skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it isn't because the science supports it, why is that important? Countries do weird things for the wrong reasons all the time. The Swedish government says the sale and consumption of MSG is "unwise" because it "might be bad", even though there is absolutely no scientific support for it. I'm sure you could find many, many examples of similar problems in practice and it does not take a whole lot of thinking to realise it might impact other areas as well.
In which the NYT discovers discounted bills of exchange. Which have existed since at least the early 14th C. in Northern Italy. Sinister when the Chinese use them, though, of course.
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In the USA this has tax implications for those who are on the receiving end of a forgiven debt:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/what-if-my-debt-is-forgiven

Is it the same in Canada?
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bullying, not 'bullying'.
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Funny enough, I had two buyers saying pretty much this. "I'll pay 49" on a £35 item. Why? Because apparently that's "what it's worth". I appreciate the thought, but it just looks insanely suspicious...
All those cabinets use the same key across cities as well! Otherwise FEMA and other services would be unable to function. For the same reason all LEO handcuffs use the same key, so that any officer could release any handcuffed individual.

Edit: Some googling for links let me to this video, which seems relevant:

I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmcRTnTNC8
Exactly. People saying this are unable to separate growth investment from core profitability. Uber or Lyft can pull out of money losing long tail markets, cut down staff to may be just 500 and would run just fine but would immediately become immensely profitable. However price to pay would be growth stagnation and robustness against future unknowns. For now they are doing the right thing to lose money to win the market share and diversity into other logistic businesses as well as prepare for future where autonomous vehicles would be the norm.
Do CCNA and follow to CCNA security certification.This way you can easily get job. believe or not, certification is important. non-tech don't trust you without it.

If you're in bug hunting, do it in leisure time. it takes lot of time, patience and can't pay bills always. OWASP u can do as additional not as primary.

Easiest way i think to enter in security with guarantee to pay bills is via networking domain.
I've had a similar experience, and I agree 100%.

In my case the founder/CTO was very capable but after a point he just didn't want that position because of some reasons, and he left. The company then decided to just assign the next-in-line people as a group of 3 to act as the CTO replacement. That didn't work very well, and actually 2 of them ended up leaving too. After that we finally hired a guy specifically to be the CTO, and it's been great after that.

(I left the company after a while, but it's still going great with that latest CTO)
For context: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/08/microsofts-msdn-maga...
You might want to give it a shot. PHP has vastly improved with PHP7
I suppose the 'qual' stands for quality but as a Dutch person [the Dutch word being kwel], I agree with your (German) assessment.
Forums are not reputable sources unless it is insiders leaking info that can be verified through other means.
^ THIS IS FROM 2002!

Sorry, just had a mini heart attack when I opened that and don’t want others to do the same
That sounds like communism. To the re-education camps with you!
Eh, depends on your definition of success.

When the debt got solved - and finally we could open the market in other countries and maintain old ones without causing chaos by each change - the company was nearly burned cash-wise. They got acquired, I left soon, they hired more developers and the situation is better now altho they pivoted.
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I've been a software development manager for more than 2 years now. I used to code more at the beginning then I let me team focus on code, technical aspects as I trust them and mainly I would like them to have the freedom.
I sometimes write API code but very basic ones.
Most of my day is spent on meetings, support to end users, writing user stories, and some admin tasks like looking for interns, interviewing, sorting out licenses, making sure servers are up and get infrastructure team to look into it, etc etc,

so fast forward 2 yrs I have lost technical sharpness, so I cant be a programmer anymore, I'm not a a BA neither a PM. I champion agile practices in my team but I'm not an agile coach though. At this stage I feel a bit lost. I feel like I'm not good at anything. where do I go from here?
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How does Unision compare to Rsync, is one a part of the other or both are different tools for syncing files?
You are generalising the case of San Francisco as if the rest of the world was payed $150K a year and was able to throw wads of cash to buy groceries in Uber cars.
The only thing creative here is the imagination that the ad network is not responsible for the content it serves, though I recognise we may just have fundamentally different outlooks on responsibility. If that is the case, I feel like discussing it further is not going to help either one of us.
They might not be definitive sources, but they can definitely be the canary that triggers an investigation by somebody more authoritative.

