skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That narrative is not obviously aligned with the employment history on LinkedIn. To be clear, that is also not my reading of the article. It says, "Bruner ended up going back to program management, a field she was working in prior to attending Lambda." But while her prior role might have had that label, it doesn't appear to have been particularly technical. It looks like it was more of an event planning and coordination role. Now she's in a technical program management role.

Maybe I'm misreading something, but I would be interested in a fuller understanding of the circumstances that might be offered by a reading of the complaint, should anyone happen to find it.
It requires a lot of privilege to live the kind of Covid lifestyle you describe.
Can't Elon just loan his money to some close acquaintances to buy 15% each in their name who will vote his way?
You presume that one's time is free, which for many people, especially single moms, is simply not true. Time to spare is probably the single resource that they have the least of - so paying to save some time can mean a difference between being able to pull it, or simply not having a chance at all.
> poison pill shares are new shares

There are many varieties of poison pills [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_rights_plan
I've seen some in Vancouver that are little more than an oversize planter with a scrub in it stuck in the middle of the intersection. As long as it deflects traffic to the side a bit, a slowdown is achieved and the main purpose fulfilled.
I'd never use /usr/bin/env to find a shell. Just #!/bin/sh and write portable code, end of story.

The env trick is useful when you have some programming language that is not commonly packaged. Users might have it in /usr/local/bin or some completely personal place that's in their PATH: /home/joe/bin or what have you.
It is insecurity. Some people aren't that self directing and can't navigate the quantity of information with confidence.

These people also tend to be learning for money/career, not fun. Fun-directed learning self generates its reward, so it is easier to do it with confidence.

Personally, the "promise of a job" marketing betrays the motivation of the students. Not that the motivation is bad, but it isn't how many self-directed learners get their kicks.
Musk made an unsolicited, and what seems to be a non-investment choice, purchase of almost 10% of the shares and wanted to join the board. As far as I can tell, the board made his board seat contingent on Musk not buying more than 14.9% and Musk said no, and a few days later offered to buy the company outright. Now Twitter is taking moves to prevent a hostile takeover. That sounds like a hostile takeover to me.
That describes someone I know down to a T. Bootcamp graduate, can barely code, but claims he's aced every interview and blames the graphic designers and business suits when he doesn't get an offer.
He also expects to be paid like a senior with only 2 years of experience.

He has been fired from every coding job he's had, due to difficulties working with others. In a nutshell, he's convinced that he knows more than everyone else. (For example, he once spent 3 hours arguing with a guy who builds rocket systems at JPL about which of them knows more about rockets.)

Him and others like him have soured a lot of LA tech companies on hiring boot camp graduates.
Agreed.

Much more dangerous than ignoring established subject matter experts in favor of relying on one’s finely tuned intuition developed through years of computer programming.
>"I'll give you $100 if you punch the polar bear."

Instead of me saying I don't believe anything about this story, let's have a thought experiment: how badly would you have to need $100 right here and now to punch someone hard enough to bleed, nevermind the consequences, to have it?

But yeah, I don't believe one bit of this.
This is wishful thinking. I doubt elons sale would have the effect you expect.
> The Nature critiques are less than convincing

Out of curiosity, is there anything specific about them that you think make them weaker critiques?

> either way they are doing another phase 3 trial so we will know.

As long as (potential?) weaknesses are not repeated; for example, if loss of blinding is indeed a significant issue and the second trial also suffers from the same flaw, then I think it's not unreasonable to call into question the utility of that second trial.
Healthcare is fraud these days. How many administrators are employed for every MD? How many lawyers for each researcher? How many lobbyists and marketers for each regulator? Follow the money.

It isn't hard to see that the unscrupulous find themselves seeking rent in an industry in which the "customers" are very often over a barrel.
This new law hasn't changed a bicycle's abilities, privileges, or responsibilities when other traffic is present. So if there is a situation where "the people driving the cars expect you to stop" the person on the bicycle still needs to stop. (Assuming the expectation is correct.)
This is almost the same aproach I used for Bloxp[0]. I have some common Previous Post link markups and I try to navigate from the last post in a blog, one by one, to the first. I also allow to manually indicate the HTML markup to use for crawling a given blog, in case it is not matching any of the common ones.

I uploaded the site 10 years ago (at first I did it because it was useful to me) and I have made almost no changes since then but many people still use it as a simple way to export a full blog into an ePub.

[0] http://www.bloxp.com
I find "ip a" (which sounds like IPA) to be a good enough replacement to ifconfig without argument to get an overview of the network state.
They certainly shouldn’t be singling out one specific country’s astroturfing for down ranking.
> There, as you know, there were Macedonians and Thracians and Illyrians, all most warlike nations, here Syrians and Asiatic Greeks, the most worthless peoples among mankind and born for slavery.

