skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad was 40 when I was born. He was literally old enough to be my grandfather and he was, in fact, a year younger than my ex husband's paternal grandmother. My ex and I are the same age and graduated high school together.

My dad grew up on a farm. He lived for a time in a log cabin with a dirt floor.

When I moved home with my two teenaged sons during my divorce, my parents' house was much quieter than we were used to. My parents expected things to be quiet at night so they could sleep. No, they weren't going to buy a white noise machine or something.

No one ever suggested my parents had sensory issues or anything like that. They were merely old and grew up in quieter circumstances and no one acted like their expectations were maladapted or pathological or something.

I've arranged my life to be a lot quieter than it used to be. My sons are much more able to function "normally" now that our lives are quieter. I sometimes forget how poorly they handle noise and crowds because we are so rarely in such situations. Then we go to a restaurant or something and they can't deal and I'm reminded again of just how difficult they can be.

I have come to believe that the world has changed and human children weren't designed for the busy, noisy, crowded world full of sensory overload that is our new norm. But instead of recognizing that the world has changed, we label children as defective who don't deal well with this noisy, crowded, busy, crazy world that didn't exist when my father was growing up less than a hundred years ago when most people lived and worked on farms.

It is in the lifetimes of my children that this statistic changed and now most people live in cities. But that's very new. For the vast majority of the history of the human race, we were mostly tribal or agrarian. City dwellers were the exception, not the rule.
You should blog up your learning journey. It might encourage others.
It’s definitely one of those “if you have to ask, you don’t need it” kind of things
> alternative computing reality

This such the perfect description. I was working on a Django feature last year that had to work on all DBs and testing the oracle stuff was like entering a new reality lol.
It's an old stolen joke, so it's probably not worth quoting her
Given the posted article is about the poor security posture of most home routers, has anyone inspected ubiquiti?

I gather they have a bug bounty which is a good start, but so do Netgear and their routers are still full of bad vulns.
> I have read on HN that they use Rust for some internals

I know the multi-file search is done via ripgrep, which is written in rust. But it's not compiled to wasm.
“However, we realize the announcement may have caused some confusion.“

Gotta love corp-speak. “We lied our asses off but didn’t realize you’d catch on so fast.”
When they've gone on an unauthorised excursion through some code that has say, safety critical or legal, concerns some off the top of my head examples.

Hey guy's I've rewritten:

- The dosage control code for radiotherapy device so we can remove that expensive mechanical interlock!
- The data access layer of our patient records system!
- How we calculate x in out guidance software we can go to a cheaper CPU now!

especially if said code was rattling in the building around somewhere it might get into the code base.
I'm fairly certain the thousands of dollars Russia spent on Google and Facebook ads, overwhelmed the $1.2 billion that was spent in total on the Clinton election campaign.
This is weird info right now because after an acquisition I got a big promotion on the technical ladder so that getting into other people's code and rewriting it is now a big part of my job. It's fun but I would not want to do this without a lot of management support. Also I work hard at relationship maintenance and buy-in.
it is kind of bad that the grammar isn't actually creating a solvable system

But that was precisely the point. That given a system with a set of rules, the space of all possible problems may be larger than the space of all solutions, i.e., not all problems have a solution.

To say it's useful to be able to determine if a problem is solvable is a vast understatement.
Flares? I thought it was illegal to flare off NG and Y grade?
The Next iPhone Max Will Be Crazily Thin
So no one actually did their due diligence before announcing the product. I’m quite shocked that a ~$6 billion company can behave this way.
It might also not be the editing but just the content and framing, etc. It's quite obvious that the person who took those photos were a professional (street) photographer(s). If you're not one, it would be expected that your pictures would not match that quality.
Based on my own transition, and a huge number of conversations I’ve had with trans folks, I don’t think that comparison is relevant.

It’s true that trans men often face a “faster” hormonal transition than women, but this is predominantly due to to the impact of testosterone on facial hair and vocal pitch. But on the assumption that these agents aren’t actually being put on HRT (the whole point is that it’s reversible, right?) going in either “direction” with cosmetics and vocal training is pretty difficult.

Conversely, it’s certainly true that it’s a lot easier to build up someone’s apparent height or facial dimensions than it is to reduce them, again assuming agents aren’t actually receiving cosmetic surgery. But most transitions happen after skeletal differentiation in puberty has already slowed or stopped, so neither men or women get any benefit from that difference during transition.

The effect ‘blfr alludes to probably has much more of an impact, although I don’t agree about the cause. We’re used to cultures where male is the prototype, and female is the marked gender. When those markings are ambiguous, the default assumption is male.

