skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been naive like that a few times.
I managed to get away unharmed most times but once I was publicly blamed for the project's failure by the incompetent managers, in a governmental organisation.
I overestimated people's honesty in the face of their own career death.
I considered blowing the whistle or taking them to court for slander but I had strong doubts I could clear my name as power corrupts.
May not be an issue if shorting via CME BTC/ETH futures.
Is it just me or is the please login screen when browsing a feed coming up a lot faster?
Exactly, especially given that even the most die-hard soccer fans don't hold a high opinion of FIFA at all.

Just a few teams of the caliber of Brazil and Argentina pulling out would essentially make the world cup "illegitimate" in the eyes of the fans, and wouldn't hurt the popularity/public opinion of those teams at all. If anything, it would only boost their popularity, so it is a win-win all around for them.

It's like Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, and Redbull all boycotting an F1 race. They are the reason most people even watch F1. De facto, they are F1 for most people. F1 without them is F1 only in the name.
I mean technically it could. For example, to buy goods from China in AU, I need to pay in USD./

For 100 USD in goods, I could have to send AUD cross border to receive 100 USD and then definitely have to send 100 USD cross border to China - nominally triggering 200 USD in payment volume for 100 USD in GDP.

And then for companies using a Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich... well, the volume adds up.

Crypto still isn't the answer though.
Yeah, plus... sometimes caching the hot partition keys is just the answer to the problem.
There was a cool link curator service called StumbleUpon. You click a button, and it takes you to a random interesting web page. One of my favorite things about this is you can comment on these pages as well. It was fun to see other peoples reactions to random pages, flash videos, memes, art, essay, etc. Eventually I realized that you can click the 'discussion' button even on pages that StumbleUpon didn't bring me to, and there was still a discussion much of the time(The link must already be in the database, of course).

Anyways, I've always wanted to find something like this again. This sounds similar. I'm gonna try this out and take a look. The big thing that makes it work, IMO, is having enough people participating and having comments be moderated. Unique, sincere comments make the experience fun. Spammy, trolling comments make it just every other boring corner of the internet.

I loved this, I could go anywhere on the web and have a comment section. The important thing about this, though, was that the comments were usually pretty relevant. Rarely did I see trolling or off topic comments(Ie politics). It'd usually just be maybe a one line impression of the site. It was perfect.
And this is a good description of the diamond industry, which has value because people believe it is valuable.
Yep, but Gurgaon's urban voters don't impact Haryana Vidhan Sabha elections. If I wanna become CM of Haryana, do I want to make 1 MLA's constituent's happy or 3 MLA's constituent's happy. All farmers know burning stubble is bad, but no government (Punjab, Haryana, UP) is providing the money to get rotavators. The only way this solution is solved is by including the majority in the conversation. And if they aren't, well that's Indian politics as you know.
Ha! One massive feudal lord just crushed another and all the serfs lost their money. This isn’t anarchy, it’s a monopoly
In that vein, I see people on HN who could be considered experts at programming or other tech work try to be experts on everything else. It usually doesn't end well
Thanks! That actually is what I found in the past, that (1) is hard to get through in order to setup an environment with the cool tools I want to use, and (2) is hard because I'm used to VSCode bindings. I think this time, though, I'm going to stage my use of Emacs because you gave me a good idea:

> doing these 3 steps will get you to the point where you can use Emacs for basic text editing

So, I'm going to replace my use of VSCode for text editing with Emacs for a while to start learning how to work with it, just not code stuff yet, and I'll replace my keybindings in VSCode with Emacs keybindings since VSCode is super easy to find extensions for and there happens to be a few "Emacs keybinding" extensions.

Thanks for the tips, I also didn't know about `Ctrl+H t` and so I'll try that out, too!

I'm actually pretty excited, I've had a ton of issues with VSCode updating the way they do things recently causing my workflows to get fucked up and have to change. I doubt I'll have that issue with Emacs!
SBF was the biggest donor to Biden's campaing, and now we know why.
Xenophon is awesome reading. I really hope there will be a film of it at some point.
I'm sure you voicing yours concerns led to your manager taking proactive measures to prevent... his own career tanking by moving to another team.
PTSD re-processing of events is probably more traumatic than therapeutic. Most trauma treatment is focused on breaking the cycle of repetition in order to move pst the traumatic events.
Backfilling: Why Companies with Hiring Freezes May Still Have Job Openings
I have seen a disproportionally bigger number of blowups of highly regulated industries, so does not seem like a strong argument IMO.
What a horrible truth, hate to upvote but you may be right. But why is it engineers who must rise to the political occasion?
> I mean this story is cathartic, but I don't get what the "rabble rousers" expected to happen...

