skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're constructing a fantasy reality for yourself where words mean whatever you want them to, and where I personally did a series of things that you literally just made up.

The real process for how something like happened is that the management spend some time assessing the viability of a project > decide it's not worth continuing > make a plan for how to shut it down > inform staff and help them find new roles inside or outside the company. Now, until the plan had been finalised and approved, there is no news to tell anybody, we (intentionally) didn't have any new major pieces of work kicking off during the review period. At no time in this process did anybody lie to anybody else, by omission or otherwise. If my superiors had asked me to help them do this in a way that was morally questionable or dishonest, I would have refused.

Your argument that everybody must lie by omission simply because there are always things that you can't tell certain people is complete nonsense. A lie by omission is to construct the information you present to somebody intentionally in such as way as to misrepresent the facts and mislead them. By itself, not revealing confidential or private information to somebody is not lying by omission.

I'm not going to reply to any more of your comments, because your entire argument is predicated on reinventing the meaning of words, and creating fantasy straw-man scenarios to apply them to.
It's just an image, it's easier to talk with "chocolate" flavour than whatever molecular equivalent it would be, people on this thread are reading way too much into it.
When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Accept Interview ‘Homework’
It is generally understood that candidates must consent to have their references checked.

That's rubbish. It's generally understood that all parties are expected to perform due diligence. What do you think people do with the connection graph linkedin displays?

I've interviewed people who were clear that they didn't want their current employer to know that they were looking - that's fine, and easy to respect. But the article describes a former job on a resume; there's no risk you're going to interfere with their current employment by reaching out to mutual contacts.

Personally, I hope people look me up through the social network... hell, that's how I find all of my employment.
We take a slightly different approach at hasura. Every table/view (node) has declarative permissions defined. These are Boolean constraints that can use any property in the graph.

The GraphQL data layer then ensures that the generated SQL query is intersected with those constraints for every node being resolved.

This is works out well for performance also because you don’t have to proxy to the GraphQL proxy.
No problem!

Oh yes, good idea, sorry about that, the source of data was: http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm

Yes of course, no guarantees. But seeing all the long runs of positive returns vs the short runs of negative returns does boost my confidence.
Bit of a tangent, but Fastly's CTO gave a terrific talk I attended about a year ago, titled something like "Why load balancing is impossible". My career in consulting has led to a gradual diffusion from my earlier focus on front-end performance optimization, but Fastly retains credibility in my book on a number of fronts.
Fastly is a CDN that charges by requests + bandwidth, so it absolutely makes money from extra headers on responses no matter how small.
twitter, facebook, instagram and whatsapp are destroying the good internet, long life to sources with rss support!
The point of E2E is that it doesn't matter who owns the server. "End to End" means end to end, not 'end to middle then decrypted then to end'. If it's ever decrypted anywhere but an endpoint it's not E2E, by definition.
God I wish we had “own typeface” money.
No there really was a time a few decades ago when republican professors and democrat professors weren't under or overrepresented by more than a factor of 2. Now it's something like 30 IIRC. And really a lot of the "conservatives" turn out to be libertarians, centrists, or even moderate liberals that are turned off by the more extreme people around them. That's at least in the social sciences, it's slightly better in less politically relevant fields.
Thanks! I like Laphroaig, and Ardbeg has been one of my favorites too. I haven't tried the Quarter Cask yet, I'll add it to my BevMo shopping list.

What do you think about Bruichladdich (sp?) ? Edit: I see /u/YeGoblynQueenne just suggested the Port Charlotte; that's the only one I've tried.

Actually, I now remember, I once saw Laphroaig's "Black Adder". It was so peaty, that they actually had pieces of charcoal in it! Didn't get a chance to try it though.
Grey’s law [1]:

“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice”

1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
Hey i'm one of the developers of mod.io. Every part of the service is entirely optional, so if you take a look at the 0 A.D. implementation they completely bypass our authentication system and manage a users mod collection in-game themselves.

This means some features like "subscribing to auto install" don't work, but for them they want everything to occur in-game which is fine by us.
> Why are all these companies designing their own fonts.

Too much money, too much time on their hands, too much ego-driven decision-making.
The justification in the RISC-V spec is that it might make porting some software easier. They also say that unaligned loads/stores may be non-atomic and take much longer than aligned accesses -- allowing firmware emulation on simple implementations. The current atomic extension doesn't allow unaligned at all -- though I think there's an extension to allow atomic unaligned accesses in the works.
Not sure if you actually mean it or referring to The Big Short. If not joking what function do you use for it?
Asking people who weren't listed as references can cause all kinds of trouble.

