skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous people/companies getting banned:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788450

It seems to be that someone else does some shady activity and then some AI at Google over-generalizes and bans legitimate accounts. And the emails are the same 3 form emails that say nothing.

I wonder if you can get decent support by walking into one of the Google campuses, or if you would get in trouble with security...
Studying failure is better than not studying, but it can’t hold a candle to to studying success.

As an extreme example, seeing ten spaghetti codebases does not teach you much more than the first. But expanding your mind by studying new patterns and paradigms, skillfully and elegantly woven, will build upon everything you’ve already mastered.
Agreed. And many commenters in here are saying that they'd throw out such a resume... Pretty alarming that so many would not just use such inconsequential measures for candidate selection, but be proud of themselves for it.
Yes, but you'll use more than 2kg of LN2 or dry ice for each kg of water ice you chill down to those cryogenic temperatures.
Journalism’s Last Best Hope
> Feeding animals nothing but corn and soybean is a travesty for a number of reasons but that doesn't mean meat production as a whole needs to stop.

Best estimates show that 70%+ of cows and 98%+ of all other meat comes from factory farms(CAFO's)[1], so to say "meat production as a whole needs to stop" is not that far off when almost all of it is what you would describe as "a travesty".

Good luck finding enough "Tree fodder, rapeseed meal, sunflower husks [and] wetland reeds" to make up for it. We don't have enough grazable land in the WORLD to support the kind of meat consumption in most 1st world countries[2].

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUpRFOPmAE5IO4hO4PyS...

2. https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets
While Rich Hickey is the hugest narcissistic asshole I have ever seen, he definitely knows his shit.

Personally I prefer humble guys like Joe Armstrong talking about the very same things, but he is no longer here to save us from our stupidity and bullshitting.

Listen to Hickey anyway, even if he is disgusting. He knows his stuff.
It's a rare thing, but it is a thing:

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...

https://geekdad.com/2015/01/kids-play-arrested/

https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-s...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parent...

I didn't even have to dig to find these, they're from the first page of results of a single Google search.

Counterpointing myself though, in the third link you can see reference to active pushback against this whole thing: http://www.freerangekids.com/
YMMV, I believe most folks would call that "serialization," reserving "encoding" for turning a notionally written-down-ish representation into bytes; e.g. string -> utf8 bytes, or float -> IEEE-754 bytes.
Why hasn't this movie been made already?!?
Google thinks they're the smart bunch and the customers are there to serve them. It's just company attitude.
The do’s and don’ts of in-flight grooming
Write code. Not too much. Mostly test-covered.
As a professional resume editor, I recommend a tasteful second color used in appropriate places to make your resume stick out from the crowd. Otherwise, progress bars convey no information as they aren't comparable from candidate to candidate. Two columns and/or packed with fancy graphics steal from valuable space telling your story and can be more easily puked by applicant tracking system. Simpler is better.
It helps if you have the disposable time and income to do so, and if you live in a large enough metro to make use of it. If not, well, trader joes is an hour away in the state capitol by car, and your staples place is walmart, or worse, dollar general.

I post here a lot despite not being in this places cohort because you guys really need to understand that a lot of the discussion and solutions have issues with people outside.
when I was desperate for early feedback... :]
There is an enormous amount of rhetoric about how terrible the US system is, but the differences seem very nuanced every time the details are discussed.

In the US, hospitals are required to provide emergency treatment. When I was uninsured and needed emergency treatment about 14 years ago (before the ACA/Obamacare), the hospital made an attempt to help me apply for public assistance (Medicaid), because they assumed I would not be able to pay. I ultimately paid the bill in full, out of a (perhaps misguided) sense that I should because I could, but I was told at some point that they normally wrote off half of any bill not covered by insurance.
Nope, it's not the Wikipedia app, but a different side project. Although there's also no shortage of sketchy third-party "wiki reader" apps that are basically ad delivery systems.
I would argue it needs to be measured steps to get to that point. Hong Kong has seen that it is going to have a lot of its autonomy stripped away and that peaceful, sustained protests are more or less ignored, which is why it deteriorated into this. It's a tremendously patronizing attitude that Beijing has towards everyone; my suspicion is that Beijing views Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as wayward children that need to be brought back into the fold.
What Are You Worth? Getting Past Status Anxiety [video]
Surely the right approach needs to be generating the desired data programmatically, rendering back to YAML if needed, rather than building these files with text macros.
I think all your examples would work fairly well with my initial proposal: if you are going to disclose a flaw, either do it publicly or reserve it to the actor who may be able to correct it. Only these two courses of actions would provide a legal shield. Revealing a flaw or an exploit to another actor would engage your responsibility if this actor behaved criminally. I don't know the English legal term, facilitator? Accomplice? That's how we charge people who, for instance, provide otherwise legal help to people they know are terrorists or criminals.

