skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shame there is no "report" button here.
Join Kiva[1]. They do exactly as you say, and they are extremely successful.

[1]: https://www.kiva.org/
This is simply historically false. From Galileo and copernicus to even the scientists positing germ theory in the 1800s, mavericks who fought against orthodoxy have been persecuted. Even today, in our colleges, "mavericks" are punished and attacked. Our most famous maverick, Socrates, was forced to commit suicide.

It's true bill gates wouldn't have amounted to much had he been born in 1950s china because china was heavily undeveloped. But had he been born later in the 60s or 70s with china opening up, he could have been a Jack Ma.
Carl's also has the beyond burger, which I personally think is superior. My wife disagrees, and prefers your standard veggie burgers (we are vegans of 15 years).
What area of software development are we talking about?

That a person functioning as a software engineer expects:

a) Not to need to read or understand other persons code

b) Not to need to learn how new codebases work

Sounds completely unprofessional and misguided based on my experience.
To expand on that, I really like this quote by William Faulkner, and I think it really extends nicely to coding as well:

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
Saudi Arabia 'hacked Amazon boss's phone', says investigator
Update: It got sorted out for me and I got my waitlist number after trying again. Now the top banner just shows me my waitlist number.

Happened to me as well, and that’s why I came looking for the canonical post on this topic to see what’s happening. I switched networks and tried, but got no waitlist number. There’s just a message saying I’m on the waitlist and the button to join the waitlist is still visible and enabled.

Now that I see people from Cloudflare have responded, I’ll just wait and see.
Me! Have been for over 10 years. Still chugging away. :)
Beware of tech CEOs bearing gifts from government
Management via metrics is a really useful shortcut to generating alignment, but it is a shortcut. If you tell people that they need to move a number there isn't a lot of ambiguity and you can just keep beating the same drum over and over. Trying to align people on the whole business context is much harder and takes a lot more time though obviously much more valuable.
Malware may have stolen 2M US restaurant diners' credit card details
> 1. We don't write user-identifiable log data to disk;

That's great... but you do log user-identifiable info? How I read that is "we log things that can identify you but just keep it in memory for X amount of time".

Myself and other privacy-minded folks would like to know more details there, especially as this is a freemium service.
Which version did you have? Was it 2.0?
Cloudflare, are there plans for ad blocking? Currently using AdGuard DNS and it works well. Router-level ad-blocking would be an attractive premium option.
Yes. Happens all the time in large companies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?page...

Article is from 2010

Microsoft for example, was plagued by divisional infighting: ClearType was sabotaged.
Which is completely useless unless you also lock them out of the western financial system.

The lack of physical presence isn't that big a showstopper anymore. Throw in an inability to exercise financial clout anymore though, and things will rapidly change.

There likely isn't much political will for that though, and I'm fairly certain it could only come after a period of weaning the economy off the luxury of cheap as dirt manufacturing/shipping.
What is a honeypot? A trap for catching hackers in the act
Honestly, this article sounds like a rant.

Hiring is hard. A lot of interviewers aren't good at it. Every technique that gets promoted has flaws.

We could be like doctors and have a grueling licensing process, and then interviews that are mostly about finding mutual interest. But, I don't think most of us like the idea of a licensing process.
We should have invested more in nuclear and ITER... thirty years ago. Starting to build new nuclear plants today is unlikely to be enough to prevent catastrophic global warming. According to the IPCC, we need to cut our emissions by at least 40% compared to 2010 until 2030 and become completely carbon neutral by 2050 if we want a chance of staying below 2 degrees. Building reactors takes too long.
I did not realize or expect a Hanna Barbera video to be tending globally, I had assumed it was a algorithm driven recommendation That lead me to watching it.
All Intel systems contain ME hardware and firmware, but most consumer systems are not configured to support remote administration via the integrated ethernet port.
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There's nothing particularly wrong with e-mailing (or using other push notification mechanisms) when a warning or error occurs. When those logging levels are properly used it means some sort of administrator intervention is needed. But send the notification only once. Don't keep spamming out the same notification over and over.
Django is a great framework and it's probably very silly of me but I still cannot let go of the master/slave fiasco a couple of years ago.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692

A framework that have deciding collaborators that is that sensitive / politically correct is not something I'm willing to invest my time on any more.
Sorry, but no
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050705004113.h...
Does exec give a damn if they earn 5 or 10 million?

