skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Lie" is an accusation that I try pretty hard not to use. (Some people are quick to say "you lied to me" as soon as they discover a mismatch between what was said and what the reality is, I try to save that for when it's really clear that deliberate deception is going on.)

Frequently people tell untruths because they really don't know the truth or are confused. Also people who hear bits and pieces of a story might come to the conclusion that deception is going on when actually their imagination is getting the better of them. Also information changes over time. You might tell reports A and B that X is the case, then you talk to C who educates you that X is not the case and really Y is the case, then you talk to D and E and tell them that Y is the case. A and B might never get updated or get updated after some time delay in which they might compare notes with D or E and think there is a problem.

Even if you don't lie you are going to pay for the sins of other people who lie who hear stories that don't add up and think you are lying.
Procrastination: Here's how you can take back control
It’s interesting that Sucker Punch and Bungie offices were really close to each other - maybe 2 blocks? Although I read that Sucker Punch recently moved, and I don’t know the new location.

I can imagine them sharing all sorts of things between studios now that they have the same ownership. It will at least allow shared lunch time conversations to be less guarded
The them.us article [0] says:

> but we’ll be praying ... that by next year, LGBTQ+ communities around the globe will have a new reason to celebrate.

This perpetuates the myth that HIV is mainly a problem for gay people. Can we change to another article, such as [1]?

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports Moderna's HIV vaccine research [2].

[0] https://www.them.us/story/hiv-aids-vaccine-human-trials-mode...

[1] https://www.engadget.com/moderna-mrna-hiv-vaccine-trials-225...

[2] https://www.modernatx.com/ecosystem/strategic-collaborators/...
> But this isn't what they're saying. They're saying that there are few to no ways for it to not have any detectable issues for 6 months and then suddenly go wrong (which I'll note is also true for software!).

Over the years I've become a little obsessed with imagining the ways things can fail (I'm just as fun at parties as you can probably imagine).

An example that immediately jumps to mind where that is not true for software would be something that quietly uses some resource that you didn't expect (open ports, filehandles, space on disk/memory, the space inside of however many bits you have for a field, anything like that). These are things that you don't know to test until you've seen them fail, and only then can you start to automate.

One possible analogy here is cancer or autoimmune issues. If you get diagnosed with either of those today, they almost certainly started a while ago, they just weren't detectable until today. Or maybe they would have been if you knew exactly where to look, just like if you knew to keep an eye on how many ports you had left on your live server. (Not claiming these vaccines cause these things, I'm sure some peoples blood pressure started rising as they read this).

The complexity of software is nowhere near that of the human body or populations of humans, and yet it can be incredibly hard to predict. Multiple backwards compatible versions on the client and server side, running on different hardware with different operating systems, all of these things changing over time. Unexpected behaviors can absolutely show up at any time.

Of course you can't test it all, but you do what you can, and then after that you monitor very carefully, but its way more expensive to fix the problem after it reaches prod. In humans, there's a chance that its not just expensive, it's impossible.
I worked on something very similar for my company about 10 years ago. The lesson I learned is it was much more robust to have a flow of data than a flow of code. I still think it's really cool though.
Reminds me of my gripe with interviews and tests, they neglect the reality of rapid corrective and evolutionary iteration towards the desired outcome by each employee.

Do we really have no way of evaluating candidates more holistically for an accurate signal?
What you have quoted is a proof of negation, which is not the same as proof by contradiction. Your quoted part of the proof is constructive, ergo not by contradiction.

Proof by contradiction has the following form: ~A -> false |- A. But the quoted proof has the form A -> false |- ~A.
That said, people doing under-hours, and taking a second job must happen quite a bit, especially post pandemic.
This why I've had to deal with very regressive HR on-boarding processes. I'm sick of companies treating new employees like their data doesn't matter and they can be required to sign up to any service no matter what the ToS is like.
> “It is inconceivable,” said Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, at the first national radio conference in 1922, “that we should allow so great a possibility for service, for news, for entertainment, for education, and for vital commercial purposes to be drowned in advertising chatter.” Hoover’s remarks reflected the accepted wisdom of the times: that advertising on radio was unacceptable … According to a report of the first conference, all agreed that “direct advertising in radio broadcasting service [should] be absolutely prohibited.”