"Does it stand to reason that attempting with purpose to discover exploitable flaws in and of itself makes you a bad actor?"

No. I think a lot of past litigation of such case were really misguided.

"What if someone wrote software that had a legitimate use, but made use of an undisclosed flaw that is then sold to many consumers and reverse engineered, revealing the flaw to larger constituents?"

Illegitimate unless the flaw was previously disclosed in a responsible way to the constructor (which basically means give them time to solve the issue).

"What if bad actors merely used a tool out of its original context to exploit a side effect?"

If the tool had an exploit built-in, the author's responsibility is engaged, not otherwise.

"If an open source project collects money from a bad actor unknowingly and then discloses through a PR or official release the existence of a flaw previously unknown, should they be culpable?"

Of course not, but we live in a stupid enough universe for such a thing to be liable.
There's a saying in most other fields of engineering (civil, chemical, mechanical, etc.): "Regulations are written in blood." A whole lot of bridges collapsed and a whole lot of people died before strong requirements were put in place.

It seems we are on the path to repeat history with software engineering, what with how software and the internet is being developed with such little regard for public safety and long term consequences.

Unfortunately, it appears that the "free love" phase of software engineering is coming to an end, as society now relies more and more on software and major tech players for life and safety. It's starting to get real for software engineering.

Luckily, other engineering fields have been here before, so this sort of transition shouldn't be anything new.

Relevant Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZM9YdO_QKk
One of the things I liked best about the town we moved to is that when we were looking for houses I happened to go check out a listing around the time school got out and saw probably 15 different elementary aged kids walking home from school.

I don't think childhood in the US is quite as bleak as these articles make it out to be. Probably has something to do with where your area is on the income scale. Upper-middle class kids are coddled and probably always have been. Working class kids can't be coddled because their parents are busy putting food on the table.

It's just that the media focuses pretty exclusively on the well-off, because that is the world journalists live in.
What didn't you like about the school system in France?
I rather liked that tests tended to be mostly essay or problem based with just a few questions to work through and show creative thinking and not multiple choice tests like in so many countries.

I do like Japanese education in primary school from what I've seen so far and I will probably enrol my kids in a Japanese primary school instead of an international French school when the time comes
Why do you think the author is wrong?

In 1997, China regained sovereignty over Hong Kong. It remains a SAR until 2047. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong

So yes, people of Hong Kong are asking true universal suffrage just as you say, but I understand the sentiment to dismiss the claim because... how do you get there?

It is literally a path that is blocked/unseeable with out some form of miracle.

I'm legitimately asking - protest all you want, bring the city to a halt. What incentive does China have to allow it to remain a full democracy?
Tech on the Verge of Another Collapse
Richard Sorge: The Soviet Union’s Master Spy
About as successful as the Portable Cone of Silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKHBgZ_QKU
you're not getting up at 6 am to shop there for one. If your shift is variable, you may not ever be off the weekend the market in your area is open. With any commute of length you have very few daylight hours to do business. You can't go and just make small purchases after work; if you are hungry, its convienence store food or fast food from a chain.

There's a lot of little things that add up to make any task much harder. People take things like having a fixed schedule or a workplace where everyone shows up regularly for granted; surprisingly little changes can make a goal like this a lot harder to do.
Oreo allows you to add an app to a Doze whitelist even if it is distributed outside the Play Store. In fact, it is easier that way because the Play Store review policy restricts why an app can ask for that.
Telling for what? Being realistic? It’s easy to get high on your moral highground and start pointing fingers. Xi will not accept democracy in HK is a realistic evaluation as opposed to what from you?
Well, broadly speaking, pure mathematics is picking some axioms, and then proving rigorous results based on them. If that doesn't sound like a fun game to you, you don't need to play it or watch it.
I am not sure how old you are but everything seemed to change when abducted children were put on milk cartons in the mid 1980s. Before that, kids roamed free. I tell my foreign friends that kids used to run the streets in America and they can hardly believe it.