It’s only true if you believe that the average human being is not opportunistic.
Apple’s macOS Mojave 10.14.4 Gmail/G-Suite Issue: It’s Fixed
It is still now distant enough that I can't recall specific examples, but what I had found is that the solutions in blog posts etc. on Grails 2 (large majority of search results) did not apply to or did not work with Grails 3 when we tried them, unsurprising given a major version change, but frustrating nonetheless. I suspect that since you were following Grails's progression from such an early stage, any incompleteness or lack of clarity in the documentation may have not been so obvious to you because you would have been able to implicitly fill in the gaps, but we as newcomers found it totally inadequate. It was often reduced to black-box trial and error.
The people who are gaming are probably not. However, the people who are not trying to game the system might decide to do it if there is an objective goal.

But perhaps you're right. In capitalism, the most common purpose why companies exist is to game the system (i.e. make profit). I don't see why in that case, employees shouldn't try to game the people who game them (i.e. capitalists).

However, in companies that are collectively owned, this becomes less clear.
This article is "just so" storytelling if the worst kind. Little or no evidence is produced for any of its conclusions -- just assertions that the historical Pueblan people "obviously" must have had a technological elite that desired separation from the riff-raff. It's completely ahistorical -- nothing but fact-free cultural projection.
There are user levels. But if you can execute code on the site ... any site, what difference does that make?
Googbye to Google+
China has begun quite a campaign of rogue diplomacy, a good example being the continued saga of Canada abiding by its treaty with the United States and holding Meng Wanzhou for due process of an extradition for charges laid in the US.

In retaliation China has jailed a number of Canadians on invented charges and are now leveraging trade in a farcical manner, claiming that Canadian products are contaminated (which is rich coming from China) to try to lever the government.
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My understanding is that Facebook is a message board where every user gets their own board, and that your homepage includes posts from your contact’s boards?

If so, how do you “break up” Facebook? Follow the AT&T model and and divide it regionally? Or maybe 2? One for people with last names a-m, and a second for n-z?
Ignore the noise about a scary hidden backdoor in Intel processors
I imagine that whatever culture is developing the vegetarian/vegan food products will do whatever they can to emulate the foods that are already part of their culture, as that is going to be the primary replacement request.

In the US, I'm guessing the biggest items are burgers, dogs and sandwich meats.
Ask HN: Should CTO have majority of company ownership?
Preface this by saying I know a company takes more than just a Product. That you have to sell and manage people. Currently I am in a team of three and I am the developer so the other two are being marketing and business. I hate meetings and trying to seel our product so I am glad someone is doing that. But to be honest, at the end of the day I am working those long nights making the product. I always hear the three founder dynamic to be 33% split. But I dont feel like that is fair compared to how much work/hours I am putting in.. Thoughts?
Not at all illegal, and is quite the norm to ask for references.

You can get sued for anything - it need not be illegal to be sued for it.
Ah, yes, I was a bit too harsh. If you are already financially comfortable then the compensation surely matters less.
I forget where I read it, but supposedly in the original script, the machines were using humans for the computing power of their brain. They went with body heat instead because that was something audiences would more easily understand.
It it just me or does it sound wrong to call wireguard, the kernel module, third party software in this context? That's literally the reference implementation.
Definitely.

Most of my projects starts with Django. Quick to build quick to test the idea. And because they never grow to 10k concurrent users no need for more scalable solution.
Not everyone is protected by social services. Finland still has a homeless population, and not all of them are mentally or psychologically challenged.
Could you elaborate why? Is it because you may not be able to field support requests and complaints from users who may have clients with issues or may have misconfigured it? Or are there other reasons too?

Would you ever make the code of the 1.1.1.1 app with Warp open source?
If there is an economic slowdown and it does lead to challenges to the legitimacy of Communist rule, I think we'll find their source of legitimacy switches to the guns and jackboots variety PDQ. Honestly, is there any example ever where economic sanctions have forced a government to become less authoritarian?
easier said than done, but imagine the satisfaction of a US middle class person spending $480 to cover the yearly tuition to a poor but bright student in X country? Nothing goes to support a gazillion "charity" managers.

