skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OKRs are the tombstones at the startup graveyard. "There is only one goal"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)

Google can afford to have every employee make up 20 bogus goals just because everybody has to have 20 bogus goals. In fact, it's a great way to make it even more certain that narcissists survive stack ranking. Everywhere else the good employees leave when they hear O and K, they don't even wait for the R.
I bought it even I know it is. 10$ isn't expensive for that size of a game.

Would you call it a steal if the man maintaining it basically work full time on it and live on it? I think play it for free feels more like a steal instead.

(And technically, this is one man project that accepts contribution, most work are done by himself, includes game mechanism and maps)
I have some old 5.25" floppies backed up with FastBack. If I can get the data transferred, anybody know how to decode the backup compression?
and it's all crap. Very low quality content... especially on video. Terrible recommendations. YouTube has the same problem. Whoever is leading recs is doing a terrible job.
> earning money off of your looks
I'm assuming your taking about the sex workers of OnlyFans. I find your attitudes a bit dismissive and offensive. These are real humans with real feelings that you're talking about with such little regard.

Plus, I earn money off of my natural intelligence. I didn't do anything to gain it in the first place, I just happened to have intelligent parents.

> doesn't qualify as hard-working job

Two questions:

1. Why doesn't it qualify as a job if they are earning income?

2. Why should someone have to "work hard" to earn a living? If have a high-value easy-to-sell product, then why work harder than you need to?
the state has the right to kill you in punishment. nobody else does. that's a pretty big difference in my eyes.
I'm still using floppy disks with my Yamaha PSR-630 workstation keyboard — you can arrange an entire song on that machine in no time. Plenty of highly acclaimed vintage music equipment — notably, Ensonique samplers — still use them too.

I got the floppy disks for my machine from Microsoft's supply room when I was an intern there in 2014. At the time, there were still some niche uses for floppies in the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g., RAID drivers for Windows XP could only be loaded from a floppy on install, IIRC), but that was on the way out too — so I grabbed half a dozen disks from a pile.

Remarkably, they are still perfectly usable.

The major problem I have with them is that the floppy disk drive on the keyboard is slightly out of alignment. Which means that the only way to read the floopies is to use that specific disk drive.

I've been meaning to replace the drive for years, but never really got to it. I've also considered swapping it out for an SD card reader/USB drive (ones meant to replace floppy drives are readily available), but where's the charm in that?
> I also consider nuclear retaliation strike to be morally dubious. What's the point?

The point isn't that you win something with a second strike. The point is that second strike capability ensures no actor can make a first strike without risking consequence. It's about deterrent, not about winning.
They’ve forgotten, but if you reach out to the admin to remind them, odds are extremely high that they’ll make it happen.
How China, Cuba and Albania came to have higher life expectancy than the USA
> has automatic bigint conversion

how can one implement this without a branch before literally any arithmetic operation?
Thank you! I'll give it a try later this week.

It's a really interesting idea. The multi-PR workflow I was used to in Facebook's Phabricator required a lot of commit reordering to get things ready for review. Having separate review branches (topics) from dev branches seems like a nice alternative.

I still think there could be something earlier or more explicit in the README to explain the general idea of cherry-picking commits from a dev branch to review branch to split out convenient independent units to review and merge separately. Without running the tutorial, I wasn't really sure that's what the goal was.
You absolutely can. Stock price is really meaningless as far as the day to day life of a company is concerned- if your cash flows haven't changed, and the market has just decided to shit on you for a bit for irrational reasons there are no consequences other than maybe looking into whether a buyback makes sense.

Equity markets are often irrational and wrong. IE Covid- essentially every stock was down significantly in March of 2020, not realizing that some businesses will actually benefit from the pandemic.

That said, your statement about fat at these companies is true, and its probably been long past time that they clean out some dead wood.
I had so much hope that with DVDs, Choose Your Own Adventure style content would become a large-ish segment. Unfortunately, it just didn't do what I wanted. So when I became a DVD programmer in the late 90s, I was searching for a CYOA style project to work on to the point of trying to produce it myself. People kept complaining about the difficulty of writing the script.

Years (decades) later, Netflix did their attempt at it, but saw the interactive bit flop so that majority of people just saw the "default" decisions made for them. Just never could find like-minded people to make this work to the level I was hoping.
Twitter Investors Back Musk’s Takeover Bid
Not being aware of any research about ADE doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened… There has been a ton of it and it tends to be something that shows up pretty evidently in clinical trials.

