skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel it's a bit unfair to criticise changes in a product at the leading edge of the most dynamic field of software. It's also slightly ungrateful for such a valuable addition to OSS–and I say that even though I tend to consider this argument overused.

But mostly I don't believe such criticism has much of chance of changing anything: The creators are already the most qualified you could have working on it, and it's unlikely they intentionally made mistakes in the early rounds of API design. Maybe it would have helped to spend a few more weeks on specifications rather than coding but, again, I wouldn't feel very comfortable second-guessing Google's project management.

I think the most likely outcome if such complaints start to pile up would be future projects just remaining proprietary, either longer, of completely.
yes it was, all good :)
You're incorrectly conflating "enterprise" with "large" here. For example, Snap and Apple are very large companies in terms of Cloud spend, but they're very much not an "enterprise"/Fortune 500 company that moves at the speed of an arthritic sloth and needs to be sold on the benefits of moving to the cloud.
There is a lot of this. Bear in mind though, the practices that call hospitals are the desperate ones, the successful ones don't.
If you read the posted link, you would see that the fee is entirely sent to the driver.

And if you read the other comments, you would see that direct communications can be abused so this current process is likely the best compromise to help both riders and drivers.

And as stated before, many drivers return items immediately for free while many others probably don't find items until days after the original rider reports it, so there are vastly different scenarios under which you need a process to work.

Is the tiny detail of whether the driver can set the exact fee really that important?
And the hiring managers buy that reasoning?

It's a decent reasoning and would only be able to get away with it if you have some decent years of experience OR some very good open source contributions. Or Both.
Never said I did. It is, however, the reality of how job seeking works in today's competitive world.
I hope we've all read Taleb's thoughts on "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority"[0], you'd be surprised how much influence vocal minorities appear to have in our "free" societies.

[0]https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I've tried to use pool a number of times in the bay area, all it did was make me waste about 30m each time, at the end of which I used Lyft to get to where I need to get to.
Some do, some don't. Some women don't want to date me, either, but I don't stay up worrying about it :P
Hah, fair enough! And yes, I think 3d home has become a category. The one I linked seems alright though from 5 minutes of playing with it.
Not to mention that windows still sticks with carriage return + line feed to maintain compatibility with the 1960s.
I wish I had seen this yesterday. I had an opportunity (interview) and a had a lot of "Oh I know this" but when asked to explain further I was like "Oh...?"
I'd love to know more about these moon theories. Got a good layman's article to cite?
GP specifically said "decent" and gave an example of it being "present" but not "decent" for locals, and you countered with a picture only showing "present" which doesn't dispute what the parent said at all.
What's a real indicator for me is that this week two tech-job applicants they had deleted their FB - and dropped other social as well!

Have we crested peak-social?
PC Classic mini retro PC – Is this for real?
Your description makes me think of the fictional “chaotician” from Jurassic Park, Dr Ian Malcolm, and his speech in the book about why the park would fail because its complexities would lead to emergent phenomena beyond the control of the parks creators. (“Life finds a way...”)
$1700/month in rent savings is enough to travel 1-2 weekends a month anywhere in the US. $2400/month keeps you nailed down to NYC.

KC has a tech scene, and remote work is a thing.
What happened before FB were forums and forums had the same problems that FB had but forums had humans that ran them and usually volunteer moderators that enforced rules over the content. Nothing on forums passed scrutiny. Forums had flamewars and other issues but in the end they ended up causing a lot fewer problems than FB. We need to go back to forums and ditch FB. The social network version of forums is massive, unwieldy and unenforceable. I mean even Reddit is better in terms of enforcing rules than FB is.
Same for K9 Mail in Android. Clicking on the mail address reveals the real Destination though.
I'm not sure I follow your "IRV favors duopoly" article. I looked at the data, and it's analysis and facts don't match. Kiss is the clear winner in Burlington 2009 almost any way you slice it.
The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition
Just a note from someone who moved from NYC to a suburban area a few years ago: a car doesn't cost that much (as I thought anyway). Outside of the fixed costs, insurance is about $70 a month, and gas at $60 a month, so that's about $130 in total a month, just a bit over the $116 in unlimited train rides in NYC. (And yes the fixed costs are much higher, I will admit.)
I am not often a Windows programmer, but I followed that saga. I think it was the result of poor internal communication and was fairly anomalous for Microsoft.
I'm taking cybersecurity classes in NYC recently and granted we touch upon the topic of how to think like a bad actor but most of the curriculum is just trying to keep up with the myriad of topics we need to go over to cover our bases. Thinking like a bad actor is indeed one of those topics that is very hard to explicitly teach, besides already well-known techniques, and angles of attack.

