skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first part of your comment is a great question.

Its extremely hard to definitively define best practises. You'd be surprised how many practitioners still argue for what look like clearly outdated ways of doing things. There's also the argument that in some people's hands an outdated way of doing things is safer than a newer (better?) way of doing things in their hands. eg. A surgeon who has been practising for 30 years but only recently learned to use a laparoscope.

I doubt ambulance chasers do anything other than muddy the waters and enrich themselves at the healthcare systems expense.
> On a project such as OpenBSD they cannot suddenly drop platforms and only support amd64 as portability

They… don't need to? That rustc can't compile itself on i386 doesn't mean you can't ship a rustc for i386, it just means you have to cross-compile it.
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> it's not urgent enough to call or physically reach out to me about it it's not that big a deal

Exactly. If someone has a problem with me taking a couple of hours to get back to an e-mail I say, "you wouldn't send the fire brigade a postcard would you?"
Can guarantee already that they will write/word the new legislation so badly that they could apply to almost anything.

In my tax return I'll have to declare that my avatar, "sparkie", holds 3,000,000 gil and several gold ingots on FFXIV. This will be classed as an asset as there exists exchanges (Chinese sweatshops) which exchange gil for EUR/GBP.
In my soon-to-be 15-year career as a professional software engineer (and several more as an amateur) I've noticed that the common trait of the high functioning teams I have had the distinct pleasure to work with was always the same thing – a great leader. (In one case, there were two, working sort of in tandem.)

Trying to sum up these leaders' qualities is difficult, but if I try to distill it I think it comes down to primarily these two aspects:

1. Strong vision and ability to clearly communicate direction
2. Mutual trust

They wouldn't tell people what to do, and certainly not how to do it, but they'd always – every single day – point in the direction they wanted you to go and course correct where necessary. It wasn't like it was an all-hands meeting every morning either, it was more like gentle nudging or little reminders, but not unsolicited. It's difficult to explain frankly, but the result was that we as a team never felt unsure as to where we were heading.

The most important thing however certainly was the mutual trust. You could trust these leaders to have your backs, no matter what, and these people would trust you to get things done. That sense of trust created an immensely palpable sense of loyalty, you really did feel like your input and efforts mattered, and you always wanted to bring your a-game for the team. Again, difficult to explain, but you know when you're in it.

Not one of these teams worked like the other, in terms of methodology, yet things worked and they worked very well. We had issues, for sure, but I've also worked in dysfunctional teams and the same kind of issues in those teams were amplified by terrible leadership, leading to constantly worsening morale and in some unfortunate cases abject failure to deliver.
> which is why Canada has so few hispanic and black people, and why it's nearly 80% white.

Er, or it's not bordered by Mexico and doesn't have nearly the extensive history with African slavery that the US does?

> Why don't more poor black people immigrate into Canada from cities like Detroit, Chicago or New York?

I'm not trying to argue one way or another for Canada's immigration system (I know very little about it), but this is a very simplistic argument.

Why don't all the ex-coal miners in WV simply move to where the jobs are?

Picking up and relocating your life is way, way more involved than you're making it sound.

> It's simple, they're not allowed to.

This is also the case in the US, hence the widespread fears about illegal immigrants.

If life was significantly better in Canada, one would expect far more illegal immigration.
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Invoking an experimental Haskell branch is not what I would consider convincing.
A bit luddite don't you think? Nobody encouraged me or you back when we were children to go online and chat using IRC instead of going outside to interact with friends in person, yet we did. I'm sure a lot of parents would prefer a more monitored environment (claimed) than IRC and such.
What was built can be rebuilt.
Precision isn't the issue. Story pointing isn't supposed to be 100% accurate either. It's supposed to shine a light on an otherwise opaque process. It works at that. This is the same.

I could quite easily spend all of my time refactoring and none on features and vice versa. There is no "right" amount as you seem to think, just a whole bunch of trade offs.

I think you underestimate the power of making something measurable and exposing it to upper management. That often changes behaviour in a quite radical way, especially among weasels.

And, you've never known development to be managed in this way because it's a new idea.
I built this one page website on Saturday morning while watching a EPL soccer match, because we're in a bubble right?

