skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst part about Apple Support is that Apple will delete threads that may indicate a problem with their hardware.

Those usually have useful information, even if that information is simply that it's a hardware issue that cannot be resolved by you.
We have FEMA, which is similar:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Management...

They did a pretty shit job managing Hurricane Katrina though. Bush's political appointee to run FEMA had no relevant experience, and Trump now also has a variety of incompetents running various agencies.

The military is bigger, better funded, and most importantly, more competent. A lot of people in a disaster in the US, upon hearing that FEMA is coming, would rather wish it were the military (just based on track record).
Maybe he's adding redundancy, because he's worried that Hacker news is a noisy channel.
The first half of the video, about these similar robot narrated news stories, has been talked about before. I had been trying to understand how it was done, and this video dives into it. Important watch, surprised this isn’t getting much love here!
Just echoing the sentiment that I didn't become a vegetarian because I didn't like the taste of meat.
> I'm amused by the tone. It's like the author doesn't realize that 99% of software development and deployment is done like this, or much much worse. Welcome to the real world.

Agree with this, a lot of developers are in a filter bubble where they stick to communities that advocate modern practices like automated testing, continuous integration, containers, gitflow, staging environments etc.

As a contractor, I get to see the internals of lots of different companies - forget practices even as basic as doing code reviews, I've seen companies not using source control with no staging environments and no local development environments where all changes are being made directly on the production server via SFTP on a basic VPS. A lot of the time there's no internal experts there that are even aware there's better ways to do things instead of it being the case they're lacking resources to make improvements.
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They already have introduced a vegan burger, the McVegan, in some countries, they have been testing it in Finland and Sweden, https://www.mcdonalds.com/se/sv-se/product/mcvegan.html
I think inmates or criminals have a higher rate of mental and physical diseases, as well as bitterness, grievances and other factors that skews their vision of reality, and make them judge situations differently from people who are not inmates.

It does not mean that there are criminals or inmates who are incapable of judging if a situation is moral or not. It's more like on a statistical basis, inmates/criminals are more likely to give ambiguous or erroneous moral answers to situations that seems obvious to others.
Reminds me of the development of Diablo. Once that sleep time became small enough the game took off.
They are also typically really high calorie (not that it's much different from a regular beef patty).
Just so you know you are not alone... I'm Cloudflare's CTO and that happens to me. We are working on it :-)

Edit: It's fixed and I'm on the waitlist.
Polishing the ball is acceptable in cricket (you polish one side and leave the other rough so the bowler can produce swing). What's not acceptable (but still happens) is players will rough up the other side with foreign objects.
APNIC acquires DNS data in exchange for 1.1.1.1 [1], are they also involved with the VPN service?

[1] https://blog.apnic.net/2018/04/02/apnic-labs-enters-into-a-r...
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> It sounds great, and the people giving the money really think they're helping. Unfortunately, it's rarely the case

I don't think your experience driving around Africa gave you a enough information to adequately support your conclusion (which I could not leave unchallenged). I mean this in a non-disparaging way: you got breadth, but not depth. I, an African, on the other hand, have depth, but not breadth.

I have some experience with both sides of the NGO coin: I've seen communities and individuals positively. From disease eradication in whole communities to people regaining their vision. People giving money are helping in most of the cases. On the other side of the coin - I agree that NGOs have a lot of fat they could cut in terms of expenditures that do not directly go to their mission, but this depends entirely on which NGO it is and what their culture is, not all of them are the same. This is an industry ripe for disruption by leaner setups, too bad VCs aren't really geared for this.

Donors are helping, but maybe not as much as they think they are (per dollar). It would be great if they would research the org they are donating to to find how many cents per dollar are going to the cause. More transparency in this area is needed.
You don't address the parent's point.

Trying to group 1000 people together and measure all of them, sure that seems insurmountable for an informal system.

Taking that same group of 1000, splitting them into subgroups of 7 and giving those individual groups their own goals and autonomy to pursue them may again allow for informal performance measurement.
It's quite common for drinking buddies to quarrel, and once the perpetrator has sobered they are sorry and give themselves in.
> The difference between someone entering college
> with either one or two years of calculus and
> someone entering with precalc completed is huge...

I am not so sure about that.

Too many students enter college with a half-assed grasp of math because they were rushed and pressured through the subject matter before they were ready to handle it. Combine that with grade-inflation and the fact that so many students just can't focus on one thing at a time, leads to a really sub-optimal outcome IMHO.

Students who go through private schools with mastery-based curriculum are far better prepared for rigorous college math, not because they take 2 years of calculus, but because they've actually mastered the subject matter that they've studied.

