skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You already signed the letter, so technically the company doesn't have to pay you your verbal bonus. Definitely ask about it to HR because you don't lose anything by doing so, but don't expect them to correct the mistake. In their eyes, they just got an engineer on the cheap, which benefits them immensely.

If they don't correct it, look at your compensation and decide if it's still worth working there. If not, polish up that resume! Remember, business is business. If you're not being paid fairly, you have every right to leave for something better, and don't feel bad about it.
I'd like to discuss one of the problems the author encountered on its own. Here a doctor was presented with a tool that would allow them to prescribe better treatments to her patients, but there was no incentive for her to adopt that tool.

How could we change medicine so that such tools could be adopted? Patients probably won't individually notice any difference, and they don't control what they pay. Insurance companies might be motivated to provide something like this to doctors under the theory that better results are probably cheaper in the long term. A single payer system might perhaps provide certain solutions to doctors and hospitals in various manners, but adopting novel stuff like this from small shops might become effectively impossible. What models would allow for an inventor inventing something like this?
It's not clear to me why we should care whether nuclear is "subsidized", given that all of our dominant fossil-fuel infrastructure is also massively subsidized, in addition to it doing a great job of rapidly killing the entire planet.

Similarly, I'm not sure that for decisions in 2022-2050, we should be relying on lessons learned half a century ago in the 1970s about tech which was designed and deployed even earlier than that, during the absolute infancy of nuclear power tech.
Having used the "linux equivalent" of many pieces of software, it's clear to me that the equivalents are a lot more work than the non-linux software.

To you.

Which was my point exactly. I don't have any difficulty in using my 'every day Linux apps' while you do.

As a counter example to your MS Word case, I find it so hard and annoying to install Windows software. In Linux, I open the software package manager, use the 'search' function and click on the desired software, then click on 'install' and it's done. And when there is an upgrade to that software, the package manager will automatically upgrade it on my machine.
"...you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outfit instead of regular clothes?..."

For the love of whatever-god-or-not-you-believe, don't give them ideas
Twitch data leaked before and you are correct
I live in slovenia, and the system is pretty much unchanged from the socialist times.... standardized testing + grades are used to get entry into colleges (and previously high schools). No resumes, no diversity/affirmative actions, clubs, volounteering etc... just grades+results.
For any readers who might be caught off guard, Peter McCullough has been on a notorious press circuit talking every quack medicine theory under the sun; I'm not sure if he's after infamy, money, or both, but what he is not after is public health.

He's affiliated with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physic... which is a political--not medical--organization.

He was sued by Baylor for claiming an affiliation he didn't have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._McCullough#COVID-19_m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physic...

I've been sent links to his videos by colleagues (who, aside from the covid-19 conspiracies, seem like smart people), so I looked into everything that was wrong with this guy 6 months ago.

Anyway, he's full of shit, don't take it from me, just go digging before you appeal to his authority.
I'm not sure that I'd hold up Instagram as an exemplar of good iOS apps. I've chatted with folks that worked on it.
Are you asking about the historical facts? I don't know. Not my speciality, and I don't want to say something which might be not true.

Are you asking about the younger me's understanding of this question? I can answer that. Understand the following in this light:

My understanding that their persecution was not a bolt from the blue. Politicians were agitating against them. There were speeches, there were marching demonstrations, then there were aggression against individuals. Shops burnt down etc. It wasn't like yesterday was everything A-okay, and today you are sitting in a cattle car heading to a gas chamber.

> I just question whether reading the news is a good way to do that.

I understand that. And I agree with you it is better to be skeptical about these things. But on the other hand with Ukraine I had a good 5 monthish heads-up. Maybe 2 month if i'm calculating from the "my spidersense is tingling enough that I would start walking out with nothing but the clothes I have on my back if I must" moment. So in the present day it's hard to convince me that it's not a good way to do that. One of course also needs a head solidly attached to their shoulders, and a good mind in it, but that's always needed for everything.
I think it's annoying how this is couched as, "This was going to be a Utopia!!!"

Yeah, for the people in power (ie, the US/anglosphere at large)
EU and U.S. agree to new data-sharing pact, offering some respite for Big Tech
> clever answer

Well that depends on what happens next, but ending up being thrown to the lions would take the shine of the "clever" part
[Edited to remove harsh phrasing]. Consider this: there is no upside from this comment and quite a bit of potential (although likely low probability) downside.
Yes, I read the article and was in fact aware of UTM, also noted:

> the performance penalty is significant

I was asking the genuine question as to if it would be theoretically possible to use Rosetta as part of the emulation for a VM to potentially help it to perform better?