A few things I've noted of the more successful students:

-Students who do well already tend to have a huge passion for the topic before they ever showed up for day 1. I know it sounds obvious but those folks do not need the class, however on the flip side they are the ones who enjoy it the most too. Even when its not employer reimbursed tuition, they are getting the most satisfaction out of the class, despite knowing this stuff already.

-Participating in CTFs and online "Hack this site" and paid labs is a thing they do. No one does bug bounty programs but that's the next level up or dream.

-They pickup small nuances the teachers mention and start researching it right away, nuances that do not get registered by those first learning the topic, or ignored by those who think they know it all already

-Keeping up with daily news is a breeze since it's not a chore for them

-Anyone who mentions the reason they are taking the class is to gain a broad picture understanding e.g. to understand what the tech sec ops are doing, or for better decision making, or even to give better "orders" to their info sec teams (risk mgmt., audit, investigation, standards builder) tend not to know the material that well. Their reasons are fine, and ultimately they will get what they aim to achieve, but not only does it feel diametrically opposed with those who want to learn even more from the class and get their hands dirty, it slows down the class to their level, when they become the majority (not all classes have the same makeup of student profiles).

-Ultimately, it's what you put into the class. Your project can be a bobo I've researched 5 articles before presenting to I want to challenge myself like no tomorrow.
Q :"Can’t I just buy a Raspberry Pi...."

A :"No."

Too bad it doesn't have an 8286 or the likes, and not just an emulator.
$48k per Amazon HQ job is about the the annual federal income tax of a software engineer at Amazon, and it's 4-5 years of New York state income tax. This assumes an annual total compensation somewhere around $200k.

Some people will tell you that such a compensation is not realistic, but at Amazon it is common for mid- to senior-level engineers to make at least that much.

Altogether it is not a total sellout on the part of New York, at least not after 5 years. Ideally some of those Amazon engineers will leave Amazon to join other companies or start their own, which will be good for New York.
A link to the actual paper with more detailed sample images:

https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3274359&ftid=2013951&dw... [PDF]
The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason.
A good primer/philosophy for all ages on making and keeping money/wealth.

For stock investing (long term):
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham (Warren Buffets mentor!) or anything on 'Value Investing' such as https://www.investopedia.com/investing/warren-buffetts-inves...

For property investment I recommend these: https://www.somersoft.com.au/books.htm

Some of the tax and law details are particular to Australia but the overall strategy would apply anywhere with a few adjustments and calculations.

I just wish I had read these a lot earlier in life BEFORE I went into business for myself! :)

Best of luck!
Amdahl’s law in practice
There's one extremely important nuance here people are skirting over. Facebook is not "enabling" e.g. mob violence in India. It's not even the internet "enabling" these things. These acts existed long before the internet. All the internet has changed is allowing people to organize into these groups more easily. How is this related to Facebook? Well they're organizing through Facebook (or related properties) to do these things, yet it's clear that Facebook is not the a priori cause here. We still might want to declare them guilty as a facilitator rather than an enabler, but I'm not sure how reasonable even that is.

In particular there is no specific company necessary to communicate or connect on the internet. There are even fully decentralized messaging programs that operate independent of anything besides an internet connection. The reason it's easy to blame Facebook is because they are a net ill on society for many reasons aside from the ones being discussed here, they have a founder that's both remarkably visible and remarkably uncharismatic, and they or related properties are one of the most common methods of organization simply because they have, by a wide margin, the greatest marketshare of all means to organize.

But I think blaming Facebook for e.g. mob violence in India is akin to blaming the Bell System (which held a monopoly on telephone connections from the 19th century until they were broken up in the 1980s into AT&T, Verizon, etc) for e.g. the KKK organizing through telephone calls. In other words this a people problem, not a company problem. You're not going to solve this through some sort of content filtering or clever algorithms. I have absolutely no love for Facebook, but I think turning them into a scape goat for any social ill is hardly productive. It means you're going to spend all your energy shooting at one target that has nothing to do with what you're actually aiming for.
I agree the problems are mostly the same but Facebook also has an Eternal September problem of introducing gullible baby boomers to this stuff at a larger scale than we've ever seen before.
Yep! I think the biggest boon in job searches (for me) has been Stack Overflow.
Buffett's Berkshire reveals stake in Oracle, boosting the shares
The Vacuum Tube’s Many Modern-Day Uses
ok, so you all can have that one. How about:

"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me" Dumb fucks"

I know, I know, still just college kids being college kids. How about this one:

"I wonder how similar that is to the Facebook thing. Because they're probably going to be released around the same time. Unless I fuck the dating site people over and quit on them right before I told them I'd have it done"

More? really? ok... how about this:

"So have you decided what you're going to do about the websites?"

Zuck: "Yeah, I'm going to fuck them. Probably in the ear"

and...