There should be no shame in slowing things down but keeping the course work rigorous for college-bound students.
Speaking as a vegan, by the numbers it's people like you not us who are the ones who are going to have the bigger positive impact on the environment by eating plant based options more often. It's encouraging to hear meat eaters being increasingly open minded...
> But do I need to trust XMPP server 1 and 2?

You trust whatever server you query. That might be server one, or it might be server one and server two. It's a federated network, so you make requests through your own server.

> And will XMPP server 2 have my IP address?

No. It's a federated network, like email, so it just gets your XMPP address (historically referred to as a "Jabber ID" or "JID").
The newest version of the Impossible Burger is planning on being sold in stores. The older version only is in restaurants.
I am talking about boxes of milk. Ppl aren't just buying vegetables.
Somebody is spending those dollars, they’re not burning them.

If you have an extra dollar, what do you do with it? You either spend it on land, labour or capital. Stuff, property, or other people that will spend it on one of the three above things.
I say this kind of thing a lot, but I feel compelled to repeat myself. It seems like every week brings more evidence of oppressive governments edging ever closer toward a full-on 1984 nightmare scenario.

At this point the decision tree facing privacy activists, those concerned with human rights, and those who support the expansion of western moral aspirations is unambiguous.

Are you uncomfortable with China's aggressive censorship, human rights abuses, and surveillance? Stop buying shit from them. Stop using their software. Nine times out of ten you don't need it. Don't support corporations that enhance the efficiency of the Chinese government's oppression in the name of profits. Don't accept the idea that it's okay for giant corporations to bend to whatever demands (however ominous) an authoritarian government hands to them in the name of profit.

Exceptions arise, and no one's behavior is perfect. But the 1/10 case where you absolutely MUST use a certain surveillance app or buy a certain widget made by slaves in another country is not an excuse for throwing your hands up and capitulating in the other nine cases you encounter every day. Many of us on HN have the option to not support oppressive systems - I implore you to exercise that option so that others may gain the ability to choose as well.
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Getting the same thing here
Required reading

"Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations"

Has a lot of information about how people react and adapt to setting KPIs, aka "gaming the system".
Burger King Begins Selling the Meatless Impossible Whopper
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It seems that in some places they already have one, in germany we have the Veggie-Burger TS https://www.mcdonalds.de/de/produkte/produkt-profil?productN.... I liked it when I tried.
Ohh!! Someone is still yearning for that Yen.
Really? Dammit. Everything really is a lie.
it was a typo right "this email is legit" which was meant to said illegitimate
Anecdata but I definitely developed better abstract thinking at the end of and even after college.

I've always thought I got more patient or maybe the research phase of debugging and programming required me to get better. Maybe I just got older.
Wonder if we would have a desktop version as well.

Tried VPNs at some point. It was a slower and more error prone Internet experience. For doubtful privacy gains.

It would awesome to have static IPs as well.
Also the impossible burger has about the same amount of calories as an 80% lean ground beef burger, so it's no better as far as calories are concerned.
More like a resister, I think. A variable resister. The gate is the knob.
Sounds like you’ve identified the real problem.

Though the other plant inputs in this burger are probably subsidized too.

Either we need to subsidize the impossible burger, or properly tax/desubsidize agriculture.
I agree in general that using native HTTP stacks is a good idea for all sorts of reasons, but it's worth calling out that NFHTTP is actually using CURL under the hood on Linux & Android platforms so this just ultimately wraps the CURL C API in a C++ API. On OSX it is using NSURL which is great, and on Windows it's using Microsoft's cpprestsdk library in order to talk with WinHTTP and UWP.
I mostly was going for software mistakes in the last century or so, not natural disasters before we had reasonable tech to protect ourselves. But even in the case of Pompeii, the residents knew that Vesuvius (likely etymologies include "unquenchable" or "hurler of violence") was an active volcano, so human negligence isn't unreasonable there.

My claim is mostly that "human negligence" is so universal of a root cause that it's meaningless. What form of human negligence happened, and how could it be averted in the future?
Yes, agree.

This wasn't an exact science, but you could get an idea if you were underpaid compared to your colleagues.

On the flip side, when I was younger and tried to refuse to say my current salary the recruiter would point out they would find it anyways, so it wasn't always and advantage.
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Yes. As it says at the end of the post. Desktop clients will be coming soon.
This is one of the classics of the genre. If you're interested in software reliability/failure, you should read some of COMP.RISKS .. and then stop before you get too depressed to continue.
Same here, I prefer a black bean burger to one of these. I don't dislike the impossible burger but still have the uncanny valley sensation while eating them.
> I have a good relationship with my manager, but I feel it hard to break the ice with Salary topics. It really hit my nerves

At various times I've had a lot of anxiety regarding my job, especially when I was feeling financially vulnerable.

