skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say the government was able to perfectly connect every person who commits a crime with that crime.

Combine that against the reality that everyone commits 3 felonies a day.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438...

That's the perfect tool for oppression. Do you really want the government to be too good at solving crimes?
You don't have to pay but you do have to register to get to the tools download.
It is supported. You create the packages using "conan create" from any place with a recipe, which puts the packages into your local conan data directory (called the cache).

Any other recipe can then depend on any package that is already in the cache.
> Developers will have their own set of mentors, coaches as well as people in their network that will help them grow

Not true, probably for a majority of people. Alumni networks and family connections are not the norm. A support network and feedback is not something everyone is privileged to, which is probably why so many companies eventually create roles like this.

> Best way to support an engineer is to give him or her a fixed budget for development, and time to actually learn new things and not have their skills stagnate.

Is there any proof of this? Every Fortune 500 company and a vast majority of successfully-executed projects beg to differ.

> It saddens me to see the continued emphasis on hierarchy throughout the industry

Because by-and-large it works? For every Valve there are countless shuttered "unstructured" companies that floundered due to bad management and lack of ownership.
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It's that these companies have been VC funded for most of their existence, as they focus on going public, they realized they need to cut back.
Im sure they can just send the samples to Target for double checking like they've done for years.

https://corporate.target.com/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-c...
Isn't that how income taxes work? Two people pay a proportionally different amount based on their income?

I think the earlier poster is stating that an equal % tax is regressive against low income folks (sales tax being the classic regressive tax). Lower income earners pay a higher percentage of their income towards sales taxes than rich folks.
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I've always assumed that the US hasn't figured out how to use Huawei to spy on others and the company isn't cooperating with US intelligence agencies. Result is a global smear campaign. Then, when that fails, create a diplomatic crisis between Canada and China with an extradition order. Nothing even novel about the approach.
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Many define the harm as the loss of privacy itself.

In the case of analytics, this would be particularly egregious: the user gives up privacy to a third party, generally without knowledge and with no direct benefit.
The problem with using DNA to identify someone in crime is that we leave DNA everywhere. See this case for example: https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/
All of the above? Technology is a nondiscriminatory enabler
In what way was Snopes attacking that site? It's just a short, factual note that it's a satire article and website.

Now, what Facebook did with that was not good, and I can see why Snopes would want to get out of such a system.
Unfortunately, the term manager is what makes this difficult. If they were merely Team Secretaries, keeping track of the decision making and the financial implications, things would be better IMHO.
And a $6k vacation! lolol

Sure, you can easily spend that amount, but it's hardly a living expense. For a single person, that a long European vacation, with no effort made to control costs.
What even is this title
> The Volcker Rule (part of Dodd-Frank) prohibits prop trading at banks (with few exceptions). The big banks have been actively discouraging it as well, changing comp structures to avoid rewarding prop trading.

It's not prop trading...I'm just macro hedging which is completely fine
It is not gray at all, it's a violation of their terms plain and simple. They only gray part is whether or not it's enough of a bother to Fandago to actually initiate legal action.
Google CloudSQL is a defective product
Only in the Anglosphere and only since the Restoration in Britain. One need only look to the English, French and Russian revolutions to see the outsized influence the declasse have had on history.

Not even talking about Prussia/pre-WWI Germany in which the most powerful people were a non elected incredibly poor class of generals and civil servants.
I see the data sets listed but no links. Are their any plans to host the datasets?
Layoffs are bad -- this is affecting real people. WTF is wrong with you?
Still have to dig several screens deep to access common settings. Still prefer the old-school control panel.
Where's that 80% figure?

As far as I am aware, the Beats acquisition was successful. They bought their streaming music model and put that into Apple Music.
One step closer to Gattaca every day.
Don’t forget to mention selective enforcement. That’s the real key to “monetizing” the pantopicon.
A lot of those things you've cited are very nearly myths.

Windows 7's adoption of online-only functionality dwarfs XP's.

Vista and Windows 7 are extremely similar. I've easily fooled several Windows 7 die-hards that they were using Windows 7 while they were in-fact using Windows Vista. They are virtually the same operating system. Microsoft did the same in a series of television commercials.

Spyware and application telemetry are not the same thing. I don't know why I continue to beat this drum, though, it never sways anyone, facts be damned.

The suggestions (yes, they are arguably ads) are easily turned off and never return, and this setting syncs across devices logged into the same Microsoft account.

No operating system is perfect, and no company is perfect. Is there any other fucking massive tech company in the middle of a huge turnaround like Microsoft is? I can't think of any.

Yet, many people will always have a very special place in their heart for attacking Microsoft, and they'll never relent, no matter what Microsoft do.

