jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My company was acquired by Medallia (they’re a survey company) who want to be seen as woke and hip but actually are just a massive corporation with all of the things that come with that - dead eyed middle management, no planning, reactionary software development. I’ve seen people get away with 2-3 hours a day as a software developer without recriminations because they’re terrified of losing developers because they can’t hire enough.

I still care about what I do and I couldn’t carry on working in such a depressing environment with others putting in about 25% of my effort daily so I left. I’ve no idea how anyone can work in an environment in which no one gives a shit about what they do...
There's nothing like cars to lower quality of life. They are noisy, require huge areas to be paved over, thus removing prime property in cities from more useful purposes. Particulate matter emissions from the engines, but also from brake and tire wear are unhealthy[1][2]. We don't let kids play outside anymore because we are afraid they will be hit by drivers. We kill animals after they hurt one person, yet we fear to cross a street anywhere for fear of being hit by someone recklessly driving a few tons at speed and defend the right to drive as though it were primordial. And really, who finds a street lined with parked cars and stuffed with traffic inching forward esthetic.
A few cars are hugely useful to grant mobility to the few people who cannot get around otherwise, provide emergency services, and move bulky goods. I'm not saying plumbers shouldn't be able to arrive with their truck full of tools, just that the overabundance of cars really lowers the quality of life of the vast majority of people.

1. https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J...
2. https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm?p_downl...
Monero's primatives are pretty well researched [0]. Of course there is always the chance of bugs in the implimentation but it looks MobileCoin's crypto primatives library has at least been audited [1].

[0] https://www.getmonero.org/resources/research-lab/

[1] https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs/issues/87
NFL teams provide their own footballs.

Source: https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/pre-game/nfl-game-ball-pr...
Whenever I see Wix, I think of the installer toolkit -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX

I never cottoned to the fact that that is an entirely different outfit from the website people -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wix.com
In the context of labeling emotions based on context-free still images of strangers, then yes humans are so inaccurate at this it would generally be a bad idea to assess emotions.

In the context of real life, where we know people, are interacting with them, and are reading cues from their whole body and their movement over time, then we're much better at assessing emotions and we'd be pretty foolish to ignore emotional signals.
NotJustBikes has a great video on winter cycling https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU
Small companies have too many rough edges.

Large companies have too much baggage - fear of breaking compatibility, and don't develop new enough things.

There is a certain size where changes are exciting, or certain company cultures that encourage new stuff. Tailwind is there, and it is always fun to get their update emails.
Aka the open source customer winning, nobody likes Wix let’s be honest. As an SEO they simply don’t do well on getting traffic and should stick to high schoolers and college students who don’t want to learn how to build a legitimate business.

Wix = Yuck
I bought one of the U.S. made Vornado models last year and couldn’t be happier. Great unit, fair price for a quality product.
This is most weird point for Dyson. Why their design considered good? IMO it's like Evangelion, why Evangalion for home appliance?
People would have said the same thing about Linux compared to proprietary Unix or even early Windows in 1993-1994.
I don't think the comparison apply, linux had a unique value proposition at the time by being welcoming for opensource and free. Fuschia in comparison is redundant the same way BSDs are nowadays.

Also Linux has millions of lines of legacy that people are having to maintain and work around
This claim lacks concrete evidence. The number of lines of code that are here for legacy reasons is unknown but 1 million since like an exageration. More importantly, most of legacy code is confined (does not affect non legacy code). Of course linux because of backwards compatibility has many suboptimalities and developer productivity could be higher without it, but this argument isn't enough to outweight the order of magnitude difference in human resources (and expertise (hardware makers))

with all the knowledge learned
All? I think most of the fuschia devs had no significant role in the Linux kernel codebase, it's not like they had hired Greg kroah-hartman. But essentially, fuschia has not access to useful knowledge that is only encoded as comments in the Linux kernel. And the knowledge about past mistakes is lost unless you spend years reading the linux mailing lists and commit history.

Hence the economics point still stand, of course a world without my ad hominem would be better, but such an hypothetical world is precluded for as long as a community like HN is unable to see such striking NIH issues.
Even if to just slow down fast approaching competition...
Robinhood has conclusively shown in the last month that ordinary Americans, even poor ones, have access to investing in stocks. This includes access to margin and sophisticated options trading.
Is what appears to be less than 2,000 lines including detailed comments etc. "quite a lot"?

This seems like a manageable amount to very carefully maintain and not at all like writing something entirely in C.
Well, all I ask for is consistency. If "Black" is to be capitalized, "White" should be too, all men (and women) being equal and whatnot (though I suppose you could argue "Caucasian" is capitalized).

