skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DeLong was definitely trolling Graeber, but Graeber brought it on himself with overreaction to reviews which brought up the error. (A reviewer opened an article by saying it was an impressive book he was considering setting as a text for his students and a few paragraphs of summary of points Graeber made which are good, before highlighting a mistake and another argument he considered weak. Graeber wrote a screed about how the reviewer was "part of a strategy of deligitimization... without even being aware he was doing so" and insisted the Apple quote was the only error in his book and it was actually the editors' fault...)

Debt is a thought-provoking book, but it's a book with no shortage of sloppy errors and dubious ancillary claims mostly incidental to its actual arguments. One DeLong probably should have picked up when he was compiling his lists is referring to Keynes' Treatise on Money his "most famous work", which is a bit like calling Wings Paul McCartney's most famous band.
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How to get a job as a developer at Goldman Sachs
Some of Goldman's developers are theology graduates.
> I've read that a handful of times
(whenever trying to figure out where to
put some new random thing), and still have
never come to a clear conclusion.

So, given some data, say a file and/or
directory, maybe from saving a Web page,
that is relevant to subjects A, K, T, and
Z, where in the file system directory
trees to put that data?

My solution: Put the data in a directory
for one of the subjects A, K, T, or Z
without thinking very hard about which of
these. Then go to a file I call FACTS.DAT
(right, an old idea with an old 8.3 file
name!). I maintain that file with a few,
simple editor macros. So, sure, the file
is a catch-all for entries of random short
facts. And each entry starts with a
time-date stamp and a list of key words.
So, in the case of subjects A, K, T, or Z,
include the key words appropriate for each
of those. Then in the body of the
entry, put the tree name of the
file/directory where did store the data.

In a few seconds with my favorite text
editor I can append an entry or search for
an entry.

So far this year I have put 686 entries in
the file FACTS.DAT for about 2.1 entries
per day. For anything like current
personal computers, handling such a file
is trivial.

The idea works great!
My bad. I mixed it up with gedit, which is the thing that comes bundled with GNOME.
Do you have examples of Apple 'forbidding' the user from using an app that they have previously purchased?
And maybe we should have to navigate the legitimately elected international governments over standards that almost always slant the field.
Midnight Trains[0] plans "hotel style" sleeper trains radiating from Paris, first train launching in 2024.

[0] https://www.midnight-trains.com/en/home
I can't get it to scroll, neither one nor two fingers, so to view East Asia I have to zoom out a long way. Then I can select my locality, but it's nearly impossible to select a totality track without selecting a new location.

This is on a large-format Samsung tablet.
Netflix’s Sex Education is doing sex education better than most schools
Based on my experience, I think you may be underestimating the problems with arranging returns for unwanted items. I don't work at Amazon but I did used to work for an online retailer that shipped luxury items (think several hundred UK pounds) direct to the customer.

Getting misdelivered items back to our warehouse and sorted back into stock was a nightmare, and generally we tried not to if at all possible. Whenever a member of the public called us to report they had received a package intended for one of our customers, we would generally ask the caller if they wanted to buy it from us for a large discount. If they declined, we would either let them keep it for free, or if we felt the value of the item justified it we would make an attempt to get it brought back to us. However, between couriers not turning up to collect it on multiple occasions (presumably because there was no real incentive for them to turn up), the homeowner not being at home when the courier arrived, the item being stolen from the homeowner's driveway before the courier getting to it and the courier "losing" the item in transit, the percentage of items that actually came back to us was quite low. In addition, it was then all but impossible to put the item back into stock, since the product line may have come to an end, the package may not be complete, etc. Generally the item would be sold off at a massive discount to staff members. The admin costs through this process would be considerable.
Alas it doesn't play in Safari 15.1 for me. Just get the first chunk of audio then silence.

Plays fine in Chrome 95 and Firefox 94 though.

(On macOS 12.0.1)
I don't know about the US, but here in the Netherlands I only get an OTP check once every 10 online cc purchases or so. The bank debit card gets an OTP check every time though.
The problem is that "taking notes" means different things in different contexts.

For an academic sociologist, building a zettelkasten is a step in the process of writing academic publications; for me an academic in Earth Science, taking notes is documenting the software my team writes, documenting the scientific methods we use; keeping track of tasks and writing meeting notes; for a programmer, taking notes is storing examples of code, ideas, etc.

That's why there is no one way to taking notes. There will almost be as many note-taking tools as people using them!
The original comment still makes sense: none of the fees paid to access the final document go to the original authors.