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A bit incendiary:

I fail to see what advantage rewriting existing and proven tools with a new language would bring. Shouldn't the main value new tools bring to be enable writing of new things?

Isn't focusing on existing utils more like a lack of imagination and OCD on optimizing a thing beyond any further value?
Sapiens—the book mentioned throughout this post—is fantastic.
Their situation is not an either/or, it's both. It's an awesome model and I think eventually a lot of companies will replicate something similar using AR.

Thanks for pointing that out though!
With the Unifi line it doesn't matter how easy the terminal is since the config gets overwritten by the controller on each re-provision. So not only do you get to figure out what config works via terminal, you also get to insert it into the config via JSON and find the right way to provision it.

It's certainly not rocket science, but I don't know too many junior sysadmins who could do it without hours of research and pain. Whereas making a change on an EdgeRouter is more legacy - find, apply, save. Done.
You're right that ryacko missed my point. And, you nailed exactly the benefits of an in person government issued asymmetric key process.

Even if showing up in front of US authorities was completely hackable, it'd still be better than the current state of affairs, because you'd have to hack people one at a time in person. (Unless you discovered some 0day in the key generation process or the hardware or something)

That naturally limits identity theft to a targeted attack on one individual, rather than being able to steal half of US adults identities all at once. Also, the hacker (or their accomplice) would only be able to hack one person per DMV (or Post Office) per month. And they'd have to at least vaguely fit your race, height, gender, etc.

A gang would maybe have the organizational skills to farm it out to a bunch of people. But, that's still limited to something on the order of thousands of people.

Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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although unfortunately it can't do "the syscall number is open and the path is five characters long".
Http-decision-diagram: describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes
It's not about giving kids more time on electronics, it's about giving kids access to a more sheltered and moderated environment. As mentioned earlier, a lot of "us" were on completely open and unmoderated IRC and ICQ networks back when we were the age this app is aimed at. So many underage people have gotten their share of perverts and abuse and whatnot on those. I'm not saying this app is good or Facebook saves the children or whatever, I'm saying that the alternative is unfiltered chat.
first of all the only reason Kaspersky is as good as it is, is because the Director of Global Research & Analysis is from Romania
Are you joking? Are you running large, mission-critical systems in production on Redox already?

I'm sure it will be good enough for that some day, but that day is not now.
How about a "keep your e-paws off our kids" boycott? Literally the only thing which could work at this point.
It's only an improvement on the status quo if you assume that the status quo is that there are fewer doctors for some reason, or that Congresspeople create an excess of doctors than are needed to treat Congresspeople?

What is the "status quo" in this comment?
We usually have a lot of CC's. So we use the @ system.

Eg. @stacey - can you get me the numbers on whatever?
This comment needs to be higher; kids will get on messenger apps regardless. The previous generation used MSN Messenger and such.
This felt like enough of a "devil is in the details" case that I needed to read the original rather than a summary. Clicked through to the paper, to be greeted by an ACM paywall. Blech. But wait, what's this... "article made available by the morning paper", with a tooltip "special arrangement betwen ACM and blog.acolyer.com". So that's cool, I guess :)

One odd bit about the design seemed to be that the responses were allocated on a per-socket rather than per-core basis. The paper implies (but doesn't seem to state outright) that this is done to pack as much data as possible to each store buffer. Does that sound right?
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>>> In fact, even European pharmaceutical companies make most of their revenue from sales in the US, not Europe. (This is why the US funds over 50% of R&D for the entire world, even though it only has 300 million people, and many of the largest pharmaceutical companies are based in Europe, not the US).

This just isn't true. Take Norvatis for example, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The US makes 35% of their revenue and Europe another 35%, with the rest of the world sharing the rest. [0]

I wouldn't call that "most of their revenue". In fact, I don't see anything out of the ordinary about revenue gained per customer, given the size and purchasing power of the US.

