jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. And the effectiveness of the criteria Google uses to screen & interview candidates is highly debatable, at best.

One of their recruiters once contacted me (because I went to a 'top university') but decided it would be a 'waste of time' because I hadn't done any Java or C++ recently. It used to be that Google was interviewing for knowledge of the fundamentals unlike most other 'business-oriented' companies that want specific recent skills.

Nowadays it seems that they've got the 'worst' of both worlds - I heard they interview for very hard-core graph programming algorithms, and at the same time they want recent experience with Java or C++. So basically if you've recently only done Lisp/Smalltalk/etc or even Python, you don't qualify. Where is the logic in that?

On top of that, my impression was that the salary levels of their employees were fairly astronomical, on par with the ones paid by banks/hedge funds, but that definitely doesn't seem to be the case.
There is a difference between a contractor with 20 years of experience and a kid straight out of college.
I use the StartSSL Wildcard/Class2 certificate and I'm quite happy with it.
The validation process is really quick and easy: you send them a scan of your id/passport or similar and some grumpy guy from israel calls you and asks for your name and birthdate.
I'm not that worried about a scan of my id-card getting lost, you have to provide that all the time.
Have you thought about uploading the index.html with a version number ( index_12345.html ) and all the support files (css, js, etc) in a directory like 'support_12345', then just changing the DRO in cloudfront?

That might make the updates faster while not requiring you to set a low cache value.
You're arguing the completist case: that of a totalitarian state, where legitimacy is significantly a function of the execution of power against part of the populace.

One intermediate form of a state is a rule-of-law state which regularly trades significant power for increased legitimacy - examples are chartered government agencies that have a goal (source of core legitimacy), are governed by public legislation and regulation, and who are restricted in the the types of power they may wield in all situations and who are subject to an independent administrative, judicial or political review which may be triggered by aggrieved members of the populace. They gain additional legitimacy by the fact that they may only use the least force or power that is considered by the populace as necessary to achieve their legitimate goals.

I quite like rule-of-law states, and find the current rebalancing of minimum power/legitimate goals very interesting in a historical context, viz. security theatre and traditional concepts of civil liberties.
I'm reading a lot of commenters above chime in with explanations for why it's logistically hard for GOOG to maintain these scut-work keep-lights-on projects because they are so unappealing to their engineers and often involves e.g. boring, non-promotable work. This gave me a Radical idea.

So, I'm one of the lucky few trans folks who have managed to survive and flourish. I'm vividly aware of at least one reservoir of brilliant people who don't get a crack to show the world what they can do.

Instead of just shuttering projects that aren't sexy enough, or are too difficult to maintain, or don't contribute to your OKRs or promotions. Why not give them away? Why not give them to a team of folks with: disabilities, barriers to professional advancement; etc. Google could quality-ensure and knowledge-transfer, meanwhile doing social good, and getting ongoing support for a product that they would otherwise have to add to the increasingly embarrassing pile of abandonware?

I'm not saying it would be easy -- I can think of any number of places where this could go horribly wrong -- but it is quite obviously a step in the right direction to try.

There are lots of great minds that would kill for a chance to do something boring for a change, because financial (and then food, and then shelter) instability is anything but.
Sure, but how do you propose doing that? Send another strongly worded letter to PDL demanding their customer list?
Limited? There's a law office on every corner. 2/3 of all billboards are rented by law offices (ok, that's made up, but still...)

However, FTA:

> Last year, the Trump administration effectively closed the Justice Department’s Office for Access to Justice, designed in 2010 to make lawyers available to everyone.

Let's put the blame where it should go.
Or just a create an e-mail account which is connected to your small server with IMAP with IDLE.

Create a white list, and if mail is coming from a white-listed mail then print the contents, otherwise discard the mail.

This is how my Deskjet 4515 is working besides GCP. It's a pretty neat solution. It even replies with a result e-mail. I hope that HP won't kill its services too. They've already killed the app side, but remote printing is still intact.
This is so overblown, it's not even funny.