"Haha man come on. You can be unethical and still be legal that's the way I live my life. haha."

I think my favorite part is the "haha" at the end. haha indeed.

This one is probably the most relevant today:

"We copied his account like his profile and everything except I made his answers all like white supremacist."

That is why people like me love to vilify his character. He's an entitled asshole and always has been. He probably sits around in his house with Sheryl and Joel Kaplan laughing about how they have Washington by the balls and they can all do whatever the fuck they want.

Link to quotes:
https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerbergs-s...
> Not exactly just minor rewording because you could still be in breach. You need to make major modifications.

Again, only kinda. Techniques, styles, methods, ingredients, timings, quantities are all not covered by your copyright.

A bare-bones recipe would likely not be covered by copyright, as it has nothing in it that is copyrightable. Only when you expound on reasoning of methods, or cautions do you start to get things that can be copyrighted.

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> Patenting an innovative recipe is perfectly allowed though, including design patents of the innovative look of the item.

I'm not sure what has given you that idea. Generally speaking, in Australia, a process that creates an edible item, is not patentable. These are set out as non-patentable:

> Capable of being used as a food or medicine and is a simple mixture of known ingredients (section 50(1)(b)(i))

> Is produced by mere admixture (section 50(1)(b)(ii))

Unless the process itself is inventive, and involves techniques out-of-reach of the average person, it probably is not patentable.

However, you can trademark items that are not fit for the patent office, that has a lesser set of requirements.
Link to lecture? The only video I can find is https://youtu.be/h5gnATQMtPg

It’s strange how much meta-content has been written about how wrong Weinstein is, but none of the publications articulate his position or refute it. Show us the math, and we’ll decide for ourselves. If anything, denials without formulas strengthen the perceived novelty of his ideas - whatever they are!
In a big city, rents almost never go down. Here's my calculations to buy: I will pay somewhere $1700-$2200/month to rent 2+ bedrooms (wife + 2 kids) in LA near where I want to work (5 years ago). $2200 can cover the mortgage on a $600k house, assuming ~3.5% interest (rates were good 5 years ago) and ~20% down payment (pretty common down payment). In the right market conditions in the part of LA I like, $600k of house might be 2-4 bedrooms, 2-4 bath, and 1000-1600 square feet. Now it's just a parameter fitting / optimization problem.

But how does that even pay off? Consider down payment as an investment, and rent / mortgage something you'd have to pay to live wherever as a cost of life or an investment in yourself.

Even if all you got was your original purchase price back in 30 years, that can make the purchase worth it. Doing the math above, saying I paid $2200/month for 30 years on a $600k house, that gets me $792k paid for a $600k house, with $120k required up front. But I get $600k back at the end (even assuming zero market appreciation). So if you had instead invested the $120k somewhere else, rented some place for $2200/month (never to see that money again, like it was burned up), in order to get $600k back in 30 years, you would need to beat 5.5% annual return on that invested $120k.

But if that house increased in price (even by average appreciation)? Then the reality is that your investment of $120k needs to beat 9.2% of annual return in the open market to beat the investment in a house, even if all you did was live there instead of some place else (assuming your house can fit your needs).

Of course things like property tax, HOA dues, etc., can muddy up those calculations, but all of it is easy to drop into a spreadsheet. The hard part is actually earning the money (or at least that's been the hard part for me).

(please note that I paid substantially less than $600k for my home in LA, the numbers above are for reference, and not necessarily valid for current market conditions - especially interest rates and home cost)
Sorry to reply here but i figure it's as good a place as any... how did this happen? 30 or so years ago ATT and Xerox were paying smart people to gather and invent things, more or less. And they did, a lot of key things. Now, they work for Google or Facebook, and are essentially useless to the world. Seems a bit sad to me, it would be nice to have another tech company that let their employees shoot for the moon (please don't mention the silo'd self driving tech or spacex).
It's because lying on a Resume is extremely easy. I do interviews for a large software company about once a week. The relationship between what a candidate says they did and actually doing simple programming problems is non-existent.

> It's like many companies have given up trying to rank applicants based on actual job experience and skills.

Yes.

> "You've created and ran successful software for hundreds of thousands of paying customers?"

They probably are taking credit for someone else's or their teams work. It's depressing to say aloud, but it's the norm rather than the exception.
Although which "first-world" nation, other than the United States, doesn't offer "decent" free public healthcare?
Thanks for that point by point refutation, but why do I feel like a Russian troll just wasted both of our times...
The road is a public space where privacy is not expected, and your behavior directly affects the safety of others. I'm not sure that we ought to protect "safe space to be a bad driver" the way other personality differences ought to be protected.
That's great to know about GCE. It makes moving there actually a possibility
Most of your screed about how US sucks has nothing to do with Amazon or why Amazon deal is bad.

