jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm with you on that hill. Good QA have a vastly different mindset to devs - and they're not prone to the unconscious tunnel vision you develop when writing code that assumes a particular approach.

However, I have to say, depending on your product, some of the best damn QA I've worked with aren't writing integration tests, at most they're using SQL to get the DB into an appropriate state, and then they're doing the rest manually, but it's really about their mindset, manual is just the easiest approach for them. Manual encompassing "click on the thing" as well as "hit the endpoint with Postman".

It's their mindset I value most. And some of the best pairing I've ever done is with a QA to write integration tests.
Nah, I'm pretty much the same online as I am in person. Having to support multiple personalities is just too much work.

Moreover, the whole "different person online" thing reminds me pretty strongly of one of the more common patterns in abusive relationships -- in that the abuser behaves very differently depending on the situation.

Never want to walk an inch down that road.

That said, online, nuance and tone don't come across well, if at all. E.g., the reader can choose how they want to "hear" a phrase like "I disagree, and strongly", and that'll color their opinions of me accordingly.
Yeah, that's the reason there is an `/s` in the comment, it was an ironic joke ;)
> Local social life was fantastic- I missed nothing about the internet.

In general after decades of working with Internet and technology, I realize that I enjoy life (not work) better when there is no Internet. Of course, it is nice to have Internet to have occasional communication with friends and family not in the surrounding area.
That didn't work out for India and Africa. They would be doing better with less people.
Yes, sadly for some reason in most orgs, QA/QE whatever you're calling it, pays lower than dev work. Even though, IMO, they're worth far more.
"The compiler runs only in 32 bit mode as the original code assumes that the pointer size and word size are the same." ... which was um, 16-bits
An appearance of merit can be engineered/manufactured, which is one of the foundational concepts of classical trolling, not to mention thread-poisoning.
tl;dr: You do not have a big data problem.
> This has not been my experience at all

How far back is this experience?

Is this what the job listings (of what there were) said during the 2008-2009 recession? Is this what they said in 2001 after the dot-com crash?

They may not say them now, they may not have said them in 1999, but they certainly are requirements companies can (and do) put up during the years when people need a job most.
>I'm arguing against a single, silly, unnecessary and counterproductive, argument against them.

It's absolutely not counterproductive. At the end of the day, people don't give a shit about their rights being violated. Look at what american citizens have already given up. Sure, they'll bitch about it around the watercooler, might even make a facebook group but that's as far as it will ever go. I bet you could go as far as doing full on rectal examinations and so long as accepting that was faster than not people would still do it without protest because convenience trumps almost all.

Almost. If the people think there is a chance that these things cause cancer then it becomes a life and death situation that they will do something about. A poster elsewhere has had some success with this issue with TSA workers.

I'm certainly not going to advocate making things up to get our way but real experts have come out on this requesting a more thorough study. TSA wont release various figures about the radiation. X-ray damage is cumulative. Taken all these things together I really believe there is a chance these things aren't safe and if there's even a chance of it that should be enough to block their usage. The burden of proof lies with the people who want to bring these things in, not with people who need to fly but don't want the added cancer risk.
Some kind of lanyard?
You probably read about it in Cryptonomicon (I know that's where I read about it), but I don't know if Stephenson made it up or not.

As to practically It seems quite unfeasible. First of all since magnetic forces fall off according to the inverse square law, you're going to need a seriously large magnet to for it work at say 1 meters distance or so. You're basically going to have seriously retrofit your entire house, and it's going to be very hard to hide. Secondly and more importantly even the most powerful commercial hard drive degaussers require that the drive be in contact with the magnet for up to 10 seconds to guarantee that all the data is erased, so someone just walking through a door isn't going to be in the field for anywhere near enough time.
Got a chuckle out of me, but if you equate processes to human lives you get an infinite amount of absurdity anyway, making this a rather meaningless analogy.
This article barely touches on the meat of the subject. Vitamin D levels can be measured. There are a broad range of ways to increase Vitamin D levels. Because Vitamin D is involved in so much physiology making sure to get enough sleep and avoid or handle stress tends to increase Vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is present in eggs, oily fish, and organ meats. The most recommended way to increase Vitamin D levels most of the year is to get some sun exposure at mid day. Vitamin D pills are not necessarily part of an active approach to raising Vitamin D levels.