Look at that interior of the Tesla, and tell me that there's not a huge set of complex components. Imagine the repair costs on the stainless steel structure. No body shop is set up for this.

If you want simple, low maintenance, a 2WD Silverado with a small block is as simple as it gets. You do what? Change the oil and coolant every now and then? Flush the transmission a couple times through it's life? If you stick with what's actually practical, ICEs are extremely reliable and have very little maintenance these days. People get hundreds of thousands of miles without so much as an over the air update...

Also, I can do all this maintenance myself on a Silverado. Pop the drain plug, and then refill with fluid. Can you even do your own flush on the cooling system in a Tesla without voiding your warranty?
That's true, but how many people in the field started out with the right specialty to begin with?

They might be disappointed graduating post-ML bubble, especially if they have their hearts set on half a million dollar salaries, but they'll do fine with a PhD in CS.

Then again, I'm not part of the SV world, so YMMV.
My last two employers have both offered Hyatt Legal group plans[1] as a voluntary benefit.

I signed up because it seemed like a potentially useful benefit and ~$9/paycheck was a tiny enough cost to impulse check that box without much thought.

It's turned out to be one of my favorite, most used company benefits. Both companies have carved out different services the plan covers, but in general it has covered every instance I've ever needed to leverage a lawyer for personal needs. And removes the impetus of having to find/vet/pay a lawyer for smaller work like reviewing and drafting legal documents that I otherwise would have done myself and hoped I covered everything well enough.

It gives you the benefit of the second scenario, without the unpredictable costs of retaining a lawyer directly. If your work offers it, I highly recommend getting it.

[1] https://www.legalplans.com/
Maybe yes, maybe no.

Enjoying moving goalposts?
So you make 600k and you think lawyers charge too much huh.
> They control these institutions and they want to make damn sure Donald Trump never happens again.

Oddly enough Trump was all but a symptom of a system that's completely hollowed out and unable to work for the Trump crowd.

Not only does the system not work for Trump ppl - it effectively represents no one.

So you end up with this pathetic ping-pong between major parties, trying to declaring their "mandate" after each election. The truth is that a sliver of swing voters is switching between absolute fools and empty suits.

Biden is The System incarnate - he created the void that was begging for Trump and it'll be interesting to see what happens next.

Instead of trying to understand how the Trump crowd is ailing and respond to their requests for help and recognition no matter how distorted and seemingly vulgar/uncivilized/etc., we had 4 years of hysteric catastrophizing, outright conspiracy theories(like Russia-gate) and obstruction.

Let's remind everyone that Hillary participated in the whole "switch the electors", "he's an illegitimate president" talk.
Twitter itself presents itself to investors and users as communication network, not a publisher or media company. This is a direct quote from the very first paragraph of their 10K filing:

> Twitter shows every side of the story.

So, I'd say the better analogy isn't a news station or printing press. This is more like if Verizon decided to start censoring your phone calls.
I'm pretty sure public utilities don't get to deny service for political wrongthink, though. And platforms like Android play store and the iPhone app store are definitely that (regarding Parler).
Which will soon be banned from their platforms by Apple and Google. :-\
Or the goverment could defend me from corporations leveraging their power against consumers?. When companies are clearly having so much power they are influencing media and political opinion its not just their private property like the backyard of a house
NB: Google and Bing works. Yahoo and DDG (and by extension lots of others) doesn't work.
Agreed. It very well may be coded speak to rile up some supporters and drive them to violence, but that's hardly clear to the average observer. There are so many other instances of direct calls to incite violence, it's rather sad that these were the two that broke the camel's back.
The difference here will be the whether Parler was negligent. If they had calls for violence on their platform that were reported to them, and their community moderation team was so short-staffed that they didn't act on them, Parler could have culpability.

