skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't write fizzbuzz in a few minutes on a whiteboard under interview conditions, but I've shipped multiple products over three decades. Several of them are from 50% to 100% code written by me.

The syllogism you're proposing overlooks some human variables.

Interpersonal interaction tends to completely occupy my cognitive capacity, the moreso if the other person is a stranger, or if they are challenging me in some way (such as, for example, posing puzzles and evaluating the quality of my answers). I can't think about logical operations under those conditions. I require peace and detachment from human concerns in order to think that way.

This is, of course, a personal quirk, or, if you prefer, disability, and nobody should have to bear the burden of it but me. But I've been an actual 10X programmer on a shipping product, as verified by DVCS statistics. I submit that as evidence that I can, in fact, code. I just can't do it in interview conditions.

I also can't navigate while interacting with someone. I can drive just fine; I can operate a vehicle safely. I just can't navigate. Everyone in my close family is aware of this limitation. When my daughter was a teenager, she exploited this quirk for laughs. I have to admit, I thought it was pretty funny, too. In particular, I remember a pause in a conversation where I looked around and realized that I was parked at a Safeway in Capitola, California, and had no idea how I got there. My daughter and I both laughed when I realized what had happened.

But if you want me to drive, and you want to reach a specific, predictable destination, you have to leave me alone to navigate.

Similarly, if you want me to be a 10X programmer, or indeed any kind of working programmer, you have to leave me alone to do it.

Maybe I'm not the only one.

I won't argue that you should accommodate me, or people like me. Maybe you don't need us. That's okay. I've found other ways to get by--being hired by people already familiar with my other work, for example, or making my own products. It's maybe a less predictable career path than the usual, but it's worked so far.

But for obvious reasons, I can't agree with your claim.
> Whatever happened to the philosophy of “do one thing and do it well”?

It's simple: no company wants to pour money into bugfixes. Managers / PMs / "product owners" who advocate for big, new changes (something like "integrate services" to "drive user engagement") get funding.

In a business view, if you're standing still you're at risk of being left behind. As long as software is tied to a company, it will never remain simple and do just one thing. The incentives are simply not aligned.
There are a lot of things that you aren’t going to want to do but we had to for various reasons - everyone has a boss. The last thing I need is someone who is going to fight the process the entire way.
I agree that the current systems and policy for security is in-efficient. It seems that Security policies are mostly roadblocks to production, roadblocks for developers. It's a sad state at the moment and that I absolutely agree with. In this case IT isn't as worried about the users data on that machine. We're worried about the state of that machine taking everything else down with it. Users data should be stored on the network, some data may be local. A user with local admin access and installing malicious software has a higher risk of propagating everywhere. This is what I notice where a divide is between developers and IT. You must change you perspective. It's not a single user we're talking about, it's everything, the integrity of the system and the integrity of the network is based upon the integrity of every node on the network. A vast majority of the threats faced are user based. Somebody clicked on a link, somebody was spear-phished. The biggest threat to IT Security is ourselves.
Yeah I wouldn't mind paying less for less storage space, I'm only using it nowadays to keep a live backup of photos I take (also because pulling photos from the iphone onto a windows PC doesn't seem to work anymore?), using only 3.4% of the 2 TB of storage.
GenIV Nuclear now.
Easy to say as a bystander. What if its you kid who's being bullied or who got bullied? What are you gonna do about it? My other post in this thread addresses that point [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20162590
Yes, you can store the database file in a shared drive (not sure that's proper security though)
Inflation adjusted it's just under $9000
Cryptomator looks perfect, thank you so much!
As others have said, not being willing to do it fails the attitude test. It's not actually demeaning or difficult for most people, although for underprepared people from nontraditional backgrounds it can be a bit upsetting. So smile, write the answer, say thankyou and move on to the next question.
Just use rsync + ssh.
Unlikely.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/why-not-space/

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...

$15,000/kg, to the Moon.
pCloud looks pretty good - I happen to be shopping around for a Dropbox replacement too. But just a heads-up, when I checked around online I found these [1] [2] [3] comments. It sounds like they have a tool that runs internally to detect piracy and it sometimes picks up false positives, which might cause your account to be deleted?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/am2xbn/pcloud_allo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcloud/comments/aedoeq/so_i_want_to...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/6d9yyb/pcloud_allo...
I would highly recommend this talk by Scott Wlaschin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQt1NAHYC0
Why moving criminals from one part of China to the other part of China becomes bigger issue than US kidnapping people all over the world?
Typically you have a separate database just for analytics, exactly for the reason you described. You don't want to hold up actual business logic.

And yes typically you also have a job queue for the same reason. So e.g. API calls don't take longer due to database event writes.

