skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really awesome, 'danenania. Secret management has been on my mind lately, and this really fits a sweet spot for what I'm looking for. I know things HashiCorp's Vault do basically the same thing, but Vault is complex enough that sometimes I barely understand exactly what it does. Good luck!
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I'm not sure which part you're WTFing, so I'll try to unpack my comment:

> Just from looking at their site, they don't actually seem to be hiring at all.

I couldn't see a clear Careers page on their site, which I found slightly surprising.

> There's a casual “hey, maybe contact us if you want a job!”,

On the About page there is a message like this. Literally it says “Looking for a new challenge? We are always on the lookout for likeminded individuals to join our growing team. If you've got the talent to help our mission and you share our values, please get in touch.”

That's a very general prompt for people who want a job to contact them. You need quite a high bar of self-confidence to apply in response such a general prompt.

> that's only gonna attract the Dunning-Kruger Dudes.

This is my cute nickname for people who believe they're great when in fact they're merely OK, in reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect. These people do have enough self-confidence to reply to the vague prompt. “Dudes” because I believe these people are disproportionately male:

> (Men are disproportionately conditioned to be over-confident, because boys are rewarded for being noisy and cheeky.)

This is my opinion. In my 2nd-hand experience, young boys are generally encouraged to be boisterous and even naughty, whereas young girls are expected to be quieter and more shy.

Boys are more likely to be confident in their own abilities than girls, even when the two have similar skill levels. This assertion comes from a small-scale experiment in [a TV show](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09202jz), which is not proper science, and it's reasonable to reject this assertion as anecdote.

In any case, this is generalising and there are always counterexamples. But if any of this holds somewhat true, it may explain how the asymmetry arose.

Hopefully that answered your WTF!
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It's not "wrong"; it just doesn't appeal me.

- `elsif`

- `end`

- `unless`

- `a unless b`

- `f 1` vs `f(1)`

- Implicit method calls (`f` vs `self.f`). I know both have different behavior, I just don't like this "implicit self".

... etc.

I find Python okay-ish though, as paradoxical and nonsensical as that might sound. But in my toolchain Python has been reduced to little more than a calculator, since it's been replaced by Go for most of my automation needs.

Btw, friendly reminder that this is my subjective opinion regarding my own tastes, not absolute truth on aesthetics.

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I think in this context it means that adding a deity into the explanation is adding an unnecessary extra element where none is needed. Thus the explanation is less "frugal" than one where we assume a multiverse without any creator(s).
> E-mail is about as terrible as IRC and yet it just won't die.

At least with email you're able to send messages to those on different "networks".
Haha if you pay for SA it only suggests that you are a sucker who paid 10 bucks to post on SA for a couple of days before getting banned. They are very ban happy there.
If you can't be a dick to people in a virtual online world then perhaps you feel you have to test your ideas by being a dick to them IRL?

This appears to be the parallel catharsis argument to that used for why ultra-violent FPS don't encourage, provoke, increase violent behaviour.

[I don't really buy it in either case, but I'd argue it online to see what other think.]
Neat idea. I'd be a bit concerned about data privacy, tho.
Well, parts of the UI are done with web views, but it's invisible to the end user. This is how hybrid apps should be done, not React Native or Cordova or whatever's being used these days.
Lyft's international expansion has only started recently into Canada about 5 months ago.
Fighting air pollution in the US is not a solved problem.

There's been tons of advancement, which certainly includes the development of technologies and techniques that can readily be deployed elsewhere.

Major population centers like Los Angeles and San Francisco have certainly reaped benefits from industrial and transportation regulations over past decades. The smog is less dense, less harmful, and has more appealing colors.

However, it still exists, does cause harm, and needs constant attention to make sure it doesn't get worse. There's still a ton that can be done.
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No, it's not disingenuous at all. It is not a cop-out to say that people who believe in conspiracy theories, people who don't understand facts, people who are highly opinionated about things they don't understand, etc. are not behaving logically. They can have valid concerns and still be behaving irrationally. You clearly think these are mutually exclusive but they aren't.

Appreciate the multiple snide attacks, though.
So your answer to people you don't like is corporal punishment.

Do you honestly believe that is the best method to improve discourse?
I guess what I don't understand quite what you mean.

The lectures themselves weren't that useful to me, although learning to interpret the pattern of confusion was invaluable (like looking at a code diff, where it doesn't tell you what the problem is, just what the difference is). Often, even the textbooks weren't (another exercise in pattern matching, and comparing with other sources). I spent a lot of time learning the material in my own way, then learning the mapping between my understanding and the way that it was being taught in class.

The topics in class acted as a decent map of the "tech tree" involved in the pile of topics to study, and a possibly-appropriate order to learn them in.

