skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve worked in three separate companies that had each hired a ton of ex Google engineers in their early years, and the systems they have are all identical to each other and seem like a poorly recalled-from-memory version of these types of patterns.

It’s like a strange simulacrum of some bazel-like build tools but not as mature as bazel but also can’t be swapped with real bazel due to tech debt issues, and same with canary deployments, monorepo layouts, etc.

It’s become something that I actively seek out information about when I interview for new jobs so I can actively avoid all these Google-but-not-quite-with-enough-resources-to-pull-it-off antipatterns.

Worse yet is that in many of these shops, those early employees who came from Google just stayed long enough to mutate the whole monorepo / homebrewed bazel clone / canary deploys mess into a pile of unmaintainable crap that couldn’t be migrated away from without huge business risks, and thenthey mostly all quit and a lot of them even went back to Google!

I call it the Google Borg Syndrome. Same crap monorepo ideas, same crap canary ideas, same crap bazel-like build system ideas just spread like kudzu. It really shows how bad the ideas themselves are, and how if it wasn’t for a giant money and labor-hours faucet that Google can shoot at these systems, they would be unmasked as deeply poor ways of solving engineering problems.
I really didn't like Inbox at all.
It seems that you’re arguing with a straw man because these bans which are being talked about are for road transport, no government is proposing to ban IC ships, trains, and farm and construction equipment over that time frame, although it will likely be the case that a programme of electrification will be continued and stepped up. Similarly I don’t know why you’re talking about steam engines, they are totally insignificant.
This is complicated. Anti-vax, flat earth and other ideologies masked as science have turned into virus', distributed over social. At the same time, people with all sorts of ideologies are shouting down facts they don't agree with.

Scientists researching potential behavior and psychological treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome are being targeted on Twitter so aggressively that many are giving up on the research, and some journals are pulling their findings (1). What happens when these people scream until Amazon pulls books about it? A whole field of helpful research could be burried for decades.

These ideological battles used to be local. Now they are global and it's causing real harm. We've discussed this previously. (2)

“Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses - viruses generated from within itself.”

(1) https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-...
(2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280858
Yeah, I had the same issue, with the same name on the account. Somebody I know also had this issue, and after a few rounds of back and forth with support they managed to get the bogus account deleted, and I think their plan was to then create a new account. I was going to try logging in with my Google Account (which is the same email) but who knows if that will work or not. I think it is easier to just wait a year for exclusivity to expire. There's plenty of games out there to play.
Reading both of your comments, one has to wonder if your wife and their classmate were one in the same.
Facebook is certainly not doing it out of the goodness of their heart. What they want to do is essentially exploit the fact that data is so expensive in so many countries, in order to make Facebook equal 'the internet' there.

I understand somewhat why it's working, but still find it kind of depressing that it's being actively cheered on.
I would be careful not to assume that your morality is the only morality. The world is a big place and there are diverse ideas and beliefs all around.
The other, original crypto is cryptography.

I would say that there is technical or feature based segmentation, for example public-permissionless vs. private-permissioned blockchains. Otherwise, it's more of a database, so you see some breaking down by sector application. Some people are trying new "economies" or "marketplaces." Private blockchains seem to be having more success entering the mainstream, under the radar. Much like swapping any tech in a process, the user doesn't really care, or care to know.

There also seems to be less interest in the new crypto around HN these days, with good reason.
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Is Hudson Yards the Neighborhood New York Deserves?
The objective of fertility work is sperm/egg/embryo/whatever, not orgasm. If they could efficienctly stick a needle in the gonads and extract the reproductive cells, they would.
Memory may be cheap on a VPS but on AWS, GCP and Azure it sure ain't.
Yep. When people have dug-in to their trenches, shouting even louder is pointless.

This was about the other half of the reply that hasn't been explored. Lets make threads here more interesting than an infinite uh-huh!/nuh-uhh!/uh-huh! loop.
Not really, they are under economic coercion.
Lincoln Nebraska has done it. Google Allo...
Can you elaborate on the remote development use cases you have in mind? I struggle to see what makes this better than developing locally and pushing/pulling code via git or some other VCS.
Sure, but computer vote tallying and e-Voting are not the same thing.
The real issue is that Bigtable's used to be in one big shared cell which could handle temporary 190% increases in resources.

Now, to increase isolation between services, everyone is off in a partition, and each individual partition is much smaller and therefore can't withstand resource spikes without falling over.

