skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt that anybody that had access to pre-release allocations were well aware of the risks. Net worth was likely checked. They don't need to be treated like a child.

Probably a civil matter anyway - no expectation of jail, which was what the parent commenter referenced.
As recently as a few hundred years ago many Europeans had dark tans because they spent their few decades alive working long days in the sun. But that was tanning and long term skin damage, not genetic.

There was an anthropological time period in early humanity when people migrating out of Africa hadn't yet genetically adapted to having lighter skin tones. I don't know if the pop science is actually trying to depict that period accurately, or if it's an anachronistic cargo cult phenomenon.
Pot triggers panic attacks in some people though.
If I'm ever using Notepad++ at work, I'm probably not doing noble work. That being said, it's one of the best tools for those type of jobs.
like Elizabeth Holmes

It's a public persona

The media props these people up and then dumps them. I'm not saying it is a fraud but it's a recurring pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single-assignment_form:

“In compiler design, static single assignment form (often abbreviated as SSA form or simply SSA) is a property of an intermediate representation (IR) that requires each variable to be assigned exactly once and defined before it is used. Existing variables in the original IR are split into versions, new variables typically indicated by the original name with a subscript in textbooks”

You could have a language that doesn’t allow reassignment to variables, and let the compiler make that code performant by not reusing storage for values that won’t be referenced anymore.
I use Opsgenie for most of the same use cases as this application.

They have a free tier too. I keep my alert volumes very low.
Exactly. Though it's sad, to my mind, that this is dubbed "the deeper
point".

Is it not extraordinarily obvious that treating the symptoms instead of
the cause is bad medicine.

If there is a "deeper" point it is to question why shallow, expedient,
temporary symptomatic treatment is valued above long-term root-cause
change. I guess that's a question of our age.
This rocks, thanks for sharing
> It also implicitly discounts one of the most valuable processes: verbal processing.

Not really. The question, more generally, is: what should my role be in this conversation? Should I be an active participant in solving the problem? Or should I support you as you work through it?
I've already spent quite a while profiling and optimizing GateBoy's code, but at scale it becomes annoyingly difficult to maintain both performance and correctness in a language like C++.
Nature has no qualms about performing GOF research if we don't do it. How do we protect ourselves from future viral and biological evolution otherwise? Virus's evolve literally every day, and if we don't find a way to build tools, processes, and countermeasures, we will absolutely be strongly harmed by a future one.

This always feels like the "we can't afford to fix climate change so we just will ignore the problem" take.
Glad you were able to get through this. The severance is especially nice.

> and was able to file for unemployment

Reminder to people that H-1b holders are not eligible for unemployment claims. They pay INTO the system but are not allowed to take out of the system
Yeah, it seems to be very regional. Here is my personal experience over the past year.

In downtown Seattle/SLU area (aka "Amazon rainforest", due to that whole area having a very heavy concentration of Amazon offices), most packages take around 2 days. In Atlanta area (midtown and closeby sorta-suburban areas like Little Five and Edgewood), most packages take between same-day to 1-2 days (usually a bit less time than in Seattle). In NYC (Manhattan specifically), it takes 3-4 days (am yet to find a single item on amazon that has a delivery estimate less than that for this area).

I bet it has something to do with distribution centers/warehouses/last-mile delivery infrastructure. But that difference in delivery times between those three regions seems to be pretty consistent, from what I've observed so far in 2022.
Ask HN: What high yield savings account do you use for your emergency fund?
I have some money in an Ally HYSA but wondering if it's worth switching to Wealthfront, SoFi, Betterment, or some other online savings account with a higher interest rate. At the time of writing, Ally's saving rate is 2.5% while the others are:

Wealthfront: 3.3%

Betterment: 3.2%

SoFi: 3%

These are all FDIC insured, so it seems like it comes down to the quality of the company's apps and customer service when the APY are comparable. I've also seen that some people are using money market accounts instead of savings accounts. Is anyone going that route and have insights about it?
> Now consider crypto, where your ability to pause the market or unwind clearly-erroneous transactions is reduced or removed.

These should be quite possible, no? Exchanges have mainteinance pauses now and then, however if they had them regularly that would drive customers away. Unwinding transactions inside crypto exchanges is also not unheard of I think.
There is a time delta between the statements, assets worth $10B on one day could be worth $5b the next
Damn, this is so right.
You just tell them it will take 12 months more. Your the development team. Let them rewrite contracts or lose business. You do not get a bonus for contracts sold or kept.

If necessary someone else will tell them they are not doing there job. Stick to your role.
Swiss Re proposes government bail out as cybercrime insurance costs spike
Seeing this and the todolu work advice girl ... I think educating people on how threats are composed and used is something that everyone should understand.