I think it depends what the rabble rousers actually wanted.

Did they really want to fix the problems, or did they want to give management one last opportunity to address the issues before deciding to move on to other opportunities?

The person telling the story seems to end it on what they precieve as a happy note. They quit and they felt good about quiting. Perhaps the outcome was a good outcome for them.
They lied to everyone of course. Never trust these corporations. They're sitting on huge piles of consumer deposits, of course they're gonna leverage that money. They cannot resist the temptation.
I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault at all. Business people’s job is to understand what users want and developer’s job is to figure out how to best build it.
There was very little volume available on those pricing discrepancies, making thousands per day without erasing the arb would have been a challenge but perhaps not impossible. The public is expected to believe he made over $10 million dollars per day on average on that trade. It's not credible.
We regularly wire our overseas suppliers > $100k. Costs $40 per transaction. Zero paperwork. Takes several hours for them to receive.
The article says 2,000 but your point stands that it's a relatively small percentage of the workforce.

However, it's also a large number of people to be put out of jobs before the holidays.
Where is Marvin Heemeyer when you need him.
I smell a lot of captains of industry with stockholm syndrome in those takes.
They fetishize self-serving sociopathy -- which is frequently just compensation for deep incompetence.
Why is it so hard for some people to change their usage of some words? For me it seems pretty simple and technically speaking the alternative/new words are still understandable. It's not like in this industry it's uncommon to have to learn and adjust or dismiss prior solutions when new better ones arise. Big deal over mostly nothing imo.
Did anyone actually believe they weren't loaning out user funds? How were they funding their massive leverage programs? How were they loaning all that money to SBF's trading firm?
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It sounds like you have decided why people have nightmares. I’m curious if you have any evidence to support your conclusion or if you just made it up.
> And doing it in front of a group of management, no less - that's like firing a shot across the bow, declaring that the current PM team is incompetent.

As it turns out, they were wrong.

The project management was actually fraudulent.
In-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Would you consider cashing out pre-ICO tokens for bogus projects to “accredited investors” (ie retails) as “taking money”?
Ooh, thanks! That sounds like something that will help me. I tend to do better when I can get something running like someone else has done in the past, then slowly tweak things as I learn more about it. My current VSCode setup and all my dotfiles have been slowly cribbed and edited from various sources who knew more than me about those things.
Useful things get votes. Even if they're simple.
So to get this right, am Amazon Prime membership will get you basically Spotify's free tier, while you need Prime + additional $9 a month to get service equivalent to Spotify Premium?
The last time I had to set a dip switch it was on a 1541 and I was fifteen.
I don't think that's the reason. London is one of the world's financial centers.
I think that just too much attention is being paid to somebodys feelings nowadays
Have you tried seeing a psychoanalyst, or otherwise delving into the meaning of dreams/nightmares? "What you resist persists."
China was never going to let a legitimate investigation happen, no matter what. They have nothing to gain by letting people know exactly what happened (because they think they can manage things on their own) and everything to lose by letting someone prove that wet markets are horrific or that bio labs in china have terrible safety.
I don't know. I just saw the word "dried" and mentioned it. Flu gasses are majority water. Natural gas has twice as much water and co2 (by moles), and according to another poster they even inject additional water.
Err, the blind control was literally gathering responses. Anyone can have had such an experience with inverse effects. It could have systematic biases and the peer review may be too benevolent. It is not news, but entertaining, even to the peer reviewers.

But isn't science more about problem solving? The problems they must have solved are how do we test this fairly obvious fact? I didn't read the paper and am wondering just what the standard unit for an increase in dance would be.
It's not clear how long the project lasted but it was at least 3.5 years. So the time-line couldn't have been that rigid; yes there was a Gantt chart but those are like horoscopes. And since the requirements kept coming in there was no fixed scope.

As far as the customer goes you can say something like "we'd like to deliver a prototype early" and then it sounds like you're exceeding the contract. You just have to get them to prioritize features while avoiding discussing the fact that it's impossible to deliver all the features they requested. Basically you treat the lists as a wishlist rather than a requirements list. Maybe you come clean later once they like the prototype.

I'm not saying it would have saved the project, I'm just saying it's better than giving up and saying "the project is doomed" like OP did. But maybe OP wasn't cut out for a leadership role.
Let me explain a bit more of the procedures, and it may explain why I think this is at least one factor (though I agree that more buildings also means there will be more shoddy buildings in absolute terms, even if the percentage of shoddy buildings stays the same).

