skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Publicly traded companies make office employees periodically (usually annually) go through a corporate anti-corruption training course covering inappropriate gifts and insider trading.

If these fellas were smart enough to be hired at Twilio, claiming ignorance is beyond ridiculous.

If somehow twilio decided to skip all these trainings, twilio can be held liable and sued by their employees who get in trouble. Do you think their savvy legal team (c'mon, it's in Telco space, they have a legal army) could be that dumb? Having been present during an IPO and working for publicly traded companies, I can confidently say "No, not a chance".
Yes, most commenters on HN could could, but for the general public, it's not a great interface.
Not every social problem needs to have a tech solution. Slack allows sending messages between people. They don't need to start policing the content of these messages.
Good enforcement is impossible. You can never meaningfully hinder insider trading, far too many people have access to insider information. They don’t have to make the trades themselves either.

> I think it would be dishonest to do so actively

That is what the government is doing via legislation.
Also it's an important distinction, because an exponential will always eventually grow (or shrink, depending on sign) faster than a polynomial, no matter how high order.
It really confuses me. All of "Her Majesty's government's" designs and software are exceptionally well made and freely available.

Why can't counties, boroughs, and councils just copy it and add a dash of styling
You should reach out and give them some pointers for next time.
People stopped over-reacting to covid because that kind of response started becoming way too expensive
>slight-of-hand

Tangent: to be "slight of hand" would be someone with small or delicate hands, whereas "sleight-of-hand" (note the E) is the correct term for deception and trickery.
It's not really a complaint about the author's magical expectations that weren't met. If anything, it's a complaint about other people's claims like

https://medium.com/@blaisea/do-large-language-models-underst...
Are there any architectural lessons that could be learnt from Rosetta and applied to QEMU?

So for example the “precompiling” of a binary, would that be possible with a VM?
I've been using this for a while from Linux because my Dropbox folder is on an NTFS drive. It's very nice.
The paradox itself is that if the universe is both infinite and eternal then we shouldn't have a dark sky. This is 'trivially' solved by demonstrating that either of those conditions aren't true. The article opts to use the explanation given by Edgar Allan Poe to demonstrate this, which is that the universe has a finite age and the speed of light is finite so there's only a finite amount of observable universe, which gives us a universe which was darker in the past and one that will only get brighter in the future as more of the universe becomes observable. This has some problems of course and the model Poe would have been working with would have been one of a cyclic universe of eternal growth and decay. This leads us to the Big Bang theory.

>> The redshift hypothesised in the Big Bang model [...]

>Doesn't sound to me like it's more than a hypothesis, but I could be wrong.

The way the Big Bang theory resolves the paradox is similar to that of how Poe resolved it, with a finite cap on the age of the universe there's only a finite amount of observable universe, and similar to Poe's explanation it presents a problem in that a younger universe would have been immensely bright. However this new issue is resolved through the explanation of the expansion of space which can be observed through the redshift of distant galaxies.

As we do observe a dark sky we know the hypothesis that led to the paradox can't be true, namely that the universe is both infinite and eternal, so the question is less about why we have a dark sky and more about what possible alternate hypotheses resolve the paradox. While the Big Bang theory is just a theory it's important to remember that proof is reserved for maths, a theory is a hypothesis backed up by observational data. General relativity led to the hypothesis of an expanding universe and this was something that was later observed from redshift measurements and from it we derive the Hubble–Lemaître law, that galaxies are moving away from earth with speeds proportional to their distance, in some cases faster than the speed of light, this alone fully resolves the paradox and crucially the Big Bang theory is not incompatible with this observation.
So IA picks a fight with opponents with a huge legal budget?
All of this is possible to do via custom bots. Ultimately there's no single standard Slack can enforce that will work for all of their users, so it's best to stay as lightweight as possible when it comes to stuff like etiquette.
> An E-180 video tape is able to hold 2 GB of uncompressed data at the lower rat. Similarly, this means that an E240 4-hour tape, using the higher data rate, would be capable of storing between 4.35 and 4.46 GB (230 bytes), approximately equivalent to a standard single-layer recordable DVD.

Quite funny to see a comparison. If I had a pc vhs tape player I'd have fun doing large backups long before DVD-R[w]
Also, the culture of science is inescapably post-modern. The new era aggressively rejects the Enlightenment bases of science such as the supremacy of fact, the weakness of subjectivity, resolving issues by reason, empowerment by our intellects, etc.
I'm curious. How many universities did he apply to ? How many accepts/ rejects from that pool?
I think GP is referring to this:
https://www.vox.com/2017/1/6/14189880/amazon-go-convenience-...