Not a research paper, but a good article talking about ADE: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9164...
Pray tell, when did Georgia and Ukraine join NATO?
Legislation has been passed per the article at two levels of government (local and federal, with state coming) at this point, so society at large has already condemned the practice. And it is not clearly a valid search, otherwise this lawsuit would have been tossed. There is no ethical dilemma here, and there never was. There was a LEGAL dilemma here, and that has been solved via legislation. The ethics have always been clear, just like how there was no ethical dilemma about a woman raping a man being wrong even though the old laws confined rape to penetration.
he was that before Patreon was a thing, and they're connected: https://www.inc.com/alexa-von-tobel/jack-conte-youtube-patre...
You kinda have to ignore it if you want your game to be playable docked.
Your idea of fun is to post ignorant crap on medical issues?

Your type were boring when I was 20 and even more boring now. I teach people and create things for fun. Grow up.
The casually-made claim:

> "How can a human designer compete?"

and the (related, but as noted by @marc_io nearby, quite different) claim:

> "inevitable that this would impact on the demand for human artists, and I think this will start soon"

both need a more careful look.

Regarding the "designer" part -- most people aren't really very good at design and illustration, and adding computers doesn't always help. See, GeoCities home pages, or your favorite desktop publishing real estate agent ad.

People do get tired of sameness in images, and their eyes like new things, personal styles, clarity, chaos, whatever. That's one of the things designers do. See the Helvetica documentary for more [https://www.hustwit.com/helvetica].

Point of comparison: Geoff Hinton's careless claim, made in 2016, that radiologists would be displaced by 2021.

[https://towardsdatascience.com/why-ai-will-not-replace-radio...]

[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/06/07/ai-promise...]

This tech will have an effect, but thinking that design (or, breathtakingly, "art"), is now a solved problem and we can move on, seems premature.

A re-watch of the Helvetica documentary might help here. Desktop publishing changed print design but high-impact print (or 2D) design is still very important and not left to amateurs, for good reasons.
I played a lot of DND. 1 out of 20 odds come up more often than you naturally expect.
Should I call the police on eBay?
I've been in a long standing dispute because of a charge on a fraudulent bid.

Basically a guy bid hundreds of dollars more than a computer was worth (including buying it new from the vendor) didn't pay, and ebay charged me for the fake bid + transaction.

Ebay proceeded to suspend me, so I put a bank block on them, and got the money back.

I told ebay that I was a California resident, and they must delete my banking information. They refused.

Fast forward 1 year and some how they circumvented my bank block, and charged me today.

Should I call the police on Ebay? This is crazy!
> On some machines it will even brick the hardware if triggered

source?
Why are some people mosquito magnets and others unbothered?
Well, you run one self-signed cert then.
Leaflet Shadow Simulator
You're not using Erlang for speed. You're using Erlang for reliability. (Note this is not the same thing as correctness or "safety")
>Ukraine hasn't been buying Russian gas for about 5 years now

Yeah, they buy hungarian gas that just happens to flow from Russia. This is called "virtual reverse"

>Russia uses energy as a weapon, so it must be deprived of this weapon.

I heard Russia is willing to give up some of that in exchange for some rubles
My 4 Days in Fake Gay-Conversion Therapy
Decency demonstrated, and hopefully recognized at large regardless of the criticisms of the business strategy and execution.
How is this a Ponzi Scheme ? "Currently working people help sustain retired people the same way retired people help the retired people when they were working and the same way young people will sustain the currently working people when they retire."

The only reason ponzi schemes fail is when they don't have enough fresh blood to pay out the prior investors. Your mention of population shrinkage after a baby boom is fairly similar.

"You can disagree with the idea but calling it a Ponzi scheme is incorrect."

Yes, it may operate similar to a ponzi scheme but cannot technically be called one. Usually the owner of the ponzi fund siphons off money for themselves, which is pretty similar to congress siphoning off social security for other pet programs. So I do agree with the sentiment, at least here in the US where the programs are expected to be insolvent in the coming decades.
Latency still sucks on non-Apple Bluetooth headphones
Fintech giant Brex suing Pry Financials CEO Andy Su after acquiring his startup
Instructions unclear, piled all available capital into the "metaverse" instead.
Ask HN: What are pros and cons working as Developer vs. Senior Developer?
The 1,000 Chinese SpaceX engineers who never existed
The title says killed by kangaroo but it was actually a kangaroo attack. I am sure people have died from car crashes involving kangaroos when plenty people die in other places from hitting dear and moose.
Aren't iPod Touches essentially iPhones without the cell modem? I would think it's able to run custom software at least in some sort of developer mode.
My biggest fear is footprinting tech that can literally follow us everywhere and even ID us if we're wearing a mask by our size+gait etc...

Mix this with some dystopian social credit system where you get points for reporting the littlest offense to big brother, and some more spying tools to spy on our own people and we literally get thought police. Soon it'll be 1984 IRL.

