skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but you're omitting a crucial step - a relative minority of the population were actively enabled and were able to pursue their interests/self-invest/etc. when they were much younger (read: teenaged), which gave them a snowballing competitive advantage as they got older.
I'm confused. On the one hand you say that the hiring practices are obnoxious, but then you agree that the only way to verify someone can code is to have them "actually pump out some code".

I now have two steps before an in-office interview: an online programming test, followed by a screen-share coding test. When I just did the screen-share test, I can't tell you how many people claimed to be java programmers and their IDE was eclipse, and then they didn't know how to start coding or run a program. "I know junit", ok, write a junit test and run it in eclipse: deer in headlights. Such a huge waste of my time. So now we do an online programming test, and many applicants fail to write code that compiles, let alone passes the test.

There are good applicants out there. It seems like they are vastly outnumbered by frauds. I have no other way to describe these people that cannot program, and just show up with a bullshit resume hoping for a paycheck. Before I was responsible for hiring, a man was hired on our team who could not program, despite a resume showing years of java work. Now he gets to go to the next place with our company on his resume. These frauds are hindering us finding the genuinely talented.
Yeah that is absolutely true. Facebook used the platform as a way to keep people busy while they were focusing on growing the network to include everyone and their dog. After that they used the platform as an accessory and testing ground for new platforms (mobile / news sites / chatbots etc) .

Add to that the constant nightmare of rearranging chairs in the APIs for no reason. Still, facebook provides virality, but you can have that with minimal data usage from their platform if you ask your users to enter the data you need manually.
Can you use rclone for incremental, content-deduplicated backups? Is it as easy as Duplicacy to use?
We fail to consider policy when thinking about centralized/federated services. Centralized services provide strong, regular policy adherence across the network, whereas federated services provide weak, irregular policy adherence across the network. Centralized services can effectively silence a bad actor. They may also silence a good actor, but generally only under external pressure from government. Federated services have little or not ability to silence bad actors across the network, though individual instances may effectively silence "bad" actors. However in this capacity "bad" is not well understood and can simply mean the instance administrator does not like the person the silence. Individual instances may also give voice to bad actors.
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It doesn't look like Apple open-sourced the Document Layer, which is a slight bummer. But I echo what Dave said below: what we got is incredible, let's not get greedy!

Also TBH now that I don't have commercial reasons to push interop, if I write another document database on top of FDB, I doubt I'd make it Mongo compatible. That API is gnarly.
Much of this data can still be obtained through scraping without the API. Depending on official APIs for data collection has never been a great idea, as they are often governed by very low rate limits etc. The Facebook API has been useless for social apps since the 2014 changes anyway, so they have made something that was already useless even more useless. Hopefully everyone here saw the writing on the wall in 2014 and isn’t relying on the Facebook API for business processes or revenue in 2018.
Outrage culture is the word your looking for. Its one of the most toxic things on the internet.
This discussion takes me way back - it reminds me of people in the Eastern Bloc talking about communism. A widespread meme was that communism was allegedly good "in theory", it was just the practice that somehow got derailed.
I saw @spullara do pretty neat stuff with our log files in Wavefront.

Will you guys think about open sourcing tooling? Apple is realistically never going to do that stuff.
With flask it's just `flask run` which will cover all your development server needs. I agree if it's about setting up a production environment, but I don't see them implying that.
Not to mention that this means the lower half of wage earners at Amazon make an average of $14 an hour, which isn't terrible for, what we can assume is, mostly unskilled labor.
I'll agree with him. Our industry was created by men like Alan Turing and John von Neumann who contributed their effort and intellect to the preservation of democracy against totalitarianism. When free people refuse to weaponize technology, tyrants will, and free people will be at a disadvantage.
No patent number or link to patent?
I wish companies would figure out a way to have their best engineers do blind-shopper-style interviews where they regularly see if their best engineers would be able to make it through their current interview process. This can be tricky to implement but if done right, would provide lots of insight into the types of candidates their interview process is geared to pass.

I asked a friend who worked for years at a large public company if he would have passed the company's interview process at the time that he left. His answer: "most certainly not!". I think his answer is astonishing. Here is a guy who is considered a top notch engineer at his company, assigned to help the company screen for similar top notch engineers and yet, the established process would specifically fail a good percentage of high-quality engineers of the type that already work at the company.
Twitter’s Bet on Video Is Starting to Pay Off
how about security software? networking software? AI to defend companies from hacked by Chinese government?

> This smells like FUD.

you let your personal bias get to you. I'm guessing you're Chinese.
Yes. I told the interviewer he could call any of my past managers, knowing they would take the call, and knowing they’d give a glowing report. He laughed!
A great talk, thanks!

