skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profession: "Security" Engineer

[08:00] Wake up

[09:05] Arrive at work a little after 9 to fight the power

[09:15] Coffee. The daily pilgrimage to the Mr. Coffee is the highlight of my day.

[09:25] Go to meeting scheduled by demon. I don't need to be in the meeting and nod my head whenever they look at me.

[10:05] Check email to find a customer figured out my email and started emailing me on how to figure out their wifi password. This is their 5th time emailing me despite having forwarded them to customer support.

[10:45] Ask head of developer team if security issue XYZ is fixed yet. Dev team head says he doesn't think it's a real security issue and won't be dedicating resources to fixing it. Tells me to reopen the ticket as a "feature". Researcher plans on disclosing the security issue within the week.

[11:10] Check ticketing system to find 5 new emails from security researchers from India demanding bug bounty for a reflected XSS issue they found on one of our static promotional websites.

[11:15] Briefly consider a career change

[11:16] Remember how big dat paycheck is

[12:00] Lunch

[13:00] Meeting about long-standing architectural security issue that I want fixed. None of the PMs want to dedicate resources to fix it.

[14:00] CEO sends company wide email about how good our security is compared to our competition.

[15:00] By now I've read every reddit post on the first 20 pages.

[17:00] Go home while being too mentally exhausted to go out after work and make friends

Loving the wage slave life
It is really a pity that in the US, net neutrality was never established by law, but "just" on institutional level.

Here in the EU, things are much slower and the activists were somewhat envious how fast net neutrality was established in the US, while in the EU this is a really slow legislation process. But now it seems the this slower way is at least more sustainable. We still don't have real net neutrality in the EU, but the achievements we have so far are more durable, and can't be overthrown that quickly.
No. Full stop. Just as with female genital mutilation, male genital mutilation should be banned. For religious purposes this proposal should fit:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newsweek.com/fgm-compromise-n...

That is a nick, not full mutilation.
Lines of code is a terrible way to measure the output of a programmer. If the company you're joining bases anything around lines, you should consider looking for another company.

One reason is that high quality code is concise leading to less lines. If devs are measured by how many lines they write, that leads to writing verbose / long / bad code. I really enjoy pushing up a negative lines pull request.

There really aren't any good objective metrics. I've seen and heard of some companies measuring programmers by scrum points, but then it leads to either inflating the point numbers, or shipping large amounts of low quality code to look better on paper. Really what it does is shift the burden of fixing your code and making it production grade onto the other members of the team.
Yep, then if 14 hours from now your doctor discovers you need to see a specialist, you're going to wait 2 months on average for that appointment.
Hang on a minute - the article is explicitly about Jews/Israel!!!

'Jewish leader urges Israel to exert political influence in fight for religious freedom in Europe.'
I have attempted to comment, but the form won't let me select a state. When I submit the form, I get an error telling me that I must select a state.

Does anyone else have this issue?

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express
I've been a bit torn on Mastodon. It's a very interesting idea and a few performance issues aside, quite an impressive bit of technology. That federation works at all is a pleasant surprise.

I've had good conversations in the "fediverse". Engagement is super high. I've had more comments, reshares, and off-site link follows from 70 people on Mastodon than 700 people on Twitter. But I've also had a higher proportion of bad conversations than on Twitter. I guess there is a bit of a hollowing out of the middle that happens, as it takes effort to switch, so only people who feel strongly about staying on Twitter are going to go.

There's also way too much meta-discussion on Mastodon. Childish phrasing like "that bird site" instead of just saying Twitter. Too much back clapping about how amazing the fediverse is. Too much hand-wringing about what any of it means. Too much bitching about how blocking CP is "as bad as Twitter." Too much complaining about GNU Social not getting its day and trying to say Mastodon is just GNU Social (they are not the same thing, they have OStatus in common). I largely don't talk on Mastodon now because I just don't want to talk about Mastodon.