Still, I don't like politicization of colors and I actively want to defuse attempts to politicize the word "black". It's getting so bad that literally the color black is coming under attack - for example the python formatter "black"[0]

[0] https://github.com/psf/black/issues/1830
In my mind, I, perhaps wrongly, equate compiled with - "runs machine code". Java is considered compiled but runs on the JVM. Python also has compilation as one of the steps and runs in its virtual machine yet it is considered interpreted. Sooo... Where do you draw the line?

Regarding your main point, I agree, compiled languages do not necessarily have complicated build setups. But maybe it is tainted by my experience in this field.
> That said, you might do something like I did, which was e.g. pick a publicly traded company which would get shellacked if your sector got hit and buy deeply out-of-the-money puts on them. (I picked Salesforce and spent ~$500 on an options position which pays out only if they either have Enron-sized accounting issues or SaaS gets punched in the face. It expired valueless. I'd have re-upped it for another year but didn't anticipate my net worth and professional career to both be 90%+ SaaS-weighted for most of this year.)

This is not good advice. Buying options is a fool's game. The vast majority of retail options buyers lose money, which isn't surprising given that upwards of 70% of call and put options expire worthless. When it comes to losing money, buying deep OTM options is by far the best strategy.

If you want to play the options game, you are statistically far more likely to not lose money, and to make it, by selling options.
A language where
0x5eb63bbbe01eeed093cb22bb8f5acdc3 === 0x5eb63bbbe01eee000000000000000000
is not really suited for anything, tbh.
And here I thought I was alone on this. Glad to see that I'm not the only one who things RST is terrible.
The author's remarks echo my feelings on the state of front-end dev well:

[Angular and Ember] are both smart, valid, and potentially
wildly successful approaches. The fact that there are
different teams of smart people building software to make
the front-end better, and that those teams have different
and directly conflicting philosophies is fantastic.

This was also a theme echoed recently at ng-conf. Shift the mindset from "X framework is better unilaterally" to "X framework is really good at Y but less good at Z". They're tools; nobody's going around saying "hammers are better at everything than screwdrivers"
GNU tar can figure out how to decompress it on its own. Just xf will do.
Probably because they are written in Java. I don't think I've ever seen a good looking Java application.
Weird- I have a N5 and my wife has an N4 and neither of us had this issue.
Or just create a static HTML file and put the damn thing in a S3 bucket behind a cloudfront proxy.

That site is virtually guaranteed to never go down even with insane amoumts of traffic (plus it's edge optimized so a user in new delhi won't be sending requests to your server in los angeles)

edit: The whole setup takes like less than 2 minutes and can be even automated it with 2 aws cli commands.
> Even CDC says it's safe to open schools - kids are not a major transmission vector.

The last time I heard of a local government opening schools with the "not a major transmission vector" argument was in Berlin, and they had no grasp on infection tracing. Yes, kids tend to be asymptomatic. But asymptomatic carriers are still infectious.

> How come private and Catholic schools are open and there isn't a massive spike in Covid cases?

Because that's just a small section of the population.
Oh, yes, I agree that for two different vaccines for the same illness, one of which was developed using novel methods / is of a novel style, and where the two different vaccines have individually been tested the same amount with equivalent results regarding safety and effectiveness, it usually makes sense to prefer the one which is of a style which has been tested more thoroughly.

Like, it probably makes sense to trust glass or ceramic glasses somewhat more than plastic or metal glasses, just by how long the technologies have been around?

I think I hadn't read all of your previous comment, and was largely responding to just the first part. Whoops?
This is very cool! Do you know how old is the data, generally?
You say that, but my (albeit weakly held, so CMV) theory is that any software engineering is just a form of creating a DSL, it just isn't generally explicit.

Given more expressive power, with appropriate training, it could be incredibly empowering, allowing for more expressive and maintainable systems.

It could also create an absolute mess, and some might argue that more power means more ways to shoot yourself in the foot, hence I think that kind of methodology requires the training up front and overall good software discipline.

I am a junior-mid developer so I know squat really.
More than 4 GW of capacity has gone offline in the last few minutes, based on http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_condi.... A significant chunk of load was shed as well. Frequency is swinging pretty wildly.
Legal consequences aren't the only form of consequences. In this post the author mentions their (legitimate) business.

If I was a potential customer looking into said business and found this post I would be very offput by the lack of morals. The strongest condemnation we receive for literal theft is they "didn't want to", the author barely even seems to understand why their behavior is immoral.
Yeah, I've read it, and I've read everything cited in it. In the evidentiary contest between a review paper and empirical reality...reality wins. But let's put a pin in that for a second. This is a bad review, and people need to know why.

