skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not seeing that this document addresses the important concept of timing. That is when to ask the questions. I am not certain that (as in any negotiation) it pays to ask everything initially. It would be like going out on a date with someone and hitting them with a list of questions prior to even having the dessert. Timing is critical. For one thing depending on how well they like a candidate they might be more likely to agree to something that they initially say they can't do. Especially once they have invested enough time.

There is no clear answer for the correct time other than to not assume it's simply ok to state everything upfront (vs. time wasted on the part of the applicant).
Probably more technically it's inside the water which is inside the plant.
That's a good point. I'm sure there are many Christians who would be comfortable with gene-editing to prevent disease. And people hold a wide variety of beliefs, so I shouldn't have made such a broad generalization.

Also pet breeding is a great example. But I think that's one of the advantage of CRISPR over selective breeding. Selective breeding results in lots of genetic problems like hip dysplasia, arthritis, etc. because the gene pool is too small. But I think CRISPR could probably fix most of these issues by splicing in the healthy genes from other dog breeds.

Although I just found this article: https://splinternews.com/meet-the-guy-biohacking-puppies-to-...

I didn't realize there was a DIY bio-hacking community just playing around with CRISPR in their backyard shed. This is concerning.
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> I'm interested to hear your thoughts on that?

My thoughts are definitely too complex. Currently I'm thinking of a camera that will turn on a light and take a picture (at a specified time || when door closes) and send that to our family Slack - someone will habitually look at any notification, and we don't have a large number of chickens so it's fastest to rely on human perception to see if someone is missing. Or just a camera that we can turn on remotely to check the feed ourselves.

That's the "simple" version - a more complex one would take a picture and compare to an empty sample to decide how many blobs there are, but that is hampered by (1) If chickens huddle, that becomes complex and (2) it's not a problem space I have any interest in, so the problems won't be fun to solve.
Statement on the Genetic Editing of Human Embryos Conducted by Dr. Jiankui HE
Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30M people within 6 months
Not sure why the link is to the discourse forum... the article is easier to read at this link [0].

I don't know much about "GPU design concepts", but this doesn't seem like it explains an awful lot. It appears to be a collection of largely unexplained figures about rasterization and some vague unexplained diagrams about GPU pipelines.

[0] https://iq.opengenus.org/basic-graphics-processing-unit-gpu-...
I'm very much against the myth of Steve Jobs--e.g. I'm completely aware that he wasn't him inventing everything like the media (and himself) often claim, but I think you're completely right.

We would need an Apple insider to confirm, but it just seems like some changed that took away whatever it was that they could do when he was there.

Apple with Steve Jobs was great, then it sucked when he was gone, then great again while he was there, and now it sucks again.

It did so well in the past that it won't go bankrupt anytime soon, but the magic is definitely gone.
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Numerous Bitcoin Wallets May Have Been Compromised by Rogue Dev of Node Library
The difference is that those rovers are a small fraction of the size and weight of Curiosity - the latter probably couldn't have survived a bounce-and-roll.
Have you used the Kindle app?

You can do title search, look at details of books, see reviews, download sample chapters, and download Kindle Unlimited books directly to your library with one click.

I presume what you _can_ and _can't_ do is directly dictated by Apple's policies, not what the Kindle team has been able to implement. As others have pointed out, native apps are a far superior user experience to HTML "apps".
> Can you elaborate? I mean a plain CentOS server running SFTP, S3FS seems about as set and forget as it gets.

Think about the operational costs: someone needs to manage keys, logging, security updates, when S3FS coughs a lung and hangs you need to catch that problem and remount it to restore service, etc. This service reuses the existing authentication systems so you don't need to spend time configuring and managing integration with your customers’ LDAP/AD infrastructure, etc. If you deal with anything which hits PCI, HIPAA, etc. you need to be able to certify that your custom design meets those requirements as well.

That's not to say you can't do it yourself but for many places there's a fairly significant amount of work where the cost of doing it yourself is greater than 5+ years of managed service costs.
The person in the room will also start to recognize patterns in the input messages and the resulting output messages. It isn't the canonical understanding of Chinese but it is "an" understanding

If Searle was correct we could do an MRI on a blind person and detect when their brain switched into "symbol processing mode" if a conversation with them covered any visual concepts.
I nominate the latest Ubuntu Desktop or Windows install DVD for title of the most complex item in the known universe.

(For comparison, the human genome is under a GiB.)
Interesting, thanks for explaining stuff I didn't know. Is it concerning to people in the UK that the parliament has supreme power? What if an evil tyrant and her party had control of parliament, couldn't she make herself dictator for life? (I don't mean PM May, I mean in general :-)).
Should have a "Show HN:" tag.
> Got it, thanks. The Go team has been working on improving Go's performance, over time, I've read. One other such example I read about is that for compilation, where package A depends on B and B depends on C, the metadata for C is stored in the header of B, so when A is being compiled, it only needs to read B, not C - and there are other related optimizations on the compilation front, IIRC. I thought that was a good optimization.