Also, much as "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" has changed our understanding of sugar by presenting detailed analysis of the biology so there is also a great deal of specific research about exactly what Vitamin D does and what happens when one becomes deficient. All of this is much more robust than the studies of populations claiming to take pills just as the studies of diet consistently had a range of problems that detailed understanding of the biology did not have.
Why in the world would a university give up control over something as important as admissions to a third party?
Income tax soaks the cohort of "rich people" who make hundreds of thousands as Apple engineers, but not the people who make hundreds of millions as Apple shareholders.
> For these sort of questions, simply compare it to gold

I can't wait to see people wearing bitcoin jewelry...
Decentralized exchanges are problematic when you are exchanging with traditional currencies. The traditional currencies have to sit in some bank account, so either you trust some third party to hold it for the traders during the transactions (e.g. escrow or a centralized exchange) or you introduce counter party risk.

Bitshares is a decentralized ledger for equity. Nubits is a system that attempts to stabilize the price at 1 nubit = 1 USD. Neither solves this problem of having to trust someone when you exchange for traditional currencies.
Those were the three villagers who found the sources. They carried them to the rocks, and used them plus small fire to stay warm overnight.
For quite a bit longer, I think.

The book Weapons of Math Destruction was published in 2016, and the conclusions therein were not exactly new at the time either.[ß] The business model of ad-based social media is focused on generating engagement, above all else.

Nothing generates more engagement than outrage, fear, or playing to primal instincts. To satisfy that demand, content providers are encouraged to generate the maximal outrage and foment fear. Social media platforms are incentivised to direct people towards that content, because they make more money that way.

The end result: social media platforms automate pile-on and radicalisation at the speed of lies, at global scale. Not because they are inherently evil, but because they are making money off of people being inherently terrible.

ß: The real meat of the book is in the first two chapters, as far as I'm concerned. Everything else in there is just repeating the arguments.
The actual Members are in many ways, a bug of the system, and recent events have demonstrated that very clearly. Capitol IT probably puts them on a "Guest WiFi" and lets them surf Twitter without bothering anyone. The majority of the US government apparatus functions on a day-to-day basis without any input or functional oversight from anyone, and that is the so-called "Deep State" which in reality is the only reason anything works at all. Can you imagine the country if Donald Trump was functionally the CEO the way that Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla?
> I think the waiting lists can be exaggerated sometimes

In fact, you can view it this way: the waiting lists are long because the important things are prioritized. People who really need treatment fast are being consistently moved to the front of the queue with no option to pay to get ahead of them for people at lower priority.

My reference point is Australia, and it was awe inspiring to see how fast things moved for a relative with breast cancer.
> Did the first edition use Python?

I think you may be somewhat confused there. What book are you talking about?

Edit: I also wonder why his remarks ten or twenty years ago about Python being close to pseudocode "are not really relevant in today's world".
If you care about doing metaballs well, you should check out http://www.geisswerks.com/ryan/BLOBS/blobs.html from the creator of Milkdrop (among many other cool accomplishments) in 2000.

It shows how naively aggregating charge from across the entire field leaves a lot on the table and there are huge efficiency gains that can be achieved. The page also includes descriptions of metacubes and metatorii.
Unless you know of some secret section in the tax code, it's not a "2 for 1 deal" - if Bill Gates donates a billion dollars to a charity, it makes sense that it wouldn't be taxable; it's no longer his money. Typically the tax code reduces your income by money for which you don't actually have constructive use.

There are certainly other things like 'in-kind' donations which may reduce tax obligations without necessarily providing a commensurate value, but putting money into bona fide charitable works are not among them.
We have a slightly vague proposal in D to basically construct programs as a library at compile time (i.e. we give you an AST, you play with it and give it back, if it's valid it.gets turned into a type).

D has been making structs at compile time for years now, however.
In a way this has already happened though?

We know excessive consumption (can't think of a better word off hand) of loud noises leads to hearing loss, tinnitus, etc.

Certainly not the same as "music is terrible for us", but more of an "everything in moderation" kind of argument.
"The role of police is to reduce crime" It is a bit more than that.
Financially no. politically perhaps probably unless we convince Republicans.

Beyond SNAP, some social security changes or simply nationalizing healthcare could provide enough savings alone.

Impossible to know but many studies say between 200-450 billion per /year in total healthcare costs from universal. Albeit that's a kind of complicated 'swap' from employer & personal costs to a tax.

I would love to see something like a passive sovereign fund / 1% corporate share tax use one of those coming trillions in Corona stimi. Taxpayers should directly benefit from federal policy and stimi that goes mostly goes to the corporate bottom line and valuations. Like a pension, the government has no voting/control. Add protections against runaway de-regulation incentives type governing policy.

