skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is Brutalist. At best it's minimalist.

The problem is, the design here is comfortable and pleasant to read, but every example of Brutalist architecture I've seen exudes... well.. brutality. Those buildings look like they come from a dystopian future where fascist robots took over.

It's a good guide, but poor branding. To me, an actual Brutalist website would be what you see when you view a site's source - raw, unparsed HTML, left to the viewer to make sense of.
On behalf of USians, I apologize for monopolizing the word "Americans" when two entire continents have a right to the word.
Try amazon they deal with h1b all the time
I don't think it would be ok if non cs grads become data scientists.
Doctors need to do it, pilots have to do it. Why not data scientists?
I think you meant hc1[1] and hc2[2]..

[1] https://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_cod...

[2] https://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_cod...
That’s a well said example and actually very easy to establish formally by complementation. I don't really care if Hoare notation, the predicate calculus, or even English is the language of choice, so long as the argument is rigorous. That said we all know how difficult avoiding ambiguity is in English, so I wouldn’t choose it except for the broad strokes.
Sure but it still adds another layer.
I made this on behalf of family on last Friday.

https://ourmemorysite.com/richard-james-grote/

Thinking about offering a free static hosting for obituaries and other life events.

First theme is pretty brutal and newspaper like. Minimal and HTML5.

Disclosure: Guest book is powered by Remarkbox, a project I'm bootstrapping.

If you need to host an obituary, send a pull request.

https://github.com/russellballestrini/ourmemorysite.com

I'm thinking about setting up a trust to make sure this site stays online for as long as the Internet is a thing. No link rot, etc.
It’s too late now. I’ve tasted the liberation of having no wire at all, and I’ll never go back.
You can go one step further and ask, if jQuery does the job for you, why do even need it? The core problems it solved (cross-browser reliability and DOM selections) aren't really problems anymore.

Not that your point is invalid - many people do jump into modern frameworks for sites and apps that are simple enough to not need them. And SPAs don't need to be anywhere near as complex as this article proposes. But if you are going to go down the road of recommending simpler architectures, without a framework approach, then commit to it fully, and just go with vanilla JS.
i'm sure they already track searches for shows/movies, and isn't that a far better indicator for demand?

less clouded by the noise of some "digital influencer" posting a tweet that says "go here and request xyz!" and throwing your metrics way off sync.
I appreciate the analogy to architecture. Specific words are useful. You can communicate more information succinctly by labeling something skeuomorphic, brutalist, material, etc.
I just went through my bookmarks and quite a few of the links are dead... I've been doing this for decades so that's not a surprise. And not really a big deal. Most of the progress I've seen has been made in the last five or so years. Technical interviews might be horrible now, but they used to be way worse!

A LOT of the articles I've read over the years I have not bookmarked because my idea of a good technical interview is the opposite of what those articles recommended.

I normally read everything interview related I come across in HN or Reddit programming subreddits but I'll also do a search every six months or so and see if anything interesting comes up.

Although I have cherry-picked advice from reading many articles over the years, more importantly I've tried really hard to come up with an interview process I myself would enjoy as a candidate. That factor is very important to me because I think the interviewing process sucks at many companies. It's painful for everyone involved and ineffective. I would tolerate painful and effective. But I think it can be somewhat painless and effective.

I remember getting at least a few valuable ideas from these:

http://firstround.com/review/The-anatomy-of-the-perfect-tech...

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-analyzed-thousands-of-cod...

Also ask someone in HR what soft skills you need to improve related to interviewing. And then take classes based on that.

Most importantly, and as the article suggested, interview candidates with another person who has more experience interviewing. With a variety of people. You'll learn the most by doing interviews alongside people who are better at it than you. Practice really is what makes perfect. Especially if someone can coach you.

One final thought, recruiters aren't going to give away the store and teach you how to be a great interviewer, but you can pick their brain with questions. If your company will pay for a recruiter then always go back to them with doubts about your process after every interview. They want you to hire their candidates so they will help out a little with advice. I've heard some great advice from recruiters themselves.
No but you can get a very good model of the skeleton from a living walking human. If you find bones, you can measure.
I made the same error in reading the link text (which is not representative of the article linked to).

It's rather a dumb way to abbreviate one billion.
Ouch, that is very expensive indeed. Normally AWS has decent prices but this seems way too much per secret.
It would be like calling every individual connection made during a DDOS event an "attack". No, it's one attack. The number of connections merely indicates the size of the attack, and in this case possibly less because if it's implementing a brute force search over passwords, it could be very, very inefficient.

