen something different than us.
Once upon a couple decades ago, Facebook's terms of service didn't require you to be a human.

And even if you're not a human, how would Facebook prove it?

And even if Facebook could prove that you are not human, what right do they have to deny you what they clearly claim is yours ("your" photos)?
Ha, I wouldn't have thought to criticize the spacing, but I did see one person complain as I explored old Nim discussions. Nim being strict on tabs is something I see as a good feature for the same reason the style flexibility made me instinctively flinch back. I've experienced mixed tabs and spaces in Python code and I do not like it; the flexibility leads to inconsistency.
As kids, we would twist the thin plastic water bottles to compress the air inside, then launch the lids at each other as you described.
This makes me curious if iPhones can be remotely disabled by a carrier.
$70,363/year is $1353/week.

Say you're a trucker working 60 hours a week that's $22.55/hour.

Here's the day of a truck driver...

Most truck drivers are paid by the mile. If you're a long-haul truck driver you live in your truck. Driving all day, then sitting at a warehouse for 3 hours while you get unloaded. You're not getting paid while sitting there but you also can't leave. You have to stay with the truck at all times. Then it's 11pm when you're finally unloaded and you have to find a truck stop to park and sleep at. The closest truck stop is 10 miles away but it's 11pm, it might be full. You only have 20 minutes of legal driving time left on your log book. Do you risk going to the truck stop even though it might be full and you run out of driving hours or do you try to find a street to park on? Most cities don't allow trucks to park on the street so that's a gamble too.

If you run out of hours looking for a spot to park you risk getting a fine if you are inspected. State troopers and police can pull truck drivers over at any time for an inspection. If you are fined it's out of your own pocket, not the company.

So even if you were doing your job perfectly legally, you ran out of time because the warehouse took too long to unload. Now you might get fined and completely wipe out any income you made today. It also goes on your driving record and future companies won't hire you if you have too many incidents.

Now it's 6am and you're not feeling well and need to use the bathroom. The truck stop bathroom has a 15 minute wait but your next pickup is in 30 minutes and it's a 20 minute drive way.

Also your kids birthday is tomorrow but you might not make it back in time.

Now do this every day for less than $25/hour. All while every car on the road rages at you because your truck is limited to 65mph.
I understand that the dictionary follows usage, and i get that you have a rhetorical goal, but with that logic Enron was simply overpaying its employees.
I’m not sure he bombed the Steve Jobs discussion. Throwing out a higher number you believe in is not destroying the deal, that’s just Jobs being a dick. His “i can’t trust you” is pure bullshit and nothing but a negotiating tactic.

Now a better approach would be to ignore Steve and negotiate with the deal team (and let them argue with Steve).

But the outcome could have been the exact same.
Some customers won’t buy but the driver’s pay is only one part of the total cost and most businesses aren’t running on margins that tight for very long. If shipping prices drift up, they’ll adjust their usage or raise their own prices rather than voluntarily go out of business.
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> Temporary variables are often tedious

I could not disagree more. Temporary variables as you perform transformations are great because they force you to verbalize what it is that you're actually doing. Descriptive naming is hard, but in contexts like this it's an actual godsend for anyone who isn't the person writing the initial code. I think the use cases are not convincing, I would much rather this be a Babel plugin than a core language feature.
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Most of them didn't really have an opportunity for a life so you can't blame them. What are you going to do when you are 10 hours from home and hit your maximum allowed to drive time? Legally you can only stop at a truck stop. If you wake up at 6:30, spend an hour on breakfast, then drive for 4 hours, with a 10 minute break every hour (30 minutes) , then stop for an hour for lunch (at 11:30), then drive for another 4 hours with half hour brakes before an hour for supper (now 6:00), then two more hours, it is 9:00. For a normal 8 hour sleep night you now have an 1.5 hours to kill in a middle of nowhere area with nothing to do. Most people don't need that much time for breaks. You can easily see how someone would want to cheat for more pay - there isn't much else to do.

Now for health our hypothetical trucker above should get out and move, but face it, most people aren't getting their exercise.
Ridiculously pompous thing to say once the decision to convict has been made.

Even in TV episodes of Law & Order, the furthest defense attorneys go is to ask to serve house arrest before trial because their client is "a pillar of the community" aka very wealthy.
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His jobs at Netflix is to get the best deal for Netflix, not to get the deal that nets him the most money from the vendor. The vendor paying him is increasing the costs to the vendor, therefore presumably increasing the costs they will pass on to Netflix.