What I want right now is just my Twitter followers/followings with the 500 character post length of Mastodon. Use UX design to encourage brevity, but enable longer form when it's desired.
The MSP430 really isn't that much lower power (if at all) than the Cortex M4 series nowadays.
>someone can come to your house to perform the refill.

What, no autonomous drones?
It's almost as if it weren't designed to land on the moon.
Please, it's a little bit of skin. As with any other trivial procedure, as long as it is properly performed there are no adverse side effects.
> Any ISP that decided to break the internet is going to fail

When there is a lack of competition then they don't fail and continue to become worse as people have no choice.

We don't need "innovation" for last-mile connectivity, cheap affordable access is all people want and the math works out fine. The problem is political with governmental regulations that make it incredibly difficult to get access to customers to serve them in the first place, and these blocking efforts are usually lobbied for and funded by the very ISPs that have no competition.
Yeah, it's really hard to let go and not idealize the past.

I hope you and your SO can find some common ground in the present to built off of.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the guidelines after we've asked you to stop. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291733 and marked it off-topic.
Are you confusing parameters with outputs?
33% efficiency? Does that include generation heat loss / Carnot inefficiencies, or is that transmission and idle generator/engines?
Nearly every person who works a manual job and loses a finger went on to have a productive and fulfilling career.

Doesn't mean they wouldn't have preferred to keep it.

> Plus we have hundreds of years over which to know if such a procedure had adverse effects and the incidence rates.

Really? Please link a study, published in a respectable publication, that compares physical and subjective sex performance parameters of the two type of men.
The article is about Jews/Israel:

'Regarding the Norwegian bill, Margolin said: “We will act in every way we can to fight this disgraceful bill... There is no doubt that this is an anti-Jewish decision that is blatantly antisemitic, because the bill does not harm Muslims who are not obligated to circumcise their children as infants and can perform the procedure even at an older ages as the bill allows.”'
The search page is now working again. I filled out the Express page but the submit form wouldn't do anything (background 503 error). It took 6 attempts to succeed.

Make sure to keep hitting submit to until you see the success page.
it sounds absolutely staggering to me that a person would subject their home environment to that level of disruptive noise and advertisement spam.

I understand that you're suggesting that people having TV on in the background accounts for a lot of this, but to me that just makes it even more surprising and, honestly, disturbing. this kind of thing takes a toll on a person's unconscious mind.
Your claim of I/O bound is probably only true for very large databases where indexes don't fit into tens/hundreds of GB of RAM typically available.

Modern SSDs, even at the consumer level are already doing 2.5GB/s reads and 100K IOPs.

I'd say most database setups are CPU limited.
Federating content on the public internet is a hard problem. That doesn't mean it's unsolvable though. Currently the only working the solution so far is massive human effort - that just puts managing a Mastodon instance outside of the possibility of doing it on your own. If you want to run a server you really need to recruit people to help. Mastodon makes it very easy to block users on other servers, and entire servers, so it's really a matter of further moderation rather than being actually impossible. There's also an effort by Mastodon admin to share a list of the potentially dangerous servers so admin can block them if they wish to.
From their product page [1]:

> MapD Core is an in-memory, column store, SQL relational database that was designed from the ground up to run on GPUs.

However, memory is getting cheaper and cheaper these days.

[1] https://www.mapd.com/products/core/
Yeah I was given the same choice around last March.
Yes. I know the article is about that. I'm saying my comment, and I think the discussion should focus on the welfare of the child over the discussions of particular religions.
yeah but which signup form doesn't have a rate limit?
Probably not. MySQL and postgres are both very general purpose relational databases that have a broad range of features aimed at a wide range of use cases.

MapD is designed for more specific use cases, specifically analytic querying and visualisation.
Use your shudder isp-provided one. Hello IAmBindingMyselfUnnecessarilyTo@comcast.net
While I probably agree with your views on religious beliefs, if the goal is to get rid of these kinds of practices, off-handedly insulting people's beliefs probably won't convince them. It will just put them on the defensive.

