skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of interesting jobs that don't have 9-5 hour requirements, or any time based requirements for that matter.
I guess our differing point of view comes mainly from the fact that I don't see energy storage solutions become viable in the near or medium future.

I believe battery tech is progression slower than fusion. We will also need a clean baseline power solution, and AFAIK only fusion can give us that.
Agency Risk in Software Teams
GP was deleted so I don't know what it said, but authoritarianism happens both on the right and on the left. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
I much prefer Yedidia & Aaronson's paper that explicitly builds a Turing machine whose halting behavior is independent of ZFC:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/busybeaver.pdf
> That apparently makes you angry

"Apparently" because it's without any proof.

> What you cannot get away with doing is making the argument that your disagreement with them is an indicator that they're compromised by the US Government.

I'm not claiming that and I've never claimed that. I'm claiming only this:

1) there are no technical reasons for them insisting in their users giving them user's phone numbers and user's contact data: the underlying technology would not be any more complex without that.

2) There was(is?) actual monetary support of Signal development by the actual US spy organization (with the decades of historical support for these direct "spy" connections, some of which really amazing, see before). Which gives some additional context for the whole operation.

Specifically "tainted" and "compromised by" were always only your formulations. I'd just say "given the circumstances, there can be observed some non-technical reasons behind some design decisions."

Which would, I hope, be completely non-controversial if we would, for example, talk about Skype. Because for Skype we have the direct proofs from Snowden. And not having such for Signal we surely can say "we don't have proofs" but we also can't claim that "this time it's completely different." Even if Snowden himself talks nice (or something) about Signal.

And downvoting my comments stating both is not changing these facts.
It is probably not possible to discover a new computational trick, by the Church-Turing thesis.

The Church-Turing thesis can't be proven, since it is a statement about what is possible in the physical universe, not a statement about mathematics. But the intuitive arguments in favor of it (i.e., that Turing machines capture exactly what we mean by "computation") are, for me, extremely convincing.
Ahhh, ok, thanks a lot for the explanation; I didn't grasp the metaphor!
I disagree, they know what they are doing. Also, check out Kitboga https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga if you like this kind of revenge. He literally plays the old woman that the scammers, yes scammers are trying to steal from. These scammers have no morals and deserve everything coming at them.
> Even a small drone surely makes a ton of radio noise just from its motors, no?

Brush motors sure, brush sparks are nasty EM interference sources. Brushless motors by design don't emit this kind of RF noises, only the motor controllers.

But in any case the power levels are hovering on the undetectable given all the noise from the airplanes, the radar systems, computers, cellphones, ...
I also don't see any details of their Python 3.x customization in that blog post.
Based on my own experience with Amazon's own AMZL delivery service, it's a big advantage for their competitors who don't subject customers to this experience.
A tradition all the way back to its MS-DOS early life.

Turbo Pascal 5.5 had an advertised compilation speed of 34 000 lines/minute, on 1989's hardware.

http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803

So something like PC 386 running MS-DOS 4.x, real mode with 640KB, eventually 1MB, if making use of highmem.

So excuse me for not being that amazed with Go's compilation speed achievements. :)
I had to do the opposite because USPS is so bad about delivering packages. The Amazon branded couriers basically saved me as a Prime customer.

There was an article [1] from 2017 about USPS couriers lying about packages being delivered to keep up their Amazon delivery statistics. This routinely happened to me.

[1] https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/12/05/postal-worker...
the device is basicly a core absent the usual delivery system. nuclear isomer munitions were not ready yet so the original plan appears to be boot powered delivery of a fissile core and initiator charge.
most spec operators of that calibre had apx5years life span from the time of first deployment so the exposure was considered a non issue.
that being said, this approach could be used by the enemy.
I'd posit that this is not universally true. It may be true for English names.

It may be implementable for e.g. French names: a name like "François" may be stored as UTF-8 with "ç" always represented as a composite pair (or always a single character), and the application layer knows and uses this.

It must be a dubious idea for German names when you may need to see "Müller" and "Mueller" as the same name, but also keep e.g. only "Mueller" as the form referenced in legal papers.

Once you start considering anything non-ASCII, things become hairy. (Of course, if you only work for the US market and don't care about any international travelers as customers, you can continue using these introductory courses as a guidance.)
Are you saying it’s too dry, or too wet? I find the humidity in SF to be quite moderate throughout the year. I grew up in Southern CA, which is drier, and I have relatively oily skin.

