skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a relative who's quite accomplished in HR and recruiting and, can confirm, they don't encourage outright lying but they do insist you have to stretch everything to the max and freely imply a lot more than a very honest person might be inclined to.

Judging from the results for people I know who've had this person re-work their résumés, it's extremely good advice. Non-braggy résumés seem to just get round-filed for not knowing how to play the game, even if they're otherwise very well-written. I'm sure there are a few folks hiring—probably almost all at relatively small enterprises—who have the opposite reaction but they're instead rejecting good people who are simply playing their hand the best possible way, given the rules. Those who fluff up their résumés get much better results.
A very large chunk of GAAP losses are attributable to stock comp expense (a quick and easy way to check cumulative profits/losses is looking at the balance sheet’s equity section for “accumulated deficit”) which still gets counted as an expense but since it’s non-cash it’s not a drain on whatever the company has raised. If you look at Uber’s last three FY’s, they’ve cumulatively reported losses of about $16 billion, and stock comp has been about $6.5 billion of that. For the vast majority of public companies this isn’t as material but for all these VC-backed, Bay Area-type tech companies they have this systemically dysfunctional culture where they dole out stock and options to no end.
Carbon Copy and Blind Carbon Copy
same. it's also interesting that many of the folks commenting are not likely to be in the most vulnerable group at risk of developing myocarditis from the vaccine [0] -- that unfortunate category is one that i belong to. as a young man, i spoke about this risk nearly a year ago to the tee [1]. since then, i've also found out i am particularly vulnerable, as i had a history of heart issues as a young child (heart murmer -> arrhythmia). it will be nice to see more data available, but i don't regret any of the vaccines in the slightest.

there are plenty of comments here that speak to the general age recommendation other countries have provided, but i have yet to see people connect the other MAJOR group of people that should, by all means, totally, 100% consider getting their nth vaccination -> anyone with a comorbidity! if you are a young man with diabetes, the risks you face from the vaccine vs a covid infection are no longer as murky.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33480849
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29221924#29223881
What kind of infra are you planning to use?
Having learned to fly rotors in an R22, and subsequently flying Jet Rangers, and other larger rotors, I can tell you that the difference between a Robinson and pretty much anything else is like the different between riding a motorcycle and driving a car, both in terms of responsiveness and danger, but more importantly in the sense of feeling the "road" (air) beneath your feet and the air flowing through your hair (esp. with the doors off! :-)
Smallpox and other random stuff exists too what does that have to do with this conversation?
How can you be an adult and believe in god nowadays?
> It’s an Excel file full of the howling of ghosts and the shrieking of tortured souls.

I wish I had Matt Levine's eloquence to put this madness into words. Great analysis and I just want to add a small thing: while a balance sheet looks like a simple listing of assets and liabilities, that's not how you go about constructing one. Your financial statements are the result of a sequence of double-entry bookeeping statements, and the balance sheet is one particular view on the data processed by this formalism. There is no way assets couldn't add up to liability plus equity, no matter the market fluctuations, valuation uncertainty,... (your numbers might be out of date/incorrect, but they would still be internally consistent). The resulting checksum mechanism is an interesting aspect why double-entry bookeeping was such a useful tool for merchants on busy, dirty, buzzing medieval markets.

FTX, on the other hand, looks more like a mechanism for funnelling cash to who knows where - that's the big question that Matt correctly points out: where did all the money go? There's no way you can spend $16bn on meth and yachts and mansions in the Bahamas in the space of a few years.
Yeah, exactly. I reckon they didn't lose it. That money was sent somewhere else and they "covered" it up with their own issued/invented tokens at ridiculous real cost. It would seem plausible to think that they used Alameda as a proxy for the real destination of all that money.
This comment is just silly.

So you think a job at a startup is more secure? You think a job at a smaller company is more secure?

BigTech layoffs might make news because they're Big but plenty of smaller companies will be laying off as the economy contracts, too. Also 99% of Amazon employees will be fine and the ones that are fired, at least on the corporate side, will find new jobs quickly because the rest of the industry is clamoring to hire ex-FAANG. Hard to see how working there is some huge risk.
Always worth pointing out COVID (very) disproportionately kills the elderly (75+)

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsoverti...

These stats don't indicate whether other confounding factors led to an individual's death.
If it doesn't yet then give it 5 years tops.
I already have a Mac. I'm trying to get rid of it.

You can download icloud for windows as well. And slowly download shit off the web UI.
Paul Graham wrote an essay years ago in which he described the moment when he realized that most of the dot-com companies in the late 90's were selling their ads mostly to other dot-com companies, who were buying their ads in turn. It looked like growing revenue for everyone, but once it came time to show a profit, all of it came crashing down...
ga did they add crypto? maps.me was an amazing product in 2018 but seems to have gone south.
Wouldn't it be wild if a market maker also controlled a hedge fund, and also had members installed on regulating bodies, but then like, PINKY PROMISED they wouldn't abuse their positions? And then imagine if the SEC were complicit because it's run by an ex-Goldman henchman?