This review completely misrepresents the results of cited papers, and is extremely sloppy with many others. For example, they claim that this RCT [0] found evidence supporting mask use for influenza, when in reality, it found no significant difference versus the control. Yet the authors of the Howard review blatantly mis-represent the top-line conclusion of the trial:

> There has been one controlled trial of mask use for influenza control in the general community....It found that “in an adjusted analysis of compliant subjects, masks as a group had protective efficacy in excess of 80% against clinical influenza-like illness.”

Moreover, this review omits the only randomized controlled trial ever conducted for masks and Covid [1] (which found no statistically significant protective effect), presumably because the RCT didn't support their argument.

In general, this review's sloppy use of citations (as in the section you've quoted) mixes statements of facts with dubious assertions -- unsupported by any evidence at all -- in order to make it seem that those assertions are fact. For example, from your quote, it's trivial to see examples:

> "nonmedical masks use materials that obstruct particles of the necessary size"

I don't know what "nonmedical masks" are, but the category is so broad that a statement like this is utterly meaningless, even if it were backed by a citation (which it isn't).

> "nonmedical masks have been effective in reducing transmission of respiratory viruses"

Again, I'm not sure what a "nonmedical mask" is, but there's no citation here, so this is just a bald assertion.

The evidence base for masks -- of any sort -- against respiratory viruses is so weak that even recent a review published by the CDC in May 2020 argues that they have no effect [2]. For cloth masks specifically, the only randomized trial ever conducted showed that people wearing cloth masks were worse off than those wearing surgical masks [3].

There have been a number of fair, quality reviews of the mask debate (for example, [4]). This is not one of them.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Esam_Azhar2/publication...

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

[2] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/pdf/bmj...

[4] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...
It's almost as if the HN ranking algo should be open sourced, or at least viewable, with the ability for users to see who is flagging articles. Maybe even allowing a marketplace for drop in algo rankings/sorting.

There was a recent post showing the version control history of HN article tiles. That's one step in the right direction.
That paper has some flawed assumptions, I think. For one, they tie resuspension linearly to vehicle weight, but say that it's related to the vehicle's wake. It seems that they're confounded by the typical relationship of weight and size (therefore wake). But electric vehicles while heavier, are typically the same size as ICE vehicles. Thus they might break the assumption that greater weight means greater resuspension.

The paper says that resuspension is the largest part of non-emissions particulates, so we have lowered brake sources (because regen means less pad wear) and lower emissions, and probably not greater resuspension. Maybe tire wear is higher. Put those together and it seems like electric vehicles should come out ahead, particularly if we're talking about diesel vehicles.
Triple click the line, then middle click somewhere.

Or ctrl a ctrl k ctrl k ctrl y (move) ctrl y.

Is it really something that’s so common that it needs a command?
You can sunbathe, picnic, and play volleyball on any other land. Surfing is relatively new, and swimming isn't unique to oceans.

>I'm surprised it's utility is even being questioned, this is a very strong cultural norm.

In a world where even the most fundamental cultural norms are being questioned and upended, you're surprised that someone asks why a beach is so much more important than other land?
Ok. To get to 1999 levels, now name several dozen more.

The angle where something like this could happen would be the advertising bubble, if there is one, collapsing. Then there are many companies who are currently quite solvent and profitable that suddenly wouldn't be.
Embeddings have only really been popularized in the last few years. The 'original' word2vec paper was 2013. It's really only been maybe two years that using embeddings on other things has been popularized.
HR stops you from doing that. Publicly bad mouthing the company you work for is definitely grounds for termination. If it was any other company in any other state it would have happened quickly and swiftly. It wouldn't be a news story.
In reality most people are not sole traders and the market does not operate under conditions of perfect competition. Over-simplification is not helpful; I could describe a similar virtuous circle based on entirely different economic arrangements, and it would be just as facile.
No. The containers share the same OS.
What happens is you'd rearchitect (if needed) your stack so that it scales across N-nodes (for each tier). Then docker build files & snapshotting features allow you to 'recompose' the image from a base OS, one step of which is to apply all patches.

So when you are performing patching, you'd bring a container into service with the updated patches, send some traffic to it (possibly tightly controlled to minimise disruption), verify and then put into production. Iterate through your N-nodes per tier and you've patched. Every container after the first is rapidly started up (just the cost of a supervisor/init & the application process).
http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/graphs.html has some stuff and you might be able to scrape the rest.

I believe 8a.nu also has some public data on this kind of thing but for a more global population
As a term, it's prone to confusion. Many use 'zero-day' to refer to vulnerabilities that are publicly-known before a patch is available. That is, the figurative 'zero day' counter starts from public disclosure, not disclosure-to-vendor.