For example could a tool be installed within a guest OS that effectively send binaries to Rosetta for translation before execution?

It just seems to me that if Apple have done such an incredible job with Rosetta wouldn’t it be brilliant if it was possible to use that within an emulated VM on Apple silicone.
The Ecash Act
> They just omitted emulating anything beyond Intel macOS user-mode, because that's relatively easy and lightweight

Is it that? I would’ve assumed it’s because the patents hadn’t expired yet.
I didn't vote, but my comment was in response to something that says "don't trust comments". If you see something off in the first paragraph, it's fair game to comment on.
You can say hello/good morning/etc. at the beginning of your message. What's annoying is when you send a greeting as a separate message. The greeting itself is not annoying, and, I agree, is polite. But distracting someone with a zero-information message and then making them wait for what you actually want to say is decidedly impolite.
Hey, welcome to the real world:) This is your job now, so try not to take it too personally and don't forget to find a balance between work and life (yes they are different).

Jokes aside, I've been working with 2k - 5k line files in both python and JS for the last 10 years or so, in different code bases for various companies. That is, code I did not write but had to understand, extend and fix.

I've only worked with maybe just 2 super clean and well written codebases, for new prodcts/projects written by short-term contractors. The code was just beautiful and I learned a few things just by reading it. Both projects never saw a public release and the companies are long gone.

The projects with the superbad, just kill me now code, are moving along, slowly but steadily.

(also, FWIW, its Customers > Product > Code)
>Being constantly coddled in some way dulls your ability to recognize when circumstances have changed, and those safeguards are no longer present.

It will be interesting to see this happen nationwide if the music were to stop(or slow down) in the US economy as some are predicting.
My Gaggle (2019)
Oh most definitely - I'm talking about the meaning of "fake news." It used to be a very specific phenomenon: sites/articles designed to spread misinformation, usually by cloning actual news outlets in order to make it more convincing. These weren't just "overly-spun" opinions or something, it was stuff like "Ilhan Omar doesn't want you to see these photos of her training at an Al Qaeda camp" featuring doctored photos or just grainy photos of some woman with a gun (actually saw that posted by a cousin) and "Obama signs bill opening 100 abortion factories." Just absolutely ridiculous, completely fabricated stuff, designed to spread like wildfire for ad dollars by capitalizing on "just reading the headlines and sharing what looks right" culture.

NPR did a great interview with a "fake news creator" back in 2016: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50...
The framing of this article strikes me as odd. The author seems to liken moves against US led hegemony as outright wall building. Yet as they note:

> Unlike the Cold War, when the U.S. and Soviet blocs were clearly delineated, the two segments of the coming world will likely remain somewhat connected.

They seem to be looking to analyze the present day through the lease of the Cold War, yet it is clear that what’s happening isn’t primarily ideological:

> As the global divergence continues, however, countries will gravitate toward one side or the other, and (as during the Cold War) not necessarily on clear ideological grounds. Communist Vietnam, fearful of rising Chinese power, is open to American overtures, while democratic Pakistan, a Cold War ally of Washington’s that is now heavily linked to China through Belt and Road investments, has effectively become a client state of Beijing.

Overall, I find the thesis here lacking. Are there tensions? Absolutely. But the fact that sovereign nations feel they shouldn’t be at the mercy of the global dollar hardly harkens to Soviet era lines on a map.
Lots of invaders on here flagging this stuff, I think.
Ask HN: Trying to find a specific math book
There was a book that I think somebody mentioned a while ago in a comment on some post somewhere here but I lost the pdf link to it when I cleared my browser history. It was by a former IOI or IMO winner about several fields of abstract math and their connections. Googling didn't help much so I'm hoping somebody knows the book.
$1m in profits eh? SEC really going after the big fish.
To clarify, “Insider Trading”, the criminal charge, requires a contract with the company or fiduciary duty with the company not to trade on nonpublic information or disclose something nonpublic + the receiver trade on it, as a prerequisite to getting charged by the insider trading police (SEC + DOJ).

Thats the reason for this line in indictment summary:

> The SEC’s complaint alleges that despite receiving a company policy that prohibited them from insider trading

There would be no case without it (but NDAs or trade secret policies or a clause present in most employment contracts would cover it)

In any case, When only receiving a tip, the obligations of the receiver is still unclear. Maybe they can trade, maybe they cant.

(As there is no actual federal law on insider trading in the US and the SEC has made it up through court cases over time.)