The best rhetorical approach here is probably to hammer home the fact that, by performing extensive and life-changing cosmetic surgery on a baby, you are violating their rights. This avoids impugning the parents' motives, which they are (for lack of a less abrasive word) aggressively programmed to defend.
Some people like to work in one place and live in another.
Profession: Mechanical Engineer - Full Time (large well known consumer product brand)

Workday:

-[8:00] Meeting, once a week with Italy (tool supplier), 2 days a week with US manufacturing (on site)

-[9:00-11:30] Catch up on emails, review 3D CAD for projects, individual casual meetings with designers, marketing, CAD etc

[11:30-1:00] Lunch with coworkers, usually go to local climbing gym or go for a hike

[1:00-5:00] Same as morning routine, sometimes have to help manufacturing team with production issues, usually schedule larger meetings to kickoff new projects

[5:00] Touch point call with Chinese counterparts for new projects

[6:00] Go home.. exchange email/wechat with China for a while
The problem with NY Times and climate change isn't what you think
Yeah; I've upgraded multiple complex Rails applications so this is not something that surprises me in the least these days. It's just people in here saying they have "moderately complex" apps that they upgraded in 2 weeks.

I would say those are likely not very complex applications they are upgrading.
I would disagree that the foreskin performs an essential biological function, and by the dictionary definition that would not make it mutilation.
Yep, there is the autoInject which injects previous dependent functions return values as parameters instead of as properties of a context object, so that may help some, but it still breaks typechecks.

I wish that promises had a concept similar to this. It's simply too annoying for me to manually refactor a bunch of Promise.all() calls to manually adjust the concurrency of the logic flow compared to using the dependency pattern of async.auto().

And based on what I've seen this is a common problem in both async functions, generators, and promises. Since it is difficult to properly execute a tree of functional steps with the maximal concurrency I see code all the time which just runs async functions or promises in a series instead of taking advantage of the ability to concurrently execute two branches of the tree at the same time.
Compared to handcoded assembler. To the level comparable to gcc -O3.
Honest question, but is Net Neutrality the answer to these problems?

A few weeks ago on HN, someone made an analogy to water: someone filling their swimming pool should pay more for water than someone showering or cooking with it. This seems to make sense to me, water is a scarce resource and it should be prioritized.

Is the same true of the Internet? I absolutely agree that ISPs that are also in the entertainment business shouldn't be allowed to prioritize their own data, but that seems to me an anti-trust problem, not a net neutrality problem. I also agree that ISPs should be regulated like utilities, but even utilities are allowed to limit service to maintain their infrastructure (see: rolling blackouts).

Perhaps I simply do not understand NN and perhaps organizations haven't done a good job of explaining it, but I don't know that these problems are not best solved by the FTC, not the FCC.
With as many accounts on these services that actually exist, it still doesn't answer the question of whether or not the person actually owns the email.
Profession: CIO - Full time at company of roughly 3400 employees

- [6:45 AM] - Wake up, take out dog
- [7:45 AM] - Place kids in the car, off to car pool
- [8:25 AM] - Arrive at work
- [8:30 - 9:30 AM] - Catch up on email and news
- [9:30 - 11:45 AM] - Work on whatever
- [11:45 - 12:45 PM] - Head to gym and get workout in
- [12:45 PM - 5:45 PM] - Work on whatever
- [5:45 PM - 7:45 PM] - Head home, spend time with family
- [7:45 PM - 11:30 PM] - Work on either full time or personal projects on laptop while on the couch with the wife
- [11:30 PM - 1:30 AM] - Work on personal projects
- [1:30 AM] - Bed

Working on whatever during the day can include: attending meetings, checking in with the team, helping out on servers, writing code, architecting solutions, <insert whatever here>. Because I still write code and devops/admin, etc, I wouldn't consider myself a typical CIO...and I very much prefer it that way. I know and understand our entire stack, and I find this simple fact crucial to effectively driving innovation.
I have a circumcised penis and I am not Jewish. Reducing the Jewish identity to having your penis circumcised is just flawed as it naturally excludes Jewish women.

