skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
44yo sysadmin...
Plenty experience I the telco and alarm/incident management.

The company I worked for was about to laid a lot of people. Talked with HR, negotiated a good package and became their beta tester.

Spent two years understanding the Why's and Don't from Big Data and Analytics.

Now as a senior cerified Google Cloud architect and certified Azure Data Scientist about to jump ship to service development...

Nowadays you don't need to go he management route if you don't want to, but you must take the commercial one instead (estimate times, effort, team needed, costs, margins, etc).
Yes, but I don't see what the ambiguity is supposed to be. How would you interpret the name such that the 劉 wasn't part of the given name?
Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
It's not more dangerous, it's that the existing infrastructure is not (as) compromised as new infrastructure to be built with Huawei goods.

It should be self evident that turning over domestic communications infrastructure to a global rival with the largest military on the planet, nuclear first strike capability, a history of violence, newly minted dictator, and global ambitions is a terrible idea.

Also, the US government isn't stealing US IP and giving it to Chinese businesses. The PLA is, and their ties to Huawei run deep.
Heh, and on that very Wikipedia page, his wife's name is written in the opposite order.
The Guide to Personal Values
This is unbelievably sad. What a tragic existence.

Beneath, his skin is raw, revealing red ulcers caused by his disease. “Itai,” he says. It hurts. Then he smiles. “Gambatte,” he says – I will endure.
This results in the "15 competing standards" situation of the present where none of them is actually _the_ common language.
It was never any different. Fake news and internationally driven propaganda are as old as time.

The reason modern actors are suddenly so upset about it is that the state-media complex in Western countries had, briefly, an unusual amount of control and wherewithal to spread their preferred propaganda thanks to the consolidation of media networks and television.

Go back to the Constitutional Convention and a major concern was rumors spread by ‘designing men’ who were subverting the government, and they had real-world examples there were referring to. Go back to Rome, where fake news sometimes got a lot of people killed, and changed the whole course of history. Go back to the 1940s when the British government spent a lot of time in money on a massive, secret campaign to crush US isolationism in our elections and spread propaganda that would ensure US intervention in WWII.

This is not a new justification for censorship. It’s a very, very old one.
I hate accessories, but after getting my keyboard replaced I got a keyboard cover and so far it seems to be doing its job. It also makes me feel less like I have to baby it--which is something like in tools I use.
I always liked the way Objective-C added the message passing syntax in a way which fit in well with C. The [squareBrackets means: "we're in SmallTalk land"] looks nice to me. The @ (at sign) sigils I don't appreciate as much.

> I think it could be improved by having the Smalltalk-side be the default

It does kind of seem like you'd want the higher level language on the outside and only dive into the lower language when you need it, but I could go either way for that.
Copying an image from one application to another should not strip image metadata. If it does that is a bug.
Can You Sign a Quantum State?
I went through this when I built up my consultancies. Both times I was focused in areas where people weren't keen on letting me just advertise the products we built for them. A few things I figured out along the way though:

1. Rarely did I ever get leads from my website, I mean seriously it was super rare. Almost all leads came from recommendations and me getting out and talking to people.

2. Visitors to my website were there to get basic data, so I put things like who some of my key clients, largest clients as well as I listed some of the more interesting technologies and projects we had worked on.

3. I worked with a few clients that would act as references for me, so they would talk to potential clients about what we did, how we did it, etc.

All this because honestly as a consulting/dev shop your website will get you almost 0 business, so don't waste a ton of time here. Your sales team, founders and existing clients are who get you the business. The website is just a way for people to find out a little history and background on the company and the team. So that is where I put the focus.

Where I did spend quite a bit of time was on the blog component of the website, writing about things and becoming known for some niche areas which helped generate leads. But the main website wasn't key for this.

If you have specific questions let me know, I am also happy to take a look at your website and give you my 2 cents for what that is worth. Personally, I'd ask a few people you know to do the same, but I'd make sure these people aren't "friends" who know you really well. You want people who don't know what you do really well so it helps see if they can frame your company and capabilities.
Me too, I used 10.04(i think), the last gnome version until the repo stopped updating. Linux Mint has been my desktop of choice ever since. With their MATE and Cinnamon version looking like a DESKTOP and everything works out of the box its win/win. In 2010~ every one lost their collective mind when it comes to UI.
If you do go and watch the Senna movie, go and read a book about Alain Prost too given that the movie is not as honest as Rush
Congratulations, you're only ten years late.
A lot of people use AWS though, right? It's about trust. Not trust in a "Amazon are good people I trust them" but more like "Amazon incentives are aligned with mine for this project, and I trust that using their platform wont f' me up down the line".