Facebook, et al have moderation mechanisms that can probably withstand scrutiny, but Parler sounds like an extremely lean operation that the discovery process may reveal to have negligently failed to act on information that led to death. It's not about people disliking their political speech, it's about them ignoring things they had a responsibility to act on.
This seems eerily like the academia and elites supporting Stalin right before they got sent to gulags.

Baffling how most people on this site fail to see it.
These need to integrate HRV to be ultimate killer in home heating.
Something's fishy here...

This is the first I've heard of the whole thing, so forgive me if I'm just bloviating.

As a political move to advance the cause of memory-safe languages, as Alex Gaynor clearly intends†, this is obviously kind of a fiasco.

The arguments about who's going to pay for safer software are uninteresting. It's like arguing over who is going to run into the burning building to save the baby. Put some liability laws in place and see what you get?

As for Rust not supporting "weird architectures", are y'all serious about being the new contender or not? C isn't going to give up the title without an epic fight. Love it or hate it, to a first approximation C is programming.

†I do not mean that in a negative way. FWIW I'm referring to https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/ga... which I just read. Personally, I'm at "Bargaining" stage, I think we can still "turd polish" C into something and Rust seems to me to be waaaaaaaay too complex (to replace C. It sure is fun though, eh?)
You can be right in many places and still wrong in some, and enjoy enormous success as a result of all you have done well. That does not mean nobody can criticize you for something that you have clearly done wrong.
Many companies, when you say "gee, I'd love to start two weeks from now, but my next batch of RSUs doesn't vest / bonus doesn't come until two months from now.", will cover what you're losing out on (or will meet you halfway) with a hiring bonus or something like it.

Don't let a little vesting keep you from grabbing an opportunity. Two-months-from-now you will probably look at that next chunk of vesting RSUs the same way Right-Now you is looking at the upcoming one. Meanwhile, things are moving really fast at small companies and Two-months-from-now you missed a couple months of it.
This was back in a time when one guy could be familiar with every single line of code running on a computer, from user space programs right down to the kernel. This level of simplicity surely did wonders for reliability. Not to say you couldn't achieve good results with a more complex modern system, though to spend a lot more time making things failsafe.
I'm making a note here: sharecropping reminder incident #435.
For this to happen, we need the replicators from Star Trek. At that point, it WILL change everything
Not to detract from the significance of this incredible revolution in technology we are all a part of, but it begs mentioning that the majority of commercial activity is divorced from this paradigm. Regardless, the headline is sensationalist, even if you limit your sample to "digital content."

It's still the wild west out there, so people approach the production of (commercial) digital content without enough economic realism. When this domain is more established, I don't believe (commercial) digital content will be such a commodity.

I mean, use common sense: aren't YOU suffering from an inability to differentiate between what is and is not worth paying attention to online? Wouldn't you "pay-to-play" if someone got it really, really, really right? I know I would.
Could we have a hybrid? We don't need to see the exact number... what if massively upvoted (100+ points) got a green highlight on the "link" URL, and massively downvoted (-10 or more) get shaded, like they already do?

This keeps the content from being so quickly judged, but eventually shows strong content that has been upvoted by hundreds without bias.
This article is a bit facile and ignores data that disprove their point.

They hold Twitter as a model for the "end of scarcity" and yet Twitter has put the kibosh on new tweet clients?

If anything, scarcity is even more abundant with all this abundance. Scarcity of user attention/memory isn't going away. Scarcity of IP with an increasing patent minefield; We still might be looking at coming bandwidth restrictions as the ISPs lower their thresholds to tax the internet services and users.

This article reminds me of the original dot-com bubble and how Wired and other tech-saavy digests were crowing about DOW hitting 40k and the abundance economy, the long boom... that didn't end well.
If anyone is interested in some of the background of what happened:

"The Sony PS3 console was hacked, or more appropriately "jailbroken", by iPhone hacker, Geohot. He managed to reverse engineer his own PlayStation 3 to run homebrew applications on it. He then later released the method to the public through his site, geohot.com. Sony responded with a lawsuit and demanded social media sites, including YouTube,[citation needed] to hand over IP addresses of people who visited Geohot's social pages and videos.