Tim Wu, The Master Switch (2011), chapter 5
Reasons to Build on the Internet Computer
Alas! Your question reveals how capitalist production is both for the consumers but at the same time must contradict the interests of the consumers.

I'm waiting for the day when we can solve these ills of private property with technology.
Sounds like the "fine" case is a scam as well. You're too lenient.
Foreigners should be allowed to compete on price
Hi! Thank you for the feedback - design is certainly not my forte, and this is very useful to hear.
Exactly. Just looking at the Master Chief collection shows that the games were quite alright.
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This doc page has been up for as long as I can remember: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/security-chec....
It's also stated in the production notes: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/production-no....
This makes me wonder if someone could create a service to gather our conversations, writings, emails - in the hopes of:

-help us manage our relationships

-guide us to bring us closer together as human beings

-bringing more understanding and options for resolutions

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I'm more concerned about a company being able to see what you do on your personal computer, which is what the comment seemed to allude to. I know there are many sketchy tracking mechanisms out there, but if they can extend to your personal network, that's scary
Yep. Most of the things you find with a Google search are obvious SEO trash even if you don't see the ads. The quality of the content reminds you that it's all trash.
> Halo 1-3, ODST and Reach what exactly went wrong for Bungie when they were under Microsoft?

Bungie didn't like how Microsoft managed them. Bungie wanted to do something other than Halo, but Microsoft wanted more Halo.

A Destiny reference can be seen in ODST: https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/01/09/h...
Managing Helm Releases – Flux
"PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by about 99% when taken as prescribed," according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep/prep-effectiveness.html
About 2: https://www.ksrevenue.gov/perstaxtypeshs.html

Max $700. "Your total household income must be $36,300 or less." Also,

"You were born before Jan. 1, 1965; OR
You must have been totally and permanently disabled or blind during the entire year, regardless of your age; OR
You must have had a dependent child living with you all of last year who was born before Jan. 1, 2020, and was under the age of 18 the entire year."

Lincoln county sales tax: 8.5%

Sparta, TN: 9.5%

Whoops. I may have been looking at the state tax rates vs. the total sales tax rates.

As for the first question, a hypothesis: KS is about twice the size of TN with about half the population; 14/km^2 vs 65/km^2. But for real numbers, I'm having a hard time finding comparables. And I'm having a hard time figuring out where TN's money comes from.

TN has roughly twice the budget of KS ($38.6B vs $18.4B) but spends less per capita ($5695 vs $6320) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets).

KS spends more of their budget on education; TN on Medicaid- (https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-of-st...).

In 2017, TN got 40% of its budget from the federales; KS, 25% (https://ballotpedia.org/Total_state_government_expenditures). TN gets roughly twice as much in total federal spending than KS (https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=5c7be0443698b7e8ae2...).
Small correction: PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) are both protocols for using drugs to prevent infection. You generally take PrEP drugs every day if you think you're in danger of being exposed, or alternatively take PEP if you think you have been exposed to HIV without any kind of protection, sort of like a morning after pill (but every day for a whole month).
You have it framed backwards It’s that “angry, mean, and toxic” are bad and the reason YT comments are a meme for their low quality. And then combine with the fact that “neutral” comments are boring you get “positive, funny, wholesome” as natural candidates for what should rise to the top.