Companies should derive that trust factor from other factors based on their unique circumstances. If you are Amazon's competitor for instance it is probably not wise to use AWS for anything, but if you are a startup it could be very wise to take a bit of lock-in to avoid rolling your own infrastructure. If you are an established company maybe use AWS but in a way that you could move to another provider without too much pain, but balance that against some of the goodies you get by staying locked in.

I guess the same nuanced considerations have to be made to decide to use Wolfram Engine or not. There is no clear answer that suits all end users.

I've been reading as much as I can on RMS's site recently because I want to expand my mind on these sorts of topics. I really want to understand how "free" software can work at a practical level, where you say "here is a piece of software, it's $1000 from me, and you are free to give it to your friends, modify it, and resell it, even to people who would have paid me $1000, but now they wont need to" and how that ties in with making a sustainable business. I think it takes some luck and good imagination to make such a business work by selling some by-product such as consulting services or whatever. But for a lot of companies non-free is required in my opinion to exist as a business. Happy to have my mind changed.
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This is a huge enhancement, thank you!
I dislike sites with dark background. Maybe it is a problem with my poor quality LCD screen, but I switch to reading mode on such sites (so that the background becomes white) because they are hard to read.
Why Darwinism can never separate itself from racism
But the "its" that the article is referring to is the Wolfram Engine. It doesn't say that is all the algorithms in Mathematica. And the Mathematica website lists Algorithm Base and Wolfram Engine as two separate line items, which is at least surprising if one is contained in the other.

I actually believe the Algorithm Base is probably included, but it's definitely anything but clear from the website or any of the press release. The Mathematica website makes them seem like two completely separate unconnected components.

It's really unclear what is included in Wolfram Engine and what is included only in Mathematica... the above was just one obvious example. It would be very nice to have a concise list.
How does a purposefully contaminated shard of glass wield control over electrons?

It's not a shard of glass, it's a slice of silicon monocrystal. These materials are less alike than graphite and diamond.
Yeah, I am a fan of Arch on the desktop, but the P1 runs Nvidia's P1000 chip and Arch doesn't seem to like that, so I went with Ubuntu+i3 for now. Updating the firmware first is definitely critical, as you could brick the machine otherwise.

I'll echo my disappointment in battery life, although admittedly i3 and xfce defaults are probably not doing me any favors here...
As long as that speaker was one of many, I wouldnt have uninvited them.

If the audience has an issue with one speaker out of 10, they can take a lunch break then.

If it's one out of 2, I can see why they might not want to attend.

Using inclusion or exclusion to punish someone for past actions I would try to avoid at all costs. If someone has broken the law, the legal system is there to do punishment. It isn't your role as conference organiser/colleague/etc. to punish. You are not qualified to make decisions as to the veracity of the claim.

Perhaps the furthest I'd go is saying to them "you (rightly or wrongly) have a reputation for X. Please make sure none of that happens during the conference."
Interesting! I wouldn't have thought that would be best practice, but in spending a little time trying to learn more (this page from W3[0] was really enlightening), it makes perfect sense why "only split if you absolutely need to" is good advice.

[0]https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
I'm necromancing posts here but can't help it... Something else to keep in mind is what grade is viable to solo necessitates that on average they will be _very_ easy. No one solos at their hardest grade - to be clear, what Alex has soloed _is_ very hard and an incredible achievement, but in terms climbing with safety not super hard, and far under Alex's ability in absolute terms.
I had the impression they would do it to keep control of their citizens.
> Folks can say what they want about religion

...and for those who are no believers, perhaps becoming a Pastafarian is a good alternative option : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pastafarians
Capitalism’s dirty secret: it was built by lawyers, not by the ‘invisible hand’
The data collection is opt-in.
Dragging out a disabled Muslim woman, as she cries at the founder's feet? Crikey.

I could interpret this as a change of company, change of pace, reinvigoration of life, working on a hard problem in a new space .. or as the beginnings of a mental breakdown, guy who thinks he's in a Hollywood action film - hurrying through a bustling foreign megacity, working all hours, feeling on a mission to save the world, papered over with a thin rationalization about how amazing an ad and food delivery mobile app is.

