skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He created a 100.000 line ETL tool that I replaced with 1000 lines one, that also run 10-100 times faster. I did it while explained everything to all of the team members so everybody was onboard.

Data import processes often seem to get shuffled to people usually least prepared to understand how to handle them.

2 anecdotes:

1. worked someplace years ago who would take in customer data, transform it in to our structure, then put in to mysql (2004 mysql). larger projects... this ended up taking 24 hours in some cases. I spent some time (a few hours), and had the whole thing working in under an hour. Working with a couple other folks there they got it down to around 20-25 minutes. The big secret was .... dropping indexes, importing chunks in to memory (vs disk), then copying the memory table to disk after a chunk. This was first met with "that can't work... we've already optimized everything... etc". Until it was demonstrated.

2. Colleague worked at a company which was primarily email marketing. They'd take in email lists, "import" them (which created some related metadata records, etc). The guy who wrote this importer had 'rewritten it to be faster' a year earlier, and larger imports (we're talking like... 10k emails) were taking days. Onboarding a client of 30k emails would take 2 weeks. It was literally insane code. My colleague rewrote the whole thing to work the 30k emails in under an hour, documented the code, had tests demonstrating weird edge cases... "Can't trust it - original dev needs to review it first". He (my colleague) was part of a group of people who was let go a couple months later (and was also approaching 40).

The phrase "big data" was also taking hold as a buzzword around the time of incident 2 (2 years ago maybe?). People think anything that can't fit in to excel is somehow 'big data'.
Just out of curiosity: what kind of roles are you applying for? Are those the entry-level positions, non-specialized "senior %LANGUAGENAME% developer", or something requiring solid domain-specific experience?
Never heard of them. How come they're 30-50% cheaper than anyone else? What's the catch?
Well of course, yes(I am from Poland as well), I meant more that there is an EU-wide speed limit on trucks(about 60mph or 100km/h) and it cannot be exceeded.
Schlep Blindness
True. It is worth pointing out that Isabelle/HOL does not have dependent types in its underlying logic making framework building a (much?) harder work.
"But you still can't buy a house in San Francisco."

Are you in a dual income family, and have you considered buying areas like the Excelsior, Ingleside heights (excluding Ingleside terrace), Oceanview/Merced Heights, Outer Mission, Portola, Silver Terrace, or other such neighborhoods?

I don't mean to dismiss your question, these are still expensive neighborhoods, probably between 800k-1.2mil for something decent. This is tough for two incomes, as the dual income thing means you're also stuck with high childcare costs, which will probably be ~25k per kid in San Francisco (I'm talking about the kind that allows you to go to work from 8am-6pm - and even then you will have to recuse yourself from meetings to be at daycare by 6pm, officially surrendering your membership in the young people are just smarter and can focus on what's important club in Silicon Valley companies[1).

I do think this is in reach of the group you just described, though. 250k+ family income isn't unusual for two tech workers or other professionals in SF (a programmer and dental hygienist pair, for example, should exceed this).

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2007/03/26/start-up-advice-for-entre...
It isn't the graphics that impress me, so much, as the fact that my PS4 can actually send real 5.1 audio out to my home theater setup. It boggles my mind with how difficult that seems to be on my gaming PC.

Sure, my PC can sling a zillion triangles per second, but it can't make one stompy robot dinosaur shake my living room the way the PS4 can.
Your phrasing is rather off then. Your original statement was that we might perhaps, in the future, accept payment upfront for our privacy (whatever that might mean--are we getting paid for our data or for our privacy?) or that we'd be paid through insidiously free services. So ... how are these insidiously free services paying us? In features? More specifically, because of your phrasing, how are they paying us in this potential future for our privacy?

Your clarification here makes your intention far clearer than your original comment did. It doesn't look like you're concerned with how we might be paid; instead, you're attempting to shine a light on the problem of being paid for our personal data / intruding on our privacy at all. Am I parsing you correctly now?
> I can't speak to how the warped Hebraic mind operates

Was that really necessary? Casual racism completely undermines any point you might be trying to make.
Whereas before this GDPR thing hit, you had to do no monitoring of the forum all?
> How did you manage to deal with a GDPR enquiry?

Pardon me, I did not mean to imply I have dealt with a GDPR enquiry. I was asking if you had dealt with any regulatory enquiry.

> an ideology that assumes that regulations are always bad

Quite the contrary. I like American and European securities regulation. I regularly call my Congresswoman for more privacy protections. (I had some luck getting a law I helped draft through committee in Albany. No further.) I've also consistently been of the position that Facebook should be broken up on antitrust grounds. My opposition to GDPR is purely on the way it is administrated.
Users can sometimes see security failures (e. g. ransomware, data loss) as well as performance failures.