In this case the candidate said they left on good terms, but given the author's willingness to go beyond what is "considered kosher" says to me that they likely do this all the time.

Even if you're not asking people at a candidate's current employer, if you start poking around asking all of your contacts about someone and it gets back to their current boss, there can be serious consequences for that candidate.

The author even said that one of their contacts said he would discretely ask around about the candidate. Are all of the people the contact talked to going to keep discretely asking their coworkers as well?

In America it is incredibly easy to fire someone--stop being so paranoid.
:qa! because I totally saved that first buffer... right?
It's more of the skinny font weight, which is somewhat of an unfortunate hipster design trend that only looks good on high-res retina macbooks.
Americans have the opposite problem: machines that require chip and pin. We have chips now, but not pins. When I visited Sweden with a chipless debit card it meant getting a passport photo taken in a Swedish photo booth at midnight involved convincing a cashier to give me 150 kronor in 10kr coins as change to feed the sole change-eating booth in the Stockholm central station
I know only a few. One installs floors when they need an extra hand. One drives a Maserati. I am thinking about applying. You have to write three letters, the first two are ignored.
If you do that in CA can you “sell” control of the trust to circumvent reassessment of the real estate taxes after a sale?
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issues “Red” aviation warning relating to Kīlauea
Huge upside potential, too. Musk is really good at spotting opportunities and taking risks. The downside is he often doesn't know how to leave well enough alone and he takes risks. I think SpaceX does so well because Gwynne Shotwell helps balance Musk's risk taking.

Tesla could go bankrupt (as GM and others have) or it could be worth a huge amount of money if they crack automation and scale (and there are good technical reasons why they might actually do that... traditional automakers have not exhausted the trade space).
You're right, that's a big one.
It's often clear that one ideological disposition relies on laughably untrue rhetoric more than the other, but on their best days, the left and right both agree on facts, they just disagree on their interpretation of them and what that means we should do.

Debate doesn't work because the idea of the right is to restrict resources to the "deserving" (individualism, tax breaks, etc) and kick around everyone not in the in group. The left says that we can make a more equal society and so we should try to solve our problems by redistributing resources.

This is not a gap you can bridge with logic, it's a fundamentally different moral interpretation of reality. This is sharing vs defending.

EDIT: However, Noam Chomsky gave a very interesting talk about how moral senses develop and change. There is some flexibility in our moral systems. For instance, until like, a year or two ago, casual homophobia was acceptable in public, now it isn't amongst a growing swath of the population. It's kind of fun to look at old Tweets by media personalities and see how much they've changed their positions (something very desirable) either because their beliefs changed or because their audience did.
Agreed. If Menlo Park can't convince its current residents to build more housing, it should share the tax base that the 2,000 new employees bring in with the adjacent neighboring towns which do build the housing in order to help them handle the additional loading on their municipal infrastructure (roads, housing, police/fire). Or they should encourage FB to look at Oakland, Fremont, Hayward, San Jose for their expansion needs.
Yeah, I am fortunate that I don't need to work for that kind of place, I guess.
Hm? At this point there's really nothing controversial about "racist data makes racist models" (I'm being flippant in my phrasing, but, more rigorously: "the model will reflect and reify the biases of the person training the model and the data used to train it, and the people who annotate the training data")

I like this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09847
The suggestion was that NSA would get someone to submit under a pseudonym, not that they would bribe Orr Dunkelman.
Reed Solomon Coding.

Linear algebra. It’s so hot right now.
Almost every single shopping mall in HK seems to have residential on top of it. It leads to massively good flow and all the good things that come of that - the customers come to you (assuming you don't completely suck).
I thought meteorite transfer was one-way... Mars to Earth.
Generally rent control only applies to existing tenants, so at some point they could afford the unit. The common issue in California is the landlord increasing rent in according to a market rate that doesn’t match wage increases.

Another fun one in the Bay Area at least is people preventing new construction because the will reduce the value of their property. Literally that’s the argument used in Palo Alto and Mountain View - I can’t imagine it being different elsewhere.
Yes and no. RetroPie can run SNES games using comparatively inaccurate emulators (SNES 9x, ZSNES; mostly sound bugs), but can’t run more accurate emulators like Higan acceptably.
> Lying at work is just about the only thing I'll always fire somebody for.

