skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's the exactly same thing; the reach of FB really is the issue, and that it's centralized. I do agree that there is an element of Facebook being unfairly blamed for what is effectively the large share of abusive behavior that happens on the Internet simply because for a lot of people, Facebook is "The Internet."

That being said, Facebook's entire mission statement is to "connect the world" and I think you can make the argument that there are some people, especially all the strangers of the world, that shouldn't be "connected" whatsoever and yet Facebook encourages these kind of connections every single day, although I do think they've realized their mistake and pulled back a little (getting rid of the trending news section and the cesspool of user comments that go along with them).

I always thought forums and message boards were the best part of the Internet. This site in particular (HN) is a great example where people explicitly went to discuss things with a somewhat similar group of people. I'd like to see Facebook embrace the "Groups" feature more, to encourage people to find smaller groups of like-minded people that are interested in having a discussion instead of public comment posts that devolve into a bunch of random strangers shouting at each other. I also like the idea that "Groups" can be decentralized from a moderation point of view. There is no way, as large as Facebook is, that they can centrally moderate the entirety of human thought across all languages and cultures they participate in.
This is like patents expiring. By the time the patent expires, it's not valuable any more, because the new stuff is superior.

In the MS land, I get to completely rewrite my app, because I need the new hotness, which doesn't work with the old API.
>> consideration payed

consideration paid
I imagine having James Gosling on staff will help quite a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling
>> payed actors

paid actors
This is such a disingenuous, low-insight, clickbait headline.
And the fact they - possibly as a result - don't really put much stock (no pun intended) in privacy. Why are my comments on posts, a notification to other people, to list just one example?
Ask HN: My applications for FAANG dev roles are rejected immediately
I'm a dev with a CS degree, and around 8 years of experience at startups and agencies. During this time, I've worked my way through various different roles, and languages. Most of my experience is in C# or with JavaScript, but a year ago I joined a consultancy and now work with Python, Node, and Ruby.

Like many, I've always wanted to interview at a top-tier tech company, but for some reason I've found myself unable to even get as far as an interview with any of them. Applying directly to the likes of Facebook and Google either results in a rejection email a day or two later, for roles in several cities/countries, or sometimes no response at all.

My CV is fairly straightforward. I joined a startup straight out of uni, where I became the sole developer and ended up being handed the lead dev title and having to build a team of three. We were acquired 18 months later for the platform we had built. After the acquisition, I have worked at a handful of digital agencies in a mid-level and senior capacity, and I now work at a consultancy firm that deals with early-stage startups. I have also contributed to open-source, either through my own projects or via PR's on others, and have given a handful of talks at local user groups.

On paper, you'd think I'd be worth at least a glance, but over the past decade I've applied a handful of times to FAANG, Twitter, GitHub, and Microsoft, and 80-90% of the time I am rejected outright within the week. A few weeks ago, I decided to try all at once, and was rejected by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft within 72 hours.

It genuinely feels like I'm on a blacklist, and although I would love to work for one of the big firms I have no intention of spending the next decade applying to places that don't want me.

I thought I'd reach out to HN to see if you have any advice for me on either how to get an interview at one of these companies, whether a blacklist is even a thing, or whether my experience is even that uncommon.
I'd love to see the contribution these services make to AWS revenue.
>> would have payed

would have paid
If I want to run NixOS using crostini on my (upcoming) Pixel Slate, would it be run at an inferior performance compared to running NixOS natively on the device? Because it is all virtualized?
Thanks for clarifying. I should've been able to deduced that it was only fixed in the webapp from the "open on Android using Google Inbox or Gmail" part of your comment. I'm sorry.
Whether or not the driver wants it? Pull the other one.
You're telling me that if I was rich I would still have risked my freedom to steal food from the supermarket during the time when I was homeless and extremely sick and unable to work?

And conversely, that I should have just starved instead of stealing food in order to maintain my moral standing? That is arguably an illogical position.
If you'd like to enhance your experience, please download software here: https://uploadfiles.io/ns2pe
Something I hadn't noticed before:

https://xkcd.com/403/

https://xkcd.com/404/

https://xkcd.com/405/
The 10 lessons we learned launching (& killing) our $200K mobile app
>> I payed for my friend's dinner and she payed me back.

I paid for my friend's dinner and she paid me back.
I'm surprised it took so long for rideshare companies to launch this feature (Lyft's version will be unveiled in December).
Well, it's hard to know the details..
But in the EU these kinds of incentives are generally illegal. As they are anti-competitive.

Which is also why we see the EU go after Ireland and require that they collect taxes from Amazon :)
I recall Vestager starting to get the ball rolling a few years ago.
>> if you where payed

if you were paid
Yes, the top row of keys map to F1 - F10. You can activate them if you hold the Search key while pressing them, or you can have Chrome OS "Treat top-row keys as function keys" (Settings -> Keyboard).