If it's only about speed you could argue games could have been written in C, I think C++ is used because it give the best trade-off between performance and productivity/software maintenance.

Imagine that people perfectly lived with lower computing resources few years ago and a small amount of performance gains could be traded in favor for security leading to a world with less security nightmares.

I think Javas misplacement in safety-critical or real-time-critical environments is not primarily because of its low performance, but because of its non-determinism. The most important thing in real-time applications is not primarily performance but rather timeliness.

Safety-critical or mission critical environments (aviation, military) often prefer Ada or its safer subset SPARK over error-prone languages such as C.
Integrate into this mix all the future possibilities created by new materials and AI including better drones, flying cars, advanced forms of collapsible bicycles, and new forms of intercity transport including self carrying luggage and we can expect churn in the ways we transport ourselves and our stuff for a long time.
Middle names (and initials) are ubiquitous in North America. Not so in the British Isles, OZ and NZ.
Datalogix data (now part of Oracle Data Cloud) is what powers the creation of Facebook advertising segments. So I don't think its that inaccurate.
When this starts scaling, there is definitely going to be a culture clash between these autonomous vehicles which follow the exact letter of the law, and the human drivers who routinely don't.

When you get stuck in the line of cars behind one of these things in the fast lane, and it's not going 3-8 mph over the posted speed limit like everyone else...

I'd bet that they are going to have dedicated lanes.
Completely agree but publishing accurate Whois information is an ICANN requirement for all registrars and not some gimmick set up by registrars to profit from their customers. If we failed to do this we would lose our accredidation. Whoisguard was set up to replace customer info but when we do that we are also exposed to all the legal issues that come with the territory which costs quite a bit to defend. We spend millions of dollars per year safeguarding user information and not simply turning off whoisguard without a proper legal order.
Thanks! Btw I really hope we'll be able to go forward with the TLS patch ASAP. For the same reasons as above it will be great if we could merge/adapt it in the early stage of Redis 6, so that there will be a lot of time to test it.
I think you and the article disagree about what "deep, meaningful human connection" means. I don't want to quibble about definitions so I'll just share my experience with circling (one form of authentic relating).

In circling you just talk about how you're feeling in the moment. So a newcomer might share that they're anxious. Someone might ask them how that feels physically in their body (butterflies in the stomach etc). Someone else might share their reaction (I'm feeling protective of the new person).

So what do I get out of it? When people share their feelings I generally feel a lot of empathy for them. It's also interesting when people have different reactions to what's going on in the circle. They share those reactions much more openly than people normally would.

I leave feeling like I understand the other people at some deep level. But I don't know where they work, what their hobbies are, if they're in a relationship, etc. I trust that in circling I can be vulnerable with them and they won't hurt me. But I haven't built up trust with them in other areas (loaning money, etc.).

Compare that to meeting a stranger (we both read the same blog) for a beer. I know his hobbies, his career aspirations, what he thinks about politics, etc. The feeling of connection is very different compared to someone I met circling.
> Users who have demonstrated intent through ... searches

I know marketing always makes exaggerated claims, but to claim that a search implies intent is such blatant nonsense. At least later on they make claims about "interest", which at least could be true, for very broad definitions of "interest".

(As auslander already said, aggregating personal data into huge databases like this invites Equifax-like data theft.)
The author claimed that the provider in this case committed billing fraud, by charging the insurance for procedures that were not performed. She should write the NY attorney general; an investigation by the State would make the civil case a lot easier to deal with.
For DNSSEC: it depends, I don’t think many clients hardfail yet.
For HTTPS: if you can BGP attack, theoretically you could get a TLS certificate issued.

There’s a lot of ifs on both those roads, though.
If it happened.

The story is in a tabloid, and that's such an insanely egregious breach of HIPAA that I'm a little skeptical that it played out exactly like that.
"Come on" yourself. Neither I nor the GP was talking about uniform application of a filter. We were talking about uniform application of a post-hiring process. Even if one could argue that it results in disparate outcomes - which you have yet to do - that's not the same as disparate treatment.
It depends on the context. Nobody tries to make jokes in all situations or with anybody. Tourism, salesperson and holidays have much more of that probably, but in other contexts or places is not so common, or not common at all. If you try to slip jokes about penises all the time in a conversation you will quickly be tagged as an idiot.

There are a lot of different ways of understand or express humour in spanish speaking countries. This is for example a very good example of "retranca". Really glorious if you understand spanish, and much more clever that it seems at first sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rGecaVVlyU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw
I think they're already good enough. We set the bar extremely high due to safety concerns, but in reality we'd be better off doing a full cutover now. The biggest hurdle is the transition of having some autonomous and millions of manual vehicles on the same roads. The technical hurdles remaining are all sensors and software. Things we already know how to do and just need to improve. Space colonies and fusion reactors are still in the unproven science phase.
Codecademy has a nice set of interactive tutorials - https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python
Do you get to sit outside on the charpoys too at the truck stop? I'd roadtrip there just for that.
... still digging ... FAQ:

- On average, how many categories does a unique user belong to?

