skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Article says fired or pushed out"

So I presume HR had a chat and offered them a pile of money to resign - or if they didn't accept, indicated there would be an investigation into their behaviour.

Presuming they didn't choose option 2 and lose - when asked, nobody's going to say they left for sexual misconduct.
Flat earthers care about firsthand observation more than reason. Reason is simply defeated by relying on false facts aka “believing”. This is why that crazy rocket dude ended up dead in the Nevada Desert last year, he was literally trying to see for himself what the shape of the Earth is.

I -believe- the earth is round. But the intellectual honesty I’ve taken from The flat earthers tells me I have delegated my source of truth on that topic to others whom I am trusting to relay the truth. Maybe one day I’ll get into orbit and see for myself. With my own eyes. But that is beside the point of what I learned from them. I learned any time I outsource what I think is true to third parties, there is a risk of me believing a lie. Because people lie sometimes. And sometimes they draw conclusions based on assumptions and conjecture. My thought process is non-binary or more honestly, tri-state. I have true, false, and I have not observed that to be either true or false.
There's a third option to the inherent equal worth vs freeload. That is, that people are just not of equal inherent worth.

I'm a coder, and I do not believe for an instant that I am as valuable to the population on the whole as a nurse or a doctor. I mean even even just reading your last full sentence one might argue you feel the same.

If you were trapped on an island, would you want a DR or a coder with you?
Some houses used to be built on nice plots of land with non-shoe-box design, but I would argue that paying 1.5M for a "new" home depot material house on a postage stamp of land that will literally collapse when the particle board that supports the drywall gets wet... is not very good value for money.

It happens, youtube has the proof of it sadly!
I'm kind of curious what weather range they are talking about.

As someone from Canada, i somehow don't think this would work over here in the -40 winter.
> But something happened after the success of WoW the company grew quickly and with that came some bad people and after the merger, Bobby Kotick could exert his influence.

I don't think this was the case, and that rather WoW's success forced the company to become more professional but the sexual harassment culture was so ingrained that the company couldn't shake it off. The name thrown around the most due to the lawsuit was Alex Afrasiabi, who was hired in early 2004 to work on WoW (which released November 23, 2004). You can also take a look at WoW's credits [1] and see the mention of "sexy HR girls" or their internal tenth anniversary video [2] from 2001 that covers why they hired their first female employee.

A couple of weeks back the youtube algorithm decided to show me the youtube channel of one of the Warcraft 3 level designers who worked for Blizzard from 1998 to 2003, and in one of his videos, made 4 years ago mind you, he's pretty clear on what the culture was like there [3], with the choice quote "if I wanted to bring a sexual harassment lawsuit against Blizzard ... I could have easily done that."

The guy also said that Rob Pardo (lead designer of Starcraft, Warcraft III, and WoW, and now founder of Bonfire Studios since his ejection from Blizzard in 2014) was particularly toxic. And it seems he's not the only one with the same sentiment [4]. The other Rob from that tweet I'm guessing was Robert Bridenbecker [5], who was with the company since 1995. These were people that had to have been working closely with Morhaime due to the nature of their positions, so keeping them around for so long despite the outstanding HR complaints doesn't bode well.

Is it worth following and supporting the new gaming ventures if this is the culture those veterans fostered and had grown accustomed to?

[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/world-of-warcraft/cre...
[2] https://twitter.com/GameAnim/status/1420581827698302980
[3] https://youtu.be/kVWyf7mzVR4?t=945
[4] https://twitter.com/gamedevconnie/status/1418946551834157056
[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-22/inside-ac...
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The biggest culprits are rather more ambitious.
Both the "Learn more about the Kakoune philosophy" and git repo prominently state it's inspired by vim. Why are you thinking they're hiding it just because it's not on the landing page?
>> So if there are no golfers

Why are there no golfers? If everyone has basic needs met, shelter, basic food, healthcare, you’re telling me no one is going to make use of some time to go play some golf? Why?

>> why are the groundskeepers making so much?

Golf courses dont magic out of thin air, ubi can do a lot but it’s not magic. You’re going to have to pay someone enough that they choose to specialise then take on that career. They’re going to need capital for equipment etc etc but there’s a lot of people would like to play golf. A golf club won’t look anything like those of today though. Ubi would have such a drastic change in society given sufficient time that perhaps even the game of golf itself would change.
I don't know much about celestial mechanics, but Newtonian conservation of energy should mean that not only did we 'boop the Sun', but we also pushed the Sun a tiny, tiny, tiny bit away from where it was. I wonder if that would be measurable.
>There's no animation or forced latency. For a short motion that's predictable like `w`, you're typing the d before you actually check the result and it's just as fast as vim but in the opposite order.

