skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fines are meant as a deterrent.

No they're not. They're meant as a price. If they were meant as an unconditional deterrent then the penalty for everything should be death plus all of your assets.

That would maximize deterrence (and require us to be a lot more careful about what we pass laws against), but that's not what we're really after.

What we're trying to do is to keep the bad thing at a manageable level, which is exactly what proportionate penalties do, especially fines.

There are only a few crimes where the most important thing is deterrence, but those are the things we don't use fines for to begin with. For example, there is no fine for murder, the penalty is death, or life in prison, because we really are out to maximize deterrence there.

For everything else, if the fine is set appropriately then the cost to society of someone violating the law is less than the amount of the fine times the probability of being caught. If you then want to pay the price to do the thing, great -- we'll take your money and use it to save some lives somewhere else or do some other socially beneficial thing, and since you're paying more than the cost of the damage you're doing, everybody comes out ahead.

And if the fine isn't high enough to pay for the damage being done then it should be higher for everyone.
> I didn't say uncontrolled growth was better, I said a vacant building tax would slow or restrict new development.

> Of course there is waste, this is part of the cycle of boom and bust. The people that mistime the market will overbuild and lose their investment.

> When the frenzy passes, house may stay empty, but the market will adjust. Fewer new houses will be build and people who stayed out of the market will have a chance to buy at cheaper prices.

Why would there be new development in places with high vacancy? Wouldn't the community want new development to be hindered if most of downtown is empty already?
What ircd are they using?
I'm curious as well -- did you end up moving out of the area?
I don't know, sounds too much ego to write on something that is not exceptional. Making $125K in our field (developer/programmer/analyst/devOps/architect/data scientist/full stack developer/...) is not a big deal.
If the full conversation is retained what's the functional difference?
I count 45 if we include variations like "Windows Defender AV", "Windows Defender Security Center", etc.

Example from article : "Windows Defender ATP alert showing how detection of the Sharpshooter technique by Windows Defender AV is surfaced in Windows Defender Security Center"

And that's not including the text embedded in the images themselves - like the image of the event log ( Event 1127 - Windows Defender ).

You can't scroll through the article without a mention of Windows Defender. I don't know if they did it purposefully or not, but I'd say it was intentional. Hard to believe it was accidental.
I think you’re reading into it a bit too much. The comment you’re responding to is just a simple statement that with xyz skill your market rate is n dollars. There’s nothing there about how you should feel about it
I am permanently banned from an IRC channel because I connected to it from IRCCloud.
There are plenty of easy to use GUI clients with no config files.
Yeah, this seems like a more realistic perspective for most people. Find something you can like with tolerable downsides.
Many evolutionary biologists believe that gossip is an evolutionary adaptation. The highest pressure that an individual organism experiences does not come from predators, but rather other individuals of the same species. There is always a struggle for mates, food, resources, space, etc. Even with predators, it is often not whether you can run away from it, but whether you are faster than other members of your species. Coming back to the gossip, it is basically assessment of what others are doing and where you stand. That's why gossip is so interesting for so many people, and that's why we gossip, why we have all these magazines, and all these reality shows. In some way, even fiction and drama is a sort of gossip, where we watch what happens to others and evaluate it from our own perspective.
But like...why would bankruptcy do that? The servers aren't worth that much. Their contents are worth more secret! The secrecy of their data is how Facebook makes money.

If the company that operates those servers gets shut down, I don't see how the group that takes over the business (whoever it is) shuts down the servers. Maybe everyone freaks out and Facebook loses a lot of people, maybe we don't get updates for a bit. Those seem possible, probable even. But things that make money don't get taken apart in bankruptcy.

I could be wrong! But I don't know of any historic examples where things like that happen.
Really depends on the vehicle. Some will have broadcast traffic that is easier to spoof, and ride on CAN addresses that aren't reserved for OBD. OBD quite often rides on the main CAN network, and without a gateway any ECU can be queried. The secondary CAN network (if the vehicle has one) is also on the OBD plug but on different pins.
It's almost like they should queue these into a human-reviewed dashboard before, yknow, being wrong.

The "world's information store", or whatever their altruist goal was that fooled people, is certainly disorganized and untrustworthy these days.
Here are a couple of good places to start.

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/

https://archive.org/search.php?query=xerox

Change the previous query to any company or research institute, e.g. Burroughs, Apple, ETHZ, Borland and so forth.
> The owners generally bought the building with the work done by them or their parents did. It's an investment.