- We see 750 million unique users per month with an average of 10-15 attributes per user.

- How long after a user qualifies for a category will that category last in their cookie?

- Categories are stored per user for 90 days. This is the legally allowed time limit. It is also a rolling 90 day period ... if the user is back online on day 2 then the activity counter resets.

It was last addition to my defences - private browsing tabs only, closing tab clears cookies and storages.
It is often very difficult to explain to non-developers how your first point could possibly be true. Even if you have regular discussions regarding the value of experience and the possible damage that could be done by a bad or inexperienced developer. I find that it is easy to agree at a surface level that those concepts make sense, but if someone has not actually had the experience of writing software, they have trouble really understanding this concept. Most people still see most jobs as doing x unit of work over y unit of time. So the more time that someone is willing to spend each day the better. We all know that a bad developer can actually produce negative gains for the team, but it is a hard concept to fully explain.
> No they aren't

Everyone isn't. But most people accept home-cooked meals without demanding municipal inspection.

Furthermore, the presence of looser food codes--in the U.S. and Europe--for small-batch and single-location vendors, in comparison to chains, supports the hypothesis that many people see the added risk worth taking for more variety.
Thanks! It was originally CASPIAN that I learned it from. I confirmed it with my own data. They're pretty fringe in what they publish, though. Might limit their impact on wide audience.

So, a project from a reputable organization re-running the price studies and explaining the scam might be worthwhile. Consumer Reports may have already done something on it. They could be good outlet for next version with new data.
Adding to what Rich said, Sucrase takes a fair amount of inspiration from Bublé, and has a similar high-level approach of "pick a well-scoped subset of what Babel solves, and focus on doing that really well". In Bublé's case, that's compiling many (but not all) ES6 features down to ES5. In Sucrase's case, that's compiling language extensions (plus some upcoming JS features like class fields) to modern JS. They solve different problems, so you would never pick between the two.

Architecturally, they both skip a bunch of work that Babel does (AST transformations and AST formatting), but Sucrase is a bit more ambitious. Bublé does a normal parse step and then does replacements using magic-string. The original hope was that Sucrase would be able to skip parsing and just tokenize the JS and do all of the necessary transforms from the tokens. It turns out that that's basically impossible, but Sucrase still tries to find a middle ground where it does something reminiscent of parsing but doesn't need to produce an AST at the end. It's still able to resolve variable scopes (which is needed for the TypeScript and imports transforms) by providing an array of scopes in addition to an array of tokens, and it provides enough useful context in the tokens to put the pieces together if necessary.
Some of reasons I’ve seen for ageism in startups are cost and “not a culture fit”. Cost I understand, but I believe more experienced people end up being cheaper in the long run when you account for speed, correctness, and long term maintainability. The culture piece stems from the “would I get a beer with this person” and will he/she work as “hard” as a younger candidate with less responsibilities.

Most SV companies talk a big game about "diversity," but that never extends to diversity of age.

It's funny how so many people in the valley don't understand that discrimination based on age is just as illegal as discrimination based on race or sex or any other protected class.
Make enough money to retire early to some low stress hobby job like pottery.
In my experience, Mastodon is in use mostly not in America. Pawoo, Mastodon hosted by Pixiv in Japan, has 375k users with 15m statuses, connected to 4k other Mastodon instances. But it doesn't have any metrics about still being in use, and their instance is mostly in Japanese. [0]

The biggest problem I ran into when trying to use Mastodon is the instance federation wars. Instances were banning other instances left and right from federating with each other due to content disputes (lolicon, "offensive speech," etc). This kinda made it problematic if you picked an instance that didn't want to behave nicely with the rest of the ecosystem, unbeknownst to you.

[0]: https://pawoo.net/about/more
Reviews are protected speech, this has been litigated multiple times and has precedent in the US. If you live in an area with a SLAPP law I would suggest getting an attorney to file a SLAPP motion for you. The onus is then on the plaintiff to prove they aren't suing you to stifle your speech. If they can't then they have to pay full court costs and your attorney's fees as well as a penalty in many jurisdictions.

In this case the subject is in NY state which has an Anti-SLAPP law and she should apply it and HIPAA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
I primarily deal in Facebook for most of my clients. The 3rd party behavior targets etc.are notoriously inaccurate. Most bigger Facebook advertisers use lookalike audiences and Facebook first party data instead.
Automate reading of license plates in 3 steps
That is exactly the way it should be.
people should stop storing user data because they don't do anything to protect it for you.

Keeping user information just became so normal in the past few years. it is not just about ads but also security.

