skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kirk Moore
i was looking into buying a house but didnt have a ton of credit history so my late payments and negative remarks were really affecting my credit score, my credit score was 513. After long thoughts i decide to go in search of a hacker on the internet to get my life back on track for my kids sake. And that was how i came accross a hacker identified as firewall breach expert. I didn't think about it twice and texted him immediately via his phone number +1 (513) 294-8173 to erase the derogatory remarks and late payements from my credit and he did more including raising my credit score as high as 801. Now i live in the house i wanted to buy all thanks to this hacker.
This seems like a false equivalence to me. While ad tech may be morally bad, by many people's standards (including mine) helping the US government kill people by remote control is far worse.

According to US military doctrine adopted under GW Bush and continued under Obama and Trump, the entire world--including allied countries with extradition treates!--is a battlefield[0]. The US has literally given itself license to attack and kill anyone we consider a threat anywhere on planet Earth without due process. That is reason enough to not contribute to a project making drone killing easier.

0. https://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Wars-Battlefield-Jeremy-Scahill...
Being a trilingual (funny enough that two of the three are Swedish and English) this is a little bit of a stretch in terms of the title. I would not say experience, and instead maybe (according to the article) say measure time in different forms. Short vs. Small; a minute is a minute.
> He doesn't specifically mention CLang

This is from the overall discussion going on in this thread. Others have shown how union-aliasing fails to work in CLang throughout this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17242457

By removing the non-standard GCC-specific union{} methodology from the code, the contributor necessarily improved portability to CLang. That's just the facts.
> Zach Holman made a point, way back in 2012, that they intentionally hide UI features to preserve simplicity and trust in their design.

Ehhhhh not quite. The point of hiding UI like how I mentioned in that talk was that those features in particular were for the 1% (or less). Basically, the finicky power users. Rather than cluttering up the UI with every single toggle and dropdown under the sun, we'd focus more on nailing the experience for the 80-90% of users that would see the screen.

I think that's quite a bit different from what's being discussed in this thread. The last few years in particular GitLab's been adding a lot more features across the whole spectrum of development (CI, packaging, monitoring, and so on), whereas GitHub has been mostly content to refine the existing platform. I don't even think it's really a question of simplicity (or at least not to the extent of what I was trying to mention in my talk from six years ago) — it's more of a matter of expanding into very large holes that the version control industry hasn't really tackled very much before (take a look at Bitbucket, or even some of the open source clones, which all kind of stick in the version-control-only perspective).

> I would say it's just a different set of tradeoff balancing.

That I'd probably agree with, though. I think GitLab's thoughts on what's helpful to a developer is much broader than GitHub's narrower definition. Each are making their bets with that, so it's more a matter of how you view your own problems and the future of these kinds of problems and all that. :)
> He's talking about computation, getting the computations to be correct.

Irrelevant to my point.

> If you read the end of his message he's well aware that the reality of minds and ideas are flawed.

And he still doesn't work with in the confines of human social behavior.

> It's an idiot way to you because you are too sensitive to it.

And when it hinders his ability to get things done because other people think he's an asshole, I'm sure you'll still be here saying "hurrrrr durrrrr stop being so sensitive".

> I could very well point out how idiotic it is to say a person is an idiot for calling other people idiots,

If you want to think calling someone an idiot for idiotic behavior is idiotic, then you're pretty sensitive. However since I don't need you to do anything for me, it doesn't hurt me in any way to treat you like an ass.
This is good news for the competitors of Google who hire on suitability for the role.
This is interesting to me as well. I’m not sure where these people draw their ideological lines.

Letting sugar sell to kids and overweight people is ok, when sugar kills people.[0] Or that google sells data to the NSA and other governments. [1]

It’s usually possible to dislike multiple things and support or protest multiple causes. But if you are quitting or trying to change corporate governance, those are exclusive decisions. So it’s hard to tell the reasoning behind these people’s morals.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24493081/
[1] https://gizmodo.com/confirmed-nsa-paid-google-microsoft-othe...
Enough with this.

Does anyone have any hard evidence that SV Angel, or IVP, or Thrive Capital, or Sequoia Capital, or Andreessen Horowitz (the main investors in GitHub), had more noble intentions, or management style than Microsoft of Nadella?

Github was not a non-profit company. But you were willing to upload your private repo there. And somehow now it is problematic.
The important word is ‘exact’.
Non exact means the copy contains copyrightable differences.
> And I find it dangerous, because it sounds so "obviously correct" to people who don't know any better.

> So it's dangerously misleading, because lots of people have a dangerous reverence for paper over reality.