As it stands, this mine has some dead canaries.
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I think the wins of the open camp are real and tangible and they powerfully shape the industry. Android is free precisely because an open kernel is available that could empower a competitor. Google is absolutely paranoid about this possibility, and is severly limited in the Microsoft-esque moves they can make.

I think what precludes the final victory of open source is that the world itself changed for the better. The mobile and
web revolution brought easy to use software into the hands of billions. These are people who wouldn't have been able to touch a PC twenty years ago, let alone understand or care about what source code is. They have vastly different expectations than the professional software users that created the free source movement in the image of the hackers of the 70s and 80s. Just look at the number of rooted phones sold. It's an appliance model of computing.

In this new consumer environment, the free source development model is less adequate and cannot compete with commercial software that can directly monetize the apps and invest in further development. What is required, I think, is to update the free software philosophy to the 21st century, and relax some of the ideological goals to facilitate development and reach the more substantial goals, like privacy and security.

The walled gardens of Google and Apple can be replicated. What is lacking is a free software business model that can gather the $1 billion or so required.
> "I don't understand this romantic idea of Olden Times. I doubt any Parisian misses dying of simple dieases or just not having access to emergency care."

Of course not. This isn't a call for a return to poverty and disease. It's about the organic neighbourhoods, architecture and street layouts that are gone forever and replaced with centrally planned layouts and homogenous buildings.

One of the reasons I think London is a better city than Paris (in my opinion, obviously - I've lived in both) is that it has, whether through accident or design, managed to retain significant numbers of it's medieval streets and diverse, centuries-old buildings while also embracing modernity.

Where as in Paris you have a rather homogenous city, mostly all built in the same era, in London you can walk a few blocks and be transported through centuries.
And you'd be wrong saying that about Russia. Sure, most of the country landmass is located in pretty cold regions, but nobody lives there, most of population lives in european part with okish weather. And this part is still huge enough to have big agriculture landmass overall. It's like calling Denmark inhospitable frozen wasteland because of Greenland. Russia has much more arable and cultivated land than Canada even in percentage.
Well, at least they bleep the F-word. Other countries don't do that, but they do restrain the amount of violence on TV and look where THAT got them.
Why would you pay money to LJ when all their content was always available for free on all other websites?
m curious to know number of top contributors or is it just single one ? well then, even top AI guys earn lot compare to normal SDE.
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There are tiers of low-hanging. I think we're just seeing the end of the infosec stone age.

It's still plain that OS vendors continue to make big compromises, by eg continuing to use C/C++ to handle untrusted data for decades after the risks became obvious, and we're constantly seeing C-caused vulnerabilities like Windows RDP server remote root, WhatsApp remote root, Broadcomm and Qualcomm Wlan RCEs, etc.

The memory safety laissez faire attitude has also held back the state of the art in other fronts besides memory safety, because it's not so interesting to eliminate other classes of bugs while the elephant remains loose in the room.
If you're doing development, having a RPi and 0.5 GB of ram is just weird. In principle I do agree that modern stuff is horribly bloated and I can bitch all day on the subject, OTOH it's where we are now.

Invest in a machine of suitable spec, and BTW that usually means RAM more that CPU (IME anyway). Don't hamstring yourself.
I can't recommend highly enough the Revolutions Podcast, which has seasons devoted to the French Revolution, the 1848 Revolutions, and the Paris Commune. Paris was ground zero of the extremely tumultuous sociopolitical transition from feudalism to republican nation-state, which eventually became the norm for most of the globe.
hmm. u got there a fancy email.
Buy a $40 mower next time if you are worried about wasted potential.
When thinking in historical times you should put yourself in that moment of time. Of course if someone travels back in time with current knowledge will do things in different ways than Haussmann - they know whats going to happen, they know about things Haussmann didn’t.
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When installing a new OS recently, I struggled to find a definitive view on what to do with swap. There's no data about it, just superstition, and the thread about this yesterday was full of people saying nobody uses it.