I don't plan on being criminal, but what's legal today could be criminal tomorrow, or what's legal in one city might not be in another, etc. I don't think we're there yet, but the future could turn all shades of bad if we don't get upset over privacy violations now.
and now it's moving away from that and pushing more suggested content.

The death spiral is:

1. Show friends content to attract users

2. Realize that friends don't product enough content to increase engagement.

3. Start introducing suggested content to increase engagement

4. Friend stop producing content since their content is deprioritized and not getting engagement

5. Now your feed is full of suggested content and isn't interesting any more

6. You leave and find another platform
> It's burglary this time, what if it was homicide?

Magnitude of a crime can always be expanded to justify anything. We have plenty of things we could do to catch more criminals (even murderers!), but we don't. As an example, why not run a DNA check on any blood draws at the doctor's office? Sure it's an invasion of privacy, but what if it catches a murderer!

I get it. Here the argument is that the person approached law enforcement on their own, and thus opened themselves up to this. But this is incidental -- it happens to be that reporting this crime requires handing over DNA. But police could require everyone to do a blood draw when reporting any crime, right? I think most people would have a problem with that and think it is obviously an invasion of privacy. But OK, you can argue that the real problem there is that it is too tit-for-tat. How about instead every time you walk into a police station someone watches you and collects any hair that falls off of your head and runs it through the database? No coercion, no one can argue that they had to give their DNA in exchange for services. Still seems like it would still have a pretty negative effect on trust between people and police.

The only thing that makes this case "confusing" is that a bunch of different actors are bundled together. If the administration of a rape kit was 100% done by a doctor (as far as I know it is done by nurses but then handed over to police, currently?), and they could then trivially separate out the two genetic materials and hand over only that which didn't belong to the victim, then I think most people would find it distasteful for the police to demand both sets of DNA, right? Why do you need the other one (the doctor could confirm it belongs to the victim if that is the concern)? Just because it happens to be that the way we happen to administer this today makes it convenient to check both (and perhaps even easier than not checking both), does not in my mind introduce any sort of new ethical consideration. It still feels an awful lot like "well, if you want us to look at your crime, you have to be willing to have us check you for any crimes first".

The job of police is difficult, not as an accident of history because they didn't have the right technology when we wrote a lot of these laws, but because it's supposed to be difficult because we understand the value of what's lost if it isn't.
The novelty was taking it out of one species and putting it into another for a specific purpose. Mother nature didn't transfer that gene across species. How that isn't worthy of IP is not clear to me.
> ...would have been so much better if semicolons had been left out.

FWIW, I created a DSL where comma and semicolon are treated as whitespace.

> ...kebab-case or snake_case...

Crate names are case insensitive, right?

Maybe treat underscore and hyphen as different cases of the same delimiter?
The worst thing about it is that I now have to carry 3 pairs of shitty Bluetooth headphones instead of one good pair because switching connected devices is such a pain that this is literally much easier to live with. I hate it. Bring the headphone jack back.
i think this incident, and the 5th amendment, are siddleing up next to each other ready to have a very intimate discussion.
Also, sunk cost fallacy. Any reasonably complex COBOL application has lots of lines of code, which are easily counted and in some cases may have even been originally paid for per-line on expensive contracts still on file. That gives a lot of "weight" to that sunk cost on the books, even in timelines of half-centuries. "You want to rewrite a hundred thousand lines of once very expensive code?" you can hear the ghosts of bean counters past shouting in the corridors no matter how much you explain to them that they should have better amortized and depreciated those costs decades ago.
There is a good case to be made that most voting machines have a large negative value, except possibly in security research.

Kamala Harris established her political standing as California Secretary of State by making California elections hard to mechanically defraud, banning use of those negative-value machines in California. Unfortunately, they probably were sold on to states where their uncorrectable flaws could be recognized as immediately useful. It is not necessary to suborn election staff when you can easily suborn the machines they are obliged to trust.
This is close to three months, and many health plans renew at the beginning of each year, which accounts for the slight difference.
Google faces €25bn legal action in UK and the EU
The issue here is that the way very large people can lose weight in a healthy manner is deadly for TV. Everyone can agree that the trick is to eat just enough nutritionally balanced food each day to fulfill the most basic need for vitamins, minerals, proteins and a small amount of dietary fat, and then remain just active enough to work and have mild recreational activity to keep BMR up without injury. This does not make compelling TV. There is no drama, and in fact, boredom is the most likely outcome. Nobody wants to watch someone eat 500 calories of roast skinless chicken and steamed broccoli for dinner, then walk a couple of miles, even though nobody can deny that it's an incredible combination for effective weight loss.