Everyone thinks differently. Do you have a more efficient idea an "expert" to convey a large number of concepts to a large group of people? What's your preferred method of learning?
Just the past week:

- New Yorker publishes this article

- Mayor of London at SXSW called for tighter tech regulation.

- UK Culture Secretary declares social media "broken", states he wants to time-limit children's access to social media and "impose stricter checks on the age limits when children can first set up a social media profile"

- Tim Berners-Lee said "we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web"

- The Economist prints an article "On Twitter, falsehood spreads faster than truth" (reporting on a recent study by MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines)

- A report is delivered to European Commission: "Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation"

- The House of Lords International Relations Committee concluded tech firms were negatively affecting our society

Blimey...
Quantum many worlds does not posit the existence of universes with different fundamental constants. The physical laws would be the same.
10 minutes is more then enough time to image most devices. Various groups have had stuff like this around for quite a while now. http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3458.asp
The article's profile image of Bezos eating an iguana should be an article all by itself.
The problem with your comments is they assume things about other users. You have no idea what software I use, how I verify it, how I modify it or how I use it. You have no idea what I am doing. Stop making assumptions.

If you really dont care (as would be expected) then dont downvote and comment.

If you want to use this forum to give unsolicited "advice" to readers then you can do that (easy for me to filter this out). But please do not use my comments as a launching pad for your free "advice" and "guidance".

If you want to change what software people use, why not write some software yourself and publish it?
Im scepticall of a collection of 20 books without any known name.
Still for 15 bucks and a morning skiming through them maybe some random gem will show up
Would make sense to help power AWS...

Who knew they do own some solar and wind assets: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
The difficulty for any theory is explaining why anything exists at all, i.e., if there's no space and no time, isn't that a stable state? Without time, how could anything ever happen?

If a multiverse theory could give a way to get a universe out of nothing, it would be a lot more elegant than a deity theory. The deity theory after all is incomplete, it just supposes that our universe is embedded inside some sort of "outer" universe where deities live, but that outer universe also has to be created somehow.
In time for what?

People don't need the self control to avoid trolls, they need the self control to change their reaction to them from simply getting butthurt and offended.
Absolutely. The internet is a tremendously powerful tool for politically motivated entities to control exactly what content and ideas hundreds of millions of people consume in a very ironically authoritarian and anti-neutral way, despite what they have done a fantastic job of convincing people.

Also that is why I enjoy playing Valve's online games and not Blizzard's or Riot's. No politics or baby sitting. Just the ability to mute everyone if you so choose. The "no BS" approach is also quite apparent in the game design itself too
Could you give examples, I've been there a lot and have never seen this (though I've been told "people like you should be killed" a few times because of my religious associations, so don't doubt it, just curious about specifics).
China can fix the issue overnight if they were to mandate filters on coal fired heat and powerplants, yet that never happened on my memory.

CCP interest in fixing the smog issue is not than genuine. The smog, and efforts fighting it serve as a potent detractor of public opinion from real problems. I believe, CCP is happy to keep things as they are just for that.
The neighborhoods and downtown in Boston can be nice and walkable. But if you want to get around to places around the city, the Boston T has an average speed of about 10 mph [1]. A decent subway system can take you to places at more like 30 mph. NYC subway does about 15 mph [2]. D.C. metro does 30 mph [3].

(Not talking about the train top speed, but the average speed, including stops and acceleration, along the whole line.)

[1] For the Green line: http://walkingbostonian.blogspot.com/2015/01/taking-look-at-...

[2] https://www.nyctransitforums.com/topic/17313-subway-system-a...

[3] https://ggwash.org/view/4524/average-schedule-speed-how-does...
> stop humanity from resource-extracting-and-polluting Earth's oceans, land and water

I'm not sure I see the connection. I'd argue most of the damage we're doing to the earth is not industrial: overfishing the oceans, raising cattle, slash and burn agriculture, extracting and burning hydrocarbons, transportation, waste disposal. Moving industry off planet is fine but we still need to address these things.

Now, if you want to move a bunch of humans off planet, that would be super.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France )
How about he spend it on paying his workers a living wage?
The problem with the Code of Conduct
Is there a Node.js version of BulletTrain?
I've got a question: to what extent can they dish up the "Terms of Service" argument? That is, can they refuse to fly you (domestic) if you refuse to comply because it's a "term of service"?

Is there any niddling contract law in purchasing plane tickets?
> People _register_ for a course, presumably, with the goal of finishing it.

Most of the free MOOCs I've registered for I've not really had a particularly strong intent to finish. (Paid MOOCs are a different story.)

> (Otherwise, why not do a google/wiki search for topic X? Find that specific topic on youtube/MIT OCW?)

Because of a preference for interactive vs. static content, for one thing.

> We can move goalposts and now pretend that MOOCs primarily exist as a random buffet of knowledge and not replacements for actual courses, but that's not how they were positioned.