The funny thing is that the danger of "stranger abductions" has been over blown. Most abductions are non-custodial parents.
A long-running background interpreter carries significant security risks, though. A process that lacks most linux capabilities could use it to regain access to things it shouldn't have access to. A process could interpose itself and get access to data and code it shouldn't. If there are multiple users involved, one could bypass ACLs and similar. Essentially, you're removing a significant proportion of the security guarantees the OS provides around isolated processes.
I dislike whitespace sensitive languages or definition formats with a passion. Especially when tabs and spaces are not treated equally. I don’t mind python as much nowadays but YAML is borderline insulting to me. I hope we all move on to something more sane soon.
Historically, the western states tend to be composed of transplants in general. It’s like, is it really weird that some homeless guy is from out of state when that tech worker is also? It’s been like that since the Great Depression with people like the Oakies.
You've misunderstood this part. TFA posits that democracy is impossible while HK is under Chinese Communist Party control. That is a statement about the Chinese Communist Party, not about the people of Hong Kong.
The stats are school/not school, not summer/winter. If I had to guess, it's the daily socialization during school that reduces it from a baseline, rather than an increase during summer (as winter depression is often described).
It works well. Arrogance assumes that you must impose your will upon others.
That reminds me of the "Possimpible"(?) episode of HIMYM with "Barney Stinson"'s video CV:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLcxg5VGuo

Just checked, that is a 2009 episode, thus/possible created in 2008, so the aforementioned CV predated that of the HIMYM TV series

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1256175/?ref_=fn_al_tt_11
I am from Brazil and here it is very accurate, I am 31 and my own childhood was already like what the article described...

And seriously, it is causing lots and lots of pain now in my adult life.
> but by this logic noone should write mobile apps

But they shouldn't. 99% of apps out there could just be a PWA, specially in the Android ecosystem that favours them.
Peaceful innocent childhoods were a fairly recent phenomenon. In older times being a child often meant forced labor and exposure to brutal or shocking parts of life before you were ready.

We didn’t ruin childhood, we took it back to how it used to be.
Kids also need time away from computers, TV, etc., I'd think. Unless they have some condition where they literally can't leave the house, or do much else every day... If you're a normal kid, you should use the opportunity to go outside, see the world, talk to people, etc.
My reaction to this article - we've utterly failed when it comes to training effective mid-level software engineering leaders. It feel like we are substituting rule by committee for what should ultimately be a leadership decision. If you cannot select engineers, you should not be leading them.

Employee Input is certainly welcome. We don't want to hire jerks or idiots. But the manager is responsible and accountable for the quality of hires and employee performance.

The other half of my life is in manufacturing / distribution. We have engineers too, managing great big piles of machinery. We RUN on engineers and mechanics. Generally led by engineers. Hell, my last CEO was a former engineer and my current COO (who runs the plants) is an engineer himself. It's engineers, all the way up.

They don't need to shop candidates all over the building to figure out if they can handle the job. They know. And can make an appropriate decision.

It starts with setting the expectation that engineering centered functions are to be led by engineers. And the price of leading those functions is knowing your stuff...

No Excuses.
You may indeed be correct in your opinion, but I don't see any point in declaring that facts don't affect your beliefs.
I am riveted by the protests - does anyone know if there is a way we can help them from afar?
When the topic is conflict relating to "rivals" of USA, don't expect HN downvotes to make sense.
> and (I hear) Europe as well

From what I’ve seen in Germany, not much seems to have changed since I was a kid.
The second part of OP's comment deals with the funding sources for public healthcare. I'm responding to the allegation that our government couldn't provide it in a cost effective manner in the first place. Where in the second half is this addressed?
Seconded. This is a good recommendation particularly for somebody who is just starting out (the OP has only done a js bootcamp and so has a very long way to go!)

Pair the above with Petzold's "Code" and you get a very good idea of both the Theory and the Machine.
I've seen this interview pop up several times but I've always lacked the context to properly understand it, because I don't know who Ira Glass is and what he has done. I don't deny that it's good advice, but who is this guy and why should I listen to him?
How about a chat app for people lying on their back, that you can only use when the screen is upside-down?
I think feelings tend to run negative towards the Russian government rather than Russian people. I feel that Russian and American people are more alike than we care to admit at least.
A lot of the problem with environmental stuff here is that people don't find it a burden because it neatly dovetails with the way they like to live. It's easy to spend time hunting fresh foods and cooking because you love to do it and are a bit of a foodie. It's not hard to consider vegetarianism or no children depending on the person.

Essentially to use a christian term its cheap grace. Its easy for a kind person to be kind; but its hard for them to be stern when it is needed.
That's like the old trick sending a check for $0.0 to finaly get a computer to close an account with a sub cent negative balance.
I wonder if there are any quotes like this from before the Industrial Revolution.
Not surprised at all, people on the internet complain about everything. When they build something better I'll be the first to jump ship.
Tons of tiny files is the problem where the bytes to sign ratio is low.

