skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not 100% sure that it was using scratch, but something went wrong with the persistence.

The point is not to say it wasn't human error - clearly it was, but it's an error that wouldn't have been as easy to make without kubernetes. There's a cost to running a database on k8s that largely people ignore. That's before you start talking about backups and recovery which also get harder and require more manual work with more potential for error.
There's a difference between seeing patients and dispensing medical service, on the one hand, and posting your medical theories online, on the other. This case is about this man's behavior being firmly on the "posting theories online" side of the line.
That is a side topic that really has nothing to do with this. But minros are also expected to follow the laws as well.

I think if you find your self in college young enough to be of question you probably are also capable of following the laws.

Kroger is not reposnable for a minor misbehaving, no should any other entity beyond the minors guardian.

I hold primary school speical because it is mandated on both ends -- to send your child -- and for them to receive your child -- so some requirement of provideing extra safety can be had.

College on the other hand is optional, and if one does not feel safe they simply can not go.

That sounds harsh but "feeling safe" is not a right and is problematic because it is so subjective.
love and stomach are next door neighbors
The "Apple tax" is one part of this, another is that they obviously think people are comfortable enough with signing up via the web on a mobile device, to make this decision worthwhile. Seems worth remarking upon
I work in sysops. My employer won't even consider a new hire without at least two different certificates (not licenses) which use the word "engineer" in them. I know a number of coworkers who refer to themselves as engineers but only hold a certificate to acknowledge this. Others have the term "engineer" in their title at work, and again no license.

Glad to see that the English language is being defended and not being used for what is clearly state sanctioned bullying.

Maybe I should start using the term engineer...
These vehicles will get vandalized even if the public accepts them. Great new graffiti medium owned by “Big Corp” that drives all over metro areas 24/7. Wonder how much companies will need to spend just to keep them from being covered in tags.
Implement the Getting Things Done methodology.
That fury has already been folded in to society in the form of the many negative consequences awaiting the perpetrators of vehicular manslaughter.
Thanks for filling in the bits I missed out. I think that MvS did a remarkable job back in the day and that vision and framework has lasted a very, very long time.

Times have changed. My laptop that travels around a bit with funky VPN and proxy requirements is not the same beast as my desktop or server of years ago. Random bits of hardware get stuffed into it and pulled out with scant regard for common decency.

systemd is without doubt a bit odd in places (I'm a Brit and have experience of odd) but it provides a pretty decent approach to a PID 1 experience in the modern dynamic world.
Donald Trump Questions Whether or Not Elizabeth Warren Should Run for President
I’m devaluing this disagreement. Tell me one reason that we at the consumer level should care whether Apple or Netflix win this one? At my level, I see the smartphone market dominated by Apple and Google. If you don’t like what those two do then you can’t buy a smartphone. They own something like 99.9999% of the market. This is basically super large corporation vs large corporation. Wake me up for the fight to break up the duopoly.

Edit-My comment is on topic. I’m stating that the financial stakeholders literally are not hacker news. But disrupting a duopoly definitely is HN-worthy.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll order it!
I've implemented graphs and trees in a relational DB quite a few times. For graphs you can just store an adjacency list. I think most of the large DB's now have tree traversal extensions to SQL (I know Oracle does). If you need to manipulate on the server then PL/Sql (or equivalent) can do the job.

The only time I could imagine that you'd need a specialist graph database would be if you had a very large number of nodes and some time / space intensive algorithm to run over them. Even in this case you could just store the data in a relational DB and use a low level interface (e.g. C) to write the specialist algorithm.
Venmo is owned by PayPal.
Maybe they were curious about how someone who has never worked with Ruby (but has tons of related experience otherwise) would fare with it. Or, curious how grokkable their particular code is to non-Rubyists.
I suppose the common problem is of when to apply abstraction. There are times when abstraction is necessary to prevent duplication of effort and other times when it is convenience layer. These qualities are not the same and I find people generally cannot differentiate them, even outside of programming. The crux of that problem is confusion is confusion of a person’s own level of effort versus actual effort auctioned by an artifact.
not every truck driver can be retrained as private security
Sounds tend to anchor pretty strongly in people’s memory, I think only smells have a tighter bond.

The cut of the gears could be a factor here, but the (lack) of sound insulation could be it too. Cars have aimed for a “refined” feel for decades, with minimization of unwanted noise being part of that. There are many words one could use to describe the LLV, but “refined” probably isn’t one of them.
Here are the retailers, including Sears, that went bankrupt in 2018
I find the original red-light story that precipitated this fine to be more interesting than the fine/engineer word story.

