skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped around the time that 'Smart Contracts' were entering the mainstream as a buzzword (Late 2016? Early 2017?).

The moment that was, in retrospect, pivotal was being summoned to a meeting with some of our sales guys and an industry analyst as an 'authority' on blockchain (when really I'm just someone who had an interest in it). The analyst went on a long rant about how 'Smart Contracts' were going to revolutionise the insurance industry by being able to execute payouts automatically and how agreements were all going to be automated etc. etc. I tried to explain that 'Smart Contracts' weren't really 'smart' or 'contracts' and that what she was thinking about would probably be better described as 'Ricardian Contracts' (which don't require a blockchain to exist), but I could tell by the glazed over expression in her eyes that she was so sold on her notion of Smart Contracts that there was little to no chance that I was going to be able to dissuade her in a 15 minute discussion.
Like every sane person should do.
There have always been many alternatives to consulting.

But large expensive reliable branded companies are important because if they make a mistake you can’t blame the person who hired them.

Also ex consultants from these firms see their value and process and hire them.

They have thrived not in spite of all the alternatives but because of them. When there are so many choices, quality signals matter.
Werner Koch goes into further detail at the start of the gnupg-users thread @ https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/06031...
Also discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17063109
Was the name HESS not blatant enough?
If I understood correctly, I think this can be prevented by a single configuration change: "Do not automatically load inline content" but this is just speculation.

I'd disable HTML rendering completely until everything becomes clearer.
None of the export option are grepable. In 2018, it's a nice touch to be able to export your note making it discoverable and searchable for anybody in the team (even if they don't use your note system).

I would have love to put my colleague note on our internal slack, the html export was the closest thing I could use but in practise the generate code is so crapy that it's wasn't possible without spending a lot of time cleaning up the mess and nobody were able to properly find something in his many years worth of internal knowledge base.
A good reason would be dollar cost averaging. If you have a monthly transaction split across 3 index funds, you're over 30 trades per year.
Well I think it is more complex...certainly, I can understand how it is problematic to show Jim Crow era blacks as happy and content. But on the other hand the movie disneyfies African-American folktales like they have done to european folktales, and this is actually a recognization of a distinct African-American culture which is pretty unique. But of course in a form which have been filtered through the primary white Disney studio. The question is if this is better or worse than nothing given the time when the movie was produced.

> It's too easy for some Internet comment in a few words to write off the serious, long-held concerns of millions of people, not to mention scholars and many others.

Well the fact of the matter is that SotS have been erroneously criticized for depicting a "happy slave" which is simply not correct. The amount of real suffering does not really change this fact. There are legitimate criticisms, but this is not one of them.
Just a user, but I think Matrix needs to

- work on stability: the status quo is unreliable. Until this is solved it's hard to recommend Matrix to anybody who is looking to use it for serious work

- disable signup on main server: this is a decentralized netword and the main server is overloaded already. It is overloaded so badly, that devs decided to turn off presence for as long as I can remember first seeing matrix. So even IRC is more usable in that regard because I know when I see a user they are online or they even have presence and an away message

There's more but those are two issues I think should be dealt with urgently.
Ubuntu itself packages the tool as the `progress` package. Try an `apt install progress`.
> consensual deals between economic actors

For web, most people don't understand the scope of tracking and privacy. None of the people I know understand what these web companies are doing, how they are being tracked and what data companies have about them. Nobody reads the privacy notice in those websites. Even after someone tells them facebook is tracking everything, they don't understand and just ignores it. There are no consensual deals on web. So GDPR is for all of them (and for people who understand and wants protection).

Also in America a company is more important than people. That's why there are so much negativity towards GDPR.
Amazon fired the security contractor.
The median may not have changed much, or even the age of the oldest. However,the distribution has changed significantly. Check out this chart of mortality curves from 1851 to a forecast for 2031. Mortality curves they have become much more "square" than they used to be.

https://i.imgur.com/ONRm4Ep.jpg
Children all over the US get HESS toy trucks at Christmas time, sponsored by the oil company. I would have never picked up on the Nazi aspect of the security company by name alone.
We lost "anytime feedback" and end of year reviews changed dramatically. This is a horrible loss.

Previously, the anytime feedback tool had you, at any time, give anyone else in the company feedback (positive and negative) in the form of "Situation, Behavior, Impact". What happened, how did the person react, how did it impact me. It went to the person's manager and into a record somewhere. At the end of every year, you were asked to give additional anytime feedback to you entire team and anyone who asked for it. Managers read through all that feedback, summarized and gave you a full year end review that was the source of a lot of my personal growth.

The NYT referred to this as "ratting out your coworkers", so now that's gone.

