jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1) Increasingly, if you want to be in infosec, you have to learn how to code on the level of a SWE. This is how to not lose your mind when constantly addressing sec issues that others (devs) are entirely responsible for fixing.

2) Department of No doesn't have to be a thing, it just takes some emotional intelligence and pragmatism. 'Always saying no' is as much the fault of the sec eng as it is the system. If you have the will power and general positive mindset, it's more than easy to go through a sec career without getting angry. It just requires not default No, and ....

3) Understand people want to do a good job. If you tell them they're doing a shitty job, they'll tell you to fuck off. If you (sarcasm font) admire what they're doing, and have some stuff that can get added to build an even better product, people are surprisingly amenable to working with you. It seems like 70% of sec folks think their job is to say No, and as a result never get there.

4) This was a huge lesson for me that made me understand the field: to be successful in sec, you must learn that your personal risk tolerance will not always equal the enterprise's risk tolerance. Making money, in a digital field, is an inherently risk-on undertaking. It's crucial to know what to not escalate beyond your team, what to not cause a fuss about, what is just a known risk that will continue to exist, and then have clear requirements for what risk you will escalate and shake cages about.

It seems like all of these sec rants boil down to seeing the system and being unwilling to work within it, vs. seeing the system, accepting it, and figuring out how best to navigate it, and what tools and personal skill sets I'll really have to maximize to succeed in it.
Enterprise architecture done well; but the tooling is incredibly difficult, it's expensive and you need a culture devoted to engineering discipline over raw productivity. Other industries manage this just fine: manufacturing and defense contracting are two that come to mind. Both industries have pretty good work / life balance for their employees.

Tech is just worse because we haven't unionized like both of those industries did, so the companies are able to operate in a way that is more exploitative of its workers. I think that's actually the source of the outsized margins we see in tech. Agile is just shorthand for "it's too expensive to coordinate things so we'll just make our engineers do that on top of being engineers". The solution is to unionize and start to demand some standards in engineering discipline that allow people to have both a career and a life.
Not really ! Activation functions are usually non-linear.
What happens is we turn our numbers into their counterparts in another group (abstract group) and work there (at a high-level).
This could be solved with transactions: If all processing takes place within transactions, then you can always return to a clean state after a crash.
All by myself, my portfolio is a standard combination of VTI, VXUS, BND. It won't always be as good as this year (yearly return ~15%), but achieving an IRR of ~8% throughout my life would be amazing.
I agree. There is a lot of risk in the coming decades ecologically and climate change is just one component of that. There is also ocean acidification, topsoil depletion, habitat destruction, oxygen reduction in the oceans, collateral damage from pesticide and fertilizer use, etc. We are putting harmful pressure on the natural world from every conceivable direction.
I prefer the whole image approach and don't mind needing to plugin for updates. I'd rather have a phone that needs plugged in to update than a phone that is bricked by a botched OTA delta update. I really wish there was OTA syncing of everything else though.
I was going to say that Facebook Messenger does work with XMPP but double checking just now, it seems that was deprecated a year ago and will disappear at the end of next month. Huh.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat
To attack democracy is precisely the goal of this protest, though. The democratic election is complete, the results didn’t go their way, and in the midst of the final certification of results, these people broke into the Capitol to disrupt the process. That seems like an attack on democracy to me. If not that, what was their goal?
I sold at 20k, got back in at 30k, now we’re almost at 40k and that’s where I’m selling again. But I’m actually expecting it to go as high as 50k.
Also the East India Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
(Guess I can't edit a day later)

(1) the doc generation is nice, but without sending me straight into an editor, it just didn't beat a workflow of me creating a new .md in vs code or sublime et c.

(2) please, please, add a clear uninstall block to your README. I love trying out new stuff like this, but also need a good way of removing it (in fact, I often won't try stuff out if it doesn't have a clear uninstall route)
> the Arab Springs

That's a can of worms.
> It seems to me that suggesting that this "takedown" has anything remotely to do with what is being discussed here is disingenous.

What "seems to you" is entirely wrong, but I'm curious as to how you would rationalize dismissing that as "disingenuous"[1] without even attempting to explain how. It seems like you couldn't find a way to actually reject its obvious relevancy, so you chose just not to do it by using a word that seemed like it should be enough to shut down discussion, and leave it at that.

[1]: I'm not entirely sure how the other person was "pretending to know less" by bringing up how SSC had to be taken down because in today's climate, what what was almost done to the author would have threatened his livelihood. It's a quite apt counterpoint to your notion that owning your own domain is some sort of magical protection against censorship.
>People are totally unwilling to even acknowledge the idea or concept that wide spread mail in ballot fraud happened, when it certainly did.

