skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't single out "sentient beings" as any kind of exception, just because we're aware of that "homunculus between our ears" whispering to us at all times.

Our self-awareness and knack for introspection through language, as special and precious as it seems, may be just another way to optimize more efficiently. It allows us to anticipate and avoid local minima (famine, extinction, loss of knowledge, ossification aka boredom aka overfitting) across larger spans of time, in a rather cool and unique way. It makes us see farther, walk straighter with fewer detours, tap into juicier gradients, appreciate art and novelty.

But it doesn't take us outside the entropy race, outside the laws of nature. "Boring and meaningless" is entirely in the eye of the beholder. How would you even conceptualize "boring" or "meaningless", for a structure that breathes and reacts in human generations instead of seconds? What is "bullshit" to a cell or an atom that lacks such linguistic sophistication? If you want a truly universal objective metric, a stable direction for "up" and "down", it's hard not to go with long-term maximization of entropy.
I think what you described are sides of authoritarianism and libertarianism, not right and left. From my observation, both left and right are trying to enforce something with laws, but things they want to enforce are different. These two spectrums are orthogonal imho (i.e. you can have authoritarian right and libertarian left)
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Good example.

The errors are just because you need to check for EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK when read() returns -1, and not bail out when that happens.
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We get echoes when someone's mic is too close to their speakers, or doesn't have echo cancellation, etc. If you get echoes, there's someone who needs to mute. :-)
I'm curious if the cost of living is starting to take its toll on the risk taking that SV is famous for. IE: I can't quit my high paid FB job to start a new venture due to mortgage/rent etc.
Wow, this is just incredible. Was anyone else hoping there would be a head on collision crash test between the two cars?
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s/sorry/pretty-please-dont-downvote-me/ :-)
So why is this different from the patient claiming to suffer from chronic back pain?
> where your base of operations is in the EU; where you’re not established in the EU but you offer goods or services (even if the offer is for free) to people in the EU; or
where you’re not established in the EU, but monitor the behavior of people who are in the EU (as long as that behavior takes place in the EU).

Question — IANAL, but I read a summary on a legal website (I’ll see if I can find a link) of GDPR that said it applies to non-EU companies not when you offer services to all people, some of whom might be in the EU, but when you specifically target and advertise to EU citizens. It sounded like a web app, for example, that is marketed generally toward anyone and allows connections from anywhere, would not be legally subject to GDPR, whereas if I, say, localized in German and had a campaign to get German teachers using my app, then GDPR applies.

Aside from whether adhering to GDPR is a good idea anyway, and I think it is, is that distinction correct? Can strict GDPR be avoided if I’m not targeting the EU specifically, and my customers aren’t primarily EU citizens?

EDIT: here's the link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

Here's the text:

"When the regulation does not apply

Your company is service provider based outside the EU. It provides services to customers outside the EU. Its clients can use its services when they travel to other countries, including within the EU. Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR."
I applaud your hackerishness in trying out all this.
I don't think it's this black and white. First, I'm sure plenty of companies are basically stealing from their employees, but this is also situational.

I answer emails and slack whenever I can. On the flip side, I get work from home privileges, I show up when I want, I leave when I want, and I get put on exciting projects instead of boring ones. People who don't check their phones after-hours cannot be trusted to lead projects with demanding clients. I typically don't bill time until my laptop comes out.

I'm two-minds about this. Companies really do abuse their employees and try to get all the work they can out of them. This is a problem that leads to abusive employers. But employees also look for ANY entitlement they can receive, whether or not it is useful to their professional development. This is also a problem that leads to lazy and useless employees. It's sort of a feedback loop. It's also probably very different outside of my field (and probably most people's field on this site), which is software development.
Not even businesses doesn't (and shouldn't) care for older devices when it doesn't make economic sense -- even less so a fun learning project.
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Bullshit jobs are the new "I closed my Facebook account" articles these days. Everybody talks about it and tries to say it's a symptom of our society going wrong.

I personally prefer bullshit than dangerous jobs. And technology allowed us to switch from the latter to the former. That's good news to me!
OP: Hi! Anyone ever tell you your logo looks strikingly similar to Palantir's?

It was enough to make me wonder if Ory is a Palantir offshoot, which doesn't appear to be the case.
> "We could have optimized and improved the car's design, but you would have had to wait two more months and that cost would have been perceptible. Anyway gas has gotten cheaper, so in 'real' terms the car is 'more' efficient!

If gas did get cheaper as fast as memory and storage, that would be a correct argument.

