skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are they mentally ill or do they have a different philosophy?

By the discussed points I would have to say it’s both. It’s certainly a different philosophy, but it would most definitely be classified as mentally ill.
Seems to by this implication:

> and reaches a combined 750 million unique users globally, according to the publisher. The theory is that in doing so, publishers can compete more effectively with the scale and data-targeting opportunities provided by Facebook and Google.
No, he did not make a mistake. You are just not used to his accent. Americans do have accents, and they differ from place to place. No one from where he comes from makes this mistake.

Now that you know better, you can avoid making it again.
Having been to Bali a few times now I can only say that this is the least problem someone will have when booking a taxi. The infrastructure and streets are not built for the amount of road traffic they have, so any taxi journey, even the smallest distance (e.g. Canggu to Kuta) will be an hours long suffering in slow moving traffic.

Rent a scooter or motorcycle and live the island life ;)
Not an American here. Propaganda of what exactly?
> Rust works because it enables users to write in an imperative programming style, which is the mainstream style of programming that most users are familiar with, while avoiding to an impressive degree the kinds of bugs that imperative programming is notorious for.

That's from the previous paragraph. So yeah, out of context it's a bad quote, but in the context it's a little less hoity toity.
I think they just picked random screenshots. For example they show Visual Basic with a Windows 95 interface but it predates it by several years.
>Netflix is a heavily data-oriented company; if a large chunk of Netflix subscribers just watch decades old reruns then they know it. What Netflix needs to do is build content specifically for these people and I don't believe they're doing that.

I know that a significant portion just bing rewatch the Office and Friends, however they do not own the rights and these will go back to NBC who will just host them in their own streaming service.

This is the main issue facing Netflix. The more their competitors wise up and take their content elsewhere people will be more reticent to pay for a sub fee since there are now way too many options to choose from.
Well, yes, it is a useless analogy... Oh, you meant to say that comparing bridge-building to software development would be a useless analogy? It's not an analogy I made - the point is that just because you can make a cute analogy, it doesn't mean it offers any insight.

> I'm really tired of people being dogmatic about either approach

Exactly - and the implication that I am being dogmatic is a straw man. I am simply opposed to arguments that depend on poor analogies.

Furthermore, all of the bad things that you say can happen if you try to think ahead are as least as likely to happen if you don't, and especially if you have gone in the wrong direction for some time (I know the latter is a manifestation of the sunk-cost fallacy, but it happens a lot on real projects.)
Are the times localized to the timezone they're in?
Betting on biometrics to boost child vaccination rates
I'll bet the engineering process of the software written for the Apollo 11 lunar lander was much closer to the bridge building process than you might think. I'll also bet there's a whole host of software projects which use similar processes today. It's just that most of us writing DB skins for "The Enterprise" are rarely, if ever exposed to real engineering for the simple fact that quality software is expensive and typically, our organically grown solutions are good enough.
Amazon Offers Sellers a Leg Up, with a Catch
The good thing is we can walk next door and meet our neighbor.

It is strange this is an epidemic when it is a problem that seems so easy to solve.

UPDATE: based on responses to my comment it seems the core problem may be closer to home than we like to admit. CS Lewis' book The Great Divorce details this misanthropy, where hell is a product of the residents' own making because they choose to live on their own because they do not like anyone else.
> it would make sense to treat any fire alarm as an actual emergency

They were using a industry standard operating procedure (SOP) in a non-standard environment. Sometimes it's hard to know the situation is non-standard until after the fact.
Yes, I think that is the main limiting factor.
There's nothing I enjoy more than a bunch of nerds analyzing a metaphor to death.
Wow super neat, you reminded me of a family member who has a 3D TV!

And with modification this technique also works with laptops and colorized glasses!

gaming intensifies
I usually work 9-5 and commit before going home. I might pick it up again at home and commit my changes before I go to sleep, around 11.

According to this study I would be working 5 to 11pm
Amazon is expected to be a good sport and take the loss — even if the purchase was made in bad faith

Expected? Are they? Most sentiment on this sort of event seems to be something like, "will it show up? we'll see", and when it does get canceled it's "shucks :)"

I can understand some of the feelings, in part it's just fantastical to observe these powerful systems screw up. I once incredulously ordered an item I wanted, priced at $0.00, and was shocked to see it arrive at my doorstep (I corrected the retailer and paid)
A 2019 Guide to Object Detection
WashingtonPost has been ahead of the curve on this for a while. Here is my anecdotal experience with their tracking.

WashingtonPost allows a non subscriber to view a few articles per month and if you went over the limit it would require a login. I had been able to circumvent that by clearing out my cache, cookies and local storage or using the anonymous mode. But now that does not work anymore.