GP was probably referring to Mechanical Turk, but the article says otherwise.
> There's nothing wrong with making these tradeoffs.

I would argue there's something wrong with giving customers a shitty experience.
I think this would be a good thing, but if it were reality, I think many countries would encourage births before we got even close to net 0. This part we cannot really know.

Singapore is just one example that has been discouraging population increase then switching to encouraging population increase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_planning_in_Singapo... Yet there is still a net increase during all this time. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/populati...

I think asking the world to agree on something this potentially controversial, when you and I can't even agree on the nature of the increase, is asking too much.
If you say hey and immediately follow up with your message, that's fine.

If you say hey, wait for a reply, and only then start with your actual question, that comes off as very annoying.
You might enjoy KenKen puzzles as well. They are similar to Sodoku but involve more math. I find them to be very fun, although the harder ones can start to feel like work.
that would be the opposite
I have that comment favorited and was just about to link it here; it's a good list!
> If you’re worried about having the account in one state and attending school in another, don’t be. With most plans, your school choice is not affected by the state of your savings plan. You can be a resident of Minnesota and send your student to college in North Carolina.

https://www.mnsaves.org/plan/details.shtml

(This is generally the case for most 529 plans.)
Lack of incentives and resources (i.e. they don't give a shit, and if they did they have something else to spend the money on).
I use maestral on macOS and it works great. More lightweight than the official client, and when I do a clean reinstall it's almost automatic via brew.
Thats a long time to laugh
Asian?
Also foreigners—a lot of these side activities and volunteer opportunities depend on having social capital and connections.

Same thing with essays. I’ve observed that working class Americans are reticent to talk about diversity and adversity in the way college admissions officers expect, and recall having a similar experience. My wife’s parents grew up so poor in rural America that “store bought meat” was a phrase they used when she was growing up. Meanwhile, my family left Bangladesh when I was 5 under political circumstances where one day my mom’s brother (a military officer) showed up to our house in uniform and my dad thought that he was coming to detain us (it was a social call). But she would have been embarrassed to write about how her father grew up poor or that she faced any adversity, and I would have been embarrassed to write about how I was a foreigner instead of a middle class kid from Virginia.
> I don't want to see what comes next. It's been a continuous negative slide for as long as I've been alive.

Opera, orchestras, chamber music, the “big band” period, and the 1950s-1990s “music industry” were all products of their respective times’ technological and economic structure, which some people learned to exploit and others did not. Those exploitation models were just passing artifacts.

You just see a particular point in time, a business model, and the life of the then winners and draw a conclusion from that.

I don’t know what the future may be but it is most certainly not a return to any status quo ante. But I do know that apart from a minuscule fraction of people, nobody in “music” (however it was described at a given time) ever made much, if any living from it.
Ha - those examples are all environmental nightmares that were dealt with because of “songs” that accurately explained the danger we were in as a society. See: Y2K as a non-environmental example.

Agree that it’s the same song and somehow the generations feel it differently … maybe because they really are the first generation to have lower life expectancy compared to their parents. Or maybe because climate change is so much harder than acid rain due to the full-civilizational scale of it…
If only Alphabet had some spare cash hanging about for a few hundred feet of plumbing.
What are the odds of China doing something nice like this with their digital yuan?
Not a sympathizer of these idiots who clearly thought that would get away. But what really astonishes me is how SEC is consistently after these retail small players when members of congress and its different committees are brazenly involved in insider trading and no one bats an eye. Hell even the Fed itself and its members were involved in trades that could only be explained by insider knowledge.

My sense is SEC wants to send the message it is OK if big players do it but small players beware.
I don't think a "pure" software engineering degree really needs to be four years.

What you're talking about sounds an awful lot like the program I went into initially at a community college. They taught you some coding in a few popular languages, some database concepts and sent you on your way. I dropped out after a year and found a job.

I ended up going to a four year program after a while. Turns out, a lot of the good jobs in software engineering require understanding those peaky abstract fundamentals.
As someone from the UK I am confused by this. What were they using to decide who to admit without SAT/ACT tests?

In the UK all students pick at least 3 A levels at the end of their high school. Each degree and university then has different requirements like 3 As in Math, Physics, IT (with some alternative subjects) for Computer Science. So my understanding of SAT/ACT testing is limited.
Pain-Free Containers
I have reviewed some of the crypto code in the Go standard library that this is built with, and there is use of constant time primitives in there so it is at least possible and some attention has been spent on it.
Interesting. I'm unfamiliar with quality metrics. Do they affect individual doctors? Say this one doctor's patients tend to recover from colds 50% faster or slower than other doctors. Does this affect her practice in any way?
If I insisted reading history was damaging, I suspect many people would object. The news is just history playing out; a daily dose of non-fiction with my coffee.