It’s a no-win if you demand that comments go largely unmoderated. Because we had that and it made them genuinely useless to the point where creators turned them off and people installed add-ons to remove them.
Assuming we are talking about the four leaf clover website, I wish that people would stop painting that place like you do. Anything goes? No, there are pretty strict rules that are actively enforced. The hard part of the "hunt for fresh and original content" is because this website is mostly used by the same people all the time. If anything it's not a cesspool, it's a giant circle jerk. Wild West feeling? There's not much wild west, mostly people repeating the same talking point over and over again, or talking about their hobbies.

> It's also given me a thick skin in online discussions. I've been called every insult in the dictionary.

That's something I can't understand too. Most of my discussions there are relatively civil. Most of the time when things start getting polarized discussions get not constructive at all, but this is true of HN too. There are lots of insult thrown around but it always goes both ways and it's easy to avoid it.
No. Stupidity knows no age limit, and a fool and his money are soon parted.
That's for sure not accurate. Sorry friend. The seller both sees your down payment and it also affects which offer is chosen.

Let me give an example to explain why they see it and why it's important.
let's say that the agreed contract says that the buyer and seller agree to pay $600,000 for the house. Let's pretend that you have 10% down or $60,000 down. You need a loan for $540,000

The loan requires an appraisal to make sure that the bank (the loan) is a safe investment. The bank/loan only agrees to lend you the amount the house appraises at.

Back to the example and the appraiser comes out and says that the house is worth $500,000. In this case, again the signed offer says $600,000 with a $60,000 deposit.

The buyer either has to bring $100,000 to the table or the seller has to agree to make less money than the original offer (or some combination of the two) , but the bank will only give $500,000.

So if a buyer had a $100,000 downpayment and offered $600,000 and a second buyer offered $600,000 as well but only had $60,000, the seller would most likely choose the offer with more money down. it would be more likely to close.

Hope that helps
> You don't have to be a programmer to benefit from free software. The latter simply removes the monopoly of the software developers and allows alternative developers to work for you if you pay them.

And where is this font of developers writing replacements for abandoned free software? We've had decades of GPL software. The number of people who have actually used this lever is incredibly small.
Well, nothing surprises me anymore since Microsoft bought Rare two decades ago. Nintendo literally sold a part of its soul on this deal.

But yeah, it’s hard to dissociate Halo from Bungie and Microsoft.
I worked with John for my last 2 job searches and I must say even from the candidate side he is excellent to work with.
Good point. There's a whole bigger world of contracting that I never saw.

I should be absolutely clear that my experience has been in small contract engineering firms. All of them were less than 20 engineers total and large projects were 3 engineers at any one time.
And what can be more wholesome than praising the Supreme Leader! (Or perhaps praising Supreme™!)

Sorry about the flippant tone, but I hope we've learned that any system like this operating behind closed doors can be and will be used for manipulation and (much more direct) profit-seeking.

And even before that happens, the idea itself is full of cultural bias, and so brings in cultural discrimination and the imposition of one culture's idea of wholesome/funny on the whole world, by its very nature.
> Power seat adjustment, though, that’s a luxury even today. Use the lever.

Probably the one thing I disagree with the article on. Power seat adjustment is a heck of a lot safer in the driver seat than manual levers, and it's not even close.

If a passenger accidentally adjusts the seat too far forward or too far back while the car is in motion, fine, it's an inconvenience. If the driver does this, they become a road hazard.
The irony of this is what does a business do. It tries to find a way to efficiently serve multiple customers, keeping them happy, giving them value etc. In order to make more money than you would make by serving a single customer. Look at is as more of a scrap on the blurred business/employee lines, as much as a moral outrage or failing. Often a job is "we want you to survive but not fly, .... so that we can".
There's also tangential evidence that Pathways Into Darkness, Marathon, Halo, and Destiny all exist in the same universe.

And with this recent 30th anniversary event, it also seems like they kind of think of all of their various older IPs to be in a multiverse of some sort.

(And Pathways into Darkness was also an FPS, just like those three Marathon games. Bungie has been doing FPSes for a long time, 100% agree with you.)
Mine's on a used Fit. Lighter port has a little 2x USB port permanently plugged in. One USB to phone's charging cable, the second powers a little BT receiver (and that has a 3.5mm audio out to the front input of the basic "dumb" factory stereo).

