skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue you shouldn't have been able to do that in your organization without bypassing (several) significant safeguards.

Did you forget a where clause while deleting data on a table, or were you actually on the production server hosting the database?

Any code you write that interacts with a database (or really any production code at all...) should be reviewed before being merged. And developers shouldn't be writing raw SQL commands on a production server. It's hard for me to see this as anything other than an organizational failure rather than your own.

EDIT: Based on the number of downvotes this has received, I can only imagine we have a lot of devs on HN who cowboy SQL in production...holy hell how can any of what I said be controversial.
We are going over the cliff with both eyes open.
That user talked about "liability"
Who did they hire to develop this software?
Are you price or convenience sensitive?

Take groceries as an example. My sister in law wants convenience. She rolls into Whole Foods on the way home from work and drops $50 on stuff for dinner. My wife is price sensitive... she does coupons and shops aggressively. Last year those savings yields almost $15k.
Well, you can kill someone with a lawnmower if you try enough, sure.

But some technologies are more apt to be used in bad ways than others, and more nightmarish in the uses they enable.

(E.g. nuclear technology, in the form of bombs, can enable total annihilation of the planet. Glass-making technology, not so much -- what, we'll fill the planet with jars?)
The funny thing is that it us the exact sort of "low tier - low skill effectiveness, high demand, high supply, low wages" job that aitomation was demonized for getting rid of they are facing complaints over making.
It's pretty good, I'd recommend it. I haven't finished the book yet, but what I've read thus far has been good.

Something I'd wish I'd known (although it wouldn't have changed my decisions to purchase) is that it's not an exploration style book (i.e. "Let's cat this file and find out what it contains and why.") it's more of an explanation (i.e. "When I cat this file, it outputs XYZ which means ABC which I know from my research of the git source."). So the author isn't taking you along on their research, but rather coming back to you after the research is done to explain their findings from the ground up.

This means early chapters have a lot of, "You'll just have to trust me XYZ means ABC." But this is also understandable given the complexity of git; there isn't really a square one.

I also would have preferred the author use something like Python instead of Ruby for the reference implementation. IMO Python is a little more ubiquitous and easier to install/setup than Ruby. Ruby also leaves Windows devs at a disadvantage. But that's just me being pedantic.

Overall I'd give the thumbs up.
>Exactly, the only outrage is them being paid...

From the article:

>...though the CSA is responsible for figuring out how much of that goes to the prisoners...

Are you sure they're getting paid, right now?

>...not using that money to help the victims...

And, at what point, would this vengence form of justice stop? How much would be "adequate" for compensation to their victims? Are they still not penalised, even after they've "paid their debt to society"? ....because, last I recall hearing of the prison system in the United States, the punitive punishment doesn't really end - from being unable to vote to being unable to get a job because of a record to a number of other maliciously designed rules/laws intentionally meant/designed to further punish them, yeah?
Airbnb buys stake in Indian hotel startup Oyo
Real meme-trading was launched by Onederx
>for profit private prisons

Who trusts "for profit private prisons"? Other than "libertarians" and people making money off of running them?
BTW is there opensource implementation of C on Windows?
I agree with the sentiment. It's a mess, that isn't necessarily a bad thing, though there are draw backs.

"Of course, I'm glad I'm not having to learn it as a second language."

As I said, I agree with the sentiment :)
> A DeepMind spokesperson said that if the research results in a product that passes clinical trials and regulatory approvals, doctors at Moorfields will be able to use the product for free for an initial period of five years.
Should You Outsource Your Core App or Software?
Ask HN: Why have hackathons become mostly PowerPoint presentations?
> If I were queen of the world, I would pass a law against private jets, because they enable you to get around a certain reality. You don’t have to go through an airport terminal, you don’t have to interact, you don’t have to be patient, you don’t have to be uncomfortable. These are the things that remind us we’re human.

> It wasn’t just the plane, but it’s not a small thing when you don’t have to be patient or be around other people. It creates this notion that you’re a little bit better than they are. And for the past 40 years, everything in American culture has been reinforcing that belief. We say, “Job creators, entrepreneurs, these are the people who make America great.” So there are people walking around with substantial wealth who think that they have it because they’re better. It’s fundamental to remember that you’re just a member of the human race, like everybody else, and there’s nothing about your money that makes you better than anyone else. If you don’t know that and you have money, it’s the road to hell, no matter how much stuff you have around you.