Again, which part of SF are you talking about?
Good. This does exactly what Nasim Taleb argues and forces the college to have "skin in the game." Education needs this sort of revamp badly. Government meddling with student loan guarantees caused the price inflation, more government meddling won't solve the problem. The system needs a reboot, and this sounds like exactly what it needs. Don't pay unless you make over 50k, awesome. Payback lasts 2-3 years, awesome! I'm sure there are nitty gritty details, but this sounds like the model we need.

As far as less profitable majors or high risk individuals, they can remain in the traditional system and pay up front. You don't have to totally scrap everything else. If you truly want to study Russian literature that's fine, stay in a traditional system, but don't force the rest of us to accept it just because you want to be a special butterfly edge case. We should not be catering to those types. Eliminate guaranteed federal loans and the price of those majors would come way down anyways. If you truly want to preserve some niche program, some strategic investments on the schools part could set up something that returns enough money to allow a handfull of true scholars who do well but are too poor to pay up front still attend and get their niche major.

You may even see the emergence of a school that has radical teaching methods that turn high risk students into earners. Probably a system you can't even fathom yet which involves some level of psychology and counseling along with your education to get you to the finish line.
IOCCC Judge here:

If you are using an xterm, you might try using "xterm -hold".

It seems that the termios structure is getting (re)set with some invalid values and some systems (one report from NetBSD) cause the terminal / shell to abort. We are figuring out how to do an update to fix this issue.
I was fired from last job just because I couldnt stick with morning schedule and basically "had my own". I was supposed to be at work by 10am (LOL, we had standups at 10:45), and I just couldnt do it. Sometimes I came to work at 9, sometimes at 11:30, until they were fed up with this. I felt physical discomfort from this - vomited twice in the morning (I suppose it was from stress) and developed tick in the left eye after just 3 weeks into office.

I'm unemployed now (last 14 months), and I've given up so that I don't even look for job anymore since I don't think we'd be compatible. Saves my time and employers money.

Yes I'm slow-starter - it takes me from 1.5hr to 2.5hrs in the morning to start my day. Now I usually wake up at 7:30-8:30 because I'm happy owner of six parrots and they need maintenance and to make a lot of noise :)

All this combines with my inability to stick to just one single thing to do. I have to change stuff I do very often, which leaves many of my projects unfinished. From this reason I usually find myself very unhappy working on some project for longer periods, especially if those projects are too complex to even start contributing - because of this I then usually used to start working on something different in my "free time" (in member of local hackerspace) and my productivity (if there was any) goes away. This allowed me to acquire quite a lot of different skills and knowledge but left me uneployable.

Or maybe I just haven't come across a job that really suits me and be appreciable, yet
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Complete bogus, please abstain from spreading this misinformation. Unlike animal products which contain actual hormones active in humans plant products have an negligible effect and you would have to consume impossible amounts for the smallest of effects. Further, phytoestrogens actually benefit humans
Hi,

Author here. This is a page from the "Risk-First" project, about risk in software projects... trying to catalog different types of risks within software development.

I'd really appreciate some feedback on this subject from this knowledgeable community, cheers!

Feel free to ask anything.
Even if you feel that way, we're trying to do a little better here than call names and “It's just not.” Please try to follow this guideline:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In brief: if the economy is booming, loads of companies want office space. If the economy tanks, loads of companies need to cancel their leases.

WeWork's lifetime has been on the upward slope out of the 2008 crisis. There is a question as to whether they can survive a downturn that at all hits them where it hurts.
Don’t confuse privacy with secrecy. I know what you do in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That’s because you want privacy, not secrecy. (From I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy? : https://medium.com/@FabioAEsteves/i-have-nothing-to-hide-why...)

From a previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14394863

google has no business needing to know where I am or am not. (even though they already do, thanks android/google-fi/chrome-cast/nest/etc etc.)
Only in the context of being a Britishism that Americans occasionally use.
I mean, that's true with meat, too.
Wow. You were a lifesaver for me. I got into my dreamjob, thanks to interview cake.

To anybody looking to switch jobs in a computer science field, I will strongly recommend interview cake. It's insanely good.
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I get what you're saying here, but if those [for example] logs contain personal information, and those logs are exposed (or have the possibility of being exposed) then that information should be redacted. Sure it's often not trivially simple, but it's your responsibility (AWS seems a wired example to use as well, given that any logging facilities actually provided by them offer redaction).
Mozilla as an organization these days seems to be hunting for that one trick that will let them magically become big again.

