jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Count me in as one of those who disagree with you.

I 100% side with the grandparent comment. When you've worked with a great QA, it's night and day vs a dev writing their own tests, but a dev not writing its own tests is a nightmare.

Ideally there's a place for both and they work very closely with one another to make the software stable at all levels. It's arguable the SRE is the new QA engineer.
> a 4 year sentence is woefully inadequate

yeah, she should get a sentence commensurate with financial-crisis-causing wall street bankers. oh wait...
Deliberate allowances are created but big companies can hire legions of lawyers to reduce their tax burden, to find all sorts of minutia & excuses & readings of words to take advantage of every subclause they can. The aggregate effect feels enormously poisonous, totally toxic. Mega corporations can adapt far faster than anyone or anything else, including those charged with governing & regulating.

Good governance is hard. And megacorps are an advanced persistent threat that goes to great lengths to claim exceptions for itself.
Pfizer tried to do this in Canada with Viagra, and the Canadian Supreme Court invalidated their patent in return.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/pfizer-caught-gam...
Get a free OpenShift account. You can configure your stack by point-and-click, then clone a git repo, and push to it to deploy.
Me too :) I very much expected him to be on the list.
Not that I know of. Uber, I think, has done a good job of running a good, self-regulated, business in leu of government regulation. I'm less worried about Uber specifically than the non-medallion transportation sector in general.

Taxis are regulated because you could have issues when someone gets into a random person's car. You can imagine how that would be dangerous for consumers (both physically and financially).

I personally like Uber a lot and had a good experience when I was able to use them. But, you could see how a lesser competitor could cut corners in background checking their drivers.

I'd rather have somethings explicitly regulated than trust that all companies are interested in spending money on things like background checks. AirBnB has the same flaws, but even more pronounced.
I too was a blue badge during that time, but I think there were three changes that happened when Gates slowly faded out of the company. The company lost focus on Windows desktop applications, the culture pivoted towards business strategy instead of engineering strategy, and quality of both the people and the products declined.

As to losing focus, part of this is because the re-orgs and company policy changes accelerated. At least every two years in the last decade there has been a major shift in branding or focus. This is something decided by the management team, and Ballmer was directly responsible for these constant shifts in direction.

Second, the role of SDE and senior SDE was even more marginalized. I am sure this had been going on, but for a data point note that BillG reviews were run by PMs. The engineering culture was gone and replaced by a business culture. PMs and MBAs ruled every org; they talked about their resources and looked at the SDE-L and SDE-M as line managers whose were there to make their designs reality. This served to push out the more motivated engineers.

And speaking of BillG reviews, these were real and helpful. After a review, we would talk about it for days. Products would be re-aligned, schedules would change, and we would be focused on shipping a great product. When these were gone, Ballmer's business strategy approach failed to motivate or align the teams and that had a drastic affect on quality.
Man, everyone here is so negative. If someone wants to help out aspiring YC companies, why not support that? If YC wants to ban the post, then let them do so. They don't need self appointed moderators.

These guys are trying to help others. Let the idea rise or fall on it's merit.
How does one keep these things in practice in the reality of an over-committed software team with shifting priorities, difficulties interfacing with product management, and bad specifications/requirements that eventually result in significant scope creep? I often feel like I want to refactor code, but the cost of doing so is so high that it would slow me down to the point of missing a deadline. "It works" is usually as much as I have time for.

Maybe I'm just not a very good programmer...
Disgusting - this should be priority one for them to fix.

I just changed all my details to ones from a fake name/address generator, then emailed moonpig to close my account. I will lose about 80 pence, but nevermind.

I didn't see an option to get rid of my credit card details, so that may still be vulnerable, especially with the NameOnCard field in the api.
All the time (if you like horizontal rain).
I don't understand why such a difference between what you are saying and a portable SPOT device [1] which is pretty much standard for extreme sports nowadays. A SPOT device is only 114g, tracks every 2.5 minutes, and runs on batteries for days. $170 for the device and $200 for the service per year.

Actually if passengers start carrying these devices (while sitting next to the window) that's already a solution.

[1] http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=100
Looks like your link was cut off:
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/paving-the-way-for-software-20-...

(Missing the -with-kotlin at the end)
> This market can stay irrational longer than most of us will be alive.

What are you basing this on? It doesn't follow any past experiences nor any of what I read. Sounds like what people said right before it tanked hard

> You can either sit on the sidelines waiting for things to become "rational" and then invest feeling safe making rational 4% gains a year, or you can get in now and make real money

Or, like me, opt out of the FOMO and live life without injecting your money in a cancerous gambling machine no one understand and is being manipulated by things like reddit or Musk tweeting gibberish

> many people who were investing now are still going to be sitting on their irrationally made gains while you dust off your cash and prepare to jump in.