Regardless of how you handle this particular situation, you might try to work on the anxiety issue. You might consider a few trial session with a professional counselor. The human psyche can be pretty non-intuitive, and a good counselor can teach you a lot about how yours works. It like discovering a (partial) owners manual for your own brain, if you find the right counselor.
Well, what I was really trying to say is—I don't really mind the "it's just like meat!!" products. I may personally prefer the "it's just vegetables" products, but having more options is fine.
On second thought, I misread the argument, and I agree it's whataboutism. See edit. (However, if my misreading had been correct, it wouldn't have been whataboutism, as it would be a prediction that Tesla would also be bad.)
Right, it's turtles all the way down.
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I remember being absolutely amazed at how clean, fast and huge Gmail was. This post brings back great memories. I got an invite as I was an avid blogger user and signed up as early as 4/20/2004. Missed out on claiming firstname@gmail.com since my first name is only 5 letters long...
Reading code I perceive as "lousy" and sometimes stepping through it with a debugger has often been a great learning experience for me. Sometimes I even realize that I'm wrong, and "lousy" design decisions were actually chosen to solve some tricky problem. More often it was just written in a hurry, or written before more modern libraries were available, but reading it still helps me improve my brain's "pattern-matching engine" for next time I see something similar.
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The BS artists might be 1 in 250 to 1 in 1000 candidates, so give it time and you'll run into a skilled one sooner or later.

I have made several bad hires over 25 years and probably 100 direct hires and 500 total hires where I was on the panel. It happens. Most would have been difficult to ferret out in an interview, because an interview is an inherently spotty/lossy process.

The worst hire I ever made had, in retrospect, been given the (business case) question ahead of time and had pre-written notes in his notepad. He theatrically took careful notes while I was stating the business case problem, asked if it was OK if he did some computations and composed his thoughts in his notebook before presenting the case at the whiteboard. He did just that and stood to deliver literally the most polished presentation on the case that I have ever experienced. 5/5 definitely hire.

Shows up to the job and couldn't get water out of a boot if told the instructions were printed on the bottom. Flames out in a few months and moves on to his next gig. It was only after playing things back that I realized the only way he could have pulled that off was to have pre-seeded his notebook with the solution to the business case.
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Unless the NIMBY’s are able to restrict new home construction. Of course that would require limiting population growth in the US and that’s a political problem.
That would only be true if meat production costs accounted for externalities. That $3 meat burger might cause $7 of damage to the environment.
Nice. Anyone building fun stuff using Django these days?
You really cannot strictly equate price with "resources" like this. Does a $10,000 designer shirt require 1,000 times the resources of a $10 t-shirt to produce?

I imagine they are charging a premium for the impossible burger because it's a novelty and they think they can get it. Time will tell if that pricing model is sustainable in the long run.
Maybe nitpicking certain micro-design choices isn't always helpful, and maybe it doesn't need to be a task requiring 8 hours, but I believe a "work sample" of actual code is the only technique that has any research backing it as a good way to evaluate potential hires.
I saw these menus in France, Germany and UK too.

Looks like it isn't available in the US though, https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-our-food/our-food-y...
I'm an angel investor in both plant based meat and clean meat and I'm actually more optimistic for plant based meat becoming better than animal meat in the short term. The rate of innovation has been really impressive and momentum is picking up steam.. once prices get under animal meat huge amounts of people will switch
Not ideal for performance too, sites/APIs with regional endpoints could then be slower. Understand the privacy impact, could CloudFlare client “anonymize” edns subnet by region-ing the request based on large cloud regions? (rather than actual client subnet)
Zuckerberg and facebook are just lobbying for government to take responsibility for the things that they, as civilians, and Facebook as a public corporation are responsible for – not screwing up so many people's lives that the aggregate turns into a societal problem. The intention here is to create legal precedent as a shield against future prosecution. If the government mandates that only it is powerful enough to stop these problems, then how could we have stopped them?!

This is when you sue, hard.
Honestly, this is why I'm skeptical of take-home coding. They require a high investment of my time, and a lower investment of the hiring company's time.

It's fine when I'm in a "my job is to get a job" situation, but I haven't been in that situation very much.

As a result, I only start these kinds of projects when I have a clear understanding of the company; and when my personal ramp-up will be very small. Otherwise, I just walk away. My free time is limited.
This is a real protocol. It just got published yesterday and made its way onto HN today.
The main driver of incarceration is income. Main driver of where you end up is the wealth of your parents.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/14/17114226/incarcerat...
Awesome missed that!
Giving up 80% for the first customer? That's a big ask.