I am able to work around this by disabling javascript. Your move WashingtonPost!
I had many many false starts back in 2014 when I tried learning Rust. It took me to stop comparing it or thinking about it like C++ (syntactically and semantically) in order for me to get it. Now, I’d consider myself reasonably fluent in Rust.

I don’t mind the syntax because I find it explicit enough, but terse enough in certain cases. It’s similar but different and so it rhymes with my past in C++, but it’s not the same.
No. Has nothing to do with psychology.

The name for this in statistics is ergodicity. Nassim Taleb, an expert on this subject, as well as many other authors in risk management have established that even professionals in statistics fare very poorly in understanding ergodicity in real life.

In short , its not psych, its human nature
Feel like that's a common misconception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)

http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House
Correct answer

People need to "humble down" and see that if people keep falling into the same traps even with training, it's not as simple as "people sucks"
Yeah, it feels like less than 10 companies are funding everything podcast right now. Seems pretty fragile.
That's just called a branch. What GP described was committing all their changes into a single WIP commit.
This is interesting coming from MS! I've used a lot of VM/GC languages and IMO C# is the best of them all. All the things people complain the most about, like type erasure in Java, or lack of generics in Go, are done right in C#.

I used it for years and don't have any major complaints.

Hearing that the company with the "best" language (all subjective) is interested in Rust is exciting.
In this case no correction is needed. He said it correctly, many heard it incorrectly. You can correct your misapprehension at any point, such as now.
This is a scoping issue. On iOS devices at least no app has access to your photo gallery unless they explicitly prompt you for permission.

That said, many apps need access to the photo gallery - say I want to put a screenshot into discord. The issue is that now Discord has access to ALL of my photos.

There needs to be more scoping options. "Allow access to previous 12 photos while you're using the app" kinda deal.
Elon Musk Told Why He Thinks We Can Land on the Moon in ‘Less Than 2 Years’
They still tend to get worked pretty hard, have no job security and don't get paid anywhere near as well.
It should be worth millions to have pictures of 150M faces and associate them with names. If I had that I would sell it to the people running the in-store camera networks that identify customers into demographic categories and offer them this so that they can associate real identities.

Another data broker, now of people's faces. I am surprised that this isn't yet done by the free make-up apps or even by snap chat.

I guess there are people crawling Facebook and probably other profile services like LinkedIn, etc. But probably crawling these is not legal to resell.
>it was always about the values and the bond it created between each member of that religion.

Sometimes people formed bonds they shouldn't have and then the religion starts a crusade or two
The year was 2011 and I had just moved to DC after finishing undergrad. I couldn't find work in the radio business so instead I got a contract gig through Craigslist with the Internet Archive scanning books in the basement of the Library of Congress. Its dark down there and the work is pretty mechanical. The books themselves are only occasionally interesting.

My iPod Touch could connect to wifi so I started listening to NPR while I scanned. I could do that for two hours or so, but once the segments started repeating I got bored. A friend suggested I listen to Radiolab, so I did. When I'd gone through their catalogue I tried out 99% Invisible. Then academic lectures that had been turned into podcasts. Then audiobooks. Then whatever I could find by searching for "good podcasts." Eventually I got tired of the sound of podcasts (they have a sound) and switched to WFMU and a couple college stations I liked.

I haven't listened to another podcast since. Am I missing something?
FB Hearing Before the U.S. Senators and Lawmakers Panic on the Entry of Big Tech
There were many small technical improvements along the way but 3.51 was purely just a 32bit protected preemptively scheduled system with a decent filesystem and boring UI: a sweet spot. A major later improvement was laptop support.
Do friends need to enter the name along with the picture? How about the age?

I haven't tested the app myself yet and probably will not.
Tech Industry Wages Are Rising (Somewhat): Study
One thing you got wrong, usucapio is still used in our era.
This is the reason I have just stopped bothering about privacy. I meticulously guard which apps I share my phonebook with, while other idiots share their entire contacts folder (including my details) en-masse to apps like TrueCaller.

It just feels so futile to even care.
The lack of explanation of why the author thinks Rust is better than C# makes me think the author is a troll.
Suppose you have

fn foo(i: i32) -> string throws IOException
let x: Vec<i32> = ...
let y = x.iter().map(foo).collect()

What's the type of y ? There are no good answers here: if it's Vec<string> then where did the errors go? If it's Vec<Result<IOExecption, string>> then the user is pretty confused about where the Result came from. You can't propagate the IOException through the map() call in the general case (it might be in a third-party compiled library etc.). In Java this is a compilation error and the reason checked exceptions are useless in practice.
There is a lot of ways to retaliate against a company that do not involve setting fire to a building with 70 people inside.

This is pretty much the definition of crazy, though apparently not self destructive because they survived.

I fully expect the death penalty if he doesn’t prematurely manage to commit suicide though.
Keybase CEO here. Let me tell a quick story. January 2019. I was loading the car to leave for a short family ski vacation when I got a truly horrifying email: that my slack account had been accessed from a distant land (that I hadn't been to).