His side of the story is here: http://www.jarlstrom.com/redflex/ . In short, the timings don't account for the time it takes for a car to _clear_ an intersection.

His lawsuit against the city's yellow light timings was dismissed because he failed to show standing. It is somewhat interesting that he took the tack of hypothetical damage as a pedestrian instead of a contested red-light ticket. Perhaps the ticket(s) that precipitated the research didn't satisfy the exact conditions of this challenge.
Is there any reason to think of an array of telescopes, like the VLA? Like, multiple smaller telescopes scattered at large distances? Or is that too difficult to coordinate?
Its actually regulatory capture by the existing players that makes it harder for a newcomer to work in the industry. The training required by laws for hair dressers can be long and onerous.
I used gif2webp -q 100 -m 6 -mt "new-years-eve-2018-4995722058399744.2-law.gif" -o out.webp

with the resulting out.webp being 285 932 bytes, so it seems apng does a very good job here, unless I'm using suboptimal options for webp.
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Before I left my first job, I made a document called "Koen's brain dump" where I would document anything that only I knew.

Years later I heard from my ex-colleagues that they not only used my brain dump, but were still extending it.

Seems like I was getting smarter without me ever realizing it ;).
What is Apple's cut for apps like Wechat/Uber, is it 15-30% of each transaction ?
Power laws in economics [0]:

Many of the insights of economics seem to be
qualitative, with many fewer reliable quantitative laws.
However a series of power laws in economics do count as
true and nontrivial quantitative laws—and they are not
only established empirically, but also understood
theoretically.
I will start by providing several illustrations of
empirical power laws having to do with patterns involving
cities, firms, and the stock market. I summarize some of
the theoretical explanations that have been proposed.
I suggest that power laws help us explain many economic
phenomena, including aggregate economic fluctuations.
I hope to clarify why power laws are so special, and to
demonstrate their utility.
In conclusion, I list some power-law-related economic
enigmas that demand further exploration.

[0] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.30.1.185
Here's an idea -- why don't you move to a place where your opinion prevails, rather than dictating your preferences to the rest of us?

Whenever I argue for less regulation on something, I get told to move to Somalia. Shouldn't this work both ways?
15% after a year of subscription. Many people will cancel within their first year (perhaps not forever)
No doubt. It's amazing too how some code that was never expected to be exposed to untrusted/unsanitized data gets re-factored into a new spot or called from somewhere else, and fails to provide sanitation expecting that the callee will do it, or simply forgetting altogether (easy when under pressure to deliver). I coded a pretty bad security hole myself once by doing something like that, and I am a security specialist that knows what to look for lol!

I love C, but it really is a security nightmare full of footguns.
I've personally had better luck with cars. The unibody construction doesn't leave as many places for rust on the underside where as truck frames tend to rust out wherever they can't easily be washed, particularly with newer boxed frames.

That said, none of my ~25yo vehicles are failing inspection for structural rust, they're all failing because the fenders rust out where the wheel sprays everything.
Everyone should breed. That’s evolution.
In theory perhaps but in practice it seems a bit dubious right now given existing certifications haven't had the best of reputations. I doubt 'official' will be much better in the US at least given history. Between the Clipper-chip, S-boxes, Elliptical curve, and many embarrassingly easy security breaches I think an official certification would result in the same 'counterproductive to list in most cases' as many private certifications if not worse.

They have shown themselves repeatably to be neither trustworthy nor competent and thus have negative credibility. Software engineers have a reputation of being like cats - you don't herd them to an official standard, you lure them unofficially to something with 'tuna' and some may prefer chicken anyway.
In R, using the tidyverse:

x <- 1:100
case_when(
x %% 35 == 0 ~ "fizz buzz",
x %% 5 == 0 ~ "fizz",
x %% 7 == 0 ~ "buzz",
TRUE ~ as.character(x)
)
How so? You leave, they stop paying you. Any funds for retirement is your account. You leave the country and renounce citizenship, you no longer get the benefits of citizenship which includes social security. That seems pretty fair.

And yes a company doing that is a completely different situation. Like it or not we pay into a pool that if you are a citizen you will receive benefits. You also pay into an account for your 401k that you own. Renouncing citizenship, you walked away from the former account.
Fraud is lying for financial gain. Lying for its own sake is not. You can say and pretend you are a lawyer as much as you like, but only as long as you don't do it to decieve someone for money.
Neither Google nor the driver gets to make that choice. The police decide whether to refer the incident for prosecution and the prosecutor decides whether to pursue it. Google saying they don’t want to pursue it carries only as much weight as the police and prosecutor give it.
This isn't about consumers. This article is about Netflix's business.

