jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Bad programmers write bad programs. It's not methodology. Good programmers have successfully written a lot of software in an OO design. That doesn't mean OO is the best solution for you, it just means that you can't judge a book by its cover, and in this industry, we're covered in bad programmers.
Can you share the name of the recruiter? Just curious if that person is still working at Netflix.

I've been a happy Netflix employee for over 4 years and have never experienced a 'large layoff' event. All the layoffs I've witnessed were not a surprise for the people affected.

Senior engineers usually make more money than their direct managers, but I fail to see how that's an issue.

I'm guessing RayVR met with Patty who left Netflix 2 years ago. My interview with her was different but I guess it would depend on your background and what she was trying to determine. In my case it was mostly to see if I was going to be a good cultural fit since I was at the time working for Yahoo which had a completely different culture. To me that was an entirely reasonable thing to do. Actually the whole interview process was great, and it was one of the major reasons I chose Netflix over other companies.
VRML was amazing. Playing with it is what convinced me that VR is the future and everything from then until now has just been me waiting for the technology to catch up to the ideas.
I'm surprised these questions aren't marked too broad instead as off-topic.
This one is more interesting: https://github.com/takeshixx/redstar-tools
+1. I wish they did something to highlight that the detail they’re providing is uncontextualised. Protecting against XSS* is vastly different in a server rendered PHP app than React.

I also feel like ‘always escape input’ can cause double encode / double decode bugs (which can be used for XSS) - a better option would be ‘design an XSS mitigation strategy at the start of a project and conform to it’.

XSS is used as an example, but this is pretty relevant to all injection, techniques.
In Italy we are lucky to have a very good medieval historian, professor Alessandro Barbero, who has done a great deal of work to popularize "peasant history" among the general public.
Most of his talks, are available on YouTube and are being collected in an increasingly popular podcast [1].
Once-obscure topics like the Ciompi revolt in Florence, the French Jacquerie, or the English peasants' revolt, are basically achieving memetic status.
The podcast is only in Italian, but it could be a useful tool to learn the language :)

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/podcast-di-alessandro-bar...
If you go to Vimium options and enter this line into the custom key mappings it should work:

map c LinkHints.activateMode action=hover

You can change c to whatever key you want to trigger it. It works perhaps less often than I was hoping for, a lot of menus still won't work, presumably because they use JS or something else to trigger the menu.
> I guess for my threat analysis, if you’ve already invited them inside your house and they’ve stayed long enough that you think their breath particulates are floating in the air, you’ve already lost the war, so to speak.

That's why ventilation is important if you are sharing a room with other "external" people.
Gm has this covered I believe. I think they have a less totalizijg view of over the air undates than Tesla. Tesla uses it as a marketing tool to attract “tech savvy” consumers. Gm has good tech look at Onstar.
Sorry, I reworded my comment. I meant that Decentraleyes isn't getting updated.
The UK spends ~£6 Billion/yr on EU. Total UK Budget is £620 Billion.

Sources:

UK Budget: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/17/uk-publi...

EU Contributions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8036096.stm

Afraid I don't have figures for US.
Also works as a good set of benchmarks for self-learning.
You can screen out some of the weirdos in a brief online conversation. Which is a significant improvement on none of them.

As an added bonus, you also get to screen out all the people that don't really care enough about their potential date's feelings to exchange a few messages, and all the people that are saying yes to too many dates to even notice conversation threads never mind show up.
Not following. How do radio signals help a kid stepping off a curb? Not everybody owns a phone; not everybody has it on and running the 'don't get run over' app.

We've been trained as a people to respond to environmental cues. The learning period to adjust to different cues (beeps, phone apps etc) is another phrase for 'lots of people get hit by silent cars'.

I'd suggest a period of dual cues - make noise, AND whatever else we imagine could help us not get run over. Eventually the noise part might fade away.
That most A/B tests don't prove what they aim to prove. People just add a new version of the site, then wait until 100 people have seen it, measure a small improvement and migrate to the new version.

However if you then run the test a second time, but make the "old" site the alternative, you might find it too sees a small measure of improvement and thus you could bounce back and forth between A and B until the end of time.

I am not a statistician so I won't try to give you advice on what a statistically significant result is. However many /many/ articles have been written on that topic, and many products have been designed which you can slot your data into to see if the 'B' option is legitimately better.
I think it refers to enthusiasts of Asian-made cars. Not much better, though.
please see http://andregarzia.com/posts/en/whatsappdoesntunderstandthew...
I think such an algorithm would work just like a spam algorithm, or any other classification algorithm.

Also you would need examples to train on.
Just last week I started getting into Android development, and networking has significantly slowed down my prototyping speed. I'm going to have to try this out.
I know it's a bad thread to raise the issue, because everyone is so focused on Trump. But forget about Trump for a minute.