Nothing bad would happen, right?
prop trading firm and a sell side firm or an exchange are not structured the same way. its like calling zebra and deer and giraffes the same animal.
Guide: How to simply fill PDF forms programatically
It’s only a matter of time, Michael Lewis has been shadowing SBF for months now.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/14/ftx-crypto-kin...
The Art of Humanizing Code Reviews
This post covers the following:
- What is a PR (Pull Requests), aka Code Review
- How to effectively create a pull request for a code review
- How to give feedback on code reviews
- How to respond to feedback

And most importantly, how to humanize this entire process
> I don't recall any of my friends or family needing persuasion at all. They believed in the science and were willing to adapt as we learned new things about COVID (e.g. around masking and social distancing).

And now that science shows the vaccines have risks that weren't clear before, will this change how they feel about them, or are they going to stick to their preconceived ideas? Did they believe the science because they understood it, or because they chose to trust people who were ideologically aligned with them?
Rocky Linux Foundation Launches
Considering your situation it sounds like you can do what you want. Having a new job lined up before quitting is more of a concern for people living paycheck to paycheck. Spend that time with your family. Not many have this luxury.

Your current employer's way of doing business is to use you until there's nothing left to use and then move on to the next young mindbody.
411.

I wonder if POPCORN for time still works...

(back in the day you could walk up to any payphone and dial POPCORN and it would give you the current time)

in the 80s while were were BBS-ing, we used to have a challenge of calling 411 (information) and the challenge was social engineering how long you could keep the OP on the phone and how much info you could get out of them, like where is your call center, tell me about it, tell me about you... blah blah...

2600 type stuff... we were 13 years old. Captain crunch is my hero.
I think the issue is actually much worse than just making it harder for someone to start a company.

The primary issue i see with Germany are that the issues raised by the writer is not just limited to starting a company. It is EVERYWHERE.

The problem is that whether Germans realise or not, it profoundly affects them in many ways.

Because of the archaic system of doing things, everything takes time. You have to set aside time to do these things. Because of how bureaucratic every process is, each staff can only see a limited number of people.

You constantly have to refresh some archaic website to find a slot. Slots are usually all gone in an instant, and your luck depends on someone cancelling or maybe them adding an extra staff for that day.

Often, there is no way to submit applications online, even for things that may logically be better off being submitted online.

The problem i see is:
1) It affects everything, including healthcare. Waiting times for public healthcare, government support etc, are through the roof.
2) Often times, this time blowout issue is blamed on something else (such as refugees, etc). There may be some truth to it, but as an outsider I see how easy it feels to blame some hapless refugee than admitting that system was already at its seams prior.
3) This system disadvantages the less-well-off - being able to pay for it lets you buy your way out of the hassle.
4) Unfortunately, most Germans view this from some perspective of denial, helplessness while others get defensive when you argue about it.
Depends on the risk you're willing to take. If you have some savings, no liabilities, it might seem like a little change of scenery is what you need. Someplace cheap if you can't afford it, a change in routines to start looking at the career question from a new perspective. Since you've had experience, finding a job shouldn't be too hard and conventional wisdom would say to line up a job first, but sometimes it's also about the unconventional moves in life.
I'm in the UK and have:

- previously passed a loop with FAANG ( didn't join tho )
- have a strong portfolio in a hard to resource niche

Easily send out 200 apps and get ignored.

The market is dumb, not sure I should quit over it tho
It's a great, easy read for the uninformed.
Yes, that's a fine start.

However to me 'home' implies either some level of authority/ownership or a relationship with an owner. From my understanding it's much more difficult to run a Mastodon instance than a Discord server so most new users are encouraged to join the big instances. Without a connection to their 'home,' I think the metaphor breaks down. It seems for most people the choice is between joining a general purpose instance or a 'clique' instance focused on a particular identity or subculture.

People don't want formal allegiances to subreddits, Discord servers, or email providers; these are just the spaces they visit and tools they use. And why should I tell a home manager to block someone when I can block them myself?
This has nothing to do with patients. These are pharma companies existing for the sole purpose of maximizing shareholder value by eking out very last drop of profits. They are just bullying Twitter with whatever leverage they have because Twitter is in unfortunate position where it doesn't provide value at the level where they are the one with leverage. These guys would have not dared this move on Google, for example.
It's called having influence over US officials just short of bribery.
WeWork already failed so I guess it's them, for now
Or maybe no one you know is talking about it. A few weeks ago, I went for my annual Flu vaccine and saw that I was eligible for the bivalent Covid booster as well. I didn’t go around telling people I got either vaccine. At this point, as far as I am concerned, covid is jtst another vaccine to be taken routinely as directed. Maybe that will settle down to be anually like the flu, once or twice a lifetime like chicken pox, or something in between like TDAP (once per decade)
Nobody makes you live in a bigger house or buy an expensive vehicle.