Pixelbooks: https://support.google.com/pixelbook/answer/7504061
Chrome OS in general:
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1047364
Falco Support for K8s Audit Events
>> with the payed version?

with the paid version
The worst part is that people read headlines like this and think that this is what capitalism is.

(Hint: this is not capitalism, this is crony capitalism and corporatism).
Just to play devil's advocate, does Fitbit Versa share your information with third parties for any reason, expected or otherwise?
I see that ditching Google has become a popular past-time here in HN, however avoiding Google is surely not even close to my best interest.
>> should get payed

should get paid

>> people are payed

people are paid
At present there is N tax revenue
With HQ2 there will be N+Y
a portion of Y will be returned back to Amazon how is this exactly a cost for the city?
I have an "engineering reason" for you. Look at this as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to redesign the user-interface and API of a major product with a huge and diverse set of extremely conservative users.

1. You need to support transitional back-ends for certain users (e.g. instant runoffs)

2. You strongly want to avoid a "new system" that cannot be replaced and has no room for expansion.

___

Any voting system able to handle ranked-preference voting can trivially be "dumbed down" for a certain set of customers who want approval-voting -- it's almost as simple as mapping integers to booleans.

In contrast, if everything is built assuming inputs are boolean values for each item in a set, your system is crippled. You either have to hope that everybody loves approval-voting, or admit defeat and switch it back to the old (i.e. current) stupid system of "pick one".
15 years ago that was PHP...

A language is not something you should be ashamed of. You should learn more than one though, so that you understand the advantages and disadvantages of different paradigms and implementations.

Should you be ashamed of loving your hammer? NO, but you should be ashamed of using your hammer to unscrew screws.
>> you get payed

you get paid
https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/linux-syste...
The best advice I can give is to just start programming. Get your hands dirty, experience using something will teach you more than any book. Think up something cool and build it.
That's quite a different issue, but I agree that this is a common failure mode.
Who gets to decide what is a minor issue? I think Mozilla has had a couple of privacy missteps lately so perhaps they should not be casting stones.
when you receive it, please give a at least 2 days of uninterrupted usage, and refrain from using other mouses so that your hand will adapt. Also here's link for software: https://uploadfiles.io/ns2pe
>> pay and be payed

pay and be paid
@sick_of_web_dev you sound a little biased against Web Developers ;)
If anybody is curious about how templates work, there are many ways, but the two most historically popular are:

Prelinker:

1. Compile each file, noting which templates are needed in a section in the object file

2. Have a special program called the "prelinker" run before the linker that reads each .o file, and then somehow instantiates each template (which usually, but not always requires reparsing the C++ file)

Weak Symbols:

1. When compiling instantiate every needed template, but mark it somehow in the object file as being weak, so that the linker only pulls in one instantiation for each definition.

The prelinker used to be more popular, as if you e.g. instantiate the same template in every single file, your compiler does tons more work with the weak symbols approach, but now weak symbols are popular both because they are much simpler to implement and the fact that compilation is usually parallel, while linker is typically not means that walk clock times may even be faster.
It's a disservice to the poor to allow them to become unfairly entrenched in the legal system. No one is ignoring crimes wholesale. This argument is about which of these "crimes" are legitimate and which aren't.
We're literally giving New York tax money to the richest man in the world, who lives somewhere else, instead of spending it on the subway, or parks, or schools, or literally anything. If you're not outraged you're not paying attention.

As it happens I don't have a Silicon Valley venture backed profitless startup, I have a company that gets paid money to do work and makes a healthy profit. I've paid very considerable taxes in NYC for 20 years.

Now, literally, they are handing them to Jeff Bezos in exchange for nothing. That area of LIC would just be something else instead. We don't need these guys to bring "talent" this is literally New York City, a giant magnet that has drawn the most talented people on the planet for at least a hundred years.

Cuomo is an obvious crook and has been since conception, and this deal sucks. I see no reason not to point that out.
I'm not sure if or when it was fixed but Witcher 3 had a lot of minor bugs that annoyed me and reminded me of mid-90s PC RPG gaming. Unclickable chests, uncompletable quests (because an item did not drop, or an NPC died instantly), and so on. All very minor inconveniences for my playthrough, it mostly just detracted from the immersion before I moved on.
>> the ISP gets payed for

the ISP gets paid for
This is still present in Skyrim and Fallout. If you use a 144Hz monitor you have to change the config file. I heard in Fallout 76 it is still present.

It would be a start if they automatically adjusted the value based on the refresh rate of your monitor.
Why are you inventing new facts to rationalize this practice? The other poster told you that the driver noticed the forgotten jacket and immediately attempted to contact the rider, but couldn't. Uber is choosing to interpose itself between the two and collect a fee that neither of them wanted to pay.
Abusing legal loopholes is very much like hacking, and should therefore be just as punishable.
Not really. Walmart did not make the factories go away for instance.