I do NOT understand it.
It's January when ad spends are usually much lower than the preceeding holiday season.

There are currently backs accross the board, but on the outside it's hard to say if those are seasonal or not.
>Would it be cheaper for me to take a taxi to work every day than drive my own car? Absolutely.

I don't believe that for one second. Assume that the average car costs $523/mo[1] (and if you wanted a lower car payment it's totally possible to get a cheap car with a lower monthly payment). That means the daily cost of the car is $17.19 (523*12/365).

An uber (which is often less than a taxi and way more convenient) costs about $15 to get to work if you live nearby (it would be closer to $30-40 if you lived in the suburbs), and another $15 to get back home (possibly more because of surge pricing, depending on when you leave and local events such as sports games etc). This is assuming you never want to drive to get groceries, visit friends, etc... That's another $10-15 each way, every time.

Sure you don't have to pay for gas but there's no way the <$1/ride increase will account for that. I suppose you might have to pay for parking, but even then you could just buy a cheaper car ($400/mo car payments aren't exactly unheard of) and use the difference to pay for monthly parking.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/31/a-523-monthly-payment-is-the...
The code performs really well because, as you say, they've done a great job engineering it. However, they've specifically stated a few cases where C++ wasn't pursued. An example: A while back I read a blog post [1] talking about how they analyzed why the text buffer was causing OOM errors for certain files. It's a really good read, discussing drawbacks of the initial array of lines data structure, and how they came to use the "piece tree" data structure, and some of the tradeoffs therein.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
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Tried self hosted Countly?
What I don't want is having a non tehnical person evaluating my tehnical skills in order to decide my raise...
Few people taking theses tests understand or care about the privacy-destroying effect of what they're doing to themselves and their families.

For example, this is from the AncestryDNA (different company) terms of service:

By submitting User Provided Content to AncestryDNA, you grant AncestryDNA and the Ancestry Group Companies a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable, transferable license to host, transfer, process, analyze, distribute, communicate, and display your submission for the purposes of providing Ancestry's products and services, conducting Ancestry’s research and product development, enhancing Ancestry’s user experience, and making and offering personalized products and services.

https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/dnaterms_2017_09_22_us?hid...

There's a feel-good statement elsewhere in the document about how the company won't disclose your info to third parties, but this grant of rights pretty much covers anything you'd want to do with a DNA sequence.

Privacy policies change, but grants of rights like this to a service like Ancestry are forever.

I imagine a future in which every casual DNA company has been hoovered into a single powerful corporation. All those rights granted by users will transfer to that new company. That company will be just as mean as Facebook (or Microsoft in its heyday), but 10x more powerful.
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Any good, blogging engineering managers to follow?
They can also be AI-trained to park in a closest spot and then peacefully leave at a first sight of enforcement.

Such information can be sent to other self-driving cars from "nearby" self driving cars :)
without re-iterating my views about the political affiliation of these outfit.
Just seeing the timing of it, all at the same time, is indeed suspicious.

Another posted suggested that they have hired at disproportionally large numbers. Seems like a plausible explanation, if true.

May be it related to some political changes.

Or, may be,
there is an unseen 'consolidation' that will commence
(layoffs in tech industry, often precedes takeovers).

Just speculating, though.

I definitely feel, that people will not pay for opinion pieces, but will pay for investigative journalism.

However, investigative journalism, in my view, lacks economic model.

It is quite resource intensive, but there is no 'story origination fee' of some sort. So it has to live of donations, which could make it very biased.
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You know I'd rather not wait to find out if that infection is going to turn nasty and longer-term.

Did once - burst an eardrum and had to take a while off work.
What part is wrong?
"Thanks to a new generation of satellites, we can finally see the detail"

So at least it is not clear if this compares unfavorably to situations in the past, as there is no data about it.
Not a bad idea, but there's the question of why we should single out autonomous cars, rather than having congestion pricing for everyone? Every car takes up space. If it's doing something useful then it's worth it.
C# Futures: defer
I did a deep dive into passenger train service at one time when I too was advocating for such a venture (although I don't have billions so it wasn't something I could just start).

One huge hurdle to successful passenger rail are the rails. They are "owned" by the two or three massive freight companies. So using them with a passenger service gives the passenger service second billing. If we could convince the US to build the National Interstate Rail system (as we did for the highway system) and used taxes to build and maintain the rails, and then allowed anyone to use them with just the investment in the train equipment, it would change the market hugely. And taxing the trains like we do with highways (more weight means higher tax), would create an entirely different situation.