PayPal has granted Sony access to Geohot's PayPal account,[citation needed] and the judge of the case granted Sony permission to view the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz#Sony_lawsuit
But it requires you to have an account with some other party, such as Facebook or Google. What if you don't want that? Suddenly this service that you do want to use becomes unusable.

And it also tells Facebook / Google etc what other sites you use, which is none of their business (not that they won't grab that info because of like buttons, analytics, embedded fonts or hosted JS but that's another matter).
How have birds evolved to handle this?
"don't invent your own crypto" I laughed hard.
If you mean Joda time, then "xxxx" is also affected (which is correct behavior):

public static void main(String[] args) {
long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("YYYY: " + DateTimeFormat.forPattern("YYYY").print(now));
System.out.println("yyyy: " + DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy").print(now));
System.out.println("xxxx: " + DateTimeFormat.forPattern("xxxx").print(now));
}

prints

YYYY: 2014
yyyy: 2014
xxxx: 2015
Me too. I can't stand unnecessary whitespace, the current size of HN is readable enough as it is on the desktop, the condensed content is a feature, all HN really needs (IMO) is a better theme for mobile and collapsible comment threads.
what fraud costs? please elaborate
I know, right? Chilling. I could crack those (the 512-bit ones, anyway). Why on earth would we want to keep those around?

Your first sentence seems to me like an excellent reason to remove DHE altogether from TLS 1.3, considering those servers do not support, and presumably may never support, (the draft) Finite Field DHE parameter negotiation.

Discrete log in prime fields does have the index calculus problem; it won't keep being good forever, and the performance gets worse. I'm banking on having enough different backup between ECDHE over secp256r1 and X25519 over Curve25519 that any elliptic curve difficulty won't be a problem.
I use Private Internet Access, it works incredibly well.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

Their site really needs a redesign, though.
Norway being politically more socialist than the US is an example of reasons to admire Norway more. By not allowing companies to take advantage of people the way they are often able to do in the US makes a huge difference in the quality of life for everyone.

PS: I'm an American living in Norway. :)
No rather I am saying that there aren't enough facts to make fair judgements but given the limited facts I get the impression they aren't bad parents, instead they are normal rational caring people who were dealing with a very difficult child.
We use thawte.
One possible explanation is that he values the privacy more than any gain he could receive from turning a profit on the beach.
He's only risking his reputation in the eyes of the public, not his peers.

Probably there are quite a few rich Californians who would be happy to see Khosla win, are backing him privately and are grateful to him for volunteering as the public villain.
I agree. That's why I added the base64 encoding option. The sentence you gave would SHA1 | base64 encode to this password:

PtyrFg9YAStZenWaledWVdzTl8E=

It has uppercase, lowercase, numeric and a special char. If that is too long for some sites (and I have found that to occur), then use the half base64 password:

PtyrFg9YAStZen

Has all of the complexity as above except a special char.
I may be missing something, as it seems at least I can't get a look at the actual javascript file, but is there some reason you believe they didn't write snowstorm.js?
I've had a pneumomediastinum - similar thing but right next to my heart. Pretty scary just having a massive pain in your chest and not knowing what's wrong. I was lucky though and didn't need any surgery and it just cleared up on its own.
Calling it a "hive" and city dwellers a "tribe" has strong negative connotations you cannot be unaware of. Be open-minded when calling for openmindedness.
There are two kinds of people who buy bitcoin - those who genuinely find bitcoin useful in conducting transactions, and those who are trying to make money off the first group.