That’s a quote from the Roman general and consul (joint head of state) Manius Acilius Glabrio, in the early 2nd century BCE. The quote is given by the ancient Roman historian Livy - ancient historians often invented speeches for their subjects, so Manius Acilius probably never spoke those exact words, but Livy believed they were an accurate representation of his beliefs. So, rather than being a 20th century Nazi invention, violent xenophobia was the state ideology of the ancient Roman Republic.
Sure thing you can buy stuff from Tesla with Dogecoin.

https://www.tesla.com/support/dogecoin
I hear what you are saying. Hobby Lobby is an important case but to me Hobby Lobby doesn't really implicate the same policy concerns. Hobby Lobby was a closely held (read family held) private corporation. I agree that the language is dramatic, but I don't really think it the case has much to say about the duty to maximize shareholder value in widely held or public companies.

I read that quote from Hobby Lobby as saying "Sure, where you own the whole thing you can do what you want, whatever, it's not like you are hurting any other shareholders" but I would hesitate in relying on getting that type of language in other fact patterns.

Note that the plaintiff in Hobby Lobby was the secretary health - not a disgruntled shareholder.

Edit: a word
I'm not getting your point because you don't have one.

When I own a home worth 200K, and 5 years later sell it for 400K, I have 200K in profit. Do explain which "value" was created for that 200K?
One-way ticket to Rwanda for some UK asylum seekers
+1 on the Quicker Clicker. A fatter grip would be nice, but it's still hands down the best mechanical pencil I've ever used, and I've tried some fancy ones. My Kuru Toga stopped rotating and it no longer feeds lead properly. I've never had a QC break on me, I just lose them eventually due to frequent use.
Huh! I thought x86 Solaris was always free for personal use. I remember installing it on my desktop in 2003? I guess something might have changed in the past 20 years :V
This makes no sense because if the market was 100% confident in Elon’s offer, but saw a 25% chance of a poison pill you would end up at the same place. The market was in fact incorrect in the likelihood of a poison pill, not Elon’s wealth or ability to raise funds.
I installed helix a few days ago and I realised that I've been using my neovim setup with much higher input latency than I'd like. I'm not sure which plugin is responsible for the increased typing latency or if there's an easy way to find out.

I wish helix had a mode where its keybindings become the same as that of neovim for easier transition. After years of using (neo)vim, it's almost impossible for me to switch to a different set of modal keybindings. I always ended up pressing x to delete characters in helix which, in turn, ended up selecting the entire line.
Does someone have an example where the ability to “differentiate” a program gets you something interesting?

I understand perfectly what it means for a neural network, but how about more abstract things.

Im not even sure as currently presented, the implementation actually means something. What is the derivative of a function like List, or Sort or GroupBy etc? These articles all assume that somehow it just looks like derivative from calculus somehow.

Approximating everything as some non smooth real function doesn’t seem entirely morally correct. A program is more discrete or synthetic. I think it should be a bit more algebraic flavoured, like differentials over a ring.
They could (have) vaccinate(d) people more effectively.
It's a static function, so the compiler knows main is the only caller. gcc -O optimizes the whole program down to printf("%d\n", 1).
It’s still Haiku being used commercially.
Fixing the Entire SM64 Source Code
"working" ? ...as in just pushing some deaths a few months in the future while being extremely inconvenient for everything and everyone and damaging to the global economy to an extent that might be more than the price of those lives
I knew a person who would give something like this as a sysadmin / devops interview question. It was framed as "'sudo cat >/etc/foo' is giving a permission denied error! what's wrong?" Usually the interview candidate would go off on a tangent...
Cost effective use of time is also important thing. That is spending the couple hours to actually researching subject before engaging in relatively long and expensive undertaking. Maybe it is just my engineer mindset to actually first evaluate and do some basic research.
Tesla does accept Dogecoin for some items

https://shop.tesla.com/product/s3xy-mug
so use '2>&1' to redirect stderr to stdout.

new ideas are great. but this isn't a new idea. "run a command silently unless it fails" is basic; it's the sort of thing that should make one think "i should search the shell man pages" rather than "i should roll my own new utility."
However, I think it's a harder case to argue when twitter stock closed at $.18 above the price they went public at in 2013. Sounds like whatever it is they have been doing hasn't been in the interest of the average shareholder either.

The stock is toast regardless after this.
That's lovely!
> Actually no, "roads designed for cars" tend to be pretty wide.

