skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GAAP accounting lives in its own world, based on the operations of a 19th century barrel-making factory, where the value of a firm is simply the sum of all assets they hold minus all liabilities they owe.

In real life, an acquired firm is worth more than that because it's a "going concern." Even if you're buying a factory, it's worth more than the machinery and inventory because it's a business that will generate cash in the future.

The point of the GOODWILL asset is a sort of hack to represent this intangible value that you're going to get from operating the business you bought, which theoretically is exactly the difference between the net assets and the acquisition price. By putting in a goodwill amount, the acquisition isn't considered a net gain or loss at the moment that it happens; the books assume that the correct price was paid with no impact on company value.

When you realize that the business is actually a bit of a dud, you can take a GOODWILL IMPAIRMENT which basically means "eh, I guess running this business isn't worth as much as we thought." You reduce the value of the goodwill asset and recognize an expense, reducing your profit for the year where you realized there was an issue. There's therefore an incentive to recognize goodwill impairments when (or before) you make a lot of profit, so that you can reduce your profit and therefore your taxes.

(Side note - accrual accounting makes a lot more sense once you start thinking of assets as "cash that's missing but we aren't admitting it yet" and liabilities as "cash that's there but we aren't admitting it yet"; admitting or "recognizing" these things turns assets into expenses and liabilities into revenues.)

This gets really funny in software. Software startups live in their own world, based on a handful of them working out and dominating the entire economy, where the value of a firm is whatever you want it to be because it's basically infinity or zero.

So in these cases, goodwill represents the massive gap between "the amount we paid for our computers plus some percent of the amount we've spent on engineering salaries" and "I bet this thing will make use worth $50B one day so let's pay $2B for this capability." It's Schrodinger's accounting entry, waiting for the acquisition team to be proven right or wrong (usually wrong) one day. And most importantly, it's a mouth-watering chunk of tax avoidance that can be written down whenever needed to offset profits. Legitimately, because you really did lose that money making a bad business decision.
Ahh but is that the logical answer? Surely logic can tell us that it is okay to sell your family members for cash, they're dying after all
I over indexed on the "financial" part, I am talking about people who aren't living great lives in general despite being very smart. They are scratching their cognitive itch, but only in ways that doesn't do anything concrete for them (not just money.)
Don't forget the streets in Northeast (Nordeast?) named after Presidents, arranged in order of their presidency.
Yes, CEO is a high-risk profession (you can really hurt your back golfing all day), but coal miner is not.

Plus what does this have to do with mortality in children again?
Without a doubt! Also my energy level is probably lower now so I'm sure it would be even harder.
Better yet, a GitHub Actions action to do it!
I just use the Lyft bikes in SF and forget about maintenance and theft. At ~$3 a ride, it's about $1k/yr which works for me (of course the number is different for everyone).
If you criminalize encryption then only criminals will have encryption. If that’s what it takes then I’ll gladly be a criminal.
Here's NeoStore's GitHub project page:

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store
Completely unreadable. Who in there right mind makes a code block overflow hidden?

Not sure if the blame is with GitHub or OpenAI, but how do either of them not open this on a phone at least once?
I don't know that your experience is but I've worked on many products that are 10+ years old. Additionally, I'd take 3 old time engineers over 6 new engineers in a heartbeat. The problem is that every business wants to cut labor cost because that's the MBA way to do things. Why pay USA wages to someone with 15+ years of experience when you can hire three new beginners in the USA or an entire team in another country (again with less experience) for the same amount? The part you're missing from your analogy is the speed and quality of the bridge to be built. Want it done fast and right? Hire the engineers with experience. Want it done fast and possibly going to collapse and end in a lawsuit in 5 years? Hire those idiots.
Another beautiful response:

> Screw this meta verse, I’m out! Everything here is fake!

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My SO and I are both introverts. My SO has mostly extrovert friends, and my sister is very extrovert as well.

We've been talking about how it appears that extroverts lack some internal feedback system or something, causing them to seek constant external stimuli. Whereas with us, we've got more than enough with our own internal stimuli.

In the study, the test period was a mere 15 minutes. To me that's an exceptionally short time to be alone, and not a problem at all.
Ten seconds probably would have done it.
You are correct. Here in EU is the same with the corporate mall theaters.

What we do have however are larger networks of subsidized cinemas which almost operate like non-profits. Those usually have projectionists who don’t cut corners.

In my time working with filmmakers and going to film festivals - there really is an obsession with getting it “just right”.