Hell cut military spending 10% gets $93 billion and if we're fixing healthcare cap the profit or pharma too.
Case in point: Newton's work was not that rigorous. It was not till the 1800's that calculus was put on a firm foundation. Of course, things were all different back then.
Philosophical advancement of the human species
Disclaimer: Not a marine biologist by trade but took several classes and have close friends in the profession.

What people do not realize is that these whales communicate by sound and have very sensitive hearing. Boats, especially the larger ones you see being used for fishing/shipping generate a lot of noise due to powerful engines and underwater cavitation caused by their propeller spinning. This can drown out whales communications between pods. Researchers are not sure what the long term ramifications of this will be but have observed whales avoiding shipping lanes[0]. It worries me how other marine life, which we do not have the same resources or public support to track, reacts to this.

Lastly, here is a video of a scuba diver underneath a freighter to give an idea of what goes on underwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIPMfHUIVvk

[0]https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/shipping-lanes-are-getti...
BTW, they do have a JS API. Been using it a lot recently, fairly easy and straightforward

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/develop/...
This app focus on running on-device AI algorithms so it needs latest OS software in able to do it.
>They don’t have to allow their platforms to be used

This is a major flaw in modern legal tradition and social morality. Society will continue to suffer from it. People need to stop pretending Internet media is an optional luxury. It's now integral to the public's extended mind and method of social/political discourse. No one is writing letters to the editor anymore, or going to salons, or likely talking heavy politics with their neighbors.
All in production iPhones don't have force touch.
For better context, Boeing's annual profits appear to typically be closer to $10B to $20B[0] - with 2019 and 2020 being anomalies for obvious reasons. $2.5B and no jail time still seems laughable in that context.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/BA/boeing/gross-pr...
People have been adding peripherals that allow usb and SD cards to Commodore 64s. And I believe that many of the parts for a C64 are still around.
Honestly it's difficult to find another energy source for small remote deployments in Polar regions, where solar + battery can't be used for much of the year. Propane TEG's and methanol fuel cells are probably the best suited thing, but they have consumables that create logistical problems. Wind can work in some places, but a lot of places in Antarctica and Greenland are not very windy, and ice loading etc. present problems.
Amazon is arguably operating very anti-competitively. That justifies the p/e. What could possibly justify 1000+ for Tesla? Its like the zombie towers in world war z, just pure brainless masses of dummmm money.
This article is dated. Over 8 months old. They are doing fine. I had a meeting with one of their reps a few months ago and it’s a solid model for food producers. I expect it to thrive post-covid era.
Ha, it was far from being "just a blowjob," nor even a single intern. That's just the only time he got caught, since all the other witnesses/victims had been gaslighted or coerced into silence.

It's all in the Starr report.
The top part also looks fine for me. It's the screenshots below the fold that are distorted: https://imgur.com/a/eNOtGu0
Past discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10067181 (26 comments)
Excellent work and congratulations on the job. I like people who set themselves a goal and find a way to accomplish it, so I hope you find yourself successful at Facebook.
The problem is that the web browser runs every URL that a user visits and whatever that page links to.
This means that it's a privacy risk.

Look at this site which looks at the fingerprintable bits of data that is available from a web browser: https://amiunique.org/fp

The web browser leaks a lot of specific information about the user. Which can then be combined with other information to uniquely track a user on the internet.

Why does the web browser need to make available the list of all fonts on a user's machine? Installing any combination of extra fonts makes you significantly more unique.

Same with GPU model.

The article talks about WebUSB. And how it was used to phish people's Yubikeys:

https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-yubikey-phishing-webusb/

The user isn't consenting to that.
That guy could perfectly be some tech lead, establishing his rock solid approaches on team of junior 4-10 engineers and delivering rock solid new products.
> We would still do it if there was licensing. Doctors and lawyers still interview for jobs.

People interview in most jobs, but people in licensed professions don’t generally have exams testing minimal professional competency in interviews because assurance of minimal professional competency is delegated to the appropriate professional licensing body, which implements entry exams, continuing education requirements, professional complaint/discipline processes, etc.

Minimal competency screening is abstracted out to a reusable, memoizing, component.
> I also hate the new trend of "take home" tests. That just seems disrespectful of the candidate's time.

And there lies the problem: I would prefer a take home test way more than whiteboard interview. With the take-home test I would feel more comfortable.

As a VP of Engineering in a growing startup, I have to deal with interviewing 2 or 3 candidates every week. We have settled for a process which has given us good results. But for me the key has been to avoid taking tests "literally" but use them more as tools to get to know the candidate.