I'd like to say I second this, but I have to weigh the value of the employee and the size of the lie. For instance, calling in "sick" the Monday after the super bowl. Is 8 hours of PTO so this person can recover from an obviously self-inflicted hangover and not a random "sickness" worth losing a team lead on a project? (Yes, I consider calling a hangover a "sickness" as dishonest.)
John Carmack Recalls “frustrating” Arguments with Apple’s Steve Jobs
If you think that honesty isn't a fundamental expectation for someone who's hoping to work closely with you, that's a massive sign of disrespect.
In contrast to the other responses, I actually think this is not a bad idea. Doesn't it exist already in the form of private torrent trackers? I do not pay for usenet, but it sounds similar.
Given relative elemental frequency in the universe, and propensities to form molecules, water is likely the third most common molecule whhich exists, after molecular hydrogen and oxygen.

The second-most prevalent element, helium, doesn't form molecules (to any meaningful extent, if at all).

Methane (CH4) likely comes next.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-common-compound-in-ou...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066846
Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar
If I understand correctly, this is basically a new project/initiative, so the results aren't in yet, right?

Do you have in mind some success criteria for the choice of rust that you can evaluate maybe in 6 months?

[I'm not looking for scientific rigor here, just a "this is what we expected from rust" and you can look later and see if those expectations matched reality.]
None of my arguments were strawmen. The three examples I gave were things I personally saw go down at companies I worked at by people with your same viewpoint. I have not worked with anyone who stated that they never lied who did not act like they were a genie from a fairy tale and anything but a lawyer drafted contract to them was means to manipulate someone as far as possible.

I apologize if it came off as me saying that you had done these things. I am on the east coast and not in a tech hub for most of my career, and many of the stories coming from the west coast tech hubs sound like utopian fantasies compared to the way I have seen employers treat employees here.

At this point we are looking at the same painting but you see blue and I see red, so perhaps it is best to end the discussion
I haven't brought cash with me when travelling for probably a decade now. Credit cards work in a great many places now, and if I do need cash I usually just go to a bank terminal when I arrive and withdraw some in the local currency.
Yes, that's why I'll pay around 5/6 euros for a drinkable bottle in France but I advise not going below 9 pounds in the UK, otherwise the quality might be hazardous.
Extensive discussion of the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066846
Signale – Elegant and Hackable Console Logger for Nodejs
Of course, never said it's not. Are people reflecting from themselves, or what is this about?
Certainly in the rough sense of 'Turing machine' a smartphone is clearly a computer. And, even in other senses, I can connect a keyboard to my S5, open up Termux, run ffmpeg, open up Emacs --- all on the smartphone itself, not through ssh or anything. But it's hardly as productive as a regular laptop or desktop, of course, but that's largely due to screen size, lack of keyboard (or lacklustre keyboard), and weakness of processing capacity compared to a desktop/laptop.
https://www.pluralsight.com/tech-index
HN at its worst: using a post about creating a font as a cheap excuse to mock Airbnb's engineers and designers, their jobs and their reason for being employed there.

And somehow it's the top comment in the thread, as opposed to, say, actually discussing the font or the content of the article. Wtf.
I think this is a product of the relative immaturity of our industry, and the problems exist inside SV companies as well as outside.

We tend to cargo cult interview practices from whomever the big player of the week is (IBM, then MS, now Google).

Then we justify these awful hiring practices by convincing ourselves that programming is so hard that of course we need to put candidates through 6 rounds of interviews and treat people with 20 years of experience like new grads.
Did you read that paragraph?

I don't see anything wrong with it. Mining coins isn't illegal, and won't get you banned from the Ubuntu store.

The developers point of view isn't valid, but that's their problem. I think most would agree mining on someone else's hardware without their permission is evil.

Ubuntu's point of view is misrepresenting what you app does is grounds for removal, which I think is quite reasonable.
Airbnb handles hosts and guests paying each other in different currencies. They're also active in 190+ countries. I would say their payments system is more complex than most companies.
There’s no single answer for all companies, just what’s typical for boilerplate incorporation documents, and an entity with an options agreement is already past that point. Reading the company’s options agreement and its Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws (for restrictions on share transfers, right of repurchase, etc.) is the only way to answer your question.
well, Ménage à Trois is a good wine
>managers regularly and transparently lie

There are those that do, and they have to handle the consequences of that.

>It sounds like you’re a boss, so I think you haven’t had to experience this for too long and have probably forgotten it.

I am, but I also have one myself. I am also fully aware of how dysfunctional organisations can become when they don't value honesty and integrity.

>Also, try not to be so gung ho on declaring who you fire and how little remorse you have

I don't have any issues with discussing my values with others. Especially in an anonymous online forum. Reading some of the responses I've gotten in this thread, it seems honesty and integrity are perhaps not widely valued here. Maybe I've changed somebody's perspective on that, maybe that's a good thing.
No. I'm a programmer - I need more peers around constantly to bounce ideas of them, to learn from them, to mentor them etc etc. The source code is much bigger than I can fit in my head alone. I need to work as part of a team.
I agree. And I suspect most political disagreements would be solvable if all participants of a debate approached it in good faith, and were willing to dig into core disagreements about moral issues. The moral disagreements may or may not turn out to be irreconcilable, but there's just so much wiggle room in the implementation details, the details that are objective, that an agreement could be reached regardless.