This is a great talk from another networking legend: "Network Protocols: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries" by Radia Perlman.

I love her personality and sense of humor, and it has tech content that is completely relevant today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfiMBegejQM
Not a clue, I'm bad at names lol. Sharp Minds would probably be fine, just Sharpest Minds makes it sound like you're talking down to anyone who isn't involved in AI (which is like 99.99999999% of people).

Or if it was a clever reference to something in AI that made you sound smart but because it was a clever reference comes off more funny than rude.
I'm fine with the "Google Reddit Experience" - when I search for something and I end up reading an answer to my question on Reddit. I didn't actually know there was any other Reddit experience.
That's true, but it's also important to note that non-US residents do not qualify for SNAP
The last open plan cesspit I worked in literally gave me pneumonia for the first time in my life. Too many contractors coming in sick, not washing their hands, coughing all over the office. It was long benches, with 36" allotted per person. A freaking hellscape where you literally touched your neighbor if you put your arm out to the side.
You still run into problems with the pixel structure. The RGB components are lined up horizontally, and they become vertical when turned 90 degrees. Any tech that takes advantage of the layout, such as Microsoft's Cleartype, will fail miserably on a rotated display. I suppose that's why Apple thought it was so important to go to high DPI displays on the iPhone and iPad.
> This is no worse than Facebook though. With Facebook, your friend could steal all of the data you let them see. With Scuttlebutt, your friend could steal all of the data you let them see.

Your friend can, but Facebook can scrutinize third-party apps. In a decentralized world, there's no one who has access to holistically examine automated access and detect shady activity. In a decentralized world, everything is essentially a third-party app.
I'm gonna second this. Started my career as a software dev at a commodities exchange. Pay was excellent for the area I lived in and my experience level, 9-5 was 100% standard and enforced by the team culture, on-call was nonexistent as dedicated support people handled that, bonus was better than the ones I got while working at Microsoft, and got to work with some of the best software engineers I've ever met. Incredible job security, no one got let go or put on any kind of PIP as everyone was pretty self motivated--even if they weren't the best. All in all, I would highly recommend this as a good career path.

I left because it was my first job out of college and I wanted to see what else was out in the world. But it stays a fond memory of a solid job.
It's worse than facebook because there's no one to have responsibility to be accountable. This ties in with your question about GDPR. While I'm not a lawyer, as far as I know it doesn't matter if you're a person or a company, if you're collecting data, it's something you can be liable for. So in a distributed system, all parties who maintain the data sources would be liable. I actually wonder how this works logistically in terms of storing account info on something like Ethereum.
Basically proving them right and creating even more supporters.
Need more people like Althea who don't go the ICO route but focus on building real products.
> Thr RPi is honestly getting quite long in the tooth and just $10-15 more can get you a way better board.

Are you talking about the original RPi? Most people are buying the latest version, which right now is the 3B+ which were released about a month ago.
And, presumably, far lower housing costs and overall CoL.
But they aren't doing it. So if you don't like the fact that reddit supports free speech, you can feel free to leave.

Reddit is fully within its right to support free speech. It is the reason why it is successful.
I recruit in this area and wish you all the best. One piece of advice: change your name. In my experience the sharpest minds are intellectually honest to a fault, and would rarely describe themselves that way.
But... but... but... being "disruptive" is a good thing!

Move fast and break [laws]. It's the SV way.
You might have point...But can we keep HN?
AM3 and AM3+ lasted quite a while - used from new CPU's 2009-2014, which were the high end desktop sockets from AMD until 2017.

In the same time Intel went through 4 sockets: LGA 1156 -> 1155 -> 1150 -> 1151
Postgres as the Substructure for IoT and the Next Wave of Computing
> Not to mention the DoD provides us with the security to pursue private ventures.

The controversial part of the DoD is not national defense, its imperialism.
This is great news! More parts of xcode are being exposed as open source and clangd is getting more engineering resources.
Downvoted is ok (and usually, when it happens, completely warranted). My problem is when they're deleted entirely by unaccountable moderators with their own agendas.
> Regulating launches is a losing battle. If someone wants to put something into space, they'll just go to a country without regulations.

There aren't that many countries launching commercial payloads, none who will do so in violation of ITU rules.

> they have no enforcement capabilities in this realm

The ITU has enforcement mechanisms. Rogue satellites are a threat to astronauts, every country's space infrastructure and future launches.