> When a trillion dollar company gets to pay less that they're supposed to, it makes society worse, not better.

That's where you went wrong. A trillion dollar company is not supposed to pay anything to New York. The minimum NY was getting is $0. That's the starting point. Amazon is free to locate HQ in any other place and NY gets $0 from it. Now, NY can negotiate and get more than $0 - or not, and get $0. It's not like Amazon has already build headquarters and paid taxes and then NY decided to give them back a lot of money just out of the blue. It's like Amazon said "I can bring this much money to the table, but what you can do for us so that we choose you? Lower taxes? Better regulations? Something else?" and NYC considered how much Amazon brings to the table and how much they can do to make NYC their choice and they negotiated.

Now you may want to say "if lower taxes makes the city or state competitive and improves outcomes, how comes not everybody gets low taxes?" Good question. Probably the same reason not everybody gets paid six-figure salaries. Some companies (or people) have more economic clout than others and can demand better compensation in exchange for good their bring to the table. If the city (or employer) doesn't want the goods, they are free to refuse the deal.
Linux iptables compared to OpenBSD PF (through a real example)
I haven't been able to find the comedy in the situation myself, conspiracy theories aren't much fun when people start acting on them.

But it is profoundly worrying in a next-two-decades-of-politics sort of way. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans seem to see negotiation as a viable way achieving good outcomes, and it is difficult to see how that will end well.

If the Dems had launched this conspiracy that the Russians are scheming to do ... something ... completely out of the blue it would be good for a generation of lampooning, but it conceptually fits in with older Tea Party attempts to shut the government down, or the partisanship towards the end of the Obama presidency on issues like Supreme Court nominations. There isn't a loud force in American politics that is talking about compromise or finding common ground.
Thanks for sharing your experience
What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain
Nonsense. The problem domain you dismiss is hideously complicated. Oracle DB and PostgreSQL are entirely different classes of products. No airline runs its reservation system on PostreSQL. That's not a coincidence.
LOFT: The Jetman Story – (Official Teaser) [video]
Maybe toll roads or an extra tax for these types of properties if they're active rather than derelict. Price them so that the companies will choose to pay tax instead.
Zuck understands facebook:

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

This attitude is totally in line with a situation such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

"More open and connected" is for the TED Talk. Selling user data to advertisers is for the executive boardroom.

The really bad stuff like mob violence and ethnic cleansing would still happen one way or another, that's blaming Facebook for human behaviour that's been occurring for centuries. The irony is that Facebook also helps to bring such events to public attention.
Ask them non-trivial questions about the problems they solved and how they solved them.
I just saw a new meal kit display at my local supermarket, which to me makes the most sense and was always going to be a huge looming threat, if not guaranteed killer, to the meal kit startups.
The AWS console is far from being great but last time I used Azure’s it was terribly slow and full of little bugs. The UI was kind of flashy and hip and combined with the bugs it made them seem silly, especially contrasted against the AWS console’s utilitarian look. It was painful. I’m not saying I’ll never try it again but I’d need to be convinced.
It depends on the medical problems the individual is facing.

Overweight people have the problem of a low metabolism due to diets. Which is why diets stop working.
So in them, no, a low metabolism isn’t OK, especially because that low metabolism isn’t correlated with hunger signals.

Speaking of animal studies there’s also this idea that in nature everything is cyclical. You’ve got periods of feasting and you’ve got periods of famine. Eating less all the time is probably not good for longevity.
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They also don't need to locate headquarters in New York. It's a question of negotiated agreement, not need.
Yes, indeed.

In extremely old code, I sometimes see people preferring to manually write declarations of functions (even libc functions) in every source file instead of including a header.

To add to the confusion, in certain cases, it is possible to put a function's definition in a header file (for example if it's a function template, or in an anonymous namespace, or the static keyword is used to indicate internal linkage). So it is possibly to write this function definition manually in every translation unit.

Otherwise, the ODR rule requires functions to be defined exactly once.

> One and only one definition of every non-inline function or variable that is odr-used is required to appear in the entire program (including any standard and user-defined libraries). The compiler is not required to diagnose this violation, but the behavior of the program that violates it is undefined.
I'm 25, very few of my contemporaries share on Facebook anymore. It's a shadow of three years ago. My mom and her brother will post pretty often. Self promoters fill up my feed. I can infinite scroll for a while without seeing anything from friends I spend time with offline. Facebook Messenger, Facebook Events, Instagram are still ubiquitous.
>Show us the math, and we’ll decide for ourselves.

as far as i can tell, Weinstein has not done this step, either. Google scholar and arxiv searching hasn’t lead me to anything, anyway.