Like in 1929? Or 2008? I won't need to dust off my cash because there are plenty of other things to invest in other than stocks
Yes, especially with room mates, family, a spouse, etc. (if you split the bill of course)

And again, that's only from the UBI. If you have even a crappy part-time minimum-wage job, your quality of life would increase by quite a lot.
Maybe it support serving files (static content)? Or writing them to disk? Either way can we rather argue the point instead of the example?
Static pressure is not about fluid dynamics. The name comes from how it is measured. You block the outflow of the fan (for example with a blocked pipe) and measure the pressure difference between inside and outside of the pipe, while the air is static (ie. it does not effectively flow through the fan).

The pressure difference caused by the fan will be different from the same fan but running in free air (not obstructed).
Firedoge is the better name for it imho.
Yeah but you are conflating the "tagline" with the full message.

By that regard, you aren't buying Apples, you are buying "Golden Delicious Apples certified organic by the State of California and could contain random chemical that might cause cancer to you"

Still apples, but now you question whether they are truly edible or safe, which you used to assume about all apples
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I guess it's time to start building the Dyson Sphere!
Exactly! Apple TV+ is a sleeping giant. So hooked on Servant. Ted Lasso is one of the best Sitcoms (if that's what this is called) in a long time.

Also don't forget about "See", which I laughed at, at first, but it's actually really good. Defending Jacob, Palmer (movie), and The Morning Show (which I still need to start)
There's also a blog post for Graphtage. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/08/28/graphtage/
It's cool, but does seem quite slow. I'm diffing two 45kB CSVs on a fast computer and after 10 minutes I'm still at:

Diffing: 0% ... 0/93195 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
Tightening Fringe Diagonal 48 of 792: ...
Exactly! People seem to underestimate the power in preparation before you leave for a trip. Pick what you want to listen to, and suck it up if a song comes up that you don't like. Before internet everywhere, you had to load up the CD, or you were stuck with the radio. We all still survived. The convenience of all this crap seems to just enable people to start driving before they think about their trip.

This goes for navigation too. You should review your route before you leave, and at the very least have it plugged into your nav unit before you drive off.

There's no excuse for fucking with all this stuff while you drive. If you really need to change something, just pull off for for a minute.
I would attribute this to the "packaging" the article references. As you correctly point out advertisers don't want "the data" they want the hyper-targeted ads that it allows. That's the FB value-add.
81000 is almost a factor 50 higher per capita than portugal which has decriminalized most drugs and treats addicts as people with a health issue, like one might alcoholics.

The quote you pulled from the article from 1997 is also pretty pathetic.

If the author can't distinguish between a crime where there is a very clear perpetrator and victim (rape/incest/murder) and one where at essence we are talking about self harm (drugs/suicide) the premise leaves a lot to be desired.
People don't realize how quickly hardware iterates and how many modifications and changes are made on site in the lab.

Or just how often development hardware self-bricks and needs to be recovered.

Doing hardware work remotely is a lot slower. Possible, but slower.

Edit: Or how there is that one person who is really good at assembly and if you can walk down and ask them a question it'll save you a couple hours (days) of debugging.

And then there is that one person who is really good with an oscilloscope and while in theory you shouldn't need to have decode messages by sight from waveforms, well, this one person can and it sure is useful time to time....
Meanwhile I can vouch for the top performer in this test. I have multiple BlueAir filters in different sizes. They work very well, are reasonably quiet, look nice, and while they’re not cheap they aren’t the most expensive either. Most importantly I also measure particulate and the measurements back up what I can already tell just by smell: the BlueAir really do filter the air well.
I’m thinking about disrupting this whole industry:

http://copypastetaxes.com/
There is a trade off between the collective rights of the innocent citizenry and the rights of the victims of the crimes that can be avoided. At some point the cost of civilian lives will exceed the cost of strain on civil liberties.

Technology progress and, ultimately the potential magnitude of destruction, is expanding at an exponential rate. Therefore looking at the past 50 years is synonymous with driving by looking through the rear view of the car.

Your civil liberties will begin to erode. Even if a bill is passed that revokes the rights of the NSA, at some point in the next few decades a destructive event due to technology innovation and commoditization of knowledge will cause these civil liberties to be eroded.
Can you link a reference? I haven't yet seen it being used to justify any such legislature.
The first row of output from the Neural Net is a special "no character" output which effectively gives you the character segmentation. You can distinguish "aa" from "a" because the former shows up as "(no)a(no)a(no)" whereas the latter is "(no)a(no)". You can read more about this in the Ocropus paper: http://www.helsinki.fi/~mpsilfve/ocr_course/materials/2008-b...
That's bizarre, but given the amount of research lately tying gut flora and inflammation to mood and depression, unsurprising.
FYI - You are probably talking about hate crimes. Hate speech is legal in the USA unless you are making a threat.

