skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It happens more than you think, in many cases it’s easier to just sweep under the rug and move on. Few VCs want to admit they were swindled, and even fewer want the industry perception that they get founders investigated for fraud when things go sideways.

Theranos was unique in both the scale of the fraud and how non-investors were potentially harmed. Most of these are just founders who knowingly or unknowingly get in over their head and then basically walk away after having lied about the state of things.

I’ve heard a bunch of stories from VC friends, but the one I was the most involved with directly was probably 10 years ago. My mom mentioned to me that she had been chatting with some senior local government official who mentioned they had a startup datacenter provider taking over a nearby abandoned office complex and converting it to a green datacenter, bringing hundreds of jobs to the area - had I heard of them?

I had not, and after some digging determined that the company had claimed to have a bunch of unique technology, and leveraged that to get preferential terms from the local government - free rent, no property or payroll taxes, and other cash- and non-cash concessions. They had also raised millions from private investors by saying they had active datacenters with customers and they needed money to expand.

Except none of it was true. They had no customers, no datacenters, no employees other than the three founders and one of their daughters. They had made commitments in three different locations over the past three years to build a datacenter while simultaneously raising money by saying they ALREADY had active datacenters and customers.

I shared this with my mom, who shared it with local government, who hand waved it away as nonsense. But nothing ever happened at any of these sites, and after they ran through the money they filed for bankruptcy with revenue of $0 and assets of ~$12k. Their biggest investor took control of their land lease from the local government. Some investors complained online about being lied to, and the local government quietly swept it under the rug. I spoke with a local business reporter who basically shrugged and said, “yup, you’re right, but no one wants to talk about it”.
> edit: maybe people pronounce it like 'depth' with the 'th' replaced with a 't'?

Yes, like that. Definitely not with a vowel. There's really no way to know for a non native speaker that the b is supposed to be silent, except by learning about it as a special case.
Heres a reminder of Gel-Mann amnesia, Im seeing alot of speculative comments on colonialism in a broad sense in Africa. Which is fine, but the nuance is that there were many different colonizers, they left all at different times, and their influence is very much still being used to maintain resource rights and extraction. Without a small bit of history and perspective you might assume the dictators are a direct result of their respective people's poor choices. The cold war wasnt easy on Africa. People are still desperate for changes that aren't serving the status quo.

Did anyone do their degree in comparitive politics of Africa?

Political Science is hard because everyone has such a strong bias and a lot to say about it. Dont forget your grains of salt.
Libm.so – is it a joke or does the webpage segfault?
I tried to google for libm.so (standard C library of basic mathematical functions). I typed it straight into the address bar expecting my browser to search for this term using google so I didn't expect it to be valid URL. Lucky me.
Name clash -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19358798

All features except Kanban & cosmetics, and additional features are there in https://tomato-timer.com/

Additional feature requested -
Breaks can immediately start with guided meditation tracks and steep up to tough sets like Theravada and Vipassana.

Explanation - Distraction for me in work is because of of two processes - Excusing yourself - " I will come back in just a minute" and undirected addiction like FB/Insta walls (more so, the third stage - Preoccupation and Anticipation).

The third one is built momentum over 25 minutes. Added to that our speeds become more volatile at the start and tapers at the end, against the constant flow of time. Managers conflate completing the work with completing faster. So, in the break chimes, implementing traffic signals is bad, but a railroad-switch is way better(but...still bad). The best is something that can personify time to coach you to modulate your efforts in tandem with the flow of consistency i.e. time.

Also, games pin down our attention because of tasks with both necessary effort and necessary punishments. Rewards to be necessary, should be compensatory to punishments, not efforts.

So yeah, something like meditation, mindful mastication of snacks, watching standup or interview clips, slow paced Habitica or Mario, etc., all within 5 minutes.

There also needs some cross pollination of ideas between personal finance apps like You Need A Budget, Opportunity cost among the livelyhoods of the poor, and investing in startups.

I lost the GitLab link that does some of that.
> This is depicted In short stories written by Han Kang where women become ‘plants’, a decor in one’s home, stripped of their personalities.

Are there English translations available? I will definitely like to read these.

Although, I find it going too easy on patriarchy.

In oppressive patriarchies, women are:

- servants during the day doing the cooking, cleaning, child-bearing, washing, taking care of the previous generation, etc.

- prostitutes during the night.
If your manager doesn't understand that everything being broken all the time is a natural part of development, then you might need to find a better place to work. If someone I managed said "I'm blocked because Webpack is broken." My reaction would be to laugh, tell them we've all been there, and ask them to spend an hour or two on it. If they can't fix it after that I'd start helping. They'd be free to keep trying, or work on something else if they wanted a break.