I bought my truck used 30 years ago, and used it daily up until last year when it finally expired. It cost me very little money.

> they just hoard the money and put it towards whatever satisfies their ego.

Your sentence contradicts itself.

BTW, some years ago a luxury tax was placed on yacht building, based on the notion that millionaires were jerks for spending their money on yachts. Then the local economy of one of the yacht building companies collapsed, because the millionaires went elsewhere to spend money building their yachts.

So the tax was rescinded.
SBF’s crypto empire ‘run by a gang of kids in the Bahamas’ who all dated each
It's slightly individual, e.g. some may pick up on misspellings in books (or anachronisms or mismatching sound in video) more easily than others, but my theory is whenever something concerns the story or requires any effort to determine whether it concerns the story or not it breaks immersion.

Misspellings in books, foreign objects or people in a show or film, obviously fake phone numbers and things like that fall into that category.

On the other hand, things like paper quality or font choice (and lens angles, cuts, video resolution, color) tend to not break immersion if the story is right.
Ask HN: Can someone explain these documentaries about USD or fiat money to me?
There are a lot of documentaries (1) (2) on Youtube I'm seeing since 2020 which keep saying that our money (specifically USD) has become worthless ever since Nixon removed the gold standard in 1971. Is there any truth to it or is just clickbait spam?

I would reckon it's the later since the claim sounds like a Flat earth claims, but recently I saw the same claim from a creator I really trust and follow for a long time and so I'm asking here as I see if anyone more knowledgeable can explain this.

tldr:

1. The fed reserve prints money and asks treasury to print IOU. People buy these IOU essentially giving loans to the US govt. The govt then pays these loans back by printing more money by creating more IOUs and so on and so forth.. so they are saying it's like a Ponzi scheme.

2. Previously there had to be gold equivalent but since 1971 this was removed. Now all other currencies are based on USD, yet USD which was once based on gold isn't anymore..

3. There are more points like these govt trying to decrease price of gold, inflation, etc but don't understand economics too well and skipping it for brevity.

But surely there is more to it? Can somebody ELI5 this? Is there even a morsel of truth to these theories?

1) https://youtu.be/cTMna_vYDJg?t=667

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUhJTxK5mA
Flu shots don't require human trials either, should covid be all that different (genuine question) if so why?
> in practice there's a LOT of different ways the memory management can be handled, many of which are deemed "pauseless GC" (though the term is somewhat misleading).

Yes, but I'm pretty sure those "pauseless GC" schemes impose other tradeoffs.

> My statement was considering that reality though. While not true for some use cases, in the vast majority of cases, the runtime optimizes the allocations more than sufficiently.

I'm not sure I follow. The same could be said for Go--in the vast majority of cases, Go's tradeoffs (slow allocations, low latency / non-moving GC) are also suitable.

> Allocators can do a pretty good job of minimizing the overhead of allocation, to the point the amortized cost isn't much more than a single machine instruction.

As far as I know, speeding up allocations to this degree requires a moving GC which imposes a bunch of other constraints (including copying a bunch of memory around).

> Allocating gigabytes of memory quickly is possible. Copying the data can be a lot more work, and often objects have copy semantics that add a lot more additional work.

Yes, but the bottleneck here wasn't the copying, it was the allocations. And if you optimized away allocation cost entirely such that only the copy cost remained, that cost would be so small that the OP would never have bothered to profile because copying small objects like this is so cheap compared to everything else (even if it is expensive compared to bump allocating).

> I think you're implicitly saying "a runtime that minimizes heap allocations" there, in which case I'd agree.

Yes, the allocator and GC are concerned with heap allocations and not stack allocations. I'm using "allocations" as a shorthand for "heap allocations".
Double colon would make talking about perl even worse (:: is namespace separator) -- it's already bad enough that any namespace starting with D becomes an emoticon in pretty much all online editors.

This stuff should just stop. Operating Systems / Browser vendors should instead standardize on a hotkey to bring up an emoji selector that steals focus to filter via typing and inserts on enter key.
You could be right. But how do you know the consultants Musk hired are wrong? How does Eric know? Maybe there was a situation found where that did, in fact, happen. Certainly with a large number of microservices, it could happen. Maybe Musk is saying "edge case" and Eric is saying "on average." Personally I feel outside consultants could have very well found problems that the internal team did not see.