You can go buy 30 minutes of airtime and talk about the holocaust being the greatest achievement in human history. Feds can't do shit.
I'm wondering if Techcrunch will be affected by this. They didn't really mention anything about that. It'd be a shame if anything were to happen to such a site.
Will have to take another look, but it still sounds to me like LLVM IR is more comparable to RTL (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/RTL.html#RTL).

Gimple variables have types comparable with C types - you get pointers, arrays.

For example:

int sum10(int values[10]) {
int i;
int sum = 0;
for(i=0;i<10;++i) { sum += values[i]; }
values[0] = 342;
return sum;
}

is compiled down to:

sum10 (int * values)
{
long unsigned int D.1598;
long unsigned int D.1599;
int * D.1600;
int D.1601;
int D.1602;
int i;
int sum;

sum = 0;
i = 0;
goto <D.1595>;
<D.1594>:
D.1598 = (long unsigned int) i;
D.1599 = D.1598 * 4;
D.1600 = values + D.1599;
D.1601 = *D.1600;
sum = D.1601 + sum;
i = i + 1;
<D.1595>:
if (i <= 9) goto <D.1594>; else goto <D.1596>;
<D.1596>:
*values = 342;
D.1602 = sum;
return D.1602;
}
The only counter I have to "it wouldn't be all that hard to..." statements is that it is 2015, emacs can't even refactor things like xcode can do. And xcode is considered horrible by refactoring standards.

If it were so easy it would have happened by now. One can only conclude gcc and its stewardship have no real desire to allow for such a thing to occur at all.

Which means llvm will likely be the future for being able to handle large complex code bases and interactivity with editors like emacs or vim, or whatever else. Why we have to reparse c/c++ in every editor alive when the compiler already does such things and would just need to dump out the information needed to understand it is beyond me.

I only see 2 solutions to this situation. First is gcc gets left behind as a backwater compiler that won't interact with the real world due to religious reasons. Second is it gets forked and like ecgs before it, the fork becomes the canonical version (likely ignored by the gnu/fsf folks as being a heathen fork or whatever).
What makes a great programmer? And what does this great programmers do? We have had and still have a vast number of great programmers in US and churning our more and more, but what do they do? is it greatness that they seek? if so, why are more programmers involved in scientific research? I really want to agree with your views, but for now it seems that immigration is an issue for one market sector, and last time I looked, that market sector isn't out to change the world.
> Wren appear very cool but I think Finch is more my cup of tea.

If you like it, that's great! I think it has some neat ideas but I'm personally not that keen on prototypes these days. Finch could really use someone to own it. If you want to adopt it and do cool stuff with it, by all means do so.
I'm happy to see how much success this project has seen. Here's hoping that we get some demonstrably resilient algorithms out of this.
The problem is that there's a certain segment of the population that will always pay to see CG explosions and the next hollywood starlet's TNA.
I used it pretty much daily in Sweden back in the 80s and 90s to check news, broadcasting schedule, weather, etc. There were a few hundred "pages" and each page had a 3 digit number that you'd punch in to retrieve it.
Have some skill where you can do X and it will cause money to happen for the client.

Use existing knowledge of some narrowly specific type of business to give you intimate knowledge of the unique concerns those people have, how they talk about it, and what boundary conditions are going to affect which solutions do and don't fit well (e.g. gourmet pizza joints near college campuses, or heritage language schools to steal a previous patio11 example).

If you don't have that sort of knowledge already, talk to people until you do. If you do have that sort of knowledge already, keep talking to people anyway because you still have plenty more to learn.

Use knowledge of this specific customer to find, approach, and pitch clients who are a good match for your target customer. If you don't know how to find them, you don't know them yet.

Then, pitch them:

"You can have me do X which will cause money to happen for you."

"I'm aware that you have concern_a and concern_b, which I will handle using specific_approach, whereas generic_person_235089 doesn't even have a clue about these important_issues."

LISTEN to what they say, then use it to refine your ability to select potential clients and to improve your future pitches. Easy, easy, easy hack: remember the words they use to describe things and use EXACTLY those words when pitching them.

Run 10 pitches, review, repeat with another 10 target customers. Make money.

Then, go read tptacek's guide to scaling your practice:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615

P.S. It's okay to be a generalist on the back end. It's not okay to be a generalist when you pitch. Address a clear, specific problem for a clear, specific target customer using clear, specific language which shows sensitivity to the issues as THEY see it and talk about it.