We aren't talking about the stock market here. If someone buys property that means someone else doesn't get it. Vacant properties have a negative impact on communities.
Not even close. But ugh, it is sort of getting there as far as what inflated titles are being offered/used. Going to be as watered down as today's "DBA" vs 20 years ago "DBA" at this rate.
are proper DS jobs only available in certain cities? I’m curious how many people relocated to get into the field.
I haven’t read writing this long without closing the tab in a very long time.

The writers melancholic stream of thought in the context of working at a tech startup is great.
AOSP would probably be the most pragmatic choice.
thats not gonna happen
> The other option above was [...] millions of small files stored on the filesystem

I don't have any direct comparisons of SQLite to this approach, but other projects I've worked on did have a simple directory tree organizing medium size chunks of data by date over 20+ years. We had one "DB" where everything was stored by the degree of latitude and longitude it fell into, and another where things were stored by date. Both were gigabytes in size at a time when that was considered a large data set, and it was very fast to open only what you needed.

Depending on the problem, this can be a very good solution. It was trivially accessible from any programming language (including ones that didn't exist when the DB was started), and it was trivial to migrate to new operating systems (some of this started out on VMS).

I like SQLite quite a bit, but it's not always the best solution to storing tabular/relational data.
This is amazing writing. I hope the author is able to find the appropriate outlet to use her obvious skill.
Yes, from the interview on the topic of compensation negotiations:

"My current company couldn't give me more in signing bonus but gave me more in equity."
That‘s not what an economy of scale is, that‘s branding. An economy of scale would be Uber saving a portion pf costs as it gets bigger, but that‘s not really possible because the per unit cost of a ride is tied to a driver, and they‘re not pushing drivers into driving buses or other vehicles that can carry more shared trips.

You could achieve the same thing Uber achieved with branding with a franchise; McDonalds maintains quality across franchises despite not being involved in the day to day operation. And McDonald‘s certainly doesn‘t lose money on every patty sold.
Hmmm.

Well. You're getting closer at least, and you're at least poking the right places of the field for answers, as computer architecture should get you a great deal more insight into what constitutes a CPU.

One thing that you might help is to look into Integrated Circuits as well.

One thing many don't actively realize is that what we call a CPU in a computer in not the only "processor" in a computer. There are other, more specialized processors which are responsible for providing interfaces between the CPU and hardware peripherals, but which are far more tightly constrained in what they can do.

Best I can tell you for now though is that for the most part, you'll rapidly run into non-computing related problems the more you Try to cram into a processor die. Physics still apply, and computation creates heat. Heat degrades the performance of the system, and the more transistors you pack into the same area, the harder it is to keep cool, fabricate accurately, and guarantee the life time of. Also, on die memory opens you up to problems in term of actual circuit layouts.

There have been designs where certain alignments of values in the physical chunk of Silicon can have undesired side effects on values stored near them. Rowhammer I believe the phenomena is called.

So, specialization ANF separation of concerns won the day.

Hope you find what you're looking for!
The text and history of the bill is available here [0]. It does not appear to have made much progress in the House, so they may run out of time to pass it at all.

[0]: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5376&Year=2019
what crazy is depending on perspective isn't it ? from the perspective of billion+ users, you are the crazy.
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Computers were faster when they were slower [video]
The standard QWERTY finger placement is uncomfortable and terribly designed
Some people underestimate the options and freedom (including being ready for the effects of recession/ageism in the industry) that living on $60k with a $200k salary can provide.
Well but my point is why can't Google recognize these phone-number-lookup sites as the chaff that they are? Nothing should rank lower than them in any search that would return their pages. Said another way: it should be harder for them to clog the top of the SERPs (of course "them" could imply any number of topics).
Are there background gravitational waves from inflation and the creation of matter at the start of time?
Textual is pretty great IMO.
So what's the new job/area that gets you excited?
> Recall that the New Oxford, for the word “fustian,” gives “pompous or pretentious speech or writing.” I said earlier that that wasn’t even really correct. Here, then, is Webster’s definition: “An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.” Do you see the difference? What makes fustian fustian is not just that the language is pompous — it’s that this pomposity is above the dignity of the thoughts or subject. It’s using fancy language where fancy language isn’t called for.

That last bit is an excellent definition of fustian, and reveals Webster's definition to be (IMHO) a bit, well, fustian.
> At least in Toronto and Edmonton, the two places I have been involved with commercial real estate, I have never heard of a landlord footing the bill to outfit a space.