It is truly sad to me how the US has only so many of these Alamo Theaters. Every community should have a properly functioning cinema - it shouldn’t be treated like a computer you hit play on.
No, there were a lot of different procedures, some involved playing games.
I get that. But those are cars generally driving at highway speeds, and there is a lot of safety built it.

These e bikes and scooters are going quite fast in urban environments with more or less zero protection for the cyclist/scooterist, and who are closer to pedestrians.
Good! It's absolutely unacceptable that something as intimate and vulnerable as a therapy company would share my data with a company as abusive as Facebook.
It’s not a handicap. We’re not asking people to diagram their current systems. We don’t advocate for people to do that. You could just walk us through an HTTPS request and it would work, if you understood HTTPS requests well enough.
I’m pretty sure the continuously monitored over time, I don’t think switching accounts for the effect.
Even despite the outages, I've found GL much better overall.
Mindfulness meditation involves the opposite of ignoring thoughts, and instead trains you to be aware of each thought as it comes and goes but to avoid identifying with it or getting lost in the thought. Ignoring/suppressing thought is one of the biggest misconceptions many people have when first going into mindfulness practice, myself included.

There are other forms of meditation/concentration practice, but the practice recognized to be widely beneficial is Mindfulness/Vipassana/“Seeing things as they are”.
I've got mixed feelings about that as well, but on the whole it's about even and I'm not sad that the search is local and instant. It's not that big a deal to me to download a few megabytes on top of the f-droid apk.

Then again, to download anything (including screenshots and other app info, let alone the app itself) you need a server connection so it's only mildly useful to not have to ask a server. And the search algorithm is... nonexistent I think is the most correct word to use. You get what you ask for. The top three hits for "camera" are Telegram and two identical looking SIP clients, of course. (There's not being influenced by algorithms and there's this.) I wonder if te project would accept a better algo if I'd contribute one; I've made one before at work for a not dissimilar dataset so I have some notion of what works, though it's not rocket science anyway.
There is still paperwork for nationalized systems.
I've been using hosted runners for GitHub actions, so I understand they are down... What if I self-host runners -- will they work?
Yes, that's a good point. It's certainly a cool design.
“may or may not be fully embraced by older generations and may need additional explanation.”

I directly quoted the article that specifically said additional explanation had to be made.

"If someone says they identify as Latinx, then you identify them as Latinx" except that's not what the article says. It discussed how LatinX is often used as the default in progressive language.
Ex-AWS here and echo what you said. Although there are some outliers (like myself, in terms of non-linear path) at AWS, most SDEs more or less traveled a similar paths:

1. Undergrad CS -> FAANG
2. (International) Undergrad {CS, Math, Computer Engineering} -> Masters {CS, Math, Computer Engineering} -> FAANG

Awesome to hear (at Shopify) that the company welcomes more diverse (technical/academic) backgrounds.
It's particularly nice as it allows to do point in time recovery - you can tell PostgreSQL to replay WALs up to a given point so if say corruption happened because of some code bug you could play the database to the point minute before.

Backup process is two part

* archive logs as they come in - PostgreSQL have hook that will run program with the WAL segment to archive so just need to put whatever you want to use to backup it with there
* start backup from PostgreSQL - that will stop it writing to the DB files and only write to WALs - and just copy the database directory files. Then tell PostgreSQL to resume writing to them. No need for anything fancy like file snapshots.

So just copying files really.

Restore is just restore the above and feed it WALs to the chosen point.

We also run slave so master being shot would only kill running transactions, fancier setups I've seen also run "delayed slave" - slave that replays non-current WAL so basically presents view of database from say 1 hour or 1 day ago. That way if something fucks up DB you already have server that is running, just need to replay WALs to the chosen point.

> I don't personally believe in backups that are never verified.

We ended up making backup job lottery. Pick a job out of system and send an email to ticketing system "hey, admin ,restore this job for testing". So far it worked.

One system also have indirectly tested restore, as the production database is routinely anonymized and fed to dev server

We've also baked it into automation we use for deploying stuff so for most things not backing up is harder than backing up. Still, accidents happened...
It’s the peers and stakeholders that are the problem; no one knows what they need, and everyone knows what they want, and if they aren’t responsible for the work they’ll always try to include everything and declare it a must-have. And you’ll get those who escalate over nothing, people actively working against you (because they disagree with the project goals and got overridden, or wanted to own it themselves), people who are necessary but apathetic / busy, people who are angry about something else but take it out wherever they get the chance to, changing requirements and sudden timeline shifts/deadlines because of events outside of your control… etc

At least when there’s someone with strict authority involved, these things can be resolved pretty quickly — everyone defaults to authority. But that’s rare; most projects involve multiple domains, each with authority over their dominion, and opinions on what the others need to be doing (and all trying to minimize their own responsibility and risks, by both simplifying the project, but also offloading it onto their peers).

