skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer, I worked with Corbin for a decade, and have tons of respect for him. I agree with the diagnosis here, and I have one additional treatment suggestion:

The single easiest and most effective thing Apple could do to improve its SWE org is to invest in Radar.

Radar's importance within Apple cannot be overstated. It subsumes what would be multiple tools in other orgs. As an Apple SWE you spend a massive amount of time in it. And yet Apple treats Radar as a cost center, developed by an outsourced offshore team. It's slow to search, supports only plain text, is hard to script, and is missing obvious features, e.g. automatic duplicate finding.

Hire five good SWEs, give them a mandate to serve the needs of the org, and you will massively increase the effectiveness of every other engineer.

(My experience is now rather stale and I hope they've already formed such a team!)
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Firstly: nifty idea, and neat prototype of said idea. :thumbs up:

Second: If my cloud browser has all of my credentials, do I care that my cloud browser is the process that’s pwned instead of my local browser? I think I don’t, so the main benefit would seem to be something like “view a certain static-ish subset of JS-required websites on a device that can’t/won’t run JS”.
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You can be very very smart and still make boneheaded mistakes. Musk has been being lauded as a genius long enough to begin believing in his own infallibility. I don't think he's lying. I think he believes it. To be fair if he had promised to do what he's already done before he did it no one would have believed that either.
As a marketer who came up on the performance side, I feel your pain.

What would you say the state of analytics is on that side of things? Is attribution sufficiently advanced to get some read on the impact of various influences, celeb and PR hits, product placement, etc?

Even as a senior marketer confident in my skills, so much of the luxury space seems very much like an exercise of needing to put all your eggs in the one basket of a big launch. None of the steady burn of some more performance-driven plays with the usual iteration on ads and funnel metrics and such.
> EU member-state embassies should probably be closed and replaced with EU embassies

It's fairly close to how it works. If you live in Montenegro and need any EU visa, you go to Slovenian embassy. Even if you'll visit Spain or Ireland.
Reminds me of eternal sunshine of spotless mind.
These are kinda misleading - "single-file" is a technically accurate term, but if you think that implies that you can just #include them, it's not that (i.e. not what is normally called "header-only"). It's basically a header and implementation combined into a single file, with the implementation part #ifdef'd. So you need manually instantiate that implementation in one of your existing translation units, or add a new one specifically for that purpose. At that point, I don't see how this is preferable to just having an .h/.cpp as usual, and zipping it for distribution purposes.
Uff, wincing facepalm. That man needs to close his mouth.

I would bet 85% odds that Tesla is eventually going to offer a refund to all current Model 3 owners who "pre-purchased" self driving. In fact, that's the event that is more likely to happen "coast to coast, this year".

Calling it now: There will be an "autopilot hardware v2." And Tesla will have to dig deep to pay back all that pre-purchased FSD cash, probably plus extra to stave off a class action lawsuit, which is its own risk.

I would love to see full self driving, but I don't trust that hardware. I would love to see Tesla succeed, but I fear that Musk himself will bring it down.
I've looked over their website and I'm confused about what they actually do. They are "trusted by leading Fortune 500 corporations" apparently (with logos for Microsoft and Amazon), but the entire "Interested in our solutions" section is a sign up form. What am I signing up for? It's unusual for a company to barely try to promote their products.
I honestly think that having alternate implementations let people go back to when they were written; They are important.

The common understanding would be "Hey, this is how it was implemented in the standard, and it totally caught on because it made sense and everything else did not."

But I do not believe in those arguments. I often look at alternate libraries/implementations for readability or for lost-in-time features.

There's a reason I read EASTL and BSD code. It makes me refreshed, understand nuances better and more importantly, know what I've been missing out on.
From a purely legal perspective: it's unlikely you're allowed to use logos without permission.
From a practical perspective: lawsuits don't usually happen right away and out of nowhere, especially against an open source project! If you use a company's logo, the worst case scenario would probably be them asking you to remove their logo. You remove the logo and everybody moves on...

That said, I am not a lawyer and just providing my opinion based on personal experience.
These guys have been so far up their own assholes for so long that they find anyone complaining of the smell to not only be rude but also insane.
Ask HN: How to read non-fiction books as easy as fiction?
I also dont have a LinkedIn page, quite amusing that people find that a problem
OK, so there's a Yahoo! breach from 2012. Should I not visit Yahoo now?

Also please note the '?' marks for unverified sources.
+1 on the table topics.

IMO it's the valuable part of Toastmasters. Toastmasters in general was too much of a cult-like environment for me, I wish there was a toast-masters 'lite' with just the table topics.
TLDR; in some jobs, you can't have social media accounts.