Instead, there's a short, stupid and less-than-anonymous version that takes about 5 minutes and is done just once per year. Your manager doesn't read any of that feedback before they give you your year end review and pay changes, but they do give you a verbatim copy of what was said- you can figure out who said what pretty easily.

The problem was that 1% of the managers were sociopaths who abused their power. The response was to increase their power.

But I'm still here, for some reason.

Edit: no, let's be fair here. I'm still here because I like what I do. I like the problem space, and I like the people I work with.
Funnily enough, I had to send my smartphone in for repair recently, and I popped my SIM card back in my old Nokia phone that I'd kept in a drawer -- it works great. It's a 10+ year old device and the battery has lasted all week.
Left as an exercise for the reader.
Dates are hard :(. Doubly so when interacting with other systems that may or may not be set up correctly.

I'd never knowingly set up a server to use anything but UTC, because the server's timezone shouldn't have any effect on application code and this way, even people in the UK will notice six months of the year.

In this particular case, it sounds like the application was creating data with an implied timezone without any verification that the timezone the _user_ was thinking of matched the timezone of the data, and you may have been better off not associating the point with any timezone -- or indeed with any time, just a date.
While HTTPS is taking over web traffic, encrypted email could be considered a failure, at this point. I wonder what percentage of emails are encrypted using GPG. Based on my experience it's probably less than 0.001%.
Folks are asking about the practical import of time not passing---if indeed it does not. I know of this rather substantial one: my fear of death, and I guess that of other people too, depends on the notion that my own annihilation in time, and that of everything I care about, is absolute and definitive. Existence no longer has me as one of its inhabitants, and that's that.

This picture is in its turn grounded on a presentist theory of time (the idea that only the present exists), or at least an A-theory of time (the idea that the present is somehow special, in absolute terms.) Nothing like that is true if time does not pass: all of the moments that make me and everything I care about are still there, occupying their own spacetime regions, eternal, in a way.

Realizing this has helped me see death from a slightly different perspective. It still sucks, but it no longer feels like the absolutely unaceptable deal I used to think it was.
You havent refuted my point. People take a stance that docker can run untrusted code without actually looking at what they have to do for that to be true.
Vrfgrg
I don't think Rudolf Hess is particularly popular amongst neo-nazis. He defected, after all.

Before I moved to germany, I had no idea of the scale and intensity of germany's nazi problem. In a normal country, you can hire security with the reasonable assumption that they aren't going to be nazis. In germany, you cannot. I expect a non-german did the hiring.
Do your parents work in the public sector by any chance?
So they gave up on the embargo or something? I thought it was supposed to be revealed tomorrow. It's for the best I suppose. I cringed a bit at the custom "efail.de" domain name though, that's so 2017.
On the contrary I think the frugality strategy has lead to hiring the top talent in India and not in the US. Therefore the pay here is higher compared to the bigger companies (not MNCs but product as well), I am from an Indian unicorn startup and the pay was very competitive. The US opinion of any Indians IT worker seems to be the same, that is that we are service oriented workers who don't code, therefore I'd take it with a grain of salt on what they say.

But yeah, the talent here is good since hiring talent is cheaper here compared to US. If you have to pay 170k$ to hire the best in US then in India you'll be able to hire the best at 50 LPA which is about 70k$.

I have been part of many interview panels and they haven't been any easy interviews as such.
Hans Christian Andersen himself altered and retold existing folktales and added his own slant and morals. Among other things he was heavily inspired by Arabian Nights but adapted the themes to a Scandinavian setting. Nothing new under the sun here.

I have not seen the movie.
That and working on bridges. Some people suggest that bridges solve the problem of onboarding but the quality of the bridges has been abysmal last I checked, the only one that is somewhat maintained being the IRC bridge and even that having some problems (like showing users online even if they aren't)
I've known people who've survived pips. Usually it's because their manager was bad and wanted more brown nosing. Happens now and then at the L6 manager level.
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Pretty much. Should have that as default anyway to avoid sending tracking beacons to spammers.
> No hiring manager looking at resumes is going to put any stock into whether it says Google, Amazon or FB, or what school you went to.

Even if the hiring manager won't, it's a fairly safe bet that the filtering stages prior to it landing on a manager's desk will be looking at those things. Have you never been approached by a recruiter talking to you about how excited they are about "the Netflix guy" or the "Stanford woman"?