In the Biggest Loser model, a combination of extreme starvation and overactivity can easily result in the loss of lean body mass (ie, muscle and essential organ mass) in addition to fat, resulting in lowered metabolism and poor long term health outcomes. It's entirely possible to lose a large amount of weight without affecting your BMR or health by ensuring that protein requirements are met and by staying active but not over-exerting yourself in a combination that maximizes fat loss but minimizes the loss of healthy lean body mass. But there's just not a whole lot to watch when you do that.

(I understand the value of strength training, but for people with an especially large amount of weight to lose, it can be best to wait on heavy training until after caloric restriction is less necessary.)
To me the real question is, why they got to keep a secret copy of the victim's DNA data for multiple years, let alone using it for things that the original owner did not consent to.

I think this is comparable to a key to your house that you gave to the police, because it was burglarized. They finished their investigations and hand the key back to you. What they did not tell you, is that they created a secret copy of your house keys and then five years later use it silently for searching through your house without a warrant.
Mid-November through December is a hiring no-man's land due to the accumulation of end-of-year vacations and family trips. Most of these employees have about a month and a half before the shutdown begins and they are stuck scrambling to try to find work in the new year.
Well, yes. Shitty management still exists. And the power imbalance is always there. I'm not saying not surprising your manager guarantees good outcomes, I'm just saying surprising them guarantees bad outcomes.

The lesson I've drawn for myself from similar incidents is "know all the stakeholders, and talk to them". Consulting/client work makes it extra hard, because stakeholders just keep coming out of the woodwork :(
The abstract in [1] says that drug use ticked up, amounting to a small portion of the UBI payment. And property crime ticked down, but overall crime was not affected substantially. Concluding:

crime-related concerns of a universal cash transfer program may be unwarranted.

So I don't think this makes the point you want it to make.
However, I hope that lessons about human nature have been learned, now that we have all lived through the pandemic. Whenever we look at history and ask "how could people buy such a flimsy story, and abandon all that they previously held dear?", the answer is "willingly, enthusiastically, and they will turn in previously good friends and family to further the supposed moral ends".
Doesn't make sense to retitle it now because the thread is so dominated by the editorialized title. I think we need to leave it. This is why the site guidelines contain the rule: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The [flagged] marker, btw, is because users flagged the submission, which they were correct to do.
Safari 16 brings back Sidebar Tabs
Yes, yes, all just a word game. You're just asking intelligent rational questions, unlike those antivaxxers of lore with their bad faith.

Meanwhile the top thread on Reddit discussing that specific article is in the subreddit "NurembergTwo" and titled:

"Shocking study finds covid vaccines REWRITE your DNA… criminal CDC proven to have repeatedly LIED about this very issue to deceive and harm the public"

If you're basing your theory of harm from vaccines on bad articles from non-experts in fringe journals, there might be less distance between you and the 5G nutters than you wish to acknowledge
> It wasn't a revolution - it was a coup funded and organized by the EU and USA.

I don’t doubt that there was western involvement, just as there was certainly Russian involvement supporting prior administrations. While it can be difficult to discern the true desires of Ukrainians given outside involvement, its very easy to say that the current government in Ukraine is much more democratic than plenty of US Allies in other parts of the world, eg the Middle East.

> Also, your media probably do not say that Ukrainian politicians repeatedly announced plans to exterminate Russian population of Ukraine. Physically kill all the Russians just as Hitler (he's considered a hero in Ukraine) wanted. You'd probably never find this in English or any other language spoken on the West, but there is plenty of evidence in Russian/Ukrainian even though a lot of it being scrubbed in the last 200 days. Still you can find a lot of those on YouTube for example, if you can understand Russian/Ukrainian.

If this is so easy to find, why not provide actual sources?

Edit: the irony here is the extremely close parallels between this war and hitter’s annexation of the sudentenland.

> How do you know this? Did Putin said this personally to you? Announced this in the media?

I can tell from his actions. Russia has been invading its neighbors the entire time he’s been in power.

Did I go a bit overboard when I said “complete fealty”? Sure. But it’s quite obvious that Putin won’t accept those states as anything less than Russian client states within its sphere of influence.

> Has US ever suffered sanctions for that? I don't remember any.

US does bad things so other countries should do bad things too.
Once you're relying on LNG terminals rather than fixed pipes, you have a lot of source flexibility.
Mark is completely unaccountable to investors. He can do whatever he wants as long as he has good faith reason to believe it will benefit shareholders.
Ya spot on... Deceptively optimistic title when I feel that is still the real issue.
I remember sitting in a hotel room in SF with my girlfriend at the time and her waxing about Godard, whom I knew little about. She was right about how influential and brilliant he was.
Yeah but so is incompetence…