skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Were there moments in which Reddit chose to double down on something and made it that much harder to work toward a solution?

>> I don’t know. I’m trying to think about your question.

>Is there something recent that you’re thinking of?

>> I can’t remember the specific instances right now, but there was a bunch of press about things that were going on on Reddit and Discord, and they both reacted and banned the subreddit.

>> I’ve got a lot of advice for start-ups, and it’s not very fucking complicated. It’s just: Think about the impact that you want to have on your users and on the people consuming your content and do the right thing. They know what the right thing is.

Sounds like this guy has a lot of vague complaints but not much in the way of concrete solutions, other than "do the right thing" which in his mind is extremely obvious and yet undefined.
We used a variety of 3rd party records databases (think Lexis Nexus, TLO, etc.), government/police databases (NIPR, SIPR, HSIN, NCIC, LEO.gov, etc), internal databases, and state public records systems (think DMV). We only had databases which we owned or had access to. Palantir did not provide any actual data for my department. They did have pre-built connectors for certain data sources, and pre-built attribute models for tagging data, which I assumed were developed for previous customers. But the initial install of Palantir was empty, and only populated with our data sources. To my knowledge Palantir does not provide any data. I actually recall walking into a room and finding 3-4 Palantir engineers doing nothing but migrating data from our old intelligence software into the new Palantir system, mostly by hand.

I can say with 100% certainty that they did not cross-reference our data with other customers, because the software not sending any data back to Palantir was a primary stipulation of our purchase. I was always under the impression that no data was shared across customers, just code, connectors, and best practices. Our installation of Palantir was 100% local, none of the infrastructure sat in a vendor cloud environment or on Palantirs home servers.
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That is so exciting! Can't wait to poke around. I wonder if there's anything in there I might recognize
Like this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FPQ-16_PARCS ?

Disclosure : I've been inside that building (before 9/11 security-tightening epoch).
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/enlisted-paygrades-and-ran...

says E1-E3 are for basic training and first assignment, and E4 is $25k/yr. Plus I suppose (not sure) that military has much better health insurance (and other benefits, like food and maybe housing?) than Amazon warehouse employees
Berkely will have a data science major
Obviously, this is where the cool kids hang out.

We don't need those lame squares and their dank memes.
This is great feedback. Thanks!

We're constantly iterating on the quiz and it would be great to get more detailed thoughts on it.

If you'd like to do that, please get in touch! (Email in my profile)
It's still weird that the FCC is the responsible US agency, which was discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555810
The far-right/neo-fash has numerous platforms that never censor them and will gladly embrace their content: gab, voat, 4chan/8chan to name a few.

I honestly don't see what the big deal is. For example, lots of lefty subs have banished "Tankies", communists who think Stalin did nothing wrong, from their communities.

Ultimately, neither a fascist nor communist can oppose such a purge/restriction without being a hypocrite. Such actions are well within either group's ideological wheelhouse and therefore they should stop complaining.
I feel the same way. I've been using and tracking both since the mid to late 90s.

I've always wondering why, in a world where PostgreSQL exists, would anyone use MySQL. New releases seems to only slightly close the gap between it and better RDBMSs while retaining quite a few kludges and ambiguities.

In the meantime PostgreSQL gets better at the same pace.
It was at one time (basically the PHP of DAWs) but I've heard it's gotten much much better over the years. Granted I haven't exactly been keeping up with that world so maybe that image has stuck with it.
I didn't see novalis78 mention air traffic regulation, just regulation.

According to the regulations of the time, early air pioneers were perceived to be trespassing. See for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuius_est_solum,_eius_est_usqu...

Nowadays it may seem obvious that aircraft are not trespassing when they are flying over us, but it was not obvious at the time. A future regulatory regime for satellites could also conceivably see it as obvious that satellite design shouldn't be limited by the ability for them to be tracked by a common tracking system, but rather have a goal to avoid collisions through other means.
You really can't. There are some people who have a skill for talking about what they've seen others do, and for memorizing what others said. If that person has sat in a post-mortem for some failure, they'll be able to tell you all the things that went wrong, how "they" fixed them, and why. And yet they can't code.

I'm not hiring people who can talk and not code. I'm hiring people who can code (and, ideally, talk). The only way to verify that they can code is to witness it happening.
It should burn with all the side products of most artificial carbon chains (aromatics and poisonous carbon oxides). Those aren't hard to deal with, but don't expect it to burn cleanly.

It should also be hard to burn. It will probably require some water vapor to burn at all, and do it slowly.
It's more like Slack + jobs board + GitHub-like profiles.
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I’m curious if all the privacy zealots on here see the irony in someone asking others to publicly share content that is only supposed to be accessed by a private group of people (Facebook users, in this case). Does this not violate the privacy of the person or organization that made these posts, who intended it for a specific audience?
That was when Facebook was growing. They are the incumbent now, time to kick the ladder.
Native implementation is what is blocking it. The libraries would have to be implemented for it to work in different environments.
I'm with FCC on this.