I have some contact with cybersec in Europe and it is very common that cybersec professionals in gov and mil positions do not have any social media accounts under their own name, and certainly not linkedin. Social media makes you too much of a target and reveals too much about your org. When promoted to a public-facing position the person then suddenly "appears" from nowhere and the media profile has as little information as possible. Real professionals use those accounts only from designated computers, and if you are high ranking enough (head of...) in fact never use them at all, but rather have someone else using them for you. All in the name of keeping your own actions and locations away from the curious.
Could be to avoid liability?

> Why were you hacked

> Weak passwords

> What are you going to do about it

> We've forced all systems and employees to regenerate passwords and service keys

Now lets try this again without an honest answer

> How were you hacked

> No idea

> What are you going to do? Are you still vulnerable?

> No idea. We'll have to do an extensive audit. No one knows how long this will take. There's not even an inventory of systems or data flow

> Could they have installed backdoors

> No idea
Agreed that something seems off.

Generous interpretation - they're brand new (first Tweet 2/13/2019, first blog 2/19/2019).

Would love to know if those logos & awards are legit (quick search of the awards makes some look like pay to win).
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Maybe the US should have high tariffs on packaging materials to prevent their importation and force domestic manufacture.
My friend had similar 'super power's but.. with Diablo 2 CD key ;)
I think it's actually less labour supply constrained than most businesses, since it's a job almost anyone can do without training other than a driver's license. And there are no big discomfort factors compared to jobs like long haul trucking or working in a mine.
It’s absolutely reasonable to be critical of any accusations that “Iran did it” or any other nation that the US considers enemies. Didn’t our security ministers claim North Korea was behind the Sony hacks when Obama was in office? We were never given any proof, so it’s impossible to verify... When you consider the way we lie on international affairs, all statements our government makes must be considered suspect. This is not unique to the US by the way, so treat your own state similarly.
for some reason I felt the exact opposite about most things on the list :/
Since my first job, I've also tried to be in mostly performance roles, so I can't say for sure what the state of the art is in the brand side. I know there's lots of software trying to solve those issues.
> I wouldn't put personal data I am not willing to lose online or on an intranet at all anymore

Anymore? Not trusting the internet used to be the default.
My “favourite” macOS bug is 14 years old and I have reported it countless times, including in email exchanges with Federighi. The OS doesn’t respect an app’s input language and changes it when switching apps. Default input, English, gets overwritten on app switch. There is an option, it doesn’t really work. This is my only serious problem with the macOS I love and it’s sad we get new bugs galore while old ones are ignored.
I am always inclined to use standards, because of the "right tool for the job" mentality, and it seems like an even more obvious thing to do when the standard is widely adopted already. But let's be honest: there are lots of really crappy standards in use today, because at some point they were widely adopted, and now it seems like a too big job to pull off to replace them with something sane. Because it all depends on adoption by the end users, and the end users don't care about the formats, they care about the neat tools that make the life easier.

If POLAR gets popular enough, it can potentially dictate what is the standard. So I think it is best to compare the formats from the purely technical perspective. ZIP + json with as simple inner structure as possible has a huge advantage of being easy to handle by anyone: I can open (and actually read/modify) such a file with tools I will have on any machine, anytime. It is so simple and obvious, that I can write a script that packs some data in a format probably (at least partially) readable by your software in a minute.

So:

1. Can I (meaningfully) do the same with this WARC thing?

2. What are the technical benefits of WARC over this unnamed (yet) file format?

3. Can WARC be losslessly converted into *.polar? And the other way around?

4. Are there tools to do #3? Is it tricky to implement on a new platform?

I mean, if you can actually propose something better than WARC (or whatever) you can potentially save the world from another one WebDAV (or name your favorite horrible standard which we cannot rid of because everyone uses it).
I guess when I say “MathML proponents” I ought to be more careful in my thinking to make a distinction (even if they are often the same people) between those working on MathML as a project, and those advocating for its actual use today under current conditions. I have no problems with the former; I wish them good luck and look forward to trying the result when it's ready. For the latter, I can only say that anyone advocating using MathML today despite its problems (poor layout and browser support) clearly cares about something else more than they do about actually communicating mathematics to humans.

No doubt among the authors of the MathML specs there are people who care about typesetting. Though I'll note that being active in the LaTeX ecosystem is not a guarantee of this: the prime example is the author of LaTeX (Leslie Lamport) himself, who makes a pitch for the LaTeX model around (mostly) not caring about the appearance: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/document-production.p... — in contrast with Knuth who devotes the largest (despite smaller font size) chapter of The TeXbook to Fine Points of Mathematics Typing. (A blog post by one of the authors of the MathML spec you linked to: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2011/04/30/two-math...) In fact some of the worst mathematical typesetting I've seen is by people who wrote in LaTeX and blindly trusted it to produce the best typesetting, and sometimes even ignored the warnings about overfull/underfull lines.

