skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their contribution was necessary, I mean it's utterly facile but: you weren't gonna get a degree from a university if the university doesn't exist. There's a billion or so people in addition to them and a few billion more that got us to this point.

It's not that there is no such thing as individual achievement it's that there is no "small minority" skilled or unskilled that the modern economy can be reduced to.
Ask HN: How do you identify programmers who finish things?
In the context of hiring. Assume you have the chance to work with them on a few short term projects, but not long enough that the newness wears off.

Alternatively: How do you identify programmers addicted to novelty/who have a hard time internalizing business goals?
This surprises me. How does it make vim unresponsive? I frequently open multi-GB sql files without vim choking. Are you using some particular plugins?
Someone had to design the status page, and failed to anticipate the issue about how the status page depends on the systems it is reporting on.

Unlikely the rest of AWS, a cached web page does not require much complexity.
>if I were to set up a secret club or criminal enterprise, do you think I’d be writing about it on Twitter and Facebook

You'd be surprised… :D

>In other words, this policy can definitely hurt legitimate applicants and is not likely to add any useful information when screening applicants that “should” be denied.

Exactly, I think that's the point. "Give me six lines written by an honest man and I will find something in them which will hang him." (~Card. Richelieu) All that extra content from social media will give decisionmakers plenty of latitude to justify whatever decision they already wanted.
But that circles back to my original question. How does the gov not have the power to boot you out (or jail) just from committing the terrorist act in itself? OR even just from finding out that said person has terrorist ties? I don't buy the answer of needing the question to boot someone out. You can already boot them out for committing crimes. And I'm sure there's a question along the lines "Do you intend to commit a crime while in the US?" (I'm sure this is already on there) The above questions definitely fall under this. So I don't understand how these questions don't just become noise. I'd imagine noise in these forms leads to more mistakes too.
Just take the premium that you'd be willing to pay and put it in the bank -- the premium would be priced such that the expected payout of the premium would be less than or equal to what you'd be paying.

Besides, a provider credit is the least of most company's concerns after an extended outage, it's a small fraction of their remediation costs and loss of customer goodwill.
Your Wikipedia article says exactly the same in the very first graph?

Quote: “it is unclear whether farmers are at greater risk of being murdered than other South Africans”

Later: “Fact-checkers have widely identified the notion of a "white genocide" in South Africa as a falsehood or myth.[12][17]”
Right there! It's the acknowledgment that a tool that is thought to be beneficial can have some extremely devastating outcomes.
Yes, that's what I was hinting at.
Isn't everyone who uses mongodb or Linux or any f/oss but doesn't contribute in kind or monetarily a bad citizen? If you license code under a f/oss license you have to accept that this will happen.

There is no "free rider" problem. There are companies competing and one of them out competing the other. Are you as vocal about every company who failed because they didn't have a good business plan?

Now, should companies (or anyone) who use f/oss contribute back in kind or monetarily? Yes, of course they should; no one is arguing that.
One of the few times I'm allowed to release A.I. code publicly so enjoy
That wasn't what I was going for. But it's an interesting description of not realizing the effects until after the thing has caused significant damage.
Some possibilities off the top of my head (some suggested here already):

* Test for password strength (most reused passwords are weak)

* Test for password existence in public databases (and recheck on database updates when they log in)

* Automatically generate a secure password for your users at the account creation stage and require them to use it

* Use a login method more sophisticated than just username / password to mitigate against password reuse

* Expire the first password they enter instantaneously, but then never expire again.

* Set an exact length requirement of between 16 and 20 characters inclusive. (Don't actually do this, but it's better than password expiry.)

* If your users are also your employees, make them responsible if their password is compromised while training them in proper password use.

I don't know, it just seems to me like basically any solution, including doing nothing, is better than expiring passwords. Even if it forces a few people to not reuse a password and there were no other way to achieve the same result, the tradeoff of worse security that results would make it not worth it.
In principle from a capital stand point, it is always better to have one unemployed person and one over worked person who is terrified of becoming unemployed than two employed people. So reducing workload to increase employment rates is completely unacceptable to those who own society.

Wage presure from near full employment is also undesireable to them but must be considered the lesser of two evils and is fairly fudge-able by changing the definition of employed.
I use fake answers. Treat them as basically secondary passwords. I do keep them as real words though since sometimes they need to be answered over the phone and you don't want to read a long random string of characters.
Rewrites between languages keep happening in all kinds of permutations. I think pessimism or optimism from just headlines and announcements is more about what you read into it.
Making recommendations like this across the board is dangerous. My wife’s psychiatrist had brought her up to 6 mg daily clonapin (which is a benzodiazepine). She decided she was tired of the emotional yo-yo it caused and flushed the remainder of her prescription.

