skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, FWIW i wasn't trying to make an argument about keeping fulltime devs away. Trying to keep the codebase hackable for non-fulltime devs will also help fulltime devs too and even attract non-fulltime but otherwise dedicated (in their free time) devs. It is a good thing for everyone involved (assuming of course that the project does want others to be involved - there are projects that only release code but development happens behind closed doors).

Of course projects generally do not go with a goal of making it hard to have people contribute, it happens organically as the project grows. But i think after a project has realized they are in such a situation, they should make the necessary changes and improvements to get out of that situation.
> But there are occasions when those changes are hard to make. In Autotrader UK’s case, for example, the change would have involved fixing hundreds of thousands of pages.

I've got a lot of questions I'd like to ask about why exactly that's a big task.
ThreatList: Dmarc Adoption Nonexistent at 80% of Orgs
As a customer, I’ve quit Doordash. They used to have decent customer service, where, although your order was screwed up, they’d generally fix it. They had a weird habit of always offering a $5 credit though, sometimes even when the part of the order that was screwed up cost more. But you could reach a real person pretty easily.

A lot has changed since then, and we’ve had several pretty negative encounters with them including one where the CS rep basically accused us of lying about not receiving our food. (I suspect it was misdelivered because the map software they used put our address as our neighbors house two doors down.)

My last experience with them: The app told us to contact them for an ETA on our food. The actual status of our order wasn’t clear. We had a dasher and then we didn’t have a dasher. There was no way to contact them. We tried “Contact the dasher” and the number didn’t go through. We tried to use the chat functionality (which is ridiculously buried under four or five levels of clicks and even then not immediately obvious” when it used to be basically automatic if you clicked “help”) and it wouldn’t connect us. We tried another number which also didn’t go through. The website had a message about difficulty placing orders at that time but ours was already placed.

So there we sat in limbo not knowing if the food would ever arrive and no way to contact anybody. Should we just go out to eat? We didn’t know. We did use their web form contact them, but the response came way too late to not have ruined our meal time. Eventually our order was cancelled and to their credit they gave us $50 credits but meh.
Have you developed open source tooling I can test out?

I deal with malware from an operational perspective. I do use ML based proprietaty solutions that are crazy good at picking up on bad things. As someone who doesn't understand a lot of the n-gram and ML specific language in your paper,am I correct in sayig your work would basically allow developing better or more accurate true positive detections?
FizzBuzz establishes a minimum baseline, but you need more than the ability to write FizzBuzz to be able to work at a FAANG.
so 2 things:

1. "progress is stealing from future generations" is not the same thing at all as "progress is limited by natural resources", even if you accept the second one is true. Our grandchildren are still better off if we make progress now, even if there is a limit at some point.

2. value in a knowledge-based economy like ours is not linked to natural resources. I can spend this afternoon on my computer either coding or playing games. The resource consumption is the same, but one generates economic value, the other doesn't. The basic assumption that all economic value arises from the consumption of natural resources is flat wrong.
I’ve admittedly only had 4 jobs in 20 years but I wouldn’t describe any of them like this. Maybe this happens more at scrappy startups and I’ve worked at more established companies?
Content moderation is also censorship. You typically use E2E to avoid censorship and surveillance. Facebook wants to mold thought and opinion, it is the ultimate control over society.
Any source for your last statement?
I’m quickly approaching 50, and work as a tech lead/developer at one of the top few companies in the world earning well.

Age may make it more difficult, but in the end what you’re able to do matters most.
Mid-40's here. I'm in management but considering getting back into development/architecture. I've kept up with my skills in Java and DevOps and Kubernetes so I have a breadth of knowledge and skills that I know people are looking for. Management was my plan B and honestly I hate it.
If you think there's a lot to get from re-visiting textbooks, try re-visiting the actual sources. For example, Blaise Pascal's vivid accounts of his experiments in fluid dynamics (and his battles with the status quo who believed nature abhors a vacuum) will have you on the edge of your seat like a thriller novel--AND you'll come away with a much better understanding of fluid dynamics than you could achieve in a classroom. Or take Charles Darwin, you'd think "The Origin of Species" would be pretty much sucked dry, but nope, it has vast swathes of low-hanging fruit practically jumping out of the pages, begging for someone like you to make the connections and churn out interesting research papers like you're drawing water from a faucet.
I wish this comment would get more visibility. Experience is extremely valuable when building, maintaining and scaling software systems. The caveat here is of course that you actually spend your early years learning rapidly and not just doing mundane tasks. Self study and keeping up with technology isn’t easy but it’s doable, not impossible. And great engineers with tons of experience will get hired regardless of age.
It is if your web host doesn’t allow you to upgrade your software because they control the machine
Building Modular Java Applications with Gradle
AdBlock Plus is different from AdBlock. AdBlock is owned by an unknown entity and the source has been based on ABP since 2016. ABP is owned by Eyeo Gmbh (which I think was founded by the original developers of ABP).
Back in the 199x I was able to draw a design and pretty decent ui simply in CorelDraw. Stack some shapes, promote outlines, stretch textures, intersect/combine/diff/layer/group, place along few guides and that’s it. Now add some linear algebra on few points to make it resizable (including scroll and time axis) and everyone will create any app or site they need in hours. That’s what I did, working as a teenage ‘designer’ in a small typography producing promotional posters, business cards and info booklets (basically, almost all websites you can imagine, but on paper). Oh, and forms, lots of forms.