At the lower information density stages in the hiring pipeline, broad generalizations are still important.
Now with a plenary indulgence for gluttony!
Alice in Wonderland is free to use because the copyright has expired. During the time it existed, it allowed Lewis Carrol to pay his rent (and various other things useful in producing creative works). There's an issue, but it may be with copyright lifetimes rather than copyright itself.
Still, why does YT need to default to autoplay on every time I load a watch page?
Garages are fantastic when you own a car, but I agree it’s nicer to have them as a separate structure.
Our advanced use of GA was cart tracking from first visit to payment. Reviewing our use of the tool, we determined that anonymous tracking of carts evolution was more than enough for our needs. That means a) almost same feature set as what was used before and b) no nagging cookie screen for our users unlike our competitors (really small and near-insignificant improvement in itself, I know, but our biggest competitor uses a TRUSTe cookie screen which blocks the full view and is quite slow)
Is there something special about software with the level of introspection workers in this industry are expected to do, which cannot (or shouldn’t) be done elsewhere?

It's not so much software, more engineering in general. You do find rigorous self-review and continuous process improvement in many areas of engineering (more commonly called quality control), Toyota being the obvious example.

However, you are right that most industries aren't like that. Compared to engineering most industries are very 'soft' in that correct results don't really matter or can't even be defined.

Take industries like marketing, retail, law, management consultancy. Look at the output of your average office worker in these fields. Most likely their output is in the form of Word documents, PowerPoints, maybe some Excel. Is the last ad campaign your firm ran "correct"? Did the management consultant who breezed around your corridors earlier give advice "efficiently"? Did the lawyer who botched your paperwork ever face any consequences for that or did they just go, oops, and do it again?

The vast majority of workers work in environments in which the connection between input and output isn't very clear, and in which being wrong is less important than having the right relationships with people. In such an environment a retrospective would not only be pointless but actively harmful:

- A retro inevitably involves frank discussion of people's work, and whether it was acceptable or not. Most people cannot separate criticism of their work from criticism of themselves.

- Therefore having your work be openly criticised makes you likely to dislike the person criticising you.

- So people may simply turn around and blame their colleagues or management for their own failings instead.

- Therefore the idea of frankly discussing a team's failures in ANY kind of setting, whether it's called a "retro" or otherwise, is largely anathema in many lines of work.

In engineering professions what we do must work and it must be correct, and it's very clear to everyone if we make mistakes. Therefore a culture develops in which people can separate criticism of work from criticism of themselves, in which people aren't usually called out specifically for their errors, and in which systems thinking dominates. The answer to "why did this project suck" isn't "because so-and-so couldn't make their mind up" which is the sort of answer you're liable to get from non-engineers. It's "our planned process didn't correctly refine our requirements from the start". Totally different mentality.
That is possible using Karabiner/Karabiner-Elements. I currently have Caps Lock mapped to Escape and Hyper (for vi like arrows)
Why would you give up on GA? You’re already not allowed to store personal data in it according to their TOS so (assuming you’re abiding by them) you can just leave it running.
Hiring managers have a long history of overvaluing prestige. His attitude is mildly concerning as a reflection of reality.
Lots of anti HN comments in this thread.
Cdw3d
I never realized when I was fueling up[0] I was supporting neo-Nazis /s

Even if Hess was the last name of a prominent Nazi, it's also the name of normal people. Should I no longer be allowed to use my family name because someone else with the same family name, of no relation, did something bad?

[0] - http://www.hess.com/
They'll have to be if this trend of writing applications using Electron continues.
For example how this would correlate with the quantum entanglement, where the supposed spooky action is described as instantaneus, so this has no time to factor in. Not quite able to determine, which particle was actually seen/observed first so that you can have a causality flow.
PGP and HTTPS have very different trust models so it's comparing apples to oranges. That being said I agree that PGP failed to gain widespread adoption even though I personally use GnuPG daily and sign all of my emails. I'm still hoping that it'll make a comeback but I'm not holding my breath.
My quote explicitly stated that it excluded children and women. What is included in that image? I assume it's everybody ("persons"), so I'm not sure why you want to use it as a counter-point to what I quoted. What I wrote already acknowledged the huge amount of progress for children and women. Of course the curve shows significant improvement when you include those groups. See my last paragraph in the comment you replied to.
> Not even Audible, or Harry's, or all those mattress brands

They advertised through sponsoring podcasts or Youtube channels, which is the sort of traditional advertising that's being contrasted to tracking-based adtech.
is it so hard for the independent to include a link/name/source to the documentary?
Tesla holding hackathon to fix problematic robot bottlenecks
Stability should be okay if you're not on a massively overloaded server, but it's very much something that we're working on alongside performance - in order to try to get out of beta as soon as possible (as well as support massive deployments for folks like the French Government). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17031626 is a list of stuff we're doing to address it atm.
Oracle is definitely not a nice company. But they sure do take good care of Java as a whole. And I don't see any "risk" or threat if you are using OpenJDK.
> What if every company checked that box and couldn't provide lasting value beyond that?

How long do you think that would be a sustainable situation? A high mid to late-private stage valuation is only supported by the promise of subsequent valuations.