In other words, it's marketing language designed to scare people who have no understanding of computer security.
The idea that text can be essentially meaningful without a medium that demonstrates competence or craft is an expression of contempt for the reader.

Brutalism as an architectural movement was about creating anti-human symbols that exalted totalitarian institutions, and was a naive mockery of human experience.

Brutalist buildings are abominations we only keep around to serve as a reminder of our capability for hubris. I can only assume brutalist web design serves the same purpose.
Agreed. These are all symptoms of capitalist dominance.
I have found two things:

1. They get dirty fast. So you clean them and it helps.

2. If you are on the Mac, lower the sound all the way down and then raise it again. It is a software bug.
I think you've missed the article's point:

> I don't like Front End Dev. because it's not as mature as Back End

No, he says don't do FE and BE when the tools for back end-only (well, Rails is full stack, actually) are so useful and productive. And in the rest of your comment you seem to forget that a front end is completely useless without a back end.

> you are ROR or Django or ASP.NET dev and you love what you do ? As long as you find jobs keep doing this , don't bother with Full Stack Fluff.

Rails is the "Full Stack Fluff".

> SPA and SSR will likely be the standard in the future

How, exactly? What serves your SPA? And who is using "serverless" for anything other than querying other backends (eg Slack bots) or accessing AWS services? I mean, sure, it's nice to not have to stand up a server to resize images coming from S3 but it's hardly going to replace, well, servers. You couldn't implement even the simplest CRUD app.
Yeah this is hilarious to me. If they offered an ASCII-only version of their website, they (1) wouldn't be losing any revenue (i.e. they're making zero right now on Europeans anyways), and (2) they wouldn't be losing any reputation ("a publishing company firmly stuck in the 19th century").
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It's been that way since the civil rights movement and the republican southern strategy. Minorities, with very good reason, tend to vote against the republicans. This means someone holding household level demographic data knows exactly which neighborhoods to target if they're willing to use suppression tactics. And that's exactly what we've seen happening.
> This sounds good as an idea but often does not pan out, usually its just the base OS or base OS plus dev environment being reused so why use layers?

When the build process is predictable or plannable in advance, this can turn out well. I'm familiar with buildpacks in this respect -- the basic order of operations and layout of the filesystem is the same for all software that passed through a buildpack.

> And If there are updates to any of the lower layers for instance security or version updates usually the container needs to be rebuilt so again you are not benefiting from using layers to build containers.

Layer rebasing will change this pretty dramatically. From "I need to rebuild and roll all my apps" to rebasing the image on new layers in seconds and rolling them out across a fleet in seconds to minutes.
My iPhone volume gets more quiet over time. I used to be able to do the washing up while listening to Youtube or Netflix on speaker, I can’t anymore. I used to be able to listen to Youtube on the street with earplugs, not anymore. It decreased by a notch (30%) when I installed iOS 11.3. Never upgraded since.
In interviewing, like in many other subjective measurements an important trade off is precision (percentage of hires that worked out) vs recall (good hires that got rejected).

Experienced interviewers, or an innovative process can optimize both values, but I do not believe one can reach perfection. In fact, I don’t think most companies are even anywhere close to optimums in either of those values.

Yet what’s rarely considered during interviewing is which of the two values the organization should optimize for. An early stage startup, hiring a senior engineer may choose to optimize for precision. A mature organization that needs to hire quickly to start a new initiative may choose to minimize recall.

Another way to put it - hiring is risky. The amount of risk you are willing to take should depend on circumstances and your ability to absorb failures.
Startups involve a lot of trust between the members of the initial group. I wouldn't have anything to do with trusting my future to a professional liar.

It's like marrying someone who cheated on their spouse. They'll cheat on you, next.
Almost every other Western democracy also has national ID cards, which the United States does not.

It sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice - specifically in the United States - requiring ID for registered voters at the polling station is used by the Republican Party for the sole purpose of disenfranchising Democratic voters.
Another question to who does algorithmic trading, is a software / engineering education with a strong math and data analysis useful to get into that?
Do you have some particular resource where someone can start to approach it?
I think if the conversion is led by a very experienced React developer this could be a good decision. We decided to write all our sites in React a long time ago and couldn't be happier. It doesn't have to be a SPA because it's React, we have static sites too.

Judging by how your org made the decision without the devs input though, I'm not too confident it won't be disaster. It's depressing but I've been offered too many contracting opportunities to rescue a project after a similar conversion that is a total dumpster fire.
This is how it begins.

You want a simple blog just to share your ideas and that’s it.

Okay, will add one email sign up form so people can know when I update the blog.

Oh, if they prefer Twitter I should have a link to my twitter so they can add that and know when I update.