Jewish males can still have their private parts circumcised when they become adult as it was supposed to be the case, a rite of passage for getting into the adult world.

Most of your rebuttal is centered around a "slippery-slope" argument and it is not convincing enough.
In for a penny; in for a pound.

The principle is the same. The hospital should not be doing so much as trimming a fingernail of any patient incapable of giving informed consent, in the absence of a true medical necessity.

In the case of the ear-piercings, it is likely that the local cultural landscape is such that if the procedure is not performed in a sterile and controlled environment, by professional medical personnel, at the hospital, it would be done by amateurs at home. The medical necessity there may be the significant probability of botched, infected piercings. As a public health strategy, it isn't bad. Do the piercings at the hospital for two generations, and then ramp up the out-of-pocket cost for it, while vilifying it with a PR campaign.

Babies should still not be having their ears pierced, though. That is certainly of lesser severity than cutting off and throwing away more significant bits of the baby, leaving a permanent, visible scar there, but it is on the same spectrum. You are performing unnecessary procedures on a patient that cannot give consent.
this article seemed woefully bereft of age-breakdowns on the data. a whole lot of averaged out statistics with no drill down. what happens if your project out 10 years from now when there are half as many baby-boomers still alive as there are today?
> I also don't know how an ISP would get your actual internet history if the website uses HTTPS.

Your ISP can (and likely does) monitor your DNS queries, which (as far as I know) are not encrypted.

Personally I think the net neutrality stuff is a tad overblown. I'd vote for maintaining it, but I've never been particularly convinced by the whole "surveillance state/beyond-orwellian/ISP censoring your speech" arguments that get thrown around on HN, among other places.

I think the problems with ISPs are more practical: they overcharge, provide shitty service, have no incentive to upgrade their infrastructure, and clearly collude with one another. Therefore they need to be regulated.
The GPU may help in compressing and decompressing data, encrypting and decrypting as well as sorting it (block-wise) ahead of heavy operations.

Compressing and decompressing are examples of reducing I/O, and shifting it over to compute instead - and the GPU is ideal for that.

Most decent columnar databases are compute bound. I/O is less of a bottleneck compared to OLTP style databases.
Most Americans dont see that as normal, healthcare is one of the top political issues in this country. However, the true costs of healthcare are extremely opaque. I'd guess the cost of the little anger incident above would be an order of magnitude less with insurance.

To add another anecdote, I got a kidney stone ~5 years ago. The cost for ER admission, a CT scan, some lab work, prescriptions, etc was about "$20,000". However, nobody paid anybody $20,000. I paid something like $1000 and my guess is my insurance via their negotiated rates paid something like another $1000 on top of that. How we got there as a country is a long, complicated story.
I actually started professionally programming at 33. Doing fine 4 years later. Amazingly, I got my computer science degree at 25, but due to many factors, was not ready until I grew up a little.
> most of the time you can just split that to another server

Yeah. A starting monolith, some cronnish way to run batches, and some way to listen to queues goes a long way.
Machine Learning 101: Intro to Decision Trees
Wouldn't it be a little more accurate and fair to call it the "Visicalc" model of programming, given that's who invented it?
>I also don't know how an ISP would get your actual internet history if the website uses HTTPS.

The ISP could monitor your DNS requests or the SNI[1] in the TLS handshake.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
The Hitchhiker's Guide to AWS ECS and Docker
not for sure, no - and I used to regularly shoot rifles with the Air Cadets. I've never heard an engine backfire in the UK - is it common State-side?
You contemplate, every day about a career change? I mean whining about what you could be doing is awesome. Doing it every day at the same time kinda ruins it :)
Keep the net neutral with Title Two oversight of ISPs.
It doesn't, but the ISP still know what pages you went to.