To add insult to injury, some of those "employers" actually pay further fees to standardization bodies.
"use subdirectories" is probably the most handwavey answer possible, aside from maybe "just put it somewhere, lol". I feel like the standard could provide some sort of guidance on how to name folders or something.
Where?

See my post to this thread at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198222
> Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies.

No, you are assuming too much. People who do this are typically not interested in boosting Apple's sales at all. They merely want to make a good use of a good hardware.

In general, the ignorance or inability to understand why something is being done does not imply that it in fact is pointless.

For instance, I do not fully see well into the physics of the general relativity. But that does not entitle me to imply that the people who dedicate their lives to exploring this field are wasting their time.
This should be on a currency
> It happens sometimes in cheap devices in which the charging logic is managed in software, but it’s a terrible design decision.

In my experience, this is a pretty common practice, not limited to cheap devices. Many modern battery-driven devices I've looked at closely (for example: e-book readers, smartphones, ...) cannot bootstrap from a completely dead battery. They have to bring up the CPU, which then brings up the PMIC, before it can start charging the battery.

The difference between well-designed and less well-designed devices is mostly in how well they protect the battery from discharging beyond the point where this minimal bootstrap process stops working.
As an IT Operations practitioner I want to better understand SQL, so I wanted to look at the SQL standard.

What used to be one document is now over a dozen -- it seems that part 2 (SQL/Foundation) deals with the SQL language basics, which is what I need right now.

It's about USD 250 via the Estonian web site (https://www.evs.ee/en/iso-iec-9075-2-2016)

It's about USD 215 from ISO directly: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:9075:-2:ed-5:v1:...

I am a member of the ACM and I reached out to them but it's not in their digital library.

I am looking for a legal yet economical way to obtain the standard. I am willing to pay $20 but not $200.
> The implementation of memset in this repository is around 25% faster than the glibc implementation. This is the geometric mean for sizes 0..512.
More reason to promote for self-host, and decentralised systems like smtp, matrix.org, ActivityPub. The idea of having all the data and server concentrated in a few player such as google, amazon, ccp is not reliable for the digital operation of the planet.
They released a Nest Smart Device Management (SDM) API last year which opens up the ecosystem - https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/api

Although there is a 5$ fee.
"if you build it, they will come" and "terse readmes" work very well in problem domains that don't have a few compelling open source solutions. Fanciful READMEs and marketing matter a lot more in a competitive/saturated space.
The full report from the Zoological Society of London contained in the embedded link:

https://www.zsl.org/sites/default/files/ZSL_TheStateoftheTha...
That's pretty awesome. Amazing range.
> Basically no one uses /var/tmp for anything

Gentoo does, at least by default: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/make.conf#PORTAGE_...
That is wrong if you don't mean a complete lockdown in a way that we shut down any infrastructure, even what is declared necessary. That would theoretically eliminate any infectious disease with a shorter lifetime.

It certainly isn't the fault of freedom lovers or any single group. This is blaming the other team and basic tribalism.
This doesn't make sense, and I'm a bit worried: I "cheaped" out and have a "left side only USB-C" MBPro from 2019.

Should I understand that having any kind of load on the measly 2 ports I have on my 1600€ computer will lead to abysmal performance? Like, attaching a USB hub to add basic necessity like HDMI or USB A?
What does this ruling in the UK have to do with the US?
> Either that or they keep it at 1x scaling and just scale the fonts instead which is a pretty degraded and compromising experience if you use GUI apps and not just the terminal.

Is it? Because this is exactly what I do on mine (w/ GNOME + PaperWM) and it's fantastic having so much space. I don't even scale the fonts, either.
Valid points in the ruling - no evidence of financial damage or distress.

Good outcome.

Let the downvoting begin!
> none of the fees paid to access the final document go to the original authors

Isn’t this normal in life? Most people are paid salaries or contracts for a job, not a proportion of sales.

An engineer at Google is paid to build an advert system but they don’t get a proportion of the advert fees.

> some of those "employers" actually pay further fees

Why have you put employers in scare quotes? Do you doubt they’re employing anyone?

And they don’t have to put anyone on the committee writing the standard if they don’t want to.
But firing someone doesn't undo an incident. It just introduces other weird incentives. People become afraid to change things for fear of breaking something, or when something does break they try to hide it rather than feeling like they can immediately ask for and receive help to fix it.