Actually, being low-barrier-to-entry so as to support more experimental, low-commitment exploration—which logically implies a lower completion rate—is a big part of how free MOOCs were positioned.
OWS was easily the most visible public protest in decades, going on for two months. Not sure that example exactly supports your thesis.
> Get over the shell part. You don't have to use Unix shells.

I HAVE HEARD YOU. You've said that countless times. It doesn't change anything. There's the fundamental problem that the shell statement is a single string. You combine strings with Make to form a single string (it's a form of templating, recognizing some custom sequences), and then rely on a shell on the other end to parse it to the correct list/structure of tokens. The same fragile approach has lead to many, many SQL injection vulnerabilities (or simply fragilities) in the past. It's fundamentally not a solid approach. And there is no way to fix that.

There's a reason I haven't seen a usage of a Makefile using a different shell than sh in the wild. sh is the one language whose super minimal syntax plays best with that cheap sort of templating. It works typically, but it's a fragile construction that is relying on suitable inputs.

> If you think the macro names are somhow cryptic, no I can't believe you. There are only a few of them to remember.

It's not about the few named built-in functions. It's about the weird macro expansion model that does not even have a solid list data structure, and about the many cryptic non-identifier shorthands. And about the total lack of the slightest support for creating solid building blocks. A list structure and a way to define functions and I would be almost happy. But it's not there, and I'm not going to mess with this: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Call-Func... . And it's not even portable.

> The integration

By integration I meant the interplay that you get by overlaying two syntaxes (that of the shell, whatever it may be, and that of Make splicing things in). Mixing syntaxes has been a bad idea in the past, and always will be.

> Then define a function to do it. Surely you know how to do that as a mighty python programmer, right?

So I'm supposed to define the function with each invocation? Or define a special shell that pre-defines the function? And even then each line will look something like

do_your_thing_with(splitfiles("""$(MYMAKEMACRO)"""))

And it will still be fragile. I simply don't think this is a good idea.

> Your complaints about make make it seem like you think that when using make you have to do everything with it and shell. If you don't want to mess with make then mess with python.

No, for the last time. I get what you say (I'm not dumb) and I don't think it's a good idea. At all. If you want to continue tinkering with macros, let's simply agree to disagree. Ok?
> When I interned at Uber, media estimates were pretty inaccurate

How confident were you in the accuracy of the internal numbers being shared? ;-)

Devil's advocate question for sure, but I've been at companies where real numbers of all kinds were casually inflated internally during communications for morale (or just to flatter management's ego)..
> Does it matter?

Stupid question. Yes.

> What if it is a low level position and the person stabs someone at the first disagreement?

Why do you assume that "felon = violent"?

> Why do I have to take that risk?

Every hire is a risk. Running a business is a risk in the first place. If you're risk-averse, you probably aren't running a business, anyhow. So, why do you take that risk? Presumably because you've concluded during the interview that they can perform the task that you're hiring for better than the other candidates. If they can't, then it's a moot point anyhow, isn't it?
A more humble suggestion for saving the Earth: re-plant the trees that went into packaging Amazon's deliveries.
Perhaps I oversimplified. Bezos would also like to move millions of people off-planet as well. Additionally, it's not just mining and manufacturing, but nearly all of humanity's Earthly activities can be done in space. There is some more details about his vision in this WaPo piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/jeff-bezos-p...
Yeah that was gross. I used to have pet iguanas, so that pic was just about as disturbing as seeing that platter with a dog or cat on it.
Bezos is an investor in General Fusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion
Laudable idea, but there's just so much variety of old platforms, file formats, and backup formats. It's hard to guess what might be highest priority. Maybe "Universal" just sounds a little strong to me.

Just covering every popular RISC/Unix platform would be daunting. Ever hear of Pyramid Osx? It was once popular. That's skipping over mainframes (not just IBM either, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUNCH), mid-range (os/400, mpe, VMS, Tandem), OS/2, BeOS, embedded platforms, and much, much, more.
That's because the issue is more complicated than any absolute statements.

One case decided that law enforcement can compel you to turn over documents that it knows you have possession of, regardless of where they exist. You're not testifying against yourself; you're turning over evidence.

Another case has decided that they can't compel you to turn over a password so they can search for evidence.
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> we can't rely on that as the solution for Internet security.

We could if updating router firmware were an easy and prolific practice.

The reason that it isn't is that it can't be done on most routers, especially the cheaper or ISP-provided ones that most people use.

What we really can't rely on is "security by obscurity". Let's drop the notion that software is more secure simply because you don't release the source.
I don't disagree, but I think we might be talking past eachother.

