skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
60 Minutes broke this story a decade ago.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congress-trading-stock-on-insid...

Due to the traction the story got, it led to the Stock Act.

But once the news cycle was over it was quietly, rapidly, and largely repealed:

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/17749...

And here we are a decade later “shocked” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
Agreed, that's a problem, but most apps can be engineered regardless with just a web app and SMS/Email for notifications.
The use case I'm thinking of is when buying random sundries at the store, not ordering sensitive items.
My cat goes to the bathroom with me all the time. He doesn't poop with me too, but he often follows me in, and we just hang out together.
pretty sure Churchill was a c++ guy
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That's a new one, never seen an article locked behind mandatory email list + terms and conditions before.
I think this would stop if the media would report about issues and not mostly political gossip.
It’s been tested in court. Employment isn’t a right.

When I was subject to public officers law, my kids were unable to play the lottery, engage in any sales or lobbying activity without written permission from agency counsel.

I know of one case where a senior leader was referred for civil penalty (fine up to $20k) because he took a meeting with a prospective contractor that his kid worked for.

There’s other areas like this as well. The actions of a spouse or child can affect a security clearance or be disqualification for employment as a police officer.
> for a whole room at once

Scenes? Group the accessories in the room together?

As to the rest of the UI, have you tried any of the alternative HomeKit UI apps like Eve or Home+?

I too find Automation/Shortcuts a bit limiting. I'm playing with Homebridge + Node-Red for more powerful automations, but I don't have any useful experience to share yet.
I struggle to feel any sympathy for these crypto miners, especially when the whole of Kazakhstan is struggling and this author is painting the miners as poor victims.
On those snap traps, you can bend the wire that holds back the spring downward in slight increments until the trap is so sensitive you can almost set off by blowing on it. This is the only way I was able to clear an infestation of juvenile mice years ago. Before this modification, the small mice were eating the bait without triggering the traps.
Well, that's super cynical.
“It hasn’t been this high since the days of Thatcher and Reagan..."

Typical AP article.

Reagan came into office facing high inflation (it started when Carter was in office), it broke when he was in office.

Fact: Reagan won re-election with 49 of 50 states. Had inflation still been raging, that's not likely, is it?

So disappointed with yellow journalism.
The problem with using something like webpack is that you can't use it for something quick.

You can't dip into the documentation for the one thing you're trying to do, you have to spend time reading a large chunk of the documentation, then going to forums and such to try an understand the history of how that one thing you're trying to do has changed over webpack's history.

Then 5 months later when you're doing it for another project, you have to re-read all that documentation again because one other thing is different.

Compare that waste of time and effort to:

A developer is now unavailable and you are taking over the project. The project uses a modern build-system/module-loader/etc... You need to change one thing to the way to project is built.

You don't have to learn an uber nested spaghetti config file that looks like a domain-specific language. You just read the miminal configuration the previous developer left you and now you know what to change, or how to add the one thing you need to do. You've now saved days of work.
Full complaint filed with California federal court: https://www.scribd.com/document/552493213/KRAFTON-INC-and-PU...
The data does not agree with you.
Yes, you absolutely are. They are colors.

It's okay to disagree, but once the decision is made, you move on. You throwing a public fit is unbecoming of a CTO and would shake any confidence I had in you as a leader.

If everyone else is in agreement, and you're the only dissenter, you are the problem, not them.

Drop the issue and move on. If it's really as bad as you think, it can be changed later. Otherwise just accept that you're wrong.
Why you are asked to "clear cache" so often on Android.
Check out “Viral” by Chan and Ridley - I highly recommend this book.

Edit: Yes, the initial pandemic virus most likely leaked from WIV lab in Wuhan. Whether it was engineered and whether it was intentional are different questions.
A galaxy is small compared to the Universe, so why would it be difficult to imagine that some of the galaxies were formed in regions devoid of dark matter?
Nomic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
Ask HN: Problems with current hiring, interviewing, and recruiting processes?
Hello :)

Just looking for community or experienced/professional insight on how the industry currently handles recruiting, interviewing, and hiring processes. What are problems with the way these are currently handled in your opinion? How do you suggest we fix it?

Nothing is perfect and there is always room for improvement. So if you were in charge of your own company, how would you look for and interview people to hire?

Or if you don't think there are any problems with the current systems, please share why!
I used umami, an open source one, it used to be release frequently.

and I amde some contribution to containalize it
Upon further research - this was written by a general partner at https://volt.capital.

