skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the dead-reply to my comment, I will just say that MLK may have had collectivist leanings. He did not have the privilege to consider principles, and he was standing on the shoulders of giants, like Frederick Douglass.

Those promoting central-planning, "give D.C. power/ blame America first" crowd have no idea what they are promoting. In the 60s, it was still unclear if a soviet style system could remain solvent, even if they remained so through intellectual property theft (Ian Flemming was writing about a real problem). They couldn't, but they developed this soft-power technique to influence others via propaganda (e.g. "micro-influencers") during Lenin's time that still prevails to this day (it's what Huxley and Orwell were attempting to characterize).
Most people aren't interested in changing the world, just their lifestyle, to be what they've been sold as high status.

Facebook as one example is not filled with people who want to change the world, they can go work somewhere that's not cancer for 1/3 the pay any day of the week. Do they? No.

From personal experience - most burn-out is just a personality type. Some people only want to play at 9/10 intensity or not at all. Every professional athlete retires because they've 'burnt out'. Every professional athlete is willing to destroy their body to win. We love self destructive people. We love sacrifice. We love it when someone else does it, for our benefit.

When they're asking you to up your intensity from 4/10 to 6, we call them genius assholes and write blogs about avoiding them at all costs. They're asking you to sacrifice along with them, that is not acceptable. On Sunday, on TV, so that you can drink beer and cheer for your team, acceptable. When it involves you, 'burn out' :)
Here is what I was responding to:

> My gut response is that, yes, if you’re buying risk-free treasuries, why should you get a return above inflation at all? Rewards and risks should be commensurate.

The parent has some sort of ad hoc economic theory ("gut response"), and I am asking them to expand on what the theory entails. "Supposed to happen" means it would be predicted by this theory of theirs.
And due to scale-end effects, you should expect to compute a weaker correlation from a naive calibration analysis. If you are at the zeroth percentile, you can only overestimate your performance; if you are at the hundredth, you can only underestimate it. http://home.cerge-ei.cz/ortmann/TrentoCourse/Juslin_etal_Nai...
I'm talking about POTUS, not the DB president. He's just one high-profile example of a bank lending to someone who wasn't creditworthy.

Not to mention We're only 10 years past the worst financial scandal of a generation, which was caused precisely by underwriting mortgages for people who couldn't afford them. 465 banks failed in the US alone during this period[0], the exact scenario they claim that the public would fall into.

The banks have absolutely no leg to stand on in terms of arguing that they alone can determine who should receive loans. They were the ones who blew up the economy 10 years ago and faced no consequences for it.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_U...
http://archive.is/en2SL
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What issue are you referring to?
Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills
There's nothing preventing whatever_purescript.
Even if you have namespacing, anyone who owns a spot in it can sell or rent their spot to a malicious actor.
Just bought the Essentials package. $30 is a steal for something that I might use for 8+ hours per day. I can only imagine the amount of work and craftsmanship that you put into this, congrats!
This seems like kind of a fluff piece, I don’t see any details about the actual technology. The whole article is about how proud the company is to be partnering with midwestern farmers. Can anyone provide a link or more information about how they are able to distinguish weed from crops, and by what mechanical process the weeds are removed?
Rude people suck plain and simple. I was once young and overbearing, and since then I've been on the receiving end of that and it's total bullshit.

I'm not saying we should coddle people in the professional world, but we sure as shit shouldn't have to deal with coworkers psychological and anger management issues.
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Take a look at spamhaus bgp feed.
Better than a firewall: just blackhole the traffic coming from known spammers.
> I really liked the hn article the other day on assessing garment quality.

I didn’t see this at the time; if you remember the title or still have the link could you please post it?
No More Ransom project has prevented ransomware profits of at least $108M
The Rise of Influencers and the Decay of Journalism
These ridiculous prices are common in enterprise, not just the public sector. You just rarely hear about it when a bank spends 100 million on something that should have been build for 10 in the perfect world. One of the reasons you hear about this in the public sector is actually because we have systems to combat corruption. We don’t just hand out contracts to who we want, to get a public contract you go through a process called procurement, which typically requires a lot of upfront work both for the project but also legally and you have no idea if your bid is gonna to win.

It’s a lot more complicated of course, and one of the reasons is the massive bureaucracy. It’s both good and bad, on one hand it protects us from a public sector that buys software from sketchy people who go “I can do that 100 million project for 10”, exactly like I just did, and then completely fail to deliver. That’s not something you can do in enterprise, that whole move fast and break things simply doesn’t work when your results need to hold up in elections every four years.

