skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Day One, the entire workforce of every company becomes "contractors".

Labor does not have the leverage in most industries as it does in large tech. Even in tech it is cyclical. Younger readers here, who missed out on the 2001 and 2008 crashes, are going to have an eye-opening experience when the next recession gets here.
A corollary to this is: the code should match the problem domain.

If the business problem is complicated, trying to further simplify the code usually makes it awkwardly abstracted and extra brittle. The fix should not be _just_ cleaning up the code, but rather trying to resolve the original usecase.
Tests are a really important part of development. There's nothing wrong with suggesting tests. The wrong thing is to insist on it to the point it creates a conflict with you and your team. Either set an example and write tests and see if it creates value and your team is OK with it, make a convincing argument or if you think tests are needed very badly because everything is broken all the time and you can't convince anyone, get a new job. Sticking around and being bitter about it is the thing that's bad.

I usually ask upfront in an interview if the team writes tests and if they don't and I get the idea they don't want to I probably wouldn't work there.
> From my perspective it's the everyday chat of my friends, and interesting security-researchers posting their findings.

I wish this was true. I’ve struggled for years to keep my feed about the tech topics I’m interested in. Twitter keeps making that harder and harder.

Now twitter force feeds every viral anti-Trump or political outrage tweet, liked by some random user I followed 4yrs ago, into my main feed.

Their insistence on choosing what content I want to see for me, instead of just the feeds of the people I opted-in to follow, has made it nearly impossible to avoid the cancerous US political and other social issue outrage machine which is what 90% of Twitter’s popular content seems to be.

I had no choice but to abandon Twitter. Unfollowing people who post political stuff was hard enough, unfollowing people who use the like button on political/outrage stuff plus other viral content that surfaces the highest is near impossible.

I hope Twitter makes a ‘retro’ mode where I can just see the actual tweets of only the people I follow in semi-chronological order. With the same option to turn off retweets for certain users, with no "liked" or trending tweets forced in.
> every install of Windows will include python and python3 commands that take you directly to the Python store page.

Does that mean its not actually pre-installed but just super easy to install?
(Attorney here, but this is not legal advice.)

It would be a very unusual circumstance for a person caught on camera performing a criminal act to incriminate him/herself by admitting guilt for the purpose of prevailing on a right-to-publicity action.

Moreover, every case involving right to publicity/right of likeness thus far has had a "famous" person as the plaintiff, where there's a sort of "brand goodwill" in the person's likeness and that goodwill is being misappropriated specifically to recommend or endorse a product. That's not the case here, for sure.
They also show car ads to people to make you think someone that owns a particular car is cool and good. You need to show ads to people that don't buy for that. However, the internet ad system is famously metric focused on, e.g. cost per conversion, so it's hard to say which mixture of evil and incompetent they are.
I'm curious what you find meaningless about a plausible mathematical origin story for the universe. You don't sense meaning in the idea of "Oneness" or "Twoness", I'm guessing? Oneness is clear, I hope and twoness can be understood as a contrast or gradient (which we know to be necessary for energy flows). I'd be happy to unpack further.

And by saying something, you mean predicting something? One clear prediction (from the Pythagorean Democritus) is that the geometries of atoms would determine their physical properties. Is that meaningful?

I don't know if your comment intends to dismiss all premodern scholarship, but I would guess that there is more depth and meaning than you may have personally encountered.

I'd be happy to share some references or further ideas.
No. Full stop. Your initial comment suggested that choosing to join the military implied that a long-drawn out death due to radiation poisoning was "a choice", as its written.

Now you're trying to deflect and act like I'm arguing about whether or not conscription existed, which is nowhere near the point I was countering.
Where's the ad hom? I'm not implying anything about the commenter, and I clearly didn't state anything about them. I just wanted more information about why that specifically is an example of an attempt to move the Overton window. Given the premise of the comment--that immensely wealthy and powerful (but apparently nameless) organizations are shaping public opinion of the masses via social media and advertising--they would choose positive feelings about miscegenation or black men in general over, I don't know, foreign policy, consumerism, or expansive federal power. It's weird. I called it weird. I stand by it.

For crying out loud, the commenter didn't even establish with evidence that it really is a pattern, or what "their" goal could even be.

EDIT Just noticed your username. Congrats, you got people riled up.
No, it's only the traceroute command that gives that impression
> Comments should be a last-resort stopgap

I'd add; Comments should be saying _why_ this crazy method is here. You can always parse the code to figure out what it does. In a few months/years (depending on your memory) you will not remember _why_ this code was put in place.
Perhaps. But also keep in mind that in bringing back that manufacturing we'll be bringing back the ecological issues (read: pollution) as well. There's always an unintended consequence or two.
>It also allows for the possibility of selling at discounted rates for volume. $1 for 4 tokens, but $10 gets you 50 instead of 40.

