skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the thing is, at least based on the article, Burton- the accused groomer/pedophile/sexual assaulter- does not work for Google. If he did, I'm all for firing him right into the Sun. The article makes no allegations that any of the people employed by Google participated in or covered up the sexual assaults, just that they were members of a organization led by a sexual assaulter. I just get a little antsy about firing people who are not themselves accused of sexual assault- or even accused of direct knowledge and coverup of the assaults, because I don't see a clear and convenient way to differentiate the Fellowship of Friends from the Southern Baptist Convention from the Boy Scouts of America, (unless you want to ban all "cults" and think that can stick).

I don't know more about the FoF than what's in the article, but I've done some reading about a similar sexual assault ridden cult, NXIUM, and their the hierarchy was such that clearly some people were assaulting, and some were assaulted (and some were on both sides at different points), and I would want to be damn sure that I was firing people on the assaulting side but not the people on the assaulted side of the line, and for the people who were both... I dunno, really hard question.
Always a sign of questionable strategy when step one is fire your existing customers.
My thoughts exactly. Say what you will about cults, but they often have very clever and effective “marketing” tactics - lots that startups could learn from, as long as you don’t do anything unethical
I had no idea which EHR vendor was involved.

Edit: I didn't read far enough into the story. I see that Epic was mentioned by name.

I stand by my assertion that it's on the EHR vendor. Did those hospitals specifically enable the private health data be sent?
Plaid is almost 10 years old and I think there are probably several verbatim comments on HN since the introduction of Plaid. Unfortunately I don't think we will ever see a such a law; the landscape has changed from 10 years ago and:

1. Plaid has been pretty much been blessed by the largest player in the space (the , now blocked, acquisition from Visa).

2. The banks are glad to outsource development of banking apis to one single customer. Even CapitalOne who seemed horrified at the integration built an Oauth endpoint.

3. The queue of banking regulations is a mile long and is deeply politically controversial among those who vote.

4. Our geriatrics in congress will never see this as an
important issue.

It's just easier to not use Plaid.
Marcin Wichary: I visited three different Dutch computer museums last week
completely different purposes.
If refusing to do business with a company whose business practices you don't like is "neoliberal" then the term has officially been stripped of any meaning, significance, or usefulness.
Doge coin is a big problem for musk's employees? Does his Doge meming on Twitter harm them somehow?
But if you write your "backend" in rust, then with tauri you don't need a separate process, which may or may not be important depending on how your application works, and your tolerance for additional overhead.
The Gnome desktop environment must be uncool then, it changes its looks and the location of its buttons every six months.
Wouldn’t you say a large organization with a hierarchy has a higher chance of making a change than one cult leader?

I don’t see much similarity between this person and the Catholic church.

As to the cases you mention no one knew about their crimes because no one came forward. When someone did come forward the police pursued the perpetrator. So firing someone involved wouldn’t have had an effect because the perpetrator was already in jail.

Google has a chance to do something if it finds the reports credible.
"The typical temperatures of residential fires in the US are not high enough to vaporize CdTe" (Fthenakis and Zweibel, 2003)
whenever I need a web server in a pinch: "python3 -m http.server"
Pretty heavy stuff for a robot. I prefer robots that keep it funny.
This guy didn't do a lot of research when he picked chronic spontaneous urticaria as the target human indication. There already is an effective biologic, omalizumab, that works on the majority of patients and has no side effects (source: I have CSU/pressure urticaria). Cyclosporine is a heavy duty immunosuppressant with side effects that are worse than hives, imo, so I'm not sure what the target market would be. Personally I'd rather not take the risks of being seriously immunosuppressed, even if it meant getting hives. And, it was the drug my immunologist wanted me to try next if the biologic didn't work, so it's already being prescribed off label.
You're right.

And oddly enough, as off-topic as my comment was, there's something self reinforcing about it.

The fact that my mind leapt straight to the political shows the extent to which my thought processes have reshaped around that definition.

As far as actual progress is concerned, I fear we have lost sight of the goal posts.

That pretty little supercomputer in your pocket is a lot more impressive than the one from four years ago, now go comment on a cat.

So we progress, but to where?
iirc that just shows a toolbar with the different screenshot modes. You still need to manually select a mode, which is not as fast and intuitive as ShareX which combines most of the modes into one
Equivalents of the word ‘thingamajig’ in other languages
Im in the top 1% in my country (yep, third world), and living paycheck to paycheck. Its embarrassing with some 20years experience, but, that's how ot is at the moment.
I never hear people complaining about being mistreated by Lexus, like I do constantly for Tesla.
That’s a hypothesis explored by some authors, like here: https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/big-busin...
Would you say the same thing if they had stopped spending during the overnight shutdown of our economy and we plunged into a recession?