They use their general fraud statute, as well as prior remaining case law that slightly went in their favor, because they lose in court a lot.
> These guys are like the kids who saw the Tide Pod challenges and decided to actually eat the pods. I bet insider trading is not as fun when you're unemployed and bankrupt.

Most insider traders are never caught, everyone eating tide pods gets sick.
Definitely one of the stranger sources of economic doomporn I've seen, but at least the whole vibe seems a bit more self-aware than most.

I hope a bunch of screenshots of indices at 5-year highs with conveniently short time frames (excluding the last major economic shock only ten years ago) isn't considered "pretty deep analysis" now.

I guess when your newsletter is titled "Doomberg" and you brag about prepping to IRL friends [1] the lack of context outside of the carefully selected graphs and time periods seems less surprising.

1: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-gas-pum...
Sometimes discussions creep towards a superset of the context.
I think people have been totally brainwashed by the idea of finding success within the creator economy.

For instance, hobbies are no longer things one does because they bring joy—they're now activities that people haven't figured out how to monetize. Before you’ve purchased a pound of clay and a pottery wheel—before you’ve even made your first mug—you’re buying a domain, designing a logo, and thinking about whether to sell your ceramics on Etsy or Shopify. And maybe you'll start a Patreon to document the learning process. I think for people who have been formed by the creator economy, people who have grown up in this space, the impulse to create and SELL seems almost pathological.

Then, there are the people who are afflicted with what I'm calling curatorial neuroticism. These are people who view curation as creation—they curate and share at a frantic pace. They gather, organize, present, and archive information obsessively. There's no stopping them. They spend more time writing in their seventh iteration of their Zettelkasten than they do interacting with people. If only I could get organized, if I could only "cultivate my second brain", I will unlock my creative potential, I'll figure out how to make money on Substack with a highly curated newsletter, or something.

What I sense in the curatorial creation is not really a "product", but a need to be seen. People share what they share—all of the lists, and links, and archives—so that they are viewed as having a certain literary taste, or wanting to be seen as having read these books, watched these movies, and so on.

Anyway, a quote from: Leisure, The Basis of Culture:

"I have never bothered or asked", Goethe said to Friedrich Sort in 1830, "in what way was I useful to society as a whole; I contended myself with expressing what I recognized as good and true. That has certainly been useful in a wide circle; but that was not the aim; it was the necessary result."
I’m sorry if I offended you, but the question was about performance and event response is only one aspect of it, so I thought I’d expand on that for the benefit of anyone reading the thread.
And secret microcode / hidden instructions in every major x86 CPU, presumably for the NSA.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
you and everyone else concerned about the preying on vulnerable thing should be aware that we have literally no evidence that such a thing is happening. the absolute worst thing we know off in practice are extreme edge cases (i.e. not applying to 99% of people even within the whale demographic) of above average earners spending their money on waifu shit instead of buying themselves a car they don't need.

the more regularly occuring thing is probably that parent's don't properly set up their kids phones and then they buy a few hundred or worse thousands bucks of something they shouldn't. but again those occurances are rare and don't cause really cause any actual damage, especially since you can get refunds for this stuff if it gets expensive very easily. kids regularly do stuff a lot more expensive than that. in fact kids themselves are a lot more expensive than that as a baseline.

the supposed exploitation of things like loot boxes has literally zero evidence behind it. all you will find are a few genuinely bottom of the barrel studies (as in that australian government study from some years ago, should literally be taken as an example in a book of how not to run a study).

and the constant comparison to gambling is really tiresome, because it's obviously not the same. people play themselves out of all their belongigs regularly with actual gambling, because their goal is to make a profit with gambling and their last gamble will surely turn it around. such a thing isn't possible even in the few online gaming markets remaining where you can resell your items for real money because its a big hazzle to liquidize all your assets.
> Write longer messages that scan quickly

I like this one. I'm an emoji fan, but understand that not everyone else is.

It boils down to "spend time crafting a message that contains the correct information" or even more succinctly "respect other people's time".

There's nothing worse than a giant wall of text with all the pertinent information buried in the middle of it.
> Or set up a pre-defined share sale plan in one of these windows, covering the future, and don't touch it.