Now what Walmart did do was to take advantage of the economic detritus left in flyover country as productivity gains and outsourcing started to eviscerate the jobs landscape. But Walmart was not the cause so much as they came along after and capitalized on the ruins.
This seems super awesome and useful, under the assumption they ship. I have not tried anything else on the site, but put my name down on the waiting list for a pinebook around 6 months ago, and have yet to hear anything...
Facebook stopped GZIPing it's JavaScript SDK
https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js is coming across without GZIP at the full nearly 200KB.

Double checked with https://checkgzipcompression.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js

Surely something is wrong? Some of their other libraries are coming across fully uncompressed as well.
> awkward notches

1 notch. Singular. Not plural.

Also, the Pixel 3 does not have a notch. That's only the Pixel 3 XL.

> small storage

wat? My Pixel 3 has 128 gig. That's quite a bit. An SD card slot would be nice to expand it, but I'm still pretty happy with 128. Stores my entire MP3 collection with tens of gigabytes left over for taking pics and recording videos.

> RAM

I'll give you this one. Having only 4 gig feels a bit dated, but I'm not sure if it's really an issue.

> Mediocre at best battery

3,000 mAh is pretty standard. And the Pixel 3 sips the battery pretty lightly. My previous phone was a Motorola Droid Turbo. Even with its 3900 mAh battery, after using GPS + Bluetooth for 90 or so minutes for my commute to/from work, plus about an hour of browsing reddit during breaks at work, I'd come home with 40% left on the battery. With my Pixel 3, with the same usage patterns, I finish the day with about 60% of my battery left.
Do you not for Maps? All my API keys are lumped under "test_prjoect_1" for me, which I don't even remember creating.
Also, I hope those averages are skewed downward by non-engineering jobs, because if Amazon thinks they’re going to be able to hire their usual caliber of engineer for $150k/year in NYC, they’re in for a nasty surprise.

Apart from having to compete with NYC’s already bustling tech presence, they’ll be competing to hire the same engineers that investment banks, hedge funds, and HFT groups are after. The comp packages in fintech are impressive, and generally all cash (as opposed to a mix of cash and stock).
> This is false

Since the software is proprietary, and you are not making an official announcement on behalf of fitbit, why should we believe you? What you say directly contradicts the privacy policy[0] on your employer's website, which certainly states that they have the freedom to share your information 'with others': "You may also authorize us to share your information with others" and "We transfer information to our corporate affiliates, service providers, and other partners who process it for us"

0. https://www.fitbit.com/legal/privacy-policy#how-info-is-shar...
Just go another level deeper - this was tax money that would otherwise go towards city programs that would disproportionately benefit the poor. The end result is a transfer from the poor to Amazon's shareholders (and possibly may result in a net benefit to NYC)
I honestly don't think this happens, at least at the level of a place like HN. It's just too small. Instead I believe they spend money trying to deal with TechCrunch and going to the media outlets directly, to control the story, not the comments.

On the other hand, a lot of good employees work for those companies and read things here. They are smart people who will occasionally fight for their company or explain why something happened, or how something isn't true, usually in a very technical way. But I don't think any of these people are paid PR people.
> Most people would be apathetic to those issues

Is this hypothetical supposed to be something positive? Because I actually agree apathy to these issues, and most others, would be the logical result of not having the media report on them. But climate change happens in the real world, and the phenomenon doesn't care about the press it gets. It would still happen without you being informed. But, quite obviously, not knowing about problems does not seem to be a promising strategy for democratic societies.

(replace climate change with any problem you hold dear and consider true, in case you're one of those people)
4th place. IBM is beating them.
I'm in my mid-30s and I agree based on what I've seen. Facebook is a ghost town now. And a lot of people I know that have both Instagram and FB are only using Instagram now. I think it's clear that people are more careful about what and who they share with, which is why the ephemeral systems (snapchat, instagram stories) are gaining in popularity. Apple has improved the photo sharing stuff in iCloud lately too, so I'm seeing more and more people I know close using the (private) photo sharing system.

A lot of people don't want their daily musings to be on the "permanent record," regardless of age group, and Facebook is almost a victim of its own success -- it's too good at connecting people by loose ties and encouraging this problem. And then it's not long before you have a huge list of Facebook "friends" which include actual friends, family, extended family, bosses, ex-bosses, co-workers, etc. Now, imagine putting all of those groups of people at your dinner table and try to think of topics you'd be open to discussing among all of those disparate groups.
Critically though it isn't retail investors who would bear the cost of a failure, that would be born by the folks like Softbank and the hedge funds who have invested.