I mean, finally throw away that html/css mindfuck, please, and provide some decent shaping and coordinate relationship system instead. So I could go back to that boring 20 projects a week routine.
Had to level the playing field post Cambridge Analytica and the Netflix documentary about it, ha.

Tldr; the documentary basically concludes very blatantly C.A. (and Facebook) manipulated elections worldwide. though I won’t be touching that/stating my own take on it. (That said, I would be a little less facetious about this, if it was someone else than Thiel. But maybe I’m wrong in not seeing him as primarily an agent of Facebook. It’s just not necessarily what he represents to me as a public figure.)
This looks interesting. We had problems with AdBlocks breaking functionality on the parts of our pages that talk about ads. Super annoying. We basically had to rename all the assets and file paths to words with no meaning.

I'll be taking a closer look at the tool.
Thy aren’t necessarily helping Facebook. Giving a loudspeaker to a tech competitor helps their anti tech agenda. I mean, there’s almost a daily anti-tech op ed or some type of piece on NYT. Not once a month, not once a week, not once in a while when some new revelation comes out, but just about daily.

I’m not even disagreeing with the substance of these articles.

NYT is competing with these companies. Just keep that in mind. It’s awfully convenient to go specifically after your competitors.
If it was first published in the US in 1922, as it appears, it is unquestionably in the public domain here.
great. We cannot get "big brother is watching you" enough
Older comments:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9361580 (351 comments, 2015)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65043 (112 comments, 2009)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934500 (107 comments, 2018)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10290637 (2 comments, 2015)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20564970 (1 comment, 2019)
Ninja will likely help Microsoft gear up for a new type of console launch
There’s a trap in software dev careers. If you fall into it, you can really get stuck post 40.

If you work at a small-ish dev organization - especially in-house dev in a non-tech company - you can rise pretty far and become pretty senior, and your indispensability can net you a decent income. But on the open job market those skills don’t transfer as well. The senior roles in small dev shops are filled by promoting from within (because they value in house knowledge), and the senior roles in BIG dev shops are filled by hiring people who know how to operate in a big company, and you don’t have those skills.

Best way to avoid the trap is, try to work somewhere big for a bit before you get to 40, to keep that door open and make it possible to be hired into a senior role.
>That said, if you're going for a straight individual contributor role rather than a lead or manager, there may be questions about why you haven't moved up and whether that might indicate a lack of ability to learn new things that might make you a less valuable individual contributor.

Continuing as an IC (doing things) rather than becoming a manager where you help people do things indicates a "lack of ability to learn new things"?
> Over time, the validity of job experience for predicting performance declines, while that of ability remains constant or increases. Path analyses indicate that the major reason ability predicts performance so well is that higher ability individuals learn relevant job knowledge more quickly and learn more of it.

[1] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-43291-003
Why did you leave gset?
Plan B:

Stay a developer but don't do it in the narrow-minded valley. Work in industries that favor maturity and stay gainfully employed doing what I love.
This is turning into a great thread for developers to vent about browsers. "Accept/block Notifications?" have become the DHTML popups of late.
Funny you bring up the meds thing.

