skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's about taking operational concerns into account early in the design of a piece of software and acknowledging that it's going to do much better in the wild when the people building it are also accountable to making it easy to operate.

I agree that it's important to be thinking about these future states and having those conversations from day 1. But, I also think that it's easy to abstract away all of the various pieces and dependencies of some application, because we're sold by cloud providers that this design is "reliable" and "robust" and more generally speaking "a better design." But, what if those things aren't actually needed at that point in an applications life? What problem is really being solved if these things don't present a problem? If the application has a few dozen daily users, why is every single piece of it an AWS service vs. a single AWS EC2 instance? It gets even worse than this, of course. I've seen instances where a team of developers had no idea their application was using ElastiCache and experienced application outages as a result of AWS maintenance windows.

Sometimes, I guess, it just strikes me as putting the cart before the horse. And specifically with AWS (but somehow less so with Heroku or DigitalOcean, in my head).
But now you're trying to make it seem like conservatives tend to more apply logic in their arguments. Considering a lot of their arguments come from religion, I can't agree with that.
I used to hear about family members recieving fake ferroro rocher in America many years ago. But here is an recent example in china.

https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2017/02/08/Fake-Fe...

If there was any incentive to create and sell a knock off product, it is only increased when Amazon provides laxadasial environment.
According to another poster they have a Mac version available on their GitHub page. I checked and they do.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Or just don’t use class based views. Simple function views do the job just as well while not obscuring code “behind a magic wall”.
What’s the motivation for moving away from python?
"People on the left in the US care very little about employees of coal miners, oil companies, etc because of larger environmental concerns."

That's a terrible way to put it.
> taking all the money from the businessmen that are most effective will demolish what is left of the economy, overnight.

Do you have any data showing that top marginal rate negatively correlates to economic growth?

I'm looking at the charts right now and, if anything, a high marginal rate appears to lead to greater growth.
They already spend time doing this for friends/alumni/family. Whether or not employees are fully productive at work is a completely different discussion - we're just trying to give people without inside access the same benefits someone with access would get. Also most of our insiders do these calls on weekends, not on company time.
I don’t get many prescriptions so when my doc writes one I don’t care who fills it. She couldn’t send it to a random mail order pharmacy, I had to pick one.

I think there’s a big opportunity for insurers to pick a default mail pharmacy that customers out of. So depending on your insurer, the EMR automatically files with a pharmacy you don’t care about and mails it to you within 24 hours.
I had a similar alias for a while at a past job, but realized I was just using `gitk` anyway, and `gitk` is installed by default everywhere and doesn't need an alias setup, so it's also especially easier to teach to junior developers.

Also, I don't encourage rebasing, especially to junior developers. I realize everyone has different preferences, but a messy graph is useful and there are other tools like `git log --first-parent` for getting "clean" baselines from the graph. The great thing about using a graph in the first place is there are a lot of traversal options and you don't have to micromanage where the trees are to still see the forest.
This is true of the PS3 controller(same on ebay). I dont know about the PS4 and Xbox
Absolutely agree, And:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/paint-drip-people/1...

The Paint Drip concept has been around for a while now, so I'm surprised people still reference "Jack of all trades, master of None" especially in the software dev industry.
> You seem to be forgetting that during this time period the world population grew from 2.5B to 7.5B.

Older people were also staying alive longer - the death rate no longer offset the birth rate to the same extent as before.
This made me realize I am the problem at my workplace. I honestly could not care less about our product. Initially I was there for the money, now because of the sense of responsibility.
But, I’m hurting the company more with me staying and being this person I’ve started to hate.
Sure they do. They move other comments off the page entirely.
A world in which culture is discarded in a pursuit of optimizing for 'economic worth' is not a world I want to live in. Nor I think is it a world you would want to live in, if you really gave it some careful consideration.
Yes we trust our government a lot. Too much probably. But we also don’t have much choice given how taxes work (high, progressive). The US is pretty special in that the working majority has been led to believe that low taxes and a small welfare state works in their advantage. Every poor person is just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire and so on.

If there was suddenly a broad political support in the US for a pension system guaranteeing anyone to retire at 65 with at least a minimum wage equivalent - then that would increase your taxes and make it harder for you to set aside part of your above-average income.

Same if voters suddenly realized that state funded maternity leave would be a good thing. Again a huge, expensive tax funded reform.

We have had all these reforms. Single payer healthcare, Free higher education, 1-2 years parental leave (state, not employer funded) etc.

All of this means I pay 30% income tax, a hefty payroll tax, and 10-25% vat on most goods - which in turn means I can’t set aside a ton of money for retirement. So in a weird sense we made ourselves dependent on the state, even those of us with high incomes are.
Sure, they may be fired or moved around. However it's the law that they must make at least minimum wage for the hours worked.

https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm
> people speak different languages and profoundly fail to understand one another.