Youtube definitely does have a lot of really interesting, useful stuff. There's some stuff that's fantastic. That's the stuff I want them (youtube) to value more highly. Some (most) of it is interesting and useful to people who aren't me. I'm not even commenting on youtubers disingenuously leaning into controversy or whatnot to get views.

What I'm saying is that there is a lot of stuff that isn't. Youtube does not seem to have an opinion about what is good or bad, at least not beyond view count. Have a look at their homepage. Is it good? Does it give a special place to the things youtube does uniquely well? To me, it just looks like a random collection of videos and a lowest common denominator theme.

Structuring youtube as a video db, with search... that's great. I like that. It means you can narrow down to the point where the lowest common denominator is relatively high, but I feel like youtube would prefer me to just watch some scandal outrage news clip or a show clip or something.
Generally speaking, you and I agree on that much.

However, we're talking about how filters and algorithms won't stop people from being dicks to each other.
It worked when I tweeted the google amp URL, oddly.

And LOL, not from Sophos. I assumed it was because it had the word "naked" in the URL, but it was odd because I attempted to tweet it many times and it failed UNTIL I used the google amp version of the URL.
>"We just want to search your house for 30 minutes" or "you can have your document back after we photocopy it, so no warrant needed."

This scenario would be quite a bit more akin to "let me have that locked briefcase you're carrying through security, no need for you to unlock it" and then returning it to you locked after 10 minutes.

Was that a 4th amendment search if they claim that they didn't look through your briefcase?
Doesn't the spiral array model discard enharmonic equivalence?
Has anyone attempted to combine this with D3?
Well, this just solved two problems I've been trying to figure out for months -- thanks, shihn!

GitHub link: https://github.com/pshihn/rough
I agree. It irks me to see apologia for dictatorship.
Yeah this kind of APT work seems like it would be targeted at high-value individuals, for either political or economic espionage..

So leaders of industry or government, etc..
I use a TWSBI ECO, extra-fine nib with Noodler's Lexington Gray, mostly with Rhodia notebooks. Almost no smudging with that combo.
Crash bars offer an unthinking affordance: if a crowd presses up against crash doors, the doors open automatically, relieving the pressure (or at least, if the doorway / passage itself is not overwhelmed).

Automatic negative feedback mechanism.
All great advice. The key to communication is brevity.
You'd think he could put some of that money towards not abusing his own employees. https://gizmodo.com/reminder-amazon-treats-its-employees-lik...
but if they are entering markets where Uber already exists, wouldn't there users mainly be ex-uber users ? unlikely that all of them are new users. Unless people user both at the same time, but it could still eat into ubers revenue in those regions.
Have any data on it mostly being girls doing it for the thrill? It seems like every time I like a photo and look the posters profile, they've got something else going on where the free photo was just marketing. Tons of underwear selling.
Are there musicians of today, with popularity similar to Coltrane's in 1960, that study and explore the theory of music at this level? If not, why not? Was jazz, and bebop in particular, unique in this regard?

It's a serious question; I don't know. I can't think of any current musicians but that's not conclusive. Also, I'm not sure exactly how popular John Coltrane was in 1960; certainly jazz was orders of magnitude more popular than it is now.
Because thats his perogative?
> and [HN] seems to hate companies that are doing well for themselves

Well, that—and, maybe, a pinch of Company-wide culture of sexual harassment.
He'd rather get off planet than deal with the needs of all you plebes.
Just because courts have ruled something legal doesn't make it Constitutional. See: 100 mile border zones that are "exempt" from the 4th Amendment.

Not to mention, just because something is legal doesn't make it right.
He pays the workers the lowest wages they will consent to work for, just like all employers.

Don’t blame employers for the iron law of wages.
No, it's >= 20.　But it's actually more complicated than < 20/>= 20.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4%E6%B3%95

Children can be charged at any age, but there is no criminal liability under 14. Children under 14 can still be sent to juvenile detention centers.

From 14 on-wards, they can be sentenced to prison, with reduced sentences compared to adults.

From 18 on-wards, they can be sentenced like adults.
Reminded me of this:

Bezos had ordered a dish called Tom’s Big Breakfast, a preparation of Mediterranean octopus that includes potatoes, bacon, green garlic yogurt, and a poached egg. “You’re the octopus that I’m having for breakfast,” Rutledge remembers Bezos saying. “When I look at the menu, you’re the thing I don’t understand, the thing I’ve never had. I must have the breakfast octopus.” [0]

[0] https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/...
prerogative, and yeah - if you're the richest person on the planet it would be nice if the employees that got you there weren't living paycheck to paycheck.
How well are you controlling for the sheepskin effect? Students are highly motivated to do what it takes to get a degree from a university, and much less motivated to actually learn the topics nominally offered.

I suspect that a MOOC offered with the same incentives and structure as a live class - ie, as part of a degree-granting program with mandatory tests at set dates - would have significantly higher completion rates.