My lived experience is that once you do mix-and-match enough markings to be seen as female, folks will eagerly accept that and ignore whatever “contradictory” signs might be there. Looking at height, for example, it’s not any weirder to see a 95th percentile woman than a 5th percentile man. If you already check the “F” box, no one will look twice.

Lastly, if you’re still with me, maybe take this as a reason to reevaluate how confident you should be WRT who looks like what. If you spend any amount of time interacting with strangers in a US metropolitan area, it’s quite likely you’ve exchanged words with a woman you didn’t realize was trans. We’re really not that rare; we just don’t look like the people you see on TV.
Strange nobody mentioned Europe/Malta - member of EU, English language, warm on most of the time.

... or Canary Islands even warmer but not English.

... and last but not least - Sri Lanka with English as a secondary/third language (but official) and also warm.
I'm not sure what you mean by having to spend money maintaining DynamoDB. What maintenance are you talking about? You definitely have to spend money designing your application and figuring out how to keep it cost effective, but once you have that set up along with the auto-scale policies, it is pretty much fire and forget.
Russell published "The Conquest of Happiness" 26 years before this essay. I spot all of the causes of happiness from "The Conquest" in this essay: Zest, Affection, Family, Work, Impersonal Interest, Effort & Resignation :)

Check out https://happy.runningroot.com/

HAPPY is a modern and visual journey through The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell’s age-old advise on happiness. It provides a convenient framework that helps establish mindfulness towards the causes of unhappiness and understanding while embracing the causes of happiness.

HAPPY provides concise notes on what to look out for using many examples from philosophy, history and art. Given that happiness is a vast subject, the framework in HAPPY is a practical way of embedding Russell's ideas in your life without going too deep into the science, psychology and philosophy. It helps you benefit from these understanding with a constant mental awareness that sustains your happiness for productivity and health.
How to start a wine business
Buddy, I’m not too far away. I’ve done a lot and I’ve got a lot to share— especially if you need some encouragement. I’m in Toronto now, but happy to help. I come from the rural reaches of the province so I know it can get hard. Let me know. Happy to talk.
Again in the real world, an AWS shop isn’t just going to pick up and decide willy nilly to pick up and go Azure just to temporarily save a few dollars.
The Serverless Framework https://serverless.com/framework/ consolidates the functionality of all the major cloud providers behind one API, greatly reducing lock-in.

Agree though, when you’re talking about Lambda it should just be another entry point into your business logic.
Don't want to be too salty, but it seems an attempt to shut the 3% checking threat down by big institutions.
Flea-sized solar panels embedded in clothes can charge a mobile phone
Bleeping computer does not work on my mobile phone,says I'm not authorized to view the community...

Anyways,USGOV needs a wake up call,they run secure networks as if they're a secure version of a corporate network. Even private sector giants like fb and google have moved to zero trust ,whitebox network gear and u2f for everyone. Simply not using windows would be a great advantage to them.

Their biggest challenge imo is attracting talent that has the degrees,can get clearance,will work for terrible pay and is morally amiguous enough to not mind the executive branch's administration. They really need a dedicated agency that contracts IT work to all other government branches and can be operated as to attract people with passion for IT.
>I believe past trauma is the root cause and I doubt people have depression if they haven't had some type of experience they would classify as trauma.

Hm, what do you mean by trauma? I strongly disagreed with this statement, but feel less strongly after writing and considering it more. Maybe the influences that I think vageuly underlie or trigger my existential depression is others would call trauma?
> the right way to make good software

In software engineering, and in IT generally, there’s a fine line between following best practices and following a cargo cult.
Uhm.. I tend to disagree, I think this rant is not based on such elaborate and architected arguments. Are there some references about them?

The criticism I usually hear is something in the lines of Esperanto has been defeated in the international language championship and now refuses to shut the mouth up and go back home.
Joel Spolsky's Answer to “Why do I need an IoC container?”
There are cases where environment is the cause of your pain, if your family desintegrate and all your good times are not coming back it will hurt you and may cause depression.

Also subtle factors in how you think and feel about things and your location, a single change of place can restore things in you that you couldn't really alter on your own previously.
In America we tend to put emphasis on allowing a free market to thrive with as little state involvement as feasible. It stems from the ideology that the free market picks winners and losers better than a government. Americans often look at our own Government as having a reputation for being much worse than a big company. We tend to ascribe many of the same negative characteristics such as being slow, wasteful, and lacking accountability.

Therefore Americans tend to prefer that private companies are allowed operate a business for profit will produce a more desirable product/service for the market. When they fail a correction in the market should occur and the business should fail. A competitor should be allowed to fill the void.
I recently sent the message “hi I’m deleting my facebook so text me instead at <number>” to everyone I communicated with in the last few months. Turned out to be only a handful of folks.