Maybe I can invoke Cunningham's law? I use 16GB on an NVMe SSD, which is equal to the size of my RAM.
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Asking for a reasonable point of view from a conspiracy theorist seems like an approach that is doomed to fail.
PHP serves most of all web traffic:
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My thought exactly.The web is now a place to sell. That means you will have variations for all sorts of people.
It's 8% for what used to be standard. 5% is for a new stripped down version.

https://www.patreon.com/product/pricing
I heavily sympathize with your point of view. I take issue with your use of the word “fraud”, but I also understand what you mean by it based on how you use it.

From my experience on HN over the however many years I’ve been here, the way HN commenters use the word “fraud” is predominately centred around the legal definition of fraud (as in “what legally constitutes fraud”) [0]. The way you use the word “fraud” reminds me of how my dad used the word once, and it is closer in my mind to the word “cheated”, even that might be a little strong.

I understand the frustration of DRM and having software be split between into client and server when it is arguably unnecessary. I’ve never thought about it has “holding parts of the games files back” given that the company never agreed to give the files in the first place. At the same time, on a longer time-scale, the behaviour is indeed different from before (the Diablo 2 to Diablo 3 example). The one contrived example that I can think of is selling fruit like apples: before you were sold the entire tree, and now you are sold just apple slices, so you don’t even get the seeds, but they were and are being sold under the same packaging of “apples”.

I took the time to respond to you because you made good points, the other commenters genuinely seemed to sympathize with you arguments, and you seem to be new here. The wording of your comments taken literally can appear factually inaccurate or exaggerated. However, I remember the same transition period in gaming and I recognize the timeline and the events in your narrative despite not sharing the harshness in your perspective.

The personal attacks you made were definitely uncalled for and unnecessary: in your position, I would just say, “What am I missing?” to indicate that there is something about another commenter’s point of view that you are confused about. You will get farther here if you assume positive intent and focus points of confusion at yourself instead of others e.g. instead of saying “you must be delusional to assume X”, say “it doesn’t make sense to me: why assume X?”. Both statements indicate the existence of confusion, but the second one allows for dialog without judging the other commenter.

Enjoy HN!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
The key to being a competent software developer is really, really simple: Learn the Business. Because if you can’t/won’t/don’t understand the problem domain, how can you expect to solve problems in it?
> Why can't the process itself decide how to handle what should be a null pointer return from malloc or mmap et al?

At the point where the kernel knows that it should be returning a null pointer, you're probably already operating in a severely degraded state. You will be scanning the page table constantly, looking for pages to reclaim, wasting tons of CPU. You will have reclaimed all of the reclaimable pages you can reclaim, so io utilisation will be through the roof - calling a random function will cause a disk read to page the executable into memory. Your system will not be functional. And that's ignoring the reality that modern MMUs don't actually let the kernel know when all the memory is in use.

If you want to handle memory pressure better for a given application, shove the application in a cgroup and use a user space oom killer. It's not possible for a program to react gracefully to a system OOM.
One difference between Haussmann and others is that his buildings turned out to create one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

In contrast, 20's century urbanism projects - even on a smaller scale - are almost always considered a failure ex post. In Paris itself, walk yourself through the Les Olympiades area, from Tolbiac down to Porte d'Italie, if you like an impressive testament to that fact. Some other favorites in Europe to google are "Berlin Marzahn" and "Hannover Ihme Zentrum". There are of course many more.

I wonder if there are contemporary developments that will, some day, be considered truly beautiful.
There is a free version of MySQL called MariaDB. PostgreSQL is a very viable alternative.

It has different philosophy, and needs a little getting used to, so it's not as easy as simply lift-and-shift
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Where do you want to go? It sounds like you are implying you want to get back to the technical work? If the job does not allow, then you may need to find a role. Or is the concern that you are losing touch with the current tech and can't make technical decisions like you used to? Or are you asking what is the next step as a technical manager?

If you feel that you aren't good at anything (which clearly is not true given that you've fostered your team) then what is it that you want to get good at?
It also beats Intel on performance / watts according to the last page.

Seems like a slam dunk from AMD.
> There was no property-owning democracy. Everyone was dependent on the will of the landowners and the owners of the houses in Paris. In that particular context, he really took on the most powerful social group at that time, trying to offer a solution to urban problems

As someone who has had to rent in the horrible Paris market, I don't see how everyone being "dependent on the will of the landowners and the owners of the houses in Paris" has changed.
> What?! If you're specialising in Qt then your skills are tied to Qt and you are tied to the health of the Qt job market.