If every company stopped achieving those subsequent valuations, it would feed back into the private valuations.
Bfgr5f
Cannot agree with this more; but (as you already hint at) Kubernetes is the actual win, and I would not be surprised if Docker would eventually be replaced with another container solution in the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Job ads in general are very depressing if you're somewhat older and more experienced. There are about 6 bandwagons rolling along, with various ropes tied between them. If you're not a fan (or you even dislike) one or two of those wagons, chances are one of the other wagons you can accept is tied to it.

Node.js, Docker, DevOps, TDD, Agile, blah blah blah. Yes each of those can be quite useful in the right situation, but it is a symptom of lack of experience (particularly where management and tech leadership is concerned). A good many of the actual jobs and work environments is probably being held back or otherwise limited by the companies' need to have some of the more common popular tools in their list. But they don't know that, and there's no point arguing it. If the job still attractive, one's best hope is to get in there, get some seniority, and quietly start moving things in the right direction. Or maybe you find out that their buzzword-soup is actually seasoned right for their situation...

But to be fair, part of our problem industry-wide is the so many choices we have. You could argue that choice is good, but it creates fragmentation which eventually self-organizes into bandwagons. The huge question is, "In the end, are we better off?" I greatly suspect the answer is, "Not much..."
>I don’t have to pick either. My company is not subject to the GDPR, and we will never put ourselves in a position to be subject to it.

Canada, Japan and some other countries and even the US have indicated to copy the GDPR if not in letter atleast in spirit, though the US response is a lot weaker.

>I will not be dictated to or threatened by a foreign government.

The US is a foreign government and does it all the time to me, why is it a problem now?

>I would love for someone to just say “yes, technically there are no required warnings or limits other than the $10/$20 million”. Because that’s the only true statement that there is about GDPR fines.

You won't have that. The GDPR has a strict guideline on how to impose fines, it's not a law an won't be enforces as such. The regulatory bodies have bite because large players like Facebook or Equifax that leak large amounts of userdata require more than an angry letter in their mailbox.

As these articles mention, the agency imposing a fine should severely think about the level of fine and ensure it's appropriate. If you get hacked by a 0-day, you followed the advice of your regulatory body, your shit gets leaked and you inform your users immediately, it's very unlikely anything will happen.

If you get hacked because you didn't update your MySQL server in 5 years, you ignored what your regulatory agency said and you don't tell your users, don't expect them to go easy on you.

Easy as that. If you don't like it you can sue back and get the fine reduced or rescinded.
While I can see that that's comforting, perhpas in the same way as believing that all your deceased loved ones are in heaven, does it really make a difference if we can't perceive those other 'there's?
Cryptocurrency in Thailand: fines and jail terms
Spend your free time on work... Very stupid idea.
You now can download what's currently available through Google's Takeout. Maybe once GDPR is in effect more stuff can be available, but I'm not sure what those will be.
I've never understood why the management consultants get so much money for so little. They are, in the end, selling the labor of clever and well-credentialed but woefully inexperienced people at really eye-popping rates. You'd think any well-run company could get the same sort of insight from its own people. It's really a masterpiece of packaging and brand-building, as far as I can tell.

Let's be clear; I'm not talking here about specialist consultants with deep industry experience and consequent insight. Those make sense to me.

I'm talking about generalist corporate-strategy/management consultants who are peddling what sure looks like a suite of industrial command+control or planning+strategy techniques. How could they possibly be providing enough value to be worth hiring?
A lot of homes don't have any fuel burning appliances. It varies between countries and places.
Fulfillment was like that 5 years ago. Just widely reputed to be the worst place. New upper management came in and started rating the L6/L7 management on their highsev counts. Things got a lot better very quickly.
Cedcec
If Google or FB ever offered a paid option they would still track you. Why wouldn’t they?
If you live in a cold climate, you often have to let your car idle for a few minutes to heat it up, or your windows will be all foggy and you don’t see a thing.
Sherman would have been nothing without Grant. He was a complete failure as a general (he spent time in a mental hospital) before serving under grant.

And another thing I don't like about Sherman is he was a racist event by 19th century standards. Just about every white person in the 19th century (Lincoln & Grant included) was a racist by our modern sensibilities, but Sherman was very racist).
It's a factor of three for the large-matrix serial case on KNL -- the OpenBLAS issue on KNL -- whereas you might expect a factor of two by analogy with avx/avx2.

For avx512 (and maybe other x86_64, which is now dynamically dispatched) large BLAS, use BLIS. BLIS also provides a non-BLAS interface. For small matrix multiplication, use libxsmm, of course.

Remember that the world isn't all amd64/x86_64, in which case BLIS is infinitely faster than MKL, and it's probably faster even on Bulldozer/Zen. (I haven't compared on Bulldozer recently, and don't have Zen.)