And I didn't say to avoid s3. I work for a subsiary of AWS I want you to use it a ton.

Let's say your serving up a bunch of thumbnails, maybe 1024 per user per load.

Or in my scenario 25k files. 25k signs per user is 40 users per second per server signing constantly.
We're over replenishing.

"It took over 200,000 years of human history for the world's population to reach 1 billion;[2] and only 200 years more to reach 7 billion." [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
He's the host of an NPR radio program called This American Life.
I just wanted to note how precise of a bet this is. I will be stealing the exact definition of conditions and contexts to which the bet applies, to future bets of my own.
> The fact that no one has found what triggers collapse yet is to me evidence that Copenhagen is false.

It' just the same as "no one has found what triggers a split between worlds, and why the physical reality we observe is following this particular one of the many worlds".
The west coast has always been a popular destination for people with big dreams but perhaps without much means. It isn’t really weird that homeless are just as likely to be transplants as non homeless residents.
If You Are Not Drowning in Demand, You Don't Have Product-Market Fit (2017)
XML solved this problem a long time ago, but everyone hates it now because it's too enterprise and Javalike.
I’ve also seen the failures in requirement driven software. When engineers receive unfiltered customer requests as requirements or tasks they tend to focus simply on getting that functionality into the software. Most times not understanding the job the customer is trying to get done.

There are different personalities of engineers, those who thrive on explicit requirements and can accomplish difficult engineering tasks when they are given clear requirements. But those engineers should only be given those requirements once the job that the customer is trying to get done is clearly understood. Some engineers have the ability to find creative solutions, that customers or product managers can’t see, when they are provided with problems and jobs rather than requirements and tasks.

Managers would be wise to distinguish between the type of engineers they are managing and play to their strengths. Whatever type you have, understanding the job the end user is trying to get done must occur, preferably by an engineer that’s capable of articulating that, if needed, to team members as technical requirements.
It was probably worth more to them to know you watched it, than to rent it to you.
I'm more uncomfortable with the implication that Google employees need to apologise on behalf of their company and they're somehow complicit if they don't. Many people just want to do their 9-5 and leave.
How often did you have to top it off?
The Seattle king county survey also found out that 80% of those homeless lived in pioneer square before becoming homeless. Definitely fishy if you know the city.
Some good tidbits from the government perspective on software development:

“Beware of bureaucratic goals masquerading as problem statements. “Drivers feel frustrated when dealing with parking coupons” is a problem. “We need to build an app for drivers as part of our Ministry Family Digitisation Plans” is not. “Users are annoyed at how hard it is to find information on government websites” is a problem. “As part of the Digital Government Blueprint, we need to rebuild our websites to conform to the new design service standards” is not. If our end goal is to make citizens’ lives better, we need to explicitly acknowledge the things that are making their lives worse.”
Hmm, at least where I am in Australia the Google Ads 1800 number is listed three times before I even login: https://ads.google.com/intl/en_AU/home/
At the Architecture level see the very good book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems" by Martin Kleppmann.

For actual code, you do not have one book but have to glean the knowledge from a whole bunch of them.
Demystifying Server-Side HTTP Requests
Some French lady ten years ago got into a big mess because she parked her stroller out in front of a coffee shop and went inside. Cops and CPS took her baby away for a couple of weeks/months.
Actually from what i read, it's not childhood..it's college.

Once they are in college, they've made it. It's over. And college in general is not as vital as in the usa, because the Japanese hire the person not the projects or the knowledge. College is a breather between cram hell and salaried life.
We are the same way almost minus the 10 hours a week of football, that sounds horrible to me. Even if my kids wanted to do that I don’t think I’d let them, but I guess it is summer. My parents kept me out of organized team sports until middle school and I have never felt I missed out, athletically or socially. I am all for pickup games though.

For screen time I found that YouTube gave my kids the worst attitude, so even when we go on vacation all they get is Netflix.
“My Reveal” by Satoshi Nakamoto
Depends where you live. Spending $2k a month after rent in the bay area is common, especially if you are two.
$800/month in groceries, $200 gas/person, 2-3 dates (or restaurants with friends), utilities ($200+), Insurances ($200+)...

There are a lots of benefits from using wisely these cards without overthinking.
Thanks, I haven't seen this one yet.

> There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

cracked me up
At the very least, this needs to control for consolidation. Are companies much bigger today that three decades ago due to M&A? Due to winner take all nature of new industries? If a person is at the helm of a company with 10x the market cap, wouldn't the difference between the right and wrong decision be 10x greater? Wouldn't you want to pay much more to find the right person in this case?