How much of this do you really attribute to different languages? By and large everyone in America speaks English, but the past couple years in particular has very much demonstrated that we profoundly fail to understand one another. To me the language is obviously important for literal communication, but to an extent pretty irrelevant to the communication barriers in society.
Computer generated building footprints for the United States
what made me sad when trying Django was that it felt not remotely close to RubyOnRails. Did I miss some ORM magic, scaffolds, generators, migrations? Did they add those in the meantime?

Love the admin interface and logic though, and python>ruby IMHO
The benefit is precedent. Apple shows that they will do everything they can to enforce their patents, and Samsung shows that they will fight back. Both companies thus lower the chance that someone else will do the same thing.
That's implying that conservative arguments are inherently more rational, which simply isn't the case. They have their own sources of argument that many would consider less rational. Religion, for one. Junk science, for another.
I don't think I know anyone who thinks that funding successful businesses is the ultimate goal of a society.

Many people argue that it's the best mechanism we have for achieving whatever our actual goals should be, but few if any will claim that running businesses is itself the higher purpose of human civilization.

In order for this conversation to be productive, we'd all have to agree on some underlying moral framework prescribing what society ought to achieve. And then we'd have to evaluate whether ultra-wealth people allocate their capital in a way that achieves that outcome.

No small tasks! But I expect that in the course of such a conversation, we might discover that there are a wide variety of rich people who spend their wealth in a wide variety of ways. Some of those people will typify your caricature of the rich, and some of those people will typify Harvey-Specter's caricature.

Finally, as an aside, you put the ultra-rich on quite a pedastal. They're just people who decided they wanted to accumulate wealth and then did a good job at achieving that.

It's admirable to do so well in a competitive environment, but no more or less admirable than the top 1% in anything else (a sport, medicine, religious/military leadership, teaching, etc.). Being great in a competitive atmosphere is a good signal, but wealth accumulation is not the only place where great humans compete and wealth is not the only metric which great humans use to measure their life's work...
I've also yet to find an instance in macOS where Emacs-style text navigation shortcuts didn't Just Work™ automatically. One of the few things about macOS that I actually like relative to the average Unix/Linux desktop.
>We've positioned machine learning as a replacement to curation, but what it really does is put forth the least objectionable content.

I don't think the problem is with ML. You could easily train a net to make boulder selections with an appropriate data set. I believe what you are seeing is an accommodation for the average person. Most people aren't adventurous, and it makes business sense to get algos working for the middle majority than to cater to tail ends.

It also, IMO, makes content at places like youtube less technical and more clickbaity. But again I believe this is somewhat intentional.
I wonder if they will get into the mining hardware space...
Starlink?
"Besides from a European perspective even someone like Obama or even more obviously Hillary (based on the amount of war mongering she has done alone) is center or ultra right."

All things are relative. Given that description of Obama or Clinton, what would you classify those who ran as Republicans in the last election?
One of the blog authors here -- thanks!

> I had a good experience using Prometheus as well for a smaller project (server monitoring). It’s interesting to know that it can handle so many metrics and scale so well to more complex problem areas.

Yep, we started out with a pretty simple prometheus setup too (two instances scraping the same metrics, just for redundancy) but have been adding federated instances and doing some pre-aggregation to scale; the nice part is that we've been able to do it pretty gradually by updating the config (e.g. splitting out one bucket of metrics into a separate node for scraping at a time).
The point is that anybody from any background could have gotten into the same advanced degree program and done the same work/study arrangement that I did. In fact, the program was super diverse in terms of race, gender, and socio-economic background... very intentionally so.
Can you show me the charts?
NPR interviewed the author of Real Food, Fake Food. Basically everything is fake, olive oil, fish, Parmesan cheese

http://www.realfoodfakefood.com/real-food-fake-food-book-by-...
Thank you! That was the drug I was thinking of, not nabilone. It’s THC, the same as in marijuana.
How is not wanting poor people and criminals in your neighborhood racist? It seems like a normal desire to me
I saw a discussion once (can’t remember where) about the possibility of adding opt-in GC functionality to Rust. If that ever comes to fruition, I wonder if that’d cover many of the current use cases for OCaml?
I'd argue it's rather impossible to disprove strong linguistic relativity as long as no one describes an experiment without using language.
I thought controlled substances required eprescribing, but they aren’t per the DEA. They are allowed though. [0]

It must just be some health systems require it as policy.