Governments are there to provide services. The last two years have been abnormal, this is when we expect our government to spend. When we’re back to normal and the economy is strong, you pull back.
> I want to be able to encode more of my memory and context to my notes with a minimum of fuss, and therefore want to embed images (gasp!), tables, hyperlinks, and even file or sound embeds in my documents.

I do this stuff with my notes in Emacs and it's really nice. Emacs is a graphical application and its notetaking facilities are really outstanding. It even supports syntax highlighted, executable, exportable code snippets, as well as all the basic text formatting, hyperlinks, tables of contents, tables, etc. It's a great tool for developers and sysadmins to use for notetaking.

If you know Emacs isn't for you, that's totally fine, but I wanted to throw this out there for bystanders that when someone suggests to build your notetaking workflow around a great text editor, the proposition is not at all to somehow confine oneself to an 1980s terminal.
it's all about the lesser of multiple evils. Like voting for president
> Failure to maintain liquid savings can turn an unexpected event into a catastrophic tailspin

Been there, done that, took 10 years to recover. Even with a healthy income there was at least 3-4 years that I was living paycheck to paycheck.
Its an alternative to the cost of buying a house in an area with good public schools
My car is not a Tesla, so I can go to a variety of places to get service. Sorry if you misread and thought I was referencing independent Tesla service shops.
Citus itself is AGPL, iirc, and it uses the PostgreSQL extension API and isn't a fork. Besides being carried in the contribs extension tree and possibly being a part of project internal tests, I don't really see what having it developed there would necessarily bring. Are there any other benefits/drawbacks I've missed?
Same. Used to enjoy it until it touched some topics I’m very familiar with — gosh they are as bad as any other one-sided crap out there, only more entertaining and hence more persuasive to outsiders. Like, all important facts counter to their narrative are withheld, it was painful to watch. I decided it’s just a comedy show after all, and gradually stopped watching. I’d rather shape my world view with a range of not-so-effective propagandists than a single very effective propagandist.
> A friend of the family was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given six months to live. She received treatment costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and lived almost two years. In European systems she would have been sent into hospice

I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted, this seems factual.

It’s also the part of the problem that’s never discussed - the big cancerous whale in the room. Culturally, Americans can’t accept that sometimes people are going to die, and let it happen. 2 years of chemo and carT treatments with neurological damage, organ damage, chemo brain, the list goes on, isn’t worth it for most people. But they don’t even realize that until they’re almost gone.

Taking a holistic look at the health of the patient and running costa / benefit on quality of life vs treatment are two ways that the uk controls costa really well. As far as I’m aware it’s the same with obese people. There are limits on their reimbursement amounts for certain things and they need to buy extra insurance to cover that (someone from the uk correct me if I’m wrong?)
In my humble opinion, this is a sunken cost. Diversify at the very least.
Dealers do great warranty work because the manufacturer pays so everyone onsite agrees to do expensiv repairs.
Not everybody lacks a car and kids. For those that do more power to them -they can live, work,play in elite adult playgrounds. But if you have kids you probably want a yard and a car and that probably will involve the suburbs, parking lots and strip centers.
Well yes. But the pay off for a "blockbuster" (or two) more than makes up for all the aggregated losses. Hence why the massive pharma companies still exist, operate and, generally post massive profits YoY. You can easily absorb multiple $x-hundred million losses when your blockbusters are happily pulling in $5bn a year, YoY for 5+ years (with minimal expenditure). Years ago, somebody very senior at JnJ told me how the company really wasn't a pharma company at all, it was actually a focused, strategic accounting business.

They weigh up all their current & future pipeline almost daily in terms of risk/reward monetary values. I'm not really sure I feel a great desire to shed a tear for big pharma. They always seem to do alright when their results get posted at the end of each financial year. I've wrestled with the debate as to whether human medicine development/discovery is best done in this environment for a long time. And, I still haven't decided. Competition is good/healthy, but financial drive seems to be trumping the human/healing element more than ever.

In the last decade, it feels like they've spun most of the risks out to the small biotech startups, who they'll all get into a bidding war over once a potential product shows a vague shred of promise/monetary value. I'm not discounting the fact that the hills aren't littered with the hundreds of corpses of failed "promising" new biotechs/drugs they pumped hundreds of millions into for absolutely no return at all. I'm just not convinced the whole ecosystem is the best long-term strategy for human health. I guess that's what I'm really trying to say.
I recommend Sicilia's in Providence. It's not representative of anything else in RI but it's delicious.
"...but you do not know it"

Believe me I do. This is why my backends are single file native C++ with no Docker/VM/etc. The performance on decent hardware (dedicated servers rented from OVH/Hetzner/Selfhost) is nothing short of amazing.
> During their 75,000 generations of growth, the bacteria have made huge gains in their fitness — how fast they grow relative to other bacteria — and evolved some surprising traits.
I am probably misunderstanding something, but this whole thing seems like a bad idea given the past couple years
Web, not sure where you live but it changed for me in the US last week and I assure you it’s horrible. I usually don’t care about changes in UI if they’re mildly inconvenient but this is such a step backwards that I can’t help but voice my disappointment
The dealership I go to has been around for over 55 years.