I don't want a trick. I want a good web browser. From its beginning, Firefox got popular because it was just a good web browser, not because of any gimmick. If anything, it was the lack of gimmicks that made it good. Unlike previous Mozilla products, it was just the browser.

I'd be curious to see an interview with their executive team. Their solutions just don't seem to align with people's problems any more.

(Last year, I might have guessed they're just abandoning the desktop web browser market, but today they're the only remaining completely independent implementation, so they've lucked themselves into a position of great importance. A lot of people who never use Firefox still want it to succeed.)
I think it's not paid vs unpaid but official vs private.

I found the warning very useful, as I assumed this was a publication from an EU institution as well.

If this had been the case, you could have assumed that the page had been produced with the primary goal of informing the public and clearing up confusion - and that the page were likely to have input from people close to who actually drafted the regulation. All that would put my trust in the accuracy of the information way higher than that in a random law firm, no matter how much legal weight that would have in either case.

Additionally, it would be some news if an EU body published an "official" guide how to implement the GDPR, whereas there are likely many such guides by private advisors.
But to be frank, while Austrian desserts-as-main-course could qualify as vegetarian cuisine, most main courses aren't vegetarian, and at least include a little bit of bacon here and there.
> anyone tried a GDPR request to their phone provider to figure out what do they collect and what do they store?

Yes. The Netherlands, carrier is called Youfone.

They have very, very little data on me: they claim not to be able to see which cell tower I'm even connected to (which would be tracking info), which makes me wonder how they even provide their service. They say it's all outsourced to third parties, one of which is the network operator, KPN, and they cannot list those parties for commercial reasons. I doubt that's legal (I'd assume you can't just stuff everything into subsidiaries and go "sorry can't tell, business secrets": either you have to get it from the subsidiaries, or you tell me who they are and whom to talk to), but the Authoriteit Persoonsgegevens (local authority) seems to have their hands full, as do I, so I did not bother pursuing it.

The info I did get was: everything I provided (name, DOB, bank account), everything you would commonly expect (call logs (though that is not as common in Germany, it is everywhere else afaik), the invoices based on those call logs, data usage per month, etc.), and I think one or two uninteresting pieces of information (probably SIM card number and such). They also provided storage time limits for the data.

I feel like they did not have the process in place yet before my request, as a dude quite high up in the orga replied to my support ticket and they exceeded their response deadline. After two months they gave me a professional-looking PDF with the data, so I think they quickly set that up because GDPR was fairly new (few months after May 2018). They're also cheap, I'm sure the mails back and forth (not to mention the investment in that "data to pdf" system) cost them much more than my 8,50/month subscription would warrant. I kind of want to cut them some slack for working on it rather than bother those who try. Maybe I'll pursue it again later. Or maybe someone else can ask better questions based on my experience.
Another reason to consider not going solo is that some experienced engineers will consider it a black mark - here's a guy who either believes he can do it all -or- is too greedy/control-freaky to share; this is someone who didn't meet someone better than themselves in their career or simply couldn't recognize that fact.

The few solo founders I have personally dealt with have fit that description exactly.
The government is supposed to need a warrant post-Carpenter:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/summary-supreme-court-rules-carp...
You're correct, that's what I meant. Can't edit it now, though.
This other one was much more useful. I tried this a few years ago and it seemed to work, but it was also really easy to fall back into old habits. Still though, might be worth a try.

> This is going to sound really stupid, but it works. Practice getting up as soon as your alarm goes off. That’s right — practice. But don’t do it in the morning. Do it during the day when you’re wide awake.

https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-righ... (actual strategy starts about half way down)
That's just fine for things that are function calls in any language. I have no preference between log(x, 10) or (log x 10).

But I do want to read some functions like conjunctions, and in Lisp, I am forced to call `and`, `or`, `<`, `/`, and pals the same way as log, print, etc. I just don't think I'll ever find:

(and (not (is-blocked door))
(< (height player) (height door))
(or (is-unlocked door)
(has-key player door)))

as readable as:

not is_blocked(door)
and height(player) < height(door)
and (is_unlocked(door) or has_key(player, door))

Edit: to expand, I don't think it's a fundamental flaw of Lisp. There could easily be some syntax sugar that lets you specify precedence rules for functions and write them infix, just like Haskell lets you write either `(+) 1 2` or `1 + 2`. It would de-sugar to the same sexpr.