If your needs are similar to the original questioner (still starting out, few thousand users), I'd say even the separate database isn't necessary, just the job queue. Heck even the job queue is probably optional at that scale, but most hosting platforms make job queues easy enough to integrate so I say why not.
People are constantly arrested at sports events and music festivals for being too drunk. I’m not saying it’s a happy experience like an old TV show or movie.

I know at least 30 friends, family, fraternity brothers, and classmates who were arrested for being drunk in college or minor possession of alcohol for doing something stupid and being too young.

I also know people who had drug habits when they were 18/19 and were arrested for drugs. Some quit college immediately because they knew their job prospects would be limited.

Last time I went to a baseball
game someone got arrested for having a thc vape. It’s a felony in my state.
If either of them knew how to do that I think they would have by now. For real, if you can tell either of them how you'll be an overnight millionaire.
I just tried the Beaker browser and their own main site is currently unaccessible through it.
That's a bit too earth-centric at this point. Could be life on the gas giants for all you know or elsewhere in other esoteric configurations.
The Art of Identity – A Poetic Essay About Who We Think We Are
> If you lose that reputation you will be inundated with upper-middle class Massholes fleeing the cost of living they voted into existence and they will repeat their pattern of behavior in your state

This has been the case for my entire life. It goes like clockwork; Massachusetts people retire, sell their massively overpriced homes, move up to Maine into some little town, and then immediately begin taking over town governments and fire departments and whatever other local institutions there are, piss off the local people, stir up a bunch of drama, and start introducing all the things that they hated about Methuen or Worcester.

Mills has already spent all the money and more that LePage saved, and jumpstarted the importation of refuges and asylum seekers again to the degree that Portland is busting at the seams, all in under a year. There are more than enough people already in Maine that are still living out of dirt-floor houses and scrabbling along for survival.
Rejoice therefore.

I'm in Wisconsin, and man do I wish we would be in the news for anything other than something our social cancer of a former governor did. :(

Last week I was watching some comedians on a cable show. Trying to avoid late night comedians because we're always the butt of jokes over there. In any case, it's on in the background and I'm sort of paying attention enough to follow. All of a sudden I hear, "Wisconsin!" Followed by the comedy club's audience laughing.

And I'm thinking to myself, "Man? Did a b-list comedian just tell a joke that featured 'Wisconsin' as not only the butt of the joke, but the punchline too?"

A new low.

Oh well, like my neighbor said this weekend, "There's always Florida!" So at least we're not at the bottom.
Weird appeal to authority in referencing Gokul.

The whole point of cult-like behaviors is that they are effective tools of manipulation.

The downside is that they undermine the individual’s psyche.

Have fun playing with this stuff!
You can pay a few bucks more, get cloud storage AND Office from Microsoft.
A compliment or a question is usually a good way to start. "Oh hey, nice shirt, have you seen that band in person?"
Anyone else think this client-side app trend has gotten in the way of recognizing a great case for a server-side render (or even a cached page)?

10 - 15 seconds to load a page is the result of poor code rather than 'because it's a client-side app'. Consequently you need to compare a poorly built client-side app with a poorly coded server-side app, or a poorly configured cache, for it to be a fair comparison. And, sadly for us all, there's every chance it'll be just as slow if was rendered somewhere else.

The answer to slow pages is to build them better no matter what tech is being used to drive them.

In the case of this page specifically, loading 17.3Mb of gifs is the main problem.
See Kyle's report here:https://jepsen.io/analyses/tidb-2.1.7?from=timeline&isappins...
Have you found any inconveniences in day to day life? Google provides so much information in everyday life (weather, restaurant reviews, calendar, who was the president in 1936, etc) that I would be significantly slower living my life.
And Soma wouldn't be useful in pacifying a population if it induced tolerance in a few weeks like Xanax and the other GABA influencing drugs do.
That doesn’t mean that it’s not at a sufficient pixel density; I can’t discern them in normal operation (display an arm’s length from my eyes).
Finding chaos and precision in all things – a philosophy of watchmaking
I am quite happy with Insync, which implements a dropbox like client on top of Google Drive and works on Linux.
Gnome has support for Google Drive built-in. To be fair though it was pretty much completely unusable until the latest release, and now it's seamless.
You > "But there simply is no such thing as "the reliability of the claim" that is distinct from "the reliability of the method used to arrive at the claim...".

Also you (in response to my question "And claims that are correct descriptions of reality are not reliable "_for_" such use?")> "Oh, sure, of course they are!"

> The way "the reliability of the claim" is commonly used is simply as a short-hand to refer to what more precisely would be called "the reliability of the method used to arrive at the claim".

Would you provide a source on this being the common usage?