[0] https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/ecomm/e_rx/faq/faq.htm
> "I'm not criticizing other cultures"

Maybe that wasn't your intent, but that's certainly what you did. You basically said that all they have to contribute is knowledge of herbs.
It sounds like you have good programming experience and can write decent English. I would look for remote work with a North American or European startup, send them your GitHub account and recent work. That would be better than trying to find a local opportunity
Exactly. My girlfriend always wonders what i actually do at work (she's a fashion designer) and she can't even comprehend what code is nor how its run.

Common questions include: "So do you just sit there all day and type code?", "would you be able to code facebook?", "Can you please use your code skills and fix the TV? (it was set on a different HDMI input after I finished playing PS4 and forgot to switch it back)"

It's cute, but a complete beginner literally can't even fathom what a computer loosely does inside/how it runs code aside from utter magic
That's flat out false; conservatives get offended all the time. Remember the "War on Christmas"?
And a new job to afford yet another payment? Where do I sign????

PS: not me... family, friends & acquaintances who had spent decade(s) with employers and after returning to work able bodied only to be subsequently let go for reasons other than their abilities to perform their duties.
Downvoting and moderation are censorship though. If people dismiss your views out of hand without a rational response, such as a downvote or comment deleted by a moderator, the hurt feelings are natural because it's an action without a rationale (no mens rea).

Why would someone complain about their comment being the top comment? They are the most popular person at that point.
I agree that the motivations are primarily driven by investment protection/greed. I am failing to see the racist aspect to it.
Maybe your company hired a DBA with the wrong skillset for your environment. I don't expect every DBA to know every DB technology, for exactly the same reason I'm good with some sw development technologies and bad with others. Still, that DBA could have picked a company with a better match to his CVs.
I always start interviews with soft questions (on work experience and general technical discussion, like talking technologies X vs Y, or architecture) before diving into the coding question and it still amazes me at how many people sound so competent initially and then struggle to iterate an array.
Elon Musk drawn into copyright dispute with potter
As a consequence of Apple's overwhelming victory, in spite of SCOTUS's recent opinion on design damage award, we are probably going to see a lot of outrageous design patent litigation by a new species of patent trolls in coming months.

I had hoped that Samsung would fight Apple's absurd design claims to the end so as not to set any dangerous legal precedence, but it looks like Apple's hometown advantage (ie, judge, jury, POTUS) was a bit too much for Samsung to handle.

All in all, it's a huge loss for the tech industry with no benefit. Apple is not immune from potential design litigation, either.
A Closer Look at the Inter-Planetary File System
That didn't happen under Eisenhower when the top tax rate was 92%. Although I think its not a 92% income tax that is needed but a high tax on capital.
Eventually it could attract insects or mice. I remember coming into the office early, lights were off. I felt this very gentle hair on my left hand finger tips, moved my hand, saw nothing, went back to work. Happened again and I realized it was a decent sized cockroach! Went right back under the desk and I never caught it.
As a consumer, how do I not follow along? I can't just stop using healthcare for my family.

I feel like I must accept this scam because it's the lesser evil.

This exists only because of the lobbyist system of government, where consumer's voice is easily drowned by money.
> Hard to classify them as "vulnerable" given how successful they've been

Coinbase’s volumes have consistently fallen every month since December. January was less than December, February less than January, March less than February, et cetera. That, and their valuation, puts them at risk of having to (a) lay off lots of people or (b) do a down round.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/can-th...
at least they have to list all the side-effects in their ads, but it is still crazy...
Just 99 Years to Go as Argentina's 100-Year Bond Yield Hits Record
Until 2011, I had "T" series and "X" series IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. I've had to replace a couple of keyboards. It was easy to order a new and to replace it in about 1/2 hour.

Apple could learn from this.

I use the 15" 2015 MacBook Pro entry level model. Thankfully, one can still purchase this model.
What was the last version of Django that you used? There's build-in schema migrations since 1.7 version. Not sure what you mean by ORM magic.
Is that comparing AV1 CPU encoding vs hardware-accelerated h.264 encoding?
Running a race is a good analogy here. Privilege is the equivalent of starting the 100 meter dash 20 meters past the starting line, while someone else starts at zero. You can both work equally hard and achieve vastly different results. If you make the advantage large enough, no "extra effort" can overcome that advantage.

Hard work and personal achievement is not all that matters. I believe I worked plenty hard to get where I am today but I had the fortune to be born to stable parents who could always put food on the table, took an interest in my education and could afford to send me to college without massive loans. Take away any of those things and my same effort would likely not have yielded the same results - I was set up for success.

I don't feel guilty about that, but I do try to recognize that people who are struggling can't just "work harder" to fix their problems.
That's the key, get out of CA, and get out of the bay area. It's hard to do, but worth it in the long run.
I’d love to know what an entry level Python coder would earn and need to know to get a job at Facebook.