I assume they are trying to say it is possible to invest in decentralized companies with anonymous founders by their tokens and protocols. Like many do with bitcoin.
> Why was this done this way? It'd be so much easier just to do this instead

If there is a reason for it being done 'this way' that is not obvious then there should be a comment in the code explaining the thought process.

A commit won't really help you as much there as future refactoring might obscure the original commit that added the code.

That being said, if there's some complexity in what is being solved I will usually add a very quick description of it in the commit message "Used XYZ algorithm to implement ABC due to it being faster/cleaner. See: ticket/wiki/documentation".
The only problem I had with Electron was the slow booting time. Other than that it worked fine. I didn’t see any more bugs than I see on any other platform. Perhaps the problem was that you are very familiar with Qt and not with Electron? I am not saying that Electron is perfect. I don’t think any platform is. But it seems to me that (again) the problem you are describing is that bad developers will write bad code on any platform. And yes a lot of inexperienced developers know JavaScript so they are attracted to Electron and write bad code. Completely agree. But I think it is unfair to blame Electron for that. Just saying :)
Ah makes sense then! And would be pretty fun.
And circumventing that block violates the CCFA (at least here in the US) so instead of the GDPR turning me into a criminal, SO users who visit my site are the ones violating the law.
Your experience with other payment processors on an iPhone are indeed not as good simply because they aren't allowed to be as good. Every single one of your experiences with these alternative payment processors was forced through a Safari browser.
Am i? Punishing someone for a societys benefit sounds like detterence to me. Sounds like what you think should be done against that person is removal from society. The classic way (death penalty) is not in fashion in the western world.

So it sounds like they should be put in a facility optimized towards containment and letting them live out their days in some semblance of peace. (Not wanting them in peace sounds alot like you want them punished) Not in a facility where they take a slot to learn a trade from someone else and get to influence people who reform is deemed appropriate.
I've tried this stuff. It's nasty, could not recommend less.
Consider for a moment that perhaps most online warfare is not state-sponsored, for foreign gain, but is instead privately-sponsored, for the gain of our local moguls.

It's a war we've lost a while ago.
FWIW, hantavirus is spread via mouse urine, not by the mice themselves, so the most important way to avoid it is to sanitize places where mice have peed.
You can opt-out though. Just don't sell digital goods on your app and don't use your app as a funnel to direct people to your website where you sell them. Audible takes this approach and it seems to work fine enough for them. Boom! Apple will take 0% of your revenue.
Google doesn't have to proactively try very hard to ingest sites. If something is difficult for Google to scrape they don't sped loads of engineer hours on getting it to work. They just leave the site out and the webmaster there will quickly bend over backwards to make sure Google can scrape them.
When something gets scraped into Google inadvertently it's because the website made not even the slightest effort to protect itself.
> Some web scraping can be unethical, say for example if you are scraping a site solely to mirror their content and add zero value to the original content owner.

Archiving is unethical?
So as a government official with appointment authority, should I be allowed to hire my wife to work for my agency in a role they may or may not be qualified for?

It’s pretty easy to see how this stuff goes off the rails.
Qt is a great choice for writing multi-platform desktop apps. It would take a lot longer, and add unnecessary complexity, to write the UI specifically for each platform.
Even still, posix is pretty anemic by the standards we’re talking about.
Thanks for sharing that perspective! It was helpful to get that POV. I agree that a requirement for long lived interpreters and a simpler UX to get up and running probably makes it an attractive option.

With VSCode having such excellent remote development capabilities now however, it feels like a nicer option these days but I guess only if you really care about the benefits that brings. Agreed about reimporting libraries still being a major pain point in Python, but the "advantage" for Jupiter Notebooks is also unfortunately what leads to terrible practices and bad engineering as most non-disciplined engineers end up treating it as one giant script for spaghetti code to get the job done.
And dont forget:

"Bill Gates under fire for saying vaccine formulas shouldn’t be shared with developing world"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bill-gates...
90% of my Duracells from the past decade have leaked and ruined equipment, and all well before expiration date. Ive been now telling my family and friends to avoid at all cost
fyi, I started my comment with fyi. The point being that the premise of the article is overblown.

McGaugh says the same here https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-matter-may-b....
Oh for sure!

> But I don't want things to become a witch hunt.

And i appreciate the qualification on this...I'll just try to follow it more closely than I had been before.
While this is true, and should give people pause when considering the appropriateness of such a move, I don't think this is defacto the beginnings of an evil plot to "kill the religious people part 2". Another stepping stone along the way? Maybe. A move to further isolate and ostracize those who don't comply? Maybe.

One has to ask what the purpose of keeping such a list is. When considering that, I don't see many arguments with much weight to them.
> is potentially worse for open democracy.