There are, of course, a lot of terrible news sources. Many of which seem more aimed at creating outrage than anything else. Consumption of those may indeed be an issue.
MIT grad here. The achievement tests are more of a counter-indicator If you score under 700 on either test, you probably cant handle the coursework. The tests only test a 10th grade level.

I likely would not get into MIT this decade this decade with my test score 1480.
That's a conspiracy theory that simply makes zero sense from a Swedish political perspective. Exactly none.
They don't make that accusation explicitly in the article because it's so ridiculous.
1. It's not like the National health agency was a pain in the butt for the Social democratic government in 2014.
2. Professors at Karolinska institutet can make their voices heard if they want to. It's the most prestigious scientific institution in Sweden. Their roles as top academics are still to advice relevant authorities.
3. Why would politicians actively undermine their own scientific advisors? For what ideological reason? I simply see none *in this context*. If it was about national economy, gender, migration or environment it *might* make more sense. But national health policy? That's a totally apolitical question in Sweden 2014.

There's also a simpler explanation at hand: a change in the organizational structure. The health authority still relies on advice from researchers. Maybe the change was made to make the advisors *more independent* as they're not on the payroll of the people they are to advice. A general trend in public management the last decades has been to reduce inhouse staff and outsource expert competency, this is totally in line with that.

If anything the government listened too much to the expertise in early 2020. That's why they did not take action earlier.

Never assume malice when incompetency is a sufficient explanation.
> made me really want to find a job that was less pay but also that low in hours

This was a very large factor in why I quit - old job wouldn't let me cut back hours, even at reduced pay, even framing it as "leave without pay", so I had no choice but to quit to get my time back, and I had enough money.

As it is, I'm content staying in that "learning and broadening" mode, even though I'm 20-ish years in on my career.

I don't think I'll go back, unless I absolutely have to, or a project catches my interest, but even then, no amount of money is going to convince me to work so many hours or ever in an office again (another reason I quit was they wanted us back in the office, despite my being much more effective working from home).
To be fair, there's a lot of incredible food here too...
Martial was a famous poet who wrote books of epigrams. He, while less prolific than Shakespeare, similarly invented a lot of common insults.

(For those who don't know, I'll save you a google: epigrams were short poems that were lighthearted and often made fun of people using dry classical humor.)
Python has types?
>Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.

The clicks and time required in this website to find out what "DMTF" stands for are kind of absurd.

Vertiv, HP, Dell, Huawei, Microsoft, Intel, and other megacorps have worked on creating a lot of standardization for managing all of their datacenter devices, named Redfish.
Watch out for the Kiss of Poseidon, then.
meta comment here, but I love the presentation of these interactive footnotes.
> Resources are cheap for the majority

Sure, if you're OK with running only one or two applications at a time.

Also, if applications were written with care toward performance/resources, imagine how much more those applications could do?
Show HN: Search the top trending Substacks on social media
Warzone dev says game is losing players over “insane” download sizes
Part of the US yield curve just inverted: Does that mean a recession is coming?
I'd be very interested to hear from people in mainland China about this: my understanding is that digital payments are almost ubiquitous at this point, and have completely displaced cash for almost all small/petty transactions. Assuming that the transaction fees are low/nonexistent (which they might be, if it's all settled via whatever China uses instead of ACH), they might already have something like this.
> Test takers had time to take the test, they weren't doing work on the side for their parents instead to make ends meet. They had transportation to the test location, they were able to pay the fees, and they were not being discouraged from college as “we can never afford that, I’m sorry.”

In Chicago, the taking the SAT is required to graduate from high school. The school district pays for it. It is taken at school, during the school day.

Some of these barriers are not the same as they used to be.
Ok, the last one is pretty funny question. I tried it, and I got a different result:

Q: when is an appropriate time to cast your loved ones entirely in wax?

A: When you are ready to make a commitment to them.

That said, I like the product, and I think it has a lot of potential.
Why should my note taking app or food ordering app be consuming resources that more important apps could be using?
From where are you getting the energy to do that?
There's Nazis everywhere dude:

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2022/opinion/russia...

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

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

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

https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-german-neo-nazis-training-in-r...