This is the crux of the issue; one of the two movies playing on the same screen.

You and many other Trump voters genuinely believe this to be the case. The opposition believes there's no credible evidence not only for wide spread mail-in ballot fraud but not even for minor, scattered cases (besides the rare outliers here and there that are inevitable for every election).

This one particular issue carries the potential to catalyze a chain reaction that eventually leads to conflict or war, so I think it's extremely important that people at the very least take the discussion seriously and try to help bridge the gap between the two movies. If this doesn't happen, the screen might just get ripped asunder.
I think it’s simpler. Boycotts don’t work at an individual level. I have been boycotting nestle for decades. Can’t say they’ve become less evil. That’s because the marginal effect is negligible for them and strongly negative for the individual (assuming you’re a fan of Kit Kat’s).

Network effects amplify the marginal impact on the individual, because they lead to a monopoly with no true competition. Sure, you can leave whatsapp for signal, but you can’t talk to that community group on WhatsApp from signal. From an individual’s point of view the market power is an absolute monopoly.

The only solution to these problems is organising to the level of a mass boycott, or regulatory intervention. The former is impossible because too many people don’t care about the company’s behaviour (not because they’re ignorant, they just don’t care) and the latter is slow and a very hard and unfun pursuit for campaigners.

Nothing we say to non nerds will be of sufficient magnitude on an individual level. It’d have to be collective action.

Personally I’m far more worried about Facebook undermining democracy right now. That’s sufficient reason to shut them down.
26 year old 737-500.
Weather is pretty bad in the area right now.
Not if he's actively using it to encourage hostile acts.

He's done. Cut him off.
The demand from Apple was that Parler start moderation of the content which was trying to plan an armed version of what hand in Capitol on Jan 19th. Which, after seeing what happened recently, seems like a fair demand.
I continue to see plenty of right and left leaning views in YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
There is literally nothing Trump said that advocated for either terrorism or the overthrow of the government. Also sedition is protected speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seditious_libel#Seditious_spee...
Below is a link with some of the history of EC2.

It wasn't linked to Darpa but it was developed as an experimental project by an autonomous team in South African office lead by Chris Pinkham and initially Amazon were quite secretive about it.

"""The designation "skunk works" or "skunkworks" is widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, with the task of working on advanced or secret projects. """

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works#:~:text=The%20desi....
I spent a lot of time doing technical editing professionally – checking that docs met their stated objectives, that they were logically structured, that they satisfied house styles, etc, etc.
Recently a friend of mine has written their first novel and I offered to have a look as an editor. They can actually write well, spell correctly, etc, so the ‘technical’ aspects were very easy – there were very few typos, ungrammatical sentences, etc. Instead, I found myself looking for things like

* situations where the PoV character knew things that were actually hidden from them in the plot (e.g. something happening simultaneously in a different location)

* situations where characters acted unexpectedly out-of-character for no obvious reason

* places where the timeline or scene jumped unexpectedly (e.g. in successive paragraphs in the
same chapter)

* phrases that were overused

* whether something that was supposed to be a surprise for the reader had actually been signposted.

I’d love to know if there is a checklist of issues for fiction writing in general: not standard plots / characters / etc, but mistakes like those above to look out for. (I certainly didn’t find it in the article).
> not conciously entering

People traveled from out of state. There was little that wasn’t deliberate about this.
2,665,866,746,644 is my new favorite number.
One might say that if a law is so misunderstood by so many and has an outcome that so many would disagree with then it should be replaced based on that fact alone, as what is more dangerous to a society than laws which rule over them that are misunderstood to such a great degree (this might be said of many other laws too). You can blame the people but we install law makers to produce good laws not bad ones (I wouldn't blame the users for not using my app the way I envisaged because they're ignorant, I'd hope I'd improve the app).

But what should replace it? Perhaps something that does make the distinction between what is a platform and a publisher. That could be difficult.

I'd most likely go for something tapered, so that smaller sites had more protections / less responsibilities and larger sites less protection/more responsibility, in order to promote competition because I think lack of competition is the main problem. So if small sites retained section 230 protection and larger sites didn't, perhaps that would produce better outcomes. Thus, I'm completely against stamping down on Parler and Gab, and any other upstart in the space. The more competitors the better, in my view.
Surfboard 6141 here on Comcast, and the Signal page is showing 8 QAM256 channels downstream, 4 QPSK/64QAM up. Speedtest.net has been showing 125M down/12M up for the past few months, which was a silent bump up from the 75/10 I noticed before that (Seattle Eastside area).

I'm curious how much faith to put in the speedtest numbers. Does Comcast detect speedtest, or is that what I'd really get elsewhere as well?
And it looks like the company lobbying for this got this bill wrote up fairly cheap too.

> Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Blockchains, LLC gave $50,000 to a political action committee, Home Means Nevada, which managed Sisolak’s transition into office in January 2019. Campaign finance records also show the company donated $10,000 to Sisolak and his Republican opponent Adam Laxalt’s campaign in 2018.

> Records also show the company’s owner, Jeffrey Berns, personally gave $50,000 to the Nevada Democratic Party in 2019 and various donations ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 to various state lawmakers from both parties.
I think the path towards Technical Fellow or equivalent is less discussed as every company needs management of humans and budgets (and the needs are relatively similar), but not every company needs the Technical Fellow type of role and those roles are more company specific I think.

What SpaceX needs for top, hardcore technical talent is very different to what Microsoft needs. An engineering director or VP could much more easily cross to the other company than a Technical Fellow could.
Whether it's a human issue or a software issue it could still be solved by better software.
The main reason why anyone would want you to use their App is your likely inability to block ads (unless you block them at network level, that is). Sure, logging your behavior while using the App is a nice to have component as well, but the best way to serve ads and make sure they are seen by majority of users, is by having the user not use a browser.

I'm working on 20-things.com, my alternative to reddit, still in the making. I use it as a personal public bookmarking service, posting things I find interesting/worth sharing. This does not scale well since large userbase have large operating costs, so my plan is rather simple: keep it small and closed, periodically opening it up for new users as others leave.

But how will it make money? It won't, and that's ok.
It's not her fault. One should be able to undo file system changes. Bell Labs solved this long ago by storing every file version forever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(file_system)
Storage is cheap
I gave up on ORMs after a year or so (back around 2006) of ActiveRecord doing the "makes the easy even easier, makes the hard impossible" syndrome someone else mentioned.

Then a couple of years ago, I started playing with a DataMapper/Unit-of-Work ORM (Doctrine2, in PHP-land). My experience, writing a moderately sized warehouse-management application, has been very good.

In Doctrine, you don't write your schema/DDL. Doctrine does, based on your Entity and Association mapping. You write plain-old-PHP-objects, and then map their relations (in XML, annotations, or YAML). Doctrine reads and validates your data model, and generates DDL statements to create the schema. Big surprise: it creates pretty much exactly the same schema you'd expect. (And it will generate and manage migrations, too)

Unit of Work is a powerful pattern, too, especially for web apps. You just worry about updating entities in memory. The ORM then flushes them to the datastore in a single transaction at the end of the request (so, by default, you have a one-to-one mapping between http requests and transactions in the RDBMS).

Datamapper/UoW is probably overkill for CRUD stuff; that's where ActiveRecord shines. But it pays dividends when you're dealing with more complicated state-transitions on your underlying entities, and there are lots of cross-cutting concerns.
"People in the mobile phone architecture do not buy microprocessors," says Hauser, "so, if you sell microprocessors you have the wrong model. They license them."

Someone is building them. In iPhone's case its Samsung. The phone's Apple-designed A4 processor, which was built by Samsung, costs $10.75 each. Most of that is going to Samsung, part of that goes to ARM. The ASP of ARM 10-20x lower than that of Intel.
Good point, I'll have them update the page.
> "I think it's "desktops as we know them will be going away (except in specific use cases)"."

I tend to agree with that. But that's a wholly-different argument than suggesting Apple would make their desktop OS ARM-only.

OS X is Apple's solution for those use cases where desktops do and will persist for the next decade, at least. As such, making it ARM-only would require the use of currently-inferior chips, chipsets and tools. It would murder Apple's steadily-growing share of the very market OS X exists to serve.

iOS is already serving their mobile devices, and doing it very well. It stands to gain very little from a hypothetical OS-merge and stands to lose quite a lot by becoming more PC-like. (simplicity, stability, performance, etc)
The attitude that culture cannot change the mind and can only be adapted to it is unjustified. Conventional wisdom really does sway in huge, slow shifts from one gross oversimplification to another and is now completing a swing from the tabula rasa back to a belief in a single, unchangeable human nature. We repeatedly fail to sustain a more complicated viewpoint regardless of the evidence. How long until we swing back to tabula rasa and laugh at this current trend without realizing we are laughing at ourselves?
> they should allow in some ways competitors to build compatible CPUs.

They allow you, or anyone, to build compatible CPUs. You just have to pay for the privilege.
Funny that the third and forth octets of the IP address shown in the Kindle screen shots are obstructed given that the IP begins with 192.168.
> Multiple people were killed in clashes with the police.

"Multiple"? Do you have proof of this? There was one woman who was shot by police.