In the US architectural process, an architect specifies a particular material (say a roof sealant) that has certain characteristics. During construction, the contractor will look at the material, check its price, and then use their suppliers to see what the best available deal is. The contractor identifies another roof sealant that's half the price. Because they've bid on the project for a fixed price, if they can use that other product and cut their costs, they'll increase their profit margin. So they put in a change request and submit the new product with its data. The architect may review it, see that it is functionally the same as their specified product, and approve it. Or they may look at it and determine that while they're both roof sealants, the specified one has a 10 year lifespan, and the proposed alternate has a 2 year lifespan. They reject it, and the builder uses the specified material.

Without the architect verifying that the material is comparable, the contractor (intentionally or not) will use a lower-quality material that will lessen the quality of the building, because there are no checks in place.
Contracts for non-Agile processes are pretty worthless too if the project happens like this. If I understand correctly, the client ended up swallowing the cost for being intentionally lied to.

In an Agile process, the client would be much more closely involved with the development, attend sprint reviews, ask questions, and be available for questions about whether to drop features or extend the deadline. The client can make an informed decision and sound the alarm when too much time is spent on things they don't need.
This is what I would have replied with too.
We do know that there were multiple waves of settlement into Europe including a wave of farmers from the near east and finally people from the steppe. I don't think that says anything about linguistics though.
I think the deeper point being made here is that while stopping nightmares does effectively stop nightmares, it might not address the trauma producing them — and by suppressing the nightmare you suppress a potential avenue of healing.

I understand these treatments are necessary and let people live when life might otherwise be intolerable. But there’s definitely a wider discussion to be had addressing the extent to which our mental health apparatus is designed to suppress symptoms rather than to become healthier.
Telling me more about the songs of the cult won't make me more likely to join, most of all because I've already joined. That doesn't mean it isn't a cult and that Burry doesn't have a great point when he says that there's trillions of dollars indexing stocks that have very little liquidity in comparison.
Quick note-- https://gist.github.com/ritinkar8/4991a0770aa0363598aa7c5795... landing page I'm taken to after installing looks incomplete. Just a FYI in case you didn't know.
Exactly. If you can pay $10 for a subscription, they can’t charge $500 to a healthcare provider.
Picking eMacs up as a replacement for VSCode while having to get stuff done is risky. I would venture to say that it’s not realistic as far as your conceptualization. I say this because you venture to ask if the setup process is similar. The answer is a resounding no. VSCode is incredibly easy to “get productive” and eMacs is on the other end of the spectrum.

That being said, if you can work some time into your schedule to learn eMacs, your goal can be realized. (Also, it’s totally worth it.) I was a VSCode user and made some time to learn eMacs exclusively for org mode (possibly eMacs’s coolest feature). Once I was comfortable, I just played around with a dev environment in eMacs (for fun) and loved it so much that I left VSCode.
If you know the exact location a tank will be in at a certain time, the term "sitting duck" comes to mind. There is nothing effektive to stop a human that wants to get from point A to point B. Except for another human.
In the North (Haryana, Punjab, western UP) you have 3-4 harvesting seasons with maybe a week between each other. Leaving stubble means you lose out on a harvesting season. If you want to maximize subsidies and your profit, it makes sense to quickly burn stubble and start afresh.
Will you ever feel like you're a good software engineer? [video]
Your solution to a dumpster fire is to play a very risky game of hero, navigating an environment where at any point you could step on someone's toes, in hopes of salvaging a project for which there is absolutely no guarantee you'll get credit, let alone a sizeable reward, while the market is rife with opportunities. For a bunch of capitalists, not some noble goal.

Forgive me, but playing hero (really just martyr) sounds like the absolute least logical thing to do.
> Same with Sergey Brin and Larry Page. They probably had a genius vision for the company right from the start.

That seems inconsistent with reports that they tried to sell early to Yahoo! for $2m.
The VC/Execs seem to have latched on to the idea of companies being overstaffed, and this narrative is being amplified by "tech influencers" as a way to explain layoffs. Without data to back this claim, I'm gonna treat it as just another unfounded claim.

A more plausible reason seems to simply be that companies have had their stock prices hammered, earnings fall off, and need to control costs, and for software companies, their main costs are people and infra. There is simply no need for the underperformer myth.

Stop listening to VCs! Don't throw your coworkers under the bus.
In some ways, but it is more dynamic, that is, you can write recursive queries in a natural syntax like the way you write recursive functions in a normal programming language. You don't have awful hacks like

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-with.html
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Quoted from the article

> One of the best methods of overcoming these obstacles was by bulldozing soil over them.