I'm now realized that I've been soft threatened quite a lot.
Learning DDLog was much easier for me than learning Rust and differential-dataflow. I tried writing some differential-dataflow a few years ago and it was beyond me. DDLog was very quick to pick up.
Sure.

https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+covid+predictions&tbm=isc...

There are plenty that stretch out for a year.
Someone is just declaring their plans.
I use this service all the time to notify me when some long running scripts are finished. Also goes very well together with '''tail -f --pid XXXX /dev/null && curl -d "process is done" https://ntfy.sh/XXXXXXX'''
"It's a long shot" except for the several times in the past few hundred years they have done just that? We can do statistics on how often this happens. We know that we should expect it periodically. Even Obama, while on his way out, was able to tell Trump "hey expect a pandemic event soon". We literally knew this was coming.
>>Americans are eating more meat than they were a few decades ago, and many animal products are treated with hormones and antibiotics in order to promote growth. All that meat might be changing gut bacteria in ways that are subtle, at first, but add up over time.

So people are eating differently. Doesn't everyone already know that the food you eat affects how easy or hard it is to stay a certain weight?

>> Americans are eating more meat than they were a few decades ago, and many animal products are treated with hormones and antibiotics in order to promote growth. All that meat might be changing gut bacteria in ways that are subtle, at first, but add up over time.

...you mean if the research is correct and if you're eating differently and taking prescription drugs that cause weight gain.
It is odd that the supposed victim in the story didn't seem to invest one penny into oversight of their $60M.

My guess is a longer game was going on that OP never found out about.
Glad to hear scaling went well! Maybe we should automatically ping you about the autoscaling option when your traffic spikes.
The Marquee Element
The first thing I did was turn-off the always on display, which save a lot of energy.

I also turned off the background processing of most apps, which saves battery. Same thing with location if the app doesn’t require it to function properly.
I like your take and it resonates a lot with me. But companies splitting up to remove the need of middle management - has that ever happened to anyone? A more realistic advice is probably to get a different job once you see managers start playing their status games and climbing their career ladders while ignoring often uncomfortable facts.
I find them useful for teaching my 8 year old something about the person behind the name. After watching Einstein and Eddingiton (pretty ok movie) she has a better appreciation for who he is beyond a name. Obviously you learn almost nothing about his research and it’s a very tiny slice of Einsteins extraordinarily interesting life.
> Whether it is passively watching hands free a la TikTok or being prompted to press a like button, post text, or smoke a cigarette and regardless of the trigger - so long as you don't forget the thing exists and come back to it every day profits go up.

You're just describing the basics of business but framing it to be nefarious? People who make a product, generally want it to be used as much as possible. It's why newspapers have crosswords and tv shows have cliffhangers. It's a problem when you want it to happen over the wellbeing of the users, so unless you think getting people to communicate with their friends and families is as bad as smoking, it doesn't seem to be the same thing.

It reminds me of that Key and Peele sketch where Peele described robbing a bank by working for them every day for 40 years
Oh interesting, I kind of assumed it was investing just because it's easy to open a Coinbase account and buy $20 of Bitcoin. It's pretty involved to set up a wallet, send crypto, and then do something with it. Web3 is not particularly user friendly.
Treat it like a game for a while. Don't even try to be productive, just play with it and see how the pieces fit together.
Everyone should rise to the political occasion. Why is that the engineers should not rise? Politics is how we solve problems without resorting to fists.
I tried to play Star Citizen so you don't have to
I agree with your take on this in general: It's better to be tactful and focus on beneficial outcomes rather than "being right".

However, in this specific case, it sounds like:

1. Management was charging a client $60MM for a product they had promised.

2. They were convincingly told that they would be unable to deliver that product.

3. Their response was "Don't let the client find out."

And then what ended up happening was they failed to deliver and still charged the client. That's a massive breach of ethics and potentially outright criminal fraud. Quitting and getting the fuck out of there is 100% the right call.
Yup, a couple of mind-boggling changes to Prime music here.

Skip limits, inability to rewind, and for some reason the app keeps nagging me to grant control over Bluetooth on my device, which I keep saying no to.
Ask HN: How do you hedge your personal financial exposure to tech working tech
Does it matter? The question is looking for empiricism on dreams and whether mediating nightmares causes more harm down the line.
All of these listed are indo-european peoples/languages (except Phoenician), so similarities are to be expected. Europe we can credit from the Greeks, also indo-european.
Irena 2022: Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2021 [pdf]
In some database apps I can replace all conditionals with loops over sets. If the set is empty nothing happens. The same can be done in other situations which i prefer because it's really robust but it requires such a change in thinking that I don't require it of my team and have not thought about it in a long time.
> you don't need 1,000 nightmares to gather that reporting. Ten or
twenty will be sufficient.

Glad we've established the principles and now we're just arguing over
the details :)
Would you use the same argument for groups that justify racism, violence or even murder?