I understand that fraud, nepotism etc etc all get in the way.
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Firms like this have spent decades driven by a short term, "get it done now, future entropy be damned" mentality, partially because market opportunities are fleeting and partially because the principals usually come from a trading background and have very little respect or understanding for technology. The norm are gigantic systems accruing decades of technical debt,very large swats of dead code and a refusal (and sometimes plain inability) to address software engineering issues. The firms that survive are the ones that realize (and staff accordingly) they are tech firms that happen to trade rather then other way around.
It doesn't sound inherently human-specific, but somehow it is. Well, other primates have it to a lesser extent, but other placental mammals don't, and we have it worse than other primates. Why only primates have this arms race between placenta and womb, and why humans have it worse than any primate, I don't know. But it's definitely a thing. It's the reason why humans menstruate while non-primate mammals don't.
I guess I fit into the "don't like the taste of meat" vegetarian. Except it's not actually the taste, I was never able to get past the "ewww... Gross... I don't want to eat dead animals" mental factor. When the idea of your food grosses you out, you don't enjoy the taste. Without the gross factor there, I can enjoy the taste. I had a vegetarian sausage patty recently that was very similar to what I remember sausage tasting like ("tastes like a McDonald's sausage patty" according to my meat eating husband) and I enjoyed it.
Hackerrank interviews done with video chat literally have a person's face watching their screen which updates as you type. I had an hour to write a few functions and the person interviewing had the ability to run the tests
Sure, chimpanzee-like. But like common chimpanzees, or like bonobos?

The fact that bonobos split fairly recently, following habitat isolation, implies that the common ancestor was more like common chimpanzees. And that, as TFA argues, self-domestication occurred independently in the human and bonobo lines.

But I'm not aware of any paleontological support for that. And I can't quite imagine what such evidence would look like.
As somebody hiring more regularly now, I can sympathize. I'm usually operating on the notion that interviews are demonstrably not a very good way to select people. They are pretty random. I tend to embrace this and focus on the big picture: which is do I want to hire them.

So I have only two big topics in my head.

1) Verify that this person is competent by getting to talk about anything remotely relevant. The job here is listening; not asking. If buzzwords come up, ask follow up questions. If someone is a bull-shitter, it will show in minutes. I have some generic questions that I can put in to keep the conversation going but usually, I just focus on stuff on their CV that interests me. Tell me more. Anything. What do you want in a job? Why?

2) Establishing whether I like the person enough for further collaboration. Yes, this is super subjective. But the way this business works is that anyone passing #1 you basically should hire unless you have a good reason not to. Not liking them would be a red flag.

Most of the rest of the interview is selling them on the job and figuring out whether that even remotely aligns with their expectations. This is a sales pitch. As an interviewer, your job is getting the candidate enthusiastic about working with you. If they are good, they'll have other offers lined up. In other words, it is you the interviewer that needs to be nervous about whether they will say yes; not the other way around.

This is the most important step in the interview and this is where you either get somebody enthusiastic about working for you or disengaged. If that's the case, don't hire but if they show eagerness, interest, etc. you basically try to hire them.

It's not like we have a long list of candidates typically. So, decide quickly and act with a sense of urgency.

When I'm interviewed, I think of it as a privilege for the wannabe employer. You successfully got introduced to me by somebody I trust. We talked and I liked you somehow. Now we are talking shop. Your job is to make me want to work for you. Sell it to me. Make an effort. Don't waste my time with bullshit. I'll talk to your HR after you convince me I'm not wasting my time; not before.
Yeah, so I work at a huge health tech company. A lot of the issue is actually private insurance.

Currently in the US the largest health insurance provider is actually medicare/medicaid. When a patient with medicare goes to the doctor, the government says "This is what we will pay for that procedure, no exceptions." The hospital has a choice to either accept that rate, or to lose out on the massive medicare market.

Private health insurances plans have vastly fewer subscribers, and don't have the power to negotiate prices like the government does.

But regardless, why is health care and insurance a for-profit industry? It creates incentives to put profits ahead of people's health.
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SQL fixes in production don't have to be that risky. Just run a SELECT first with the same predicates and be sure that's what you want. In some cases this can be better than trying to develop a fix using a test system which may not have the same data.

Same with "rm -r" --- run an "ls" first.

Sure it's not ideal but life isn't ideal. When you have a production problem, you need to fix production.
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Lots of things are unequivocally evil. Rape is evil. Genocide is evil. If you think they're okay, you are wrong.

I don't claim universal moral authority. Lots of things are complicated. Some things aren't. Morality can be relative, and there's some interesting philosophical discussion to be had there, but eventually you have to take a stand on something.
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You're looking at something and calling it 'surveillance' because you don't yet have a word to describe the entire thing. It's too new so you see it through your 'old eyes'. You noticed there was a camera involved and you knew what that was so you ran with it.

It's the proverbial blind man whose hand has happened to land on the tusk and he tells his companions, "It's a spear!". You're not seeing the whole elephant because you've never seen one.