There goes my weekend!

When we first started Keybase, we used Slack as other teams did, but were gradually moving all Slack-based workflows over to Keybase. As such, we didn't use it for anything beyond communicating when Keybase was down. But I was very worried. I knew I used a good, random, one-time password for Slack, so it couldn't have been that the password was stolen from somewhere else. Had my computer been rooted? Had my side-hustle password manager been compromised (oneshallpass.com). I immediately contacted Slack security and asked them if this issue was on their side, and they neglected to point me to the relevant blog article from 2015 (which didn't detail the extent of the compromise, we now know). They just said they take security very seriously and hinted I was at fault.

In the subsequent few weeks, I reset all of my passwords, threw away all my computers, bought new computers, factory-reset my phone, rotated all of my Keybase devices, and reestablished everything from the ground up. It cost me a lot of time, money and stress. In the end, I was pretty sure but not 100% convinced that if I had been rooted, that the attackers couldn't follow me to my new setup. But with these things, you can really never know for sure.

I got the email today that my account might have been compromised in the attack. I would say for sure that it was compromised, and I can breathe a big sigh of relief, that was the explanation I wanted to hear all along.

It was great to know throughout this ordeal that the product we're building --- Keybase --- solves this problem in a fundamental way, not with adding further workarounds (2FA while better than just password alone, reminds me a bit of the 3-digit verification code on the back of your credit card; and if Slack's credential database is compromised again, 2FA won't help at all). With Keybase, all of your data is E2E encrypted, and your encryption keys never leave your device. A would-be attacker who compromised our database would have no ability to access any important user data.

Summary: estimated cost to me:

- $5000 worth of hardware
- 60 hours of labor
- 25 hours of lost sleep
- 10 additional hours of team effort

Fortunately:

* Keybase does not communicate sensitive information in slack such as cap tables, financials, employment decisions or compensation discussions, team reviews, company devops secrets, stupid memes that could be taken out of context, or private DM'ing. Basically we just use a `#breaking` channel in Slack, for when we break Keybase.
* Keybase itself is immune from this kind of break-in.

Edits: wordsmithing and improvements

Also: Import your Slack team to Keybase: https://keybase.io/slack-importer
If anything, we may be at peak interview/chatter and true crime, but listenable shows that go in-depth on a topic and tell a story are few and far between. Or at least, I haven't been able to find them as quickly as I can listen to them.
How much would you pay for Speed Reading Skill?
It's almost certainly depends on the juridiction but I am curious on this.

Also if any lawyers read this - If "perpetual" isn't binding, would say "The next 200 years" be binding? It's an explicit time period but effectively still "indefinite" for the lifetime of an individual.
That's orthogonal to exceptions though. Errors could easily have stack traces automatically added to them (and IMO, they should).
Your designers are working with abstract models. They are thinking about problems at a conceptual model, they are not putting up structures and seeing if they work.
> abuse of return policies, ordering and wearing clothes once before returning them, ordering several similar items while intending to only keep the one you like the most

How is this considered abuse at all? The EU even mandates a 14 day return window for online shopping since you don't get to try stuff on or see the item like you would in a physical store.
Why not simply accept contact-less payment from mobile phones via something like NFC? And use the stupid metro-only cards as a backup? Speaking from a US perspective...
The relevant question is, who is going to stop them?
And to think I haven't heard one podcast till date. I must be living under a rock.
Ask HN: How to Be an Effective Architect
I am moving to a cloud and data architect role. As the role title suggests, its a mix of everything.

The group already has some excellent software developers and some software architects. My question is, how do I excel there? What is expected of me and how do I prove myself?
I have been a full-stack software engineer so far. I am good with software development, devops, distributed systems, architecture, cloud, low level OS stuff and everything in between. But in the new role, even before I start I am already feeling like an imposter.
thank you, that makes sense.
That only works for exactly one exception type. Err cannot be no errors, nor can it be two or more unrelated exceptions. You end up having to have n different overloads (for 0, 1, 2, ... exceptions) for every functions, and since Java's type system is not up to "varidic generics" you have to write them all manually.
Why Amazon Needs a Competitor and Why Walmart Ain’t It
That is a gross simplification of criminal motives and you should strike the thought in it's entirety from your mind and re-evaluate it from first principals.
So I wrote a projectional/structure editor[1] that does this sort of nested tiles representation. The reason for it wasn't to teach syntax though, it was to provide users with bigger, easier to interact with UI elements (reasons below).

I wanted the basic elements of the interface to be at a higher level than individual characters. The nested squares style rendering is highlighting grammatical structures in the language—not to teach syntax, but just to indicate where an interactable UI element is, the same way you have rectangular bounds around a button etc.