Ultimately coordination between parties is inherently a bitch.
Don’t lump Courier and Courier New together. Courier (which Apple includes) is fine; it’s only Courier New (which Windows includes) that’s atrociously light, because it was digitised very badly incorrectly. It actually used to be not so bad, because they kinda patched it to make it usable with hinting, and then special-cased it in ClearType, but those don’t really go far enough and aren’t consistently reliable anyway, so it’s just an awful font.

But no browser defaults to Courier New any more—Firefox on Windows was the last browser to finally update to a better font, just under a year ago (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607913).
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I think people that are feeling real anxiety due to AI to the point it is affecting their lives should go seek therapy and not look to alarmist blog posts like this for advice.
100%

Division of labor: making accidental complexity essential since 1945.

Then again, perhaps we need to account for opportunity cost. Even if persistent storage can take many forms, it's hard to imagine that equivalent features could be 10x simpler. Maybe Chuck Moore would disagree, but his modus is usually to insist you don't need something.. (also totally fair)
Builders and bundlers fail sometimes. I don't want to introduce an extra point of failure in my production services.

Maybe this is nice for local development. But really it just feels like the tooling version of a "code smell". If people think bundling/building is too slow, then people should work on making that faster. Maybe that means people need to stop writing JS builders/bundlers in JS, and use a language like Rust that has better performance characteristics. I wouldn't consider that a failure; it's just an admission that we should use the right tool for each job.

Speaking of Rust, the Rust compiler is fairly slow, but my proposed solution wouldn't be "get rid of it and have it dynamically compile at runtime", it's "profile it and make it faster" (which people are doing!).
Britain is still smaller if we can choose an arbitrary address.

S1 1AA

There will be hundreds of complete addresses with this pattern, and many thousands if we add a house number before it.

This is the first I found that is valid. It's the central post office in Sheffield.
The ingredients that make Novak Djokovic the greatest of all time
This is very much a problem due to social media and witch hunts. Creepiness was always a thing, but the worst that could happen back in the day is a rejection if things don't work out.

Nowadays however, it can very well escalate into worldwide public ridicule and/or a witch hunt on social media, with potentially career-ending consequences. You are only really safe if you're either extremely attractive (both to initially reduce the risk of a rejection, and to garner sympathy from would-be witch hunters), are rich enough to not worry about career consequences (or your employer isn't vulnerable to public opinion), or can spin the witch hunt for your own benefit if your entire brand is already based on being against the mainstream (think Andrew Tate for example).

No wonder it's not worth the risk for the vast majority of people.
A Hit is a Hit
My experience, is that they are paying kids right out of college, more than I ever made in my career.

They are willing to pay to avoid old.
Here in NoVA, it’s not reg fees, but property taxes. Ends up somewhere around $3000/year for our two car household.
Is self-hosting a viable middle path?
How many publicly traded companies had their workforce unionize without protest in the last 30 years or maybe longer?

The model also helps make a difference. Starbucks can kill a store to prevent unionization from taking up, but not all business make this a valid method of squashing unionization.

To be clear, it is obvious and plain to see that Starbucks and other corporations view their workforce unionizing as a bad thing for them. The reason they are that is because they believe, reasonably or otherwise, that it will impact their bottom line. The money is what the care about. It is the only thing they care about. Their natural incentive structure of being a publicly traded company is specifically about the pursuit of the almighty dollar.

I work for a non-profit and when unionization occurred there was no pushback about it. My industry is also not traditional in so far as our funding is almost exclusively from federal and state health agencies.

But the increase in wages and quality of life for the members was measurable, and the demand for home health care only continues to rise as the population ages, as well as social/economics factors around the expectation and realities of family members taking care of family members as they age.
This happens every year.

It’s almost like California has a semi-arid climate that relies heavily on snowpack and winter rains to replace resevoirs.
Tony Soprano : [over the phone] It's a bad connection, so I'm gonna talk fast! The guy you're looking for is an ex-commando! He killed sixteen Chechen rebels single-handed!

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Get the fuck outta here.

Tony Soprano : Yeah. Nice, huh? He was with the Interior Ministry. Guy's some kind of Russian green beret. This guy can not come back to tell this story. You understand?

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : I hear you.

[the telephone connection is lost - Tony swears, and Paulie hangs up]

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [turning to Christopher] You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator.