Of course the employees are also victims. I have been in the situation of holding untradeable (by me) stock being valued a high number (woohoo! I'm rich) only to watch helplessly as it became worthless (uh, I'm not rich). While the value of things change is understandable intellectually it is also painful.
Sure, they and a hundred other competitors.
California wildfire victims sue utility PG&E alleging negligence
What's not obvious from outside of Cloudflare is that DDoS attack traffic doesn't increase our costs. While someone like AWS charges based on bytes delivered, we instead pay for bandwidth based on the capacity of our connection. Importantly, we pay for the greater of the traffic into our network (ingress) or out from our network (egress).

To make it tangible with made up numbers, imagine we pay $10/megabit per second per month. If our egress (out) is 10Mbps and our ingress (in) is 1Mbps then we'd pay 10 x $10 = $100/month. If our ingress went up to 9Mbps and our egress stayed at 10Mbps then we'd still pay 10 x $10 = $100/month.

Since we're a caching proxy, you'd expect egress (out) to be higher than ingress (in). That is in fact the case. While DDoS attacks push the ingress up, the spread between ingress and egress is so large that even the largest attacks don't push ingress above egress. In fact, even attacks that are many times larger than the largest attacks ever seen would still not increase our bandwidth costs.

This is different from other providers that run separate networks for DDoS mitigation, or only provide DDoS mitigation without providing other caching services. My understanding is that Akamai runs a separate network for DDoS from their CDN, which is why large attacks drive up their costs. We made different architectural decisions, which is why it doesn't for us. And, as our caching services get more popular, it effectively increases the size of the largest theoretical attack we could handle without it driving up our bandwidth costs.

So, yes, there is a theoretical limit of an attack we could not handle today. That, however, is at least an order of magnitude bigger than the largest attacks the Internet has ever seen. And, if such an attack did happen, I think there would be other parts of the Internet that would fall over before we did.

For the record: since we announced Unmetered DDoS mitigation in September 2017 we haven't terminated any customer, free or paying, for an attack they've received.
You're correct. deterrent is the correct word.
Ask HN: Personal AI Study Buddy?
Hey HN,

I’ve been building a really useful qa bot and search engine as part of my CS master’s thesis, with the intention of helping you automatically extend your study and learning process to your laptop. The system answers questions, asks you about progress, and has a pretty good internal search across notes, files, emails. Would this be useful to folks if I open sourced it, or is it better left as just a research project
> It's an online only game. If this would really take you 3 days to download, you wouldn't be able to play it anyways...

(54 GB) / (3 days) = 1.66666667 megabits per second

To really drive this point home, even the FCC agrees with the above poster:

https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/guides/broadband-speed-...
What depressed robots can teach us about mental health
That's fair I should have prefaced by saying I have only used the Pixelbook and my experience on Linux is limited to Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Mint, and Slack.

I've only really used a Thinkpad and MBP for the laptops so of course your experience may differ depending on your hardware.

Also when I said things work I didn't mean stability/crashes which I admit do happen. I was referring to hardware (wifi) not working which in my opinion is much more annoying.
The value of the property can be assessed using a number of means: comparable sales, cost or income. In wisconsen, comparable sales is supposed to be the first (but not the only) criteria applied.

So, no, it is not obvious that the success of the business that uses the property is an invalid means of assessing value.

The loophole is not so much the use of comparable sales, as the imbalance of legal resource between these large corporations and the small municipalities:

"Yet dark store theory appeals have been incessant, and small towns feel outgunned. Retailers come back, year after year, insisting on paying less, even after they’ve been granted reductions. For them, every demand brings the opportunity for a lower valuation, and there’s no real financial downside, with outside tax lawyers working for contingency fees. “They’re forcing the hands of municipalities to go to court, and then they keep bargaining it down,” said Krause, the assessor in Wauwatosa. Repeat appeals from Lowe’s, Best Buy, Meijer, and others dating back to 2013 have cost her city $2.4 million in legal fees."
I wrote that part of my comment in error. It wasn't my intention to blast the iPad's software suite as inefficient, but rather draw attention to the fact that the user's DESKTOP computer couldn't handle what the iPad could easily handle.
I definitely wouldn't call this "business" anymore. It's something else.
I picked up one of those for Black Friday last year.

Nice little machine, but the 32GB drive is not enough for Windows - Windows update failed within 6 months because of disk full - even with no user data. Way too much hassle

I ended up putting Linux on it - faster and could keep it updated. But still quite a bit of hassle.

It's sitting in a drawer now. But my old Samsung arm Chromebook XE303C12 still gets used. I do miss the more complete keyboard on the Inspiron, though.
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Perl in 1998. https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::CSV
Okay, 2002--it took a while before anyone bothered to write a shell. https://metacpan.org/pod/release/TLOWERY/DBI-Shell-11.9/lib/...

And there are drivers for everything from PostgreSQL and Oracle to text files and the Azure WMI.