> Do you agree that made-up claims have a greater probability of being untrue rather than true?

If that is the case, it is not obvious, because for every claim "X" there is also the claim "not X", meaning that exactly half all claims are true. So you'll need to establish what would tip that balance.

> Seems sensible to me!

Let A be the true claim "this bridge can bear 1632 tons", and the method that produced it is "making the claim A up on the spot".

Would you still say these phrases are equal?: "the claim A is reliable" = "it is likely the claim A is true" = "making the claim A up on the spot to establish claim A is reliable"?

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> By showing that whoever is holding the supposedly unfalsifiable position would actually accept some demonstrations as reasons to reject the claim?

Are you asking me?

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0) According to you: If X is falsifiable, then X "is not something we know for absolutely certain to be true, [but that] all attempts to falsify it so far have failed, that is all".

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1) If the claim "X is not falsifiable" is falsifiable, then "X is not falsifiable" "is not something we know for absolutely certain to be true, [but that] all attempts to falsify it so far have failed, that is all". (Substitution 0)

2) According to you: The claim "X is not falsifiable" is falsifiable"?". (ASSUMPTION)

3) Therefore: The "X is not falsifiable" "is not something we know for absolutely certain to be true, [but that] all attempts to falsify it so far have failed, that is all". (Conditional Elimination from 1, 2)

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In other words, by your definitions, there is no way to establish with certainty that a claim is not falsifiable, if its not being falsifiable can be falsified.

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>> Is the claim "our senses have at least one way in which they are reliable" falsifiable?

> Are we talking about "reliable for detecting ultimate reality" or "reliable for detecting the reality that they are detecting"?

Reliable for detecting the reality that they are detecting.
I'll believe it, the problem is I'm rarely in a situation where I'm near people and have the time to chat. The only times I've talked to strangers, have been, for example, when a crosswalk signal is taking an unusually long time to change. I'm normally at work or at home, and when I'm out, it's normally to quickly grab something to return to one of the two.

Also it's so much easier to strike up a conversation with one stranger rather than a group (which is what I usually encounter going out leisurely. Oddly I found the opposite with established friends / acquaintances. I can talk and converse with a group of my now friends much better than a single friend
A similar thing can be said for "spelt" (a kind of wheat).

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

> Spelt was an important staple in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times; it now survives as a relict crop in Central Europe and northern Spain, and has also found a new market as a 'health food'.
Tell that to the guys in Gitmo. Though they might be not nice and totally guilty nobody bothered to formally charge them.
Related: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/9805/would-...
An unfettered market is the most adaptive system possible: land, minerals, goods, money and labor not restricted in their movement, allocation, or prices. The system responds quickly to changing conditions and reallocates resources accordingly. Prices communicate the scarcity of goods and money (interest rates) and send signals to consumers and producers alike to ration those things with higher prices or to seek alternatives.

Check out the Depression of 1920-21[1] for an example of the economy bouncing back without government intervention.

As soon as you introduce price controls, permitting, licensing, interest rate controls, labor restrictions (age, wage), quotas, or any of the other government interventions in the economy, you introduce inefficiency compared to the "unfettered market."

The primary criticism of markets is externalities not accounted for in prices. This is where free-market environmentalism[2] steps in to argue that that the failure is due to the fact that there is no property in air and water, so you have a tragedy of the commons. Increasing property rights to include previously unowned resources could capture the externalities and begin to correct market failure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920%E2%80%9321

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-market_environmentalism
I am sure solutions could be found. But it would require effort from IT to understand what we are doing and finding real solutions.
I follow a You tuber his handle is Ave, He went into detail about it , I don't have the video title off hand. Being a former welder it really caught my attention. He was testing scrap he brought into his shop with a geiger counter. Commentor's below mentioned they had to test all steel coming in because it could set off sensitive monitors and halt the production line.
For me the biggest difference is that you have a single encrypted database file, and that no metadata is stored unencrypted. By default, pass uses file names as keys, so website names are stored in the clear. (To fix this on pass.you need to use pass-tomb, which I found very clunky, and could never get working quite right)

Another thing I like about keepassxc is that it has lots of features. It comes with a flexible passwird generator, has a friendly GUI UI, can be integrated to the web browser using an extension, and there are compatible android apps you can use on your phone.
This. I just don't post here frequently or check HN. Rest assured I am a real person.

I have mentioned my Twitter in previous comments (https://twitter.com/peterkimfrank) and you'll see my submission history maps pretty well to my role at my company (https://dev.to/peter).