A few days later, I came back from taking the trash out to find her on the floor, gray and wheezing and totally unresponsive, having suffered from a serious seizure due to medication withdrawal. On waking up, she had serious amnesia (couldn’t remember the year, who the president was, etc.) for a couple of hours.

Please don’t assume that anecdote == data, or that your personal experience with one medication is generalizable to other people and other medications.
That's Bethesda for you.
Exactly. When a long-standing lack of USB drivers means that you can't even install ReactOS on many machines, there's been a definite failure in the allocation of development resource priorities.
It's not even about being able to afford it. Some things just don't lend themselves to hot failover. If your data throughput is high, it may not be feasible or possible to stream a redundant copy to a data center outside the network.
>Because if I had responded to everything you had said, I would have had to have written an essay.

As far as I can tell, you seem to have instead opted to respond to nothing I said, in the previous post...

>Your view on minimum wage and absolute deregulation is so radical that only the anarchist party is likely to share your views.

Is it really..? It seemed like an obvious thing to me: creating a glass floor traps people underneath it, but (ideally) makes life better for those above it. Glass ceilings are trivially accepted — and ceiling is just a floor to the guy above it. Is it so radical to apply it where the people above aren’t in the top 10%?

Also I’m not arguing absolute deregulation — I’m arguing that regulation inherently removes a subset of the market, and this should be accounted for. It might be worth it, it might not be. But its certainly not without consequence.

That, and that the extremely poor can live a better and more complete lifestyle in other countries than whats found in the US.

>The economics term you are searching for is probably a “deadweight loss”. In theory, when a $1/pack tax is introduced on cigarettes, there is a decrease in the volume of cigarettes packs sold

This doesn’t seem to be exactly what I’m getting at; I’m trying to refer to the idea that, when certain quality controls are globally enforced, the base cost goes up, and those who relied on lower costs can no longer be served. These barriers always existed — there’s a minimum cost to doing anything, really — but that hard-line bar has been raised. And that means the chunk of market that once existed inbetween the previous minimum and the new minimum... vanishes.

>Just because banks are required to only safeguard 10% or more of their account holder’s balance doesn’t mean banks are unprofitable and have ceased to exist.

I’m not suggesting it would remove the entire market of a given domain (I mean, regulation can, but usually doesn’t, and doesn’t strive to) but rather, it removes certain previously available options for banks which perhaps reached a sector that is now no longer served. That is, some people were not well off enough to afford such a safegaurd; the equilibrium shifts, along with the bare minimum required to enroll. Where previously “shithole” banks could serve that population, now a void exists (perhaps replaced by something worse, or better, or nothing at all).

But banks that cheat are probably globally good to regulate out of existence. Banks that safegaurd 10% vs 12% perhaps less obvious. But if 12% drives up the cost significantly, then some group of people are being pushed out.

Loan sharks don’t find borrowers because of a wealth of viable alternatives... they’re all thats left when you’ve exhausted all better options. The higher the minimum bar, the more likely someone ends up in such a state.
I wouldn't really call a country that is stereotyped as meddling in the affairs of everyone else strictly (key word) isolationist. Seems like the opposite stereotype of the Hermit Kingdom.
> has been overlooked

You mean exploited?
I work at an Australian med tech company.
Multiple US companies block mail from any .au address.
A whole country!

And it's not like .au is a spammy TLD; you have to have to register with the government to even get a .au address :(
Let's drop the pretense: you're specifically asking about removing black people's access to guns.
You also have to dig pretty deep on Pigeon Transit's web site (https://pigeontransit.com) to see that it's really part of Google.

From the FAQ:

> Who created Pigeon?

> Pigeon is lovingly designed and built by a small team based in New York as a part of Area 120 - a workshop for experimental products.

You then have to follow another link to "Area 120", which takes you to area120.google.com and finally tells you:

> Area 120 is a workshop for Google's experimental products.

It's interesting that Google launched their app on iOS before Android. Also from the FAQ:

> We’re currently focused on learning and testing with iOS users in NYC, but we hope to bring Pigeon to Android soon.
>Pickups and SUVs with insane markups and profit margins.

dumb question: why do pickups/suvs have insane markups/profit margins?
Regardless of their product viability, doubtless an immense amount of advancement has occurred in the last five years because of interest- economically driven- in the field. Imagine if similar incentives existed for other hard problems.
That article is heavy on how "the other" is talking about this, but light on facts about the situation on the ground.