I also thought about it before that point. But

> However, in many situations this was much easier said than done while under fire.

I didn't consider this. I'm only a keyboard tactician.
Anyone else here on HN experienced the Valve Sound System?

You don't hear the bass - you FEEL it.

I've been to maybe a hundred raves over 20 years on the dancefloor and nothing has come close except maybe DVS's Wall of Sound.

RIP The End :-(
Right, if we're allowed horizontal scaling, 1M instances, 1request/s would do the trick.
Eigenvalues of covariance matrices are a famous example. You can get PCA from it.
I got off the career limiting path and on to the fuck it ship it path.
I saw a video of a Russian tank approaching an anti-tank mine sitting in the middle of the road, and they just... drove over it, causing detonation. It wasn't camouflaged at all, it was just sitting there.

I'm not sure what the soldiers in the tank expected. Maybe they missed the "don't drive over obvious mines" day in tank school.
Forgive my ignorance of "Enterprise" software, but what does "implementing Peoplesoft" involve, exactly? Isn't it like SAP where it's a base system with some predefined starter templates that you customize? And to "customize" means just adding custom fields and data-entry forms, and wire it all up to an ERP and something like Biztalk? How does that add-up to $100m?
This is a common issue - note that the account hadn't posted anything since 2020 before the crypto-spooge started up a few hours ago.

Usually happens when the animated garbage-fires that run crypto "businesses" buy a hacked account, change the display name, and then spam until they get suspended.
Fabric is still going strong! I've never really noticed the effect of the floor that strongly though.

Dance music is definitely a lot better when the music is loud enough for you to feel the beat on your face and clothes.
> [2] - https://twitter.com/janeqiuchina/status/1589098167051911169

Since you put the Twitter handle as an evidence for your argument. This particular Chinese jounalist is using Twitter and publishing articles in Western journals *while living in China*. What makes you think she is more trustworthy than Steve Bannon? Even if she is an honest and trustworthy person why would CCP let her publish anything that goes against their narrative?

> just that the actual physical evidence we have today about this virus and this pandemic overwhelmingly points to a natural origin

actual physical evidence *provided by China* FTFY. You don't think China will readily handover the data to you if it came from lab, do you? And what physical evidence? The evidences are just some early patient data and virus gene sequences. By that logic HIV spillover happened in US, not in Africa. Because early HIV cases have been detected in USA.

> overwhelmingly points to a natural origin

according to whom? The virologists who also have a history of covering up lab leaks. The virologists who will have the most to lose if lab leak is true. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/world/europe/coronavirus-...
Be aware of the world around you and do things to make it better. Close bugs in open source projects you use and understand. Help someone solve a problem you know how to solve and they don’t. Do what makes you happy and use that happiness to help you see more clearly than those around you who aren’t happy and can’t see clearly. Learn to meditate to silence your mind so you can be present enough to see when you can be most effective in helping do good. After you do these things, look at your excess and your experiences and you’ll know where to put your money to do the most good.
I love that your cynical, worker-self-serving take is downvoted while the top comment is an equally cynical management-self-serving take.
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> Two years later, the client canceled the two-years-late project before it ever launched. They ate a $60M loss.

This has to be a project for the government
Correct. Reprocessing is almost always re-traumatising. That is the
nature of therapy. It gets worse before it gets better. Breaking the
cycle requires causal insight. Breaking the cycle is not the same as
suppressing it. One does not move past unprocessed trauma, one moves
through it.
No, none of the above.

Except in one aspect: Because cryptocurrency for these purposes at best use a loophole in AML/KYC laws, at worst just plain break them, if you do it right there's less risk of getting caught (guilty or innocently) in mandated money laundering tripwires.

I've had banks call me about source of funds, and sometimes require proof, for large "unusual" transactions. I was an innocent victim of these audits. It delayed my transactions by maybe minutes.

Yes, probably some percentage of people who've lost money, through no fault of their own, to these extra checks. But for every single one of those there are at least thousands who've lost cryptocurrency due to them not having these checks and audits.

And on top of that of course cryptocurrency transactions are much fewer and move less value.
Paraphrased from description:

- Large amounts of source data

- Large amount of processing/analytics of data (ML and other models)

- Large flow of data (data per time unit)

- Diverse input sources (combining data from different sources and formats)

Obviously these aren't mutually exclusive.
A film of the exhibition captures the multimedia aspect well: https://vimeo.com/721486048/description

(Via https://civilizationofllhuros.org/)
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

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

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, since Launch HNs are a variation of Show HNs.