Wow. I'm very impressed with her. So many great quotes here.
These guys (hackers) were not very ethical at all. They found an open Jenkins server and then compromised it. That’s illegal. You don’t do that to “find out what is going on”. The rest of the article is pretty accurate regarding vulnerability disclosure to smaller companies. My team faces problems similar to this all the time.
Heisei and Showa are both made up of single characters selected from poetry passages, I guess that is how they choose names
How Google is getting between readers and publishers
A Guide to Improper Access Control Vulnerability, CWE-284 Weakness
discussed previously at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6589508

I remember the week after this. Everyone I knew who worked at a fund was going over their code and also updating their Compliance documents covering testing and deployment of automated code.

As a side note one of hte biggest ways funds tend to get in trouble from their regulators is to not follow the steps outlined in their compliance manual. Its been my experience that regulators care more that you follow the steps in your manual than those steps necessary being the best way to do something.

I came away from this thinking the worst part of this was that their system did send them errors, its just that when you deal with billions of events emailing errors just tend to get ignored as at that scale you generate so many false positives with logging.

I still don't know the best way to monitor and alert users for large distributed systems.

The other take away was that this wasn't just a software issue but a deployment issue as well. It wasn't just one root cause but a number of issues that built up to cause the issue.

1) New exchange feature going live so this is the first day you are actually running live with this feature

2) old code left in the system long after it was done being used

3) re-purposed command flag that used to call the old code, but now is used in the new code

4) only a partial deployment leaving both old and new code working together.

5) inability to quickly diagnose where the problem was

6) you are also managing client orders and have the equivalent of an SLA with them so you don't want to go nuclear and shut down everything
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I was on Vyvanse for a while and it did seem to help, a little, but it had unacceptable side effects for me. Specifically, I started grinding my teeth! When I figured out it was the Vyvanse that caused it, I went off the drug and the grinding stopped. We tried some other drug, I forget which, but it wasn't as effective. I'm glad it worked for you and I wish it had worked better for me. I don't much like my current job and it's a daily struggle to stay focused on it.
This is also my question. Having C ++ REST SDK as a dependency not only does not answer that but it adds additional questions. Also the duplicate use of libs (C ++ REST SDK already has JSON support).
Depriving them of pay is not required. They are still humans themselves, and they're paying for their actions with prison term.

Societies that confuse prison with vengeance have more crime, and end up worse for victims themselves.
Needs (2013) tag. As usual, human negligence is to blame.
Energy consumption is tightly correlated with wealth and living standards.

We should move to nuclear power and invest more in energy research like at ITER.

The alternatives are population control or condemning swathes of the globe to poverty - neither of which are tenable.
You can reach out to me privately via email if you'd like, in my profile.

FDA -- if this is required, you must go through certification with them and depending on which regulatory group you fall under could be a simple 3-6 month process to a multiyear process to prove the system is not a risk to patient safety. If you are doing image processing and it is new algorithms, new techniques, it will need to be clinically validated, which means studies etc, so you are probably looking at 1 year minimum to get cleared before you can legally sell in the U.S. If you are using existing cleared safe algorithms in new ways, then it could be faster. If you are making clinical recommendations than it could be considerably longer.

HIPAA is overall fairly easy if you are starting new, you can research it online and reach out to any number of companies that can help you learn the details. There are free classes given by different some legal firms, government agencies etc too that can give you the basics. Essentially, it is about keeping data secure, limiting access, policies and procedures and reporting. It isn't tough, mainly a lot of business processes and maintaining security around patient records etc.
It's not that it would decide to hate humans, but merely needs to be indifferent to humans.
My company has multiple $50k/year clients that gross only 5-10million a year.
I think there's not much to be outraged about that a new type of prison labor will be added to the palette. But the marketing efforts of the company sound deceptive to me. They pretend to be delivering some sort of social moral value, but actually simply use prison labor to reduce costs.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to answer. A part time job was something I definitely considered, but I was told that they're not very useful and it's better to go all into startups or all into a full time career path. Nonetheless, I'm actively considering this, but out of curiosity (and a little fear) are part time jobs looked down on by hiring managers in the tech industry?
If your boss is happy, feel free to call them manager. When that manager becomes unhappy with you, you’d better be prepared to deal with a boss.
Didn't work: https://web.archive.org/web/20190331195338/bitbucket.org/pip...
While I mostly agree, many companies have a tech department of half a dozen people, and implementing and enforcing every good practice devops isn't always realistic.

