skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably means the internal messaging system on Fidelity’s page.

FWIW, I also think Fidelity has fantastic customer service, especially in-person. It’s their differentiator and competitive advantage. Wouldn’t be surprised if OPs question was not simple at all.
> I don't really want universal healthcare but I would take it if it makes people stop talking about the obligation of employers to provide * additional services and benefits for their employees that fundamentally have nothing to do with the labor/payment relationship.

Employers don't provide additional services for altruistic reasons: having perks outside of the "labour/payment relationship" is a tool for attracting and retaining employees.

That said, basic access to healthcare should not be contingent on employment (with a specific company) because it gives companies a significant amount of power over their employees. Many companies abuse this to trap employees into unfavorable working arrangements.
There was a time when employers were happy to offer health care, pensions, and other enticements to get workers.

It's an "employers' market" now as we are competing with the poorest nations on earth — a race to the bottom.

Nice for shareholders I guess?

People turn to their tax-paid, elected government for the things that Capitalism decides not to provide.
Me and my wife have an account for IRS checks exclusively due to this, otherwise we have our own accounts.

Funny thing is she was able to open the account without input from me so I'm not sure what this policy is actually doing.
3D printing: Ears and noses to be created using human cells
Evaluation has always been the biggest challenge for teachers in the tech industry, because education is largely driven by assessment (I've been teaching IT for 23 years now).

But things are changing, and the pandemic is speeding that process. A decade ago James Paul Gee outlined where we want to go, and I think it will largely come to fruition before the end of this decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNfPdaKYOPI
The Calculus pick is completely fungible. There are at least two other popular Calc books that different people would say the exact same things about.

Euclid as the ideal place to learn logic seems debatable, although I can't think of a better resource off the top of my head.

The Xinu OS and LISP recommendations I've never seen before, so those were potentially valuable for me at least.
What if you want to write the name of an ESL speaker, who might well come from a country where names often don't only consist of ASCII characters? Or do they tell you to knock that off too?
This perfectly describes my experience as a TA in graduate school. At first I didn't understand why my advisor insisted on being so precise in assignment instructions. Then when TAing with him I saw how students could creatively misinterpret instructions, even when I could not imagine how to make them more precise. An exception for the new case would be added to the next iteration of the assignments. I only understood why we went to such lengths to prevent cheating because in my first year I watched my advisor spend two weeks of his time sitting down individually with each student and present evidence that they had cheated. Only about 10% of the students had cheated, but in a class of 1400, that's 140 students! I can't even imagine how much work that must of been on the head TA.
If you agree to the survey, do you get bumped higher in the queue? I’ve always wondered.
I've deposited checks that were not even signed and made out to another (and the person who gave me the check didn't sign it over either!) on mobile banking apps. I never sign the check for mobile or check the box on the check if there is one.
I would suggest Essense of Decision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essence_of_Decision)

Because when you're working on a larger software team, or even a small software team within a larger company, understanding how organizations actually understand the world and make decisions is invaluable.

A person can drive themself crazy expecting groups of people to behave like a monolithic rational agent.
This problem isn't a teaching problem. Evaluating someone's skills in any respect or context is basically an intractable problem. Interviewing, school, job performance, etc. etc.

If there were an organization that could "perfectly" evaluate people's skills in a fixed period of time it would quickly become the top, and eventually only company. It would use its own skills in order to remove low performers, perfectly from its own organization. It would find all of the top performers outside of the organization, perfecting arbitrating wage vs. value benefits. Profits from this would be divested back into the organization forming an infinite virtuous cycle.

Later it would supersede whatever nation it's in, conquering it by finding the best military leaders and soldiers using the same "perfect evaluation" ability. It would get the best diplomats and business leaders. Later it would turn an eye to other nations, then the world. Eventually the galaxy and the entire universe.
Well, if you can program, you could try Pharo (a Smalltalk descendant). I've recently been getting into it and have been able to create sin/cos animations [1] relatively quickly (not sure if this is what you're looking for). For math animations it seems great, because I still don't know much about the library I used (Roassal), all I know was that it showed the mathematical relationships I wanted to showcase.