I did have to spend 5 min setting up some little adhesive wire straps to bundle the little cables out of the way, but total cost was maybe $25-35 for the USB power adapter and Bluetooth rx. Granted, it wouldn't have been necessary if so many phones didn't ditch the dedicated audio output, but at least it wasn't an expensive workaround.
Familiar complaints in Dan Neil's WSJ review of the VW Golf R this weekend:

> After a week of fun and wild-eyed frustration with the 2022 Volkswagen Golf R ... I was ready to scold VW’s product planners. Never has so good a car been so let down by its touchscreen, software and switchgear.

> But I just don’t have the heart. It’s not like the R’s deciders wanted to put a one-eyed, lowest-bidder monstrosity smack in the middle of their flagship Golf R .... But they had a number to hit, a belt to tighten, and nobody was going home until they did.

> ... The VW system’s boot-up is interminable; operators must wait many long seconds in the morning before they can adjust simple things like fan speed and seat heaters. The touchscreen response is like an ATM from the 1990s. The thin horizontal sliders for volume and cabin temperature are not illuminated so they are hard to see at night.

wsj.com/articles/2022-vw-golf-r-sporty-stylish-not-the-best-ux-11643317829
Same could be said for adjusting wheel height. Don't do it while driving, problem solved.
I believe that’s the major gain. I’m not convinced it’s not still faster with a ballpoint pen marginally.
Building Trust with Your Team
Thanks for your questions.

Regarding: "However, this is claiming to authenticate me as an individual. But what if my writing improves? What if I have a mechanical keyboard at work but a rinky-dink iPad case soft keyboard at home?"

You will have to create separate typing signatures in order to cover both desktop and mobile apps, because mobile typing is totally different than the computer's keybord typing. Typing AI is able to identify your device and is able to learn from previous detections.

One of our advantages against the competition is that we're using a machine learning algorithm and the platform learns from previous detections. Thus it will be able to identify you even if you're using a smartphone, a tablet or a desktop computer.

Regarding the 99.9% detection accuracy score, I can confirm that in 2021, Typing AI Biometrics made over 300 000 user identity checks from over 30 000 unique users. When mentioning this score we used our yearly analytics, where 1 in 1000 identity checks was a false positive keystrokes detection.
Can we change the click-bait title? There's nothing unreasonable about one-on-ones being effective.
> off-the-shelf standardized module

This doesn't exist now for the same reasons it probably wouldn't work in the future: You can save significant amounts of money if you cut the pieces out of the "standard" that you don't actually need. Chips are cheap to make, in bulk. It's almost entirely a fixed cost/area. That's the magic. So, it's almost always cheaper to make a custom chip than to pay for some bloated standard containing large sections that will never see power, especially when chips are something like 40% of the BOM, for modern cars.
What on earth is the driver doing adjusting their seat fore and aft whilst driving?
Who's stealing it? I asked for an article through the customary channels and they served it to me. Inside that article, they offered a whole set of embedded resources for me to choose to load, and I opted out of a lot of them.

None of that remotely resembles theft.
also important to remember the 1.5 hour Marvel film almost certainly took more human hours in the input side than virtually any video game

This is simply wrong.

Marvel movies (and indeed, most studio releases) are generally produced and released within a year or two. Only the biggest blockbusters have crews in the hundreds, and it is rare for a movie to have a crew in the thousands. For example, Endgame is one of the most expensive movies ever made...and production and post-production (i.e., VFX) took less than 2 years. Dune (2021) was filmed and post-produced in under 2 years. Tenet, Nolan's most technically complex film, was actually filmed and post-produced in just over 1 year. (But contrast to Avatar 2 and 3, which have been in production for over 4 years and counting.)

