skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bet is on Valve being the dark horse in this race. Gabe already has expressed interest, they're assisting development on Garry's Mod 2 (s&box), and they have the highest quality VR hardware. They also have consumer trust, everyone with VR has a steam account, they have a method of sharing user-generated content (and making money off of it!) with the workshop. If they can coordinate, they can take off in this area
Europe, but not Germany, but I am sure it similar everywhere.

I am not trying to express that I am absent of blame, but rather expressing frustration that there was no attempt to resolve the matter.

It was only a guess on their side about my name, and they jumped straight to deletion without knowing anything for certain.

This is the warning I wish to convey, that if you get caught up in such a mixup, that you may not expect some sort of due process.
Why are we suddenly pretending that the same industry that gave us the opioid crisis (in addition to dozens of other serious unethical practices for which they've been sued) is suddenly above shady research and massaging of results? Particularly when they have been legally absolved of liability and stand to gain tens-hundreds of billions of dollars?

It doesn't take a conspiracy. Just a little pressure from upper management. People don't want to lose their jobs and usually the way these things go only a handful of employees are actually involved in fraud while the rest are unaware or look the other way when confronted with suspicious circumstances.

This pandemic is not an excuse to give pharmaceutical companies the free reign to rake in cash with no accountability. And that accountability comes not just from government, but from laypeople too. It took five years to discover that thalidomide was causing severe birth defects in children, and the covid vaccines are based on an untested technology. I'm not being "anti-vaxx" here, just trying to offer up some common sense: when money is involved, there is no limit to what executives and unscrupulous employees are willing to do if they think they can get away with it. And in a complex system with so many moving parts, a handful of seemingly innocuous violations of good practices can combine to produce a serious outcome.

We should all be far more critical of this entire rushed process, especially in light of not just financial but political pressure to produce evidence of a working vaccine.

Edit: I didn't even bring up regulatory capture that we've also suddenly forgotten all about. The former FDA commissioner is on Pfizer's board of directors. As is the CEO of Reuters. Our economic system is ethically sick, the pandemic did not suddenly fix it.
The price of inaction is way higher. There are still people dying of Covid. Covid deaths in the US are at the same level as they were in May 2020.
Nat is a mogul in SV. Everyone knows him, many even before GitHub. Simply walking away from GitHub without much of a speech would make it seem like he didn't care or left on bad terms, optics-wise. That would have a potentially serious effect on perception and thus shareholders would be affected. This clearly isn't his intent.

I offer a contrary point of view: why does it bother you so much? Simply do not read it.
Honestly though I'm sort of loving this music. I'm 29 years old and feel like I have a false nostalgia for this kind of music.
The web browser is not multi-user graphical computing.

And that is not a negative about web browsers or all the things we're doing with them. Just to be clear.
You drill very deep shafts and move refrigerant up and down. It’s efficient but capital costs are huge. Usually it does not make sense economically without government regulations.
This one does seem to be different. Github is held at arms length from the rest of Microsoft (like LinkedIn) such that all of this sort of interference can't happen currently.

It will be interesting to see if they can keep that up. It is clearly an advantage to have an organization that can think "developers first" and not Azure, Windows, or whatever first.
What an odd take, given that electricity is almost the poster definition of fungible. Sure there are transmission losses, but they are very minor.

It's not perfectly fungible, but nothing in the real world is, everything has some sort of shipping costs. I can't think of anything more fungible than electricity except for virtual items like dollars.
MS owns GitHub which maintains Electron. Core maintainers are MS employees.
That's true, but untreated cardiomyopathy is potentially deadly too, yet that isn't enough pressure to cause us to not have hearts...
I always got a filing Uber was not serious about it and used it more for evaluation pump.

Tesla is the one that should be hearing alarmbells, their evaluation is partially coming from their promises of (real) FSD, that they have been overpromising and underdelivering so far.
Not exactly; they want the benefits that they think self-driving will bring, without doing the work.

> Aurora is not paying cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment last year from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Instead, Uber is handing over its equity in ATG and investing $400 million into Aurora, which will give it a 26% stake in the combined company, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (As a refresher, Uber held an 86.2% stake (on a fully diluted basis) in Uber ATG, according to filings with the SEC. Uber ATG’s investors held a combined stake of 13.8% in the company.) Shareholders in Uber ATG will now become minority shareholders of Aurora. Notably, once the deal closes, Uber together with existing ATG investors and the ATG employees who continue their employment with Aurora are expected to collectively hold about 40% interest in Aurora on a fully diluted basis.

> Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/07/uber-sells-self-driving-un...
Are you kidding? Even the title is intentionally uninformative clickbait.
Some days I forget how acrimonious our culture wars are. It didn't occur to me that mask wearing (or not wearing) has become a symbol. I was operating under the assumption that it's a minor personal choice.
It would not be interesting. There should not be cars in Manhattan whether they have 0, 1, or more drivers.
Another factor not mentioned are hiring portals that auto-discard tons of applicants - eg: first time job seekers, applicants with employment gaps and those with other unliked criteria (age, zip-code).

We could have fewer vacancies if employers stopped strongly signaling that they don't want to hire people.
I have. This isn't like CSS though.
"poor naming should be flagged in coding interviews"

Exactly! And Readability process is exactly the training Google uses to ensure someone knows how to look for this issue, and that someone actually is looking for this issue in code reviews.

There is plenty about the Readability process I don't like (particularly that one has to get it through a fairly artificial process), but checking for things like the above (which I just use as one easily understood example) isn't something that happens automatically in an organization as large as Google, with as many engineers as Google.

A common story on HackerNews is just how bad the average programmer is, how crummy code they produce. Taking steps to ensure they do it better is a good thing.

We can argue about the process, for sure, and there are many things I would love to change about it. But "yeah, that should be done in code reviews" is exactly the idea here.
Yes, I think that's the difference here: this one is asking a legitimate question, and so is generating discussion. The others are almost always just complaining that the word "Rust" is in the title, which does not invite discussion and is not interesting.
Ships have a lot of steel in them!

It's insane counting the number of APs for wifi networks on ships due to this. I was on the Queen Elizabeth a few weeks ago. A lot of Aruba gear.
At the cost of introducing other, even worse problems.
This is a widely held misconception. Mammalian genomes contain about 50% of their DNA as repeated sequences, and although there are people who can imagine uses for those sequences, there is no evidence that they are required or even evolutionarily advantageous.

The idea that modern higher organisms have been "optimized" so that every part is essential is not well supported by evidence, and there are many examples of features that simply are historical artifacts or "not-sufficiently harmful". Many evolutionary biologists are comfortable with neutral theories consistent with the idea that large portions of the genome are not under strong (or perhaps even moderate) selection.
The first sentence of the article:

"Originally, they were thought to be just specks of dust on a microscope slide."
I've now successfully gotten two teams to put statuses in a daily Slack thread, so other managers can keep up on the progress of different work. One place basically used that thread to go around the room and basically announce questions or discussion topics. The other just completely eschewed status reporting in group, and just uses a separate doc to launch into complex discussion topics. And our "standup" is now a parking lot that's basically "sync up on complex topics".

Once you start speeding past the "what did you do yesterday" topic, you realize how poorly organized communication is on serious topics. A lot of places spin up Google docs or the like to basically make agendas and take meeting notes. So now, unless you have the magic link handy you have no idea where it is. And 9/10 times it turns into a giant mind map of fragmented sentences.

What I'm basically seeing, is that agile, and scrum, grew up in a world of synchronous meetings. To really embrace asynchronous communication needs new ways of organization. And there just aren't strong patterns for this yet.
A lighthearted phrase, at worst. Are we not allowed to express ourselves except for the dryest, most information-dense prose?
> ”worked on feature X yesterday. Will continue to work on feature X today”

This is what makes standups shitty. I couldn't care less to know if you are still working on something. When you are done working on it, I'll know because the tooling will let me know of the changes. There is no time where vocalizing this provides value, unless you have no tools at all, which seems pretty silly if you are not working with a team of prehistoric cavemen.

If you have a fun story about what you did last night, a recap of last night's reality TV show, whatever floats your boat – that's much more valuable use of the time. I can get behind that, although don't be upset if I don't always show up.
One really has to wonder if we're all missing something with the platypus. Did some extremely unlikely gene transfer happen at a scale, and across taxonomic distances, that nobody has ever thought possible? There is some N where repeating the argument "it's just a quirk that they're so different" N different times starts to not feel like the simplest explanation any more. Are we absolutely certain there's no way a frisky duck-oid forced itself on an unlucky shrew-oid and in a one-in-a-billion stars-aligning miracle, managed to produce a viable offspring? (Edit: I guess they'd have to produce at least two ...)
And maybe while you’re at it you could lint away some of its crusty bits.