I will say this though, my reaction to things unexpectedly breaking on me is typically "Oh... interesting." Sure, it can be annoying when it happens at the wrong time, but I also get a little excited. If there isn't some part of a person that thrives on the break/fix process, then software development may not be a good emotional fit. This is a normal part of the job, so if you don't have terrible management and you still hate the process after seven years, maybe look at other options. If everyone was an intellectual masochist that enjoyed things breaking on them, the species would probably go extinct.
Definition written by management who can't tell good from bad. Ya see too many engineers got involved I reckon, should done what I told em, keep it simple fellas.
Isn't Intel going to drop AVX512 support on these chips soon?
It's happened again and again with other words. "often" (older pronunciation: "offen"), "Anthony" (older pronunciation: "Antony") and "tortoise" (older pronunciation: "tortuss") are examples where the spelling pronunciation still hasn't totally won out. Words where the spelling pronunciation has reached fixation include "falcon" (older pronunciation: "fawken"), "reptile" (older pronunciation: "reptil"), "sphere" (older pronunciation: "spear"), "bankrupt" (older pronunciation: "bankrout"), "baptism" (older pronunciation: "baptime"), and "perfect" (older pronunciation: "parfit").
It sounds like you are struggling with two different things.

Problem 1: Your manager isn't giving you the space to diagnose and fix the issue. The solution to this is to explain to them the situation in as much detail as it takes why you need a certain amount of time. If they don't want to listen then it's time to start looking for different employment. It's a great time to be looking, seriously, the market is crazy hot right now.

Problem 2: You are using abstractions that hide details you need to understand when things go wrong. The solution here is to go read the code, write small examples that trigger replicate the problem. Use a debugger. Get really familiar with the code in the abstraction you are using. The answer is in there somewhere and more than likely you can figure it out if you trace through. It's a partial failure of our industry that many times these abstractions make it really difficult to figure out why they went wrong. But it's our reality and sometimes it takes weeks of reading the code and experiementing to identify why it's breaking. The good news is that once you've done that you are just a little bit more of an expert in that abstraction, and that is a very marketable skill.
MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems study group
While the case against her was about defrauding investors, a strong case could also be made that, for the sake of her own wealth, fame, and success (she notably wanted to be "the next Steve Jobs"), she defrauded anybody looking for medical assistance.

Fucking around with people's health just to get rich and famous is evil.
Awesome! Danger here is that once you get started down this path, one becomes really tempted to build a full commercial renderer ;)

Next step: add global illumination. Rayon is the key here, and having access to more cpu cores.

Ray Tracing And Global Illumination (2003)

https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
I use Zola as well, but used an existing theme. The best I like is the single binary (which I can keep using without having to worry about future changes). And it builds fast.
Apollo 13: The First Digital Twin
To me it sounds a lot like the German "ä", which can also be written as "ae". I wonder if this is somehow related.
Hi All, I'm taking a classic graduate course from MIT https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ on my own (I'm not enrolled, just doing the course independently). There are 4 different labs in Go lang I plan to redo in Scala (MapReduce, Raft, Fault-tolerant Key/Value Service, Sharded Key/Value Service). There is also a bunch of lectures available on YouTube: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html. I would like to know if there is any interest in forming a study group to motivate each other to complete this course and work on the labs together. (Not necessarily in Scala/Go lang).

In terms of timeline, I'm starting right now. It's to get a head start on the official course schedule. Where it normally starts at the beginning of February and ends in late May.
The Vatican.
Interesting article.

> Warning: this page has about 72MB of Gifs! Medium also has a tendency to not load them properly, so if there’s a large gap or overly blurry image, try reloading the page. Ad blockers may cause problems, no script may make it better. It’s also broken in the official Medium app. Sorry, Medium is just weird.

There may be a fix: vote with your choice, stop publishing on Medium, publish elsewhere?

This content is worth it.
I hope to be in your situation soon.
They brought “agility” company wide where I work and we don’t even deliver software. The average tenure is 25 years and people stay past retirement age because they are bored at home. I still struggle to teach people how to modify a PDF instead of printing, writing, scanning.
They picked me as one of the agility coaches and I don’t even believe in it.
I’ve been candid with my boss, his boss, directors, etc. They think I’m joking, so I’m hoping to get out asap
I had been using Plex for many years and got sick of the way they try to force things like podcasts and web shows on you. I knew that advertising and library scanning was on the way if it wasn't already there so I switched to Jellyfin a couple of years ago. I have a number of friends and family that use my server as well and none of them have complained.
Great to see some randoms have posted! Thanks everyone. A few more posts and you'll get to see if my dodgy pagination works lol
South Korean ruling party to issue NFTs for fundraising in presidential election
Right, could be
I don’t understand how natural origin is your “bias” while everyone else is “jumping to conclusions”. There’s a lack of conclusive evidence for either scenario. And politics aside, SARS has leaked before resulting in deaths… no conspiracy required!
Uh, if you read a bit about Leandro, you'll learn that he's a senior engineer at Grupo Globo in Brazil. I'll leave it to you to discover more about Globo.
Nothing starts as a mass adoption product.
Good point, I really have no clue what that sounds like.