This isn't how it shakes out in practice, though. If you're "specializing in Qt", what you really become is a GUI systems engineer who in the course of their career will learn the fundamentals of many of the things this entails. You'll be the person that knows how the browser works and how to write it, not the person who is beholden to its crummy abstractions on top of better APIs. Case in point - the Chromium/Blink engine used by Electron was originally a Qt codebase (KHTML).

Most Qt engineers I know have a lot more fundamental, transferable knowledge than the web engineers I know.
I guess relative to other options in Jakara, Cosmo Park is quite nice. However, the air quality in the city is so bad from Monday morning until Saturday afternoon that I cannot imagine jogging or doing other outdoor activities.

The air burns the throat and smells like fire and exhaust (especially from the millions of 2-cycle engine scooters with no emissions systems). Like other cities with terrible air, Jakarta will have to do something significant to become more livable; otherwise, local lifespans will dive (are diving, but will become obvious) over the next 20 years.
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> guns are so ingrained in American lifestyle that they're not going away

then neither are the mass shootings. that's that.
Yea the unicorns are always outliers. If one of the company actually ends up being Apple, they'll win.
Maybe. But had those buildings survived they would now be attractive, clean, and very expensive.

From the perspective of today the problem was that the families living in the small apartments was way too big and did not pay enough rent to maintain the buildings. They just did not have enough rich single professionals willing to pay chic apartments and studios back then.
Or student with rich parents seeking a studio downtown.
How do you cope with copy changes from marketers?

This is my problem at the moment. I have a nice static site, but I'm facing demands from the marketing team to use Wordpress so that they can make copy changes to the site without having to go through a developer (or learn any HTML).
This article makes a good case about a certain class of racist, bigoted asshats being generally poor societal company. The headline is really just the hook meant to get you to read an article about the latest thing that people are latching on to to make themselves special.
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It's been a while since I've been there and I don't know what you're referring to, so could you expand on your criticism of Les Olympiades? Not everyone here can go out for that walk right now and notice all the things you in particular don't like.
It's not just historic fantasy though, there was opposition to his way, but they didn't have the political clout nor could oppose centering the cities around cars.

It's not just Haussmann either, most countries had that tension around letting cars dominate or not (there was an excellent 99pi episode about these tensions [0]), it just happened that one side massively won benefiting from economics, politics and power distribution.

[0] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern...
Is this for lease or can people buy these houses? If they do buy them, what does that even mean? Do they own the land? And what happens if the mall people decide that it is no longer profitable?

I mean, I really love the idea to live there, but there are so many questions that the article didn't answer!
I'm not in contact with the research team and don't know which practical applications they have in mind, but as far as IntelliJ is concerned, we don't have any current plans to use the results of their work.
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russia uses midget submarines in the baltic region
https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/...
And everytime I want to change anything at all or see updated data, I'll have to reload the page. JS has objectively made the web better.
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i think its kind fun when its google caught with its pants down , its usually googles project zero who set the 90 day dead line. I am happy if i just get the patch for my old hardware.
I picked up a hitchiker about three weeks ago? It's not the norm for me (my wife hates it) but not that unusual. These aren't for mega journeys though. I live in a commuter town near a city so it's usually along that route.
I went this way as well: Worked in big law, always enjoyed coding on the side, and went all in with coding to build an MVP for a document collaboration platform. It is an experience I wouldn't want to miss.

For anyone else who is thinking about switching careers, this is how I started: At some point during my career as a lawyer I started collecting ideas for a better, more effective way to work as a lawyer. Software could help a lot while doing many administrative tasks and would allow a lawyer to focus on what creates value - giving legal advice, thinking through tough legal problems, negotiating a great outcome for the client... Yet a lot of enterprise software is too hard to grasp, and many lawyers just stick with the old way, doing most things manually (by themselves or have it done by their assistants).

So I started building one MVP, pivoted and now am building a "GitHub for Word". Steep learning curve as a startup founder and well worth giving it a try. If you are interested, check out my project Jules: https://julesdocs.com