On the other hand, almost every AAA game of the last decade has spent years in development with a crew of hundreds for almost the entire time. For example, Red Dead 2 was in development for 7 years. Starcraft 2 was in development for over 5 years. Destiny was in development for 4 years.

Note that the above timeline does not include pre-production work (like writing the screenplay, casting, hiring crew, raising funds) because in the movie industry pre-production work proceeds very slowly (for example: Avatar 2 was in pre-production for 7 years; Gemini Man for over 20 years), but the actual production and post-production (i.e., the actual making of the movie, editing, FX) happens at a lightning pace. In the game industry, the creative parts happen in tandem with the development of the game itself.

Also note that while movies can have large crews, the different teams aren't all working at the same time; for example, film crews and other production crews rarely interact with the VFX or other post-production crew.
Tesla's installed cost on a supercharger is $20k, that includes manufacturing, transport, installation and anything else needed at the supercharger station.

There's no reason on earth that dc charger would be $250k a piece. That is the price of a large traction transformer for an electric train that can supply 10MW of variable power on-demand.

I have a "screw-you-consumer" price on a 22KW fast charger (ccs) at $8,000. The manufacturing cost does not scale linearly nor does the economy of scale when buying thousands of them.
I do this. But 1d20 / options. Crit fail means ignore for a week otherwise divide up the space evenly and extra slots mean re-roll. Having the option to punt is useful.
IANAL but:

That entirely depends on the jurisdiction.

Legal software generally isn't portable across countries due to subtleties like this.

There are jurisdictions that do not accept any electronic signatures whereas in others an email response saying "go ahead" or even a verbal agreement on the phone (which leaves no permanent record) counts as "the parties have contracted".
> In comparison: Sony paid 20x less for Bungie. What they lack in variety of products, they make up for in, in my view, Potential. Destiny is a great franchise, with lots of fans. The team brings rock solid FPS dev & netcode experience (something Sony's first party studios are at a deficit for).

I disagree. Destiny may have once had potential, but Bungie is a studio that continually shoots itself in the foot. Just like with Halo, they threw out years of work for the first Destiny and essentially stitched together a frankenstein of the parts to ship on time. It's why the story has never made sense, even as they try to retcon various pieces to fit into a much longer narrative.

The game has also lost some of its early "looter shooter with friends" charm and become a grindfest that feels like a job at times, with content that is sunset only 2-3 years after it is sold to consumers. Destiny 2 is also extremely hostile to new players, bombarding them with dozens of vendors, currencies, and no clear sense of where to start and how to begin grokking the story. The original campaign has been sunset so if you never played before, you will be missing the equivalent of the first movie of a trilogy in terms of plot and characters.

My hope for this acquisition is that it lets them course correct the design of whatever they do next because I feel that Destiny 2 is in decline.
No detectable virus means no transmissible virus.
Did the Americans do that with Native people? Historically, some native tribes were aligned with the US government, and some were not. It would be weird to malign your allies as irredeemably savage. For example, modern day Western racists might not differentiate between Chinese and Japanese, but the US government in WWII made sure to try teach people how to differentiate between the two(using racist tropes - negatives one for Japanese and positive ones for Chinese): http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6795/
You could utter this exact statement every day since 1995.

You’re also trapped in your own eternal September, doomed to remember your own personal “early” internet as being so much better because it was all new to you despite the fact that it was someone else’s “oh my god it’s all the same now.”
Ask HN: What is the most inefficient thing you have ever seen in a company?
Without naming the company, what is the most inefficient process/tool/thing that you have ever encountered in your professional life?
Yields aren’t going to suddenly drop 75% simply because land is cheaper and less inputs are used.
I can't wait for PlayStation exclusives which will get shitty PC ports. Yes, I am looking at you FF7 Remake selling for 70 bucks.
That's awesome - I've used tqdm as a Python library before (mainly within Jupyter notebooks) but I hadn't spotted that CLI version of it.