It's the same thing everywhere. You see it as "famous person said X" or "the standard is X" or "the industry does X" or "X is popular". Then you talk shit about X, because you actually know it's not right, and people dump on you because you're a heretic, or not famous, or not an authority, or don't have "a piece of paper" to quote from.

Everybody just goes with what sounds right rather than what is proven right.
That's great and it's a credit to him!

Have you factored in the opportunity cost of being an ass for decades?
Not a bad idea, 50/50 democrat and republican seems like a fair quota in the name of diversity.
But stating it on company boards means you are.
Without necessarily agreeing, the line between designing machines that kill people and designing ad placement algorithms is pretty bright.
Warren Buffett has the best thoughts on this. Highly recommend reading his essays.

Companies should be run by boards with experience. These boards have a duty to understand the company holistically.

Unfortunately diversity police and compensation consulting committees seem to be the future of executive pay -- what a sad state of affairs.
> I find it ironic in that C++ has the correct solution to this problem. If you need type-pruning, use reinterpret_cast<foo>(bar). Done and done.

If you need type-punning, use a union. Done and done.

You're just making an appeal to authority here and deciding that The C++ Standards Committee (who give us one official way to do this) is a better authority than The GCC Authors (who give us another).

And that's shortsighted and silly, because GCC (being working software) is if anything a more reliable and more accessible authority than any spec-writer will ever be. That's exactly the point Linus was making, albeit with more profanity.
Are those statistics a direct result of promoted content on those platforms or a combination of that with normal word of mouth from peers on those platforms?
As someone who has worked in an environment where thousands of machines were being deployed to, this is ridiculous. Orchestration is an area where good tooling makes an absolutely massive difference. Shell scripts are not a good tool for observability or handling rollbacks.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think employees in a free market are allowed to negotiate their working conditions based on whatever they think is important to them and they are also constitutionally protected in their ability to organise.

Are you suggesting they somehow are obligated to work for Google or should not be able to negotiate however they see fit, or not voice their grievances?
Inflated executive pay is a problem. Tieing executive pay to diversity goals is two problems.

Diversity is great, but I get the feeling that most corporate diversity initiatives willfully or inadvertently combat heterdox perspectives. And the irony isn't lost on me that the principal stated benefit of race and gender diversity is that it proxies for viewpoint diversity. But this is just my opinion--I'm happy to entertain any data that confirms or refutes this sentiment.
I wouldn't call them "crows" exactly, some of it is well meaning, but they are definitely being selfish about promoting their causes with disregard to the damage they might do to their employer.
The promising career path is probably through the administration ranks (VP, Pres, etc.) Consider that revenue equals # of students times annual $ tuition then realize most large state universities are probably pulling in over $500M a year (and I'm not counting gifts, endowment, or room and board).
Thanks very much for the clarification.

Indeed it looks very useful.
I heard that when organs lose water they shrink and your spinal cord pulls on your brain. However, then I'd think the back of your head would hurt more than the front.
In Hopes of Attracting Foreign Audiences, Broadway Tries a Translation App
... and sends a copy of everything to Intuit.
A consenting adult pays another consenting adult with more experience to do a life threatening task together. One dies. How is this not okay? What are you expecting? For people to never climb Mt Everest again?
These articles twist words. How come teams composed entirely of women on them are called "diverse"? I do not think this word means what they think it means.

Liberals have fought for decades to make race and sex a non-issue. They won: today's conservatives are decidedly liberal when we compare them to the thinking of conservatives from the 40s and 50s. No one can dare to say in public the kind of stuff that was regularly said. Few even think it. Mixed beaches. Interracial marriages. Women go to college and graduate at greater rates than men.

But now the pendulum has swung in a direction that makes many liberals uneasy (including Bill Maher, Sam Harris, David Pakman and so on). Now, we can unironically say things like an all-women team is "diverse", that failing to mention race is racist, that it's impossible to be sexist against men or racist against whites, that ignoring the effect of race based quota policies on asians is not racist, that men should shut up in the #MeToo movement, and white people should be in the back in the BLM movement.

Things usually start far earlier in life. Little boys are funneled more towards maths and programming, little girls are not. So by the time it comes to Google hiring, trying to solve the problem with quotas is only going to make things worse. Take it from a female ex-googler who did the hiring: https://medium.com/the-mission/im-an-ex-google-woman-tech-le...

But beyond this, liberals need to speak up and keep fighting the left for what they've been fighting for all this time: judging people by their character and ability, not the sex or the color of their skin. Standing up for facts and reality. If we don't stand up for truth and reason and policies that lift all boats, we are going to go into a world where reason and rationality goes out the window.

