skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a few years the first people Google, eBay, PayPal etc banned for life will start exceeding a life sentence in California. It's wildly disproportionate to punish someone that long for most TOS violations, especially in Google's case when they chose not to hire people you can appeal to and may arbitrarily claim an infraction occurred.
Using local storage/hardware to track devices is easy mode, but removing those options won't come even close to limiting per-device tracking. You can track clients using entirely serverside techniques. You can also leverage legitimate security features (like HSTS headers) to track clients.
It's not hiding anything. A resume is a two pages flyer to advertise your services. It doesn't pretend to accurately represent you as a person or 40 years of accumulated experience.

It's really bad if a resume never pass the first screening, it literally can't get a job. It's not reasonable to blame age for that, interviewers cannot guess the age from just a resume (and if they can they shouldn't let be).
> blue states are subsidizing the red states.

Two things should be kept in mind when discussing this topic,

The US, a large economically diverse nation with a single currency, only works because of fiscal transfers. Even the economists who engineered the Eurozone knew this, they just hoped a single currency would bring greater unity that would eventually lead to fiscal transfers.

The analysis that come to this conclusion all include social security and medicare. I think that's pretty misleading. A big group of my friends all attended public schools and universities in a red/purple midwestern state and after graduation all moved to the coasts. The coastal states get educated workers and leave behind retiring parents.
Because scaling your ads is the a great way to sell more products!

So every advertiser is incentivized to scale their ad campaigns as much as possible.

And having to find creators yourself and negotiate deals one by one is inefficient in a world where Google and Facebook have build automated products to do so!
I'm well aware of that. I have a form of cystic fibrosis. I used to be on multiple maintenance drugs. I currently manage my condition with diet and lifestyle and no longer take medication.

I also no longer belong to any CF lists. It's too much drama. I was constantly attacked and, among other things, accused of irresponsibly endangering lives for trying to talk to people about what I found helpful.
Zoomable interface is an old concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface

Jef Raskin was a proponent, and Aza continued his work. The Archy software implemented this along with other ideas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
> Thr fact that Apple which could do this without significant adverse monetary impact but has chosen not to

They restrict access to most of the things listed above, giving randomised fakes where necessary. The advertising ID they do let apps access is unique to a publisher so they can't be tied together with behaviour from apps by other publishers, and it's trivially disabled/resettable by the end user (Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking / Reset Advertising Identifier…). They improve things every year, e.g. Safari's intelligent tracking prevention.

I'm not really sure how you can arrive at the conclusion that Apple are holding back; they seem clearly committed to improving privacy as demonstrated by their continuous work in the area.
Initial thought.

This reads largely like a recapitulation of Boehm's 2003 book "Balance Agility and Discipline" [1]. Have you read this and did this provide any inspiration for the article?

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Balancing-Agility-Discipline-Guide-Pe...
I got a lot of downvotes and it's because I didn't direct my comment well enough, this is who I was referring to as the superwealthy:

> people who are a block away from every place they need to go.

I don't know of any city in the U.S. where a middle class person can live within walking distance of everything that they need. Take a look at the most urban cities in the U.S., San Francisco, New York, Boston. You're not living in a walkable place in those cities unless you have a title that includes "executive" or "vice" in it.

The closest is probably Chicago.
You are more likely to get locked in with kubernetes than with AWS. It’s easier to migrate out of highly decoupled, well documented systems piece by piece (AWS) than out of monolithic frameworks like k8s.
Who maintains LuaJIT these days?
> There was one notable exception, and that was my experience with Triplebyte. They have a much better technical interview process than any I have seen anywhere else

This looks just like an Ad I see on reddit all over the place.
I get rid of all the unlucky people by randomly throwing resumes away. /s
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For example any kind of Bluetooth companion app, including sensor readers, watch companion apps and pretty much anything there requires access to MAC to complete pairing.
Any kind of mDNS and direct WiFi apps. Any kind of Wifi scanning and environment survey apps. Any kind of Wifi helper apps to setup other devices.

Are you seriously claiming that our portable computers should lock us out from creating these kind of new application experiences permanently and give ONLY Google and Apple the ability to create them? You want innovation in use of our portable computers to be permanently owned and controlled by Google and Apple exclusively?

Come on, think for a while about what you're asking.
>The point is, right now the majority of (very expensive!) doctor visits are a total waste of everyone's time, and your money.

Honestly, what are you talking about? A doctor's visit costs between $0 and $150, depending on insurance/government, and it is a focused encounter to determine the source of a medical complaint and a most likely effective treatment for that problem.

You want to stick a one-lead ECG on someone and expect that it's supposed to spit out a diagnosis, or heaven forbid, a recommendation to see a doctor who can actually figure out how to diagnose and treat the patient.