Why is it worse?
dark.fail for anyone looking
Indeed. From the title I imagined a setup that launched an EC2 machine and then shut it down after disconnection. That’s the only way to pay cents per month assuming you’re not connected to a VPN 24/7

Managing your own server at 5$/month does not make sense from any perspective other than “privacy” if you believe that.
They do seem to last longer, but there is a wide distribution in lifetimes. I get bad batches that last only months but some bulbs that last years or over a decade of use.
Note that this is the minimum lifetime. Semiconductor aging is a statistical process, some devices will happily last much longer, but there is a design minimum lifetime that has to be accounted for and met.

Also, the aging calculations are done under worst possible conditions, ie the computation is for 2years active life for a consumer device, at highest operating voltage, highest operating frequency and highest operating temperature. The time while it is powered down or sleeping isn't aging the device and so doesn't impact lifetime. The actual working life in your hands under regular usage will be (much) longer. There is a reason your average phone works fine for 5+ years from hardware perspective, even if the software side sometimes has shorter planned obsolescence (lack of updates, or updates that demand more from the device than that generation of chip was capable of delivering, etc)

For telecommunications, or automotive usage, and in particular for anything that might be failure critical, the testing and metrics are much more onerous, and the minimum guaranteed lifetimes higher. This partly explains why such devices, even when manufactured at advanced nodes, don't exhibit the same performance as consumer devices: some of the performance is being held in reserve to account for the natural degradation due to aging.

Source: I'm one of the people quoted in the original article.
> There was never a basis in cost, whatsoever.

Price is not based on cost.
Syncthing or the open source Maestral client for Dropbox that makes Dropbox just a synced folder again.

Both are pretty robust in my experience.

https://syncthing.net

https://maestral.app
And just like lifting weights, you will lose it when you stop doing it

While this is 100% true, I hate putting it that way because it makes weight training (and mathematics) sound like drudgery. The way I like to think about it is that if you want to stay strong, you have to push against resistance on a constant basis.

It's the same thing with math. You have to exercise that part of your brain with algebraic resistance.
> Honestly don't know what you're getting at here. You're going to have to spell this one out to me.

You said "I can almost guarantee that it's not someone with a guilty conscience believing that naming their branch differently absolves them of something they or their ancestors did." but the accusation of doing it out of "white guilt" isn't really saying they were trying to absolve themselves of something their ancestors did.

> I don't disagree. See my comment about people engaging in performative outrage, it does exist. But in this case you're annoyed at the very sight of the word "main". Like ... c'mon

Annoyance is pretty mild. If seeing it reminds me of it, what do you expect to happen? I don't think that's unreasonable.

> Are you misunderstanding that "However if you're really getting upset ..." means "However you're truly getting upset ..." and not "You're getting really upset ..."?

I understand that. By even bringing it up you're implying it's necessary to worry about people "truly getting upset" which is not saying great things about your opinion of your conversation partners. I mean look above where you said "c'mon", you're implying that it's unreasonable for me to be "annoyed".

> Additionally if you read my comment, I provide two interpretations:

And I was talking about interpretation 2 specifically.

I interpret "I have to WTF" as something akin to a double take, not "truly getting upset".

> This is a very important thing to consider when answering the question "Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?"

Shrug.
Personally, I started on Khan Academy's coding lessons. They teach Processing JS iirc. I don't think it really matters what you teach them first, but definitely have it be something that allows them to draw and move shapes. I think that's what motivates many early programmers.
Chris,

Not to second-guess you (you know far more about Julia than I) but my experience is that people who think that their code is completely uniformly typed still win massively from Julia.

It starts with "just dense matrices with Float64" and then, like the poster above, "but with some nice sparse matrix support" and then "oh and special handling for Vandermonde matrices", "oh and tridiagonals" and eventually "my matrices are hyper-<mumble>-<mumble>-symmetric and I can compute vector dot products really fast". At that point, they have been using multiple dispatch for months without knowing it.

In my own case it was "I don't need multiple dispatch" until it was "oh... it surely is nice that the H3 geo-hashes work transparently with LibGEOS even though the underlying C libraries don't work together."

The point is that Julia makes using things work together far better than anything else I have seen. It even makes completely asocial C libraries talk to each other.
Which store chain is this?

With Walmart and HEB curbside in the Austin area it's been very common for subs/out of stocks.