I know this can be done as a macro, in fact I did it for elisp several years ago ( https://github.com/rspeele/infix.el ) but it is really just a toy for personal use. If an infix operator system came out of the box and its use was encouraged for certain common operators, I think that would be a net positive, but most Lispers disagree with me there (if I had to guess).
This sort of stuff isn't taught anywhere though, you have to either be shown it by someone else in a previous job, or have it annoy you enough to figure it out with some serious google fu (and the freedom to follow that path).

It's an unknown unknown, a lot of programmers will simply not know you can use quick and dirty scripts to process data if you're only going to do it once.

I work mainly in .Net and the similar problem I see is devs who don't even know that console apps exist, let alone how to make them, which simplifies prototyping new code immensely.
I should have been more clear that I meant IP addresses alone.

It seems like this only addresses when IP addresses are combined with other data.
I'll grab source code if I'm doing development or something obscure, but I feel like packages have been pretty solid and widely available since the early to mid 2000s. When working with source code I'll almost always install to a custom PREFIX--but if it's just an app the source is the last resort.

All of the commercial packages I've used at work for the past 15 years target either one or a handful of distros. Even the open source stuff that's either too new or outside of the default repos I much prefer to install from a package; turbovnc, grafana, chrome, etc. The few games I've seen have worked the same way as other commercial user-oriented apps.
But wouldn't the development of weapons require the diversion of nuclear materials? Surely the IAEA are monitoring that very closely. I would have thought that to be one of their primary responsibilities.
Do I have to learn Functional Programming to get a decent developer job?
Recently I noticed the functional programming is attracting more developers I know and most of them would like to work for big/giant development companies like Google and Facebook, do I have to learn a functional programming language or frameworks to get more decent development job?
And poison the advertiser's dataset as well.

I like this two-horned decision dropped in the broadcaster's lap.
Source for this? I personally need 9+ hours as well but am constantly told I sleep for too long.
Asking them an esoteric question will make them uncomfortable but a personal question that addresses specific members of their family by name is going to put them at ease?

This reminded me of the episode of The Office where Dwight steals Micheal's Rolodex to get information on his clients and it leads to him asking, "How's your gay son? ... Tony? The homosexual sophomore?" If you don't know someone intimately don't try to fake an intimate connection. The very next part of this quiz encouraged me to be upfront and honest instead of hiding behind excuses and managerial tricks. What if he were upfront and honest in response to the personal question and told you that his wife calls him a poor father and insults his manhood, are you ready to pivot to that subject? Can you reasonably expect him to answer that question dishonestly and if he needs to do so in order to avoid an awkward conversation then hasn't the question failed its purpose of opening an honest dialogue? What if this is a performance review and the result is somewhat negative? Is he to understand that his poor relationship with his wife had some bearing on his negative performance review? If not then why would you bring it up in that context? A relationship can thrive on one of two things: complete honesty or respectful boundaries.

Maybe I am too sensitive about personal questions but that question doesn't seem appropriate. Also, esoteric conversation starters are great. I would much rather talk about why I would want to be a sunchoke than give a generic response without actually thinking about my answer.
I've considered it, didn't try it yet. I'm really curious if it would work
They're the same folks who accidentally left an API public that let literally anyone do it:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...
Easy fix: ask for sex instead of gender. 3 options: male, female, won't state. Genuine intersex people are incredibly rare and have faced this choice many times before and will just choose the one they feel comfortable with; it won't actually affect your stats too much.
Once, I believe it was in the late 90's, my wife showed me the cover of a business mag. It showed the CEO of Sears, and also a young guy with a messenger bag and a Misfits pin. "Sears", with an arrow pointing to the CEO. "Sears.com" with an arrow pointing to the youngster.

The thing is, she knew that youngster, and he really did work at Sears, for their webstore. He wasn't the only guy, but it was apparently pretty close. Other than getting on the cover of that magazine, my understanding is he got rather little access to top management, and he certainly didn't get to set strategy on things like pricing and shipping. Sears, like a lot of other incumbents, could neither understand the New Thing, nor turn over enough control to the people who did (in part because the people they hired were too young and inexperienced in retail to trust with t hat), and that is why they failed, when as a catalog company they should have been well positioned for the comeback of ordering things delivered to your home.