Of course this exclusion of small agile companies who can’t afford to play into the public procurement system, means the companies who win the contracts are capable of milking us. Because the truth is, that we don’t get they alternative you think about. No one actually submits a 10 million bid for that 100 million system. Instead we’ll get a 93 million and a 86 million bid, and then we pick the 86 million one.

Typically less than 20% or the money goes to actual development though. The vast majority goes into whatever project management, governance, process modelling, lean, implementation strategies, training and all that other bullshit software companies sell you. And then 5 years later they fail to deliver and it ends up costing 10 million extra.

We really need a new model for this, and that’s where you and I probably agree, but it’s just not going to happen when not a single elected official in a country knows how to code.
> It's amusing you believe those projections

The paper explains the methodology and lists references to the data. You can go through them and check the calculations yourself.

> Think about the motivations for the people making estimates

That's another logical fallacy, a classic one known as "ad hominem". Their motivations are utterly irrelevant to the question whether their results are correct.

If you think their work is in error, show how.
Absolutely, this is why I take issue with the original comment. Consent is worthless in such a setting and I consider saying “but they consented” as some kind of an excuse why installing spyware of such kind malicious.
The fact that it's impossible to ignore it without consequences doesn't mean that it's impossible to ignore. Yes, communication with some people is likely to suffer. So be it.
In 25 years of working in the software industry, I have never witnessed somebody's assholity defended by their performance. I have also never encountered... NEVER encountered... an asshole who was also a top performer.

In contrast, the top 7 performers I can think of off the top of my head were to a person kind, generous with their knowledge, patient with those less talented, and generally Good People, both to work with and to be around in general.

So there's my anecdote to counter yours.

I will note that although I have never met an asshole who was a top performer, I have met many who were convinced that they were.
Kind of off-topic, but Bombardier was running a really terrible ad on TV in Canada a few years back.

It featured a couple of tourists in Europe asking a lady to take a photo for them. She purposefully waited until a train blocked the shot, so they got a photo of the train instead of the view they wanted. She then shows them the sabotaged photo and says something like, "I made that train! It's Bombardier."

I think the point of the ad was that they're an important exporter that creates good jobs and that earns international recognition. It was clearly designed for strengthening political support from the provincial and federal governments, not for selling trains. To me, though, it just made them seem like selfish assholes.

I wish I could find the ad, but Google just returns a mountain of news reports and marketing videos.
I feel like these fun activities are created by extraverted managers who think that because they get energized by social interaction, everyone does.

I always clearly explain to them that I'm an introvert, and I get exhausted by excessive social interaction and I need quiet recharge time. I tell them that I'll happily go to team activities if they are during work hours, but out of hours I'm in my own, re-charge time. No exceptions (and hold them to that)

I have found most managers are understanding when it's explained like this.
The whole world economy makes no sense. The finance and tech industries in particular are a mess; there seems to be no correlation between value creation and profit.

Whenever I hear successful entrepreneurs bash cryptocurrencies, I wonder how they can simultaneously hold the following 3 thoughts inside their heads:

- My company became successful in the last 10 years because it added value to the economy.

- Cryptocurrencies became successful in the last 10 years in spite of subtracting value from the economy; they are the exception to an otherwise efficient market.

- Capitalism works.

If cryptocurrencies were an exception to an otherwise highly efficient and meritocratic economy, could we say the same about bonds which have negative yields?

Maybe the following thoughts are more logically consistent:

- My company became successful in the last 10 years because I exploited a vulnerability in the economy.

- Cryptocurrencies became successful in the last 10 years because they exploited a vulnerability in the economy.

- Capitalism doesn't work because it's vulnerable to hacks.

Also, to explain the current bonds situation:

- Bonds can have positive value in spite of negative yields because some investors believe that the vulnerabilities in the economy can be patched (e.g. it's possible to increase interest rates) and that bonds will eventually return to positive yields.
That’s not Gödel’s ontological argument. You’re confusing it with something else.
FlightAware Misery Map
> Your code becomes AWS specific

Not really, aside from the other AWS services you consume (KMS, parameter store...). A cloud function takes an event, executes your business logic, and returns a response. The structure of the event can change slightly, but they’re remarkably portable, and I’ve moved them before. If you’re doing it right, most of your API gateway config will be an OpenAPI spec, and equally portable.

> it is more expensive if you need to scale

This is context specific.

> it has higher latency

Again context specific, and likely not something actually worth caring about.