The problem there is the money comes first. In the case of former regulators, by the time they are hired by the drug company they're no longer a regulator. It's not clear the drug company has anything to gain from hiring them. Yes it's grubby, but it's hard to prove anything. If the money comes up front, that's easy to prove.
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As far as I know, Backblaze lets you exclude folders from accessory drives and so forth, but not from the main PC drive itself. Also, the selection by exclusion itself is deeply annoying, because, as I said above, if out of many folders you only want to back up a few, selecting just those would be much easier and more intuitive than deselecting a whole pile of them to only leave a few. This was a deal breaker for me.
> This is the meaty bit right here. Because you have people who tell jokes that are racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, ageist (normally wouldn't include that but I gotta play to the HN crowd)

As an ageing HNer, I liked that last bit because it reads like a joke, made me laugh, and consequently enabled my trust in what you say. I don't think you are ageist simply because you understand that some people can be mean to older people. Reality is fucked up. Being able to find humor in this reality isn't necessarily a sign of also being morally bankrupt.

The ability to produce humor is a sign of intelligence. And laughing to it is but an expression of understanding.
Sure, there's Bernie Madoff stuff, and then there's this. Are you comfortable with big corporations and government hegemony muscling employees into compliance? I'm not. The guy should undoubtedly be sued, but it feels wrong to create an equivalency here with violent offenders.
Ah I think it's overrated signalling. I've worked in R&D tech teams where people doing some of the best work on say functional language compilers and authoring type theory papers haven't had degrees. Lead of that team had a BSc. Hired many PhDs but there wasn't much of a correlation between that and output.
I don’t understand this reasoning. All this will do is promote sand-bagging. As somebody struggling emotionally through the pandemic and who tends to work through problems quickly, I found myself intentionally wasting time at work because any official pleas for help went unacknowledged. I naturally work through problems quickly but that doesn’t mean it was easy for me. It’s exhausting actually and the last thing you need from your manager when you’re teetering on the edge of burnout is the “work more or get paid less” conversation. If I’m receiving high marks and positive feedback across the board, what are you trying to fix?
I agree with your general skepticism - I believe there is evidence of every generation claiming that the younger cohorts are no longer up to par. Still, even without specific evidence to back up my claims, I can't imagine that childhood exposure to the internet and video games hasn't had a profound effect on our youth.

I am limited in my ability to only experience my immediate surroundings, and statistics are limited by sample sizes, bias, and reporting techniques. I can tell you, however, that the children I have direct experience with are generally worse at writing, reading, focus, and the ability to troubleshoot and critically think.

It is difficult to make comparisons to childhoods other than my own experience, but I was not an exceptional child. I made poor grades in high school and college, and was generally considered average in most subjects, and yet when I compare my skills and abilities at a similar age to the children I see now (most who are in exceptional private schools), I feel as though my toolbox was much more robust.

Granted, I was not nearly as good at memes and youtube and online social etiquette as children are these days. They are still learning quite a bit. I just worry that what they are learning does not prepare them to live a life in which they have to participate in society.
When did they require this? I haven't used Hetzner in about 8 years, but back then, I did not need to do this, I just signed up online with a credit card.
I'm not talking about the article. I'm talking about the headline. Yes, the headline is a direct quote. It's still a bad headline.
If google can be so easily fooled, perhaps the easy way to get attention to this problem is to submit similar bogus claims en masse against very high profile sites - major players like wsj, Fox News, bbc, etc. Of course doing so would be illegal…

With a coordinated effort, and assuming the google system is fully automated and apparently very stupid, it might be possible to wipe half of the major sites off google for a period.
> repeated expedient repair

Haha damn I know about that
So does this functional SQL just get "transpiled" into analytical SQL? If so, where does "transpilation" occur, in the client, intercepted before hitting the query engine, etc? Or has the query engine itself been modified to handle functional SQL?

If the query engine itself has been modified, are there any performance gains or losses?

This is a pretty interesting and compelling idea. I do wonder if the functional SQL approach might entice developers to write very bad/expensive/ineffective queries. Then again, nothing is stopping developers from doing the same with analytical SQL.
There are plenty of industries that have cropped up on convincing people they need something despite the fact that they probably don't need it.

For instance: SAT prep schools, the evidence on private college counselors, etc. - there is little to no evidence these actually have a substantial impact, but people pay for it anyways.