In the United States at least, many commerical real estate owners _will_ perform a build-out conditional on a lease agreement. Of course, if the business folds earlier than expected it is the real estate owners who have to eat the cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...
This is awesome! My only question: The Tell and Hear panels both have appealing designs, but the Read panel looks totally sad and hidden. No need to push people from Read, it's a great section!
Those have navigable rivers?
It says navigable rivers. Most islands don't have that.
Bingo.

> Surrounded by transplants, we together inhabit a prehistoric California of 1970s sedans, rickety on the highway, hot air blowing through open windows into the backseat. [...] Our coworkers had moved here to be a part of the future, but we were left over from something that had already passed.
> a huge conspiracy of >500 years

From the diver’s account, the wreck wasn’t noticed until the modern era. No need for multi-century conspiracies. That said, yes, it seems more likely he made this up, given his looting of the antiquities.
Market rate seems to vary widely for programming jobs (less familiar with data science, but it's probably similar), as sone companies can afford to pay a lot more than others, and some developers are willing to accept a lot less than others. And this is often independent of skill levels.
20-something here, we get it too, or people in late 20s anyways. I recently quit a $220k job to pursue a passion startup. I can at least say this: 3 months in and the health metrics I track are significantly better - sleep, heart rate, HRV, blood glucose, and inflammation markers.

While it's a great stepping stone for gaining skills and credentials, there's really nothing "high status" about being an employee for someone else, giving your work away to your employer. It's anti-innovation thinking otherwise, and wish the status driven careerists in this town would reflect on this.
I'm not sure wether or not to apply Hanlon's razor to the W3C, but regardless, the W3C is to blame for this mess. Took us twenty years to get to Grid based layouts.
That's my rap name.
That's an open question and a very interesting one. Detecting them directly with a LIGO-type insrument is several orders of magnitude beyond our ability right now, but there is also the hope for indirect detection based on looking at patterns in the sky.
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I think much of Europe is looking at the US that way. It's mind blowing, especially how much it happens in the open. We have lots of corruption too, but it's mostly hidden and if it gets out it's a scandal. In the US it appears to be just normal matter of fact stuff. Company funds politician; politician gets elected; favourable law gets passed; nobody bats an eye.
Average? No. Expected? Yes.

Technologists systemically undervalue themselves. Partly because the barrier to entry to software/analysts is so low, and most people are pretty bad. It's also because interviewing is such a time-consuming task that most people only look at 1-3 offers when getting a new job.

If you look in comment history you'll see a few references to me paying engineers/data scientists/data analysts $400 to spend an afternoon with me solving a real world problem. If I felt like you were someone I would work with, I personally introduce you to the head of a team at a companies that I know pays great money and has a great team, and you're fast tracked to the final interview (mostly culture and talking tech. No bullshit).

I always knew what the position paid, and the candidates would always sell themselves 10-20% of what they could get (I obviously helped them get the most they could).

Just because the market is skewed with a lot of bad candidates and poor negotiators doesn't mean the market price is accurate. We can all do better.
That is not true on most platforms in use today. The Itanium ABI uses "zero cost" exceptions which do not have any setup or runtime cost when an exception is not thrown (at the cost of making throwing exceptions much more expensive than other schemes). 64-bit Windows and arm64 use similar schemes.
Lights for instrumentation (inside the car). At least on the systems I worked with. I'm not much of an expert on that bus.

Well, messing with this bus (audio volume.. blinking displays etc) could be disruptive as well, but not as critical as killing the engine.
>Have you read the book?

Yep. I even have the hard copy. Have had it since I was 15.

>but nothing in the book describes how people act?

Nothing original. But more often than not it often misapplies grounded social or civil concepts that would otherwise be valid.

Which is what's happening right in OP's post. It's civic misinformation.
This is a tough one, but with practice, it gets so much easier... I promise. I used to really struggle with it. Give it a shot in easier circumstances and see how you go!
Baby steps - good luck!
Apparently I really missed it, see also https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Roadmap2019
It will be interesting to see how well it works.
I don’t think campaign contributions play a significant part. In Washington state corporations are limited to donating $1,900 per candidate (and corporate donations are illegal at the federal level). So there just isn’t very much money in play. Bedsides that, I have some exposure to lobbying at the state level. (When I was at Northwestern, our legal clinic lobbies on environmental issues.) it was common knowledge that the legislators took what Excelon has to say very seriously. But if you look at the records, Excelon employees just don’t donate very much money. (And again, corporate donations are banned.) I don’t have state records, but it’s just a couple of million dollars nationwide at the federal level, including Excelon’s PAC. This is a company with $33 billion in revenue and 35,000 employees. It’s chump change compared the to influence they have. The influence is because Excelon employees tons of people in rural Illinois, where a disproportionate share of the voting power happens to be.
NickServ is not part of IRC. It's just a bot that people wrote to overcome one of the key shortcomings of IRC, and is used at the discretion of individual server administrators. IRC itself has literally no way to verify users, and more importantly no _opinion_ on how you should verify them.