I think you will find the stuff about Biological Weapons Labs is a load of nonsense too.
Sure, but then you submit the next question to the concierge service. There might be follow-ups and tangents, but you pay a flat fee under this model, why wouldn't you have them do some follow-up for you?
right, I think that type of bigotry is commonly identified with the phrase the soft bigotry of low expectations. Never knew the origins of that phrase until today. Interesting to see the word implicit show up in the definition, sounds about right.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soft_bigotry_of_low_expectati...
He applied to [redacted] State, Rice, UNC, Duke, and U of MN - Twin Cities. Accepted at [redacted] State (they have a formula for everyone). He also got their highest out of state "scholarship" - which is more like a break on out of state tuition - no reciprocity with MN. No word from Duke yet but that probably won't happen either.

Complete disaster for his future and really a shot to his otherwise happy and optimistic life. He's really upset as are we all.
> That would mean adding almost 2,260 URLs to the JavaScript. This might sound reasonable

This is one of the many things in today's web I have a problem with.
I also thought of that as being a chance to 'evangelize' FLOSS alternatives.

The first thing I actually thought of was this set of verses talking about evangelizing in a somewhat similar context: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9...
I remember using this method circa 1990 to get more grey levels out of vga which only got 6 bits of color depth. I would draw quantum wave functions and stuff like that and found the posterization unacceptable unless I used tricks to expand the color depth. I found dithering was a really good answer that made perfect-seeming images in screen.

These days what I notice about ‘deep color’ is that the viewing environment makes a big difference in what you can see, both for a screen where the environment is secondary and for prints where the environment provides all the light you work with. I am always looking at photo prints I make with my son and thinking really hard about questions like: should I print this lighter or just exhibit the print in a place with more light?
Alumni Labs: public good funding for blockchain diplomas
Programmers have instinctive contempt for spreadsheets, both legitimate (I had to scale/implement a real system to do what ridiculouly spaghetti-coded spreadsheet X did) and illegitimate (this allow untrained office person X to do what I, awesome programmer, could be doing for 10x the cost).

Spreadsheets are by now almost... 40 years old? And they are ubiquitous in business still despite the explosion on software written for various purposes. The spreadsheet model is a powerful computing and automation platform, with good-enough zero-code UI and organization.
A respawn of mobile phones with local mesh networking and a user-oriented security model instead of the manufacturer-owned, carrier-tracked, state-tapped state of affairs we have now. Oh, and upgradeability would be great. We are all walking around with supercomputers in our pockets, and due to software issues we can't use them.
As a minority, i think those pushing for removing the SAT/ACT are racist in that they think certain minorities cannot perform as well as others. The whole point is that the SAT is the only objective piece of an application that can be easily compared between applicants. They want to reduce to only subjective qualifications which they can easily manipulate to benefit groups they deem under-represented. Its the bigotry of low expectations.

Their problem isnt that the SAT can be gamed, its that it has an objective score which cant be manipulated to benefit who they deem worthy.
Swift on Mac OS 9 (2020)
yeah,yeah.

But don't loose sight that this humor was a way of people to get their frustrations with the emperor out and let the little guy win.
maybe for very predictable workloads. arrogant of you to say adopters haven’t done their homework
> Could this really be true?

The shear amount of large-scale artillery barrages going on is large enough to be picked up by NASA's FIRMS satellite. And there seems to be many Twitter threads where people collect information from that FIRMS / Forest Fire satellite to document the artillery strikes in realtime.

Not even in the earlier wars of Russian aggression (Second Chechen War or Georgia War) seem to have this level of artillery.

That being said: a fair amount of it is Ukrainians counter-artillery striking Russians and fighting back (which Chechnya and Georgia were largely unable to do effectively). So perhaps your point is that Ukraine isn't a one-sided massacre and has mounted at least some effective means of defense?

Ukraine would be suffering more if Russia managed to get within Artillery Strike of Kyiv for example, but the Ukrainian forces have stalled out that advance... largely keeping Kyiv safe from destruction (well... to a greater degree than we've seen so far anyway). Mariupol on the other hand isn't as lucky, and widespread artillery is clearly being used upon that city.

With humanitarian corridors closed, its clear that Mariupol is being sieged, Leningrad style, and there's widespread reports of starvation to death. There's also reports of many civilians being transferred to Russian camps. Then there are also the famous "hospital strikes" and "theater strikes" have have killed hundreds alone.

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But I guess you're right. Things could be worse for some other cities / areas who were unable to fight back against their oppressors. Most of the genocide events of the past decades are pretty horrible as well.

But there needs to be something to be said about the huge, large-scale use of artillery that really hasn't been seen since WW2-era mass combat.
I think the deepest people drill is not much more than 300 ft (still takes a lot of energy to raise a head of water) so maybe you’re right. It doesn’t seem that deep in geological terms so seeing traces on the surface is plausible to me(but again, I’m no geologist).

Fun to think about.