The only time someone should be fired for causing an outage is if they're negligent or sloppy or mess things up all the time. This is rare. Almost always outages in large systems are the combination of many factors — latent bugs, design flaws, abnormal load, etc, any one or two of which wouldn't take the site down. But when the combine in a perfect storm that nobody foresaw things fall over.
So every single engineer on this project is a total piece of shit? That is my only logical conclusion to your statement.

It's probably not as simple as you put it, then someone would've done something about it. (Assuming this system wasn't built by a very small engineering team, then they could statistically all be "bad" people).
NLP Is Changing Financial Services
Ah, I misread the article. I have read it in a way that their consumption is so large that others have to go without chips.
Stem Cell Harvesting from Umbilical Cords
Hi! Hope you guys are doing great!

We are nearing the delivery date and expecting a full term, which is now 3 weeks out.

Have people here extracted and preserved stem cells from their newborns umbilical cord?

What's the general consensus here on HN and the residential experts? Is it useful in the longer run? What are a few things that we need to check up on?

We are meeting with a few firms tied up with our hospital for preservation and wanted to know what all has to be checked up with them.

Thank you!
I wonder how the future water levels will impact have impact..
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There’s empty houses in SF. Your point? The rent controlled 5 bedroom that has the same price in 1999 for the single renter doesn’t feel burdened, if they could use the existing housing and rent at market value, more people will have housing and the government will save money.

You’re assuming homeless who want to live in homes don’t know how to find cheaper housing and must be able to walk to work or that they can commute to work.

Not everyone that works in NYC lives there, and you haven’t been to Detroit recently, you’re very unfair to its recent astronomical changes, it’s a lot more expensive than you’re probably inferring from decades old movies.
I like how it adjust the number of columns to the width of your browser window instead of hard-coding a width (that too many web sites do).

I'd rather scroll up and down for each new column than left and right for each new line.
35th Anniversary of the Voyager 1 Saturn Flyby
I'm curious why the time is so much worse for sizes just slightly larger than 400, but then better again for sizes larger than this?
Art's appearance in the 2006 videogame Prey was pretty great. Several sections of the game play Art's show in which the callers are experiencing similar events to the game's protagonist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enb_vZTFcdc
Why the fuck didn't NASA pay? Surely they can spare $400 for a joke?
ISO pricing came up in a discussion had elsewhere recently.

Particularly about this "Ships and marine technology -- Survival equipment for survival craft and rescue boats"
https://www.evs.ee/en/iso-18813-2006
About potential life saving equipment, and it's behind a paywall. Seems wrong, and the US Coast Guard are starting to reference it.
Related concern was the US Coast Guard are no longer certifying certain equipment, so it moves the burden from USCG to private individuals & companies to ensure their safety equipment meets the required standards. No doubt insurance companies will look into whether the equipment meets the standard, and if not then refuse to pay out.
I always think of it like a function call with the URL as the parameter
What cultivar (strain) were they growing in the past?

Landrace strains are so rare nowadays.
The current currency system that we have doesn't go back to Yuan China. It goes to 17th century Europe.

The currency that we have today in major economies _not_ controlled by the government. If the government created money, there would be no need for them to tax people/issue bonds
> All you have to do is request it in the application manifest and the A functions will accept and return UTF-8.

They really should have gone with WTF-8 [0] since the W functions generally accept WTF-16 and not just the valid UTF-16 subset.

[0] https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
I have personally in the past few years seen evidence of sea trout in the the upper Thames: to get there of course they need to go through London which they didn't do for a long time. Before the Victorian era and the pollution from mass industrialisation there were even migratory Salmon in the river, and enormous trout living in the weirpools.
Where's the Friction?
What tech company spends millions on training anyone?
I wonder how much pollution tolerance and even preferences play a role here. The Thames has been heavily polluted for hundreds of years, at this point.
It's not post-sanity. It's perfectly stupid. When you buy Chinese widgets the Chinese don't spend the money on your electric cars (otherwise they wouldn't be able to run a trade surplus). They buy the electric car company. I hope it's clear that this speculation must happen, because doing anything that is not speculative would require abandoning the idea of a permanent trade surplus or deficit.
> high suicide [...] rates

Where are you getting your data about suicide in Japan from?
> The x86/64 solo reign was more like 15 years.

Solo, yes, probably 15 years. But domination? Probably starting with the IBM PC in 1981 (ok, make that 1982 or 1983 to allow for the sales ramp up) until 2020. That's a very long run for a computer architecture.