> Not saying Joel is necessarily wrong, but it would be nice if software design had some sense of craft....

I'd actually say the opposite: too much sense of craft is the problem with a lot of software development these days.
That makes two of us. My first thought was "Why would someone lie about being 12?", but then i remembered this is the internet. I would ask for proof, but it looks like everyone has already made up their mind or doesn't care.
Congratulations Liam. This is great.
That doesn't sound right to me.
CRUD apps might require business domain knowledge and good process logic but they don’t stretch your architectural skills, they don’t stretch your systems skills, nor your language skills. This is because most CRUD applications generally boil down to 1) data IO plumbing/scripts 2) SQL and DB architecture, 3) reporting. The pure technical aspects can be mastered in a few years. They are not a route to becoming a brilliant software engineer.
My understanding is that they won't approve a cancer drug unless it's strictly as or more effective than existing drugs, even if it's efficacy to side effect ratio is more favorable.
Never :) No affiliation with Palantir!
The city is mentioned in the above list. It’s much more livable.

I’m measuring code quality by asking questions to interview candidates for a variety of positions. I ask about how their current and past jobs work, what they’d change, and how they’d architect X.

My coworkers’ opinions and previous code are another indicator.

Disclaimers- I’m not any kind of prodigy or in the upper echelons of engineering, but the standards here are so low even I can tell. This is also a fairly high profile company for the area.
You are dealing with customer support for some Aruba customer, i.e. not you. Why don't you contact police or the site owner instead?

If it's a hacked server, the owner has to notice the hack and ask for help cleaning up if necessary. You have no authority whatsoever, and if you attempt to stir up trouble about someone's web site, closing tickets is at the polite end of the response spectrum. You risk prosecution.

If it's a brazen criminal using their own host, they are the customer and the site is working as expected. No customer support required.
my search for apple in google returns only results somehow related to apple the company, so it would seem this is google, but for colors.
Sad but true. As I climb the ladder, all the decisions management use to make that I use to regard is idiotic make a lot more sense to me.

It's so hard to predict which projects will succeed and fail. People will spend time setting up Jenkins pipelines and all kinds of unit tests, and their stuff still breaks. I argued for unit-testing on our current project to add resiliency, and I swear 70% of my energy is fucking unit tests now. Whoops!
The article could have done a post-mortem of the 20-year taxol approval. It sounds obviously wrong, but I'd like to know how it could be done right.

Cancer can be very complex, and treatment based on assumptions can shorten lives and kill fertility when another treatment would have been appropriate.

A webcomic author updated their blog about their experience: https://www.erfworld.com/blog/view/60504/rob-lindas-1st-anni...
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> What spectacular technological breakthroughs and exports has Norway produced from their oil riches (in clean energy or otherwise)? I'm not aware of any.

A lot of Norwegian innovation is in areas you don't hear about, often marine, sub sea or aquaculture.
You won't hear about a revolutionary new ship bow (for example X-Bow) on your regular news sites, or some niche underwater technology.

Other than that, there's tons of stuff happening with green tech. Wind.. Electrification of shipping and ferries, etc.

I'm betting you're exposed to Norwegian technology on a daily basis without realising. AVR (Atmel) came out of Norway. Nordic Semiconductor, Energy Micro, etc, etc. Your gadgets are full of tech originally designed in Norway.
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No because of FU money and steady influx of young blood. More likely reason is salary costs are just too high for a lot of potentially viable businesses, but VC masks/distorts that.
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Hmyes, you may be right.

I know a bunch of civil engineers who also know some C++.

Probably the reason for all these strange UIs in cars these days, hehe.
For me, this is even more impressive than a real Bugatti.
It's just how it is. You would find this article particularly insightful (1). An excerpt from it:

> It’s true. Each installation of Babel includes a picture of Guy Fieri, and there is nothing you can do about it.

(1) https://medium.com/@jdan/i-peeked-into-my-node-modules-direc...
Recommendation for the owner of the site: The line-height is set too high. It should be max. 1.7
well I typed in config and got nothing.
This sort of bureaucracy is like bicycle training wheels. They hinder those who know how to do the job and want to do it well, they are a major inconvenience, but they stop some riders from falling down. Yet, some people who want to crash the bike do eventually find a way to render them useless.
>>If this was true, wouldn't everybody be programming in assembly?

'Assembly' is a abstraction.