Here is an article about the farm attacks https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/south-africa...
Finland is launching a (laughably insecure) mobile driver's license
If they became 20% more productive, it's okay to cut hours- some 13% of labor savings goes to the owner, a few percent to the surgeons and the cost of service drops a little.

Surgeons aren't entitled to anything. They can move on.
The said improvement benefits patients ("customers") the most, just the way it should be.

The article doesn't understand that a centrally planned economy can't produce wealth as efficiently as free market and that no one has the right to make the proposed changes on either the workers' or owners' behalf. If you want to point out what the core problem is.
How does someone self publish to amazon books?
> we should think about how to make it work better for everyone

This is one of the strongest arguments that I can see in favor of more lenient immigration, specifically to larger countries like US and Canada.

The number of low-skilled laborers content with the current level of pay will keep decreasing, rendering businesses unsustainable. However, for whatever reasons, other countries are better at producing low skilled labor content with those wages. If they are so willing, they should be able to immigrate, allowing the more educated and more skilled native to work in more creative, leadership capacity. Purely from the monetary perspective, natives should see the immigrants as a win-win.

However, when Immigrants cultures or skin colors are seen as being different and not worthy of being assimilated into the country, cultural reasons influence the reasoning strongly.
Using rem (relative em) for font-sizing would probably help. Not everyone is still using 1024x768 resolution (11px was most commonly used at that time).
I didn't read it as Google employees are productive while $othercorp employees are not. Even within google, things like Price's Law apply. Essentially half of all productivity is accomplished by the square root of the workers. So if Google has 10k developers. 100 of those developers are producing half of the value. The other 9,900 work together to produce the other half.

https://www.am1st.com/another-reason-companies-fail/
Yeah I rebind keys and write my own functions. I have a preference for distilling things that I use out of plugins[0] and into just vanilla vim (I still use plugins). I'll share my configurations[1]. I don't document it well btw and there's frequently changes. But I find that looking at others rc files many times gives me ideas that I hadn't seen before. Also, if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them.

[0]see my git rebindings instead of using tpope's plugin

[1]https://github.com/stevenwalton/.dotfiles
I assume when people suggest putting random strings in these fields, it's implied that you're supposed to save that data in a password manager or something. Mine (KeePassXC) supports storing arbitrary data as "notes" in each entry, along with TOTP information (great as a backup in case you lose your phone), and other stuff.

I worry more that a particularly dull customer support agent is likely to be convinced by a random caller to reset the password if they can see that those fields are garbage.
Did you miss the part where I was talking about effects on the margin, not just an arbitrary global change like 'they "just" stop doing it'? If the volume of that work were to drop by, say, 1% in value, product might drop by 0.1%. Or maybe, the unskilled workers' wages might rise to compensate, and then the skilled worker would no longer be so "scarce" compared to the unskilled worker. And you're very much underestimating the plausible effects of education or training. Maybe we don't need resto servers to get English degrees, but they might want to study some culinary-, food science- or hospitality-related track, and become more productive at the job they're already doing.
Status pages are the progress bars of the cloud.
You're brave to jump on here when on holiday!

Shouldn't that outage system be aware when service heartbeats stop?

Could this be a solar flare?
> Unsubstantiated claims that such attacks on farmers disproportionately target whites are a key element of the white genocide conspiracy theory and have become a common talking point among white nationalists worldwide.[11][12][13][14][15][16] However, there are no reliable figures that suggest that white farmers are being targeted in particular or that they are at a disproportionate risk of being killed.[1][4][12][17][18][19][16] In fact, while South Africa has more white farmers overall, black farm workers are more likely to be killed.[2][3] Fact-checkers have widely identified the notion of a "white genocide" in South Africa as a falsehood or myth.[12][17]
Uber is a scam, fleecing drivers and investors alike. While Uber creams off billions.
Properly implemented 2FA, for sure. Having been on both sides of various types of 2FA failures, but I definitely agree.
That is point. The wheels, the engine, the frame, hundreds of other things... You can't point to one part a car and say "that's the bit that actually gets us from point a to point b"

(It's also a jab at the intellectual bankruptcy of Atlas Shrugged)
If you have the DS-Replication-Get-Changes permission, you can exploit dc-sync through something like mimikatz [0] to grab the password hashes out of Active Directory, so you can run your checks.