If I recall correctly, for years all these internet giants — Twitter, Google, FB, etc. — protected themselves from any legal action pretending they are not mass-media, because they don't do any censorship and serve just as a middleman between content providers and consumers. Now, we all know that this obviously wasn't true for at least a couple of years, but we also know that governments are slow and lazy, and it takes some time for them to adjust. So it wasn't that surprising that there was no real consequence.

But over the last year all boundaries were so ridiculously, so mindbogglingly crossed, that I wonder if something has to change now. Or do they really have so much power now, that there's zero reasons to be careful of government?
No, but if someone is going to make a claim that repealing Section 230 will solve a given problem, they’d better actually have some reasonable evidence that it will solve that problem, and not just cause a massive amount of collateral damage.

FOSTA-SESTA punched a relatively small hole in the Section 230 liability shield using the pretext that web sites facilitating sex trafficking (read: Backpage) couldn’t be prosecuted otherwise. That was a lie; Backpage was eventually successfully prosecuted using legal tools which had previously existed[0]. The thing that legislators claimed they were trying to solve—sex trafficking—remains woefully unaddressed, but the collateral damage was significant and disproportionately affected marginalised groups and small web site operators (and may have actually made the sex trafficking problem worse)[1].

Claims that Section 230 need to be repealed to “take away power from Big Tech” or to “stop extremism” are just wrong.

A blanket repeal of Section 230 will only concentrate power even more with Big Tech since they’re the only entities with enough money and power to accept liability for every shitposting troll on the web. (Again, FOSTA-SESTA already illustrated this: the big dating services continued to operate, while niche/hobbyist sites—and subsections of sites like Craigslist where dating was not their primary focus—shuttered.)

A blanket repeal of Section 230 will not stop extremism since there are multiple other non-internet sources peddling misinformation.

Section 230 is not the cause of these problems any more than paved roads are the cause of deaths from high speed car crashes. Few people would seriously argue that we should go back to driving only on dirt roads, but it feels like that’s where so many people are with this subject, and it’s really taking the focus away from why extremism exists in the first place and what we need to do to tackle that root problem.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/trump-signs-bill...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_...
"Rebels" "Revolutionaries" and "Freedom fighters" (amongst others) also refer to political violence. What distinguishes them from terrorists?

Actually, I think all four of these words have the same issue: none of them refer to a specific deed. Arson can be terrorism. Assault and battery can be terrorism. Mass murder can be terrorism.

Maybe we need to turn it into an adjective instead. Terror-theft, terror-torture, terror-trespassing. It seems obvious to me that those things are not the same. Yet we lump them all under one label. Maybe there's different lines where those acts cross into terrorism? It's not terror-theft unless you've stolen the nuclear briefcase? Or maybe a laptop is enough. Is that what we're arguing?
The point of the cougar analogy is not to dehumanize anybody. It is to demonstrate that sometimes problems exist (problems as in configurations of reality that can be articulated as bad), and that doing nothing is often not the solution that will yield the greatest good in a utilitarian sense.

I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.

I'm curious, though—would you just let the cougar do its thing? Like, if that literally happened, and you were the guy at animal control who got the call?
Harris was warning that those terrible riots would continue, not encouraging them. The meaning is quite clear, but I don't think I can convince you of that.

Quote from Harris: “It’s no wonder people are taking to the streets and I support them. We must always defend peaceful protest and peaceful protestors. We should not confuse them with those looting and committing acts of violence, including the shooter who was arrested for murder. And make no mistake, we will not let these vigilantes and extremists derail the path to justice.”

We agree the BLM riots were bad. The Seattle insurrection especially. But Kamala Harris did not encourage them. Trump did encourage an insurrection against our government. There is a massive difference.
Looking at the size of alternative online communities like Parler, they're definitely not half of the voter base. Majority of republicans seem to not have a problem with mainstream platforms, only a small minority gets banned.

And it is really easy to see they are a minority. Most of alternative platforms like Parler have a small number of users and attract a very narrow audience which talks only about politics. Usually these sites have bad user experience which means there's not a lot of designers who would want to work for them, they are really bad in technical execution meaning there's not really many programmers who want to work for them. They don't advertise meaning there's not a lot of marketing experts wanting to work for them. There's not a lot of investors willing to invest in those platforms, no one wants to advertise on their sites. All this can lead to a conclusion that the users affected by deplatforming and censorship on mainstream social media is a really small group of people. They believe they are half of the voter base, while in reality the majority of society, from conservatives to liberals, rejects their world views and this is why they are marginalized.