> it is harder to test locally

This is one I simply cannot understand. You can run your functions locally, they’re just regular code. I’ve never had a problem testing my functions locally. If anything I’d say it’s easier.

There’s upsides and downsides to any architecture design. Serverless models have their downsides, but these anti-serverless discussions tend to miss what the downsides actually are, and kinda strawman a bunch of things that aren’t really.

I’d say the most common downside with serverless is that the persistence layer is immature. If you want to use a document database, it’s great, if you want to use a relational one, you might have to make a few design compromises. But that said, this is something that’s improving pretty quickly.
Not meant obnoxiously, but i wonder if the cruel people torturing dogs in Asia (multiple countries) give a shit. I think, as a born westerner, culturally, I grew up around all sorts of animals and always thought they're smart but underappreciated.
The facts the article refers to happened two weeks ago and have since been resolved, taking further steps to reduce the chance of this happening again in the future (e.g. by vendoring a lot of code)
Tell them they can work at Starbucks and lead a happy life. If you genuinely believe it, you won't have to tell your kids anything.

There is no pressure on kids, other than their idiot parents. School should be seen as trivial and boring, because grades don't matter. Grades don't matter because if you're not an idiot, you can flunk school and do well in life with minimal effort. Just try many things to see what you like and then do it for 10 years.

If it's athletics, you can go work a physically demanding job that pays well. If it's an intellectual pursuit, you'll be well suited for university and a high paying job. If it's creative, the admiration you get for your art will matter far more than living in a basement. If it's just being a nice, easy-going, kind human being, quality relationships will matter more than living in a basement.

Whichever way you go, you win, unless you have idiot parents who teach you to be unhappy and insecure, like them.
A DAU/MAU ratio oscillating within a <1% band for over two years implies stability, not "dying". Such an extraordinary stability that unreliable data is a more plausible explanation than the absence of any trend.
I did this for a period of time as a federal employee. You see people's interesting (read: dirty) habits and learn that there's simply no amount of trash cans, disinfectant wipes, and cleaning supplies that can be provided (for "free" by the government) that will have people clean up after themselves.

I've also seen some interesting behaviors as certain people will become very territorial over their preferred workstation, and generally the quality of workstations in general is lower as it becomes easier to move to a new workstation than try to fix the issue, or file a "ticket".

Cables & docking station parts go missing, keyboards get breadcrumbs & soda, chairs disappear (?!), etc. Once accountability for personal space goes away it seems a certain level of apathy kicks in
It was not my intent to convert anyone to Buddhism (in any of it’s hundreds of mostly peaceful substreams). I am merely pointing out that mindfulness requires a wider context.
“Whites as Minority”: The Racialized Narratives of Demographic Change (2018)
Dogs have been bred for everything else - I wonder how breeding dogs for intelligence would work out.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing it a ton, and we ban accounts that do that.

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> Slightly above average with a complex...

I don't think this person would get fired anywhere I've worked. It's difficult and expensive to fire someone. You open yourself up to possible legal action even if you put them on a performance improvement plan. The best is to try and manage them out, but if the work you need to get done outstrips the people able to do it, you'll keep that above average person who thinks more of themselves than they should.
They're amazing dogs, but like many of the more intelligent breeds do not like being bored, ignored or neglected, and Collies especially so. So if you think of getting one expect it to take about as much work and time as a small child.
True.

I had an English Shepherd, which is a closely related breed, also very smart, and has significantly less need for constant stimulation than border collies. I can't say enough good things about English Shepherds. Still needs exercise and stimulation, just not to the extreme degree of border collies.

http://www.karmatics.com/kyrapics/
> What about non-free?

Do you mean Juniper's JunOS (FreeBSD based), Arista's EOS (Fedora based), or Cisco's NX-OS, IOS-XE, and IOS-XR (Wind River Linux based)? Those are all non-free BGP stacks from what I know.

Or perhaps you meant something you can load onto a regular old Linux/BSD distribution.
Engines of Creation, by K. Eric Drexler (1986)
So you would need somebodey who go onsite, but has no idea about the situation, this guy has to draw an example. But because this guy has no idea about the situation, he would need one or two worker from the site to help him.

So he design it .. the other guys have to say ok, produce the sign, deliver the sign, somebody has to recieve it, entry check for bill, somebody has to hang it up .. and it better is the correct size .. and has no error. And just for a little change the hole thing again.

I'm pretty sure if you have a worker who can do it onsite with tape (and keep it simple) .. there is no competition.

Remind me on this. The Super Micro CEO made an Ad by himself.