One of the problems that just surfaced in the news yesterday is the realization that almost all prescription meds are manufactured in China. The risk that poses to the US population and DoD is incalculable. How do we get off China meds?
Meta: I really wish HN had some way to automatically aggregate and display this data when a link was previously posted, so you had some sort of temporal representation of the various thread discussions that took place, adding a "+" expander and drop down to "past". I'm aware "past" takes you to HN search results for the link, so it's mostly good enough, I'm just throwing a wish into the ether :)
Everyone's seemed to gloss over this but this deal seems to be as much an acqhuisition as an acquisition. Do some research on who Gokul Rajaram is. He ran ads at FB and Google was a very significant leader. I don't think the margins of food delivery have changed. Remember Square couldn't get Uber to pick up Caviar for $100 million around the time Square had its IPO. Also I imagine the price involves DoorDash seems to be banking on a closer relationship with Square as well.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208343

> You can use dictation instead of your keyboard to enter text with many apps and features that use the iOS keyboard.

> On iPhone 6s or later, and iPad, you can use dictation without being connected to the Internet. Earlier models of iPhone and iPad require an Internet connection.
There are many domains esp. Finance where you move up or move out. Programming also tends to be one of them.

Scott Adams wonderfully says develop a talent stack, Programming is just one of them. Add Math, Sales, Communication, Leadership etc. Become a triple threat! Being above 80 percentile of 3 skills put you at a unique place. Many people here have the mental mechanics for it.

This one thing is true, I resisted.. learning is a life long thing! after 5-10 years of graduation your credentials do not mean one damn thing (with some exceptions).
Xwiki - it allows fine grained access control to pages. Design is clean, it's much lighter weight than confluence (which it replaces) and the search is also better than confluence.
https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/2/youve-got-some-gaul...

Probably about halfway through the episode, maybe a little further.
You're confusing my country with yours. On my country people are paid for their work, they don't live from tips, hence why is rare here.
Some herbal tea is fine, and even recommended for certain kinds of fasting
Thats the VC fallacy of believing that filling the tank with money will make the car go faster. If anything , progress in recent decades is anticorrelated with increase in funding
Top-k for which phase?

Most of the work we actually don't use any fancy sketching. Just a GIANT table where we count hashes, and ignore collisions, making it super fast to count. Then we just use Quick-Select to find the top-k counts out of 2^31 buckets.

Second phase we technically use the Space-Saving algorithm, but its generally not needed - we could just use a hash-map and naively count (which we know is actually safe is the data is truly power-law distributed). The Space-Saving algo gives us some greater peace-of-mind though since real data doesn't have to obey our theories :)

Features are just bag-of-words style!
I dunno, I'd rather have a choice in what to wear, who to marry, be in control of my healthcare, be able to play sports or go to the pool than not have Juicy Couture marketed towards a young audience.

I wasn't saying the US specifically needs to interfere, the US comment was a tongue in cheek reference to the Iraq war.
Publication Trends at ISCA (International Symposium on Computer Architecture)
I'd prefer if it were run with the aim of never breaking functionality instead of never seeing an ad, but I understand I'm in the minority.
I'm very sorry to hear that, I hope I wasn't sticking my nose in too much by making the suggestion.
> It is a temporary fluke. If Chinese take out operators that are able to do razor thin margins and nearly completely unpaid labor force cannot make them work then no one can make them work

They can, and they do. One way some chains achieve this is by raising prices vs. in-store. By offsetting the cost, the economics makes more sense.

> It is a creative lie by omission. Same kind of lie that Grubhub had when it forgot about the $$ it charged restaurants for answering phones that Grubhub setup.

> There are maybe a dozen chains (McDonalds/Burger King/Chipotle/Qdoba/Subway/White Castle, etc) that can negotiate $1 fee. Your pizza place, your taco place, your take out sushi joint don't have this ability. If they did then the VCs would not fund DoorDash or GrubHub.

I personally know of chains that have less than 50 locations and have negotiated ~12-15% comm. I also know of a NYC deli with one location that runs at ~15-17 comm. Its about volume. You can negotiate anything with high enough vol.

Not sure what you meant by "creative lie by omission" or if you were referring to what I said.

> Have you heard of Shake Shack?

Shake Shack IPO'd in 2015. White Myers does sit on the board (chairman), they are different companies. Also, Shake Shack has only recently started going into delivery (check their latest 10-K) they are fledglings going from their own platform (OLO) to working w/Caviar/Dash/etc.

Again, successful, but not a barometer.
I find the conversation about leisure time throughout history to often be mis-characterized or missing valuable insights to support someone's perspective of "wanting more control of their time.

If were were to look at the working hours in a few European countries, it becomes clear that the weekly work hours has diminished from 65-70hrs in the 1870s, to 35-40hrs in 2000s [1]. This, coupled with technology solutions that helps decrease household shores, improves healthcare and decreases time to acquire consumer goods (The list goes on), it becomes clear that we live in unprecedented times in terms of leisure.