Don't get me wrong, there are tons of issues on the right (evolution is a myth, global warming is a hoax, hillary clinton has a body double, michelle obama is a man, and other irredeemable stuff). But on the left we have a growing brand of arbitrary political craziness we should keep in check too.
Being a woman, being African American or being transgendered aren't political ideologies, nor are they mutually opposed to conservative beliefs.
Better than ending up in the ER.
The history of Microsoft is little more than an assault on mathematics and the careers of American mathematicians.

The 1976 letter to hobbyists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists by Bill Gates is an attempt to undermine the USA and limit the power of the Bill of Rights.

In particular, the first amendment states,

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Bill Gates believes that he has a right to demand an exception to the first amendment, in particular he seeks to deny the right of unauthorized copying to Microsoft customers.

In other words, Gates seeks to abridge freedom of speech in order to increase Microsoft revenue.

This is anti-American. It is a direct assault on the Bill of Rights. It is anti-Constitutional. It is a direct assault on the process that turned the Constitution and the Bill of Rights into founding documents of the USA.

Why on earth hasn't Gates been attacked for launching an assault on the USA in 1976, the 200th anniversary of the USA?

Bill Gates is a punk for insulting the USA and demanding that the laws of the USA be adapted in order to make Gates rich.

He is now a rich punk.

He got rich by demanding that his customers accept his demented interpretation of the laws of the USA.

Bill Gates got rich by using color of law arguments to create the impression that he correctly understood the laws of the USA. These arguments are little more than calling citizens of the USA names such as "thief" or "parasite".

Bill Gates is a schoolyard bully who got rich by breaking the law.

Bill Gates is still a schoolyard bully.
Agree, really confused why AWS didn't follow Azure and GCP here.

(Disclaimer: I work for GCP, sorry for not making that clear in the parent comment)
Republican governor of New Jersey Chris Christie canceled the ARC tunnel project in 2010 after work has just started. I think because he was dumb enough to think that he could use the money to reward political allies. Instead about half the money ended up applied to the California High Speed Rail project.

In 2016 when Trump came into office he canceled the replacement Gateway tunnel project. Why did Trump do that? Probably just as a fuck you to New York, no other reason.
Can confirm, this is the organization that inspired
Catch-22

The only thing its got going for it, is that everybody gets paid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22
Political sports-teaming doesn't belong on hacker news.
SemVer - "Note that this PR is technically a breaking change since unknown becomes a reserved type name", from https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/24439 which is the first item in the list.
exactly.

The issue is that if you try to objectively voice your opinion on this saying that medias are misrepresenting the Memo in order to fit a narrative, you are automatically seen as anti-progress anti-women-in-tech.
US government to use facial recognition technology at Mexico border crossing
This is the same one built into GitHub's onboarding flow. It greatly aids understanding by laypeople, and goes a long way towards bridging the awkward divide between making one's labor permissively available, and navigating the very specialized field of intellectual property rights.

I do wish the drilldown for placing software into the public domain would suggest CC0 over the Unlicense. CC0 is more precise, is backed by both a foundation and large organizations, and pre-dates it by several years.
Transity isn't a single entry system. By using transactions to model financial flows it implicitly enforces that the amount is credited to the "from" account and debited to the "to" account. Therefore it's basically double entry by design.

I'm really interested if someone can show me a use case where this system is less powerful / safe than a classic double entry system.
I'm glad Linus still talks like this. Not because I find swearing charming, but because it turns off a certain kind of programmer. The passive-aggressive, post-flagging, code-of-conduct writer who has now become so prevalent and seeks to dominate so much of our discourse.

I'd much rather deal with an straight-forward flamer than a milquetoast, down-voting circle-jerker.
It depends on how much power it consumes, doesn't it? Phone hardware has been doing very low power voice-wake-up for a hardware generation or three already. It's part of the argument of why "Ok, Google", and "Hey, Cortana", and "Hey, Siri" are so long (and somewhat unwieldy when said often) as standard wakeup phrases to both avoid false positives and lower power consumption for passively listening for a wakeup keyword.
I agree, and particularly so since Cambridge itself isn't even in The Fens.
The US and the USSR had/have (never ended) a Cold War essentially built on sword rattling.
Thank you. This is the issue in a nutshell.
I used ledger to keep the books as treasurer for a small non-profit for a few years. It worked really well for me but the problem came with handing it off to the next person or thinking about involving an accountant to do the annual reports. Very few are going to be able to deal with a text file of journal entries. QuickBooks is the standard for all small business accounting, like it or not.
This is even worse in today's and Uber's context: having the "decision" must not, in any possible way, be confused/similar/assimilated with having the "dk"

He should have thought that more carefully..
> Every Monday morning, Jamila Souffrant starts her work week with a two-hour drive, from Brooklyn, New York, to Morristown, New Jersey. When she pulls into her office, she doesn’t feel exhausted; she feels inspired and energized, thanks to a weekend spent strolling with her family through their secluded, leafy neighborhood.