You have all your information all over internet. Websites without minimum security requirements store everything just because it is cheap to do it and they just believe they should store it even they don't need it because maybe they need it in the future.

Hackers can do way more than you can imagine with your data if they want.

Storing user data should be expensive. Companies should only store it, if they accept and understand the responsibility and they must feel accountable for it.
> Google/Facebook/etc recruit quite heavily from the Ivys.

Yes but do they recruit older non traditional students. Schools catering to them doesn't automatically imply that they are being hired by google.
> Seduction is a gift, and most people in technology vastly overestimate how much of customer happiness is solvable by data-driven algorithms while underestimating the ROI of seduction.

This is a bit unfair, but keen.
Golimit tries to reuse the allocated keys counter entry in case the counter has expired and its not collected by GC.
There is a very simple GC logic where GC is invoked periodically, and scans for all buckets one by one and cleans them up. The GC invocation frequency can be configured by setting "gcinterval" property in yaml.
I love this kind of stuff - just a bit envious I didn't have these kind of resources when I was a kid! Javascript simulations are easy to write, and help enormously with visualization. Here's a special relativity simulation I wrote in ~100 lines of code:

http://pickle-ts.com/relativity

Source code you can play with live:
https://stackblitz.com/edit/pickle-samples?file=app%2Frelati...
Honestly I wouldn't blame age or your skill set. It seems that the interview process for software engineers is broken and I'd be willing to bet that even then highest qualified young engineers are struggling to get offers.
Really? Most of what I've seen from outside the industry is akin to "GET THIS ING DIALOG OFF MY SCREEN I HATE IT WHEN THE FIRST THING AN APP DOES IS SHOW A ING POINTLESS DIALOG WHEN I JUST WANT TO USE THE APP"
I was involved with a Python learners group in my city. The courses that seemed to be the best were:

- Real Python (my personal favorite, the course is $60) https://realpython.com/products/real-python-course/

- Automate the Boring Stuff (free) https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

- Learn Python the Hard Way (the classic goto self study course, $30 book) https://learnpythonthehardway.org/

We've also experimented with a variety of Moocs from Coursera, but I find the above are the most effective and well rounded courses.
It'd be nice if these same protected class laws applied to the rampant and increasing age discrimination against 18 to 21 year old adults. Discrimination of them is not just common but baked into the culture and acknowledged as a good thing (ie, car rentals, firearm purchases, etc).

They get all the downsides and responsibilities of being a full citizen but are treated as second class citizens.

Sure, discrimination against the old happens. But it's not nearly as common or widespread as discrimination against the young.
How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently (without generics)
Doesn’t LE use their own resolvers?

EDIT: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/where-does-letsencrypt-r...
It saddens me to confirm that your viewpoint is backed up by my day to day experience looking at companies from the other side. But, and this is important, not every company sucks at this, I'd say it's about 70/30 at the moment (substantially improved from 3 years ago) when it comes to doing things right. That 30% is of course way too low but it was so much worse that that's already quite a step. This too depends very much on the company activity.
It is good to hear the other side of the story. I find it impossible for a lawyer company to post medical records of someone else publicly since they are supposed to know what they are doing. I am all for give power to the people but I have seen this being abused a lot nowadays.
I'm sure it's different in different places, but that's not my experience with HR, not at all. In my experience working closely with folks in HR, they are hamstrung by management.

To put it another way, they typically know when they're recruiting for a position where the compensation and job expectations don't align, and they hate it. They hate wasting their time, your time, etc. They argue against it, but at the end of the day, they're not setting the salary benchmarks/pay bands. Those are set by some Director/VP and dictated to HR.
I think you're missing some categories. I've run websites. I consider myself pro-GDPR-spirit. But I also believe it should have explicitly phased down its effects on small organizations. If it gets tweaked back based on the observed effects, I'll consider that a win. If it is written in stone and remains as is for long enough to dampen entrepreneurship in favor of big deep pocketed organizations, it will be a huge loss. Right now it feels more like it will be the latter, but who knows.
It would probably be a problem if Google or MS did this, because lots of other companies and institutions (foolishly) depend on them instead of using OSS. I would be disappointed if Apple did it, but I have the feeling this law is an advantage for them. :)

The rest of the companies threatening to block the EU are seriously overestimating their importance.
The letter of the law in many states says that if you are not passing you must use the rightmost lane. So, these cars should pool up in that lane while human drivers zip by to the left of them. There are humans that go the speed limit today, and this is usually what happens.
I visited Spain last summer and my family would typically just walk around where we were looking for a restaurant that seemed good, and almost always got stuck in tourist traps with bad Americanized food at high prices. When we started using Yelp to find places to eat we found little hole-in-the-wall tapas places with absolutely no American influence and amazing food that we still talk about to this day.