The video itself shows a debugging issue that I asked the Pharo community, which is the ability to single step through your debugger and see the animation updated. As far as I understood there was a prototype out within a day for that.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z3UwTAj4A2CRo_TXk6JNG-mN9yM...
Yep. I created a “hackathon” style event at a university for students pre-pandemic. The space was free and given by the university engineering college. For one day of 3 meals and t-shirts it was like $5,000. Partly because we had to go through the university catering service. And that was for about 60 students (we planned on I think around 90?). If we needed event space and the university charged us that would have been 3x at least. And this was run with nothing but volunteers. We had lots of corporate sponsors and honestly it was great. They mentored students, they set up career fair style booths and just had fun and shared good info about their companies. Without their partnership, frankly, a lot less would have been achieved. It was a win-win for everyone.
I use clion and have Jetbrains for years, recently two years I'm 100% with vim and decided to not continue renewing Jetbrains(including clion), and yes vim works for c++ with everything I needed(coc.nvim, ale, modern c++ plugins, gdb gui frontend debuggers,etc)
I was rejected by YC and still point to them (namely, the combo of PG’s essays and HN comment wisdom) as the greatest single source of startup advice as I’ve built a company in the 9-10 figure range. Thank you YC! You have done so much for the startup community!
Same here, very exciting. Last year, Tirhal was the first Sudanese startup to receive funding from abroad and now this. Hope the momentum continues.
To further support your point, the engineers at Facebook who worked on the F14 hashmaps/hashsets saw the same issues, and created two implementations as a result:

“Folly has chosen to expose a fast C++ class without reference stability as well as a slower C++ class that allocates each entry in a separate node. The node-based version is not fully standard compliant, but it is drop-in compatible with the standard version in all the real code we’ve seen.”

https://engineering.fb.com/2019/04/25/developer-tools/f14/
How can you say that Alicante is run down? What are you smoking? Putin has a mansion in a nearby neighbourhood worth millions and goes there regularly, huge companies have large facilities in Alicante along with the best comsetic surgery clinics in the world. A very rich and developed area in Europe full of northerners, please don't talk about things you don't know or understand. It's incredible how spoiled some people can be in Europe, you have no idea buddy.
OP: Most Users probably want speed over security,

however when there is a large installed-base that have now become 'at-risk' all you can do is warn.
It's strange for a site where most compensation is non-cash to hear people extolling their virtues of cash only for compensation
Manhattan’s Chinese Street Signs Are Disappearing
I am thoroughly sick of registering and logging in for services and will avoid doing so whenever possible.
Yes. Youtube Comment Search and youtube-dl (and others) can do so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30566470
That's not really different from care outside of insurance coverage that exists today, e.g., elective plastic surgery. Universal healthcare, done even as poorly as our government likely will, will go a long way toward decoupling basic needs like this from employment. If companies want to offer "luxury" plans to cover elective health procedures they'd be free to do so, but it would no longer be as effective a wage-depressing, servitude inducing cudgel as the current system is (however unintentionally).
Having been demoted and fired, but never having been in a management/doing-the-firing position, it is nice to see the other side of this. I thought this was a relatively fair treatment to the employee being fired and also shines a light on what the title is indicating: sometimes there is some benefit to the people around.

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> There are jobs that are bad fits, but not bad employees.

>

> Scenario 3: Summarily Dismissed

> OK, that’s not entirely true.

Made me chuckle. So did

> We were not asking for him to be fired. Except we were.

It's funny how the perspective shifts to reality given some distance and time.

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I also thought he might be wrong about Bob; maybe Bob can and did or will learn good software development principles. Perhaps Mad Ned is being unnecessarily harsh. Or perhaps I'm overly optimistic. But I remember a time when I couldn't write code very well at all. Now, I can, at least when the stars align properly... and one of the nice things about code is the malleable nature of it: get it right once, and it is in source code management history forever.
I definitely watch all movies, English and foreign, with subtitles, and can't stand dubbed movies. I've found an amusing effect of well subtitled movies is that sometimes I forget that they're on, and, if I walk away and can only hear the dialogue but not see the subtitles, then I have to take a minute to process why I can no longer understand it ….
Why are people watching things they enjoy? Because they enjoy them.

Stop trying to be the arbiter of what other people enjoy. I'm sure you have some tastes in media others would find cringeworthy, but we're all better if we recognize that taste in media is highly personal and we should let people enjoy things.
That's putting the cart before the horse, people need teaching to learn how to spend, trial and error is the slowest learning strategy and should only be used when there are no alternatives
it is not in the interest of the US to normalise the use of nuclear weapons in tactical scenarios
When I was a TA, I convinced my professor to stop giving graded assignments. it was obvious on tests who had done the assignments and who hadn't.
I've often thought the same thing about becoming an adult, especially a parent, in general. There are so many choices that I harshly judged older people for making (how to allocate their time and money, where to live, what to allow or not allow the kids to do, how to behave at work, etc.) that I now find myself making as a married guy in my mid-30s with four kids. It makes me sad, but on each point I'm like, "Oh, now I get it." I fear that this pattern could continue until I become my father in my 50s and 60s. I try not to judge people so much anymore.