Take the plunge! The water’s great!
Wow, thanks for the suggestion to look at the Google maps imagery of Pyote, TX. I had heard about the Permian basis but never seen it - the drill sites just look endless.

Direct link for anyone curious: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pyote,+TX/@31.5739608,-103...
It doesn't seem like that to me. It seems like they tried to sidestep the required regulatory hurdles to offer a real checking/savings account and got a wake up call.
It's been about 5+ years at this point so I don't recall all of the details. I can recall that they offered me a job after I pointed out the bug. From what I recall, I politely declined but I helped them test a beta firmware for a while.
Because managers want to stay out of prison? But I see your point. The problem with infrastructure is that if you're dissatisfied with one supplier you can't just switch to another. And even if I had another provider or lived off the grid that doesn't help me if I'm downwind from a utility-caused fire.
The disguise was for transport. There was very little chance that it would be discovered once underground and even if it were, it would not compromise the owner as it would be located far away in a place like a wood or a public park.
That probably contributes, but that can’t be the entire story. A previous post on HN discussed the means by which the soviets excelled at identifying CIA agents working under diplomatic cover - it turns out that American tradecraft was hardly as great as we believed - their sloppiness meant that CIA agents under diplomatic cover had unique payscales, tour lengths, working hours, socialization habits, and many other attributes that allowed their covers to be blown. If you can uncover the handlers by their sloppy tradecraft, surveilling and rolling up their assets isn’t going to be that hard - the lack of constitutionally guaranteed protections just meant that those networks could be rooted out quickly once uncovered, but it didn’t necessarily have to contribute towards their discovery.
People are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Cars
If anyone else has a problem reading this article, it significantly is easier to read with Chrome.
Previous discussion -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18291780
Answering all questions. One thing i left off is the reason why I was in hot water:

Everyone in our organization is really “rank-orientated”, I challenge their intellect and their baby they were proud of - it was foundation for our organization to even exist in company. Even though it was outdated, poorly designed system, that produced high percent of outages and heavy on maintenance. But it was not my place or position to do that.

From now on I moto “not my business”
At what point does this kind of behavior warrant a replacement of 100% of the executive staff? How can we make such a mechanism a reality to incentavise and encourage better behavior?

Utilities are too damn important for the bottom line of humanity to allow things to continue playing out in the same sad, pathetic, greedy fashion. The point of having public utilities is to enable a high standard standard of living so hopefully the really important problems can be solved before it's too late. PG&E seems to think the primary goal is for the utility company to be politically powerful and make cush millions for the execs. Sickening.
I like sun, forests, and fresh food (love farmers markets), and my wife can't live without Asian groceries (she's Asian) and international travel. We want to be close to family, and neither of us wants to live in an urban area.

My family lives in the PNW, and my in-laws live in SoCal. Right now we're in Utah (ticks most of those boxes), but I'm looking around for other options, and right now I'm considering central Oregon or central Washington.

So yeah, I think it matters a ton where we live. Sure, we could be reasonably happy anywhere, but we'd really prefer to not have to compromise.
The ads are a red herring (and uncomfortably visible for both parties).

The real activity was on Facebook groups, viralizing anti-immigration and far-left news, controling the narritive on 4chan pol and /r/the_donald, and botted up - and downvote brigades.

It was so blatant it was visible to a non-expert on information warfare like me.

The people doing this probably got paid about as much as a paid advertisement.
Well, actually, if you look up Sex on Wikipedia[1], you’ll see that biologists define sex based on the size of the gametes an organism produces. So we technically don’t turn male or female until puberty!

But seriously, if you’re going to be correcting folks on the internet using the word “scientifically”, you ought to be a little more accurate about, you know... science. The third paragraph of that Wiki article is a pretty apolitical summary of the scientific consensus.

Unlike a lot of folks’ opinions, the scientific consensus is mostly informed by the real world, so it turns out it’s pretty nuanced. You don’t have to sign up for a Tumblr account to understand that no, male/female does not “scientifically” mean XY/XX.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex
I don’t speak it, so IDK. It was just explained to me that tenses weren’t always there. But, that was explained to me by a primarily English Malay speaker which - goes to the topic you mentioned which is sad.
You're simply playing semantics and defining "puzzle" as "something that has a solution".

But if you're at work and your boss says "I have a puzzle I need you to solve: Given these constraints, find an answer" You need to be able to say "Here is my solution" or "No solution is possible, and here is why."

Or take something simpler: a 500 piece "Puzzle" only there's a manufacturing defect in all copies: one piece is miss shaped. The puzzle can't be completed; there is no "solution". It's still a puzzle.

So no, you don't get to "unfair!" your way out of the MU Puzzle through narrow semantic definitions, especially given the, well, grammatical nature of language, because then you have gone and missed the entire point.
I did answer your questions. Perhaps I didn't convince you to reject your previously held views, but I did answer your questions.