It is also interesting to see hunter-gatherer societies, which is estimated to have worked from 2.8 to 7.6 hours. Did the increase in leisure time lead to 'true human potential' for these societies? If not, what makes us believe that it will be different today? Is it possible that more leisure time will lead to more boredom, screen swipe, etc?

If we were to assume that [1] data will continue to move in the same direction, then we are likely to have further gains in 'leisure time' led by a new technological evolution.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
[2] Working Hours in Hunter-Gatherer and Other Premodern Societies - https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours#note-1
"Baseload" is an amazing rebranding of nuclear's biggest weakness.

It's so expensive that it only makes sense if you run it full out, which means it's terrible for anything but your minimum load.

I'm going to rebrand solar as really good for "peak load" and totally ignore the bits it's less good at. Then when I have a conversation with a nuclear fan I can just say "peak load" and walk away in triumph.
If these Martians value individual freedom they'd probably prefer western liberal democracies, where everybody is (in theory) free to make their own decisions and live their own probably-shitty life on their own terms within the broader constraints of society, over societies where immutable characteristics of one's identity are used as justification to curtail individual freedom. Speaking as a human, entities that value freedom seem willing to make other sacrifices to achieve and maintain it, at least on paper.

On the other hand, e.g. if Martian males are sessile, nonsentient semen-dispensers kept in special rooms in Martian households where they're fattened up for breeding season and then drained of their product in a violent orgy every summer solstice, Martians might look at Saudi Arabian society and assume that something similar is going on, and that there's nothing to worry about.

Equally hypothetically, a member of a Martian society that has passed through the growing pains of industrialization and globalization and achieved long-term (millennia) steady-state sustainability would probably look at American and Saudi Arabian society and conclude that both have serious problems.
Yep. I've heard VCG or combinatorial auctions proposed as a solution for various problems.

I think it is used for advertising slots, and airline gates, but could be used for logistics brokerages, or unit rentals in skyscrapers.

The wiki article on combinatorial auctions provides examples.

>Simple combinatorial auctions have been used for many years in estate auctions, where a common procedure is to accept bids for packages of items. They have been used recently for truckload transportation, bus routes, industrial procurement, and in the allocation of radio spectrum for wireless communications. In recent years, procurement teams have applied reverse combinatorial auctions in the procurement of goods and services.

>Combinatorial auctions were first proposed by Rassenti, Smith, and Bulfin (1982), for the allocation of airport landing slots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_auction
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In our house we refer to Alexa as "Alesto" when we're discussing her.
People spend whole lives in prison and they still don't want to die. Very small number of people with healthy brains (undamaged by depression for example) kill themselves intentionally even though it's not that hard. Life is very fragile. Somehow even in this world filled with suffering practical calculation lands for almost all people on the side of "let's not end this just yet".

You can ponder eternal torture and not existing but I'm talking about more down to earth thing. Your single life. You will never have anything besides it. It's not eternal torture, it's not even all torture. It is everything you own and the only thing you own. How could you give up any future piece of it that you didn't have to?
3 years ago

This changed our lives for the better

https://youtu.be/ocioTKVidQc

Watch, learn, try

And remember we are in charge of our own health.

The healthcare system, your providers and their team get PAID for seeing patients usually with a broad range of conditions (unless they are volunteering in a region in need of health services)
You might get more earnest learners if the degree weren't tied to pay or prestige. Everyone wants pay and prestige, but only some people want to learn.
That only works if you start at 25 when you graduate. Not a viable plan for someone approaching 40 who wants to make sure they can continue to support themselves into their 60's and beyond.
The negative feedback here and elsewhere provides exactly that incentive, which is why less than 24 hours after your comment, they've announced that they are ending the practice entirely.
Web & JavaScript is really great platform for quick prototyping and when you're doing UIs, it's all about being able to iterate fast.

It might change a bit with Flutter & SwiftUI but I still find web & CSS to be a better authoring model.

Note that I've been doing (native) desktop programming before so I can compare.
Joining or creating a small agency is an option I could see looking into eventually. Something with partners and associates similar to how law firms are structured. Kinda splits the difference in being a contractor but not being self employed.
At the expense of adding a hacky conditional to your execution path. Fine for a one off, but not for any larger workload.

Instead, bind different modules to different binary build targets. If you're smart about your module size, compilation time is a non issue. It will be way more maintainable. And by forcing yourself to do this, you force yourself to modularize your code in an extensible way instead of placing flag hacks everywhere.