It turns out bitcoin's rapid price growth was driven by people from group 2, not group 1.
This is awesome. Finally a solution for all those white on black blogs.
Compare to the 2008 post-mortem: http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html Messaging infrastructure as single point of failure? Check. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2472227
Reminds me of the http://programming-motherfucker.com/
Strange how many of the commenters on the article think the Sony was hacked from a rooted PS3. There's no evidence but I'll assume this was done from a PC until I see some reason why doing it from a PS3 would make it easier (in any way).
That sounds really interesting. I've lived in Argentina for 6 Months, next to the Chilean border, and now I'm really wondering if I shouldn't move to Chile instead of boring myself to death here in France.

Many of my Argentine friends in the IT field moved to Chile too. But almost everything IT is connected copper mining there (at various degrees), and I'm not sure it that interesting.
Cool. So if/when Oracle buys Joyent they won't use the trademark for nefarious purposes?

Why not transfer it to Apache? Have people abused Apache server? Apache Lucene? Apache CouchDB?

We heard the same thing from Sun about Java. It's a slippery slope.

Anyone who puts a lot of time or effort into Node at this point and later gets burned has no one to blame but themselves.
Well, things might be[come] possible if people like Burkhard Heim are correct with their theories and ideas.. :)

http://www.heim-theory.com/Content/Obituary_of_Burkhard_Heim...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6990323/Burkhard-Heim-Take-a-Leap-...

www.mufon-ces.org/docs/heimphysics.pdf
I think the author is talking about office politics, not electoral politics.
I've just come across the statistic before. Here's a quick search hit, saying e-commerce as of a year and a bit ago that indicates 35% of e-commerce.

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/12/amazons-mark...

Maybe they do want to monopolize, but I'm pretty sure that they couldn't, what with Walmart, Target, eBay, Ali Express, and other major global players in the space. Amazon's want is largely irrelevant to a conversation like this.
You should have a look at Frama-C (https://frama-c.com/) as well for this kind of stuff.
I think a majority of places will see your contribution as a positive thing. A few will not, but you probably don't want to work for those places anyway. I think the more conservative the company is, the more likely they will be to look down on your bitcoin contribution. I'm thinking small mom-n-pop shops outside of the valley, maybe also big financial institutions. Pretty much any startup in the valley would see the contribution as positive.
Cool!

It would be interesting to see how far it gets on the ANSI test suite from http://www.cliki.net/GCL%20ANSI%20Test%20Suite
Aside from detecting your ip location they must be running some other proxy detecting schemes.

I live in Europe and have squid proxy server running on my Amazon instance located in Portland, Oregon (something like my private "free proxy"). It works ok in Firefox, but fails in Chrome, can't really figure out why. I suspect chrome extension I use to easily manage proxies adds some custom header that is detected by Netflix. And it's NOT some obvious header like "via" or "x-forwarded-for" which I disabled as a matter of course in squid conf. All "locate my ip" sites tell me I'm from US, but netflix tells me I'm from x (which is my homecountry).

Alternative to running http proxy such as squid is using ssh socks proxy(provided server you ssh to is located in US). This cannot be detected by any means IMO.
If you have 10m in the bank and want to be involved in events at that level, you can be: we would just instead call you an executive producer.
I have no idea how the full-screen mode is supposed to work or what it is supposed to be good for; I just know that every now and then I fat-finger something and accidentally invoke it, at which point whatever single window I happened to be using zooms to take over one of my monitors, while the other monitor turns grey and useless. I don't understand how this could ever be a useful feature.
The U.S. isn't any less diverse than Syria or Iraq and the potential conflicts between the groups are no less serious. And at times this has resulted in violence. Ever watch Gangs of New York? So why aren't American Catholics fighting Protestants like Shi'ites fight Sunni? It's not because we're just better people on this side of the pond.
So... you (the writer) have noticed that the more experienced a candidate is, the less likely they are to get your interview question "right" (i.e., done the way you want). And...you haven't questioned this process?

Sometimes, I think half the reason developers stay in unsatisfactory jobs is that they don't want to go through interviews led by interviewers like this guy. Who I think is probably similar to the majority of interviewers, based on my experience.