No because they are obviously not justifyable.

Yes, I agree at some point each person basically draws their own line in the sand when it comes to wrong or right.

But I think most people (not just in the west) have agreed in the last few decades to draw their line to exclude making homosexuality illegal.

Are you saying it's justified because of religion and circumstance?
For everyone's context, differential datalog is built on the differential dataflow library.
Medibank client data allegedly posted on dark web after ransom deadline passes
Sounds a lot like the discussion I had with my 12 year-old about his Science term paper :-)
I understand defense in depth. I'm just mentioning it because is incalculable worse if those pages were exposed externally since any script kiddie would be able to pwn the site immediately.
Absolutely nobody involved in this was stupid. In fact, the ones who signed the doomed contract were very savvy, just very self-serving. Part of the reason I got screwed was because I had excellent relationships with almost all the other account managers and they also all knew that successful deliveries lead to more sales and were brilliant at what they did. It's hubris to think that tech brains are always the smartest.
> Maybe we should reevaluate what the system prioritizes making easy and what it makes hard. Don't you think?

I like the sentiment, but my impression is that an entrenched legal system like the U.S.'s is neigh impossible to rework shy of a major revolution.

But I'm certainly no student of history or law. Can someone who is weigh in?
You are not alone. My earliest memories (like from age 3-4) are of very specific nightmares, and they have continued to dog me my entire life. (Also in 1991 I surprised a burglar in my home who took a pot-shot at me with a .38 on his way out the window, and that didn't help.)

FWIW:

1. I think it's genetic. Anxiety seems to run in my family. We are descended from Holocaust survivors. I think it is plausible that that one event produced strong evolutionary selection pressure in favor of paranoia and anxiety.

2. It gets better as you get older (at least it has for me).

3. Anxiety is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you're afraid of being anxious, that makes you more anxious. Meditation helps. Quiet and/or white noise too.

Good luck.
SharePoint admin at current position. Apart from PowerApps, PowerAutomate, and those beasts, I don't find SharePoint too bad to deal with. It's one of those tools that if you use frequently you can navigate through it without too much fuss, but if you're not using it often you will find yourself spending a ridiculous amount of time hunting a specific setting or option that's less-than-obvious to find.
Yes, and also don't forget that Rajeev Motwani's (Ph.D. supervisor and FFF investor) research field was randomized algorithms. So thinking about random walks in his group was a bread and butter thing, probably, not something that required genius. Rajeev is co-author to several seminal paper on the search engine and worked intensively with Google and joined their board. According to Prabhakar Raghavan, Sergey Brin acknowledged in a BBC Radio interview in 2009 that Google might not have been possible without Rajeev. (Tragically, he passed away in 2009 by falling into his own pool with alcohol in his blood, and he could not swim.)
Idk why this is being downvoted. One only needs to look back at the rippling effects that school closures had in 2020-2021…
Electronic music has a naming problem.

EDM is a specific subgenre of electronic music that became popular in the 2010s with Skrillex and those big mainstream American festivals.

The most general term would be 'electronic music', or 'dance music', but not 'electronic dance music'.

Similarly, if you say 'dubstep' to a person in the UK they would think of something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHRf9DNdkgY while an American would think of something terrible. (Good track for this discussion about bass, incidentally).

'Garage' is another one. Totally different genres in the UK and US.
Do you have any evidence for this viewpoint? Absent some credible evidence, I'm going to file this in the same bucket as "God just wants people to suffer, so if you are suffering and try to improve your situation, you are violating God's will and will burn in hell for eternity."

I'll admit I've only looked at PTSD a little bit, but I haven't seen anything indicating that the severity declines with more nightmares. Have you?
Ex post facto rationlizations. The original theories are of the nature described in my link.

> They share the same brass work and distinct styles of jewelry.

Are there in your view no other examples of such parallels between different pairs? And if you can find such examples do they all match up towards similar conclusions as what you are pushing here?
Not quite. For a Markov probability matrix, 1 is always an eigenvalue, and all other eigenvalues are less than or equal to 1. For each eigenvalue that is equal to 1 you get a long term stable state probability. These distributions contain disjoint subsets of the states, and the system will converge to one of those subsets, depending on the initial state. The eigenvalues that are strictly less than 1 do not add any information to the long term state of the system.
See Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, V4 (1976) pages 253-259. I wrote it while still in grad school.
And predictably, about 30% of people utterly refuse to do it. Usually for stupid reasons. Some people are just so anti-authority that they would seemingly cut off their own leg to spite an authority figure telling them legs are important.
On a side note, I'm noticing a lot of apps I install via Fdroid don't work on my phone, they crash immediately, while the play store version works (same for this app). I suspect this is a side effect of me using Lineage OS - does anyone have a clue what might fail there on my phone?
Not sure what they meant, but my only guess is they mean via an img tag.