As far as I know, it is not yet clear how the others (excluding the Capitol officer) died. I've seen reports that one man got a heart attack after tasing himself and another fell off some scaffolding.
Everything is now becomes as conspiracy theory but the reality is different.
Please don't fulminate.
VK is much, much more popular than FB is Russia. It's a Russian company and absolutely forced to censor content on behalf of the govt.
I’m agreeing with you while referencing my earlier post.
Can you please provide evidence for the President inciting violence?

I would also say that there are leftist politicians who are encouraging and inciting criminal acts. See this recent tweet from AOC (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080), where she excuses activists acting illegally because the "polite language policy game" (her words) didn't work for them. This is no less an act of incitement than Trump, since Trump never called for violence or encouraged acts of violence.

I also think there is a great deal of hypocrisy from the left on this point given the events of this last year. There have been numerous riots, arrests, deaths, and illegal occupation of public places recorded. All the politicians, activists, organizations involved in those criminal acts have been given a pass and have faced very little accountability and virtually no censorship from big tech.

Even before George Floyd, we have incidents from left-leaning activists where they literally invade federal buildings. Here's an example documented by the Associated Press (https://youtu.be/B_kxyacaAF4). What was the response from the far left elements? Rashida Tlaib and AOC actually joined some of their events and encouraged them (https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez...). And yet, these two continue to be allowed their platforms.

Let's be honest, the tech platforms are using this ridiculously inept protest at the Capitol as an enabling excuse to further censorship and erode free speech, aligning with the interests of their left-biased employee bases. The precedent it sets is dark, as it will be employed to discriminate against viewpoints that disagree with the progressive agenda.
I don't know what "social" has to do with it. It's a service that let's me save and archive my bookmarks online, with tags, fulltext searchable, with a long description, accessible from any system and browser and a number out-of-browser interfaces. And in the case of pinboard.in (which I switched to when all the delicious BS went on -- sorry guys, you lost this customer), including an archived version of the actual page, in case it ever goes down.

I've been using delicious (or similar) for at least five years. My first reaction when people ask about it is sort of the same reaction I feel when people say "I can't understand why anyone would want tabbed web browsing; can't you just open lots of browser windows?" :)
Rackspace isn't anymore reliable than any other reputable provider. Every network/host will go down, the main question is how fast can they recover and how good is your backup strategy. You could save a lot by looking elsewhere. The last time I checked their pricing I would have been able to host at two places for what Rackspace wanted.
Also, isn't trademark restricted to an "area"? I would think it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibilities for two companies to want the same username with trademark claims to back both.
Editing spreadsheets really sucks. You have to reload the spreadsheet after every edit to see the new data. Yikes.
That clip is one of my favorites,
especially because I used to be a B-school
prof! That clip is way too close to
reality for too much of B-school.
In a gazzilionaire-country there would be no true wealth - just numbers!
Actually there is still some unclaimed land:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Byrd_Land

I'm sure at least one of these guys might enjoy the challenge of making it hospitable :)
You may consider visiting a doctor. I was unable to code a single line because I was only looking to distract myself, not to work. I got diagnosed with light form of OCD and after taking some medication I am feeling better and working more.
It's a huge privilege to command Her Majesty's soldiers, and something that one can only do when young, so I went for it. Also, the leadership training and maturity that you gain from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are second to none in the world.
For serious HFT development you need to have order book data too. This costs.
Oh, absolutely. It's not vital - it's just that with there being more multithreaded stuff going on I'd like easier ways of making it clear what's immutable and what isn't.

Heck, I'd love a way of saying "immutable class" in the same way you can with a "static class", just to ensure I haven't missed anything!
> Before 2017 the price of Bitcoin was stable as it wasn't worth anything.

You live in an alternate reality.
(See my correction above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296411 about short-distance transport and 'taxi' chariots.)
If you do this you would not get push notifications.
why do you have a microservices environment for “just a few”?
It seems the real story is Americans can’t afford the lifestyle they expected.
330ml would be considered small, the standard size is 500ml. Europeans just drink substantially more.

Isn't malt liquor just beer with high alcohol content? I haven't seen that much outside of craft beers, you're probably likelier to get something that's not a traditional beer if you're paying more than if you're paying less.
>"The bottom line is that vertical farms are without a doubt an incredible technological innovation with amazing potential. Although they promise some amazing advantages over traditional farming, there are still a few drawbacks that will need to be ironed out for them to become the >future of agriculture."

Free sunlight and low-effort support structure (dirt) isn't going to be topped anytime soon. Vertical farming doesn't take into account the vast acreage required to feed large numbers of people.

It will take quite a leap for it to address the issue it proposes in the headline, if that even is an issue. It might solve some other issues, like individual family gardening for novelty or produce taste quality, however.