Furthermore, Swarm is an American company breaking American law. Normal law enforcement vectors are available.
I've noticed an interesting trend in my career: the more grueling the interview, the less-satisfying the job. The jobs I enjoyed the most, had the most interesting challenges, etc, were the ones where it was little more than a handshake. The ones where they put me through hoop after hoop turned out to be the ones that were the least interesting and had the least upside.
This line of logic is so so so dangerous. I hope you understand what you're suggesting. "People deciding what people should watch / read / consume."
FWIW, I did a survey of people asking which features from Facebook that absolutely must have to consider switching to a replacement. As much as people say the events, chats, and local community features are important... exactly zero people checked those boxes in my survey results. Pretty much the only thing people checked was 'connect with friends'
For a while it was nearly impossible to find a reasonably priced laptop with anything other than 1366x768.
Many non-tech employees view IT people as basically “computer janitors with bad attitudes”. Heck, I’ve worked in tech for a decade and I can count the number of people who have a positive view of their IT department in one hand.
Not that this really has anything to do with FoundationDB, but why do you say that object storage is a poor substrate for file and block abstractions? There are many high-performance block and file systems built on object storage.
Found this section on performance very interesting.

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/performance.html#throug...

I wonder what the SSD engine performance would look with NVMe standard NAND or an Optane SSD instead of SATA. Any FoundationDB guys/gals on this thread able to comment?

Another Q: what's more commonly used in current FoundationDB deployments: memory engine or storage engine?
I had the same question about how photography differs and received a pretty thorough reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11878012
Teaching Alexa a new Skill
I think you need to consult some neutral coverage and apply Occam's razor.
You can setup email notifications for event invites only.

It was the least effort way I found to not miss out on them without using the site.
Many of our apps have broken from these changes. We didn't receive any clear communication from Facebook that this would happen.

The https://developers.facebook.com/status/ page says this has been an issue since March 21st.
Sure, I'll try it.
Supporting anecdote: Awhile ago I interned at Google and my engineering manager - who was quite high level - did not have a high school degree.
Honest question, does MongoDB work?
Funny, had the very same thought.
r/iamverysmart - funny screenshots of the Dunning-Kruger effect and people generally thinking they're God's gift to intellectual life.

r/holdmyredbull - extreme sports cousin of "hold my beer". Other fun ones in this circle include "hold my juice box" and "hold my fries". I tend to think of watching someone go skydiving without their own parachute as universally interesting, ymmv.

r/AskReddit - Good survey of the current human experience, usually leave here with a feeling that your questions about the world and lives of other people aren't as unique as you though. Sometimes it's banal/off topic, though.

r/ELI5 - "Explain like I'm 5" usually contains layman's questions about science, maths, history, and other sometimes unapproachable with great responses from people who know their stuff. Almost always leave here with something new to think/talk about.

r/ProgrammerHumor - I'm a programmer, but even some of my non-programmer friends can enjoy the jokes over here.
Sure it is possible. You can be neutral by banning nothing.

Or at the very least only ban something when the authorities literally force you to do so.
The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda
This is great news, when I was with dynamo, FoundationDB was the other green shore for me :). They did so many things so well.

A tiny bit of caution for folks trying to run systems like this though: It is frigging hard at any reasonable scale. The whole thing might be documented / OSS and what not, but very soon you are going to run into deep enough problems that's going to require very core knowledge to debug, energy to deep dive. Both of which you probably don't want to invest your time into. Do evaluate the cloud offerings / supported offerings before spinning these up. Else ensure you have hired experts who can keep this going. They are great as a learning tool, pretty hard as an enterprise solution. I have seen the same issue a ton of times with a bunch of software (redis/kafka/cassandra/mongo...) by now. IMO In the stateful world, operating/running the damn thing is 85% of the work, 15% being active dev. (Stateless world is a little better, but still painful).
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Board games aren't an abstract concept greatly up for debate and they don't influence the minds of thousands of young kids and adults who will and do vote.
they should go with the classic "move fast and break things"
> Remember that manure has been used as fertiliser for basically as long as humans have existed

But we don't use human manure for growing food for very good reasons--it tends to transmit diseases.
The scope of OP's project is to make Duplicacy (an incremental, deduplicating backup tool) easier to install and easier to use for client-initiated, periodically autoscheduled backups.

Can you recommend anything the OP should do differently to achieve these goals?
> It's worse than facebook because there's no one to have responsibility to be accountable.

I guess I just don't understand what accountability there is to be even had? If I send an encrypted message to my friend, who is accountable? What are they accountable for?