I think at the point of discounts of a USD stable coin...a good arguement could be made that is an investment contract/security that needs to be registered.

If that were true, it would highlight how SEC is treating cryptocoins differently than say gift cards (which are often sold with discounts).

Of course either way FB could in theory probably register their coin with the SEC anyway without much difficulty.
Diarmaid McCulloch's book "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years" discusses this at some length. My recollection from the book is that celibacy was not a driver of the rise of the Catholic Church (which was already well established) but it was a reason for the Church to establish celibacy as a rule for priests. That is, the celibacy rules (which did not exist in the early church) were instilled to prevent the accumulation of dynastic wealth (and power) by clergy. Control of the accumulated wealth remained with the Church. Monasteries, however, were a way around this, as monasteries could accumulate substantial wealth as institutions despite the celibacy of their members.

Just my recollection from having read the book - don't guarantee it is 100% as the book presented...
Tangentially related, you might find the documentary "Out of the Clear Blue Sky" interesting. It's about bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald (headquartered on the top floors of the World Trade Center) in the days after 9/11. Not even the best plan could have helped them open for business in two days after having lost just about everything. Over the last decade or so we've put a lot of emphasis on documentation when it comes to incident response but the movie is really a testament to how leadership and execution are so much more important.
It really is disorienting when you pop open the man page and actually is all the documentation you need.
Properly choosing an algorithm or data structure is first knowing the nature of your data.
I thought this promising title was going to be about a new trend called "server-side web apps" and how they reduce DB round trips. Oh well :)
I agree with you. My honest answers to each of questions (save 8 and 9) are what the researchers would probably consider the "correct" response. Personally I don't like it when people point out my shortcomings or errors, but I'd argue those questions are under-specified. I may not like it, but I'll welcome it and earnestly assume they have some insight I do not.

In any case I think it makes me an unenjoyable person to be around. I more or less don't engage in opinionated discussion with people unless I'm intimately familiar with the topic at hand. Then it's no longer discussing opinions but trading facts. When I do engage, it's usually to ask questions of the other person's opinion without really challenging them. While I might agree with their opinions, I'm reluctant to refute them unless I can systematically prove them wrong. That's usually not possible, because they often know more than I do about any given topic. When I am asked questions directly I hedge my answers extensively.

When I was younger I used to take pride in this, but now I find it isolating. It's difficult to relate to people like this.
Assuming everything is designed to scale linearly to some point well above the current workload, a better way to phrase this is to ask what percentage of your hardware spend goes to compute, network and storage machines.

Note that a single postgres instance with one core and 1gb of ram on 1 ssd can “scale linearly” by my definition, since you can easily double, triple, etc all those specs.

On the other hand, a fully populated data center running scale out software at 100% power capacity can’t scale linearly anymore, because you can’t upgrade it anymore. For that data center, power or maybe space is the bottleneck.

Short answer to the question you asked: SSD’s are not going to be the bottleneck for software that’s migrating off disk, and the database probably won’t either. Hardware trends mean the storage and database just got 10-100x faster, while the business logic maybe doubled in speed.

If the system was well balanced before, that means no one spent then-unnecessary effort on now-necessary optimizations on the compute side.
>Note that the Catholic Church is the oldest still existing organisation, and was at some point in history arguably the most powerful organisation in the world.

The book "The Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West is a good fiction novel, sort of related to your comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_West

Excerpt:

[ In an unforseeable literary coup, the book was published on 3 June 1963, the very day on which Pope John XXIII died.[2] The book reached No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List for adult fiction on 30 June 1963, and became the No. 1 best-selling novel in the United States for that year, according to Publishers Weekly. ]
Well, I haven’t seen the movie, but if I couldn’t afford pills that would save my life I’d probably take some risks to at least have some hope.
I'm not buying a lot of this "motif" usage stuff, but if you want to speak entirely speculatively, I'll bite.

Marxism extensively argues that it is easiest to oppress people when you categorize them differently. An example would be how poor whites weakened the rights of free slaves in post Civil War America. Marx would argue the rich propagated racist beliefs to the poor whites who then limited the rights of other poor people. The end result is the poor limit their own democratic representation. Scientific Socialism is an essay by Engles (coauthor of the Commumist Manifesto) where he argues all oppression is based off of sexism (infantilization, dehumanization, objectification) and shows how the concepts of oppression are modified for race and class, so each group appears different but are actually the same. How this would apply to advertisers might be to preserve the status quo, or to make people feel bad to compulsively buy.