AFAICT that's a compiler optimization, not a runtime optimization. But yes, generally the Go team is working to improve performance.

> I wish the EXE/binary sizes of Go programs were smaller, though I know they've done some work on that too. Coming from a C background originally, I was a bit surprised when I first saw that the size of a simple hello-world-style Go binary was ~1 MB (some years ago). Equivalent Free Pascal and D binaries are a lot smaller, IIRC, from what I tested at the time (~100 KB or less). Heck, the Red interpreter / compiler (and the Rebol interpreter before it) fit in ~1 MB. Don't mean to denigrate the efforts of the Go team at all (even apart from the fact that as a long-time Unix guy, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, et al are among the people I look up to); I know language translation technology is a hard field, plus the scope of Go may be much more than that of Rebol / Red; just speaking from the POV of a user, hoping for smaller binary sizes.

Go binaries contain _everything_, while C programs (usually) statically link against libc (glibc is on the order of 10mb by itself). Go's runtime is also quite a lot more complex than C's--it comes with a scheduler, a reflection system, and a garbage collector. These are one-time costs--the binary for a program 10 times the size of hello world is pretty much the same size as the hello world binary. If you really want, you can dynamically link a Go program, but I can't imagine a scenario where this is practical.
No, I meant every pushed change has to wait N days before being published to users.
They just made the Macbook 3mm thinner. That should count for something.
Can you go into any detail about what happened — did you steal someone's parking space in Mountain View, etc?
It's called "Value Added Method" (VAM) and is used in many school systems. It's also unreliable, says the American Statistical Association https://www.educationdive.com/news/statisticians-reject-valu... or original ASA statement at https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/POL-ASAVAM-Statement.p... .

Details about the difficulties in the implementation, at http://vamboozled.com/ , which as you can infer is against VAM. Eg:

* Class composition varied so much that comparisons of value-added scores of two teachers were only valid if both teachers are assigned students with similar characteristics.

* Annual fluctuations in results were so large that they lead to widely varying conclusions from one year to the next for the same teacher.

* There was strong evidence that results were often due to the teaching environment, not just the teacher.
The New Radicalization of the Internet
I just wanted to add in another data point. When Heartbleed was found, OpenSSL was surviving off of $2,000 in donations a year.

I'm sure that your browser is amazing, but when OpenSSL was getting around $2k a year in donations, do you really think that donations is a sustainable business model for you?
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They would kill if they could... And Amazon wouldn't if they were weaker.
Personal circumstances and social pressure vary a lot around the globe, but I dare to suggest that the hardest validation to be won is very often from ourselves, so the latter to me. Take care.
It really does depend on the setting (a party, a brunch, an after work drink).

I'd go with the flow of the setting and let conversations unfold. Normally the host or others should kick-off the conversation and include you at some point. No matter what they shouldn't disclose sensible things about you to jump start the conversation (and certainly not a "Tell me about yourself").

Now if you are digging for stories, I find that listening to conversations and going from there with a question about a specific does the trick.

Also, you could very well be there for the humane experience of being in a group, not necessarily disclosing yourself or trading interesting stories. Sometimes shallow conversations are OK for the mind because maybe you just wanted a casual stress-free interaction with a human being you don't want to sell anything to.
You should try the mirror sub-system of lftp [1]. It can replicate rsync behavior on a chroot sftp server. No idea if that works on Amazon, but I use it all the time on my own chroot sftp servers.

[1] - https://tinyvpn.org/sftp/#lftp
This is why I didn't identify as liberal for a long time (even though I'm wildly socially liberal) - the more power the government has, the more it tends to wind up like that. Whether in the form of classic regulatory capture, the defense-industrial complex, or the student debt industry writing the law that covers itself... it's a troubling reality of "big govenment".

However at some point, the party representing the conservative movement (i.e., the Republicans) completely abandoned this pretense, instead becoming baldly corporatist. Everybody gets their hands dirty (post Citizens United, how can you not?) but the Republicans don't even pay lip service to that idea any more. The platform is more or less what's good for big companies must be good for America. It raises employment after all!

In that world, the one which we live in, the progressive movement (ie, the Democrats) starts to seem actually anti-corporate by comparison. Of course they have tons of their own issues and different corporate patrons, but in comparison they look great. Can you imagine a Republican saying the EPA should regulate CO2?