Wider isn’t safer, so width is irrelevant. The most dangerous local roads in NYC are extremely wide.

What should worry you is that going the wrong way in a one-way isn’t obviously dangerous.

It really should be, and perhaps that’s a failure in US road rules and education. Perhaps licensing is in order for adult cyclists.
We all know the tech hiring process is broken and bad at picking performant individuals.

In the time you have available, under the conditions you have the candidates, I don't think I would be able to determine competency or even personality traits.

In a 4 week segment that I taught I would start to form opinions of students after ~6 hours of interaction with them. Sometimes arrogance was just nerves, expectations were super malleable and not necessarily deeply embedded.

Competence is almost completely separated from course completion / rate of completion. Effort applied isn't a great indicator either (although slightly better than the other two).

I would recommend if you want to find great candidates, teach a bootcamp. There's literally the top 10% going through that can just be picked off. I hired one of the 3 brightest I taught and the other two I primed for when I have hiring budget.
I was wondering what the difference between tempfile and mktemp was. At the bottom of the tempfile man page, it says:

> tempfile is deprecated; you should use mktemp(1) instead.
the fate of every successful venture, huh? getting screwed by political agenda and values TM.
"It's the poor use of land right now that I believe is the main driver of poor affordability of housing."

The assumption that everyone who wants to live in {place} should be able to do so is interesting.

It's quite likely that {place} is a good place to live because there aren't too many people who live there. If that's true, we either come up with some way to limit the number of people or we destroy {place}.

As to the "but what about the poor people who provide services?" - sorry - I don't have have any sympathy for rich people who don't pay the help enough. Said rich people can do without.
pee is not really needed these days as with bash you can:

tee -p >(command | line)

Note the -p option available now with GNU tee that doesn't exit tee if the pipe closes early
A product is not overengineered when it has many features, but when its many features make basic usage problematic, generally because the thing becomes less robust and fails too often. These features in the video look useful, but we haven't heard anything about failure rates, so we can't say if it's overengineering or not.
Example A - Outrageous But False Claim's: Pizzagate

-> "Debunked conspiracy theory that after Hillary Clinton's campaign email hack
falsely claimed emails contained coded messages that connected several
high-ranking Democratic Party officials and alleged human trafficking
child sex ring"

Minor But Still Serious and True Facts:

Anthony Weiner was elected for New York congressional terms as Democrat politician 7 times. In September 2016, claims were published that Weiner had engaged in sexting with a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina, and devices owned by Weiner were seized as part of an investigation into this incident.
The report prompted a criminal investigation and Weiner's laptop was seized.
Emails that were pertinent to the Hillary Clinton email controversy
were discovered on the laptop; The Wall Street Journal reported
that federal prosecutors were weighing whether or not to
bring child pornography charges against Weiner over the incident
On May 19, 2017, Weiner pleaded guilty to another, unrelated sexting
charge of transferring obscene material to a minor,
and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, ordered to pay a $10,000 fine,
and was required to permanently register as a sex offender.

Example B - Crazy Conspiracy Theory: Government Was Stealing Dead Bodies to do Radioactive Testing.

True: “Project Sunshine"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SUNSHINE

Example C - Conspiracy:

The Dalai Lama is a CIA agent.

Minor But Still Serious and True Facts:

...According to declassified intelligence documents, The Dalai Lama
earned $180,000 in connection with the CIA’s funding
of the Tibetan Resistance to the tune of $1.7 million per year...

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

Example D - Conspiracy: The government is using it's vast resources to track citizens.

True: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
Is this guy some masochist/performance artist like the guy who wrote a book without the letter E? Paint is perhaps the worst drawing tool in existence.
If you mean GNU parallel, it has way way more features than xargs -P, (and a few saner defaults).

See e.g. https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html

If you mean moreutils parallel, yeah I agree it's not useful.
>money doesn't actually translate on its own into valuable things - people have to actually do work to make that possible.

This is highly unintuitive. I don't understand how Windows's Explorer (the file manager) has been for many years and is still to this day vastly inferior to Dolphin, a Linux file manager made for free by five Dutch guys or whatever. I can think of many other examples.

If anything, it seems like more money results in less quality, by way of some tragic sociological paradox. :p
> Can't community colleges create an accelerated 1 semester boot-camp equivalent?

Erm, maybe because what is being learned isn't something that can be absorbed in 1 semester?

Most community colleges do have tracks for this. Generally it's four semesters for an Associate's. You probably have core courses of: Programming 101 (Java or Python, generally); Programming 102; Computer Architecture/Assembly; Data Structures; and one of either Discrete Math or Calculus I.

That is way more than 40 hours a week for 14 weeks--and that's just the barest minimum to get someone up and running.