This is like adding a mini-road trip to your daily routine.

A coworker at a previous job would commute from somewhere in Indiana to St Louis, MO every day, and he enjoyed it greatly. I've had the misfortune of commuting from Redmond to Tacoma daily - sometimes 2 hours to travel 45 miles - and found it immensely frustrating. An important difference is freedom to travel at highway speeds versus being stuck in stop-and-go traffic.
Unadjusted conversion between pointer types that have matching cv qualifiers.
> Note that the MPTCP code does seem to be quite buggy

> ...but is indicative of untested code

That's not encouraging.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'd like to suggest that "People shouldn't do X" should not automatically be interpreted as "People shouldn't be allowed to do X".

We could save ourselves so much grief if high schools offered courses on the Hermeneutics of Online Discourse. People are so bad at interpreting each other.
That's not how copyright law works.
Clear and honest messaging to your readers about why you're doing this and what the benefits will be for them. Also: let's talk? You can email us at hello at substack dot com
> badly written articles like this are why this problem even happens

When you have a narrative to push, you keep telling lies. Not surprising to see this repeated over and over again. Instead, they could just link to Damore's memo: https://www.quotev.com/story/9922506/James-Damores-Diversity...
what if your contributions to the project reduced collateral damage and increased the odds of hitting the right target? or are you making the argument that all military action is wrong?
Political demographics data would dispute that statement. Those groups you listed, especially in combination, are highly correlated with liberal voting.

Is that something we should ignore? If white males correlate highly with conservative voting, relative to these other groups.. then, oh look, now we have hiring quotas that, in practice, divides strongly along political ideology whether you look at that way or not.

Why do you think they call it "identity politics"? Because effectively aligning groups you've defined towards a political side, then applying all sorts of rules and policies in terms of those groups leads to... political power.
This seems like a very complicated alternative to git clone.
Nonsense. Aliasing unlike-typed objects via memcpy is equivalent to pointer aliasing. memcpy has void pointer arguments. You're relying on the addresses of the source and destination objects being converted to void pointer.

All type punning is in the hands of the implementation. The language definition provides the syntax for it, which has the virtuel that all code which attempts to do type punning expresses it in the same manner. However, the language leaves it up to implementations to define whether type punning works, and with what caveats and restrictions.
Except, he did, in a few different ways:

"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership."

"On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. ... Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things ... Women on average look for more work-life balance while men have a higher drive for status on average"

He is clearly using softer language to make his point, but he spends multiple paragraphs explaining why biological reasons are behind the lack of women in tech.... which boils down to "men are biologically better suited for tech work."

It isn't a bad characterization to say that is saying women are biologically less qualified than men for tech jobs.
I think you're missing the point. The issue is about disenfranchisement, barriers to employment, systemic power dynamics, historic (and current) laws biased against groups, etc.

Those in the conservative party do not have a barrier to employment. There is no systemic power structure against them. There are no laws that hold them back.

This country has a deep and obvious history of racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, etc.

Being a conservative (or any political leaning) is not and should not be considered a Protected Class.
I see. Perhaps latency can be an alternate metric to divine capacity/maxqps, because you could have a backend that is not using a lot of CPU, but is still very slow, because it's just waiting on the local DB (which is the one melting down). If region X is Y ms away, you only start sending traffic there once the local backed is Y+Z ms slower than usual. The problem with such a metric is that it's hard to tell overload-induced latency from other kinds of high latencies.

Health checks are good, but they tell you there's a problem seconds after you have already triggered it. :-) Better to have some concept of nominal capacity. Yeah, the Ingress API is not advanced at all and most people end up using controller-specific, non-portable annotations. I thought perhaps that was the case here. Hopefully there will be an improved API soon.
Auto scaling groups and ELB are world class orchestration. I can understand that you take it for granted if you already got that.

Containers are mostly useless without orchestration. A fancy zip file that can't distribute itself.

Outside of SV, the fight has never been to package applications, but to find some available servers where it can run and run it.
What do they consider diverse? I'm not American, am I more diverse than a black American woman?
>I find it somewhat mind-boggling that the US still searched for witches in the 1980s.

"Mr. President... we cannot allow... a witchcraft gap!"

But seriously, I assume these programs were used for money laundering or misdirecting funds for serious black projects or something.