Well, I retweet stuff of interest so I should have a small twitter feed on the side, adds content.

How will people find my old stuff? I’ll put an archive link.

Oh, there are so many topics I should link by topic and organize it in a tree structure.

Well some links are way more popular so I’ll style them so people see them.

I should also have a search.

What if people want to sort according to their own criteria?

How about a feedback rating?

Might need nested comments.
60,000 person-hours
In jquery programming there’s a huge difference between how the stuff that shows up when loaded is programmed (on the backend) and how the changes you make after it’s loaded are programmed. This leads to a lot of weird inconsistency if you’re doing anything more than showing and hiding existing content. Also, with jquery everything involves a lot of imperative programming and stashing state in random places in the DOM. If you’re doing anything more complex than drop downs and modal windows, use a frontend framework or your code will devolve into a huge pile of spaghetti.
Is there a commercial version of this that doesn't require self-assembly? I found a few hacky Chinese ones on Amazon but I'm curious if there are any higher quality multi-platform ROM portable devices available.
I'd tell these 100 Amazon employees to finally go on vacation... and for a 100 days :) Let's not burn these "resources" out.
I love the idea but was anyone else aware of just how much the different font styles stood out? There seemed to be 3 or 4 styles, different kerning, sans and it was distracting. Funny how something usually in the background makes such a big impact.

Is there any reason to switch so much? Would not switching be better? I’m not sure either way.
We turn them into artificial artificial intelligence.
There are realistic systems that are operationally secure by the given standard. Nuclear launch systems are the obvious example.

“Best practice” is a euphemism for whatever it is the majority does. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. That’s not even reasoning.

Finally, your paragraph about sandboxing is ill considered, but not that wrong. First all programs have operational semantics, the only question is how well understood they are. Second sandboxing is a constraint that is easily formally expressed by way of the logical consequence. I’m surprised you’re taking issue with that since you give a great example thereof.
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Government-issued ID in general has a long history of being contentious in the US, and is consequently a complete goddamn mess. As a country, we really aren't in the habit of setting things up with the assumption that every citizen has an official ID. So not requring ID to vote looks strange compared to other countries, but not compared to how we treat ID generally in the US.
Nothing any EU passport couldn't solve (with the added bonus of not having to pay taxes on your global income to the US government)
Repeat after me: overeating is unhealthy.

What you happen to overeat is beside the point.
But doest it mean lower class is much higher than it'd have been otherwise? That's still a win.
Or have a link at the top of search results for something like "not finding what you want?" or similar so that suggestions can be provided at the time of searching instead of having to context switch to a different help page.
Imagining myself as one of the executives in this meeting, this all sounds absolutely awful, and I would be looking to leave as soon as possible.
You've conflated your feelings with the government's propensity to provide protection for all Americans. Voting is a right, unlike driving an automobile, which is a privilege. Rights have no prerequisites to enjoy them, unlike privileges. We all agree that many people do have the means to acquire government IDs. Just like all goods and services, the amount of money required to purchase an ID might be a pittance to you, but a significant expense to someone else. This, coupled with what I assume is a track record of not being disenfranchised, might explain why you have no frame of reference from which to appreciate why its a poll tax.
Doesn't that apply to any in-ear headphone?
Ok, what if you carbonate juice, add ginger, and call it Kombucha? Is it healthy now?
This is demonstrably false. No respectable scientist believes in the calories-in-calories-out model of obesity anymore.
libertarians leave capitalism intact. You can say that government delegates is "a small number".
For what it's worth, changing the voting system to, e.g. ranked choice or theoretically superior variants would automatically open up the viability of third (and fourth) parties.

Right now, if a popular movement becomes so excited that they put forth multiple candidates, it divides the vote and they lose.
What's contentious is the versions used by Republicans: make the required ID a kind of ID you can only obtain in certain locations, and then close most all of those locations in predominately black counties, or make the ID expensive or obscure or difficult to obtain for working folks. And even when it isn't racist, it's very clearly there to preserve GOP majorities:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Vot...

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/0730/Voter-ID-mo...

By all means make voter ID required, just make sure the burden for obtaining it is identical across all demographics.
https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs#scheme
Do you have any specific complaints about the design of the linked page? Because you seem to be assuming that the properties of Brutalist architecture that you hate would necessarily be inherited by a web design style named after it. I see no reason that should be the case. We have an example of the style directly at hand, so why not speak in specifics?
> decoupling your data from it's presentation will be a fruitful investment

Very good point. You'll be building an API anyway if you want a mobile app. However, you can probably get away with a much smaller one, for only the most interactive parts of the app - I've gotten a lot of mileage out of simply embedding web pages for fiddly things like settings pages and other complex forms in mobile apps, saving the native API-driven section for only when needed. The hybrid approach can actually save on mobile implementation time in that way, too.