Your statement in fact points to the uselessness of this proposed medical device if it can't actually figure out what's going on and instead will send you to an actual expert (physician). How reliable would it be for everything else it "diagnoses"?
The monitor, okay, but can’t you access your build/test farm remotely?
And the shame of it all is all that wasted talent being used tricking people to click on more ads.
- It WORKS in adults and is well received. [1]

- Having low NAD+ leads to all sorts of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad issues. [2]

- You need NAD+ for muscle and energy. [3]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876407/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29295624

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840929/
Eh it depends, I live with a roommate because I choose to. We're friends, we do things together, it's nice.

I could live without one, my rent would be marginally more, though I'd still probably bank close to the same. But the social aspect is really nice.
I pretty much thought about same steel plant [0]. It highlights that, contrary to what many assert, manufacturing is not being eviscerated but rather that automation is reducing wholesale the number of workers required. Eventually, the decreasing cost of automation and the rising cost of labor will impact even low cost labor countries. It will not end well for those countries that were planning on following the route taken by China and other low cost countries.

[0]. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-21/how-just-...
Article is from March 2017, has there been follow up findings on this research?
The same good reasons for running any workload on k8s apply to databases as well, it's just that they are more complicated than stateless services due to the (no surprise) state and the clustering/control protocol things that often accompany HA data stores. Kubernetes has the tools available to manage state now, and many (maybe most) databases now offer some support for its native discovery model. So all in all my current preferred strategy for databases is to prefer hosted if its available (cloudsql, elastic db), k8s if it isn't, and vms if it won't work on k8s.
The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections
I suppose it depends on how long your willing to take to liquidate it
To clarify about my latest alg test, it's not that these types of problems aren't important to interview, but the candidate could definitely have some input on what they know. For example, if all I've used in my real world professional career are some graphing algs, Dijkstra's variations, and Levenshtein string distance type of stuff, asking me a variation on a bubble sort alg on a New Year's Even line waiting problem out of the blue is going to be brutal and likely not test my real world abilities. You could argue that I could study up on all the old stuff, which I'm doing, but it still feels like a time suck and solidifies that these interviews are skewed to the people who left college more recently.
Hey, it's your project, I just made a silly joke :)
Would you have any hints for puzzle 3? The power of CSS has far overtaken me in the last few years.
This study is done on mice.
FWIW, I'm not affiliated with Triplebyte in any way. I'm just a satisfied user.
Is anyone grounded enough in the tech/law here to explain why the app vendor doesn't funnel user data to FB from their backend? Connecting directly to FB seems like an unnecessary giveaway.

Is it just about ease of implementation or are there legal implications? People have quoted the wiretap act to me but the argument doesn't make sense.
I like your point.

Just to play with it a bit. Unenforced coding standards can't be relied on. So you want something like lint (of old), tidy-clang, or git check-in hooks to help enforce. At that point it becomes tempting to say "if it is part of the language, it should be in the compiler." But back to your point- it is easier for small groups to enforce their own standards than to change the compiler for everyone.
The Slide of this talk:

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/system...
Facebook + google android = data harvesting dream come true for these companies.
>Did you know that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US, right after heart attack and cancer? Seems to me that "human" doctors are also a dangerous proposition.

Where's your citation?

Here's what the CDC says about leading causes of death:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/index.htm

Heart disease 257.6 (2000) 168.5 (2015) 165.5 (2016)
Cancer 199.6 (2000) 158.5 (2015) 155.8 (2016)
Chronic lower respiratory diseases 44.2 (2000) 41.6 (2015) 40.6 (2016)
Unintentional injuries 34.9 (2000) 43.2 (2015) 47.4 (2016)
Stroke 60.9 (2000) 37.6 (2015) 37.3 (2016)
Alzheimer's disease 18.1 (2000) 29.4 (2015) 30.3 (2016)
Diabetes 25.0 (2000) 21.3 (2015) 21.0 (2016)
Influenza and pneumonia 23.7 (2000) 15.2 (2015) 13.5 (2016)
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis 13.5 (2000) 13.4 (2015) 13.1 (2016)
Suicide 10.4 (2000) 13.3 (2015) 13.5 (2016)
The article referenced on this one, regarding company culture, is spot on for my current role and company.

But the author's observation of 'make hay while the sun is out ' is spot on.

Shame on company middle managers perpetuating this mindset, but i cant help think such discriminatiom is a cost optimization habit. How are recruitors punished for categorically dismissing a demographic?