But to do that, we have to dislodge the Rail industry lobby which is literally over a hundred years entrenched.
Yep! We scraped on both weekends and weekdays, and also limited our analysis to "Adult" tickets for "Standard" class. Typically the special Tuesday tickets (they are often on Tuesdays) will have a different designation.

Possible we didn't catch everything, but in aggregate it should be a reasonable estimation.
I think it may not, because we live in the "attention economy" for media. I think it would take something to reverse this somehow, because it incentivizes "hot takes".
It's naive to assume allies don't spy on each other, Canada most definitely spies on the US.

The more pertinent question is who the Canadians trust more, China or the US, given the possibility of undetectable backdoors in equipment sold by both. I'd bet on an ally against an adversary.
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I can't recommend enough this recent video by youtuber donoteat01, which goes into depth about (everything wrong with) Elon Musk's underground highway system, and then about privately funded "public transportation," including train projects like this, in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs

"Be suspicious of privately owned or funded 'public transportation' projects" is at 23:20
I owe my lifelong career in IT/Computers to Ultima as well - Ultima II on an Apple ][e... found in a drive in a computer lab at school in 7th grade.

I played every ultima since - and was in Beta for UO and we played MANY accounts simultaneously when we worked in Intels DRG game lab in 1997 - where the Intel campus had a T3 - and our lab had a dedicated T1 - we used to play ~6 accounts simultaneously logged in across our gaming test desks - playing on Intels latest gaming machines (This is where we first tested out APG cards and the Unreal engine against Celeron machines - to prove that a <$1,000 computer was a marketable and game-capable machine)

That was the golden days of my gaming - but I truly do owe my career to Ultima.

(I was there when Lord British was Assassinated)
None that can match the maturity or performance of AWS. I always hear really terrible things about Oracle and IBM.

edit: Mostly I've heard it just generally is not great, plus you have to deal with typical Oracle badness.
I share cars all the time using gocar (and before that, car2go). At times they're untidy, but never gross.
It's the Brazil dystopia that seems most likely to me, and about which I worry about the government having access to DNA.
you are stuck on the model of manager-as-boss. in order to create a true engineering ladder that is separate but equal to the management ladder, tech teams need to make the decisions. it is the tech lead (whatever rank he may be, let's say principal for sake of argument) that makes technical decisions.

the manager cannot override that.

unless of course, the manager is actually the boss. which invalidates the tech ladder, really.

don't confuse technical decisions (as GP stated) with management or product decisions. managers are not ultimately responsible for technical decisions in this model.
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Disclosure: I work at Azure.

We're doing our best, but we're not going to suggest there's not more to do. Every major cloud provider has had issues at one point or another (I formerly worked at Amazon and Google), and I'll just say - we hear you, and we are fiercely committed to earning your trust.
If you use Chrome, none of the steps you listed matter as far as protecting yourself from Google. I used to use Chrome until it really struck home with me what the incentives are for the world's biggest web advertising company to own the world's most popular web browser in a world where over-the-wire auto-updates are commonplace.
Oh sorry, should have been more clear: the analysis of "Most Expensive" and "Least Expensive" cities was limited to cities with populations over 500K. But for the main analysis we scraped by zip code.
This article is assuming most people will own cars.

I think its highly likely that when we get to this level of autonomous driving that its most likely that someone like Ford or Telsa will operate fleets with enough coverage that most people will opt for pay when you want one. So when you are done with the use of the car, it just goes back into the fleet, and onwards to the next passenger.

Imagine not actually having to choose a car type but being able to use a commuter 99% and an SUV for the 1 ski trip a year, and a minivan for a night out on the town with lots of friends. This is going to drive people towards a fleet approach - its just plain a better fit for their needs.
This was my experience when I briefly considered their relational database solution.
If you take security seriously, you make sure that only your own employees can access the data. This requires that you use your own hardware in your own facility.

For anything really important, you keep it on a LAN separate from the internet. You don't trust firewalls.
At the time, there were only two main gun rounds, APFSDS and HEAT. Both are designed for destroying armored vehicles, and don't really explode like a Hollywood artillery round. APFSDS fires a DU dart at it's target, and HEAT is a shaped charged designed to penetrate armor with a plasma jet.
> On the other hand, essentially all this does is provide law enforcement a means to potentially quickly identify

People who support government's ability to violate our rights always seem to think that the government will never use it in bad faith... And then they act surprised when their rights are gone.
Bone is a series by Jeff Smith. It's a good one for kids - sort of an epic light fantasy.

Frank is by Jim Woodring. It's hard to describe.
That sucks -- Thief being one of my other most favorites... and they made that as well.
benign neglect is better than malign involvement - micromanaging, bad judgement, disruption and chaos etc ...
Ah, noted. Will keep that in mind in the future