I’m so tempted to try and get a job in software eng sometimes, it’s by far what I have the most fun doing.
Ask HN: Why would you choose a certified self-taught candidate over a graduated?
I can't find anything from a remotely unbiased source on "facebook hires censors" other than this: https://www.popsci.com/Facebook-hiring-3000-content-monitors

Which is basically just content monitoring that AI can't do... child exploitation, hate speech, gore, pornography, etc.

I think it's a pretty damn right-wing slippery-slope you're traversing if you assume that's equivalent to "censorship of rogue ideas"
Which also seems to pretty much indicate where root of this issue lies ...
http://gonzolabs.org/dance/ ;)
Extremely progressive taxation isn't effective. The very rich have ways of hiding or deferring income.

There's also the problem that there simply isn't very much money at that level. Just to put it into perspective, the top 1% of tax payers only had an AGI of about $2 trillion. Let me get even more extreme than what you propose. If you taxed at 100% over $1M/year, you'd only get $431 billion. So that would only add about $200 billion (about 15%) of Federal revenue per year since they're already paying about half of that on earnings over $1M/yr. Oh yeah, BTW, how would they pay local and state taxes out of that?
"Would you assume I'm right-wing if I do not use politically correct terminology?"

I would, because it implies that your desire to not change how you speak is more important to you than making others feel comfortable.
> If anyone hears that I'm missing in a forest somewhere, please do me a favor and don't call anybody.

Very well, in accordance with your wishes, we'll let you die in the wilderness in order to save you $10,000.
Right, but the problem is once people do obtain a healthy income and good education, they are not reproducing even to the point of sustainability. Because of this we end up taking 1 step forward, but then 2 steps back. You bring x units of population to education, out of poverty, and so on. But then they fail to reproduce to the point of sustainability. At the same time, some number much larger than x units that remains in poverty is reproducing like there is no tomorrow.

This is a new factor in an old problem. People reproducing beyond their means of sustenance is nothing new. What is new is that those of means are now failing to reproduce.
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They operate data centers for the CIA, I'm sure they can figure out how to get your pills from Pfizer to your front door. Regardless, they just bought a company that already figured this out. The hard part is the nationwide licensing, dealing with insurance and record keeping, not pick and pack.
Did you buy your previous MBPs because they are nice kit, or because of Mac OS X? Are you switching to a Dell, or switching to Windows or Linux?

If your work or personal use can so freely change Operating Systems, then, I guess I consider you lucky.

I can't really do my job from a Windows box without significant pain. I could probably use Linux, but it would add some additional frustration.
Isn't it possible that what's happening in Yemen, just but its nature, is a turn-off for most of FB's user base?
We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016)
I have been looking to translate Moo/Mouse type stuff in Perl to a Python equivalent. I think Data Classes will definitely bring me closer to this.
The X11 protocol has been around several decades. The Wayland protocol has been around several years. There are more tools available for X11 and it's used extensively in all distributions. Even in those that are based on Wayland, those have XWayland as well meaning that X11 works there as well.
Gradually, the Linux desktop will be moving towards Wayland and it's a good thing that this happens.

Xephyr is the appropriate tool for what we do (it's a display server for the X11 protocol, can reuse the acceleration of the desktop). There are equivalent tools for Wayland, it's just not required yet. It is possible though to do these things with Wayland as well and probably there is already a tool that I am not aware of.

There is already process isolation with the containers. The lingering issue is with the graphical output on either X11 or Wayland. That needs some extra care. With X11, choice is Xephyr. With Wayland, there should be something equivalent and is probably simpler.

In terms of security of Xephyr, there is an issue. It is a tool that is not used very much and may have some unreported security vulnerabilities. But the same goes with qemu, the hardware emulator. qemu is big and has too much functionality which makes it likely to have yet unreported security vulnerabilities. Have a look at https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/01/7-ways-we-harde... which specifically mentions the risk in points 2 and 3.

Nevertheless, it should be very important to also implement an option of using Xephyr as part of the application isolation efforts.
Interesting facts:

- More people speak Portugese in Switzerland than Romansch

- More people speak Albanian in Switzerland than Romansch (there are 350k Kosovars in Switzerland, almost 5% of the population)

https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/infografik...

BTW, the Swiss government has several amazing infographics about the country, extremely well designed an informative:

https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/infografik...
Former Equifax Manager Charged with Insider Trading
Wow, I have a show box of these clothes! I just tossed them in when I was buying devices.
Most of which was destroyed in WW2 and the urban redevelopment programs of the 60ies and 70ies.

Today we have a housing shortage and the fastest rent increase in Germany.
The Nintendo Switch hacking scene is chaos right now