I understand how the company is hurt, but how is the recruitor, the gatekeeper, incentivized to NOT be dismissive?
"A causal mechanism for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Mel Greaves)"

Nature Reviews Cancer volume 18, pages 471–484 (2018)

(paywall) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-018-0015-6

PDF(free): https://www.tuseb.gov.tr/enstitu/tacese/yuklemeler/ekitap/cs...

Latest from cancer scientist Mel Greaves: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=Mel%20Gr...
> First of all, bake does not rely on an online package repository. As long as you have access to git, or have local copies of your git repositories, you're good. You'll never lose productivity because your internet connection went down (well- at least not because of bake).

It does not change anything to all the other problems of bundling dependencies. Including the problems related to diamond dependencies.

> Bake is a package manager for developers, and it provides
a nice & seamless workflow for integrating remote git dependencies into your local workflow

Then just use a developper package manager like Nix, Guix, Spack or EasyBuild that do the staff. Instead of converting every other project to Bake for the sake of it.
Excellent post and comparison with Arch, thank you!
Generally speaking it correlates well with selectivity and ranking.
I don't think it's down to bad luck, but it's the fact that there is an undeniable correlation between being a good dev at a startup and that startup succeeding. It's obviously not the strongest correlation, but it's there. If you have two developers, each about equal, and one was a member of a startup that did well, and one wasn't, it's obvious where the chips are going to fall. I don't think anyone calls that luck, even if they probably should at least be aware it could be bad luck.
It's better than spending your life as a young adult working degrading jobs and starving. In the broad scheme of things, being a programmer is not so bad.
I keep getting recruiter spam every week, and I've made it a point to be polite--I may take some time, but I do reply to every message that isn't an automated shotgun mail, because even though I am sometimes exceedingly annoyed at the airheadedness and calousness of some recruiters, there are often valuable insights to be had as to one's value in the marketplace, and one out of ten interchanges usually leads to meeting interesting people.

Now, I'm in Europe, and around half the recruiters who figure out my age break off contact or ghost me immediately (at least until the next opportunity comes around--I had one major tech company ping me repeatedly in 2017 and break off every time...).
Unless you're talking about a home, 200k in the bay is more than 50k almost anywhere else. There are very few things that cost 4x more on regional differences, and housing may actually be the only one. (Other major expenses, like food, transit/gas, and leisure activities like travel or vacations are much less price elastic, 0-30% more)
Good question !

It seems that Mike Paul is still the main one that do it.

Now there is a repository on https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues and after send a message to the mailing list and no answer for few days another user told me about it and I opened an issue of a problem I found while converting LuaJIT to LjsJIT see https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/461
>In an ideal world that's what would happen but even if there where the will and the money it would take decades to replace all of this stuff in practice.

In a previous discussion here someone pointed out you could actually compile C with hardening for out of bounds accesses for example. So maybe we need to isolate those input paths in programs and harden them.

>Sometimes when I'm feeling pessimistic I don't think we can ever truly secure (to a reasonable standard) anything.

I don't think we can either. In part it's just economics, the cost/value of the exploits is just too high for low-value targets. But it's yet another of the reasons I don't see how cryptocurrency ecosystems can really work. The security of the end-points is just way too low for me to trust that kind of thing.
Handling intent for Grandma World
It has nothing to do with law. That's just the easiest way to send them data, especially when some apps might not have back ends
The phrase "more John Le Carre than Ian Fleming" can also be found as a quote on this website https://www.sie.ro/viata-in-sie.html under the first testimony.
Don't know if this is a frequently used metaphor.
> you will struggle to automate procs that aren't already efficient

Woof, trigger warning. Been there.
> you can rent an apartment with three other people in the bay and pay like 1-1.5k in rent

Working a 60 hour/week professional job to live like a 1890s garment factory worker sounds... unappealing.
What unusual biological advantage has this animal developed?
But it would be irresponsible to take advantage of any of that, because one needs every last dollar saved towards housing.
As an accountant my observation is, the skills required to make money and spend money are very different.

The time and effort most people put into the former is much greater over a lifetime than the latter.

In this case you can see what happens when the rule flips.
As someone who suffers from (what I feel to be) undiagnosed and non-mainstream medical problems, I can only say this:

Whatever happened in the past has happened. Seeking to understand what happened to you might be futile. These writings are of a person who is clearly severely stressed and offended by what has happened to them.

Just control your anxiety about continuing to live with the symptoms, because some damage is permanent.