Sure, new consumers of the iOS app will have to subscribe in a different way, but this has a minimal impact on users.
Except they do handle your billing, sales taxes (in every jurisdiction,) cancelations. They also deal with chargebacks as well. While a Netflix type company is perfectly capable of doing it themselves, it’s a stretch to say “ZERO” value or devs or consumers.

As a consumer, so can go into my App Store account and instantly cancel any subscription. Try that with Angie’s List or any of the numerous newspapers (including The NY Times,) those places make you call in to cancel and it can be a big pain. Apple also ensures I don’t have to give my personal information to various companies, not to mention credit card information. When was the last time Apple’s credit card data has been breached? Compare that to many other companies. If Apple didn’t offer the subscription to various things, I’d be far less likely to subscribe. So at least in my anecdotal case, appStoreValue > 0.
Only the marketing department calls an S10 frame tubular. It's regular old C channel with boxed sections in strategic areas.
Insole can probably be glued back easily enough.

With things like these though, it's important to know if you are paying for quality, luxury/prestige, or some combination thereof, as these are different things that may be considered worthy of paying extra for. With things that are not (strictly) utilitarian, it could be far more of the latter than former. Shoes made of leather from the butt of a baby purple dragon would be quite expensive, but that leather isn't necessarily as strong as your run of the mill cowhide.

Gets even worse/more complicated if the maker used to be known for quality but starts taking shortcuts and quality goes down, but price doesn't.

As some anecdata, I have a couple of leather belts that are if not older than I am but certainly pushing 40, worn very often. Still look as good as new, but I am sure they were very expensive when originally purchased. Another belt is a few years old, from a brand that's known for making quality luggage (or used to be), not worn too often, and wasn't cheap. Leather's already cracking. On the other hand, really cheap ones look terrible even sooner, so the law still holds as a general rule.
Can you let me know a bit more about the SWE-focused ML path? While I'm interested in ML, I'm slightly more interested in the systems that are built around it. In particular, are there resources that can help me get up to speed in designing (distributed and HW-accelerated) ML systems.
They move at a fast walking pace. I've never even considered the concept of one being dangerous.
Making Poet, an Emacs theme
You might also give yours...

But my point was, there's different levels that are "catastrophic", depending on your definition of catastrophe. There is no one answer to the question.
> it could actually be beneficial for software engineers to have an official accreditation

I've waffled on this, and I'd be curious to hear input from others. On the one hand, software engineers are building systems which have incredible reach and impact. It's reasonable to want to ensure these systems are being built by people with some solid body of knowledge and skills.

However, software engineering as a field changes relatively quickly, and we hardly ever reach a consensus about the best way to do anything. It's often somewhat unclear to me whether we're making forward progress at all (because we keep inventing "new" ways to build the same things). And because software is in every kind of system, two very skilled and productive software engineers might actually have very few overlapping tools in their toolbox. Could we ever agree on what should be part of the official accreditation, and how long would it be good for?
Are there any other examples from relatively recent history of new technology that people would spontaneously attempt to attack/destroy in an uncoordinated fashion like this?
The duopoly is false since google does not control android the same abusive way apple does.

there are android forks that arent google controlled. most of googles software thats useful has open source cores that dont have anything to do with googles ad machinery or other pet peeves people have with google.

there is no smartphone duopoly and you are extremely off base.
Discover magazine had a nice article recently about the pastoralist/settled interactions at Lepenski Vir in Serbia
If Netflix wins then Netflix will have a financial windfall. But very probably there will be a carve out so that a company has to be Netflix-size to gain the benefits.
There's also a risk of a meteor hitting the earth. The likelihood is very low.
Some people aren't rational (well that's an understatement, we are all at times, but some people are almost entirely incapable of rational thought at all times.) Some people have severe problems and should be receiving professional medical help, but aren't. If you try to understand what's going on inside their head, you will probably fail because their thought processes are alien to your own. But more important than understanding how they think is understanding that they exist.
Here's the Redis Day London Nov '18 launch video [1] of RedisStreams and RedisGraph 1.0 GA [2] -- their benchmarks show it to be up to 600X faster over previous-gen graph DBs [2] (and that's before the coming parallel/distributed GraphBLAS GPU implementations that are in the works)...

[1] RedisGraph 1.0 launch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5WWBzi0LcM

[2] RedisGraph 1.0 https://github.com/RedisLabsModules/RedisGraph

[3] RedisGraph benchmarks https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/redis-modules/redis-e...
Yes it is very impressive and shows what can be done with not much.
I pay Netflix with discounted iTunes card saving about $1 a month, yay!
> 1) It could be a symptom of the underlying issue, which is typically stress-related. "Shit rolls downhill" approach to management, unrealistic deadlines, fear of mass layoffs, etc.