Anyway, I appreciate the article as someone who will soon try my hand at teaching. I will have a lot to learn.
Yup, though time to intercept is a huge part of this. Optimizing anything about the strike itself (more powerful warhead, or whatever) is rarely as useful as getting there sooner, which is usually done by using what we might already be able to get there and doing it as quickly as possible.

Adding in that practically, we have no idea how to detect and intercept/prevent an actual issue in practice right now.

All actual hits have hit. We have never successfully stopped a hit yet. We had zero warning either, or awareness it was happening until they blew up in the sky somewhere.

We already know of a number of near misses that are large, but that is generally because they are near misses and not hits, so we have time to plot orbits, think about it, they are generally recurring so we can do this a couple times, etc.

All the comet missions have taken a very long time, literally years.

We’ve never actually tried to intercept an object on a short time line like we would with a surprise object and do anything to it. So it’s all still theoretical.

Some of this is pretty basic stats - if large objects came about frequently, we’d all be dead. But because large objects don’t come about frequently, we have no real experience handling this.
same here, loading fine on fresh load (opened it on my mobile earlier)
> What dangerous defaults do you think may exist with btrfs?

The ones being discussed in the parent posts in this thread. I am not myself particularly familiar with btrfs internals, having only used it once, but I have heard of there being issues along those lines.

> There are some arguable footguns in the btrfs-tools workflows for repairing a damaged filesystem, but that's exactly the fragile situation where asking the user to RTFM before making more changes is perfectly reasonable.

My point is that in the cases where RTFM is a requirement there should not be a default behavior. Doing the dangerous thing should always require an explicit request and not be something that one can autocomplete their way to. If there is a "doing X is only safe when you also fill in Y parameter and put Z in mode W" then it either shouldn't let me do X without those other things at all or should require a "--yes-really-do-the-stupid-thing" type flag.

The thing mentioned upthread where it's possible to mount a damaged filesystem RW, but only once. If that's true, then attempting to do so through a normal command someone who knows Unixy systems might just perform without thinking should scream bloody murder to make sure the user knows what's going on, and then should require some explicit confirmation of intent to move forward with the dangerous and/or irreversable operation.
I remember that back in the day, actors re-voiced what they said on the set, but from a studio with proper recording gear, and sound engineers mixed these voices into the general soundscape.

Are modern movies shot in reporting style instead, with all the visuals and sounds recorded once and simultaneously? That would surprise me.
This is the future tech workers are helping to build.

I question my career choice more and more every day
In practice, a lot of companies lie and may not actually have functionality to delete accounts. A UK fintech claimed they closed my account, while in reality they changed the email to <username>VOID@<domain> and presumably suspended future logins, but guess what, all the data is internally still there including the foreign key relationships which by themselves are unique enough and can be used to reidentify me and/or correlate my activity across other services.
> It's an "employers' market" now as we are competing with the poorest nations on earth — a race to the bottom.

Ironically, many poorer nations have more affordable Healthcare than the United States. There's a whole "medical tourism" industry built around people from the US going to other countries for basic procedures and medication.
How to make MPAs that are as fast as SPAs
In the light of remote teaching, remote work, gamification, AI etc, we should rethink teaching as a whole

It feels there is very little experimentation in the space, mostly trying to mimic a classroom in digital
The laws in question do not mention discriminatory intent.
Two anecdotal-

I will say simple was a joy to work with, even for things that were old. I would never have closed on my house in time if not for them. Sadly- it seems that since BBVA -> PNC … everything historic for that account is gone.

Unrelated to banks:

Me: I’m calling because I got a notice that you’re cancelling my healthcare due to non payment of my premium?

Healthcare service line: yes. You had a responsibility to pay it and you didn’t so we cancelled it and we can’t change that decision for 12 months.

Me: but I have a confirmation of the payment from your digital pay system, and a bank statement that shows you have taken payments each month for the last several months.

Healthcare service line: I don’t see those on my end. You should have called to verify we received them. Maybe your credit card or checking account was stolen.

Me: but I can login to your website and it has the payment history.

Healthcare service line: hangs up.
The Greatest Thing by Far
If the man himself had written this article, it would be Hawking hawking hawking Hawking.
Reminds me of a quote I read long ago - I think it was from Sartre - that I'll try paraphrase:

"Teaching in public schools suffers from the same problems as cooking in public cafeterias - and generally produces similarly mediocre results."

I don't buy into the sentiment that public education is a mistake, or even that it's outputs are generally mediocre. I do, however, think that the insight that public education is more akin to an industrial process than an interpersonal relationship holds some water.
Sounds like they want a devops person and not a developer. I understand the line is often blurred. I think it comes down to if the role is deploying K8’s etc. or just using it. If they are administering it then I’d hope that they would be able to answer those questions.