I personally am considering anxiety medicine and accepting whatever might happen because of it, because at this point I can barely function with the anxiety of past events.
in my experience a lot of the younger people spend a lot of the day at work messing around. (socializing etc). they also come in for breakfast and dinner and go to the gym. and then stay late working since they didn’t get much work done during the day. If you naively count the hours spent at the office it does indeed add up to 80
Wow, this app is really cool. Been using it to map out ideas about different things in my life. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah this can't be stressed enough. Persistent volumes in Kubernetes are simply bind mounts that exist in your container's namespace. They don't go through docker's storage driver at all. There should be zero penalty for using persistent volumes this way within containers.
Society is still geared for either one spouse and/or extended family to help with childcare.
I mainly use AutoCAD at work and I’m constantly thankful that it has a command line still. Hardly touch the UI except for the 3D view and whatever popup windows I summon with commands.

The ribbons thing admittedly is more discoverable, so occasionally I’ll look for something there instead of going straight to google, but once I know what it’s called I’m right back to the command line.
I'd like to have an app that creates virtual android environments that I can run my apps in. And the possibility to spoof the sensor data for the environment with configurable profiles. Like "rich geek in Silicon Valley traveling occasionally to Caribbean" or maybe "suburban middleclass housewife in Florida".
EC2 instances do go down, EBS volumes fail, hardware fails. Maybe not as frequently as pods in Kubernetes get evicted but at sufficient scale it does occur frequently enough overall that you do need to find ways to handle this automatically without human intervention.

Once you’ve achieved that whether your database runs on a VM or in Kubernetes doesn’t make a difference really.

Granted, if your not at that scale, running a database in Kubernetes is probably not the best of ideas. That has nothing to do with Kubernetes though, that’s because running a stateful service with decent working backup, recovery and automated failover is difficult in any case. If that’s not your job, you’re probably better off using RDS or something equivalent.
> Is there some magic pool of jobs there that let you retired after 10 years that I am not seeing?

Yes there is, actually. It is called "working for one of the big 5 tech companies/or one of the unicorns".

200k+ total comp is the norm for someone with a couple years experience working at one of these places.

And god knows how much the people with 10+ years make. A Google L6 (staff engineer) makes something like 450k?
There are some attractive things to some people about living in Birmingham, or abouts.

Your hell hole is other people's heaven; navigable traffic, lakes galore, proximity to clear, warm, clear oceans. Backyards with trees, playsets, green grass.

Warm to hot 10 months of the year.
Typical OCR errors would be interesting too: confusion between the letter "n" with the letters "ri" for example.

It would be visually challenging to detect (and also, maybe, difficult for an OCR engine).
Wow, this is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
Let's reverse engineer the Universe
first crystal codebase I've seen! niccce.
You can run the Facebook mobile site inside Firefox browser and do all those things. Or use an open source wrapper app like FaceSlim so that the mobile site can feel like an app.
Why would an increased rate of DNA repair lead to increased muscular hypertrophy?
You are arguing that, as an older employee, you actually are worth less?
It makes me sad that someone feels like they need to justify not being able to work 80 hours per week.
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That would need to be reproduced. I suppose the app itself could also have been put in a different state / with different settings between the two events.
Hacking how we see [video]
> this type of wealth cannot be amassed by frugality

It can be frittered away by a lack thereof. I’ve seen lots of bankers blow through unseemly quantities of wealth due to a lack of financial planning.
PHP is awesome. The whole "let's start from scratch on every request"-deal makes debugging really simple.

PHP isn't "complete", it could still need better support for multithreading and async operations, but that is also a part of what makes PHP so nice to work with.

It's fantastic for the live request-response situations.
Very few people in the South are making 6 figs out of college, even fewer are able to save six figures a year out of college. People in the bay can do that.

And that assumes you want a 5 bedroom house, I have zero interest in that right now. Too much space to take care of. Why would I do that?

And why would I go somewhere with fewer things to do. I attend social events 2-3 times a week. I've checked elsewhere, that would drop to 2x a month in Atlanta and less in a less populated area, unless I picked up more hobbies.
+1 here, surprised to not see that it's not the top response here. It's always been slick, reliable and easy to use in a collaborative corporate environment. I would wager that Visio is probably similarly nice but I've never played around with it.
Living in San Francisco, working at a big 5 tech company really isn't that bad. Even the "worst" of the bunch on the work life balance scale, only do around 60 hours a week. Most of them just do the standard 40 hrs a week, though.

So it really isn't giving up your youth or anything. And many young people even enjoy the city of San Francisco. It is a big city. Lots of stuff for young people to do...
According to a recent study, it appears that "lower NAD+ levels are deleterious for muscle health and higher NAD+ levels augment muscle health. [1]"

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840929/
for what it’s worth i did triplebyte as well and it was actually a really good interview process. I didn’t end up accepting an offer from any of their companies but I thought they asked very practical things instead of just algorithms.
First read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18789591, then spread more love.
I wonder if Google (and most large companies) has PR employees whose job it is to flag stuff like this.