We don't need more garbage in space. Enough of this in the oceans.
If a high-winnings lottery had these odds, I'd be playing every month. As far as roads go though, I choose to minimise my exposure to nearly all motorists by avoiding most roads altogether (this is possible to do in many places, but I concede not all places).
Someone needs to build a search engine that does'nt depend on page rank. Page rank is the thing that filters out 99.9% of the internet: it's the millions of pages you don't see that could potentially have better answers in it. Now, surely, there's a lot of junk in that 99%, but I'd be willing to bet there's a lot of gold nuggets in there too.

Google's fundamental assumption and it's biggest weakness is that: Excellent content will always have an excellent source to upvote it with links. This isn't always true. If ever another search engine were to supplant google, it would probably take advantage of this weakness. This weakness is even bigger in niche areas that google AI is not able to recognize.
> I find it gross that..

Can you leave the mock disgust behind? You probably live in an urban/suburban area just like the rest of us, yet your lecturing us.

$14 an hour is not as bad as you think. Median nursing salary in England = 23000 pounds = 32300 usd. So the median amazon warehouse worker makes 82.5% of what the median nurse makes in the U.K. Is that really so bad?
Lumi is hiring Haskell and PureScript engineers (Remote/US-only)
Most senior devs have a family, value work/life balance, and currently have another job. I don't expect them to take their work home past 5 while they're working with me, so why should I expect them to do that before I'm even paying them?
More to the point, the $1.6M number is wholly irrelevant, an accounting detail due to the "security" issue. Bezos makes $1B-$10B/yr because he is a major shareholder in Amazon.

Probably includes private air travel and some bodyguards.
and exploit employees.
Yeah, even in the cheapest parts of the US, $14/hr at best would make you "upper lower class" or "lower middle class", meaning consistently able to pay your rent for an apartment. Or possibly, if you're really really good with your money otherwise and also manage to save for years without any medical expenses, start buying a small condo or half of a duplex. But that's not kingly for sure.
Swift, too, was published on GitHub including its whole version control history, dating back to 2010 :)
Great reference!

I seem to remember some old computer game, I think it was Amazon Trail 3[0], in which there was a side quest where you had to trade rubber for other items while near Fordlandia.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Trail_3rd_Edition
Everything is fair game, being a monitoring company, we certainly will have first-class fdb support. We already have tons of workflows and templates.
Nope, IMSHO. I've worked in everything from a solo office to benching in an open plan.

Open plan anything makes me nostalgic for the smallest cubicle I ever had (4ft x 5ft). Give me walls, even if they are short.
> Cavicchia was in charge of forensic investigations at the bank. Through Palantir, he gained administrative access to a full range of corporate security databases that had previously required separate authorizations and a specific business justification to use. He had unprecedented access to everything, all at once, all the time, on one analytic platform. He was a one-man National Security Agency, surrounded by the Palantir engineers, each one costing the bank as much as $3,000 a day.

I've long thought that the "secret sauce" of Palantir is just that signing a Palantir contract gives executives a reason and excuse to pull together data that had never before been indexed against each other.

I mean, if you take any old dumb BI platform and give it access to data that people have not previously connected, you're going to get new insights.

Someone once described Palantir as a data mapping consultancy that marketed itself as a software platform.
Lol URLs
India Surpasses France to Become 6th Largest Economy, Remains Behind UK
Crowdfunding campaign created to support Canadian teen accused in data breach
He didn’t say “air traffic regulation”, he said regulatory environment. Barriers today would range from safety regulation to disturbing endangered gnat breeding to neighborly noise complaints.
Would agree.

Yep, quiz might still be a bit too focused. Trying to strike a balance between breadth / depth / time spent answering questions, but still some fine tuning to do
I'm very interested in hearing more about what running FoundationDB in production is like.

I believe that FoundationDB stores rows in lexicographical order by key. Other databases like Cassandra strongly push you toward not storing data this way as it can easily lead to hotspots in the cluster. How do you deploy a FoundationDB cluster without leading to hotspots, or perhaps what operational actions are available to rebalance data?
Here's the source report in question:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9N...
France Now 7th Largest Economy Behind UK and India
That's about $30k a year. That's comfortable in areas within an hour or two of my town.

I made that amount when I was in college, in the DC area, and most certainly survived just fine. Had I lived more rural in an area where entry level homes are <200k and not 600k+, that would of gone much farther.