Good teams contain a balance of skills and abilities. It’s not unreasonable to want someone stronger in some areas than others to compliment the team. A diversity of talents also helps so that people teach each other.
Good! Students should be failing out of they're unwilling to work hard
We could call it the Paperclip Maximizer.
Definitely a known Nolan issue.

I will go to my deathbed attesting that Tenet was the absolutely worst sound mixed movie of all time!
I get that, but it matters very little in a typical sentence. I bet you could understand almost everything with all vowels replaced with schwas.
Your question is meaningless, because the comment you answered to did not claimed nostalgia is fascist.

He said, youtube algorithm is giving him vaguely fascist content.Bringing up "Birth of Nation" in literally second paragraph.

And I did not said anything about glorifying past, I said the narrative lies about the past.
I really liked homework suggestions that (critically) included the answer key and walkthrough of solution!

Doing problem sets in university without this made it way less valuable because you need the immediate feedback loop to learn and waiting until office hours or recitation takes too long and you forget.

Good classes (from grade clarity perspective) were ones where it was clear what would be tested and how to prepare. Then you could leverage the optional homework to focus on areas you didn’t understand yet.

There were classes I enjoyed that did this poorly by either forcing homework grading without answer keys (feedback loop too slow, often can’t focus on what you don’t know) - or made it very hard to know what the test format would be like to prepare for.

I like learning and enjoyed my CS classes - I also kept a high gpa at a university known to be hard (was also preparing for medschool where gpa is critical in the US), but the stress around grades was miserable.

Getting good grades is a skill that’s related to learning, but also its own thing. Sometimes to optimize grades you have to do things that hurt learning (rather than focus on how a compiler works and digging into interesting details here, you must focus your attention on the specific types of puzzles that will be tested).

I get why this is done, but I still wish there was a better way to handle this. I think ISAs and job market validation of skills is an improvement (like lambda school) but those students still blame everyone else for their own failures even in that case so it’s a hard problem.
> with Gmail, where you were so aggressive about mining receipt data from Amazon that when I get a receipt from Amazon now it doesn’t actually include what I bought

Wow, he's right. The item name no longer appears on emailed receipts I receive from Amazon as of about late 2019 or early 2020. I can't think of a plausible explanation for this change other than preventing Google from pilfering your detailed purchase history. Thank you Amazon, I guess.
I understand the sentiment, but I think government monopolies are a separate form of coercive government power than taxes.

It's good to have a vocabulary!
> Now it makes sense.

Can you enlighten me? Why don’t they include that in the email receipt?
Of course intelligence has a genetic component. If it didn't, intelligence could not have evolved.

There is a theory the BRCA1/2 mutations (which cause breast and other cancers) may also positively affect intelligence.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial...
Can't be any worse than the boots of capitalism and white supremacy.
For the most part I actually had wonderful teachers during my school career. What I bitterly disagreed with was a lot of the curriculum, and I knew they didn’t have a say in that.

So my question to educators here would be: Do you ever feel like you’re forced to teach topics you know won’t benefit students?
I may not make the same problems I judge my parents for, but I will certainly make new mistakes my children will judge me for. Just trying to be better.
Graded assignments are useful to give feedback to students. And more importantly they force students to work regularly and not wait for the last minute to study.
yes so it's not just Uber

> is backed by gig work mainstays including Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart.
Brain-like neurochips good for supercomputers, not just AI, says Sandia
It's probably been 5 years now since I willingly watched a movie. I've been dragged to a few not by preference which I was bored to death by. I don't want to be a Debbie downer or come off as a snob so I try to make reasonable excuses why I won't watch a movie but the truth is I think most of them are stupid as hell as I generally look down on people who waste their time watching lots of TV and movies. There are better things to do with your life.
The disappearing statements / transaction history is especially annoying.

A few years ago I had to review transactions for tax purposes, but I couldn't because they only let me go back 12 months. Even now my bank only goes back 3 years, while Amazon still has my order history from 1999.
I was just about to comment the same.

I recently needed to make several medical appointments with a large healthcare provider. They had FOUR different online portals to "manage" my appointments and information. Navigating that was the exact same experience as the article, just without an actual person.
My wife wanted to close her US bank account:

Customer: I don't live in the US anymore, how can I close my bank account?

1 week later...

Bank: Sorry for the delay, we were unable to answer your question in time but assume that you have found the answer already and closed the ticket.

Customer: Repeats the question.

Bank: To close an account you need to come in person to one of our branches that are only in a few states in the USA.

She still has the back account.
WhatsApp emits extension to detect tampering with desktop web apps