Another way to look at it - from a progressive point of view, regulatory capture and more powerful monopolies are an undesirable side effect of attempts at regulation and reigning in the power of these companies. From the view of today's conservative, it's a desirable outcome; bigger more powerful companies means a bigger more powerful America with better jobs and fewer shipped overseas. Let them trample individual rights because they'll either do it here or do it there, and if they do it here at least it's good for employment.
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What I meant was the police can't compel someone to hand over anything arbitrarily, they have limits in democracies. Police interpret the law, and we see in the US it's hard not to interpret things to one's own benefit sometimes.
Although I'm sure there was a lot of judge-y material about sub-cultures in the west too, that one is not a good example at least. I don't think a short, neutral guide to (edit: mostly) looks is "the same kind" as a police state's guide to "negative-decadent" youths that also goes into to who behaves the least "appropriate for society", political ideas and suspect affiliations.
Curiosity was too heavy for the airbag-style landing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Entr...
> I'm not immediately seeing the distinction you're trying to draw here

Corporations are legal entities. For a legal entity to have meaning, it must be based on a set of laws. The state creates and administers laws. Therefore, corporations are a creature of the state. Theoretically, the state has unlimited power to create, destroy and manipulate corporations to its will.

In reality, it's more complicated. Just because someone has a legal right doesn't mean they have the political power to exercise it. When President Miguel R. Dávila of Honduras attempted to exercise state power over the Cuyamel Fruit Company, the latter raised a mercenary army and staged a coup d'état [1]. There are numerous other examples of private corporations running pet states for their own benefit.

Once you rise to the level of discussing sovereign power, the distinction between a state and a corporation becomes meaningless. What matters is power--how it's organized is something of a convenience. (For example, try drawing neat lines between the Saudi state, the House of Saud and Saudi Aramco. Or between Vatican City, the Holy See and the Catholic Church.) We're nowhere near that point in America--the federal government could fine into ruin, jail the leadership of or break up any company on earth.

This meme of states always having more power than corporations because the latter is a legal creature of the former is overly simplistic. It similarly doesn't follow that a strong state means strong corporations. In many arenas, states compete for power with corporations. Teddy Roosevelt taking on the robber barons required a strong state; in contrast, Korea is an example of a weak state relative to its corporations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic#Honduras
So 400 million to put a seismograph on mars? Everyone fine with that?
Most early stage companies would have had terrible answers to these questions. Including Facebook/Google/Uber/Amazon. Which just indicates that it might not have been an ideal role for you which is fair. Being the first 2-3 engineers at a startup is not everyone's cup of tea. The risk in most cases makes no sense for a sane individual. Your questions indicate a sense of "safety" that an engineer might want from their next gig.

They might not even be able to hire a Senior Engineer in most cases. Maybe you wouldn't even want to talk to an early stage startup at your current seniority level.

Having said that for anybody who really wants to join an early stage startup the only thing that should probably matter is what is it that you're trying to do and how can I help you reach your goal? Will you be able to pay me enough on time and for how long?
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Everything that can be done is mutually exclusive to some extent on allocated resources.
Not as useful if you're invested in CF, but Terraform can be better about getting new features. Just FYI.
> they aren't really a monopoly

Yeah, this is more an example of monopolies naturally eroding. DeBeers held prices above equilibrium, and other players entered the market and now they don't have a stranglehold on it. (The extent of their hold on it was played up by journalists anyway...)
Because, for all its flaws, it is quite effective at conveying thoughtful, considered information.
While I'm aware some would call this a rather contrarian opinion, I truly believe that if you're in a salaried position and routinely required to work 45 or more hours a week, whether by actual mandate or "but that's just what we all do here" cultural pressure, there is something wrong with that company, more than likely starting at the top. Many companies have extraordinary crunch periods for one reason or another, and that's fine, but if you're in a crunch period more often than you aren't, that's no longer extraordinary.
> there's also little evidence of monopolies that broke down without involvement from the state

That's not evidence that anti-trust laws are necessary.

> monopolies HAVE been broken down

My premise is that those monopolies existed as a result of state involvement in the first place.

You can't use the existence of anti-trust law as evidence that it's necessary. You must give evidence that monopolies which existed before anti-trust were bad for consumers. You must also show that those monopolies weren't created by other government actions (the solution in those cases would be to just reverse such government action, not anti-trust).

> ridiculously hard to get into and require massive investments that only other big companies can make

The capital barrier-to-entry argument is exactly what I was referring to by "mistaken economic theory". Competition doesn't just stop happening because it's expensive. You gave the solution yourself: cross-industry competition. Capital gains from one industry flow into competition in others.

Only in a situation where one company controlled a majority of the industries in the economy would preventing competition would possible. And such a firm would be hugely inefficient.