That said, I'd expect at least a backup of production, then again he said he lost 1 hr of data so it was likely between backups.
Chinese premier holds talks with New Zealand PM to boost cooperation
Episode 903: A New Way to Pay for College
Yup, that seems to be it, similar mass to our own with 1% off the light emitted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190331195338/bitbucket.org/pip...
Getting your dream career by Don Raskin
> Your salary information in Norway is not public and never was.

While technically true "taxable income" or something was public as well.

For most people in ordinary positions that would give you a reasonable idea. (It would however include everything reported in one lump sum so if you had multiple jobs and/or other taxable income that would show up as well.)
What baffles me is how they got his far into operations with such dreadful practices, 100-200k could have got them a really solid CI pipeline with rollbacks, monitoring, testing etc,

But spend 200,000 on managing 460,000,000? No way!
yes, doing what the previous poster did - giving vague "bad signals" even against company's policies - is what i consider immature and discriminatory.

references in form of background check - worked years a, b, c, on projects x, y,z - yes, sure.

references about performance, likability, etc - why ? how are you going to judge that ? are the references legit ? are you going to get references on the reference giving people ? are you gonna research the excompanies culture to judge tbe referential credibility ?

you're just fooling yourself giving any meaning to this, you could be as well tossing a coin.
Most of us are not in a position of power, and a lot of these issues can only be fixed at the top-down systemic level.

So it's more like the bus is going over the cliff, and the people in the driver's seat are refusing to change course.
Lobbying America is a good history of corporate USA's transition from serving the public good to whatever we have today.

https://www.amazon.com/Lobbying-America-Politics-Business-So...

Amazon's blurb:

"Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large. Arguing that business's political involvement was historically distinctive during this period, Waterhouse illustrates the changing power and goals of America's top corporate leaders.

Examining the rise of the Business Roundtable and the revitalization of older business associations such as the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Waterhouse takes readers inside the mind-set of the powerful CEOs who responded to the crises of inflation, recession, and declining industrial productivity by organizing an effective and disciplined lobbying force. By the mid-1970s, that coalition transformed the economic power of the capitalist class into a broad-reaching political movement with real policy consequences. Ironically, the cohesion that characterized organized business failed to survive the ascent of conservative politics during the 1980s, and many of the coalition's top goals on regulatory and fiscal policies remained unfulfilled. The industrial CEOs who fancied themselves the "voice of business" found themselves one voice among many vying for influence in an increasingly turbulent and unsettled economic landscape."
Hm, I have a personal domain with an email record pointed to Google. Can I route emails sent to those addresses through something before forwarding to Google so I can see the firehose?
Side note: The police officer may have thought that you both arrived at the same time, in which case you would have right-of-way, since the right-most driver has priority at a four way stop (if one wasn’t clearly at the intersection first).

(If four cars arrive at the same time ... you just wing it, I guess.)
I have to fully agree with chrismorgan here—to echo his breakdown of your points, it mostly comes down to strictness and explicitness.

With the exception of CSS var getters/setters (for which there are distinct getters/setters), all of your points champion things being done "automatically", by "magic", "loosely", rather than being strict.

To reword:

- Doesn't arbitrarily transform property names
- Doesn't add extranous properties
- Doesn't magically convert integers to strings
- Doesn't silently hide logic errors on invalid nodeTypes

This comes down to an essential philosophical difference, whereby the jQuery APIs favours automatic value transformations so devs don't need to understand the specific types of values being passed.
Django 2.2
> if you are making git commits through your toaster you got other issues.

This made me snort out some coffee on a Monday. Thank you!

I think your point is also a good one I don't see represented often, portability for portability's sake is kinda silly. It's use that's important.
i don't think the us system works well and is a model to look up to at all, its too soft on them and creates hardened criminals if anything, too few characters in the comments to explain to you but look at japanese system as an non perfect system that works much better but is quite harsh
> I guess if the metric was "caught Osama Bin Laden or not", then yeah, I agree.

> But who on earth would measure the analyst's productivity just so? Nothing but a strawman.

Is that much different than measuring LoC, tickets closed, or features implemented? Some features just take time -- sometimes just the research alone to implement something could take a few weeks where literally nothing measurable happens. That's the point: completion metrics aren't useful for larger or open-ended projects. There was no gnatt chart, no schedule for finding Osama bin Laden; similarly you sometimes cannot plan out a large software project from the very start.
Which is why I stated it's a tangent about BlueHost and I definitely don't agree with disabling other plugins.

However, I believe it's perfectly valid to disable a forced plugin. If a host forced enabled an almost hidden plugin, without user consent [1], then it's no more evil to undo the evil for the good of users.