I really like the language, but you can tell it’s evolved for half a century while maintaining backward compatibility.
People ruin everything. Eternal whenever is upon us.
> shareholders

It belongs to Microsoft, doesn't it?
While I think the complaint above is a little over the top, the sentence you quote is a solitary fleck of personality in a sea of boilerplate.
I don't think it's immediately clear that cryptomining leads to a more robust and stable electricity network for the people it outcompetes on power. The evidence of Kazakhstan certainly doesn't point in that direction...
This.

I'd extend this to the very existence of rigid roles such as 'project manager', 'qa', etc.

We've traded the existence of healthy teams and healthy individuals in exchange for predictable insert/delete commands of any team member by the management caste.

That this destroys morale and human's natural desire to connect and form lasting bonds doesn't seem to bother the management caste. I guess why would it, it's modelled after master/slave or aristocrat/pleb relationship of the past.
Having seen these putting around the Inner Richmond at night and now visiting NYC and witnessing the chaos that is driving here, i'm not sure they're quite ready to handle this level of a problem.

NYC would require a true level 5 autonomous vehicle and i'm not sure it's even possible to drive 100% legally at all times given variables like construction, pedestrians going the wrong way on one-ways on scooters, et al.

I hope they can figure it out and wish them good luck!
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Last year, we rolled out a new React-based platform on top of our existing LIMS, and we're looking for a second full-time engineer to own that codebase to invest in it for the long term. Here are some specific areas we want to work on:
- footgun prevention: building checks into systems to make it harder for users to mistakenly upload incorrect data in the lab
- enough integration tests to demonstrate happy paths, significantly more unit tests for our API, and a LIMS sandbox that lets us setup and teardown within tests
- better decoupling between our React codebase and database
- removing unnecessary complexity: we would love someone who can advocate for why refactoring would be a good idea
- building new features: as we roll out new tests, we will need ways for those tests to be ordered, tracked, and the data to be reported out
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As I understood it they are only gathering data, it might be a PR stunt. I think we're still not able to handle such chaotic environments.
I'll make the easiest criticism and just say that if you're building something with a stated goal of being "syntactic sugar", their hello world example is god awful...

From the README:

.html {
.head {
.title {
text: A simple Hello World example;
};
};
.body {
.div {
text: Hello world;
};
};
};

Just off the top of my head, compare that with Haml and let me know which one you'd rather type:

%html
%head
%title
A simple Hello World example
%body
#somedivid
Hello world

...and that's assuming you couldn't replace Haml's %s with .s to match Nazca
The funny thing is, I've got some data myself that was encrypted but have since lost the password, and would not mind unlocking with in however many decades that quantum key breakers are available to the general public.
The interface looks like what you see in Unity
This thing anyway [0] maybe there's a generic term for it.

[0] https://unity.com/sites/default/files/styles/810_scale_width...
I'd reckon that the 'war crime' of a lack of a uniform is lower on the scale than a drone strike on a civilian aide to the U.S. during the withdrawal from said State.
Curious as to why you think this is an "eternal september" vs.... anything else/your standard.
I'm just gonna ignore the hateful parts of your post.

> More like Proof-Of-Waste, both of precious electricity, and of precious rare earth elements and other materials.

Is it really a waste if the heat produced is useful?

> idea of using a crypto rig as a space heater has already been completely debunked

Where? I've read detailed posts describing that it probably wouldn't be as efficient as other heat transfer methods. Doesn't mean it is "debunked". I'm convinced it could work in certain circumstances, such as availability of free energy in the form of solar power.

> If it's such a great idea, then why doesn't everybody already have one or a hundred of them, huh?

I don't know. I've been wondering for a while. That's why I started a discussion. Maybe the idea is too new or there aren't consumer products in the market that make it easy for people to do it.
Management changes all the time, People change all the time, hell, Microsoft has changed... If anything, Microsoft evolved around GitHub and it's for the better in doing so.
Is it really obnoxious?

The world is starting to realize that tech companies are causing a lot of societal damage that will take years, if not generations to repair.

People are also starting to get upset at large corporations for being tone death and having zero social contracts for the societies they reside in.

Public opinion is turning and GitHub/Microsoft are just getting caught in the crosshairs with public sentiment.
https://oilcity.news/wyoming/legislature/2021/04/15/gordon-s...
"This is factually not true. Right now I'm sitting in front of a thinkpad connected to two monitors, all 3 displays have different DPIs. I can drag my windows around between them just fine. Everything works. I'm happy."

Funny thing about that: if you want them to be scaled correctly based on different factors for each monitor, then you need a compositor...
I loved SoftIce.

It was a royal pain to lock windows up! It was clunky and you had to get a feel for if you were still in your program or you were dragged into the OS for things like Windows actual mouse code/logic.