<img src="some.svg">
Against an enemy with signal jamming capability remote operation is not a given. Plus tanks communicate in real time with infantry/other elements. The lag introduced by remote operation/communication would be a serious hindrance even if everything was working, which it often isn't. Tanks have to respond in real time, they don't have the luxury of seconds of delay like say an orbiting drone. There's also the case of not wanting disabled tanks to fall into the hands of the enemy. Short of rigging the tanks with a self-destruct system (which would likely just make them explode more easily when hit), you need soldiers to do that.

Keep in mind that anything operating in battlefield conditions must be resilient. The entire situation is a constant stream of edge cases.

Also, don't look to Russia in Ukraine for an example of how tanks are used. Tanks are generally not meant to act alone. Either they're operating with a lot of other tanks, substantial supporting infantry, or both.

There are tons of other reasons as well, The Chieften, a former Tanker, has a good video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7T650RTT8
What is Coeliac (celiac) disease?
Open Market for Open Software
I think everyone agrees that observing live virus in the lab is a critical (if dangerous) part of studying them.

Intentionally engineering them as high as possible on transmissibility and morbidity is bioweapon development being money laundered through conventional science: it’s an insane thing to do.

Leaving SARS-COV-2 out of it completely: there have indisputably been other leaks. It’s the height of irresponsibility and shortsightedness to engineer civilization-ending viruses, which is why it’s banned under multiple international conventions that GoF is a workaround for.

You don’t need a vaccine for the fucking superflu if you never develop the fucking superflu.
A modest proposal: Display the credit card name alongside the twitter handle in each tweet. /s for silly :-)
The Wikipedia article on human skin color (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color) seems to think consensus is that all humans were still dark-skinned up until 100,000 years ago or so, which is far more recent than this picture is meant to depict.
The Break Boys - My House Is Your House [0]

Pyramid - Cruel [1]

[0] https://www.discogs.com/master/39337-The-Break-Boys-Undergro...

[1] https://www.discogs.com/release/3969233-Pyramid-5-Ft-Julie-T...
While on the topic of ways to stop tanks, there is also the "hedgehog," or the "Czech hedgehog [1]."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_hedgehog
I was hoping this was something interactive using only svg. For example, one can do interactive charts with moving tooltips and a vertical cursor etc. fully in svg, using only hover states. (I thought Pygal [1] did this, but now that I check it again, it seems to require javascript for the tooltips.)

This page is definitely not svg-only though, there is a lot of javascript on the page, and without javascript enabled I only see some curved shapes, and blurry things scroll by when I scroll.

[1]: https://www.pygal.org/en/stable/documentation/first_steps.ht...
That's pretty much my whole approach to life
Thanks for a realistic view! I'm trying out Doom Emacs, per another user's suggestion, and I'm going to try it out for non-code text editing for a while, since I do a lot of that still anyways.
Absolutely true, but it also means the ability to pay per-user liability insurance rates that a $10 subscription would not cover. Being a medical product is not all upside.
They can have their rules on public displays of affection (if applied equally to same-sex and opposite-sex couples), but I don't get why they care what consenting adults do in private.
There are other ways to socialize that don't involve being a cog in the machine for half their waking day. Extracurriculars can fill that same need: boy scouts, sports teams, music lessons, whatever the kid's into.
I haven’t listened to the podcast but have been reading hackaday for years. I like a lot of it but the level of polish in this piece just caught me for some reason.
I had a similar disagreement with a manager once about a project, and I said something like, "I'm stressed and working around the clock, I don't need you threatening me," and they were genuinely taken aback and even hurt that I would interpret it that way (as they felt they were offering advice). When I asked them to reverse the situation, they immediately understood. When the pressure is on, it's an easy mistake to make.

For reference: https://youtube.com/channel/UCCtfpN-3GkF7HKvj5qs2EPQ ("toodaloo advice girl" Lou Whaley, who makes videos about office politics and setting boundaries with your manager.)
>Not one of these predictions encompassed six months, though.

I beg to differ. Here's a sample of what we got, on a daily basis, in the UK:

https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+covid+predictions&tbm=isc...

Plenty of those are dated from the early months of 2020.
> Do you want to write "tech"? Sorry, this app is for cool kids only.

You can still type that in your profile prompts and bio. No one is stopping you from doing that.

If you want more interests listed, just contact Bumble. They are known to make relatively straightforward updates to the app like this.
It's just yet another hacked account.
And since practice makes perfect, you get better at making guesses as a result!
I don't mind receiving "just", in my view "what do you think" is far worse.

You can just brush "just" away (which is kind of expected), but "what do you think" implies some kind of reasoned answer. Which then can be debated, even if the original idea was bogus from the start.
Cool!

How does it identify elements to anchor to, and what happens when the original text changes?