Sure, people have written bots/services that have become part of some server packages' standing offering (chanserv, nickserv, opserv, etc.) but there's no spec for them, every server's implemention has (sometimes wildly) different command sets, and as effectively text-scroll CLI, they don't actually make things all that much easier. They're a chore to use. And I say that as an IRCop.

IRC as a platform is insufficient in today's world, so if you're going to spend a lot of time either finding -- or more likely, making -- services to take care of all the administrative tasks that IRC itself does not cover, you might as well just go one step further and go "you know what? IRC isn't sacred, if we're spending time and money on trying to make it usable in 2019, then how we instead spend that same time and money on finding a good solution to the problem we're having, rather than sticking with IRC for no good reason".
How do you track those markers?
You can run your own private Docker registry but you will still depend upon the base images pulled from hub.docker.com in your deploy chain unless you make sure to clone the base image Dockerfile from github and build it yourself. Even with this protected setup; you still have exposure from poisoned Github repos after this attack because of the compromised Github access keys. I'm not sure you can eliminate this threat, even with third-party services. What a mess.
I wonder why the admins on this forum feel like they should control/change everything? Was that you Daniel G.? dang... god mode enabled
I often wonder how/why professional developers got into this profession - and basically came to conclusion that it’s not for everyone (basically solving puzzles all day long in front of monitor), and most folks move out from it (into management or wherever) after about 10 years. Especially those that got into it for money.

Personally I got into it by accident - and couldn’t believe that I get paid to basically continuing playing games that I was into as teenager and solving various puzzles all day long.... I was doing it for free before, and frankly would still be if not for all the money bull shit all around us.
The famous 750 GeV bump of 2016 reached a maximum significance of 4.4 before dropping down as more data was added.

Particle physics has a lot of events, so locally improbable things get likely when considering the totality of the data sets.
What are the "wrong expectations" put out?
Articles like this always make me feel like I missed out on all the geek going on in the late 70s, 80s, and early 90s. Of course I was a toddler when Xerox PARC was demonstrating their UI to Steve Jobs, and was in middle school when Linus was posting about his "(free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."

So as I enter mid-life, I realize just how much I missed either not being old enough, not paying attention enough, or not having the means to get in the game. These stories of tech history, if nothing else, provide motivation for those, like myself, to get into the game and work on something useful -- and most of all something fun.
Entertaining read. I quite liked it. Also a weird feeling to be one of the tangential villains in the story.

Though I imagine I would conclude that either the person doesn't trust me or they're an idiot if they don't incorporate my data into their world view.
I'm suggesting that a security policy should actually be practical. There are any number of viable ways to handle this. Requiring someone to possess the device they are reporting stolen is not one of them.
I find the last two paragraphs on this web page to be hilariously juxtaposed:

> "Slow down and enjoy the moment. It's not worth stressing about how to become a partner in ten years or make money as quickly as possible. Set an attainable goal (something you can achieve in six months or a year) and work towards that."

> Are you a woman under 35 with a six-figure salary ($100,000+) and want to tell your story? Submit it here.
Haha, I try to stay above things :-)
Wiktionary is great! I'm interested in etymology, and my mind frequently wanders to thoughts like "I wonder what the origin of the 'pseudo-' prefix is." or "I wonder if the english word 'sea' and the swedish word 'sjö' are related - they seem quite similar.". More often than not, wikitionary has the answer - and a good, detailed one at that!
Because it’s not true. It’s a falsehood perpetuated by people who seek to delegitimize the status quo. You pay people to make PowerPoint presentations about the proposed legislation. (And create talking points and white papers and that sort of thing. A lot of it is just arming legislators with data and arguments to support positions they support anyway.)
>> I am paid well to do no work

To be fair, working in this industry you could have been doing that without doing JavaScript :)
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Much of Europe must be very ignorant about American law then, because it is illegal here for companies to fund the election campaigns of candidates.
Same. I'm now $90k/year behind my peers that haven't left Silicon Valley but every time we talk I'm clearly better off overall financially and emotionally. I think a lot of people aren't satisfied in their careers and double-down on investment in their careers thinking that'll fix it (and sometimes it might, but not always). You gotta prioritize and keep things in perspective.