In the adult world, try managed funds. Again, little-to-no evidence that you have any way of knowing ahead of time which of these will beat the market and which will underperform, but people still pay massive fees to get included in an "exclusive" investment fund.

This is a human phenomena, it doesn't mean the selection criteria isn't working - just like the exist of managed funds doesn't mean the stock market isn't working.

The world is full of lots of people, and some proportion of those people will be marks.
> Social media companies, meanwhile, juggle customer service and account security as they try to make sure fraudsters don’t abuse recovery tools to wrongfully gain access. Some of this could be solved with additional security checks,

This doesn't jive well with:

> Getting in touch with a human is rare.

It needs to be easier to deal with a human.

But I understand why it's hard to get to a human. Having humans in the loop is expensive and doesn't scale when you have a user count measured in the billions.

But you know what else doesn't scale? Trying to get all of your users to understand basic account security. Not enough people are using password managers. Not enough people are using 2FA. Too many people are falling for phishing campaigns and responding to silly posts like "Your porn name is the name of your first pet and the street you grew up on" and giving away the answers to security questions.
> This is builtin on iPhones

I've never heard of this. Can you elaborate?
I feel patronised by yearly mandatory training. All of it seems obvious and not relevant to me because I’ve never negotiated a contract on behalf of my employer. Still, good to know there’s plenty of people who might find training useful.
If you are aware of such stories I'd caution against sharing the details with people online without first ascertaining your own legal position before passing this information on.
Vulkan already exists and works great on Linux (including DXVK and VKD3D-Proton). Apple doesn't get any credit for having a fit of NIH.
What seems especially common are indirect incentives such as dinners, drinks, vacations, and other entertainment perks.
Congrats, Massimo! Well deserved.
The comments used to be enabled and they were mostly made by disgruntled ex-applicants accusing the companies of things like ageism.
I agree, but in our world, where Viacom does exist, we can put most of the blame on them.
Am I the only one who reads these stories (others have linked to his Steve Jobs story - he was, um, not honest enough for Steve Jobs) as "I almost got acqui-hired twice by names you'd recognize but flunked the job interview both times" rather than as dashing tales of dealmaking derring-do?
If the suggestion is that we change our field to be more like the medical profession, I'll just say I'm thankful you're not in charge.
I specifically avoid using oauth to reduce the impact if google bans me for whatever reason.
We're calling buying and selling crypto on a relatively 'legit' regulated exchange like Coinbase "securities fraud" now?
And google has enough money and power to fight to reverse this situation. But that would only result in good for the world, not revenue for G.
Furthermore, in response to the comment above, my reference was to using Backblaze alone and with Windows, as many people without any technical knowledge of computers at all might use it. Having to add in the use of Linux or rclone would mean a very different use case from the usual.
Not to mention I've submitted multiple counter requests in the past. No response, and they're still hidden in Google search like 7 years later.
I don't understand why a) this isn't the most upvoted answer in this thread, and b) this isn't the only answer in this thread.
The fact that this even needs explaining is pretty sad.
Py3 feels to me like a massive case of "screw backwards compatibility" for very little gain.

I feel like Python the language peaked somewhere between 2.4 and 2.7.

Python was much slower than most other languages, but in return you got great readability ("runnable pseudocode") and rapid prototyping. Now, with all the additions to the language (more syntax and features, static typing), those advantages are weakening but you're still not getting the advantages of faster compiled languages.

It seems to me that Go or Nim (or D or Zig or ...) are preferable for readability, and that Rust is more worth one's time if you don't mind the complexity.
I've said the same a few years ago on Reddit and got downvoted to hell. JS due to maintaining backwards compatibility is already huge (syntax-wise) and is going to grow even bigger.
>not a lawyer! just a guy using words he has heard!