And note that this doesn't include any "vocational" training in the current Web Frameworks, Android/iOS, basic databases, etc.
Good clarification about the move to C11 and GCC 5.

But the move is still deliberately done for the kernel codebase as a central decision. It would be different if they dropped support for older compilers because the 'foobar' crate started using a shiny new Rust feature and forced the issue.
You seem to be assuming that a rental property is subject to a mortgage. I don't know how what fraction of the US rental property is covered by mortgages, but it is definitely not 100%. For those that are not, your math is totally wrong.

I've been a landlord of a non-mortgaged property and am about to become one again (reluctantly). We charge a below market rental rate, and typically make around 4-6% (pretax) of the nominal property value a year (we typically divert 1-2% of the rent into a maintainance fund).
specifically the attack Github describes seems to go:

???
↓
Heroku/Travis OAuth token
↓
Private GitHub repo
↓
S3 token for NPM prod infra
Do you have an argument against redistribution that isn't "I disagree with what the public wants"?
A company can't pay a dividend to some shareholders but not others. This action would effectively be giving in-the-money call options to some shareholders but not others. Probably legal, but pretty dodgy.
Sounds like you and I would get along..already subscribed!
Satisfactory is a great game. Up there with Factorio.
One of the reasons I left google is precisely because they started downranking content for political reasons, just as DDG started doing.
I agree, but a response to a topical issue is not necessarily evidence of that.
"Neither env shebangs nor absolute path shebangs are generally ‘better.’ Either one may get you in trouble when used in the wrong context."

I generally agree on the wisdom of "it depends and consider context", but..

An absolute path is going to assume others have the same setup.

The downside claimed for using #!/usr/bin/env seems to be:

- that the PATH needs to be setup correctly for interactive/non-interactive shells. (Which will be true of just executing that command in a script, anyway).

- and that the program might be a different version than expected (which an absolute path doesn't solve either).

Using #!/usr/bin/env is a much better default to go with, and will be the better option almost all the time.
Going by the LinkedIn profile, she was in program management, but it wasn’t a technical role; she was managing nurse practitioners.
So far I've tried to understand the poison pill and there aren't any satisfactory responses, either on HN or elsewhere in the news.

Wikipedia of Shareholder's Rights Plan is skimp in details as well.

Everything I hear ostensibly appears to be "That should be illegal, makes zero sense". So with no good information out there, it seems like no one is an expert at this and making up bullshit.
Tracking across sites by an app is worth $13B?
Which systems don't have snapshotting?

Mac has Time Machine.
I’ll add that in my family’s home town (farming town in Perthshire) in Scotland, there are mini roundabouts that are just a spot of white paint in the middle of the intersection. It works fine.
This is an infrastructure design problem that can't be solved by simply trying to change behavior. We have to change how we design streets and roads so they are more pedestrian and cyclist friendly. See here: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-...
There must be some expectation about the rate of share issuance, I think that's what the parent comment is getting at. ESOP pools are well understood (and IIRC defined upfront). Threatening to sell massively discounted shares equivalent to existing shares without even so much as an SEC filing about it (as of a few hours ago), that's the part where it becomes questionable for me. If the new shares are marketable, then this is a defensive measure that actively destroys value for all existing shareholders.

A company cannot issue unlimited shares without concern for existing shareholders - taken to the extreme, doing so reduces the value of all holdings to zero.
I use Netlify for deployments but I put it behind a CloudFlare CDN rather than use the Netlify's CDN. I didn't do that for any specific reason than I was already using CloudFlare and seemed to make sense to use it for what they're good at. I haven't noticed any outages but don't have any high-traffic uses that would notice 15-minute outages.
horseradishjam made it personal with his post containing the quote below. I don't understand why he's complaining about that to you.

> [...] please never stop at one unless it’s occupied. Those of us who read the book [...]
Assuming bash, you can specify arguments using "set". For example:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu

# Your script here
I agree. Signage is out of control in most of the US. On the roads, but not just on the roads. It's visual noise, often redundant or stating what already is apparent, and I think it's stress-inducing. It's probably related to the litigiousness of American society. If someone got hurt, and there wasn't a sign telling him to not do the clearly dangerous or stupid thing he did, a lawsuit will be filed.
Your solutions seem hacky and off-the-cuff, when we could solve the problem by addressing it directly: if a large number of people want to live in a small area, make that area support a large number of people! High-density housing with walkable neighborhoods, and excluding cars from walkable spaces, makes all of the typical pains of city-dweller life melt away.
When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
Just as 1% is just a claim. At least my claim is not as absurdly specific.