Yeah, I just realised we are talking about normal mode basically...
I just ran into an issue with that recently. The Pandas library for Python doesn't consume the last line of a CSV unless it's followed by a new line. I would say I couldn't believe that it actually made inject that newline if it wasn't in the input, but Pandas has enough other oddities that it was pretty easy to believe.
> We already have a big inflation problem that is directly related to policies that rain money on those not working.

We have inflation because of sustained fiscal and monetary stimulus through a period of sharp restrictions on economic activity being sustained after most of the restrictions ended; the fiscal stimulus has already been withdrawn, and monetary stimulus is slowly unwinding.

But that really doesn't have much bearing on a tax-funded UBI, which—unlike deficit-funded airdrops—is redistribution, not general stimulus.
Parent just missed the new keyword, and generics can work based on return type as well with the above syntax. It has nothing to do with erasure, we are at compile time.
easier with fewer keystrokes/syllables/etc yet conveys same meaning
It's the opposite for us; I'm the one feeling cold, while my wife is comfortable. I started wearing a layer of thermal underwear in the cold seasons to compensate.
> It saddens me that construction quality is almost irrelevant when building a new building nowadays.

Depends on where you live; houses in the Netherlands are built to high standards when it comes to things like insulation, build quality, electrification, etc.

Are houses in the US still built with 2x4's and drywall? You'd think they would move to what we have here in the Netherlands, mostly sturdy concrete blocks, insulation layer, and a pretty brickwork or brickwork-looking facade.

I mean the amount of clips I see on the youtubes of people breaking walls make me cringe. A wall should break you, not the other way around, :D
I’ve noticed the same thing (although I’m sure to a lesser degree) after years of compulsively making puns about everything. It’s almost a self-imposed dyslexia where you start seeing words out of order in places you don’t intend. Sometimes this ‘module’ runs on completely serious statements I’m about to make and it’s very distracting. Look what they make you give… :-)
Agree with this. And I guess a more “applied” branch of science that covers this would be Computer Science in the area of Computational Complexity (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_the...)

See for example the section on Complexity classes wrt the P/NP/Pspace class problems mentioned above
Do they deserve a black mark following them around?
I can live with flippers and the cash hungry, since they mostly just do cosmetic repairs and they take some considerable financial risk.

But I absolutely despise big corporate builders who hire junkies as laborers and conmen as project managers. They will cut every corner, deliver late, charge a gigantic premium, and not answer your calls after you've taken delivery.
How old do you think I am? And how out-of-touch with the technology and the industry do you think I must be? Let me assure you, your presuppositions and biases don't make your points come across any better.

> "Children have the same use adults do."

This can't possibly be true, because kids and adults have different needs and are in different stages in life. I can't take the rest of your comment seriously when it's based on this claim.

I'm still waiting for concrete examples for uses children have for cryptocurrencies, and for some proof that this is somehow different than any other fad we've had before. I'm not denying kids will find random "currencies" (reference my previous response) to play with, but I'm absolutely discarding the idea that cryptocurrencies offer anything of meaning to children.

There's another comment under this very thread claiming that there's "code written by a 13 year old managing billions of capital in crypto". This too reads like typical FOMO propaganda. That somebody can "manage billions of capital in crypto" is an absolute meaningless claim, and it's easy to see how people that lack the knowledge and the context about the technology can be FOMO'd into spending money on this based on such grandiose vague statements.

The reality is that anybody can start their own "blockchain" and "manage trillions of capital in crypto" if they want to (why stop at billions when you can be so much richer?). Posting these claims doesn't resolve core questions such as "what do they use the cryptocurrency for", "how do they benefit from doing this", "what is the path into 'cashing-out' and extracting value from the cryptocurrency back into the traditional financial system", "how do they get other people to participate in their ecosystem", "how do they ensure their blockchain survives years into the future", "how do they protect themselves against common pitfalls that can undermine the cryptocurrency", "how do they protect themselves against fraud" etc. Ironically, those questions don't just apply to children by the way - they apply to pretty much every other use-case of crypto being touted today.
You can also use the ESA earth observation program, which provides free downloads of earth observation data every ~5 days. Look for Sentinel-2. It still won't prove that earth is round though :).
because it's easy to use for end users (non programmers)
It is interesting that you insulate under the house.

One of the more intriguing passive house designs I saw was one where the insulation went down 2-3m into the ground all around the house footprint. This trapped the natural ground heat within that area and fed it upwards into the house. It took about 18 months for the ground to warm up, but once it was there, the ground/house warmed itself with virtually no input.

This was in the UK. Colder climates may vary ofc.
I knew what 4G would bring me before it did. With 5G I really don't know, I'm not interested at all.
There was a big Thing in the neighbourhood I live in (built ~15 years ago) where this kind of two-way ventilation system did not work correctly; it did not have the right capacity on the one hand, and was too loud on the other (meaning people shut it off). But they're so well insulated that that was not an option.