They've had the same head of their Kia service department for over a decade.

Reputation matters.
> Get rid of dealerships - and you're stuck with the manufacturer's service

That's not true at all. Independent mechanics service cars, including almost most gas stations.
GitHub is tough for new commers
I have tried to run the couple of code/projects by following steps but none of them worked. I don't know why maintaining person don't check and post the complete steps to test their code/project. Even they don't responds to the issues.
Similar to Tesla’s “come back to work or be fired” comments. They’re bound to be headed for layoffs if their recent economic news is any indication.
because licensure is also a way to guarantee quality standards, safety and provide training and representation for members of an industry. They're reputational tools.

They tend to incentivize the creation of industry bodies that see that employers are collectively represented, fairly compensated and that hucksters are kept out. When people start cutting hair in their home they're not going to run fabulous businesses, they're going to look for alternatives to accredit themselves because that signal is valuable, it's how people end up at lambda school or online rating platforms.

The 'ed-tech' sector that is emerging around unregulated professions is an example of what happens if you don't have licenses. You have a vulture-like companies that offer people pseudo-qualifications without representation or any real chance to judge the standards of their education.
The reason the binary is called "code" is because the name "Visual Studio" was applied at the last minute by marketing - this was told directly to me by one of the program managers involved in the launch.
Sweet jesus I can't wait for the blog post to drop.

Thank you for your work Citus Team.
I did not mean it in “I would not have done it this way” way. Just “I did not even consider that a way to do it” in a good/great way. It is like… you had a clear end goal in mind and all of the things you wanted led you down this really amazing/cool path and the end result is just incredibly cool to see. It is the sort of project you can only really get done sticking to a plan (first principles really?) and not letting it get watered down along the way.
It's like how the music of the 80s or whatever decade seems better when reviewing, as you can just listen to the albums which stood the test of time. And you forget about all the trash music.
The most likely place for such evidence is the sea floor off India and Pakistan, and the bottom of the Persian Gulf (which archaeologists must be careful to call the "Arabian Gulf", in e.g. YT vids of recent work on the area.)

The Harappan cities are overwhelmingly more sophisticated than would be consistent with their being the first of anything. The oldest Harappan cities were exhaustively planned before construction started, with central sewers fed from every house, all carefully graded to maintain reliable flow.

The Harappans must have had writing, but on stuff that crumbled to dust thousands of years ago.

A million square miles of what is now sea floor from Korea to Viet Nam, and south to Java, was rich river-drained bottom land until 20000 years ago, filling in until 8000 years ago. People had lived there for at least 20000 years before the sea began rising.

Also, Australia was connected to New Guinea, and again people had lived there for as long. There are still precise oral records of conflicts and resolutions as the water forced people uphill to where other people already lived.

There is a very large construction on Java, Gunung Padang, that had been thought to be a natural hill, but it has turned out was built at least 20000 years ago. (Some think a natural hill must be inside, but we really have no idea.)
> in the typical case can only provide about 300-600 calls per second to a function that does nothing

This is a provocative framing but I'm not sure it makes sense. Functions aren't resources; they don't have throughput or utilization. It would be bad if a core could only call the function 300-600 times per second, but that is why we have async programming models, lightweight threads, etc. So that the core can do other stuff during the waiting-on-IO slices of the timeline. Which, as you mention, dominate.

It would also be bad if a user had to wait on 300-600 sequential RPCs to get back a single request, but like... don't do that. Remote endpoints are not for use in tight loops. There are cases where pathological architectures lead to ridiculous fanout/amplification, but even then we are usually talking about parallel tasks.

There is overhead to doing things remotely vs. locally. But the waiting isn't the interesting part. It's serialization, deserialization, copying, tracking which tasks are waiting, etc. A lot of performance work goes on around these topics! Compact and efficient binary wire protocols, zero-copy network stacks, epoll, green threads, async function coloring schemes, etc. The upshot of this work is also, as is typical in web/enterprise backend world, not so much about the latency of individual requests (those are usually simple) but about the number of concurrent requests/users you can serve from a given hardware footprint. That is normally what we're optimizing for. It's a different set of constraints vs. few but individually expensive computations. So of course the solution space looks different too.
> In addition, many employers will pass over the employee who left their last workplace because of politics, no matter how it is framed

How and why would a potential employee know this? The market in crypto is in turmoil. Just say you didn’t feel that the company provided stability.

