jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I 100% agree as a consultant working in product development. I think what drives this is a lack of ability for anyone to understand the end-to-end product from a technical standpoint and make coordinated decisions about direction. Instead, you have 30 teams with their own architects and roadmaps (which often overlap functionality) so you build the same thing 5 times across the org, then 3 of them end up drawing meaningful adoption so you have to figure out how to support that on an ongoing basis.

All of this leads to non-technical sales people becoming the de-facto source of product feedback. Which leads to non-technical middle managers making product decisions with a short-term mindset. It's impossible to do a good job under conditions like this, so folks just check out and clock their 40 per week.

I think this is the cause of a lot of burnout. People get emotionally invested in their work, but the way tech is structured, quality doesn't matter as much as velocity. Individuals don't fully understand how much impact their work has, so it can seem like toiling away in obscurity for years on end. That doesn't feel good to anyone, but when the company is making 35% margins it's really easy for them to ignore the cash bonfire.
Probably trying to divert attention away from their pretty poor customer service record https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/how-citizens-advi...
It's called progressive taxation and no, it's fine.
Is anyone able to explain how they have jumped from this

"Andrei Kozlov was gunned down in 2006, weeks after trying to shutter the world’s biggest money-laundering scam"

to this

"—one reportedly used by Putin’s family and the FSB." ?
In 2018, Amazon made 141 Billion in product net sales. Net means "after" all costs are included. This includes operating costs like warehouses, workers, cost-of-sales, etc. etc.

But only made 90 Billion in "service sales" (AWS and subscription services). Note that Amazon Prime counts as service sales, so plenty of "product revenue" falls under the service boat in practice.

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/node/32656/html#sB4CED683083F59A8...

Amazon's storefront makes more than 50% of all of their services combined in profit, and is ~1000%+ more revenue. Yeah, it costs a lot to run the Amazon warehouses, but Amazon is still primarily a warehouse / storefront company by all measurements on their income sheets.
Dove for soap is another example. It's very clear that Dove soap is a brand name, and should be protected.

It seems likely that Facebook is just trying to go as far as the government will let them.
The other bit, of course, is in building materials. I'm guessing the bust has slowed down construction significantly, but you're still likely to have to pay higher costs on things like lumber, brick, sheet rock, et al than you would have to pay in Tennessee or Wyoming.
we've been running snowflake for weeks already
I switched my homepage to Workflowy when I saw it first here on HN and it has been a great boost to my productivity since. Maybe nothing specific to Workflowy itself, but just the fact of having a todo list as homepage.
The twitter api includes string representations of the ids already and we encourage everyone to use those rather than the numeric ones.
If there was a massive pool of unemployed programmers sitting around, this could be a pretty good idea. Unfortunately I think you have a rather oddly skewed picture of the current state of the job market. Right now there is a huge talent crush for programmers. If somebody has the skill and ambition to be a useful team member in this kind of setup, they are unemployed because they choose to be at this point. You're going to have a very difficult time attracting anything other than leeches and "business guys" looking for free/cheap labor. Think about this: from the perspective of a recently unemployed programmer, why do I want to join your project instead of signing on with one of the dozens of startups currently hiring or just starting something on my own?

All of that being said everything goes through cycles and there probably will come a time in the not too distant future where something like this could do very well. If you can overcome the adoption challenges of today, you'd have something very powerful when the next tech recession comes.
My employer solved the issue of people not knowing about this very easily. Before you can connect to exchange with a personal device, you had to sign a document saying that that they could remote wipe your device if it gets lost as well as when you terminate employment.
You misunderstand. Please note that from the start, I've allowed that people do retain some knowledge from cramming-based classes. (For that matter, someone writing notes to sneak into a test probably gained some small benefit from the act of writing the notes.)

But no, there's no mistake, here. Much like other high school classes, the AP classes I took were sequences of sections followed by intense "reviews" the day prior to each test. They were the very model of how schools encourage cram-and-forget education.
Apache forks a child process with lower rights than root. App servers that run on port 80 do not without a native JNI lancher. The solution is native launcher, a router rule or iptables.

I think the parent is talking about living in a chmod 777 world. Or maybe he is tired of crazy symlink hacks so that sftp becomes an option. Some appservers put class cache in WEB-INF by default, etc.
I've had cats for all my life and I would assume to be "infected" by this point, but I can say, without reservation, I have never enjoyed the smell of cat urine.
This group has been DDOSing game networks for quite awhile now, a year at least? Are they just super skilled at covering their tracks, are they not being investigated, is federal law enforcement not good at tracking this down yet, or what? I don't understand how a major crime spree is being conducted in public and gleefully boasted about for this long.
If France or Germany were laying claim to lands that had been under their control "some time in the past", it would certainly be fair to call that imperialism. Not to mention Mongolia.