To give you an example: I have had jr people that did too little in our "onsite" (a 3 hour coding challenge of modifying some source-code) but at the end we took a chance and offered 3-month internship with possibility of becoming full time after that. We have had success with that.

I've had people who just flunk the interviews but I see something in them and we take a chance. Similarly, I have seen people that pass the interview pretty well but it so happens that they are just not cut for a startup culture (I had a guy coming from a"big corp" Tata/HCL/Cognizant/AmDocs kind of culture who struggled to strive in the uncertain and dynamic environment of a startup, after several months, we decided to end it (the nice thing in Mexico is that, by law, we paid him for 3 months severance) because both sides were suffering.
> It would be nice to solve the real micropayments "if you liked this page tip me a few cents" problem, which is still unsolved.

Absolutely ... that's the point. I don't know if anyone is still working in this space, or if everyone has simply given up. I'd be interested to know what the real problems are.
Tails and purism phones are the same 'I run qubes' fantasy that I expressly ignored. No one uses these, and they are not going to ever use those systems. There are fewer 0-days and CVEs in the mobile environment and for at least the next five years or so the mobile environment will always be more secure than desktops. Right now the single biggest step any 'normal' person can take to secure their digital life is to throw out their desktop and live completely on mobile devices and consoles for gaming.
The write-up was excellent, if you prefer a blog format: http://codon.com/refactoring-ruby-with-monads
Riding the coupon created exclusively for hardware suppliers while bombarding support being a software guy is disrespectful behavior by any means.

Sure, some people do not see it that way, but only until the table is turned.

Edit: I am pretty sure that topic starter has Eastern European or Middle Eastern origin where being as cheap as possible is a prevalent idea. Even when it breaks people around you.
I believe the correct response is: "No shit, Sherlock.".

It is particularly surprising that software/services built to sync stuff can actually sync stuff?
Don't forget that tweets are not just tweets. In 2016 Twitter handled 3000 images per second (around 20GB per second) [1]. The number undoubtedly increased since then. There's also video.

Good luck storing those on blockchain :D

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/4/20/how-twitter-handle...
As someone who has a father who basically showed no interest since I was 20, I can say you should consider it a much longer trip than 20 years for the health and sanity of your kids
These are pretty simple rules of information delivery (at least up to page 43 of this 125 page power point). They've been around for a while but they're most useful for mid-level corporate communication and things resembling that.

Fiction writers and writers trying to convey more sophisticated ideas haven't used them (or haven't only them) in the past and generally don't at present.
Not that I disagree with you, but when these discussions come up I always see "major city" as the baseline, as if they're the only places in the world that are worth living in.
Argentina has experienced multiple rounds of hyperinflation due to failed monetary policy. Saying this story is a "lesson about the power of inflation" is like saying "the sun is hot". Yes, it certainly is, but it is so far beyond normal definitions of "hot" that people will have a hard time understanding it. This is more a story about the failures of Argentina's governments over the last 50 years than a story about inflation.
If a city has 1 million jobs but only homes for 800k workers, then you will always have 200k workers who are priced out of homes. Or if you do it the communist way and assign homes with arbitrary price ceilings, you still have 200k people without homes although now it is the 200k most recent immigrants and not the 200k poorest, but the problem is still there.

So what do you suggest we do about that except build more homes?
So is the grad student paying for her education by stripping. I trust some strippers are independent doing it out of their own will. That's cool, but there's no easy way to tell if they are coerced or not. Few coerced would tell so to a stranger; they obviously have a lot to fear.

So we can prioritize the protection of people forced into sex work at the expanse of willing sex workers, just like we prioritize protecting workers from forced overtime at the expanse of those that are willing to work 24/7 (and like any other work related enforcement, it should be directed at employers, not workers)
Watch the talk ex NSA executive Thomas Drake gave on why spying is kryptonite to any democracy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgg8K26dcXs
Hehe. ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
Not to mention whatever web font that is [1] renders terribly in windows. If I cannot read your article on criticizing text communication without copying and pasting the contents into a text editor, I close the tab.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/qUWjWzb.png

[1] `'goudy old style','minion pro','bell mt'` etc
> "Clearly the NSA is doing something right."

Unfortunately, there's no way to independently verify this statement. Only those inside the security apparatus have any data to examine this but they have a clear incentive to make themselves look indispensable (and indeed, get more funding).
They're profitable and successfully competing with existing market. So why not?
What is a foot? is it something? No! It is a unit of measuring distance, That's it. Doesn't matter at all.