> How can you be so sure that I’d only be helping the good side of the DoD?

I answered this by asserting your premise, the DoD has a good side, is unnecessary. I further allowed for the possibility you're not even American.

> Do I [end up defending the right of more malicious actors to acquire technology from the US below cost through low-cost, high-yield hacking]?

I answered this by posing the leading counter-question, "Don't you still want to make it as expensive as humanly possible for other countries to get the plans to those weapons?" And that appear to be the fairly strong position it is, considering I rejected your requirement of there being anything good about the DoD, and further rejected any implication that you're even American.
+1 to figuring out what you want to do and then doing that. I was in your position a few years ago and what helped me was talking to more experienced folks 1 on 1. Reach out if you’d like to chat.
> Thank you NoSQL

Diversity and competition makes for better outcomes. I was never on the NoSQL bandwagon but even then I could see the benefits for its users. Namely schemaless documents for rapid development and relatively easy horizontal scaling. From those we got things like Firebase and a slew of NewSQL databases. Some SQL databases now have horizontal scaling in their roadmaps.

> It's hard to correct people's understanding when they learn things wrong the first time

Don't have a good solution to this. Trouble is that the 'first time' is learning and any amount of hand waving and thought experiments isn't enough to refute what they've learned combined with what they've yet to learn. No pain, no gain I suppose.
The "problem" with integrating with the host gc is that it means language who have subtly different approaches to garbage collection can't trust compiled code behavior to be identical in the browser.

This is probably not a terrible thing, since a native garbage collector in WASM (unless it was designed in an extremely simplistic, low-level form) would also probably not be suitable for the diversity of the languages that want to include one.

It is (probably) better for individual languages to write their own, even if that increases binary sizes.
I like sun, forests, and fresh food (love farmers markets)

considering central Oregon or central Washington

Consider the Tricities -- Pasco, Kennewick, Richland, WA. It's not central. It's Eastern.

But my sons quit eating frozen veggies while we lived there and never went back. They got spoiled by fresh stuff. It is considered "the fruit basket" of the US, which I never heard anywhere but there. It's like some well kept secret. I learned to eat fresh pineapple there. Having grown up on the canned stuff, it was news to me that fresh pineapple is awesome. I had a pretty low opinion of it.

It's also kind of a retirement destination because it's relatively sunny and temperate for that part of the world.
No it’s fluff, good for curious people with no background.
They even put in fake cars with fake shops to make it look like people live there!
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6004176,-87.2675441,3a,75y,1...
I've been learning for a few months. So far my favourite parts are that the word for right (direction) is the same as a word for right (correct), that months and days are named 'Nth month/day', and that refrigerator is 'cold cabinet'.
Re how to get started: what was effective for me was to pair kdb+/q with another language and constrain how much I tried to do with q itself. q-sql for joining, filtering, pivoting and grouping (particularly date grouping and grouping with custom aggregate functions) is incredibly fast and powerful and also easy to learn. (though certainly, q experts will be able to point out all sorts of sub-optimal things in your queries)

Initially, we used F# to shovel data into kdb and to orchestrate queries and process results -- while keeping our q-sql simplistic -- and still saw astonishing speedups in our data processing. Over time, wherever we needed more speed, we'd do more and more in q itself (the 'Q Tips' book is very helpful).

One can get a lot of power with just a little kdb+/q.
By "ex-Soviet-occupied country" you mean a country of the former Eastern Bloc or something like Transnistria?
1) To apply to and attend Harvard's Summer School program. I grew up in a small (~1500 people) town in rural NC. That summer exposed me to many different cultures and opened my eyes to the world.

2) To enlist in the USMC at 24. The GI Bill, basic small unit leadership, and other things have helped. Wish I would have retained the fitness part.
I mean, where do we think the functions are executing now? It's not like Ubuntu Server is running Xorg, or has libinput installed, nor have any of those things ever been operational or developmental considerations on any "non-serverless" app.

Or maybe you're in a super cutting edge functions deployment where you're actually deploying microkernels? Seems orthogonal to me, and doesn't seem to address the data locality, etc issues brought up in this article.

There are so many people in this thread saying stuff like "PaaS doesn't allow auto-scaling" and I just don't really know what's going on. It's baffling to me. I guess if all you know is an archaic build process and manual deployment, then it looks great. But I'm willing to bet most of these function platforms bottom out on containers-on-k8s-on-vms anyway.

I am increasingly, increasingly convinced that people don't really need or want "serverless". They want the final step in the build/development process that they thought they were going to get with Docker -- they want to write code and have it running somewhere. I really don't buy that Serverless/Lockin are the right or best way to that future.