Maybe I just don't /get/ platforms enough.
I find it rather disappointing they didn't announce 8-core iMacs and Mac Minis at the same time.
I think of all the code written as technical debt. As soon as you write it, it becomes a burden - just like regular financial debt. However instead of thinking of code like a credit card loan that will take a few years to pay off, think of it like a mortgage that you have for 30 years. At the 30 year mark, you will generally have retired the code, hopefully. If you're not so lucky, you should expect to see balloon payments coming shortly. I know this isn't a perfect metaphor because honestly "technical debt" applies to all code, not just slightly bad code. That's very different from a loan.
An individual parent doesn't figure this out on their own. The market, composed of all parents, determines it. The market has access to more information than any phd will ever be privy, because it knows the individual feelings of every parent, child, teacher, and administrator. The market is unique in being able to perform randomized, controlled, double-blinded studies on the whole population, whereas phds are stuck looking at correlational data of small samples. The market performs continuous replication of every result ever identified, such that subgroups can be made arbitrarily small while maintaining significant p-values (and has no publication bias). And the market has access to the intellect of every phd, bachelors degree, or idiot that read a book once who ever had children or who wants to make a quick buck, conspiring in the greatest peer-review in history.
There are two ways to answer that question:

1) In order to stimulate (or meet, depending on which side of the supply-demand equation you represent) demand for 5G, wireless operators will most likely need to increase data caps (e.g. Canada) and keep the same prices, because 5G speeds are much faster than 4G. This means that "wireless access" denominated in "$/MB" will likely drop.

2) 5G equipment is not necessarily cheaper than 4G. Depending on the spectrum bands used, 5G may in fact be more expensive. A recent April 2019 Wapo article[1] kind of speaks to some of the issues with the US settling on 24-300Ghz vs. rest of the world settling on sub-6Ghz bands. But the answer from a wireless operator point of view is that 5G is probably much more expensive than 4G, not less.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/on-5...
based on most of the links to it my understanding is that medium.com is such a blog
From what I can recall, the reason why the USBC to DP adapter isn't working on the 2018 models is that the macbooks now have special end to end encryption (read: DRM and forced market penetration) to only allow you to use "apple authorized" dongles.
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Just ask.

Warning: it's ridiculously expensive. You need to be charging your users 4+ figures per license for your software in order to be able to pay Wolfram their cut.

The open/libre stuff is a huge red herring -- cost is the real bottleneck. It doesn't make any sense to use Wolfram/Mathematica unless there's a built-in function that you NEED, for which there is no alternative, and which requires a team of PhDs to re-implement.

E.g., even a non-production single user corporate desktop license is $3K.
Statistics in F1 are a bit of a nightmare.

Statistically, Prost outscored Senna in their time as teammates.

Alonso, for example, will never have the stats to represent his immense talent (Unless you use a method like f1metrics). Hamilton, however, is extremely good and has had the car to allow him to fully reach his potential
The biggest problem in psychiatry is that the only reliable way they have to diagnose illnesses, with any precision, is to prescribe things and see which one helps most, if at all.

This problem makes it near impossible to apply generic "gold standard" double-blind trials to psychoactive medications, because those depend implicitly on accurate diagnoses. If your target sample group has six different maladies all labeled "depression", you will never get a clear signal, even if the medication you are testing 100% cures the one-in-six of them that actually have the problem it fixes.
I've never understood the association with relative time in regards to science fiction.

SF is typically futuristic, but that bears jack all as to whether it takes place in the past, present, future, or even anything relative to our planet.

Science, in that it pledges greater allegiance to, extrapolates, or invents in an internally consistent way. But not time.
a) there are efforts to get women involved in the tech industry, but there is still a lot of discrimination
b) the article describes programmers from the 1960's
Sure, but they paved the roads.
I think it's because it overlaps a little of the content. I guess it makes some of us want to tidy it away.
Looks like the new cold war has found its money-pit. At least it's not nuclear this time.

> agents of the Australian Signals Directorate, the nation’s top-secret eavesdropping agency

Straight from the geniuses that outlawed mathematics.

I'm sure not all of the "cyber security" people are complete idiots, but how many can resist an offer of unlimited funding, and all you have to do say things are terrible and very scary without ever being caught out, since it's all about national security, and your boss doesn't really care because more bad things mean infinite budget.

"Cyber" really has stopped being a useful word in as far as it's ever been one, and has been relegated to politics, scaring the population, and fleecing people and institutions in the name of "security".

1.) 5G is a mobile network that lets people watch really high- resolution cat videos really fast.

2.) Your country is not under "cyber attack" or "cyber threat".

History tells us most of the threats and developments in Cold War I were posturing and positioning. Of course Blackbird planes are really cool, but do we really have to go through the rest of all that bullshit again? Can't we all just, you know, grow the f* up?
There are people on both sides that spew nonsense and hate.
The victim in that metaphor is not an individual coder who can go work elsewhere, it is the org who takes on technical debt and sometimes can't function at all without the code in question.
For some reason it helps some people to admit to the audience that they are nervous about speaking there. Depending on the context you could even mention exactly this anecdote and ask them to therefore bear with you if it turns out to be not as smooth as you were hoping for?
Fending off Zombieload attacks will crush your performance
This is awesome. Thank you for sharing.