Just because China once had some claim to certain seas doesn't mean they have any right whatsoever to them now.
My favorite:

"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
The thing you are suggesting leads to a frighting conclusion. Are you saying that you are against people like elon musk from doing what he does ? He wasn't born into wealth and was middle class just like you and me but was just too damn smart. The free market rewarded him for his smartness and we are all better off because of it.

Yes he became really rich but the net sum of wealth he provided in return has made everyone else much richer than him.

You are making the wrong conclusion that you are worse off "materially" if such smart individuals didn't innovate. In fact you and everyone else in america would be slightly poorer.

Most countries do not even have a "good economy" that they can brag about. The fact that you want a larger portion of the massive wealth these people have brought to america is an really entitled opinion to have.

America is an an midst of an economic boom which is almost a miracle obama has pulled ( compared to its EU/Asian/SouthAmerican Counterparts ) . If you are unhappy that america is also home to some of the richest and smartest individuals on the planet and you are trying to compare yourself to their standard and saying "Uhh, I want some of that" then its a problem of mentality and not about wealth/immigration/politics/etc.
You mean the context of xbox online chatrooms?

Why, yes, it is pointless.
Interesting... but how do they determine the salary of an "equivalent worker"?
You are comparing slavery to writing proprietary code. It takes a cult-like devotion to perform that mental leap. Maybe it's obvious in your mind, but good luck spreading this word to wider world.
Yet you don't see that "gopher" / shopping jobs are alive and well in the very service workers you use today (Uber/eats, "items shipped to your door", etc.)
> This is all whataboutism.

"whataboutism" is about equal protection under the law.
Many famous old books (bhagavatgita, etc.) look like a long list of tweets. Each "tweet" is well thought out and has multiple layers of meanings. Such books often have companion books with commentary, where each "tweet" is explained in many paragraphs of text. Those commentaries are written by very knowledgeable and respected people, who are, nevertheless, aren't wise enough (yet) to write those condensed "tweets".
This is what experience and skill looks like, careful consideration and really trying to understand what you are doing. Too bad it's so difficult to market this in a superhero genius package that managers will buy
I am not sure what you mean there. Wallhacks is the ability to see through walls. The server could simply not give out the information about what behind a wall and the wallhack exploit would stop working. It would also very likely introduce pop-in and latency issue as soon the client peeks behind the wall and now need updated information from the server.

Fake lag is in a similar situation. The server could simply hold the true state of all positioning and ignore what the clients think is their position. This might work fine in a very low latency situation, but as latency increase it would make playing the game feel sluggish. It would also make aiming difficult, since the key press for fire would have to travel to the server in order for it to occur, and by then the location of players could have shifted.

Trigger bots however is mostly impossible to stop server side. Any action that is identical to human actions can only really be detected through statistics and heuristics.
That's why some databases have a "where condition required on update" so you won't hit that wall (assuming there were no other where conditions involved).
This seems to fall off at gigabit, but I’d love to test with 2, 4 or 8gbps which Orcon (and maybe others) are offering.

My ONT only supports gigabit out, so I can’t test faster options. That said, fast.com has told me I’m getting 1.2gbps recently…
Requirements for high reliability can be lower in places where electricity itself isn't a given. In other words, if you don't have money for full range of functions, you'd be glad to have at least some.
I disagree. I believe even if you're stuck with a certain situation, it's important to know whether the status quo is actually a good thing and you should work to keep it or if it's unavoidable for the moment but generally bad and you should do your best to move away from it if you can.
There's a conceit among technologists that Washington doesn't know how technology works. I don't think this is true. In my experience with the federal government, I have been quite amazed at how much people did understand. Washington is full of nerds. They are often latin majors rather than computer science majors, but they are nerds nonetheless, and they are sharp and quick learners.

What is missing is not people who are "technically enabled." Rather, it's people who share the values many technologists share. You can understand how TCP/IP works without buying into the philosophies pertaining to an open and neutral internet. And its those people that seem to shy away from participating in politics. Not people who can describe what happens when a packet gets dropped, but people who can articulate why its better to have an internet that doesn't drop packets based on who sent them.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21618346
YouTube wants this, dont fool yourself

YouTube is trying desperately to purge ALOT of content and creators that are not financially viable

They no longer desire to be "You"Tube, instead they want to be more like NetFlix or Disney+ and carry more mainstream content.