Because bugs can't be fixed in zero time, and most readers are interested in the practical matter of whether there is a window of unpatched widespread vulnerability, this public-disclosure-focused definition may in fact be more useful.
This reminds me of the much, much less sophisticated simulations I did back when I got my Amiga. It's an inspiring talk in that it gets you into the mood to do these kinds of experiments, too.

For example, I think complex inter-species behavior could emerge if instead of colors, civilizations could have a set of quasi-genetic attributes. Like aggression, risk taking, need for colonization...

I think I'm going to dedicate this day to exploring that :)
"britain can't really make much progress"

Yes it can - the roads here (as in most countries) are constantly being upgraded to improve capacity and safety. e.g. The dualling of the A9 (the main route to the North of Scotland) will hopefully make a huge difference to this notoriously dangerous road:

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/project/a9-dualling-pert...

[NB At the moment the A9 switches from single lanes in either direction to dual carriageway and back again numerous times - people get mixed up as to whether they are on a single or dual carriageway with unfortunate results].

I'm sure there are examples throughout the UK of this kind of thing happening.
I think it is an improvement vs existing 2 lane roads. It wouldn't have cost anything to convert a 3 lane roads to 2+1.
I guess I was just being a bit cynical, he should have stated a goal to revitalize CPAN.
Yes, but 20x the largest instance option is expensive. The limits at Rackspace Cloud are a bit more sane, they limit the total "size" instead of number of instances. So you can run many small ones without hitting the default limit, but not as many large (expensive) ones.
That's a fantastic way to TELL attackers what filename to search for on a filesystem if they have access to your source code. Randomizing filenames and forcing an attacker to have to write a custom utility to find the path to files keeps you from getting hit by a number of drive-by hackings. And every single incorrect use of a credential must be recorded off-system and monitored. Avoid using defaults in general for any third party software and you can do things like generating random paths to S3 buckets that contain certificates and environment variables in your own software. S3 buckets are incredibly secure if you tack on CloudHSM plus use host certificates effectively with IAM policies.

Otherwise, I'd try to use keystore systems available on your respective OS or language platform toolchain (CSP on .NET, JCE for Java, I dunno wtf else you'd use for anything else because the only people I've heard of that want to go this far are all F500 enterprises basically with software in exactly those two languages only).
I'm not convinced the added safety is worth it.

If you had the choice between getting to your destination in 20 minutes, with a 11.4 in 100,000 chance of dying, or arriving in 25 minutes with a 3 in 100,000 chance, which would you choose?
Another big thank you from me, too! Your site was indispensable when I was studying CV at university.
My Thinkpad has air vents on the left hand side, and also on the back. Except, the ones on the back aren't blocked like they are on Macbooks, because the Thinkpads design is based on what is sensible rather than on what will make the thinnest possible computer.
I don't know what a 'standard 3-lane highway' is. But a 2+1 highway means one lane in each direction, as well as a middle lane that changes direction at certain points.

The advantage of these is that rather than forcing drivers to overtake into opposing traffic, they can wait until their direction gets the overtaking lane. These sort of roads are very common in Denmark. And I've seen a few of them in Germany as well.

(This is not to be confused with 2+1 highways where the middle lane change direction depending on the time of day, these have been phased out. There are usually clear markings on 2+1 highways when the direction change.)
To state my European prejudices, you also seem to value being allowed to drive without proper training, and driving around in bulky vehicles that are basically designed to use the other car as their crumple zone. Those two things are possibly related.
> Then I would want a proper package manager and a time machine style backup solution.

I don't know specifically what you need from Time Machine, but File History in 8.1 (and somewhat, Windows Backup on 7) does full image backups and incremental backups. It could be integrated better, but you can go back and see your files and folders at whatever point in time you desire. I have it setup on my FreeNAS and it works well enough.
Location: Philadelphia, USA

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Technologies: Python, Flask, C/C++, React, Node.js, SQL, React, Visual Basic

Currently learning: Redux (to pair with my React knowledge), Clojure

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My background is a bit unusual. I originally got a bachelor's degree in Finance and slowly migrated to more technical roles. I then went back to school to get a second bachelor's degree in CS, which I will be done with by this fall. I did the second degree while working full-time in my current role.

I'm looking for SWE opportunities -- particularly, ones with some mentorship and development. I'm more experienced than many interns (I actually train them at my current job) but not nearly experienced enough for a senior role. I think I'd be a great hire as a junior engineer as I'd be coming in with a diverse set of technical, professional, and developmental experiences behind me.
Stop using Corexit and chemical dispersants.

1. Dispersants to "treat" spills in the ocean is unprecedented

2. The EPA / scientists are concerned about long term environmental effects

3. Even the CEO of Nalco doesn't endorse this strategy, while the company is still selling Corexit

Sources

1. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/28/28greenwire-we-have-...

2. http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.p...