Yep, there were some talks among engineers about the possibility of them being laid off and replaced by another team. But that's far from the case, as they've been repeatedly told that's not going to happen, have all gotten raises, stuff like that.

I could go with the unrealistic deadlines, which is something half of the team complains about, but the other half complains of the opposite. It's hard.

The whole team agrees that they're under-performing, though, which might be the reason for the fear of being laid off.

The "shit rolls downhill" thing is exactly the kind of thing all the previous managers did. I'd like to think that they stopped doing that, but that has left some scars on the team.

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> 2) Much more rarely, but it does happen, it could just be someone with an abusive personality. Those sorts of people are capital-T Toxic to your organization and will definitely result in your best people leaving. You want them gone, yesterday.

The worst ones were already removed, but they seem to have caused lasting damage. We should see how it goes.

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> I provide consulting for organizations about engineering teams and culture and it seems like you might benefit from that. I'd be happy to have a free call with you if you'd like to talk further. My contact info is in my profile.

Thanks, I'll definitely talk about it with our CEO and CTO.
The OECD report (this one: http://www.oecd.org/education/school/programmeforinternation...) would like you to believe that student background does not determine student performance. They do find a correlation, but it varies substantially between countries, suggesting that other factors are at play.

According to that report the important factors are student and teacher discipline and school atmosphere, and on can easily understand why all of these might be better in an affluent suburb.
Wouldn’t mandatory breathalyzer ignition locks solve this problem? This is a proven technology that shouldn’t kill anyone as it’s being rolled out. Move fast and break things is great for websites and apps, but when human lives are at stake it requires strict ethical considerations.
Nina Hartley
It warms my heart to know that this is happening out there. How can a potential customer get in touch with you?
I feel like 30% works for one-time purchases between $1-10. Which is what I figure most Apple App Store apps go for. No matter how you cut it you're still going to pay credit card transaction fees. Most of the PC games are likely between $10-60, where 30% makes less sense (the marginal bandwidth, storage, etc isn't that much more expensive).

However, digital platforms like Apple's are a now a lot more mature and have reached a scale where the costs should be coming down. I've been wishing for decades that credit card fees would go down.
Until running into folks like these I never understood why Ahmed Hasan Dani couldn't get a job after getting a gold medal in Sanskrit at Benares Hindu University. Now I see it wasn't just because he was the wrong kind of Kashmiri - apparently it's only worth teaching people Sanskrit if they follow the party line.
Is there anything about this lesson on using the Lispm debugger that you could convey in a comment? I have a Lisp machine myself, and am painfully aware that there must be a lot of lore that is not adequately documented, and am trying to preserve as much as I can.
Old home appliances are basically free. If you don't care too much for recency and efficiency, you can just pick one up from a neighbor here. For example, the city website where you can register to get large trash items taken away links to a platform where people post what they want to give away. It's full of old furniture and appliances, and only costs you some time and transport method.

I'm surprised sometimes, really, at what a wealth of stuff is around us, and how quickly these things switch between being coveted sinks of money and 'just take it off my hands, free'.
> Is everyone just supposed to be as smart as us programmers?

No. Luckily programming isn't the only task in the world that needs doing, and we have a lovely thing called "comparative advantage" that helps solve all the information problems that result from such grand diversity of relative-capabilities. I suggest you look it up.

We even have people who are even smarter than programmers, or are at least smarter in different ways than programmers. Managers and scientists, for instance.

> Is it peoples' own fault if they're stupid?

It is either their own that they continue to be ignorant, or their parents' that they and their parents are stupid yet still they were conceived and born.

> Do they deserve no sympathy?

None whatsoever. They're - at best - just random people. Why should they?

> or humanity?

How can someone "deserve" humanity? It is an intrinsic physical attribute of a particular object - "X is a human being instead of e.g. a toaster-oven" - and since this is the real world, I do dare to presume that the only extant people who have jobs are indeed humans.

In other words: thusfar, saying that a person "deserves humanity" is just as meaningless as saying that a cleaver "deserves cutleriness".

That said, if my knowledge of someone consists only of "it is a human", I cannot conclude much of anything!

("He invented mongrel2" or "he is carrying a knife in his hand and is standing ten feet in front of me", are examples of knowledge-base items which do yield nontrivial conclusions in isolation.)

> I feel bad for people like you who lack empathy to such a degree. Just literally disconnected from such a large portion of humanity.

What in the nonextant Nine Hells is there to profit from "connecting" with the whole world's troubles? I feel bad for people who submit to their empathy and thereby let other people drag them down.
What kind of certificates? Can I have two of my friends printout the engineer certificates in my name?