If I'm sending illegal content to someone only I can be held accountable (and possibly the person I'm sending to). Is that any different in Scuttlebutts case?
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Now we're tacking on an additional aspect of the job that we didn't know about before. If the job requires a social interaction with people outside of the company then, of course, it becomes a factor. Let's not be silly in an effort to just be right and prove someone else wrong.
The overwhelming majority of the industry is in favor of these regulations being formal. No one wants space debris.
> Yet we shouldn’t forget that civil-military antagonism and the deep American tradition of distrusting the state have been crucial to the United States’ ability to innovate. There are good reasons why defense-tech giants of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s like Raytheon and Grumman missed out on such major tech advances as Web protocols, the smartphone, personal computers and various types of encryption — all of which would eventually have great military significance. The biggest reason was that none of these advances were directed at waging war; indeed, many aimed at transcending the power of the state.

This is a fairly cherry picked story to match a narrative that frankly does not really exist. Silicon valley is not a partner of the defense world, it's derivative of it. The vast majority of technological disruption has come from technologies emerging from the state, that are then popularized by Silicon Valley. Most of these came from the space race, and in many ways Silicon Valley is still "behind" the Pentagon.

Web protocols, smartphones, personal computers, encryption etc., all of this came from the military into Silicon Valley, not the other way around.

The Pentagon doesn't need Silicon Valley, it's quite the opposite.
I've hired about 50 full-time w2 on-site developers over the last decade and maybe 3 or 4 of them were total duds (due to extreme mis-representation of technical skills) once employed. I'm not sure how this ratio compares to others but it certainly seems to be an issue that the industry talks about, so I'd be surprised if it were ultra rare.

> Only if you pay me for my ten hours. Otherwise, you've already indicated that you and your company don't value me or my time.

My favorite way to hire is short term consulting project into full time position. Not every candidate is willing or able to do this, but it has produced the highest success rate in terms of hiring signals. By the way, this underscores that it's not a money problem - hiring the wrong person is a lot more expensive than paying five candidates to produce something meaningful (and find the best one of the five).
I think so, I personally prefer the "look at this already written code, what does it do and can we find any bugs or issues?", less stressful and more collaborative, but good luck getting any non-startup size company to let you do it.
>So the median Amazon worker by pay is working in a warehouse, probably entry-level or thereabouts, and is making about $14 an hour.

Many are not even making that much.
This kind of deep-inside-baseball from-the-horses-mouth interaction is what's so awesome about HN!
Two points of feedback:

1. From your description, I hadn't realized what this does. I run a website for my business, so I may be in the market for this. On my first read though, I skimmed and thought "very technical dev programming tool". On the second read I saw it was relevant.
2. Lack of pricing implies the price is extremely high. If the price is not extremely high, then you should add a pricing page somewhere. Doesn't have to be front page (some people will just sign up for the free trial), but adding it somewhere would probably increase free trial signups.
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As I understand it you've never had to recover your compressed files.
The datacenter-aware mode documentation [0] says “Although data will always be triple replicated in this mode, it may not be replicated across all datacenters.”

Why is that?

[0] https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/configuration.html?data...
> Regulating launches is a losing battle

1. Why?

2. What's a better alternative? Shooting stuff out of LEO with lasers...?

> the company will just move elsewhere, or have a subsidiary or contractor "own" the satellite.

So what? Those things are only magic check-mate cards if the government lets them be. And... why the hell should any government let them be?

> And practically speaking, they have no enforcement capabilities in this realm.

We can't bring people back to life, but that doesn't mean that a country can't punish people for murder the moment they step foot inside that country's borders.
> The idea that putting satellites in LEO is some sort of brand new never-before-done thing that deserves wide latitude for greenfield engineering is crazy. Hell, I've owned a GPS receiver for about 20 years!

GPS (along with the other major navigation satellite constellations) are in Medium Earth Orbit.

LEO is about to become a lot more crowded, thanks to cheaper launch costs and miniaturisation. What was previously done with MEO and GEO satellites can now be done with LEO constellations, with the advantages of being closer to earth.

Some proposed constellations in LEO number in the thousands of satellites, which is unprecedented:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_constellation#Commun...
Maybe we're ok with our roads being statistically less safe per capita in exchange for a far greater amount of personal freedom of movement per capita?
And I would assume he has at some sort of protection around the clock, so that seems pretty low actually.
A minimum wage of $7/hr in the Bay Area or NYC is useless. That won't cover transportation. $14/hr is still, basically, the same amount of more or less useless.

In, to quote Ken White, "pluck-my-banjo" Texas, that's a perfectly fine and livable sum. A dollar or two raise and you can probably start saving up for a house realistically. $14/hr is kingly.

Amazon warehouses are usually not in banjo-playing rural areas, but rather as close to major towns as is economically feasible for Amazon's rent bill.

This is neither a basic income nor a federal minimum wage problem. This is a lack of competing opportunities for minimally skilled workers problem. If these same workers had realistic job opportunities that paid well, then Amazon would have to raise wages (and pass some of that onto the consumers, but, that's relatively nothing).