I wish more people knew that their entire identity hinges on a store clerk at AT&T.
I've yet to find a community at a gym. Most people are heads down and doing their thing there. Gyms are an introverts paradise.
My 2018 13" mbp has been in repair (for the keyboard ofcourse) for weeks now and they told me it won't be finished until somewhere in june, so this might explain why it's taking so long, perhaps it was on hold for a 4th gen keyboard replacement. I sure hope this 4th gen keyboard fixes the problems.
For what it's worth, KDE [Plasma] is just a desktop environment - you can run it on Ubuntu.

As of 2019, I'm fairly happy with Linux on the desktop; usability is really solid, WINE is significantly better than years before, and many games will play perfectly fine with basically no manual configuration thanks to projects like DXVK.

I'm running KDE on Arch. And, I'm definitely happier than I was on Windows.
Corporations are people too! So yes, I guess they can be consrcipted
Couldn’t one argue that their strength in cost efficiency was largely built on the theft of IP? Without the IP barriers western countries abide by, they were able to take the best technology from multiple companies, implement it and sell it at a fraction of the price?
Playlist with all 20 albums on Apple music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/20-cds/pl.u-4JomX69uaZa1...
This is fine and dandy for small sheets, but if you're trying to build a sheet with multiple tabs, circularity, self-referencing IF statements, or lots of data, it will get really hard

Also, the #1 Excel rule in Wall Street is "never use your mouse"

IMHO, I think the better project is an equivalent of an RMarkdown / RStudio tool that generates a final report from a declarative set of instructions.
Helping to build Cloudflare, part 1
I set my monitor’s colour thingy to ‘paper’ and the yellowish tint makes any light theme more comfortable than a dark one.
I was initially sceptical of USB-C, but was looking forward to having less things to plug in. Then I learnt that USB-C only supports up to 100W of power, and even worse the MBP included charger is only 87W. All high performance laptops draw more power than that at high load (think gaming, rendering, etc.).

I just don't see USB-C ever replacing a proper charging cable if it can't even supply enough power to run the computer! The computer you leave to render overnight will drain the battery to flat and subsequently shut down/throttle. How is that in any way acceptable?
Just took a look at some of their other stuff. Looks like it's high quality and well researched.

Just curious...how did you start working with Holloway? Did you reach out to them or did they find you?
https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...
>I don’t believe we can equate jonesing for a fresh hit to writing well intentioned but ultimately difficult code or the product of inexperience.

Agreed. The addict might recover. Organizations with poor culture are doomed.
>no visible improvement to the stakeholder.

It's the same as buying insurance, it reduces risk and exposure in exchange for money. Ask management if they want insurance or risk and cash. You pay money to reduce risk.
It's a decision they are capable of making when put into non technical terms. They assume the risk of catastrophic failure if they dont buy insurance. (Obviously major refactoring has its own risks.)
Reuters has proven to be a trustworthy news organization. It’s understandable that Intelligence services don’t want to go on the record for having an ongoing investigation into a Chinese telecom
Mine started after probably 8 months. I ignored it until it became work stopping (I decided against installing software to compensate) and had it replaced under warranty. Soon after getting it back I got a keyboard cover which seems to be doing its job. I hate accessories, and am really disappointed they released a new mbp in this same form-factor.
Technical debt is about quality of code, not about changes in your conceptual model.

Lets say I had a warehouse that stored food, all stored neatly in its own section, each with the least frequently moved at the top where I need a forklift to access, and the most frequently used at the bottom where they are easy to access.

Someone orders too many boxes of rice, and there's no room in the rice section, but there's room on the lower shelves of the sauces so it gets stored there, and some are left on the floor, partially blocking forklift access.

The immediate problem of rice storage is solved, but every time I need sauces I have to grab the forklift, and it may take longer to get there and back because the route is blocked. This will persist until I refactor the warehouse so that there is more space to store the rice appropriately.

Now the manager decides we should be able to store refrigerated goods, and I have no refrigerators yet. The work to refactor the shelves to make room for the refrigerators is a conceptual change in how I use the warehouse, and not a direct consequence of how I've previously been storing goods. It's not tech debt.
It would be cool, but I fear some world leaders (be it politics, economy, science, etc.) would never want to die, stagnating the status quo for centuries until they die from accidents.
Yes, I absolutely agree with your second statement. However, the issue I take with the author is that they say that they are not a programmer, and they're frustrated that they cannot get a programmer to help build a prototype. Being _frustrated_ that people won't work for you _for free_ is delusional. The author could have also decided that their idea was worth enough to them to _learn_ how to program, so they could build a workable prototype, and possibly attract other developers as part of an open source project. However, the author seems more content to just sit there and complain about being "misunderstood." Implementations typically are worth a lot more than ideas, and this is exactly what the author doesn't seem to get.
That's pretty much where I landed too. When I make the query to populate my models, I just go `coalesce(preferred_name, full_name) as name`.