And the banjo-playing is mostly a joke, especially in Texas. That being said, as an avid hiker, I spend a significant chunk of my time in places best labeled as "Nowhere, really".
It can be tracked, just not 100% of the time.

But here's the thing. Momentum. If you've tracked it once, you know its location for many months to come.
I see on this board more than any other where people will agree that taking time to hire correctly is by and far more cost efficient than hiring quickly, but incorrectly. I've definitely gone through a lot of experiences now where someone looks like a rock star on paper, have a great cultural interview, and we don't give them a ton of technical exercises, only to find out that they can't hack it or, even worse, are dragging down the rest of the team. I really wanna trust people on this stuff, my instincts are to appeal to the greater good in people, but I've been burned enough to not trust it anymore.
My favorite interview anti-pattern: a position that stresses analytical decision-making, and then an interviewer that pushes you to give a quick, off-the-cuff answer to “do you think we should build X or not?”.
I wish to note that it's possible to maximise both safety and freedom at the same time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NUgB_xkIvU
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I think it's more a joke from the fake 'anonymous' hacker in context to the tech-news. After some testing I think the solution could be within this so called 'pass-through' attack which is described in the tech-news.

There is an 'admin' account, with whom I think you can access the /administration site. For now I think the solution could be with modifying cookies, maybe the session cookie (after you create an account and log in) to get access to the admin account
I think it's just saying that it's willing to place two of the three replicas in a datacenter, for example if one of the three datacenters is down. This has downsides, since losing a datacenter will make it aggressively fill up disks, but mitigates against subsequent failures causing data loss.

Most of the people who have run FoundationDB at scale have, for performance reasons, used configurations other than the "datacenter aware" mode for their inter region replication, so they may not be the strongest thing operationally.

There is some work that from what I can see in the code is still in progress to build a new, almost magical inter-region replication mode that I am very excited about, which combines synchronous replication to a "satellite" datacenter within region with asynchronous replication between regions and recovery logic that will finish replication and fail over in case of a partial failure of a region. You get fast transaction commits (much less than the inter region ping time), can fail over to a secondary region automatically and safely (without losing any committed transactions) in the vast majority of circumstances, and in the worst case you can (manually, because you are accepting data loss!) give up very recently committed transactions to fail over.
I like scuttlebutt but it is not in a form sutible for public consumption yet:

- Providing a "secure" system in nodejs (it does not matter how good your crypto code is I I can poison left-pad)

- Bad privacy behaviour: you can follow anybody, limited ability to have private/friend-only messages.
In theory any molecule that looks like a graphite layer should be enough. In practice there are plenty of concerns about the stability of the ones that aren't rolled into tubes (and some concern about those later ones too).

The result is, you'll see plenty of calculations telling it's possible. But it is probably not.
> Scuttlebutt is fully encrypted.. doesn't that make the API vastly more locked down than Facebook/etc?

No, not at all! TOR is fully encrypted, but there are somewhat regular vulnerability reports about various parts of the stack. Including criticial vulnerabilities that can and have been exploited by nation states, for example.

> This is no worse than Facebook though

This is not at all clear to me. The attack surface for Scuttlebutt is much larger, and I trust Facebook's security team to audit and patch much more than I trust any random friend.
> There is this false assumption that people are paid what they are worth.

Who thinks this? I don't know any adult who is that naive.

> People are paid what the market will bear.

In many industries, the employer side of the market is vastly more powerful than the employee. The employer can just pass on an employee asking for too much money; an employee may be facing weeks without a job, which is difficult for most people to afford.

In those situations, the market can bear quite a bit more than it has to, which is the reason minimum-wage requirements don't kill most industries.

> For places like East TN this is not a horrible wage, and you can live on it.

That's true if the government is protecting the employee with a safety nets, like welfare and ACA, and laws, like COBRA. A better-paid employee could save more money and provide their own safety net, as many high earners do with rainy-day accounts, investments, passive income, etc.

Because Amazon employees aren't necessarily saving enough to afford to build their own safety nets, taxpayers are effectively subsidizing Amazon.

> As a comparison, an entry-level position in the military, E1, makes less even when you account for allowances.

I'm not sure this is apples-to-apples because military benefits are substantial, and the most major downside to military service (the risk of being sent into armed combat) is very difficult to put into monetary terms.
reddit is probably one of the best social sites on the internet. You need to pick and choose the best ones though. Like everything, there are shitty ones and great one. The great ones have great mods with a very precise focus.
> It's still weird that the FCC is the responsible US agency,

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)"is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN)" that "coordinates the shared global use of the radio spectrum, promotes international cooperation in assigning satellite orbits, works to improve telecommunication infrastructure in the developing world, and assists in the development and coordination of worldwide technical standards" [1].