And I bet the "emergency loan" functionality for various resources still isn't automated and still has arcane requirements to meet and a delay before it kicks in. Yay - a 15 minute delay. Thats exactly what I need when my entire service is down! /s
What is your background? I've been studying math, neuroscience , AI, biology etc for a long time. I left quantitative finance (after leaving a math program) to work at a university developing computational biology software. In finance I worked with neural networks well over a decade ago before people in Silicon Valley had even heard of them. Convince me you're not a kook and I'd be glad to have a conversation.
It is sad that TAB books is no longer a thing, they totally would have published the "BUILD YOUR OWN VIDEO GAME" book. That said, I bet that you could get NoStarch Press to publish it.
It depends - if you're going from zero revenue, then, losing 10% of your users to go from zero dollars to N dollars is a great deal.

If you have existing other revenue sources, then you definitely have to factor that into the equation.
That’s your own fault if that’s the case.
If you don't mind installing Linux on your Chromebook you can run VSCode or anything you want natively.

I've been running GalliumOS on mine for years and it's superb. It might be the best $350 I ever spent. I wrote a huge review and write up of the process at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/transform-a-toshiba-chromeboo...

I would still get the same Chromebook today too if you can find one. That specific model happens to be a perfect storm of massive value / great specs at a low price.
No pun intended... Is the point of this to run chrome locally to run a webkit instance on a remote server, with added latency?
At least you can EAT corn instead of burning it as a poor more-polluting more-expensive substitute for gasoline!
> “but the content producer thinks is unethical.”

What? Of what relevance is the random thought of the content producer when it comes to my personal property.

That’s like saying using my leaf blower to blow leaves is unethical because someone somewhere else in the world thinks I should use my leaf blower as a golf club.

Some person made a game or a streaming service or whatever. They hope people will allow ads to be displayed with it on the peoples’ personal property. But that creator person, who has no connection whatsoever to my personal property, does not influence any concept of ethics about the way I use my property.
Aren't FLOPS/dollar still increasing exponentially? "Nowhere near" means something different when you are dealing with exponentials.

If that growth doesn't cap out before AGI, then at some point we'll harness more computational power than a human brain, in a more controllable way. And around that point AGI probably goes from impossible to possible to easy in a stretch of about 6 years.

edit turns out 6 years was about the timespan for computer Go to span "plays like a competent amateur" to "superhuman". There was barely anything worth reporting before 2010 [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go#21st_century
How is this applicable to what I wrote?

Here is the relevant part again:

> because its revenue from goods and services is less money than it spends
Claims that forcing children to drink bleach will cure autism are far beyond "alternative information".
FastFusionNet: New State-of-the-Art for DAWNBench SQuAD
Yeah I like competition in the market and would like to help Epic out but the way they're handling this is so poor.

Satisfactory is the game I wanted to buy but it's not worth it for me to send a photo of my passport to anyone. They fail to validate email addresses then I'm supposed to trust them with data that identifies me and could be used to steal my identity, no thanks.
Right, but my point is that "traditional" views of backups had two types of backup -- incremental and full. The "let's store the delta between snapshots" solution is what would traditionally be called an "incremental" backup while a full copy of the entire filesystem would be a "full" backup.

Time Machine might call itself an incremental backup, but this just leads to more confusion -- it's a next-gen backup system (that has the benefits of both the "incremental" and "full" approaches) just like restic, borg-backup and all other similar projects.
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is ex-Boeing and yesterday a government watch dog has asked for an investigation that he violated ethics rules by promoting Boeing weapons systems while serving as a government official.

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao was Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush, Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and the wife of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/PhilDibowitz/centos-at-fac...
I just hope it coincides with a cultural shift of people realizing they need to pay for things and that ads only made everything seem free.
The quota manager can be behind in the opposite direction and let you go way over quota too. Yay - free unlimited disk space for all! (for ~5 minutes!)
What kind of activities do you have your 2-year-old do on the tablet / other screens?

My 2.5 year old doesn’t get too much screen time (occasional movies or Mr Rogers episodes), but more because I haven’t spent any time investigating the possibilities than because we have a strong philosophical objection to it.
How quickly would they have to deploy a new standard for it to not be trampling?

Do you think they planned legacy Android devices not being able to support the new standard?
A Note from Mark Zuckerberg
I found this from yesterday interesting, https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/6855333...

I’m not too sold on the terrifying stories though.
>1) By default, the Epic launcher appears to advertise "free games" via Windows notification (popups). I never deliberately opted in to this.

How's that any different than steam showing popups for newly released games on startup?

>When I first saw the notification, I was certain I had some sort of spyware on my system. It looked like a spammy advertisement you see in free mobile games. I don't believe even EA/ORIGIN has been gutsy enough to try something like this.