My house has a one-way ventilation system, air is sucked in through vents in the windows. We keep it at the lowest setting though, again because of noise, but that seems to be all right for us.
Oh, maybe it is context specific then. No one I know in Australia is really talking about variant vaccines yet so maybe our media is being a bit quiet about it. Late March is a long time away considering we are dealing with peak COVID now.
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Last year I rented a reformed old fabric and I cannot be more happy with. The building is really well done now and it's energy efficent. I usually turn on the heat for a couple of minutes and the flat stays warn for hours. The windows are really good not only to keep the heat but also letting light in and blocking 95% of the sounds.
Rust has plenty of undefined behavior: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-unde...
I presume you’re referencing this?

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1302820468819288066?s=21
Yes, I wanted to comment that it's just taking dot products of the rows of the left matrix and the columns of the right one. That's also more easy to understand since there's just one thing going on at a time, and you don't have to move, flip and overlay matrices. This is nice to animate but almost impossible to do in your head.
Isn’t it essentially a Corporation in its original definition where they were established for a given purpose (not just “maximize shareholder value” but rather something like “build and maintain some infrastructure” or whatnot)
Not mine, I'm afraid. It ranks just above infrastructure, which I hate.
People travel in groups and talk all the time. But you can hear American tourists or exchange students (mostly Erasmus) clearly across the platform on Stockholms
metro stations.

It's not about likelyhood of talking, but how loud you speak. I feel like my inlaws (from the US) are constantly shouting.
I own a book that may be relevant: "Bypasses: A Simple Approach to Complexity" by Z. A. Melzak, (New York, Wiley, 1983) 0-471-86854-X, or maybe it's too theoretical.

A borrowable digital copy is at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bypasses00zdzi
It's a widely used proverb with versions of it found all over Europe and Asia, alluding to the idea that organisations fail due to bad leadership. One early version I've found is "a fish rots from the head, not the tail", which avoids the issue you raised, so it's likely it has become abbreviated over time as it became more widely known.
Podman all the way. I abandoned kaniko as soon as I found podman.

That also eliminates the risk of accessing the host docker.
Yes. I injected my own code in there that intercepts HTTP responses and rewrites them as needed before giving them to the rest of the app. I was able to do this in a way that's portable across versions because they use an HTTP client written in C++, which needs JNI bindings, which can't be obfuscated.
In place of slider having a button with the label of current step would be nice.
> about what a comfortable temperature is ... it seems like unless she can actually "feel the heat" as it were, she is not comfortable

You wrote it yourself... Comfort is not with the temperature (scalar quantity for C implemented roleplaying¹), it is with the "warmth", with the effect obtained in the internal environment, a quality you feel. This is why heat exchange feels ineffective compared to radiators. Sheer temperature is only partially indicative even outdoors.

Spend time in a car under the sun, in general, but even when paradoxically heated by the sun to a good internal temperature in cold winter, and see the reaction of the body.

(¹A memory cell with a scalar for "health", one for "strength", one for "agility"...)
I was wondering how well it dealt with accents, them I saw that the Vosk API page specifically mentions "English, Indian English, German, French, ..." :D I don't know the story behind "Indian English" specifically being listed as a separate language, but I'm glad to see it's supported.
Did you ever do any phracking yourself? Do fall into the warez scene?
They probably have 100 other apps and deploying this one without docker would make it a snowflake.
So electronic financial markets (whether ARCA/NYSE or Binance) have a number of ways that they can advantage certain participants at the expense of others. One of many is to make certain types of orders difficult or impossible for certain actors.

Broadly speaking lots of very conventional order types are "conditional" (limit orders are technically conditional), but various exchanges have at various times allowed the condition to effectively become "execute this order if I make money on it", which is a wealth transfer from those who can't place that order to those who can. "Displayed" or "displayed size" basically means that other market participants can see roughly "someone is offering to buy X amount at Y price, if I move quickly I can take them up on that". "Hidden" or "non-displayed" means that an order might execute in front of another but other participants can't see that before they act. "Non-displayed" isn't necessarily a bad thing either, but it creates scope for sophisticated participants to further set up advantages for themselves.

The "undocumented" part is the real killer: that's basically the idea that there's a secret API for playing with cheat codes that the exchange only makes accessible to certain actors. That's straight fucked up (and tends towards illegal as markets become more mature).

"Wash Trading" is roughly the idea that (typically) via intermediaries of one kind or another that an actor effectively trades with themselves. An actor might want to do this for several reasons, but a big one (maybe the main one) is to create the appearance of market activity where there isn't any legitimate commerce going on.