If a single agency is to interface with the ITU, it makes sense for it to be the FCC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicatio...
Unlocked multipliers don't mean you've chosen the optimal multiplier. And something binned for higher clock rates doesn't necessarily mean it runs cooler at the same clock rate as another part. As others have mentioned, thermal management is a real issue here. A throughput benchmark doesn't care about brief bursts of speed, but rather sustainable rate.

Finally, even with identical parts, the assembly can affect performance. The same heat-sink installed slightly more effectively in terms of the mechanical interface (no contamination, just the right amount of heat-sink compound, no air bubbles) will allow the chip to run at higher power without any thermal throttling.
> Yes, if you give someone access to some data, that data could potentially be out there forever but you can revoke access to your (future) data freely.

And, most importantly, the same is true for literally any platform.

One quick look at people taking screen shots of snapchat posts shows how deletion of data from a platform like FB or Snapchat is irrelevant - viewers of that data can always copy it.
It's driven by Amazon's low prices just as much as it is driven by Bezos' wealth. Customers get the benefit of the low prices.

I'm not saying that to congratulate Amazon, I'm pointing out that there are more people involved than Amazon shareholders and employees, people who apparently put low prices ahead of any concerns they have over compensation at Amazon.
Here's my advice:

You've missed the point and likely didn't do validation before building this (if you have).

I don't want 1,000 features from launch. Facebook didn't start out doing everything they do today, neither should you. Copying another service won't win you users because maybe users don't like that feature or how it works.

I want something that solves a problem without unnecessary doohickeys glued on to it.

So basically throw out everything you've suggested and start over. What does a social network mean in 2018? What pain point can you solve easily without a lot of work?

Don't spend more time on this than you need to, to get it in front of users who will tell you whether they will like it or not.
The point is, we don't know how the data was presented by Amazon. I'd expect that the wages reported would be in USD to show how much it actually costs to the company in the United States, and not some weird index.

If they pay, say, R$ 30,000.00/year, I doubt they'd report anything other than the direct conversion to USD.
Are we counting drunk pedestrians getting hit by cars as car crash fatalities?

Being drunk near heavy equipment drastically increases the chances of said heavy equipment killing you but less so if you've got a bunch of safety systems to save your life when you crash said heavy equipment.
Stock answers, all of them are expected in any given interview.

Want to stand out? Say you are actually interested in earning money for your work, a truly novel idea nowadays.
I don't really have a problem commending the captain for safely landing her aircraft. Yes, she was trained for it. But plenty of people have performance anxiety even when the stakes are low -- how many people perform perfectly when losing your cool can lead to you killing yourself and hundreds of others?

And, it's not like airline captains always follow their training. Look at Colgan Air Flight 3407. The aircraft aerodynamically stalled. To recover, the captain pulled the control column backwards, the exact opposite of what training called for, while the first officer silently reduced the lift of the wing by reducing the flaps setting, the exact opposite of what their training called for. They killed 49 people on board and one in the house they crashed into.

So yes, it's easy to say "that was nothing, they're trained for that", and while true, sometimes the training is not executed as precisely as necessary. Not messing it up is commendable.
Me too, thanks for that set of links. Any links on connecting it up to Google's Cloud AI stuff to train it to recognize the crack-heads when they are peeking in the windows of peoples cars and rattling the doors of their tool sheds?
Yeah, that's what I know if as a balance bike. Once mastered moving to a pedal bike is much easier because you've done the balance bit.

We did that bit by removing the pedals and lowering the seat. Once they can cruise then stick the pedals on, adjust the seat, and they're away ... but that's not just "getting on a bike", that's a progression of training.

The thread parent said "never picked up a bike", you transmuted that to "used a training bike and then picked up a full one".

Not pertinent to the thread but the flaw in this technique (balance bike) with my kids has been they learn to brake with their feet and that instinct is hard to break.
I've tried to tell companies time and time again that building the core foundation of the business on an external service like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter is doomed in the end. This happened 10 years ago when Twitter locked down a lot of their API access more, and is happening again now.

The CEOs and CTOs of those companies never listen, thinking "this time will be different", and yet it isn't. People in those positions don't like hearing truth that conflicts with their deeply held belief that they are different and their product/service (or mining of user data) is special and will make it through some loophole.

I wish I could monetize saving companies and investors millions of dollars with this advice, but I haven't figured that out. No one likes to hear 'no'
How do you deal with anti-social behavior that uses "stamping out anti-social behavior" as its justification?
Here's the thing, people are worth what the market will bear.
$14 an hour is not as bad as you think. Median nursing salary in England = 23300 pounds = 32300 usd. So the median amazon warehouse worker makes 87% of what the median nurse makes in the U.K. Is that really so bad?

Source on median salary: https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Registered_Nurse_(R...