Allowing the government to be the bad guy has been used by large corporations for decades as cover
Thanks for all the replies. I'm not very knowledgeable about the current state of the big ML frameworks' status. I know better now. Thanks again.
I agree with most of what you're saying, but disagreeing with this part of it. The change between 1994 and 2014 is the difference between the internet growing to global dominance in everything from social connections to . . . well, is there anything about our lives that hasn't rested somehow on our usage of the internet since well before 2014? It seems to me that the internet of MSDOS 3.10based computers and dial-up modems to online shopping and the creation of billionaires is more different than what's changed from 2014-2017.
nope. although, i was wrong about not even close. it seems i was remembering an old stat.

https://thedriven.io/2019/02/06/tesla-byd-fight-for-lead-in-...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/electric-car-sales-china-vs-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/the-world...

https://qz.com/1606881/chinas-byd-reports-632-jump-in-profit...
He rickrolled all traffic from reddit.com.

http://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/eb3pg/
I was thinking of both. An IDE is worse unless it's actually targetted specifically at Nim, because its code for finding symbol references surely won't know about Nim's underscore-blindness.

(But I'm not much of an IDE-user myself. Perhaps modern IDEs have enough hooks that you really can control this stuff?)
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Across all of Lonely Planet, we’re passionate about our products and the evolving technologies we use to build them. We want developers that ask the right questions, want to build stuff quickly, probably break things along the way and fix it even faster. We use lean principles. We value rapid deployment, metrics driven engineering and experimentation. To get a feel for this, check out our engineering blog at http://engineering.lonelyplanet.com/

I work in our Nashville office. We plan to hire two technical leads, one for front end development and another for Ruby. We're also looking for front end developers and web, interaction, and product designers.

We're also hiring in London and Melbourne.

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So...just like California then.
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Howdy, bhickey. I of course remain concerned about the following:

(1) On a population scale, common variants of modest effect are the most informative. These same variants are genotyped by 23andme.
However;
(2) On an individual basis, rare variants of large effect are the most important. By and large, 23andme does not ascertain these.

So people are missing many variants that are important to them individually; also, the interpretation of most known variants is by inference or prediction, not experimentation.

Let's not forget that, at this point, clinical risk factors still outperform genetic risk factors. Adding genetics to your clinical predictors, for most diseases, does virtually nothing for you. And why should it? Clinically, we can detect that you have high LDL. The fact that your genetics also predicts high LDL is irrelevant unless it can offer qualitatively different information. Risk prediction for the non-prenatal realm is not a particularly interesting use of genetics. For discovery of therapeutic targets, on the other hand, this is golden.

Genetics is still hard. Personalized genomics, much harder still. I'm not opposed to people getting access to their own genetic information, but I support very cautious interpretation. In medicine, each test has a risk: not only the risk of the test itself (e.g., radiation or bleeding), but also the risk of triggering follow-up procedures.
Just wondering, why'd you opt to only allow those with hn accounts to use the site? I've been lurking here for a long time and had no intent of creating an account (mostly because I blame antics like mine for the decline of reddit so I vowed never to create a hn account, but I digress) but was forced to now to be a part of hnofficehours.
I would be willing to settle for a much shorter time limit, but 14 years is still way too long in the modern climate of software and media.
Can any of the British Hacker News Readers shed more light on this ?
... how well is startup scene in East London going?
Android has allowed native code through the NDK since 1.6. Now, you have to use it in conjunction with the SDK and thus some of your code will have to be in Java, but the main reason I can see to get down to the "bare metal" anyway would be for performance critical algorithms.
There is financial incentive to create free software. I'm not saying that companies that only sell proprietary software would be fine without intellectual property laws, and I don't think that's a bad thing.
Five minutes after winning the presidential election of 1904, Teddy Roosevelt vowed not to seek re-election in 1908. Six minutes after, he regretted what he had just said. He tried to return in 1912, but failed and regretted his hasty decision the rest of his life.

Why do I mention this? Because whenever I feel like I'm in a difficult situation (not all that much different from yours), I promise myself not to pull a Teddy Roosevelt and do something hasty that I'll regret forever. Neither should you.

FWIW, time is not slipping away. In spite of what you may think here at hn, 30 is not old.