> a culture of staunch refusal to learn or do anything new in that job

Sigh. I have encountered this too. But I think it's mainly a person-by-person, or perhaps team culture, issue, coupled with the fact that Rails has been around a long time. I've been using Rails since it's in beta and am very happy to use React et al when called for.

Sadly, when (if?) React gets to 10 years old, you're going to see the same thing on that side of the fence! There's a certain type of person who's always going to be grumpy about learning something new.
Kombucha usually has way less sugar though. I get the brands that have 4-6grams of sugar per serving.
This is a well-researched and frequently discussed topic in critical theory circles. What it means is not much up for debate anymore.

It means corporations have more in common with authoritarian regimes than is obvious. They are systematically cold and all-powerful, and merely acting out the typical series of behaviors that cold and powerful organizations act out. By definition, corporations have no social commitment to the society within which they operate and this seems to be at the heart of the issue.

Be careful to note the difference between authoritarianism and socialism. They do not favor one another. In fact, they are mostly in opposition if anything. Socialism concerns social and economic structures and authoritarianism concerns governmental structures.

You might like a book called Brave New World by Audus Huxley. It’s a science-fictional narrative that explores the potential of human society to succumb to these cruel structures.
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116

Maybe we just need the right sort of developmental pressure.
Go eat 5000 calories a day of veggies without becoming obese then. Just because calories isn't the only important factor in obesity does not mean its not a factor at all. Scientists are simply building a more sophisticated understanding of obesity that looks at many other factors.
Sugar is bad.

Juice has a lot of sugar.
We use it in South Africa. https://twitter.com/aminahmather/status/760788698560622592
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ICMP packets, like Zone Alarm just to scare users back in ~2002.

Edit: holy crap Zone Alarm still does this, I guess scaring clueless clients still works as a sales tactic https://support.zonealarm.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001808551...
Here's some context on the authors:

https://twitter.com/aaronecarroll/status/1015682328411230208
What do they believe in now? I still thought calorie-in/out was the truth. I'd love to see some articles.
Yes, usually people writes about the "homosexuality" in the Greece for example, but that's a completely different view: old philosophers used to have their own young boy that gave their body in exchange of intellectual knowledge.
Platone express a completely different view (we won't never know how much the Aristophanes speech was Platone's, and viceversa), without judging.
> Can you explain why my wife and almost every accountant in the world amortize intangible assets like in-house developed software and give it a useful life span?

That's learned behaviour post factum. Had we (the software industry at large) done better then they wouldn't have the countless examples to learn from and turn them into a habit. Don't conflate things.

> I also described that stuff does eventually break like the laptop I'm writing this on and it's not end of the world. We expect stuff to break.

You are arguing extremes. The fact that a physical object will eventually suffer wear and tear no matter what has zero correlation to the fact that most software can be much more robust and long-lived but extreme time and money constraints prevent it from being so.

Our points of view can meet but not until you admit that a learned behaviour is something that can be changed if enough people with money stop turning cutting corners into an olympic sport.
I am a bit sceptic that paper ballots were as good as we want them to be. I remember every elections the bunch of dead people voting reported on the news, and that must be the tip of the iceberg.

For comparison, in the payment world we have the paper cheques and credit card, and though credit card fraud is strong in the mind of the public, most entities accepting payment gave up on paper cheques a while ago because of how hard it was to secure and everything that was involved in processing them.

If it didn't work for money, I can't imagine it's a good idea to keep for voting.
even I can tell that... they are so much more happier.
OK... that is news to me... do you have a link to a paper that proves this demonstrably false? Disproving a law of thermodynamics sounds like a big deal.

How does the new model explain people losing weight in adverse conditions?

I'm watching someone steadily lose weight via calories-in-calories-out model in front of me right now.
Huh, what do they believe to be true now?
But then they might have data on you in their logs.. and may need to service removal requests (even if its just to say they dont have anything). So that would just open a can of worms.

The Chicago Tribute is a small paper in chicago. They've lost zero reputation here.. since their user base is in chicago.

Be honest: how much information about Chicago do you want to read? This article isn't even theirs -- it's syndicated from Bloomberg. Go click on their homepage.. you want to read about the local protest? Or the restaurant downtown? Are you interested in the list of great ice cream places in Chicago? Are you ever going to pay them for a subscription?
Unfortunately they don’t fit my grandpa who has unusually large ear openings.
Could you please do us the service of demonstrating that it is false? Overeating is unhealthy is demonstrably true.