The main source of problems, however, is that not all participants engage in good faith. Some treat arguments not as tools of truth-seeking, but as instruments of war, trying to win some influence for themselves. Pretty much anything humans create can be gamed by people who start treating it as an instrument to something else; I'm not sure we can even do something about it. Are manipulative people always going to win?
I could see how someone is more frustrated by theft from the commons than one of the wealthiest multinationals in the world.
I don’t know, having spent a significant amount of time with Airflow and Superset, their analytics stack must take an army of engineers, product people, and analysts to use. They have to troubleshoot issues with visits in real time. They have to not double book properties and keep an audit log of every crazy thing hosts do, and detect all kinds of fraud, all while supporting global localization. The have municipal level compliance to manage, and I’m sure a huge back office to help their various legal efforts.

I’m convinced that any business that operates at global scale needs an army of engineers doing, training to do, and coordinating across hundreds of technical areas.

Or is hiring engineers somehow so glamourous that doing so outweighs the profit motive?
More than that, many embedded processor lines include an AES hardware block in at least some of their devices already.
I don't think that was implied by the context at all.

>that wouldn't be greed, it'd just be realism.

I think that's the point. Startups routinely want to convince people to work for them for less than established companies. They often talk about wanting to hire people who care about solving the problems they are working more than money.

When someone is being realistic by pointing out that they can make more money elsewhere, they say they are just "being greedy."
On the other hand, some physical features have evolved multiple times independently. The eye is one key example. IMO this is a strong indication that creatures that evolved in places other than Earth probably also have something we'd recognize as eyes.
Hi Jeremy (& Sebastian of course), this is an amazing contribution to the state of the art!

I haven't read things in depth, but am curious - how do these models cope with out of vocabulary terms?
I’m very worried that so many people here seem to think it’s impossible to be empathetic with people without being dishonest.
Another example is OVH with its owo option which obfuscate Whois datas for years.
>few good employees quit because they are unhappy.

>From what I have seen, it is usually some political or administrative mistreatment that ends up being "the straw that broke the camel's back".

That makes them unhappy. It's rampant in the US. Programming is a creative endeavor, but most managers only know prod-ops or call center type management. You can't manage creatives that way. We actually had a guy a couple companies ago try to get developers to do time cards like at McDonalds. Another guy decided developers didn't deserve offices, so he kicked all the developer leads out and brought managers from another group to take their offices. That made our DBA of 5 years resign, and he was the best I've ever seen. It's like they don't even consider the effects their decisions have on morale; completely oblivious.

I think scrum makes development miserable, but it's a lot of shit. If I work a few 60-80 hour weeks, I don't expect to be scolded for leaving early once crunch time is over, yet it happens over and over again.

There's all kinds of stupidness in corporate America. It didn't used to be like this. Maybe it was but I was young and willingly suffered fools. If I had to boil it down, it's lack of trust and inability to treat different employees differently. They create policies for the lowest common denominator, like work from home. If one guy is a slacker, instead of firing his ass, they force everyone else to work in the office because, "well if I let you do it, I have to let everyone else do it." No, grow a sack and fire the slackers; otherwise, that's all you'll have left.

All this comes from big corporate managers. Smaller companies are usually better, but not always. If they hire a corporate bozo, they'll quickly go down hill too. M&A ruins a lot of great companies too.

What I do to combat it is have 6 months of income or 10 months of expenses saved up (around that) just for this purpose. If a place becomes too annoying, I just leave and take a couple of months off to unwind and write stuff I like to write. If I'm not dealing with a corporate environment, I can get things done 2-5x faster. Corporate America just sucks the soul right out of you.
Or Hamilton Holt, 1909.

[T]his is the explanation of the condition that confronts most publications to-day. By throwing the preponderating weight of commercialism into the scales of production, advertising is at the present moment by far the greatest menace to the disinterested practice of a profession upon which the diffusion of intelligence most largely depends. If journalism is no longer a profession, but a commercial enterprise, it is due to the growth of advertising, and nothing else.

https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft
Just to be clear, I'm not advocating anything I mentioned above. I am very much opposed to the practice of hiring off duty police officers to effectively rent the power of the state.
My apologies, I’m only familiar with Illinois and Florida real estate law. A CA attorney should be able to answer that with a short, no cost phone consultation (if a trust can’t support such an arrangement, an LLC might).