So you're upset that the notification made you think your computer was infected? And you expect that epic games to have forseen this outcome?

>2) Epic launcher defaults to starting when Windows starts. I never explicitly opted in to this. I'm sure I "affirmed" this somehow via some kind of user agreement, but I don't ever remember seeing an explicit option.

AFAIK steam does the same.

edit:

Here are the default settings for a fresh steam install: https://i.imgur.com/2SNpi1O.png. As you can see, steam engages in the same "unethical" behavior as epic.
While I'm sure that sleep deprivation will eventually kill you (although I'm not sure if it's at all possible to keep someone from sleeping to that extent), insomnia isn't what kills you in fatal familial insomnia. The killer is prions turning your brain to mush and turning you first into a vegetable, then killing you.
I hear this quite a lot from the people who have worked at "damaging" companies (facebook, reddit, twitter, uber) but I still have to wonder if the personal benefits these platforms bring are really worth the societal cost, and if people are just using the idea that they can "change things from inside" as a justification for taking money to damage the world.

Don't get me wrong, I think that communication is great. It's fantastic that grandchildren can talk to their grandparents without their parents having to get off the couch and help. But is it worth people literally dying[1][2]? Is being able to post funny memes worth giving violent communities a place to thrive[4]?

At the end of the day people have to make their own decisions about things, but I think that tech workers as a whole are way to eager to wash their hands of the matter, take a paycheck, and blame others while ignoring that these companies could not function without them.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-facebook-neverending...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

[3] https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/facebook-un-myanmar-geno...

[4] https://www.fastcompany.com/90244757/the-inside-story-of-red...
It has to be adjusted for the metro area. An income of 250k puts one in the top 1% nation wide but maybe top 6-3% in San Francisco. Just like how a $1M home is expensive in most of the rest of the country but a bargain in SF, NYC, etc.
It's a generality and it's useful for describing a group of people.
Larry Ellison says Oracle's new cloud database is pulling companies from AWS
Where did this myth that if we don’t process things consciously we are not impacted? There is no such thing as a reasonable ad, except a person to person recommendation where no money changes hands.
What how did your salary jump so much between 24/25? Bonuses? Or base?
That’s too bad.

I don’t do much in that way normally, but it might have coaxed me into actually using my data plan a little while on the road!

Was it mainly UI bugs because of the device or did it actually grow sluggish?
My understanding of the current consensus among researchers is that nearsightedness is usually caused by (a) not focusing on distant objects enough, and (b) not being outside often enough in very bright light.

There’s no reason to believe that screens are inherently worse for vision than books, knitting, legos, or any other close work. Which is to say, any of these are only a problem to the extent they are crowding out outdoor time.

If you’re worried about it, get your kids out to the playground or walking around the neighborhood or hiking in the woods for a few hours every day.
I personally know many people that stayed / have stayed 9-10 years at Facebook, long after the IPO and long after vesting.

I think people really underestimate the value of sheer impact on end users. I know the news about FB hasn't been positive, but as an engineer a lot of people would jump at the opportunity to literally change the world every month.
I'm trying to not read too much into the fact that "Photo of Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Cox" is under a "Downloads" heading at the end of the... "article".

Makes it feel more like a PR puff piece to me.

optics, yaknow?
Is anyone silly enough to think even one former coal miner is going to spend their $1k on solar panels?
Jokes on them, I don't have any friends.
I believe they give you enough to calculate it: rough demo size and unique views.
If something gets standardized, then it becomes hard to iterate on the details. You can't make incompatible changes to browser standards, or else you break compatibility with old web pages.

React is currently working on figuring out how to adapt their API to allow asynchronous updating of the DOM. If the virtual DOM was standardized already, then the React team would have been very limited in how they could implement asynchronous rendering.
Let's hope they got their waste management figured out

https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/indias-nuclear...
This whole comment is semantics and not even the good kind. It's arguing to find an argument. It's good ammo for OP's next snarky comment though so I approve.
Exactly: and in many countries in the EU you are still fine when that happens. Not so in the US.
I think it's very odd. They say odd things come in threes.
The fix seems to be using some other software or whatever. I think a more important bit of advice that the article should provide is to ensure any data you need to keep should always be backed up.