I expect that the next architectures to rise to the top will be even more entrenched.

We're way past computing's early years, childhood and adolescence.
It was that company which chose to donate the work (which your dad did) to the standards body.

That's exactly my point. The standard _organization_ gets the work for free, but the standard _writers_ are almost always paid for their work and aren't working for free. The original comment made it sound like the standard writers where somehow being exploited or where donating their time to the standard organization.

In your analogy the writer is the food store, and the company is the person that bought the food to donate.
Johnson & Johnson plans to split into two companies
The comment by jksoegaard may explain it: "the purpose of the thread is to force idleness". I guess it uses up all the CPU without actually making the CPU do anything, so other processes can't use the CPU and produce more heat than it can handle.
No, you are describing several European layouts, but not those intended for English speakers

The British, Irish and especially the "International" layout are close to the US layout.
Developing a Best-Worst Scaling (BWS, a.k.a. maxdiff) free web app
The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (1900) [pdf]
It's probably going to be a cool toy, but being able to use the hardware to its full potential and also having Linux on ARM Macs be your daily work driver is going to be a humongous challenge.

I wonder if it will ever happen outside of very limited use cases.
From the Wikipedia page:

> The phrase later became identified with the idealized picture of "nature's gentleman", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

These days the sentiment seems more associated with people expressing unhappiness with complexity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
Use the best tool for the job.

sed is just a DSL (domain specific language) specifically designed for for manipulating text files line by line.

Note that for matching strings even in Groovy/AWK/Python/Perl/... you'll probably use regexp which are another DSL. Would you recommend to use string functions instead?
MAD Architects? Am I the only one who thinks of potrzebie?
I read somewhere (don't remember where) that the only purpose of the door close button is to be a vector for the transmission of Type-A Personality.
The implication is that millions were spent training the person who made the mistake when they cost the company millions by making that mistake.
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An outage can be pretty expensive but it is training for those whom triggered it and/or those that fixes it.
Server names are different. They are by and large machine-facing identifiers, whereas filenames have a 50-50 split of whether they are machine-facing, human-facing, or both. They makes their support of Unicode a much more critical (and appealing) proposition.
It's reframing lost revenue, not talking about literal training cost.
I wasn't sure these were all in the last five years, but when I checked the dates, they mostly are:

- Microsoft: Visual Studio Code (2015), acquired GitHub - getting deep into dev tools outside the Windows market

- Apple: Apple Watch (2015) - wearable health tech

- Amazon: original TV and movies, grocery delivery, acquired Whole Foods (2017)

- Facebook: acquired Instagram (2012) and WhatsApp (2014), Oculus VR

- Netflix: original feature films (e.g. Roma, 2018)

You may not consider all those to be new markets; e.g. Netflix is still pretty much just doing streaming video as far as I'm aware. But it was still seen as a big deal when they started doing original TV shows (House of Cards) and then "proper" original movies.

Edit to add: Google: AI tools & infrastructure? I don't know enough to judge if they're making a big impact there.
In case any other non-native speakers wonder about "quango" it seems to be from quasi-NGO [1], where of course NGO means a non-governmental organization. A new one for me!

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quango
This was what made games playable and enjoyable. This whole DRM anticheat show is so anticonsumer.
I'd also be interested in a Stripe-in-the-first-place for the rest of the world. Right now, it's only in the U.S., Western Europe, a bit of South America, Australia, India, and a few dots in Asia. https://stripe.com/global

No African country. I'm in Algeria, and it's not available here. Is there a blueprint or a checklist to get a country on the map? What would flip the switch?
Adam Neumann got a 1.7 billion severance package from soft bank for basically making one or multiple bad choices. Even if you subtract stock, the pure monetary component was 185 million $.

It might have been an exaggeration, but on a certain level responsibility means large amount of pay if you mess up.
One mechanism that doesn't seem to be mentioned is the .net style "manual" cancellation where CancellationToken is passed around everywhere and manually checked, often throwing an exception to early return.

Pros are that it's very explicit - there are no unexpected places for the code "stop", which is useful if there are effects that aren't easily modeled RAII style.

Cons are that it's very explicit, having to me manually passed around everywhere, with all the possibility of forgetting.

I guess "panic on cancel" wouldn't be very popular :P and I have no idea if/how the cancellation token scheme allocates.
Panics' language is definitely designed to be friendly to non-native speakers, who you seem to be discounting as unworthy of such treatment.

But I would say this is probably a bigger market than you seem willing to accommodate in your argument.