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Originally from https://pippin.gimp.org.
Loaded instantly for me.
Perl (cpan), Python (pip or conda), Ruby (gem), and Rust (cargo) all behave as NPM does, so that doesn't seem to be the explanation here.
It’s hard to imagine that the market for devs who have fluency, understanding, wisdom, and depth, who can quickly and reliably deliver value against challenging problems, could ever be saturated.

People calling themselves software engineers, absolutely. People who can pass today’s interviews, doubtful but maybe. People who are actually good, who can get mental hooks into what is going on and use their tools fluently to address it, probably not.
they piggybacked onto the existing DNS domain name control

It's a recommended and widely-followed voluntary naming scheme - it's not in any way connected to domain name control.
How am I even supposed to know that's a feature on youtube then?
>I will note that although I have never met an asshole who was a top performer, I have met many who were convinced that they were.

Definitely this. I find that insecurity also correlates strongly with the above description.
It's interesting that you use an arms race framing for this, rather than a scientific one.

Let me ask you this. Universities and private schooling give a constant pressure for families to provide the best possible education for their kids, leading to constant competition for the best education since that gives a huge advantage in the job market over everyone else.

Why haven't we banned universities and private schooling then, since it gives just as much advantage as any hypothetical near term genetic engineering would?
I try hard to put partisan differences aside and vote for candidates that I feel will vote for solid principles and resist partisanship. As a result, my ballot is often a mix of Democrats, Republicans, and third parties.

However, I feel like I'm in the minority. Apparently ~30% of people on each side stick with their party, and even more tend to prefer a specific party. I feel like a lot of people don't even really understand the key issues and vote more based on habit/loyalty than anything else.

Aside from referring people to political quizzes like isidewith, I'm really not sure what I can do. I personally thought it was interesting that my results put candidates from 3 different parties in the top 5 matches, and none of them were either of the two major candidates in 2016.
No, there is no extra charge for gke. You pay for the nodes you use and you pay the same price whether you are using just cloud compute or whether you run those same cloud compute nodes in a gke.
Xiaomi M365 electric scooter – the missing manual
You touch on an interesting point there if the typical disclaimer is included: does that actually protect against willfully damaging code?

It's certainly (and reasonably so) very hard to hold a developer accountable for a bug in an open source library they published. But what if they put rm -rf / in the installer with the intent to delete the files of anybody running it? Does "you should've looked" really work there, or is there an assumption of good nature and malicious behavior voids the disclaimer?
Goldman is offering 2.25 percent on a basic savings account as well.
To be clear there are under performing assholes just they usual get the ax quickly if management is competent.

How would those 7 top performers act if placed alone in a situation of failure? Where its obvious the company is failing and is clear is certain individuals? Is it not "rude" to point that out? Or are we defining being rude or assholity differently?

I personally seen many times people who push back or raise justified criticism of anything be labeled as "rude"/"toxic"/"assholish".
If an article is wrong and you have correct information, you're welcome to provide it, but please don't do it by calling names. Do it by neutrally stating facts. This will do a much better job of refuting the wrong article. Taking the threads further into flamewar helps nothing, and damages this place.

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> Houdini is not that much different from CSS Shaders.

CSS shaders, like GL shaders, are declarative programs that look somewhat imperative. The GPU makes the decisions on how to shard/distribute those.

As for your second point, I agree to some degree. I don't necessarily see an issue with it - the two different models make sense in different places.
"We were doing a lot of work to prepare for a big launch, and when we got to the launch, we had a birthday for the launch,” Grace offered as an example. "We had a cake brought in ... we wore birthday hats ... I accidentally bought children's birthday hats ..."

It is their company, so while they do have the right to act this way, I do think that one day they might feel differently, kinda like how bell-bottom attire went out of fashion. This work-place cultural phenomenon seems to be a type of fashion and probably won't last into the next phase of computing.

I would hope that I could have refused to wear the party hat on grounds that it made me feel silly. That wouldn't get me put on the bad list, would it?
I don't actually feel like this solves anything, but instead just adds one more avenue for name hijacking. Now instead of trying to register an angular package first, I'll try to register a google namespace, or similar. If google is taken, I'll make an official_google, or g00gle etc.
My impression is that OP is comparing the Stockholm subway to Bart.

Comparing long distance train service to Bart would be weird.
I hope people consider even deeper that animals with less intelligence have motivation, fear and a variety of feelings in their consciousness. And that they deserve respect simply by virtue of their existence.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments and especially not flamebait to HN.

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Well that's good