Thank you for your honesty and self-awareness. This framing also amused me.
My Spotify account was originally created using a Facebook link. I eventually switched over to an email/password before I deleted my Facebook account, but my Spotify account name is an annoyingly long gibberish hash value that I can't change (I assume it's something like a hashed value of my Facebook UID but I've never bothered to check).
People in the industry tend to laugh at having to work late as some sort of standard practice in the industry. But if the time allotted to program it is not enough time to program it in a properly tested manner, that's a management problem, even if the programmer could have worked overtime and gotten it tested better. It's a bad practice for managers to schedule things such that they can only be completed with overtime, and managers bear a huge portion of the responsibility for any problems that result from that practice.
Actually, it's quite impressing when we try to find the real version of this the story, or more information about this subject, we can't find many thing on internet... I'm not trying to create any conspiracy theory, but it's quite weird how a such thing has passed under the internet radar.
I love those so much—so many great older games out there have since become unplayable because of constant intrusive ads. Like, shortly before Cut The Rope+ came out, I tried replaying the original Cut The Rope, and got an unskippable ad after every reset (or every other?). Apple Arcade gave me a way to play it again, without spending more time watching ads than actually playing.
There’s no chance they put 1% into support. It’s probably 0.01%.
Until you use the very slow and extremely buggy black box in production.
In the EU the transport regulations are doubled by workplace security, capped maximum work hours and minimum wage regulations. So far socialism has somehow worked fine in this sector. Still, 70% of the trucking market is served by East Europeans and Westen companies have registered fleets in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria and are using staff from these markets specifically. It's not only because of staffing pressure, but also heavy regulation in the West.
It is

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/banksy-sothebys-shredd...
> Unfortunately the site is using a dot for a dot despite being European and the M1 is being offered on rent.

You're on the international version of the site.

If you go to the German version, they quote the price as 58,31 €:

https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-apple
Oops, english is not my first language. I wanted to imply that they were onto something. Not quite radical enough in hindsight, so I wanted to emphasize that.
I just tried very simple inherently wrong Chinese phrase "我学校中文。" and it found no mistakes in it. I expected it at least point to the error or even suggest to correct the second word to become "我学习中文。"
The words you are looking for are 'conflict of interest'. If you are acting on behalf of a corporation and you have such a conflict of interest you are required to disclose it.
You are right, and that is still not "in much of Europe".
The external form is much more like the original AirPods, not the AirPods Pro. They did reduce the length of the control tips. They switched the controls from tap on the body to squeeze on the control tips.
Or it could just be a drunk person running their mouth and a nervous exec getting spooked. No need to overanalyze every word of conversation to look for red flags.
Noted, but Backblaze's insistence on "simplicity" by obligating a full main drive backup so that users can't later complain that something was missed is silly. Why not just offer this as a default but also offer the choice of creating your own completely custom backup selections, you know, on the assumption that some users of the service might actually know what they want and how to select it.
I know people who do this, but I can't help but feel like people are glossing over how stressful this kind of situation is. Not only do you have to stress about two sets of responsibilities and coworkers, you also have to stress about keeping those two things separate.
My electric lawn mower is so much more reliable and quieter than my old 2 stroke gas mower. I don't live in California, but either way, I'd refuse to go back to using a 2 stroke.
I see two limitations with your version above:

1) consts in JS aren't deeply immutable, so technically these could be mutated. This is a relatively small issue, but also...

2) More and more stuff happens in expression-contexts these days, including (most prominently) JSX. And JS doesn't let you define intermediary consts in expression-contexts (or even in lambdas, unless you build out the full curly-braces and add a return statement). So for many situations the consts version is arduous or even impossible.
Netflix identified the issue and filed a civil suit against him alleging fraud before criminal charges were brought by the DOJ. It’s very likely Netflix tipped them off.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-26/netflix-c...
I definitely have folders excluded on the main drive.
What if those functions (were something that) returned json{,b}?

Oh or I see timevector returns a custom datatype, so I suppose the answer is it has to be one of a fixed number of provided types?
The title is only indirectly unambiguous through context and logic. It could still be improved and made less ambiguous through better word choice.

The fragment “People in present day Austria” does not alone indicate the past, it requires “2700 years ago” to know for sure.

If you say “People in present day Austria drink beer”, it automatically implies people there today drink beer. If you say “People in present day Austria drank beer”, it implies they drank beer recently. “People in present day Austria drank beer 2700 years ago”, while eventually unambiguous that it means the past, still leads the reader on an unnecessary roller coaster of first implying the present and then clarifying it means the past.
I was willing to leave it where it was since you said "cheers", but this comment is a direct about-face from what you said earlier. Now apparently I'm not having a civil conversation? I didn't attack you or your character personally at all. I engaged with your comment fully and addressed your points. I haven't used any inappropriate language. So I take issue with your characterization of my engagement here.

> This topic is a lot fuzzier than the language being used by you and the other commenter

You started this whole discussion with unsupported, absolutist assertions as to the model for the economy you would prefer (in this whole discussion you haven't provided any evidence to support your claim that democracy is a terrible way to run an economy). This is the tone you set initially. The topic became "fuzzy" when you were pressed and your bold assertions turned into "beliefs".
Cause there are a lot of rich people on HN