Going into the HEB over the last week has shown rapidly fluctuating stocks in many items. For example diet drinks of almost any kind were sparse in the store. Meat and cheese was well stocked, but bread was half stocked. Then I may go another time and the items that are missing are in stock and something new is missing. Very hit and miss.
I think the obvious pointlessness is the joke.
You live in a major metropolitan area full of warehouses and featuring a major west coast port. You weren't cut off from anything. Other states were cut off from you.
If it were the backend, I would not expect the load times to improve when loading Slack into a browser tab where its resources are constrained.

Separately, if it were strictly a Slack problem and not Electron, you wouldn't expect to see these kinds of issues crop up across the spectrum of Electron apps. Scroll through this thread and you can see a variety of people running into these problems in all kinds of different electron-based apps:

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/12988
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (2020)
A lot of the original community members were also functional programming enthusiasts and their recent shift to ReScript has been intentionally alienating them in order to make the language more palatable for newbies to gain marketshare from Typescript. I understand the motivation, but some of the changes involve opinionated omissions of features in order to steer the open source code bases away from more traditional FP paradigms.
> the Chinese CDC is literary across the road from the wet market

I would looove a source on that, please. Can't find anything with a quick search and haven't heard that before.
I've just compulsively been doing it any time I get anything from a store with a loyalty card, which is all of them now, and not once out of a dozen different local stores did I need to create the account--someone always already had :). This I think is a great way to protest against retail surveillance.
> Because the hex for green (#00ff00) needs more letters than using the named color.

But "#0f0" is fewer letters than "green"?
The drug markets have escrow systems and releasing the funds usually requires a review. This means that most sellers have tons of reviews. If a seller ever gets below 95% satisfaction they're basically done, which forces quite a bit of honesty. Since most purchases are $100+ astroturfing seems pretty uncommon. Many sits also have reviews per item, and if the price changes the reviews start from scratch, further disincentivizing astroturfing.
pivpn now supports both wireguard and openvpn, with wireguard as the default.
> If a young teacher in LA County is frustrated that their school is rewarding low performers with double their salary simply because of time

This is not a valid argument. The so-called "low performers" (good luck fairly defining that!) are not getting rewarded. They did their job and got paid exactly as expected. That's not a reward.

If a young teacher with no kids decides to work an extra 4 hours a week to do some bullshit laptop inventory project for administration...that's on them. She should get compensated as hourly, but schools just don't have budgets for these kinds of endless tasks. When it comes time for evaluations though, this young teacher will be evaluated as "high performer" and the older teacher who has 3 kids waiting at home and has to leave on time everyday will be evaluated as a "low performer".

> your suggestion is they "shouldn't have taken the job"? Despite the fact that the Union has negotiated with the entire school district, and they have no choice but to leave the county at the very least if they want something different?

I'm sorry, but no one goes into teaching without knowing what the meager pay structure is like. In my 23 years of working for a top 5 largest school district I've never heard a teacher complain about another teacher's base salary. Teachers go into teaching for the long haul.

> That's why US tech salaries are so low these days right?

This has nothing to do with salary height. It has to do with employees' ability to bargain for fair wages AND fair working conditions. Right now there are exploited workers in the tech industry (looking at you, game dev) that are in dire need of exactly the kind of help labor unions can offer.
For the same reason a new law is required for elected officials. If an elected official is currently exempt from insider trading rules, and if the rationale is that the official doesn't actually hold "inside" information, and if it's necessary to change that, then it follows that the "tipping" clause must also be updated.

This could also depend on how a new law is written. If the law is explicit that information gained as an elected official is material/non-public, then existing tipping clauses may already account for this.

However, if this is not explicitly accounted for, it becomes an easily exploited loophole.

I'm still curious though - why is this potentially a constitutional issue?
Nice to have the problem in line because I can search git history. Also no guarantees that the Jira ticket will be around as long as the code.
I don’t understand why such a political news story is on front page of HN. It doesn’t belong here.
We do observe dark matter though, just not directly through the electromagnetic spectrum. Much as the first extrasolar planets were found through deviations in stars' movement before we first imaged them.
If you're looking for a more fun and intense ride, join the startup. OTOH depending on how much cash you're saving at the FAANG, 2-3 years there and you'd be in a real cushy position to give something of your own a shot.

Just remember: you join at seed stage for the experience of building something from the ground up (and some degree of ownership over what you do). It's a long and uncertain path to if it will ever result in a payday.
Eventually they will be in every sizeable market outside the US starting with Korea. With all that 30% cut money leaving the domestic economy and multi trillion valuation, Apple has made itself too juicy a target
Microsoft did not control the entire ecosystem. They would have locked the entire ecosystem down in a heartbeat if they had full control over hardware and software. You can look at Xbox as an example, they do exactly that.
can you link to the retraction of that study?