If they want to determine your political leanings your browsing history is enough.
If I had a crusading wife, there's no way I'd get between her and someone who owed money to the family's primary source of income. :)

That being said, for me it doesn't make a lot of sense to sue someone without money. That is just throwing more time and money down a hole. It was more productive to learn from the experience,
adjust client engagement process to reduce the chance it'd happen again, and move on.
My point is it appears as though he writes on behalf of MapD, and I wish that was clearer in his articles which he submits to HN.
Profession: Web developer (80-90% remote)

At Home:

[08:00] - Wake Up

[08:00] - Coffee and catch up on emails, news in bed

[09:00] - Walk or Run with the dog

[10:00] - Coding, bug fixing, calls with team

[12:00] - Lunch

[13:00] - Coding etc. interspersed with house/ garden work (depening on work demands)

[18:00] - Prepare dinner for family and Eat

[19:30] - Relax/ work on side projects

[23:00] - Bed

Commuting to the office (2-4 times/ month):

[07:00] - Wake up

[07:30] - travel to work (mix of bus, ferry and subway)

[10:15] - Arrive at work

[10:30] - Mix of meetings, urgent work, pingpong, and sometimes beer

[17:00] - Leave work and reverse the journey home

[21:00] - Arrive home

[23:00] - Bed
I think parent comment was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot (1991)
To my understanding it makes improvements in a few areas. The first being the tiered approach to where the data is stored. So for instance geospatial data may only store coordinates, and datetime info in the actual gpu memory. So you get massive speed ups on that. Then the next most interesting fields are in main memory, for a bit better performance. And than the rest, is on disk. I believe they also designed ways of indexing the data which perform better on GPUs with massive parallelization. And then the other major improvement is using the GPUs to render visualizations of the data you are trying to understand. That way what gets passed from the server could only be an image and not tens of millions of points of data.
TL; DR: Here at Gab, we don't need no stinking bots to fill up our streams with nazi crap.
Harassment Complaint Tests Kubernetes Community’s CoC
I would say that there is at least two type of human labor: humans pretending to be machines and value added labor e.g. R&D/IP generation.
Labor that generates IP and new products should not be viewed as a pure expense because there is a return to that expense.

Humans have better things to do than pretend to be machines.
and why do you only have comcast as a choice? Government granted monopolies. Void all local contracts with ISPs (cable or telco), and you will have choices.
I just documented how it should be done, in the article at the top of the page. The answer is "don't use JWT." Use specific tools for the thing you are actually trying to do, that have API's that are harder to mess up.
Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars
> Its not going to be in a desirable city and probably not a very nice apt,

That's what the comparison is though, it's using "city center" apartments, apartments inside urban areas. Of which, there aren't any anywhere near that price, in almost any city in the US. (Even somewhere like Detroit).

If you want to look at crappy apartments way outside of town, the comparison still holds up:

> Dresden - Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre - $392/month USD

That "affordable" Modesto apartment is still about 2X the cost of a comparable unit.
Liberal progressives are totally fine with the child having a choice? That's the point you are making. Also outside of medical reasons, gender reassignment surgery standard of care is to wait until the age of majority. So 18 sounds about right.
According to the Mayo Clinic there are multiple medical benefits to circumcision [1]

To address some of the other points here, I can only give a anecdotal example from my own experience. My wife and I decided to have our son circumcised and not because of religious reasons, but rather because of those listed in the referenced article, among others--and after much condsideration. At the end of the day we decided that the benefits outweighed the risks.

As far as who should have the choice of this procedure, ideally it would be the individual on whom the procedure is being performed. However, the procedure and pain as an adult would certainly be more memorable. My parents made the choice to circumcise me when I was an infant--I'm glad they did because I don't remember any associated pain or discomfort.

I think that there should be more discourse over this parental choice. If parents are making these decisions for mere aesthetic or ritualistic reasons then that is a problem. However, labeling circumcision as 'genital mutilation' across the board is not accurate. There are advantages and disadvantages that should be weighed carefully.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/circumcision/basi...