This was a weird comment thread to wake up to...
I also did not realize this and it probably would have prevented me from posing the question in the first place. Seems like it would be clearer for the first button say "Click to sign" or something (other than "Submit").
I'm addition to Tibet they threaten Taiwan and all countries sharing a sea zone with them currently.
The limit on number of syncing devices has me exploring other options - I'm an oldschool Dropbox user, I got most of my storage space with referrals years ago, and I consume about 6GB on the free plan. I don't need 2TB. I don't really even want 2TB, and I'm certainly not going to pay over $100 a year for 2TB. I'd pay some smaller amount of money for the ability to sync additional devices without storage that I'll never use nor need, but nobody does a-la-cart pricing.

Apple will sell me 50GB on iCloud for $0.99 a month. That fits my needs much better, I just need to go through the exercise of making sure their web interface isn't horrible on my one remaining Linux system.

In fairness to Dropbox, I'm probably not the kind of user they want at this point. They got their mileage out of my early referrals, and I've never paid them a cent.
I'm guessing the hinge was added for the museum display right?
I am a pass user and for me the big drawback is that is exposes the website names by design.
Could, not would. Like smoking can kill you, not smoking will kill you. It is a common and fundamental English language pattern, clearly indicating doubt and should never be misinterpreted as certainty.
I have next to zero experience in this, but completely agree. Literally 'my first website' I made when I was a kid that had a very basic guestbook that I put together in php (actually it may have even been perl)/mysql got hit with random spam. Everything was something completely custom that I had made and not some package that may have had a common vulnerability - so there was and must still be stuff crawling the web looking for any kind of form to push junk into. In this case it was clearly trying to do some spam 'SEO'/keyword stuffing, because the page would display the static text (I was smart enough to filter out HTML though)...
A significant portion of "bracing for it" would involve trying to minimize the level of damage; that's basically the same effort as trying to avoid it, so...
They are harder to guess than sequential numbers.

No security is perfect - it is all deterrence. Using UUIDs instead of numbers at least closes the front door, even it it isn't locked.
Thankyou. I try to strike a balance with these things - showing off is mandatory in interviews, but needs to be done politely. You don't want to go full "Hexing the Technical Interview": https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
If you're worried about the wine industry you'd better brace yourself: the entire planet as it is now is unsustainable.
JavaScript: Promises and Why Async/Await Wins the Battle
Ask HN: Generative models / tools for high-volume testing data?
I am looking into how to generate transactional data for testing and tuning a fraud detection system, and would like to model the transactional activity seen on a bank. I’d like to reflect complex relationships on the data generation, so I’m willing to invest some time into preparing something that has some sophistication in how are the different persons related, why money gets transferred, the distribution of money amounts, etc.

I was thinking of either a) code everything in SQL scripts by hand, b) use a declarative language (either prolog or clojure core.logic) to encode all constraints that I have on the data, or c) play a little bit with a probabilistic programming language (most probably Anglican), and sample the resulting model.

My guess is that the former options are more down-to-earth and can just work, but will be limited; whereas the latter might not be very performant to create data the size of a medium bank, and I might get drowned in new concepts that I don’t fully grasp.

Has someone approached a similar problem? Do you know if I am somehow planning to reinvent the wheel, and there are known ways to approach this? I’d be happy to read any comments / pointers / suggestions! Thanks in advance!
Their strategy looks like an attempt in the direction of becoming a sort of third-party Google Wave.
ISPs will just offer slower plans as default and promotions with faster connections for people that consent with data harvesting and monetization. As it's a promotion, regulators can't forbidden promotions. And as ISPs are an oligopoly at best, it will be easy to force most people to consent. Regulators must forbidden data harvesting and selling. But it will not happen because data is the new gold.
Hexing the Technical Interview
The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I
La Liga Fined €250K for Breaching GDPR While Spying on Piracy
Whatever country Uyghurs reside in. So, seemingly... China itself.
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It's nice that they are optional, do you know if they are opt-in or opt-out?
Yet that piece of code that made me altruistically sleep deprived and for which I didn't get anything proved to be extremely valuable to company, its customers, to my friend and his colleagues that could learn something useful. Yet it didn't follow any process, so it better not happened :D

Also, to address one more point in your reply - the inability to understand was a result of their incompetence, not the difficulty of the program (some standard C code).
ClojureScript Logging with Goog.log
That seems odd. I've had nothing but good experiences with the Stellar community resolving any issues.

Not saying you were not mistreated, however a little context would be nice for clarification.

Why did you need to reset your password in the database? Did you simply want a new one or did you lose the original?

A lot of times when dealing with various wallets/keys you are told that your private key used to recover your wallet you need to write down/keep safe as there is no way to ever recover that/reset it, and that is by design.

I am wondering if it was this key that they were unable to reset for you or something else.
That makes the most sense to me; I suspected something like that might be the answer. Thanks!