The poem _The Chaos_ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw&t=12s ) is about this sort of thing, written by a Dutch teacher of English pronunciation.

(but even that mass of examples does not include debt, doubt or caveat)
Worst case scenario if Google drops the ball I just go back to the library.
As a native speaker, that is an interesting take on it and one I had not considered before, so thanks for pointing it out. It meshes well with my overall attitude when I see incorrect English - to accept people wherever their language skills may fall. After all, even us natives make mistakes. As long as we can understand each other, perfect language is irrelevant.
Why do you assume this project is about dating/hookups?
> There is also no "t" sound in "often", never was. Some officious busybody thought "offen" and "oft" ought to be related. so put "often" in a dictionary. Now people who don't know any better pronounce it.

Hmm? The etymology dictionaries don't appear to back you up on this.

> often (adv.): "repeatedly, again and again, many times, under many circumstances," mid-13c., an extended form of oft, in Middle English typically before vowels and h-, probably by influence of its opposite, seldom (Middle English selden).

( https://www.etymonline.com/word/often )

> From Middle English often, alteration (with final -n added due to analogy with Middle English selden (“seldom”)) of Middle English ofte, oft, from Old English oft (“oft; often”)

( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/often )

Where did you get the idea that they weren't related?
1984 – Comrade Dad
Netlify has a Forms functionality, that can be used to trigger serverless functions, I was thinking it'd be possible to add the comment to a file, git push it and trigger a rebuild. Hah, rebuilding a whole site on every submitted comment seems like overkill though...

https://docs.netlify.com/forms/submissions/#form-triggered-f...
This is amazing. One for everyone’s 2022 bingo cards! We’re verging ever closer to weirdest possible timeline.

In case it’s unclear, this is referring to South Korea, not North Korea. I have no idea how North Korea or South Korea usually fund their elections, so if any subject-matter experts can enlighten us, it would be much appreciated.

> The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is set to become the world's first political party to issue non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for fundraising in a presidential election, according to DPK presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung's campaign committee, Sunday.
There is – here’s the spec: https://tc39.es/ecma402/#datetimeformat-objects
This definitely doesn't match how I heard some software is done there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463181
> I wonder if a Q32-17 workstation could be put together for cheaper than whatever the cheapest Apple M1 pro device is

Nah. You can't just get a chip & mainboard retail since there is basically no market for that.

About the only option for an Altra workstation is a prebuilt for "as low as $7661" :(

https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-altra-64bit-arm-workstati...
She straight up said she was backed by partnerships with big pharma and that the device was working. I would have invested in a heart beat given the claimm. Lying at that level is insane. She need removed from the presence of law abiding citizens as long as possible.
They didn’t actually test AVX-512 on and off:

> Unfortunately, @RPCS3 does not demonstrate emulation performance on the 12900K with the E cores enabled and AVX-512 disabled. This would be very interesting to know since it is the default Alder Lake configuration. It would also be interesting to see how much of a difference AVX-512 really makes to this PS3 emulator.

So we don’t know how much the AVX-512 instructions actually deliver gains, and they didn’t bother trying to find out. Feels like tech websites are just putting AVX-512 in headlines now because they know the controversy is good for easy clicks.

You have to specifically disable the efficiency cores to enable AVX-512, so the change would have a negative impact on a lot of multi-threaded workloads that aren’t AVX-512. It also worsens thermal performance and power efficiency because you’re disabling the efficient cores.
Well yes, as it's an extention of code written in the 1970s, when dates were most commonly referred to with 2 digits.

Even when javascript was written (and likewise with things like perl and php - and of course the underlying function dated back to the 70s ), it was still quite common for people to write dates by hand as 6/6/96 for June 6th 1996, hence people would often write something like

print day() + "/" + mon() + "/" + year()

If you wanted to put a 4 digit year many people

print day() + "/" + mon() + "/19" + year()

After 2000 came round, many sites would claim the year was 19100, I still saw these sites until well into the late 00s

However some people wrote print day() + "/" + mon() + "/" + (1900 + year())

Which would give the correct display.