My motivation for this was to make it easier to manipulate code with lower-precision input devices (e.g. the microsoft kinect / leap motion), but I think there is general interest because a lot of the people writing these editors start from the premise that interacting with the AST directly (as opposed to character sequence) opens up doors, and nested squares is just kinda the most natural/obvious way of rendering an AST. It's also a more natural pairing with the input style of many of these interfaces (e.g. Lamdu[2] or Fructure[3]) which also operate at a higher level than character sequences.

The alternate rendering in itself isn't world-changing, it's the underlying change to directly manipulating a model that then gets rendered (as opposed to parsing the interface—i.e. character sequences—in order to arrive at the model) that's important.

(And even it probably isn't the most important revision to programming tools in general—but that doesn't make it not worth working on if someone's interest is in that direction.)

[1] http://symbolflux.com/projects/tiledtext

[2] https://www.lamdu.org/

[3] https://github.com/disconcision/fructure
It's crazy, we understand that libraries should be barred from handing over our book checkout histories but somehow we allow corporations to do that and much more.
It was much easier then to become experienced in programming because it was way less to learn.
Agreed! It was rock solid.
USDA buried sweeping climate change response plan
I don’t think it is a pr / marketing stunt.

1. They would have used a cute price eg the prime day date.

2. They would later claim intentionally as to not seem incompetent.

3. They would pick a more relatable or mainstream product that has a optimal pr spin. Like a family friendly, or youth demographic. Not sure what the best example would be. A gaming pc or outdoor patio kit, something other than a 10k camera lens for photo nerds.
Apologies, I wasn't referring to that. I was referring to it's easy to keep an eye on the "total cost you've spent" using an HSA, because it's your money in your account.
My LifeDrive is about to meet the modern web!
i do this all. the. time. i'll squash multiple in-progress commits into one before submitting a PR.
Their bottom floor had a shop anyway, because so many fans made the pilgrimage to their studio.
>What I said is a common critique of content coming out in the past few years.

It's only common in certain circles and we all know exactly which ones.
> it doesn't come right out and say that MS is considering
> offering a full Windows SDK with a Rust API

It's possible that the Security Response Team doesn't have the authority to dictate the priority of new products for the dev tools teams.
This is probably applicable to a lot of other services.

I always find it weird that if I accidentally enter the wrong code, I get to try again instead of being sent a new one.
Some of your reasonings seem a bit simplified. If someone robs a bank, they might want money. Is it because they are trying to feed a starving family? Is their life being threatened due to gambling debts? Or do they just value the safety of others less than they would the money?

And that is the only arguably victimless crime in your list of 3. A crime can be committed by a rational person (if I don't do this, my child dies), and it can be committed by someone who is not mentally well. I would argue that these, especially the last crime, are all crimes likely to be committed by someone who is not in a stable or healthy state of mind.
You’re doing it wrong :)

users.apply {
asSequence()
filter { it.lastName.startsWith("S")
sortedBy { it.lastName }
take(3)
}

(totally untested)
Indeed that's the most complete theme ever written for Hugo, still muted by Hugo team because of the optional miner module included and their stupid policy to allow only github or gitlab hosted themes! They removed it from their gallery although they allow others that grabbed after-dark's source...
A part of me wonders if this is a calculated marketing move for next years prime day. "Hey remember last year when $13k cameras were priced for $100? Lets see if that happens this year!"
I'd be interested to hear from those who have used both - how does it compare to Algol? Looking at wikipedia it seems similar in its syntax and also in the intention of the design. Also: I think I first heard of PL/I in the 1980s but only today have I discovered it is P.L. One rather than P.L. Eye - thanks, HN!
You're right, facebook and others can (and do!) infer people based on contact lists, even if you don't have a facebook account, if all your friends do then Facebook already knows who you are, who your friends are, you're likely interests (based off friends), etc.

The best I figure I can do is to keep the apps I used locked down if possible - and to avoid "stupid" apps that clearly have little purpose other then dataharvesting.

Cool Selfy app? Ehh pass.
Just be careful if you're putting fill behind the wall--like all retaining walls these aren't really designed to 'hold back' anything. Their strength comes in compression, not lateral loads. At a bare minimum make sure you put a layer of crushed rock next to the wall, separating the dirt from the wall. This will mitigate water and decomposing plant material from resting against wall swelling and causing the wall to be shoved apart.
On iOS is't possible to ask the system to present a photo picker on behalf of the app without requiring a permission to look into your photos.
The midlife crisis confronting many Americans
Yeah; the original post from Microsoft was linked yesterday and this just seems like a dodgy regurgitation of it.
I just don’t think overreaction covers this. Even if there is no more appropriate word in the English language, it is still incorrect.

Having your family killed gives you a strong motivation. Losing out on a bunch of money? That doesn’t even come close to being anything worth killing over. Let alone mass-murder.