What everyone agrees on is that Twitter's architecture is deeply broken. Eric's been there six years, so he's probably at least a little culpable in that. If I'm Eric, and was part of a team that fucked up that badly for six years, I certainly wouldn't argue back with that much confidence.
Naive q: why are the mRNA COVID vaccines still covered by CICP & not VICP if they're now fully authorized by the FDA? I assumed the initial coverage under CICP was due to the emergency authorization.
The obvious explanation for other country's vaccine recommendations is based in data. COVID kills the elderly (75+) who are more likely to be battling multiple negative health conditions beyond COVID.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsoverti...
How is polio related to covid?
As someone who has been in crypto for 13 years. It was likely a 'hack' by an insider. That is by far the most probable option.
> No, I mean like when a bank buys government bonds, company bonds, or loans money to customers and businesses.

Did you see the asset sheets on VMFXX? Its all government bonds, loans, and so forth. There's no "cash" just sitting there. Its all, completely composed of various kinds of loans (averaging 11-days in maturity).

I've given you a "real bank" (Vanguard, an investment bank specifically but yes, a bank), that's conducting these "loans" / bonds that you're talking about.

I've also brought up SWVXX, Schwab's competitor fund, is a "prime" MMF that consists _mostly_ of commecial paper (ie: loans to non-government entities), with higher levels of risk involved.

--------

Based on how this discussion is going, perhaps I should focus on SWVXX instead.

http://hosted.rightprospectus.com/SF/MMD/Fund.aspx?cu=808515...

There's even "less cash" here than in VMFXX. That's why I'm talking about these money-market funds. These are... the things you're trying to talk about, right? These banks / entities that are making a ton of loans / bonds to each other?

I'm thinking of real-world entities and trying to match them up to what you're talking about. These things have names ya know. They're not just mysterious "banks" out there. People invest into SWVXX or VMFXX, or other such tickers / funds.

> Weighted Average Maturity: 9 days

You see that? It will take 9 days for most of those funds to mature and turn into cash, on the average for SWVXX today. This isn't "cash", its a pile of loans. Very short-term high-quality loans, but its a pile of loans. Is this not what you were trying to talk about?

> That's the kind of business that leads to bankruptcy if all your customers suddenly ask for their money back (which you have been lending behind their backs).

Yes. That's why there's strict liquidity tests, liquidity reserves, and publication requirements for entities such as SWVXX. The risk is real, and we need to keep an eye on it to make sure that Schwab and Vanguard aren't cheating the books.

Those publication requirements simply do not exist for Binance or Coinbase. There's no asset sheet vs liabilities sheets. There's no reporting guidelines. There's nothing.
Could someone tell me what is meant by "just-in-time WebSockets loading"? Google has failed me.
In general this doesn't work, the history rule says mutable types are not proper subtypes of immutable ones (and the converse is obvious). If you want to capture mutability in your type system, it needs to be orthogonal to subtyping (like C/C++ const).
Finally this question is no longer considered fringe.
Speed traps have no long-term effect on speeding: study
That youngsters in a new, unregulated and often scammy industry could do this, is not at all surprising. That lots of old people with billions of dollars gave them money to lose, is what needs explaining here.
Those people want to be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)

when they grow up. The USD is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US government which has the power to tax the productive capacity of our farms, mines, manufacturing, service and financial economy. Gold is limited in supply, I grant it that, but the existence of gold is not linked to the existence of productive capacity for anything else people want.

The best argument for gold is that the demand for gold has existed for a long time, I read somewhere that a Roman might have been paid a few pounds of gold a year which is about what an American might get paid if they got paid in gold. The best argument against it is that there is not enough gold in circulation to support a modern economy without the value of gold exploding to the point where you'd have a very hard time measuring it out. That's why goldbugs are really betting on the collapse of civilization, like that guy in the Bond movie.
Flu shots were not mandated for work, study or travel.
Porn has been proven to have severe detrimental physical and mental effects, including: erectile dysfunction, depression, changing perceptions of sex, etc.

Feel free to google them (going on google scholar and typing in “pornography negative impacts” is a good start), or I can cite a laundry list of studies saying the same thing.
LED TVs use far, far less power than the old CRT TVs. The old TVs would warm up a room, LEDs, not.
That’s a common problem when dealing with illiquid assets and not a characteristic of just crypto. For example a VC firm buys 10% shares of a company valued $1B at their latest round. Then the market tanks but no one really knows what these shares are worth because they are not trading anywhere so you don’t have a price to mark them. As a result you mark them in your books with the latest round price at $100m even though they might be worth much much less.
Indeed. Replace scroll lock with emoji lock
Everything is simple if you ignore complexities.
Fun to see crypto speed-run the experience of US banking system from 1865-1913 (when the Federal Reserve Act passed).

Binance is essentially saying they'll be a lender of last resort (i.e. the fed)
Wow, that's pretty bad. Not only you take the risk but you are doomed to loose either way.