The customer only exists if the idea is turned into an actual product. Until then he's just a person who wishes his problem could be solved.
We do not currently plan to allow third-party WireGuard clients to connect to the service.
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Why do you think terrorists use (algorithmic) encryption in common communication channels at all? There are so many ways to transport a hidden message in plain sight that using encryption itself might give intelligence a hint that terrorists would avoid. Embed the crucial information in videos, photos or a text about your mothers cheese macaroni recipe. Or use a side channel for communication, not mail or some messenger.

The idea of finding clever criminals by decryption their communications is stupid by itself. And stupid criminals leave so many trails bragging about their plans that you don't need decryption and back doors. Most european terrorist attacks were done by criminals already known by intelligence, but not monitored strongly (see Berlin). Monitoring all communications would lead to an explosition of the number of suspects. It would not lead to more security.
Personally I get intense panic seeing a person's face looking at me while I try to avoid off by one errors.

It's all in the experience but that might be the other side to the situation you are describing.

I am practicing a lot to be more comfortable but I still feel bad for those people who interviewed me and ended up disappointed.
Couldn't agree more. An ability to learn quickly, to self-teach, to solve problems is vastly more important than any degree of exposure to a specific piece of technology. These characteristics are as much about your skill level as they are about your attitude and approach to software engineering, as well.
Whoever's left after several generations of this consumer technology will look at apps like this and the associated lifestyle the way humans look at snakes, open sores, and other dangerous, reproductive-fitness harming things today. This may be counterintuitive, but since birth control there is an inverse relationship between the number of sexual partners and the number of children.
In my experience, I've only gotten an offer of a raise when I threatened to quit.

First Raise:

I asked for an entire year for a $5k bump in salary to meet market standards. My performance, work ethic, etc was all well beyond my pay. After consistent denial of raise and being told "keep up the good work and in 3 months we'll review again" - I went job hunting. I found another job, got the letter of offer.

The next day I walked into my bosses office, dropped the letter on their desk and said "I'd like to stay here, but I'll need a salary boost. In the event you still cannot give me one, I'll send you my resignation letter promptly this afternoon."

Three hours later, the two meetings are done, the new job offered a $25k boost in salary + position change to management. My current employer's retention offer was $35k boost + no position change. Since I didn't care for the position, more the financial aspect, I accepted the retention offer. I was also told, "don't expect another raise unless it's a promotion"

Sometimes, you just need to step on their toes, put them in the hot seat. If they value you, they'll make a retention offer - if they don't, then have fun at your next job.
I think this is a rubbish excuse made by people who don't understand the role of such a "blue team". If the organization initially adopts metrics that are counter-productive (e.g. measuring feature completion and not technical debt), it is the role of the blue team to change the metrics such that the neglected areas are properly accounted for in final performance metrics. No metrics should be final; only iteratively tuned to achieve results that are more and more indicative of the underlying performance.

It is difficult, but still possible, to measure technical debt and other "hard" metrics. It is precisely the job of the blue team to deal with that.
I had the impossible burger at Momofuku and... it's just nothing like a burger, the two big differences being in flavor and in texture. (It looks the same as a regular burger.)

In flavor, it just doesn't have it. It has the same char flavor that a burger has... but without any meat flavor behind it, which is of course most of the flavor of a hamburger. Which makes sense, of course, because there's no meat. It's like picking up what you think is a Coke only when you taste it it's just sparkling water.

And then in texture it's quite different too. As if meat, instead of being ground (with all the satisfying texture that still has), were somehow blended into something more like a smooth paste before cooking. It isn't physically substantial or satisfying to chew, just mushy.

Since I'm not vegetarian, it's definitely not something I would ever order again because it doesn't have flavor and doesn't have texture. I'm not even talking about as a substitute, I'm just talking about as food period. Just give me some roasted veggies instead which have both flavor and texture. I mean, I love vegetables.

Or if you want a vegetarian "burger", a meaty Portobello mushroom is waaaay tastier.

But the Impossible Burger just feels like the worst of all worlds -- not satisfying like meat (just nowhere close), but also not satisfying as vegetables or any kind of "real food" at all.
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I think there is a dramatic difference in money being speech, and the government feeling the need to shut down Winnie the Pooh.

I still have speech even if money talks too....

There is no free speech if Winnie the Pooh is where a government draws the line... and I think it is disingenuous to claim that money is speech in America, is that implying it's not in China? Those in power in the government certainly work to enrich themselves. Money is a motivator there too.
An advanced high school senior in the US will take Calculus 1. An advanced high school senior in the US might take Calculus 2. (Yes, I am intentionally implying that taking calculus is what defines a student as advanced.)