There's little evidence to suggest that higher drug prices actually help the drug companies.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/294631/novartis-revenue-...
He's talking specifically about OpenBSD base. Unless you can point to a rust binary in OpenBSD that Theo forgot about, he's not wrong.

i386 is relevant because OpenBSD supports i386.
The bootstrap problem is real and getting worse: go needs go, haskell needs haskell, rust needs rust; it's nasty.

There are already "better" and "safer" languages that could easily replace the entire unix userland. Heck, awk can do half of it, but all of that C code is already written...
That is probably the biggest takeaway for me from the article. The insufferable Dr. Warwick gets his patients to comply. That is one of his cutting edge skills.
But it was the Leave vote that had the majority. Thus, the UK is attempting to leave the EU backed by a campaign of lies and deceit.

Remain was the default option, equivalent in outcome to not having had a referendum at all.
This confirms that the root problem is distribution. Even when you have an "evergreen" platform like Chrome, you can hobble it by requiring deployment through a central IT team. This also opens up attack vectors against the organisation.

Aside: I'd be really interested in whether these browser microclimates ever develop dependencies on old Chrome versions that end up being problematic to carry forward to newer versions.
You are seriously claiming that Merkel did not play THE key role in setting immigration policy across the EU? That seems to go against what most reasonable sources conclude.

As regards Poland I think perhaps you are believing what you see in the MSM rather than taking things with the pinch of salt they deserve. Putting the MSM to one side there are plenty of commentators that consider recent EU actions towards Poland as an unprecedented interference with sovereignty. Also you are verging on Godwin's law with this assertion: 'slipping into far-right fascist state'. Have you actually looked at photos of the recent march? Protestors had anti-communist AND anti-nazi flags.
Great find! My team wants to try ngrx but we have been on the fence due to lack of proper training material. This looks amazing. Exactly what we need!
Bravo Theo! Someone finally stood up to hype!
Luckily that wasn't an important part of Tarean's comment then, and provided for interest only!
I don't understand how it's a problem. Just show a message "Your browser is not supported. Please use one of the following browsers." To play games on Windows people install MANY proprietary launchers(From Blizzard, EA, UBI, etc. Steam is a glorified launcher also), I don't see how installing Chrome just to play a game is more difficult.
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I think what you are talking about are "Kindergrippen" (when kids are 2-3 years old). Kindergardens are public and free.

This Kindergrippen-age is really the only moment when kids in Switzerland cost you significantly more than in the rest of Europe.

Think it this way: From the actual kindergarden age (4 years old?) you won't pay anymore. It's even free to send the kid to the best technical university in mainland Europe, which is supposed to be ETH (think MIT of Europe)
Does Europe have an issue with Youtube Kids? With kids using Facebook / Messenger / Whatsapp / etc without being the age they are supposed to be according to the T&C?
Get them hooked early. Revenue for the future.
And this is why we must force our kids to watch "Enemy of The State" and perhaps "Person of Interest " (episodes where Samaritan is up) every holiday. I think its a good introduction to the value of privacy for kids.
> I'm sure a lot of parents would prefer a more monitored environment (claimed) than IRC and such.

I'd prefer no chat client whatsoever, which I can enforce as a parent.

Not a luddite, have just seen the damage large tech corporations have caused to societal fabric in the name of profits and keeping that out of our family.

Disclaimer: Grew up on EFnet, would rather have my kids playing outside.
> If you hook them when they're really young, though, then FB just becomes an unquestioned part of life.

Exactly like religion. Facebook is learning from the best!
This isn't Facebook, it's Facebook Messenger for Kids. It's linked to a parents' account (who usually are above 13), so they are legally responsible in the end.
Most people are honest, but it only takes a couple of bad apples to spoil the entire barrel. eBay 15 years ago was so much more awesome than the eBay of today.
> I wanted to know, did you always email this way, or did you only start once you became the boss? His answer (over email): “Yes.” I’m going to assume the yes was to the first part of the question and he skimmed over part two.

This isn't something to emulate. People who only read the first few words of an email before replying make communication harder for everyone else. Sometimes things can't be accurately summed up in half a sentence.
So companies manufacturing baby phone toys are just sneaky drug dealers trying to addict children to telephone drug?