Not saying I agree with every aspect of those arguments, but it is a well documented attempt at answering your question.
I feel like if you're eating someplace and something on the menu is absolutely not acceptable to you... you're always taking some risk. Everyone has had their orders mixed up in various ways here or there.

That's not fair, but it is just a very real thing that could happen.
Honestly, I would add this whole comment to the list of "absolute truths" juniors unlearn as they get more experience. And I would also point to the original post's point that types of experience matter - just because you're early 30s doesn't necessary mean you've had the right experience. If you still believe this, then - to be brutally honest - I would question the quality of the teams you've worked with.

Comments don't have to decay. Discipline is important. Culture is important. And yes, these have to be intentionally set and upheld.

If you set a culture of discipline around maintaining the comments with the code, and ensuring they are updated, then it's really not that hard to do it. If the developer doesn't remember to do it when making changes, then the code reviewer can catch it and enforce it.

And nothing really substitutes for an english language explanation of the "why" and the intention of a particular section of code. A good comment explaining why something was done a particular way, or what the code was intended to accomplish, can save hours of walking up and down call stacks. It's also something that cannot be communicated through unit tests, or even integration tests, a lot of the time. Those communicate the "what" and the "how" - not the "why".
There is a lot more than a CDN and a stored download.
Scam the advertisers.
Personally I've no problem right now, but I vehemently disagree with the gp posting that it is per se the person's fault for not being invited.
Perfecto! As a programmer turned product manager, I see this first hand every single day. The end user doesn’t care what technology you use as long as it solves their problem(s). My managers don’t care what technology my team uses as long as timelines and budgets are met. I’m astonished and sometimes smile at how my old programmer self wouldn’t understand this basic fact.
Why is it not practical to impregnate the cable sheaths with something foul-tasting?
if an establishment wants to cater to both jews/muslims/vegans and non , they should do it properly. there are many that do this already. it is not considered a compromise by the tolerant ones as what others do is not a concern, just personal observance
> Also (3) I don't get, because while I am extremely motivated by intellectual curiosity, I have maybe zero motivation to "develop my intelligence" like it was some kind of fitness thing.

I don't think of this in terms of intellectual fitness, but when I realise I made a wrong step in my modelling of the world I generally take a moment to reflect on where I went wrong and what I could do differently in the future to avoid similar pitfalls.
> their prerogative

Thus any business decision isn't a problem?

Depends on your definition of "problem"... and thus your definition of who should care:

- legally (government): any business devising that comply with law are not a problem

- financially (investors): any decisions that increase profits are not a problem

- morally/ethically (users): any business decisions that you personally are okay with are not a problem.

Each of these has its own correction mechanism: persecution, lack of funding, customer outcry & abandonment.

In other words: there are ways to reverse bad decisions.

The only thing that makes JSFiddle "worst" is how easy it is

As pointed out in other comments, the problem is that anyone can anonymously create a malicious JSFiddle that runs undesired code. You could make a car that any website that similarly allows anonymous code execution should have that warning or be blocked. Most links, however, are better attributable. (Eg, require account creation).
Thank you for at least questioning this nonsense.

Video recording law is probably the worst combination of misinformation and actually coming up in someone's life.
Breaking Image Classifiers with Videos
Can you beat this pricing algorithm?
Is it not? Haven't we just spend 2 days reading/talking about them? Seems to be working out well for them so far.

The opening paragraph has one of their Psychologist angel investors saying exactly this.
not a jump, as you are implying that establishments that are not purely kosher/halaal/vegan but have options should be shunned by practitioners. this is intolerant and a form of pressuring others to conform to one's personal beliefs
Probably have to wait for the whitepaper to come out to give a fair opinion/analysis (rather than an article about the future release of the whitepaper).

Once the actual use case/function of the token is know then one could answer if there is a benefit to users and if a Blockchain token makes sense over a database.
My exact sentiment about The Game of Thrones.
You can create document in LibreWriter and export it as pdf.
Yet you keep commenting, while actually avoiding the answer. You keep going in circle, trying to insinuate things about me based on the topic, while working hard to pretend the topic is irrelevant. Do you even see the dichotomy in your actions?

> I'm not interested in a 'debate' about race-mixing with you. I just want to point out that when you tell on yourself like this, both online and IRL, people notice, and we'll treat you accordingly.

Ah yes, upgrade from ad hominem to attempts of silencing through threats. Keep going. You think people don't notice _that_?

There is a significant discrepancy between coupling rates of black male + white female IRL (2nd least common pairing) and in media.
They could put capsaicin in the insulation, if they cared.