Looking at the MathML sample page in Firefox (https://mdn.mozillademos.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Proje...), there are many that are worse and none that is better that TeX's output (which for some reason is given on the page in low-resolution images rather than high-dpi images or SVG) — and in any case if you feel that some are subjectively better, it's still the case that the aesthetic most everyone wants is “like TeX”. And personally I've seen very little by Firefox/MathML people on their layout decisions (if they decided to do things differently from TeX, why?), while with MathJax I've seen that if their output is found not to match TeX's it is treated as a bug report and a fix attempted. What are the some respects in which you say Firefox's output is visually superior to MathJax's? Is there a page demonstrating them?

> Have you seen the tag soup generated (by necessity) with MathJax or KaTeX?

Yes, and it's not pretty. But (1) among the list of things to care about this is the lowest of the low, as it does not affect what is visible to the user, and (2) the tag soup of MathML, though shorter, has still all the XML ugliness so it's not as if it will ever be readable. (In fact looking at the comparison of different input formats https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MathML&oldid=8864... for sufficiently complex equations even the TeX/AsciiMath inputs become unreadable; the well-typeset visual representation may be the only somewhat readable one.)
You do realize that static web-sites is what the internet was built on, right?

It does work! And frankly, it‘s very well suited if all you want to do is display an article.

Maybe i was woooshed here, not sure.
I just wanted to say that I appreciate the way you took the criticism of your first comment. Well done, my friend.
GeoIP data from MaxMind.
> I think the most unusual characteristics of his story was that everyone tried to control him. First, the priests at the seminary by disciplining him

Priests tried to control him ? He entered the school voluntarily. They did not lock him up. He left of his own accord and priests encouraged him to return. I don't think that was 'trying to control him'

> He seemingly did everything for the sole purpose of global Marxist revolution

Stalin's policy was 'Socialism in one country'. Apart from some modest actions like supporting the Spanish communists in the Spanish Civil War etc, he did not work that hard to advance the Marxist revolution abroad.
I really liked Before the flood.
As a leader, you should talk differently with your team and with execs. With your team: understand what they are saying quickly, ask good questions, make them think, teach them how to think and work with your principles and wisdom. With execs: understand what they want, "own" and ask what you need (logically) and "get things done". The buck should stop with you.
Good catch, that is called a 3 letter agency front.
probably not, but from my anecdotal experience with upper managers (i don’t work at apple), every little bit counts towards “hitting the targets”...it seems unfortunately almost nowhere is immune to this pathological way of thinking...
Let's be honest though, is anyone fooled by this? If you are plopping down ~50k for a car you should read the text directly on their first. It says the full price as well as the price minus savings in gas, in the same font size. I get it, it's tacky, but it's not like hidden fine-print and fees 10 pages into a contract.
I must admit that I don't have a deeper understanding of their members. Can you shed some light of the structure/profile of their 1200 business members and 800 (lobbying) organisation members?
What made radar stand out for you compared to other tools?
He seemingly did everything for the sole purpose of global Marxist revolution

How did you arrive at that conclusion from either of these books? (I'm actually asking, not trying to take you to task for it).
They don't offer their product in any of the EU languages (other than English, which is their first language), and they don't offer product in Euro.

That means they're not targetting EU citizens, and can ignore GDPR.
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> developed by an outsourced offshore team

I thought there were some engineers who worked on Radar, but then I heard that they had moved development offshore. Is this a new thing?

> is missing obvious features, e.g. automatic duplicate finding

Last I heard, I think someone was working on this in their free time. I don't think anyone has tried to add this as an official feature, though.
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Maybe they are quoting the money coming in before expenses like gas/lease etc? Maybe they put it an above average investment of time?
1. Don't pass technical info up the food chain

2. Executives only wanna know, why and what and who, not how.

3. See Engineers are minions whoes work is to handle complexity for the company in return of payment, if you've to think about the complexity yourself as a manager or executive, your engineers aren't doing a very good job at it and someone must be fired, adopt this view.

4. You and executives are on another level controlling technical resources which are like sheeps, so be a German shepherd and guide them properly.

Pass down only the information essentially to operate. Engineers having more info/control is dangerous.