"Arbitrage" I think is technically defined as something like: "a transaction or transactions guaranteed to be profitable", but in practice the term gets applied more loosely than that. In the sense I meant: if gold is 100 quibbles in Foobarnia and 50 quibbles in Boofarnia, someone will buy a ton of gold in Boofarnia and ship it to Foobarnia and pocket the 50 quibbles, raising the price in the cheap place and lowering it in the expensive place and fairly quickly this gets you to 75 quibbles in both places (or whatever, there are transaction costs). There's an old quip: "you can shear a sheep many times, but you can skin him only once". If an arbitrageur has unique access to one or both markets, they can play the long game and just bleed profit out without actually providing the social utility of equalizing prices.

People do all this shit and more in practically every electronic market on Earth. It's quite a bit more regulated and monitored in mature markets like US equities and quite a bit more flagrant in e.g. crypto DeFi exchanges but how much net "rich connected people taking non-rich, non-connected people's money" goes on in one vs. the other is quite the controversy, as you can tell from the other comments in this thread.
At the end of the day, CL is an imperative language with some functional-ish features. Most CL compilers support tail recursion elimination but the CL standard doesn't require it. LOOP (subject of many amazing rants) is idiomatic. There were/are so many different mutation/update functions that SETF was developed to give them a unified API. It uses mutable arrays and CLOS objects with their setters and getters extensively. One idiomatic way to build a list is tail-first, consing onto the front, then NREVERSE the result, putting the elements into the right order by destructively reversing the pointers. The other way (done with LOOP ... COLLECTING) e.g. is to actually append using RPLACD (set-cdr! in Scheme, i.e. clobber the CDR of the last list item to make it point to a new one). You usually wouldn't do stuff like that in Haskell (look up Haskell DLists though, omg).

I'm not trying to bash CL by saying the above, but only note that it was standardized in the early 1980s to codify Lisp practices of the 1970s, an era in which memory and compute cycles were quite expensive. Programming style reflected that, using mutable variables and bit twiddling even though it was Lisp. It was before my time, and CL has never really excited me that much, though there are nice things about it.

I haven't used Clojure but it is much more modern about supporting functional data structures and idioms. If only it didn't have that Java influence...
> [...] than rely on a humidifier that can grow bacteria and mold inside.

That's down to maintenance and care; change the filters and clean it regularly. Like everything else in your house. You need to change and maintain filters in a heat exchanger as well.
Why don't you just do it part-time few extra years but no pay cut and you still learn about whatever interests you. PhD is mostly learning/researching by yourself anyway.
Do you read the /new submissions for particular topics?

HN is a nice tidy list of top things, is there an equivalent for ArXiv?
But I'm making 300k a year with no liability to myself at a big FAANG where seemingly everyone just sits around collecting money.

I would like to have a chance at making 10M running my own gig but the threat of being personally sued into oblivion is a big factor in why I haven't even entertained pursuing a public, for profit side project.
Yes! Any they typically make good use of passive + solar thermal management. For example automated window openings to draw heat through etc
Depends, I consider that Rust might succeed where Modula-2, Object Pascal and Ada failed, for anything else other than being a new generation of developers having a go at it.
heh

In my youth, fixing a bug on factory machinery that had broken down (downtime costing £10,000 ph) with senior management and CO standing behind me watching what I was doing....

..... I told them if they wanted to be useful, then to fuck off and make the tea because watching over my shoulder wasn't helping.

Being blunt and factual is always the way to go :-)
Until Bobby goes it's all corporate bs. The fish rots at the head.
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"Nor has she or any other set of prominent South African doctors or scientists claimed that Omicron is no worse than the common cold."

No? She said "They really don't get that sick ... they're happy ... they're all happy". The symptoms and severity match that of a mild cold or more or less any low severity seasonal bug: "muscle aches, fatigue, a scratchy throat and night sweats".

This particular doctor has been interviewed on TV news to describe Omicron and has seen quite a few patients who had it. What exactly is your definition of "prominent"?

"they found that the risks of death once hospitalised were the same for Omicron and Delta"

That's what you'd expect, right? It means that of the people who are turning up with one of the two at the front door (vs getting it in hospital), they are being admitted based on clinical need not a random coin toss. I don't quite see why you think this says anything about severity amongst the general population.

"They also caution that it's preliminary research without the ability yet to rule out other contributing factors ... they further caution that they can't predict Omicron's behaviour in a population with relatively low vaccination and low seroprevalence levels."

See, this attitude is why so many people have learned to ignore researcher's claims about infectious diseases. In March 2020 "preliminary data" was used to justify incredibly extreme measures. Now it's being used to justify keeping them. The pseudo-scientists that dominate public health have no consistent principles and nothing they say can be taken at face value.

As for the latter part, of course they can predict it. South Africa is only ~25% vaccinated which compared to western countries is indeed relatively low. As for seroprevalence, what do you think vaccines are meant to create? The only scenario in which information from actual doctors in South Africa is misleading is if vaccines make Omicron drastically worse. Is that what you're arguing?