That wouldn't help against Australian parrots but rodents are the clearly bigger problem, most places.
Data tracking actually terrified the author? As in “filled with terror?” It seems hyperbolic to be afraid and “terrified” over refrigerator ads. Being trapped in a well for hours, being lost at sea — terrifying, but ad data? Either millennial era people are more fragile or prone to writing hyperbolic clickbait, or the author doesn’t understand what “terrified” means. On this 75th anniversary of Normandy, some person being terrified of an advertising company stands in stark relief to men storming a beach or dropping in to fight Nazis — an activity that must have been actually terrifying. Even almost getting hit by a car could be terrifying; but advertising tech? Annoying, and intrusive maybe, but hardly panic inducing.
> We haven't realized the full capacity of the brain

Of course we have. Geniuses, savants, exceptional people have existed along all our history, that's the full capacity of the human brain, that's the best it can perform.

Nevertheless, the full capacity of your brain depends on genetics and training, just like, for example, your full gymnastic capacity.
When thinking of rewriting anything, the first thing we should ask is "why rewrite?", definitely not "why 'not' rewrite?", despite using the same language it is already implemented or using another one.
I feel like in areas like software, hardware, electrical, mechanical -construction, there are two descriptors of practitioners and they are at opposite ends; hackers and engineers. At least that’s how I think about myself. Sometimes what I do is hacking together a proof of concept, and sometimes I’m engineering a product.

Of course, there is something in the middle, and for software, that is probably “coders” or “programmers”.
> This is splitting hairs, especially considering Ukraine still wasn't a country yet.

Sure it was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Rep...

> The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a Founding Member of the UN. On 24 August 1991, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic informed the UN that it had changed its name to Ukraine; see the Historical Information from the UN Treaty Collection.

https://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unms/ukraine.shtml
And they also make money in seignorage (profit in undredeemed tokens). The tokens cost 25 cents to buy but certainly don't cost 25 cents to make, so that delta is profit. A lot of tokens are "saved for next time" but next time never comes, and then you discover those tokens in a drawer somewhere a decade later long after they're no longer spendable.
Is there any proof this happens?

The hacked thing is about as scary as it gets, but companies need to keep customers happy.

Btw, ad block is not a solution. Short sighted to mention that.
You’re an idiot. There is plenty of overt racism today, don’t post your incoherent political ramblings on HN, it’s not the place.
because the restaurant advertises that is has options for them
There are an awful lot of low-hanging-fruit performance problems out there that are just a result of developers not using the DB correctly—usually doing too much in whatever slow scripting language they're using, rather than letting the DB do as much as it can. Sorting, counting, combining, a bunch of queries in a loop where one or two cleverer ones would do.

I think part of why low-feature, specific-usecase DBs like Mongo can get such traction as a general purpose datastore (when marketed as such, of course, to sell more licenses, no matter how bad an idea it is—looking at you, Neo4j) is because so many devs don't know what a half-decent SQL DB can (and should) do for them in the first place.
That's nowhere near "the extent of 'racism' in our society at this point". You must be from a pretty affluent area if you believe racism is a non-issue. Racism is fucking disgusting, coming from a white dude. I've had to pick up tables as a server because certain (infrequent) people "don't want a nigger to touch their food".

I bought my co-worker lunch that day. He felt completely destroyed by not being able to make money because he wasn't born with peachy skin.
vegans are protected in the UK
Ah...I definitely see the Telecoms recording and hoarding a lot of data without any regard to consequence/implication. I know a couple of coworkers who decided to leave my current employer and work for big Telecoms, and they said it's more chaotic there. :)
YMMV, but, in my experience the biggest difference between these platforms and "real world" is the amount of data available (generally). At big companies, if you were to run a red team exercise or pen test, most of the probing and data gathering you do is on confluence, open git repos, and other places of documentation. Not running nmap or sitting in the middle of two services and inspecting packets. That's not to say that more advanced testers don't employ those methods, but the reality is, the most effective way is to expose yourself to the data available in front of you.

Disclosure: I run Vulnerability Management and Assessments globally for one of the largest companies in the world
It's true. The totalitarianism of the USSR in 80-th is greatly exaggerated. I was born in 1974 and the first time when I heard the words "KGB" and "GULAG" was about 1989. Вefore that, I did't even realise that I lived in a totalitarian country. Everyone said what they wanted and thought what they wanted at home or whith friends (not publically). Agitation for communism was perceived like today's agitation for a green planet.
My mother was a common worker and she became a member of communist party because (surprise!) she dreamed make the world better (it didn't work very well).
And yes, I was a child. But these are my memories of the USSR, this is a fact.
Do you think I'm lying? Now I am for democracy and even ran away from the police when we were protesting against our dictator Lukashenko.
don't forget, they can "get hacked", and, "whelp, it's over guys. we promise to do whatever we can to recover the lost coins. the case has been turned over to law enforcement. We won't give up hope that someday they may be able to recover something."