Christopher Moltisanti : His house looked like shit.
Thanks for the info, I had not seen this one before.
> When does risk become so great that consent is unlawful?

They have yet to demonstrate, afaik, a better than 90% success rate. And plenty of news reports have been published suggesting they haven't hit a 50% success rate in monkeys. From the outside looking in, this is Russian roulette.
In what version of C# do you believe C# gained overloading for the compound assignment operators ? The latest Microsoft documentation I could find claims these operators cannot be overloaded.
Real life puzzles are barely purely logical and there’s a lot of competition and superiority that simply bs you over and uses other methods to undermine your effort.

I solve mathdoku before bedtime for fun, but when it comes to “business” I usually want to take a board and smash these smiling snakefaces with it, because that is the most logical move. E.g. in chess they call it “simplification”. Unfortunately that’s illegal, so the best bet is to leave cognition at home.

but not in a way that makes their life better in an objective way (which is most likely the reason we have this drive)

Most of our features are essential for small groups of 10-100 humans. Individual successes are irrelevant for survival. A whole group wins (over another group) when one ape solves a puzzle and shares benefits.
There are new terms added to the lexicon every day for each persons individual experience. They can refer to themselves however they wish. Yet, it is not reasonable to think that unlimited possibilities can be assumed to be known and forced into the grammatical structure of language. It begins to drift into much broader domain of identify expression of simply how I wish to be known. Not every concept of how I want the world to see me could be expressed in a single grammatical construct of language and it is a futile effort to do so.
I don’t care.

Just reading some of these comments, makes me happy I have made the choices that I have made.
SW1A 1AA is Buckingham Palace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SW_postcode_area
I think there may be an error in part 2 of this guide where it talks about ACID.

To my understanding, the C (Consistency) in ACID is referring to the structure of the database. In other words, a SQL table can't be updated in such a way that violates the column definitions and constraints defined by the table.

In this guide, it seems to be talking about strong consistency vs eventual consistency when discussing ACID, which, to my understanding, is a different topic entirely, and refers to the timeliness of accurate reads.
Talking to strangers is much more risky nowadays now that everything is published on social media forever. The worst outcome of a failed/awkward/unwanted social interaction back in the day is a rejection and possibly the recipient laughing at you (maybe with their friends) - no big deal. Nowadays it can very well translate to worldwide public ridicule, harassment and potentially career consequences given that most companies are happily submitting to public opinion.
Are you implying that we reached our European immigrant quota or just the Italian quota?
The element of courtship, getting to know someone, has been ruined by the seemingly endless supply that dating apps portray. Judge the world in a single swipe.

My wife and I met before dating apps. I would be solidly single if I would have had to use them then..
A lot of places in tropical / monsoonal climates get seasonal flooding and roads regularly becoming impassible with flooding and slips and washouts etc, even in "developed" countries. I imagine places that get a lot of snow have similar issues. That doesn't make precise and unambiguous addresses less important than in other parts of the world!
By any reasonable metric, NYT is far better than NY Post. The Post is a tabloid, the Times is a journal of record.
> Mining virgin materials uses much more resources than recycling.

That depends heavily on the material in question. Aluminum, yes. Plastic, no.
> what right does any human have to control anybody else's body?

You can do anything you want to your body. Someone shouldn't be able to pay you to do dangerous things to your body. You can consent to whatever you want, you just shouldn't be able to be compensated for it.

> Why is self harm for money ok in some contexts but not others?

I'd love to hear you name a profession that's so risky that, as the ancestor comment suggests, it should only be available to people with terminal illness.
> and also there appears to be a bug where the minimum tile zoom is not being respected for base layers?

Hi there, Felt engineer here! Thanks for reporting that issue. We've since fixed that bug. Out of curiosity what kind of base layer are you using that has a minimum zoom?
Why? Because it is the #2 bullet point on their presentation of benefits. They could have left it off, but they are trying to make it like like a some sort of win. Considering the opportunity cost, it is not a benefit.
There’s tens of thousands of laid off engineers making all kinds of moonshots right now. We’re gonna have more moonshots than we’ve had in decades.

These layoffs suck on an individual level, but they may be the best thing to happen to technology in years.
Ah, I see. I'm waiting for those to come down towards the $150 range before I'm likely to get one. But they look gorgeous.
You make it sound like an unequivocal truth; it isn't really so. I launched my own hobby website/blog only after I designed my content presentation. It helped me understand what I was writing. Of course I had the underlying drive to write something already, and was not coding up some CSS without a vision.

Everybody finds their writing juices differently. Push where it means you'll write more.