Four months to do whatever you want while getting paid to do that activity sounds great. Take 3 and live, then go back and find a new job in a month.
There are other regulations that cover cleanliness. Licensing does not do that. Licensing is a state sanctioned monopoly. https://www.hoover.org/research/occupational-licensing-bad-i...
Are you mixing up bear and bull markets?
I wasn't trying to insult you. High earners in the article are Americans earning >$100k a year.
MDSave?
Most revolutionaries are upper middle class. That's the disaffected elite theory of political change.
EPA: 'Forever chemicals' pose risk even at low levels
macOS is literally a certified UNIX, so I have no idea what could conceivably make it not a "*nix".
I wonder if it depends on which states you're moving between.
CUA bindings, for the initiated (like me!):

https://wiki.c2.com/?CommonUserAccess
At the risk of sounding a little heartless, someone that joins a cult is very gullible.

How can you be that gullible and still be considered top tier talent?

Calling BSA and SBC cults is pure word play on your part. No reasonable person believes these are cults.
This is oddly sad to me. It's like hearing somebody say that you don't need to read a book when you can just watch the movie adaptation. You're missing out on so much depth and growth potential by just settling for the easiest option.

Maybe I'm just a weirdo. I love reading manuals and discovering interesting nuances in the things I use every day. Or picking some new software at random and learning about it just because it's fun and interesting.
If part of the speed is that the binary is small and optimized, the latter seems like a better option.
Elon Musk makes a lot more sense to me when I think of him as a very precocious 15 year old
Canada has about 15% immigrant population. The main parties all field 13–16% ethnic candidates.

Just look at this freaking graph: in the 2011 election, *immigrants born Middle Eastern, African, East Asian, American, and European all voted for the CPC more than the Liberals.*

http://ipolitics.ca/news/immigrants-are-not-a-monolithic-vot...

Doug Ford, Conservative, won the provincial election the other week because of the ethnic vote.

The Canadian Liberals got smoked in 2008 and 2011 because immigrants voted Conservative.

The only reason Conservatives lost the immigrant vote this past few cycles is because shot their own damn feet off with their "barbaric cultural practices hotline" stupidity.

Canadian voters are, by and large, not loyal to any party.

When the Liberals cock things up too much, Liberal voters vote Conservative, even though they still identify as liberal.

And when the Conservative Party fields an absolute loser of a leader, Conservative voters vote Liberal, even though they still identify as conservative.

The "Replacement Theory" is, as I said, racist and fucking stupid.
No, there really isn't. And the banks themselves say so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/business/payments-fraud-z...

> Zelle’s immediacy has also made it a favorite of fraudsters. Other types of bank transfers or transactions involving payment cards typically take at least a day to clear. But once crooks scare or trick victims into handing over money via Zelle, they can siphon away thousands of dollars in seconds. There’s no way for customers — and in many cases, the banks themselves — to retrieve the money.

> The banks are aware of the widespread fraud on Zelle. When Mr. Faunce called Wells Fargo to report the crime, the customer service representative told him, “A lot of people are getting scammed on Zelle this way.”

Even Zelle says so:

> Zelle® does not offer a protection program for any authorized payments made with Zelle® - for example, if you make a purchase using Zelle®, but you do not receive the item or the item is not as described or as you expected.

Source: https://www.zellepay.com/faq/im-unsure-about-using-zelle-pay...
Why is that surprising? Over the same period they've also demonstrated better fuel economy and performance than manual transmissions, so it makes sense that they're more popular now.
What matters oftentimes, is that other finance flows are affected. So, the loss of the notional value has a knock-on effect. Down the bottom of the stack somebody loses a job. Somebody has a payrise denied. Somebody has a higher insurance cost or a rise in mortgage cost, because <reasons> which ultimately relate to the "tail wagging the dog" element of imputed value, and knock-on effects.

Does the wealth "go anywhere" -No.. But the lack of the wealth does cause things to happen, and some of them actually make money move between people to compensate for the loss of the wealth.

When the wealth is created from two credit unions double trading CFDs between themselves to make value appear, and then the music stops and the last guy standing with no chair has the problem, its pretty bad. People get hurt.
I desperately want to use a credit union for all of the presumptions you're making, however:

- I've moved to 12 in 15 years across 3 countries and 8 states. Credit unions are terrible for this.

- The non-profit credit union I used for my car loan was quite possibly the worst and most painful technology interfacing experience I've ever encountered.

- There are all sorts of out of state and international benefits by using a national provider - for example, I regularly send international wires for an international STR property I own.

- You simply can't beat big banks for their CC rewards.

FYI - I've used BoA, WF and Chase blows them all out of the water.

So, no, it's totally not insane.
Mmm... if we're an early-stage startup, is that a small business?

And if the answer is no, then does that mean if we're not growing fast enough / raising money fast enough, you will kick us out?

Please clarify.
> Of course, we could choose to promote the ideocracy cycle, but we couldn't walk away from trying at least once

That was an unnecessary dig.