Changing year() from returning a 2 digit (which in the 80s and even in the 90s was often preferable) to 4 digits would be a breaking change. Changing it to being "the last two digits" rather than "number of years since 1900" would be a breaking change. That's not something that people like to do, hence things like "getFullYear" to return a 4 digit year (or 3 digit for <1000 etc)
Maybe we're both just too cynical because my first thought was "meet up with strangers in an unfamiliar location, sounds like great fun for anyone tired of having both kidneys."
I don't know if you're crazy, but I just said "let let det" about a dozen times to myself in my office ;)
My favorite (for the artwork) to date (scroll down to see all the cards): https://robertmplacetarot.com/the-alchemical-tarot-renewed-4...
I don't think this would hold up in court, and I hope it wouldn't persuade a jury. One of the things that jumps out at me is that those two different perceptions, "circus barker" versus "deadly fucking serious", are highly subjective. Gender-biased, even. On of the things that women in STEM often complain about is our willingness to smile at a man being stern while shaking our heads at a woman acting that way. That's not to say I disagree with you in this instance; I actually see it the exact same way. Musk is a head-in-the-clouds showman type while Holmes was sober and stoic. I just wouldn't trust myself to make an actual ruling based on those perceptions, and I'd hope our legal system doesn't either.

The real difference between the two that I see is that Musk's borderline-fraudulent statements are intermingled with true statements about the actual companies he operates and the actual things they do. That's what buys you some slack to make outlandish statements: Accomplishing outlandish things. If Holmes had normalized electric cars or launched some reusable rockets, and had then staked (some of) the reputation of one of those companies on claims about a non-existent blood test, there may not have been a trial.
How are these different? What is changing?
Miatas are pretty underrated in that regard - on the 1st gen (~1990) you can reach about everything without taking anything else of. Jobs that would take days (or hours in shop setting) to do on other cars take under 30 mins on the Miata. Notable examples are starter and brake booster - they are "right there", with a ton of space. You can't even get to the spark plugs easily on a lot of cars these days. (heh, "these days", now I sound old)
do as you please, but none of my family could responsibly maintain a dedicated server.
"I feel very confident" - well you can't sue somebody for his feelings ...
On your second point, I didn't mean that it was different in Latin than Greek, just that that's the etymology of the word being discussed here (and I only mentioned Latin since otherwise it's not really helpful because it's obviously an entirely different alphabet).
> From people who could easily afford to lose it and who should have known better.

Who in turn gained their money from trickle-up economics targeting the working and middle classes, in all likelihood.
> It's insane for humanity to continue putting their eggs in one or two baskets.

Kinda funny when you consider we literally put all our eggs in exactly two baskets, both on males and females.
Maybe some accents don't pronounce the b at all, but its presence definitely affects how I pronounce the word, I'm sure I'm not alone in this either.

The difference is that my lips touch and close when pronouncing "debt", while they stay entirely open if pronouncing "det" (e.g. in "determined"). The change of airflow imparts a soft "peh" before the "t", making the word sound like a softer form of "dept" rather than identical to "det".

I appreciate that spelling in english can be more historical than phonetic, and this might be a case of the tail wagging the dog.
What do you mean by demonetizing forums?
The 3d rotation on the map is really unsettling. Surely you'd only need to span and scale it?
I didn’t downvote, in fact, I’m a bit amused because the reason I used quotes is exactly because I’m not using any official definition! There’s no consensus definition of “native”, and I’m using “should” purely in the colloquial sense of “something I’d like to see”.
I would go further by removing {week_year}, and instead make any non-Gregorian calendar contextual, like: {iso_calendar: {year}-{week}-{weekday}}.
The relevant detail, in my mind, is not whether Holmes deserves punishment, or even how much. The relevant detail is how the judge ultimately sentences Holmes, and more importantly, on what basis the judge selects the upper or lower range of possible sentencing outcomes. Considering that BS, stretching of capabilities, and so on are commonplace in the startup world, the point isn't whether Holmes crossed the line (she did), but rather, how exactly that line is repositioned by this precedent.

There's the easy story: "Young, ambitious wunderkind founder falls from grace." And the hard story: "Here's what might be relevant for future founders."
Even as a proponent of strong typing, I fail to see how type system could have possibly helped in this case. Could you show some sort of example of how you envision types to be used here?

Verbose naming, yes, on the other hand would probably have made the situation clearer.
The risky resurgence of nuclear power
To be fair getYear has been deprecated for over 20 years (a bit after it was deprecated in Java for the same reason). The Y2K problem was a real thing in lots of places.
Is there a word for this tendency to say, "it's someone else's job" as a justification for doing nothing at all to help or improve one's own circumstances? I see more and more of it in the public discourse over the last years and it kind of bothers me. I see it a lot in conversations related to poverty or climate change, but it is as we see here by no means exclusive to those topics.

To the original replyer: you could wait for Google to do something, but if they were going to fix the listicle issue, and it were fixable on their end, they'd probably have done it by now. I'm disappointed in the situation too but if there is a workable solution on our end it would be silly to ignore it because fixing the problem is someone else's job.

To the OP: I worry that the number of domains pumping out crap might be far greater than we know, and that might hamper the effectiveness of this. If the collaborative block list ever got big enough you might also have to deal with spam. But I think it would be a great thing to try. This is one of those issues that annoys me, but it's just below my action potential threshold. My biggest objection right now is the spammy recipe websites.