To a Perl programmer. Java's verbosity would look like Assembly.
It is funny that one can seen this "inflexibility asset" in many, many organizations, from various industries and areas. People running those really do not like changes..
You just shielded yourself from most interesting aspects of travel for me - diving deep into unknown, blending with locals, just wandering around without any significant clue where the heck am I. Even simple travelling like you did can be a beautiful adventure, if you don't mind a bit discomfort and uncertainty. These things are what I remember most from travelling. Cruising smoothly through any place and it fades into yet-another-something in memories over time.

Each of us seeks different things in their free time. I for example usually don't turn on phone for days during travelling.
Was expecting a mention of BMW who were forced to switch off their email servers after working hours I think after a court ruling brought by a union in Germany.
Okay, I wasn't going to comment, but I thought this would be extremely relevant : I've been getting paid for free for the past four months. I've been turning up to work, reading novels all fucking day, eating at the company cafeteria, and leaving. I generally spend 4-6 hours at the office.

For 4 months now.

Let that sink in.

What happened is that I transferred from a 'public' team to a 'private' team, which means that I might have access to privelaged insider information,which means I can't sit with the public teams. But there isn't any seat in the private rooms. So I'm sitting in the cafeteria, reading books, playing on the PlayStation, etc etc.

I ask my manager every single day when I'm going to get a new spot. It's usually 'next week for sure' or 'friday for sure'. Hasn't happened yet. During the first month, I stayed for 8 hours each day, doing nothing. I've gradually stopped giving a fuck anymore and am looking for other jobs now, even though this is a pretty sweet gig.
https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_...
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I already did that disclaimer, I imagined it might be an issue.
Not really if your bank doesn't support U2F and/or TOTP.
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Beej’s guides are great! He does a fantastic job of describing concepts and showing implementations. I also recommend his networking guide: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/single/bgnet.html
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Well, I suppose I'm the first.

If I can inquire further: are you open to discussing ORY's revenue model? I love organizationally-backed open source projects pertaining to security as there's a less than savory trend in this space for tools to go unsupported after original maintainers have moved on, but I have a bad habit of loving them less when I can't quite nail the business model of the primary entity supporting the projects. I see consulting is likely some part of it, and my guess is there's a product ORY is working on which will monetize an extension of either/both Hydra and Oathkeeper in the future, but hopefully you can see why I'm asking for a more definitive clarification and are in a position to shed some light.
I absolutely consider time commuting as part of my work hours. I leave the office early and count the 45 minutes on the train as work time. Whether it's answering emails, writing some code, or working on documentation it's definitely work.
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In the early 2000s, we didnt have trillion dollar companies.

Its been a decade from the last economic recession.

Past performance doesnt indicate future performance.

I wont deny that top talent is located in Cali and washington, but the situation has changed an incredible amount.
I'll also say that among people I know I've never run across so many who have left, are leaving, or are thinking of leaving the Bay area as I have over the past year or so.

You’ve also never before been the age you are now. Your peer/acquaintence group is growing in number and age, and naturally will expose you to more people who are ready to move on.
It cannot do "lego"

But maybe it's just hug of death..
These look like the installation instructions, but I've not tried them myself: http://madoko.org/reference.html#sec-installation-and-usage
There's some nice close-ups in the images.zip downloadable from here:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/med...

The patterns of the bodywork are ingenious and quite pretty as well.
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I wonder about the size of the step-by-step instruction booklet.
Care to elaborate? Do you have law experience or some sources that clarify?
I can't see how any of that advantages would result in a duller experience.
>standards of code here are so much lower

What do you mean?
Hi, mostly consulting, sponsorship and paid additions to the open source ecosystem. In the future we'll offer managed cloud services. We're not doing open core though, if that's what you're getting at :)
specifics. specifics. specifics.
It's hard to regulate the users' ignorance or to prevent the use of awful dark patterns like "public by default."

But it would be a more ethical world if every site with public-facing social features had to create something like the presentation that publicbydefault.fyi has put together here. Something that graphically exposes the exact privacy implications of the data people are leaking. Privacy is at this point an educational problem as much as a technical problem, and it's on us to figure out the best practices for how to teach it.
100% of your salary in a satellite office is about visibility from the main office. You should be giving talks to groups of people in the main office, partnering with top people in the main office to share best known practices, and having strategic catch ups with top management in the main office.

In most large corporations (with some notable exceptions) the way pay rises are determined is that your boss will have a budget for his team (possibly $$$ but possibly just 'ratings' that fit a distribution). Then their boss will review all the teams under him to make sure the distribution and budget for their organisation is satisfied and this goes up and up until you reach departmental level.

So you don't just need a good rating from your boss, you need everyone in each of those hierarchical discussions to know who you are and back your value. Because if not, it's very easy for them to cut 10% off the pay rise of drone 7b to give to Johnny star performer.