If it was really half of the voter base they wouldn't have any issues. There would be some viable, popular alternative social media platforms used by that half of voter base. Among that half you'd have no issue with finding anything you need to have a widespead, catch-all platform - you'd find investors, you'd find companies willing to advertise, the user base would have diverse interests so that you can discuss anything on those platforms like on mainstream social media, and not just politics, conspiracy theories and memes. The fact that they constantly can't find support means that they are a fringe movement.

It's simply not possible that all investors, programmers, designers, hosting companies, payment processors, advertisers, etc. are all run by the left half of the voter base. That is simply statistically unlikely.
Reducing your fellow countrymen to an animal analogy is exactly the kind of dehumanization that has become commonplace in popular discourse. It's not enough that you disagree with them, they must be put down like some rabid beast.

We're on a path with this kind of thinking. If history is any guide, it doesn't end well.
Yeah, it would be pretty snobbish / country club-ish. Think it might make more sense to keep it free and open to anyone, moderate out off topic or unsuitable discussions, and maybe charge for an associated job board.
Mr. Viking hat probably isn't an entire protest, even if his horns are intimidating. And even as a group the people storming the capitol probably don't represent most of the protestors, typically the bulk of protests are law abiding and peaceful and there are just a few bad eggs looking to cause trouble.

The core of the protest is electoral integrity and calls for the politically marginalised to have a voice, not racial supremacy.
> thinking about, building, and running a business is pretty much the only real future

Much like the GP comment, if more people start their own businesses then expected returns from running your own business will regress to the norm.
I agree, but to say it’s not abuse until fear exists means that hitting kids is always abuse, which seemed to contradict OPs point.
I'm hopeful as the judge seems to understand the ISP strategy:

> Mendez reportedly was not swayed by ISPs' claims that a net neutrality law isn't necessary because they haven't been blocking or throttling Internet traffic.

> "I have heard that argument and I don't find it persuasive," Mendez said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "It's going to fall on deaf ears. Everyone has been on their best behavior since 2018, waiting for whatever happened in the DC Circuit [court case over the FCC's repeal of net neutrality]. I don't place weight on the argument that everything is fine and we don't need to worry."
In countries with totalitarian and/or corrupt governments, it did. Venezuela, Argentina, Russia, China, ...
Even the US is testing its people trust and confidence with its aggressive money printing. Doesn't feel like free markets when there is a buyer of a last resort with infinite money.
Teams relies on iframe auth to fetch the Nth token from AAD (multiple resources to call, multiple tokens required). The iframe calls are partitioned and lose cookies, even under Firefox's helpful "redirect exemption" setup, it's not clear why.
I work in non-English markets. Soundex is not a general replacement.

Similaritiy search (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...) is far better assuming you have some corpus already.
The same thing that would make me pass over a resume/cover letter for a job I'm hiring for: vagueness. The more specific and transparent a posting is, the more confidence I have in the buyer knowing what they need and who they need to achieve that goal. You get a lot of amateurs/first-timers on these sites, and that's often a recipe for misaligned expectations.
But it requires extra code and that code can have additional bugs.
I agree and this still holds it back from being the main language in a research environment where one wants to have quick turnaround time.

On the other hand, it should work very well as a replacement for Numba. Numba already comes with a one-off jit cost, and it is much more limited in the sort of code it can speed up.
ClojureScript too, if you don't mind dynamic typing.
>Other than Spot, state police has a permanent fleet of robots. As of 2017, the bomb squad had 18 robotic platforms worth $1.8 million that are used on a weekly basis, according to police records. Most of those are tracked robots, not a legged robot like Spot.

>But there’s something different about Spot. Calo, the professor, acknowledged there’s not a big operational difference between the robot dog and something like a more typically robot-looking PackBot. But, he said, Spot feels different. He pointed to a statement animal-rights group PETA put out, saying that it’s not cruel to kick Spot, because it’s not a real dog.

The main difference seems to be that it looks like a dog instead of a miniature tank. This may give it some advantages in rough terrain, navigating stairs, etc.

Otherwise, it is just another remotely controlled vehicle.
The nightly news and mainstream newspapers used to be full of tabloid spillover; people suing, assaults on paparazzi, paparazzi being charged, updates on court cases. This has all pretty much evaporated. Pop culture itself certainly is "way more than before".

The place I do find more pop-culture stuff like this is in the clickbait ads that are everywhere now, but that's just an entirely new thing.
What’s hideous about Swift closures (though I guess everything has always room for improvement) and how are F# and Kotlin better?
There has been quite a lot of noise on HN about this, and many of the other posts have disappeared, perhaps in an attempt to stop the whole front page getting swamped by this story.