Chat is a communication tool. Why so much hate for facebook chat app? None of that I've seen when facebook dumped ton of brain dead (often pay to win) games on children or when apple did the same with their app store.
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> I thought you were implying that if Canada had an immigration policy like the USA then it would also have 12% black population

I was implying Canada would have far more black people today than a mere 2.x% of its population, if its immigration policy wasn't extremely exclusionary. There is a six fold gap in that percentage with the US. There is a ~15 fold gap in the hispanic percentage.

I would like to see you explain how the Americas can be ~72% hispanic, while Canada is 1.x% hispanic, while the US has allowed in vast Latin American immigration over the last 60 years, if it's not due to Canada being anti-diversity. The touted diversity premise doesn't make any sense given the demographic facts of Canada and the facts about its immigration policies.

If Canada is pro-diversity, why aren't the hispanic numbers dramatically higher given the context in the rest of the Americas? Why doesn't Canada abandon its regressive skill & education based immigration system and allow in millions of Latin American immigrants?
They will monitor them for signs of depression and make sure the "right" people are aware of it.
Addressed in the article.

> In OpenBSD there is a strict requirement that base builds base.
As can be expected from a project with a slogan of "Shut up and hack"[1].

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#51b

As the notes indicate, this saying goes back much further than this release song.
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Speaker: Sanjeev Arora

Affiliation: Princeton University; Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics

Date: November 27, 2017
He mentions but does not address one of the main problems: sharing passwords is actually ADVANTAGEOUS to the politicians because it provides plausible deniability. Troy says "this is exactly the problem" (which is true), but provides no proposed recourse.

Looking at other industries, the problem goes away when people are held responsible for activities performed under their credentials even if they DID share them to other users. But it is particularly difficult in politics to hold people accountable for their actions.
His point is obviously that they should hire more to make Haskell seem popular, even though one of the reasons they don't need more than 30 is because it's Haskell and not JavaScript.
Despite the generic response, your letter was probably noted. MPs & their offices might not have time to respond individually to every letter, but they usually do keep track of the issues being raised by constituents and in what volume.
So baby phone toys is just entry drug peddled by big teleco?
> go needs go, haskell needs haskell, rust needs rust

And C needs C, or for more recent compilers, C++ needs C++. You just don't notice it because these two languages are already part of the base system.
I do have children. And I did raise them following Taking Children Seriously to the best of my ability. If I had it to do over I'd only learn TCS better and follow it better, not in the other direction. It was liberating to me to find that it was possible to raise children without using rules or punishment/reward. My children are grown now and are wonderful people. So if anyone here is thinking TCS can't work out well with real children, I'm here to tell you it can. This is a small sample size but it's more than zero.
What am I going to do with 42.7 Macbook Pros?

I'd sell them for Bitcoins.

I think you should add to the interface the price in bitcoins, as it's a more interesting value than how many of X you can buy for 1 bitcoin.
Because of GNU/Linux.
some go as far as making zero inbox a thing.

That's me. I am very conscientious with emails. Nearly all get actioned or a reply and I often use it as a to-do list. But I also get both my work and personal inboxes to zero every weekend :-) It definitely makes me feel better as things sitting waiting to be done make me anxious (to the point of getting all the cooking stuff into the dishwasher before sitting and eating a meal :-D)
> Why don't you try to refute my general point?

I'm not arguing against you. I'm pointing out that you haven't made an argument.

A claim with no documented basis is not an informed one, doesn't add anything to the debate and is useless to everyone involved.

> And after some more research I can confirm the Treasury actually did predict an immediate crash. You are exactly 100% wrong.

Again, you've failed to provide any citation for your claim. Until you provide a citation, readers should disregard your comments as if you haven't said anything.
Sure. I am thinking of the classic "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World," in which there is a discussion of natures. It strikes me that Niantic produced a product which resonated with the nature of kids. Apple in the Jobs days strove to produce technology that was consonant with human nature, which meant they sometimes seemed slow but built things that made sense, and made obvious decisions quickly (no ad tracking in iMessage, for instance). Even Google in its early days built a search product that was quite more human than competitors. Products that irritate human nature can succeed, but perhaps not for too long.
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