In truth, this bug was embarrassing and probably annoying, but no worse than garden variety SSD card failures. No 3rd party rescue software is needed if you prepare for the inevitable SSD failures from the start.
I don't have an answer for the question but I remember watching a series of recorded interviews with Americans from all walks of life and all described themselves as middle class, from the poorest to the wealthiest.
2011-2012 Epic in Madison, WI 60k

2012-13 unemployed

2013-15 grad school position ~1200/mo 20hr a week python developer

15-16 unemployed

2016-2018 29k GBP in London, python dev

First half of 2018 65k usd in DC

Second half unemployed

2019 50k IT staff

I’M SUCH A FUCKUP
Does this make Ledger Nanos work on Firefox now?
Check the comments on stories related to diet. You'll see all sorts of crazy pseudoscience being peddled. There are a lot of smart people here, but even smart people can be led astray.
>they would be unmasked as deeply poor ways of solving engineering problems.

The best technical solution to problems can depend a lot on company size. These people are using a big-company solution in a small-company. And it nearly works, but not quite.

Big companies reinvent pretty much everything internally - You won't find Chef, Jenkins, Slack, Apache, Nginx, or any of that stuff at Google. Yet a small startup would be stupid not to use tooling developed and maintained by someone else almost everywhere.

In turn, the best solution to a problem depends on which tools you have at your disposal.
This and another NYT had quotes implying they're gonna try shift towards more private communications. I hope they pull it off, but I wont hold my breath.
> Facebook has a lot of positives to go along with its negatives. For me, it's the only way I stay in touch with a lot of my friends from high school.

Ask a reluctant smoker why they won't quit, beyond the addiction it's

1. Social. People talk during smoke breaks. They form bonds over smoke breaks. A 5 minute smoke break per hour means you spend 40 minutes around a friend, co worker, in relative private.

It's even a top way strangers meet each other, bumming a cigarette or smoking together.

I worked with a smoker, the best way for me to get his time so that I could get my questions answered was on his smoke break.
That doesn't matter much in modern fuel systems that don't admit much water to begin with.

"Dry Gas" is usually just some sort of alcohol, which mixes with both water and gasoline. Add dry gas, the water mixes into the fuel and is pushed/burned off.
Turn off those preferences in Google play services and see how annoying the errors are for yourself when using Gmail.
This is less a direct question and more of a discussion: I always thought it was considered a bad move to stick with your old company after receiving a competing offer and negotiating a higher wage at your old company. Conventional wisdom I've read is that your old company will slowly phase you out (thus missing out on promotions/raises).

Have other people been so successful using an offer for a raise at your original employer and staying?
> I have been informed by social scientists that requiring voter ID is racist

Do you have a personal opinion on that? I don't see it as racist in any way, because it applies equally to everybody.

We have a few basic rules for voters in this country, one is that they are citizens, two is that they are registered. Being able to demonstrate that you are the registered voter you claim to be seems to me to be essential to a fair election process.
The only attempt I'm aware of to obligate saving for employees' retirement is the USPS PAEA and it's received some pretty heavy political criticism in the press as "the most insane law" ever passed by Congress, creating a "manufactured crisis" and making the USPS less competitive. [1, 2]

And pensions are just one way a municipality can take on debt. Even if you force them to lock up savings ready for their employees' retirement, they can still load up on debts with municipal bonds, signing long-term contracts, delaying payments to suppliers, and suchlike.

Have there been any examples where a federal bail-out has been accompanied by legal mandates, and it's been successful?

And even if federal pension fund bail-outs bring with them strict rules that prevent them recurring in the same city, unless you can impose such rules on other cities without giving them bail-out money, you've still got the issue that paying off City A's unmanageable pension deficit will encourage City B, which is struggling with its pension deficit, to make it truly unmanageable to get a bail-out.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-04/congre...
You could say that everything is a known defect. Pilots can make fatal mistakes or just become suicidal, all the engines could be overwhelmed by birds, etc.

The argument against that is, succinctly, "life is a risk." Humans do things all the time with the full knowledge that what they're doing could kill them.
Great project and kudos to you for seeing it through to completion. In our spare moments this is often the greatest challenge. I read the whole blog post, really cool to see the architecture diagram, would love to see more.
It’s idiotic advice. It’s a meme to troll with. Nobody thinks that a 50 year old life long trucker is going to pick up programming. If they do think that, they shouldn’t be allowed to make any decisions for society. Hell, they probably shouldn’t even be allowed to vote.
I use the similar AT bindings in Australia for all types of skiing. Pattern base skis work very well in Australian conditions too.

There is occasional avalanche incidents in Australia and sadly there were a couple of deaths on Mt Bogong a few years ago. Since then there has been a lot more awareness of the danger here.
The two aren't exclusive. If major platforms of speech are privately owned by profit seeking entities, then the fact that certain kinds of speech are not profitable to host is a threat to free speech.