The insider trading training I did at one company specifically mentioned this is against SEC rules and is insider trading. I am unsure if that is actually true, but that is what the company expected us to operate as.
Being tempted and acting on those temptations are two different things. There is nothing damning in this comment. I appreciate the author's honesty.
I’m a physician. I really appreciate Tom’s enthusiasm, but I think that enthusiasm led him to overestimate the significance of the problem. Moreover he didn’t really understand for whom he was building this product. At first he thought it would be a consumer product. But he realized that consumers would not pay/subscribe and later learned that advertising wouldn’t work. Next he thought doctors would pay because “Doctors have money, right?” Again paying for this or any service is an expense. Its value has to justify the expense. We pay hundreds of dollars a year for UpToDate because it’s valuable. Cochrane is the gold standard for meta-analyses and they’re publishing for topics that are of clinical significance. Ultimately I doubt anyone is going to change their practice based on this product because there isn’t a compelling reason to do so.
My major observation is that Tom tried to make a healthcare startup with negligible understanding of healthcare: the players, how payments work, how physicians practice, and what patients want/need. By not understanding the environment you’re not going to be able to understand the Problem which means your Solution will probably fail. This is a mistake repeated by most of the engineer founded health startups I’ve read about.
Finally for anyone wondering I usually recommend ibuprofen 800mg every 8 hours and Tylenol 1000mg every 8 hours. This isn’t medical advice, just something you may find from a quick search.
A related but more fundamental existential question is "Can you stop of a loved one from self destructing."

And, as sad as it is, I'm afraid the answer is a solid "No." on every level of analysis.
It is poorly-written, derivative, and juvenile. The protagonist wins ownership of the Internet (and gets the girl) by playing video games well and knowing the most 80s "geek" trivia. I think the comparisons to GamemasterAnthony's birthday ("every character from every game, comic, cartoon, TV show, movie, and book reality come in with everything for a HUGE party") are rather apt... lots of the book is just the protagonist going to a virtual environment and noting that an R2D2 model has been instantiated there or whatever.

Basically, if you've read Snow Crash you'll be disappointed, and if you haven't read Snow Crash, you should just read it instead.
It's really weird to see this as the top comment.

Is there evidence physical access to the test center still a problem today (small or large)?

Is SAT worse than other criteria (such as extra-curriculum achievements) when looking at those poor suburbun middle of nowhere students? i.e. even in this example, did SAT actually made thing worse for those people when comparing against the alternative.
You can't admit other people have a valid objection so you just twist words and misrepresent others to avoid admitting your initial post was content-free and of no value. Please just stop.
Russian Cyber Actors' Techniques Targeting the Energy Sector
The answer to your question is simply linguistic shortcuts. That is, the question could have been phrased such as this:

"I am but a casual reader with an interest in this topic. I have read about Gravitational Lensing, and the pattern matching algorithm in my brain finds a loose match between that an this phenomenon. I am curious as to the particulars of this that makes it different from what I've read before, such that this requires a different explanation".

Of course, that is way to many words, an the shortcut of "Why isn't this Gravitational Lensing" is a more succinct way of asking the question. Which is a major reason why HN has as one of their guidelines "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. "
>I bet insider trading is not as fun when you're unemployed and bankrupt.

Not just unemployed, likely unemployable by any reputable company in the industry.

Also, good on you for having integrity, but honestly what you say is too much for the average person to be tempted with. Does anyone have a solution for lowering that temptation and making these scenarios less likely?
Creator economy and gig economy are not related. Creator economy refers to things like YouTubers being able to create content and reach viewers directly. It replaces the need pitch a show to a TV network or find a gallery to hang your art. The evolution in this article is the shift from ad-based revenue model to subscriber-based.
According to [1], the fraction of the USA that is evangelical has been declining: it claims white evangelicals made up 13% of the US population in 2018, while Catholics were 22%, and people with no religion were 21%.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/protestants-decline-religion...
This guys story is amazing. I really liked his closing message in the linked video.
Wow, not even enough money to retire. Their stock grants are probably worth more than whatever they made trading. Seems like a bad move.
Palantir doesn’t have a product that actually does this, contrary to whatever sales presentation you might’ve heard.

(I know someone whose gov org almost found this out the hard way after nearly flushing millions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet)
I agree that the original commenter's last paragraph was a bit unnecessary, but let's not kid ourselves either: if everyone put in a solid 2 hours a day doing good, essential work all good, essential work would be done in 6 months. Most of our time at work is spent doing things which are either pointless or downright damaging.
But not as simple and and easy to work with as terraform.
> Of course the real tragedy is that we fixate so much on college

This is what gets me. The whole concept of college, and especially selective, high profile colleges such as Harvard, MIT, etc., seems antiquated and almost entirely manufactured at this point. It's artificially crafted scarcity designed to create a market and brand. I feel the true, primary function of these institutions is to give the rich and powerful a means to identify each other and their respective pedigrees. Sure, they throw the unwashed a few bones and let them take home some degrees. But what do you actually get for your effort and money? I can't believe the competitiveness is justified by an actual difference in the quality of the experience or the person that results from it.