5. When being asked about a particular hire, use this language. Well Rick is technically sound but doesn't know much about how things work in business (plaster a wicked smile), he has to be tamed then he will be good for the company. You've to express that you've total reality bending mind control over your minions.

Executives like bullying character because they get job done. So think about how you can appear like a bully to your executives.

You need to make executive feel in control, like you are his loyal dog who is like a jail warden/bully to minion working for the company.

Infantize the Engineers in your language when talking to Executives. After all infants can't take of their own food and need on-campus sushi to feed themselves

Stop asking for advise on HN, here Engineers outnumbered executives so good answers will only receive downvotes.

In real life, being politically or ethically or morally correct has nothing to do with the Success.
Yes. This fools people. If you look 5 advertisements while flipping a magazine or driving through a road, and only tesla does this, you end up with the idea that they are cheaper. It hurts comparability. They should not be confusing people about the retail price of the car.
So it's actually the Swiss public footing the bill for your private software company. Doesn't make it any less gross. The EU really dropped the ball here.
And have fun getting legal to sign off on that.
The screen shot in the article just shows an asterisk after the price.

Theres a further complication in that most countries offer incentives for buying EVs, so you could legitimately think its one of those that Tesla is helpful illustrating for you.

Finally Europe has decent consumer protections, so the price advertised should be the price payable, and people expect that.
Think about your Audience. That's all there is to it.

Your team's job is execution, Executives job is prioritisation. Your job as a first level manager is to make sure your teams work is prioritised correctly and that your people visible and valued.

When you're talking to your manager, think about what details he would be interested in and give him ONLY what he wants. In some cases it is about omitting details, and in other cases it's about processing the details into more digestible metrics.

As an example, if your team is spending time on a recurring issue and you want to get executive blessing for a project to develop an automation tool, you would open the dialog by hard-selling the problem. You are loosing a huge amount of productive time, atleast 'x' man-days every week. Your engineers are frustrated by this. Every team in your company is impacted by this, not just yours... and guess what, MY TEAM can solve this.
Damn that's cynical. I hope you find something better.
Will AI learn that drafting is rigged?
I don't think that's the reason; if someone who happens to be employed by a government commits a crime in their jurisdiction, they're still a perpetrator and a criminal.

"Threat actor" is actually more specific; it refers to someone behaving in a threatening manner without regard to their legal status or jurisdiction.
Why can't we be neither?
Okay, I think I get it now. Each four-sided polygon is a cell in the pump. There are twelve nucleotides, corresponding to four codons, one for each side of any hypothetical polygon cell.

The cells can only coordinate and synchronize, when at least one side of every cell feeds into a resonating feedback loop. This way, through self assembly, they can orient their facets to interface correctly and combine to create the properly functioning organ.

This is the manner of any automatic cellular system. Each member cell calculates its state according to the state of its neighbors for each round, generation or temporal frame of reference.

Solving the problem flips a flag in the simulation, which is simply an abstraction of the game system. Rolling the dice, to revert to the chaotic state, returns the game to its initialized settings.

Normally, in other automatic cellular systems, the operational state of all member cells is fully deterministic, but in this system, the evaluation to compute status for each round or generation is not whether the cells are healthy or not, but whether they’re capable of communicating an afinity for participation in coordinated tasks. Once synchronized behavior is achieved, the genome only modifies the already synchronized participation. Reversion to chaos, as an abstraction, does not make sense in living tissue, and since evolution solves for these realities, across iterative versions of tissue-organized multicellular creatures, this game introduces debug affordances to operate those concepts manually.
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Materials science is one of the most fascinating and underrated fields. There's so much to discover with the elements on the periodic table, and so many applications from those discoveries.
Same tactic as what's used on Twitter accounts.

And same as I said previously: If the bad actors can brute force weak passwords, the company itself should be able to do it too and force those with weak passwords to update them.
there is one small nuisance here - if we start to treat all governments equally skeptic, we should also "fry live" all large corporations too.
1 in 3 campaigns are for medical bills, raising $650 million a year.
My counter-point to this would be that we haven't seen significant breaches (at least, not on the scale of this) from the tech giants (FAANG and co). So there are companies that can keep your data safe. They're just vanishingly few.
That argument seems to me akin to insisting the internet remain a platform for hobbyists and non-profit organizations. How does this site stay running and pay employees in this purer internet?
I would like to point out that there exists solutions tested in the field in the last 20 years to solve the same problem.

In particular I would suggest to get to know MQTT an open protocol with several (open and close) implementation that is know for its flexibility and scalability (if nothing has changed it is used to power the Messager Facebook platform, but don't quote me on that).

verneMQ is the server implementation I would suggest if you are interested in such topic.