My suggestion: keep your job and stay on your path to a green card, but find a way to do it and your startup at the same time. You have to get creative. Put in a few hours on your startup before work, not after. Get rid of you TV set. Block out huge blocks of time on weekends. Use your PTO for your startup. Work from home a few days a week and squeeze in extra startup work with the time/energy you save. You get the idea.

You're already creative enough to build a startup. Now use that creativity to free up more time and energy to work on it. Forget about the competition and time slipping away; just do the best you can. And don't pull a Teddy Roosevelt.
Is there actually a benefit from doing this for Mahalo? Wouldn't google just recognize that their content is duped all over the place?
Blue Advantage?
11 hours later and its on the reddit frontpage. If this solves the issue it is ridiculous.
New York's construction is even more vulnerable, and there are a lot of fault lines there.

Another very real possibility is that the Cascadia zone could have a megathrust earthquake. This would be a 9.0 hitting cities like Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver that are completely not prepared for it. The last one in 1700 gave Japan a really nice tsunami as well.

That could also potentially trigger the lahar that is waiting on Mt Rainier. Which brings to mind all of the volcanos listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_Volcano - the eruption of any of which would qualify as low probability high impact event.
based on the age of my random selection of those domain names, they started doing it early this year.
Don't worry too much about a large company seeing what you are doing and moving into your space faster than you. Large companies go through several stages of copying ideas

1) What a dumb idea, that will never work

2) That company seems profitable, but we will beat them

3) We better copy that idea, but it is not our core business / it will cannabilise our profits

4) Okay, lets get some of our non-motivated, non skilled, unimportant engineers to look at this niche in our typical boring locked down plodding way

5) Budget cuts!

So yeah, don't be too worried about large companies.
Brian Fox

If the author of Bash is not in the list, yes, we are doing something wrong.
> I am surprised news outlets are still trying to give life to this manufactured crisis.

They’ll keep writing the articles for as long as people are going to click them. These are the same outlets that can spin a couple of tweets into a story about a “growing backlash to xyz”. However low you imagine the bar to be, it’s lower.
>In the NFT community, we are witnessing the logical conclusion of a generation that is so alienated, so profoundly unfulfilled, that they are considering abandoning the physical world altogether.

the comparison to 1960s counterculture as a form of escapism for (presumably) Gen-Z is laughable. how is something counterculture when backed by the likes of billionaires, VC firms, and the gaggle of techno grifters that make up the space. any sense of "community" or "sticking it to the man" is to make money by getting others to buy your speculative assets for something that doesn't even exist yet

I love the writing of the piece, but found this idea not even believable for a second
Reminds me of this quote from Michael Lewis:

"Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets."
That's debatable. login.gov would certainly be better than id.me, but a centralized database of everyone sounds like a problem in all cases. A unique identifier for everyone is the path to more social/technological control.

Here in France, some people from the anti-nazi resistance from the 40s later got into heated arguments about the national ID card, which had been made mandatory by the collaborationist regime. The idea is that if there were reliable/secure unique identifiers during WWII, the resistance movement could not have existed at all, and could not have saved countless lives.

To this day, France is one of the rare countries where it's perfectly legal to walk anywhere without any identifying document with you. This doesn't mean that you won't be harassed by fascist cops though, depending on what you look like.

I'm pretty much against fraud in the common sense of the word. But the biggest frauds are done by the rich and don't require to make up new identities. They're hidden in plain sight with lawyers and contracts with offshore corporations. I personally couldn't care that social services fraud costs the government some millions every year, when tax evasion and corrupt-government contracts (remember the Pentagon audit?) account for literally trillions going missing and nobody in government wants to do anything about that.
> I mean, would you want to rest your business on such an attitude?

From a business pov, the idea would be to assess whether you're happy with what can be done in userland rather than expect syntactic or semantic changes. I can't think of a company that started doing haskell waiting for future features to be added in the language.
The positive part is that along the way they will have to solve a number of very tough engineering problems to be able to realistically perform the tasks you outline. For example to my knowledge the efficiency of robotic movement is still far below that of humans, the same goes obviously for image recognition, autonomous planning, energy storage, etc..

I think as long as the US manages to scare the american public into funding those huge military projects, because they need to be protected from someone, be it communists or terrorists, and not actually use the results all that much for military purposes the world at large will be fine and eventually benefit tremendously.
As a (mostly ex) C++ oriented engineer, there is a hell of a lot that would make me prefer Go to C++ for a lot of tasks. A language is not about its features, it's about how it facilitates what you need to get done.