I almost can’t imagine how I did it using another PC for my notes and scratchings. Having to manually type out so many addresses and the code I was inspecting.

Still, for some reason I loved SoftIce. I remember it just working.
It's the logical end-result of neoliberalism and putting The Market (swt) on a pedestal as an end goal in itself, rather than a tool and a means to prosperity.
CL is dynamically typed, no? As far as I can tell, Racket is the only (mainstream) static-typed Lisp.

There are of course so many lisps that I’m sure some other ones also have static typing.
> """Ironically"""

That’s the case in production mode. Your link says that checks are added for overflow in debug mode. Presumably that also includes underflow.
In this case the appropriate definition of "prevention" and "what is prevented" is to be found in the protocol of the trial [1], not in a dictionary of the English language.

If I am reading correctly (but do correct me if I am wrong because I am not 100% certain), only symptomatic cases are counted. Hence, it is quite possible for the vaccine to stop the symptoms, but not the transmission between individuals.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577/suppl_f...
iomega stuff was generally rather precarious. LTO drives are solid.
Ask HN: Does my startup have to make money to apply to YC?
Does my startup have to make money to apply to YC? Is it OK if I never want to charge for it and keep it as an open-source project forever?
Numerical computation libraries: numpy, scipy, ML libraries like sklearn, pytorch, and bindings for tensorflow, xgboost and many more must all work without any hiccup before data science and AI teams will consider switching away from CPython.
Which of course is why those tech companies spent effort writing and advancing FIDO specs, and why I am able to login to my Goog/Facebook/MS accounts just perfectly damn fine using offline tools (pass, pass-otp).

Can we please stop spreading FUD because people here really getting their jimmies rustled at any extra steps (even though this forum is often rife with people falling for phishing attempts, repeatedly using GoDaddy, on and on, proving that they can't protect themeselves.)*

But maybe you could name a few tech companies besides Twitter who have implement 2FA you way you imply.
> The trouble with preventative medicine is that it is creating artificial anxiety on the basis of the possibility of illness

The possibility of illness exists with or without preventative medicine. Preventative medicine decreases that possibility, and reduces anxiety.

> The acceptance of mortality (or its lack) is key to this.

Whether or not you accept mortality has no effect on whether it is a condition we all share. Though it's unclear to me if you wish for everyone to accept mortality, or reject it.

> Or, on the other hand, we can think of health as "public health", and forget about the individual.

I'm trying not to read something into this, but it's hard not to. In general, health is personal/individual, even if the way it affects you can then affect others. Of course, in the case of infectious disease, individual infection leads to transmission and public spread, so it should be thought of at more than just an individual level. (That isn't really relevant for the PSA, though. That's quite individual.)
Enabling the authoring of maintainable code.
First, those claims are speculative as they admit. Second, you cannot generalize from one or two small studies; for instance, other studies (the much-touted Israeli study) have found that natural immunity actually provides much greater protection.

We'll only figure out the truth long after it matters, so the question being debated is the risk of complications from the vaccine compared to the risk of complications from COVID. Given younger populations have very, very low risk from COVID, this is a subtle and complicated question to answer.
How to do config management in Python
Microsoft has shareholders, don't they?
Hey Isaac, thanks for the Elixir Process series, it was really useful !
Related post by the new CEO Thomas Dohmke: https://github.blog/2021-11-03-building-the-next-phase-of-gi...

(nascent) HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29095759
It would also require developers to close things when they're done, make regular comments on the tickets as milestones are met, filling in the correct keywords or components so that the ticket is included in the right board, etc. Just saying it's a two way street.

Whenever someone says "This [meeting | standup] could have been an E-mail!" I respond "So do you read and respond to your E-mail?" I love asynchronous, but the entire team has to put in the effort to make it work.
Bitbucket Cloud has landed in AWS
yes. those are the shareholders.
My BI, Data Engineering, and Project Management team all have a shared standup. They all work on a bunch of different projects at any given time so we can't really do project specific standups. I am amazed at the dedication that the PM who runs the standup has on keeping things short, direct, and moving. About 15 folks are in on that meeting, and he's always done within 15 minutes. 17 minutes on a bad day. Any side conversations try and start up? "Let's table that".
> As far as I can tell, Racket is the only (mainstream) static-typed Lisp.

Racket is dynamically typed.

Typed Racket is gradually typed, but that's a different language, implemented in Racket (there's something like a half-dozen other typed lisps bundled with the Racket distribution, too.)