You can find the other links here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

I wouldn't normally bother, but the medium article is about the least balanced of the lot. As far as I can tell, the protesters weren't fired for unionizing, in fact they never attempted to push for better pay or conditions; they were fired for harassing other employees in order to further private political agendas. This changes the story somewhat.
Previous threads on the crisis itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16939583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16910947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21572216
> "...the real question is why others are so willing to give up their sovereignty and right to self determination?"

It's an easy question to ask when you're the guy at the top of the pile with the biggest guns and the ability to kill or capture your perceived enemies anywhere in the world.

For everyone else, global institutions based on universal human rights are a welcome safeguard against the abuses of 20th century style sovereignty.
How about if we determine that the officer acted unlawfully we just take the entire settlement out of the cops pay including any pay he may get from the state or indeed any other employer under the same terms we take money owed to the IRS.

Cost the state a million dollars because you abused or killed somebody congrats you will now be poor for the rest of your life.

1/3 of 1% of the US works in law enforcement its absurd for the other 99.66% of us to vote in bad terms for everyone unless 70% of us believe those bad terms apply to someone else like a minority.
It's indistinguishable from an protocol perspective, not a data analysis perspective. Or to put it more practically, if a large data stream from Netflix lasts more than 10 seconds, it's video.
Yeah, I had an anterior tibialis from a cadaver grafted onto my biceps tendon ("grafted" in this case really means stitched onto the remnants of mine with metal thread and then bolted into my radius bone). Recovery was long and brutal, but five years later I don't have any issues.
What are the error bars on those numbers?
The thing is, storage is unsolved. Battery isn't going to cut it. Pumped hydro isn't realistic for much, and we're using intermittent hydro about as well as we can. Thermal solar is unproven economically, but getting closer. Power->gas->power is marginal.

A little bit of nuclear in the mix, plus storing biogas, and aggressively pursuing thermal solar is very important, IMO. It just isn't possible to overprovision wind enough to meet 99th percentile supply/demand mismatch, but having a few percent of nuclear base load really helps.

If we want people to stop burning natural gas and heating oil for their homes, and more to move to electric cars, we'll need a ton more base load, too.

Yes, nuclear can't compete with natural gas base load, but we want to stop burning so much natural gas, so...
is it based on python?
Pull your head out your ass.

You're the one sitting here on the internet claiming defeat.

How many people have you told to cut back on consumption and fuel use this month?

Yea. That's what I thought.

Don't act like it's impossible to change behavior it's not.

Smoking, drunk driving, domestic violence, racism, homophobia, and a bunch of other social issues have all been largely tackled the last few decades.

In WW2 we repurposed car factories to make tanks in a matter of weeks.

Please, don't act like we're a bunch of invilids incapable of change.

Speak for yourself.
That's the Python interpreter and all the dependencies starting up. Shouldn't really matter if you are using it as a chron job.
"because Chinese labourers have more skills now and can command high enough wages in more upmarket jobs that they don't need the low end work any more"

I think what is happening is that the low-skilled laborers can now earn higher wages in service (such as online shopping delivery) because the higher skilled labor force can now command a higher income and generate demand for more service. The point is while the overall skill level is up it is not necessary for the low-skill section to also have higher skill in order to have higher income. This has already happened in the developed economies, but people here seem to look down on these service jobs and pine for manufacturing jobs.
What do you still do manually?

An important concept pointed out in these conversations before is that human-in-the-loop driving is a moving target. That is, it's possible we may never get to the point of fully automated driving because we may discover that the safest method is humans doing some small fraction, and automated systems doing the rest. Since we have partial automation now, and will continue to in the future, we're not asking "When will automated systems replace human drivers?" but "When will fully automated systems replace humans using partially automated systems?" Because we're constantly improving the partially automated systems, we're constantly raising the bar that a fully automated system needs to meet.
You're right. I would edit it but the comment is now too old to edit. My sincere apologies to Facebook.

Here is a partial list of guilty companies:

Apple

Google

Microsoft

IBM

Adobe

Oracle

Sun

Intel

Earthlink

Virgin

Genentech

eBay / Paypal

Pixar

Intuit

Lucasfilm

Dreamworks

Dell

Comcast

Clear Channel

WPP

AOL

AskJeeves

Lycos

Oglivy

Illumita

DoubleClick
Maybe someday. Not today. You get one tab process that crashes often.

And I wouldn't say that's the 'point'. Chrome groups tabs into fewer processes most of the time.

Personally I'm much more excited about the possibility of a compacting GC.
It's impacting both of them, but mostly my left. I only ever hit the Shift key with that one, and usually use my right middle finger to hit backspace.
Hi Steve,

Yes - IPv6 is supported

We currently test from three locations. A site is considered "down", only when the majority of the probes reach an agreement. This helps us avoid false positives due to local routing issues.
I imagine April the first starts at noon on the 31st March. Those Pacific Islanders are the first into the future.