98% of people pitch by talking about things that are really their problems, not the client's problems. Actually, saying 2% of people clear that bar is probably being too generous. If you aren't sure, a good trick is to ONLY use language that you've heard come out of a customer's mouth.
Then perhaps a different method should be used - although removing all the stuff that makes up adverts is one way to do it (and often does make for faster page loads and lower bandwidth consumption), if the end goal is the user just doesn't want to see them, maybe that's what we should do: everything except render certain elements.

(There's also the alternative of targeting the scripts that do this; an anti-anti-adblock! Reminds me of the arms race between malware attempting to prevent itself from reverse-engineering via detecting debuggers and such, and the opponents coming up with anti-anti-debugging, leading to anti-anti-anti, and so forth...)
> I'd argue the Heat might not be as good if they had 5 LeBrons, either. After you get people in the right positions to contribute via their specializations, the next most important is -- by far -- to encourage mentorship and active sharing within the team.

A similar thing happened in football (soccer), when the Real Madrid of the early 2000s decided to let go Claude Makélélé, a defensive midfielder who was in charge of all the "grunt work". For the following 3 years Real didn't win anything, even though they had Zidane, Ronaldo, Figo and Beckham among others.
I have an absolutely unlimited data plan (long story...) that I'd hate to lose, and T-Mobile would have been a bit more expensive.
Just because people can program in Javascript doesn't mean they will be able to easily modify the code. Complicated code is complicated in any language, and Javascript in particular allows to write completely incomprehensible code that even pros would have trouble with. In addition, you'd still have to learn all the necessary APIs which might be harder than learning a new language.
In an ideal world, no one would ever have to work under pressure, and while some people in this industry don't, many (I would bet a majority) of people do or have in the past. This seems especially true for startups trying to break into a market with competition.

Either you have been lucky with the places you've worked at, have sifted through tens of shops to find a good one, or have very little experience in the industry. I really do hope that none of
my assumptions are true and that one day I can find a functional, low-pressure team to work with.
It's wild to me that game developers have determined it's easier to write malwate to prevent cheating than just make server side code robust enough to not validate code that could be a cheat...
> If there is good ventilation then any bad smells will go away within a few minutes because toilets are quite effective

This is why you need an air freshener in public toilets.
https://outline.com/DBNUjL

Is anything missing now?
Wow, you do know your stuff Dan G. I tip my hat to you sir. I love that
you're fascinated by this stuff too. :)

FWIW, I was 110% Reich for a long time (UFOs too, why not? He's
obviously one of the intellectual titans of his age, I wasn't there, who
am I to second guess him?) but then I read a particular biography (it's
in storage and I don't recall the title or author, sorry, but it was
sympathetic to Reich) and it seemed to me that he became irrational after
what he called "the Oranur Experiment". I found a site that seems to have a
description: https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2013/08/orgone-energy-neutra...

I have no idea what really happened, of course, but I suspect he injured
himself somehow experimenting with radium and "orgone".

Even if you set aside the fight with the UFOs, his response to the FDA
seems crazy (to me) even for someone who was literally persecuted for much
of his professional career. The actions of the FDA don't seem quite so
egregious in light of the personal fight Reich picked with ... crap I
can't recall now, some bigwig in the FDA, or a federal Judge, someone
like that who took it personally, and that's how he wound up serving two
years in prison. They still shouldn't have burned his papers, that's
messed up. And his end is deeply tragic. But was doing things like
refusing a lawyer, representing himself, insisting that the authorities
read his books, and that they had no authority over him. Ah, it makes me
sad.

I sometimes wonder what an alternate history would be like where Reich
and his work took root in Vienna and grew into ... who knows what?

I'm curious dang, if you don't mind me asking, where do you fall out of
the funnel on Reich? And on "woo-woo" in general? What's you
metaphysical story like? :) Where does the sidewalk end?

- - - -

That Kate Bush video! Wow, LOL, Yay! I'll see that and raise you Gurdjieff's Fourth Way embedded in the middle of "Meaning of Life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2QJvc_SxFQ
In WWZ, the battle of Yonkers highlighted some of the issues with traditional military techniques. The zombies had superior numbers (millions!) and required a headshot to take down. The shock and awe doctrine of the military worked on the first ten thousand zombies or so, but they keep coming.

Machine guns lack the accuracy to stop a zombie completely, and have a limited capacity relative to millions of attackers. Tanks would be able to run over zombies, but eventually would be swamped or simply run out of fuel. All the strategies relied on fighting an enemy with human emotions and a survival instinct, the two things zombies lack.
I agree that even untargeted advertising can be manipulative. However, to end advertising completely would require the presence of established Consumer Reports-type media that are widely known in society, so that consumers are aware of what products are out there for their needs. Since most countries lack such prominent independent sources of product news, consumers have few other sources of information on what options they have than media that, in some way or another, is linked with advertising.