As well as that there's another dynamic. If the people in those conversations think you are good, then your boss is under pressure to say you're good in order to demonstrate (s)he is a good manager who can identify talent and take the hard decisions necessary to keep the best people.

Basically, you have to demonstrate value rather than provide value.
I am getting $1.2M. What it would make more sense. Ibiza in the 60s was dirty cheap compared to what it is today.
The store page sucks balls - no details whatsoever!

Does anyone know how these keys could be used for TOTP? In case of Yubikey one could use an app which effectively acted as a proxy between the TOTP-based system and a hardware key. Does the Google key support the same functionality?
Very great concept. Will play around with it. Demo wise: I find it a little difficult to navigate back, especially from mobile devices. How a back UI could be optimally added to zoom based interfaces? (Something other than arrow keys)
> It's about the bitter ex-customer who decides to take revenge through legal means by exploiting the rights they have under the GDPR to waste your time and money.

They don't have that power. They can write you a letter asking for their data.They can write a letter to the regulator asking the regulator to investigate a complaint. The regulator would maybe write you a letter asking for information, and provide some advice about best current practice.
I have created two files everything.js and everything.php. Any time I find a useful function I just add it to those files with a comment and example (if php inside a !defined_fn block).

For local weekend projects I'm not embarrassed to say that I sometimes just include the whole file. It saves me a lot of time and helps me work on the thing I intend to work on instead of searching the net or wasting time on thinking what implementation is the best.
more details here: https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/med... (including a 714mb zip with images which I am still downloading)

Some facts:

Over 1,000,000 LEGO Technic elements in total
339 types of LEGO Technic elements used
No glue used in the assembly
Total weight: 1,500 kg
Engine contains:
2,304 LEGO Power Functions motors
4,032 LEGO Technic gear wheels
2,016 LEGO Technic cross axles
Theoretical performance of 5.3 HP
Estimated torque of 92 Nm
Functional rear spoiler (using both LEGO Power Functions and pneumatics)
Functional speedometer built entirely from LEGO Technic elements
13,438 man hours used on development and construction

Edit:
images are meh, just press shots. Was hoping for more on how it was built
A lot of these kind of proposals share the same basic misconception: they assume that once a company identifies a drug candidate, then it's because it works, and the regulatory hurdles it needs to clear to be approved are just bureaucratic paperwork. But the actual evidence of the drug approval process is that said model is completely the opposite of reality. Most drug candidates--around 90%--ultimately fail. Half of all candidates advanced to Phase III (the main efficacy trial) fail. Any serious proposal needs to start from the basis that a drug probably won't work, until proven otherwise.

There is, as it turns out, an existing market segment for drugs that are safety-only-no-efficacy-required approval status. It's the herbal supplement industry, and it makes Big Pharma look like saints in comparison. There's been plenty of exposes showing that many supplement companies can't even be bothered putting the active ingredients in their products.
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It's not just that experiments won't work like that, it's the consequences of experimenting on live human beings ... that is where the real problem lies. These companies don't want the freedom to experiment, they already have that. The technical way to state what they want is permission to do stage 2 trials ... and not be responsible for patient outcomes. If their liver gets reabsorbed (which is one of the more common "oops"es for drug testing), they don't want to pay for 50 years of dialysis plus constant treatments. That's what they're asking for.
This looks great! Thanks for putting it together.

(Not convinced about "ultimative" though. I'm assuming you were going for a portmanteau of "ultimate" and "definitive", but I suspect a lot of people are just going to read it as "ultimate" and subsequently remember/Google the wrong thing.)
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Duoculture might be more accurate. It's pretty white + Asian there in tech.

https://diversity.google/annual-report/

"In terms of race and ethnicity (U.S. data only) 2.5% of Google’s workforce is Black; 3.6% is Hispanic/Latinx; 36.3% is Asian; 4.2% is multiracial (two or more races); 0.3% are Native American,Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander; and, 53.1% is White."
okay. "lego" looks like "google"
Thank you for the details. I agree none of this probably matters much for their use-case.
Honestly the original source is probably better than the techcrunch link. No ads, more writeup.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2018/august/tec...
> Sadly, the effect of this is that there's less incentive to build resilient systems, since there's always someone available to fix things quickly.

Yep. It's often double-bad end result, since if you do build a resilient system, no one sees you "fix" it, so it looks like you did no extra work.

But if you build something broken, and then swoop in and "fix" it, you get extra credit for pulling "more" work after hours / during an emergency.