As for drop-in vs mu, every other cache plugin itself stays a normal plugin so it's not a technical limitation. That's beside the point though, the plugin is force enabled without user consent.

[1] https://github.com/bluehost/endurance-page-cache/issues/4#is...
Yeah, we're screwed. No technofix is going to save us this time.
Could use a [2013] tag, but this story is fascinating and horrifying and I re-read it every time it pops up. It's a textbook case of why a solid CI/CD pipeline is vital.
I don't know if anyone has suggested this but low temps can cause condensation on the board if you live in a high humidity area. This could have the effect of shorting the board.
I can’t wait to post about my NEW Non-Essential Oils collection!!
This is an incredible book, largely worth a read or two.
While that is probably useful in its own way I doubt it would show whether someone can write decent code or not.
Wow, that's glorious. Thanks for sharing
> Your work for your old employer doesn't change.

I kind of wish that was true. What I do now is almost completely different from what I was hired to do at my current job. Other people leaving, me getting to inherit their projects and responsibilities on top of my own, and yet my boss (who is also brand new because my previous boss resigned recently) wants to get settled and get to know me before recommending a promotion.

Yeah, I'm not waiting that long. For him it might have only been a few weeks, but for me it's been over three years.
Is there any case where human negligence is not to blame?
Sure, I've sold five figure licenses to companies turning over well under $1m when they've needed the service enough. But there's a difference between sometimes doing that and big sales to small companies being the main route to reaching 100m ARR.
(And your business looks like its pitch is much closer to the "use us instead of hiring a marketing person" than "better SaaS" in my example anyway, and I guess your pricing strategy is more results-based than up front licensing cost-based)
Thank you for your honest and well argumented response. Just to be clear, my intention defending the Academie was not to go full nationalism and pretend that thanks to this god-like institution our language is the best in the world and as bearer of this language we, the french people, really are superior to everyone else. This is far from true.
However I felt like this article was an unjust attack to an institution considered as quite harmless here in France. To be fair, I think a lot of people agree that it is an institution from another time, and a very few people think that it's the most useful. However I think people still have a tender liking for it and what it represents. And that is part of the french identity. As paradoxical as it may seem, being a frenchman is dreaming of being the next Marat or Jean Jaures while being a sucker for the symbols of authority. What this article calls pomp we call it "panache", and most people like this folklore. However I don't personally think that this make the french language any better that the english language or any other language. We just like our language because, as many things in France, it is charged with our history.
Are you sure US per capita electricity use hasn't dropped with the vastly increased cost of coal & oil? 2008 is more than a decade ago now, but it also coincided with the highest oil price per barrel in modern history, both nominal and real dollars. The prices since have not exactly been low.

Coal has followed a similar story, up until ~2012 it was unaffordable, and since then it has merely been expensive by historic standards.

There seems to be a theory that massive price increases don't count for some reason. I'm not even aiming that at you, I just don't think people have cottoned on to how different the situation is now vs the late 90s. I've seen operations that were optimised to mine coal at a $30/tonne market price.

> as you don’t want to heat your home above a pleasant temperature for example

You are vastly underestimating how much people can do with cheap energy. There is no practical limit to how much energy a household could consume if it were available.

In the limit, if you had enough cheap electricity you could probably use E=mc2 to fabricate new matter into existence. Even without invoking that sort of silly example, there are a lot of things on the edge of possible that would happen if the electrical power power was cheap enough. More aluminum products is the easy one that springs to mind. Cheaper lightweight materials? Hundred and one uses. That would bring per capita electrical use up.
That's generally true in the states, but it is even worse. You as the patient don't see the actual price before the procedure (unless you ask). After the work is done, you then get a statement saying how much the procedure cost, what your insurance paid and what you owe. All those numbers are opaque and negotiable. Even better, it is common for insurance and the provider to continue sending you bills for months after even common procedures like child birth. It's a total mess.
Bitrise launches ASMR video tutorial series (YouTube playlist)
#FOMO is the cure for any mindfulness symptoms...
not true, even in feudal times there were less crimes because of harsher punishments, even in much harder times, i don't think that prisoners should be abused by the way while in jail also (and this happens mostly by other prisoners as well) that should be strictly prohibited
I used to work once for a company where the developers were reworded for writing more lines of code than the average. Once.
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1) Exploit labor.
And recent issue being one of the best cricketers in the world being caught tampering the ball with sandpaper - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Australian_ball-tamperi...