> free market IS rich-gets-richer territory

Getting richer requires risk. Risk is often rewarded, but risk goes both ways. Also, there's no evidence that the free market is any worse in this aspect than other systems.
I'm not quite sure what to say, except that I found what you just wrote to be quite beautiful. I hope you find many fires to warm yourself at.
Utilities are heavily regulated by the state so you're not really refuting the parent's point. They didn't say that we should get rid of the government and industries it's propping up. They said that you can't have a monopoly without government support and your example reinforces that.

For example, if there was no regulation of water utilities, anyone could just put a big tank on their property (bought from anywhere) and hire any number of water supply companies to come fill it. To the best of my knowledge this isn't legal due to numerous laws and regulations.
WOAH GUYS THIS GUY ON THE INTERNET JUST SOLVED FUSION. lol
I hadn’t heard of half of these newer companies. Is there a way to stay on top of this? Some of these seem pretty useful.

I guess this is also telling me I should catch up to the times and stop finding contractors on Craigslist.
5 Questions with UM’s First Female Rhodes Scholar Jaz Brisack – The Oxford Eagle
A pretty good actual summary of the problem.

As the article says, I'm not convinced code signing would have made this not happen - given the distribution model you could trivially just have node library updates check to see whether the owner/maintainer had the same user name.

Similarly it is absolutely not the fault of the old maintainer - no one should have to commit to permanently supporting a library they wrote years in the past. And if you weren't maintaining a library why would you necessarily be opposed to transferring ownership over to someone who is at least apparently working on/with it?
This is something that AWS needs to change. I work with millions of large files and have to keep a very large (PBs) local storage array just to make sure that things are right before uploading to S3 so that I don’t have to pay and wait for arch changes like this.
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One of the option is self-regulated, the other is not. That last one conjures up a single entity you can identify yourself against. You can antagonize it, fight it. The first one doesn't give you that anchor.
NPM packages are frequently tiny, single-purpose functions. The infamous left-pad module is only 47 lines of code. https://github.com/stevemao/left-pad/blob/master/index.js
> in a weaker government, the private power of people (foreign or not, individual or corporate themselves) that own a corporation may be more relevant than government power

In these cases, the centers of power co-mingle. See Korea's chaebols; the House of Saud relative to Saudi Aramco and the state of Saudi Arabia; or Vatican City's relationship with the Holy See and Catholic Church. TL; DR Rising state power doesn't mean rising corporate power. In many arenas, the two compete.
Some of these are actually good points because as a software engineer I pride myself in thinks like code documentation, comments, logging, etc.

Another idea would be to see their event and analytics dashboard for their infrastructure KPIs.

If they don't have one it's a bit of a red flag.
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I don't really think that it's about inefficiency or incompetence. Rather, it's about where our priorities, as a society, are today when it comes to infrastructure projects vs. what it was in the post Great Depression era.

Here [0] is an article to covers parts of this exact subject.

[0]: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2013/08/09/building-the-bay-bri...
Can you give a few examples? I imagine you're talking about steel, railroads, oil, and maybe Ma Bell?

Those monopolies either weren't bad for consumers, or were consequences of government action.
Okay. So a bank. I bank with foo and can happily send money to you if you bank with bar.

How does this function differently?
Here is the first image from the lander. https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/22159/insights-first-image-f...
If you have a boilerplate in your Forth, you are doing it wrong, it seems.

> Forth is not the language. Forth the language captures nothing, it's a moving target. Chuck Moore constantly tweaks the language and largely dismisses the ANS standard as rooted in the past and bloated. Forth is the approach to engineering aiming to produce as small, simple and optimal system as possible, by shaving off as many requirements of every imaginable kind as you can.

> That's why its metaprogramming is so amazingly compact. It's similar to Lisp's metaprogramming in much the same way bacterial genetic code is similar to that of humans – both reproduce. Humans also do many other things that bacteria can't (…No compatibility. No files. No operating system). And have a ton of useless junk in their DNA, their bodies and their habitat.

> Bacteria have no junk in their DNA. Junk slows down the copying of the DNA which creates a reproduction bottleneck so junk mutations can't compete. If it can be eliminated, it should. Bacteria are small, simple, optimal systems, with as many requirements shaved off as possible.

https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...
We don't need a standard library, they said. Letting basic functionality be spread out through a hundred thousand separate packages is fine, they said...
The subtitle says secondary market, after saying something relatable in the headline.
They have banned the use of VPN APIs to tunnel traffic through a filtering proxy. Apps such as AdGuard Pro used to use this to perform whole-device adblocking.
> It will take between two to three months for the robotic arm to place the mission's instruments on the surface.

I haven't read about this mission before. Anybody knows why does it take so long?
I think you're misinterpreting the quote, and that's probably why you were downvoted.
For better or worse, I make a lot of business decisions based on my annoyance level. Actually a tenant of UX, the annoyance meter!