[0] https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz
Our algorithms have detected unusual patterns and we have terminated your account as per clause 404 in Terms And Conditions. The vehicle will now stop and you are requested to exit.
> And there exists unskilled necessary work that armies of skilled workers can not replace.

I think this is false. Unskilled work is easy to teach and learn, by definition. All you need is an "army" and the unskilled work can be easily fulfilled.
When someone shares their personal story, they put themselves in a vulnerable position. If an internet commenter comes along and presumes to know better about that person's experience, psychologizing, giving condescending advice, and dismissing their understanding of their own life, that's presumptuous and invasive. Since it crosses a line into an intimate place disrespectfully, I call it crossing into personal attack unintentionally. I realize that people often think they're helping the other person this way—e.g. the tough-love approach. But comments on an internet forum lack the relational connection that's necessary for someone to receive help in this way. Instead, it just feels like being talked down to or scolded or worse.

I replied that way to the GP comment because those elements were in there. Knowing better: "You may be creating a problem out of nothing." Condescending: "Growing up is not without problems". Condescending advice: "I encourage you to let this resentment go and move on with life". Psychologizing: "You try and find someone to blame and to find some exotic condition you can identify with". Dismissive: "What does validating emotions even mean". Even if the commenter is guessing perfectly and all those points are correct, this is not the way to communicate such information. Indeed, being correct would make it even more humiliating.
A simple image gallery of past projects will get 80% of the point across.

A short explanation of the project and what the student's contribution was (if part of a team) would cover almost anything else a reviewer would likely care about. For someone with a little more experience, explaining what sort of roles they are a good fit for would be a good addition.

When I was applying to grad school I made a website that had all that, plus an outline of my work and school history, brief background and description of my motivations, copies of transcripts, and a few personal pics. My original goal was to make it as easy as possible for the people who wrote my recommendations to write good ones, but it ended up being helpful in a lot of unrelated situations later. It was hand-written HTML with a php image gallery. The particular hosting method is pretty unimportant.
My experience is that "finishers" frequently have a hard time in their careers because they do the "80% of the work that gets 20% of the results." and aren't perceived to be productive as the "programmers addicted to novelty/who have a hard time internalizing business goals."
It does say the fruit has been changed by humans, so presumably there is some evidence supporting that.

>Back when the giant beasts roamed the earth, the avocado would’ve been a large seed with a small fleshy area—less attractive to smaller mammals such as ourselves. Through cultivation, humans have bulked up avocados so there is more flesh for us to eat.
Doesn't that only matter if you use the same password for more than one account?
Yeah, I used to use randomly generated strings until a customer service rep asked me to recite my security question answer to them... Now I use something like Diceware for real words.
What alternative do you suggest?

The alternatives that I can think of:

Enjoying the work and similar motivations: This tends to only apply to certain jobs. In addition, just because I'm intrinsically motivated to work on programming, for example, that doesn't mean that I'm motivated to program the things that society wants me to.

A sense of duty: I think this motivation tends to have limitations and is likely hard to achieve consistently without propaganda, nationalism, or a state religion.

Social status: Call me cynical, but I think this only works if someone can use their social status to get the things they want; in which case it doesn't seem that different from capitalism.
Uh ok, what a weird answer.

Regardless, the benefit cannot be overstated. I am not exaggerating that it was the single greatest decision I ever made.
Isn't that argument even stronger for allowing the higher-skilled to immigrate? They give you a lot more bang for the same or lower effort spent on assimilation.
I have found entering the US after visiting the EU (Schengen, technically) to be more hostile.

The EU person typically looks at me for a second or two and then stamps. Maybe they ask me how long I'm staying, I say "a week" or whatever, and they stamp.

The US people (EWR or JFK, maybe it varies) have an attitude that suggests that they think someone who visited Switzerland or Denmark is likely to be coming back from a vacation training with ISIS. They also really can't decide if my girlfriend is supposed to come to the booth with me, all of the rules suggest no since we are not a family, but then they tend to get upset after they ask me if I was traveling alone and I say no.
The portion of households that have $250k in the bank is no doubt much less than 30%.
This is bad for these dissidents and bad for Twitter. For Twitter it’s bad in two very bad ways. One it’s denying the right to free speech to Americans as well as foreign nationals legally residing in the US. Two, they are either utterly unprepared for the next election cycle, or their algorithmic bias was exposed incidentally.

A bad day all around for both parties.
If it was artificial selection, wouldn't the nut be smaller? All cultured fruit has really small nuts/seeds.
oh fuck, that's so true. O'hare is almost murder on non-us citizens if that is their airport of entry.