It benefits you when other people have knowledge about the world. It benefits you if other people have the knowledge to drive safely. It benefits you that your neighbours have a basic knowledge of germ theory and don't throw their sewage in the streets like medieval peasants. It benefits you that your fellow voters have at least a basic education and can make somewhat informed decisions. It benefits you that medical knowledge isn't locked away in some vault in Alexandria but it's in the mind of the doctor whose preventing an outbreak of some disease you happen to be susceptible to.

Did you not read the things I was able to learn just from my first node? We can give so many people free access to information that would push back darkness, fear and superstition just a little further. And these people would do and build things that would make your life better.

So instead of channelling the Archbishop of Canterbury telling Bible translator John Wycliffe that too much knowledge will corrupt the commoners, open your eyes.
They started teaching us algebra in grade 5. It took me until my first year university to really fully understand it. A lot of this was due to my own lack of efforts but also due to lousy teachers. The math teacher I had university was probably one of the best teachers i've ever had for any subject. I pretty much owe my ability to understand math to that teacher.
> someone he referred to as "retarded"

Yikes. Even if I had gotten a huge raise, 25% or higher, if I heard my manager say this I'd be looking for a new job that day. There's no way that person is fit for their position. If they're willing to say that about someone in front of you, you have to assume they're willing to say the same thing about you in front of someone else. The point being that that behavior is very toxic, very unprofessional, and is nothing but a giant red flag to get out.
China's economic growth is already slowing. Isolating them now just gives them a convenient excuse, "look the Americans really want us to remain poor".
> I don't have a crystal ball, but I think that a major war that kills enough wealthy people to more than offset its own carbon cost is relatively unlikely during the next ten years.

A nuclear war will:

1. Kill hundreds of millions of wealthy people.

2. Is the most likely kind of 'real' conflict between wealthy people.
It worked now. Thanks!!
Agreed. Separation of concerns and all that.
Thanks. Just tried again and got on the list!
I said production costs or fancy vacations to the process owners.

Ie: cost + profit = price.

The $10000 shirt may pay for a lot of “designers” to tour the world about how great their shirt is, or for a celebrity to build a bigger house in exchange for an endorsement.

Or it could pay for $9990 in subsidizing reforestation, but doubtful.
You can connect to XMPP servers over tor, even host them on .onion addresses.

Also, XMPP has e2e extensions, at least one of which supports encrypting/verifying arbitrary XML[1], so if the resolver supported it, you could only trust the resolver. (also don't forget about DNSSEC which can be used to verify DNS responses too)

[1]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0373.html
There's a lot of dissing of competition (they drain your battery, "all suck", slow down your internet) without a single datapoint.

Personally I find the performance of PIA fine. I just ran a test through fast.com and got 42 mbps on 4g through PIA mobile VPN in NYC. (Weirdly, when I turn off the VPN and test I'm only getting around 2 Mbps.) Latency is a bit higher than direct, but not enough for me to agree with their blanket statement that all VPNs suck.
No, but performance metrics actively damage the work of the people who aren't gaming the system. If you can't make things better, you can at least not make them worse.
I use a 43" 4k TV as my second screen. Once I tried large format 4k, never went back. Amazing how much more code you can see at once.
culturally
> No, you copied on your hard drive something that was offered to you for free on github.

It wasn't offered for free local reproduction since that right was not explicitly granted, and Github's license grant does not grant it either (as far as my reading goes). Though the country you're in may have a private copy exception, in which case you'd be in the clear I think (depending on the specifics of that exception).
pro nuclear democrats
>All the future citizens of the world, but especially those people living in smaller, more liberal, neighboring countries. My biggest worry with authoritarianism is that is seems we may be reaching a technological tipping point that will make these regimes even harder to replace than in the past

So you're worried they'll use their influence to support authoritarian regimes in other countries? Maybe we should stop doing that ourselves before we start playing with Chinese lives.
There's not a lot of hard data I can find on where the money goes, but the table on Wikipedia (2004) indicates that we mostly subsidize livestock feed grains, then cotton, wheat, and rice. Those four added up to 64%. Soybeans and products come in 5th at 7.6%. Fruits and vegetables, pretty much zero.

Health-wise, it makes all the wrong things cheaper.
Yeah, in the military they told us that if you are trying to hide, whispering is louder and easier to distinguish than regular speech. What they recommended was exhaling until you didn't have much air in your lungs, then talking normally.
You’re right, it is very silly of you. I might even say you’re the one being over sensitive.