skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is there such a disconnect between the tech elite and the generally well-intentioned and helpful people of this site? What happens between fighting to make your way in the tech world and becoming a cynical fuck-the-world jerk like Dorsey, Thiel, or Zuck?

Is it really that hard to benefit humanity and do the right thing?
I can't get into too much detail, but there were increased failure rates during a few jobs. In one case, we added ionice. In another it was a matter of adding a missing index to the DB (full table scan instead of looking at records from the last week).

There was one periodic job that we moved from the production server to work off the daily backups instead of the live server.
Tragedy of the commons in the space age.

How about the a rule that you have to remove trash in proportion to the mass you introduce? If you want to send up satellites now you have to organize to have some pieces of trash already there to be removed. When you finally remove the satellites you introduced, that counts towards your balance. But only at that time. As long as they are up you can't send up more without cleaning up some other people's junk.
Searching for a Secret Dinosaur Hoard
Depends on the law firm:

If they have a spacious reception area with marble floors, huge reception desk, luxuriously appointed meeting room in a high rise mid-town office block and 20+ well connected partners -- then probably.

If the lawyer has medium sized offices and lots of work in progress and a minimum of frills but not too shabby -- then most likely reasonable rates.

In any case, ask for references and follow them up. Firms tend to specialise and you may want to find one who has experience with comparable startups.
With most cars you get the option to fold the backseat. In the examples above the 308 SW has 660/1775 liters, the Karoq has 521/1810 liters.

As you can see the Karoq offers marginally more space only with the seats folded. But that to me feels like an exceptional usage scenario rather than the rule. With the seats up the difference is pretty massive (the SW has ~30% more cargo space) and I think this is the more useful number if you're interested in cargo space. If you want a higher driving position, or better ground clearance, etc. a SW won't really do it.
Pig to human heart transplants 'possible within three years'
Algebra by "Mac Lane & Birkhoff" was my favorite textbook in college. Really thorough and not quite as dry as Dummit.

(https://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Chelsea-Publishing-Saunders-L...)

Mac Lane was also the father of category theory.
Funfact, even Facebook, Whatsapp, and Telegram support preformatted text in triple backticks.
One thing I don't see very often but is intensely useful is that you don't always have to make a choice. The "Add Playlist" example is a case of "why not both?" -- have it at the bottom of the list, have it in the header of the list, sure, throw one in the menu as well. The user journeys can be either "I came here to add a playlist", "Hey, here are playlists, I should make one", and "Oh, they don't have the playlist I want, I'll make one", and all of those end up in different places. The Material-style "+" in the corner is in my mind almost always the worst case -- if everyone did it, then it wouldn't be so bad, but it's a thing you never think to look for with an unfamiliar UI.

I like the discussion of "Poisson" options; thinking about the distribution of inputs is an important factor. For location/country dropdowns, I find it frustrating that often my country, the "United States of America" is put at the top of the dropdown for convenience, but if you miss that and start to scroll down, it does not appear in the "U" section of the dropdown. Just put it in both!
Why the CFO of a Famously Corrupt Company Is Working for the Government
Weekly Robotics #52
I'm German, but was working in the US, but gave up the higher pay to the better health care, and quality of life in Germany.
I'm surprised that the AFP has trouble breaking into a Samsung/Android phone. I know little of the smartphone environment, let alone their security precautions, but I was always under the impression, that there's software readily available on the black market/dark web that turns breaking into a phone into something of a point-and-click adventure?

...or is this actually about making that information "legal" in the eyes of the court?
That's a pretty nice test cycle. But they oddly hobbled Tesla by choosing the model 3 variant that substantially sacrifices range for performance (mostly with an inefficient but fun wheel+tire).

If they had chosen one of the other Model 3 variants it would have likely been #1 by some margin, yet still with significantly higher performance than the other top contenders.

On the plus side, the fact there is competition at all is utterly wonderful. In the same test a few years ago it would've been all Teslas at the top.
The unfortunate part is that these visas are being used for cheap labor rather than not being able to fund talent.
In the recent 2019 fires someone has been charged:

* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-wil...

That's only one specific case though. However, the general sentiment is prevalent, as even fire chiefs comment on it:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40355787

The US has learned some lessons on reducing risk to dwellings, and other countries may want to look at public education campaigns if they haven't already:

* https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/By-topic/Wildfire/Prep...

* https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/By-topic/Wildfire
They aren’t bad speakers either.

https://youtu.be/AfsnHVaScjg
Except that this article was missing the "both sides" aspect - it was just bagging on nominally "liberal" beliefs. Your viewpoints, while legit, don't apply to this article without the both sides that's so common nowadays.
There are decades of history behind every criticism of PHP? Do you just want people to ignore them?

PHP can be a bit of a punching bag, even when it's not topical. But it's not exactly unwarranted.
Cryptosnipe, a skill-based sweepstakes bot. Currently for Keybase; outcomes are decided by skillful deployment of powerups in conjunction with Keybase's provably fair randomness feature:

https://blog.codefor.cash/2019/08/09/announcing-v0-2-of-crou...

The most exciting thing is that while people have built bots to play the game, the game is still actively playable through its human UX.

Roadmap: https://github.com/codeforcash/croupier/issues
There used to be a guy in my town that had a portable electrical fence and a small heard of goats and you could have him set up on your property and clear out areas. Much cheaper + environmentally friendly than having someone come over with a gravely.
>> It's rationally arguable that making sure they're left in a recovery state too increases your survivors' chances.

But if you are in position to launch the counterattack(say sitting in a missile silo with your hand on the launch button), then once the missiles are on their way to you, you are dead. It might take them 30-60 minutes to actually get there, but you are dead anyway. Absolutely nothing you can do at that point will change that. Retaliating will not improve your current situation. And yes, it might improve the chances of the survivors, but at the same time, you know that if you press that button millions of people will die. I think I'd just leave it at that point.
> what would happen in the US if someone actually called police on you?

Most often, nothing. Police are usually out solving crimes, filling our paperwork, or harassing black men. Mostly they will roll their eyes at a nosy neighbour who can't mind their own business.

If they're called in because a child has been neglected or abused as a result of parental behaviour (violence, substance abuse), they are obliged to call in other agencies in the best interest of the children. It's unlikely a cop will consider being allowed to roam freely as a sign of abuse outside of a toddler in a soiled diaper walking down the middle of the freeway.

What brings in ratings on Fox News is not necessarily a reflection of reality.
Microservices Architecture Impacted the Culture of Software Development
New?

Dude, work has been by the rich, for the rich, for about as far back as I know of. Probably forever.

It's comparative advantage, right? You use Uber because you don't want to drive. You use Deliveroo because you don't want to cook. The supermarket workers earn 1/5th what you do. The restaurant staff earn 1/5th what you do.

And so on and so forth.

Anyone who makes the transition from working to middle class knows this intimately. Suddenly you're on the other side of interactions.

Is it problematic? Sure it's problematic. The entire economy is problematic - if everyone were upper middle class we'd melt the ice caps, faster than we do already (damn.).
It's a horrible misnomer of a title, I agree, but here in the states it has stuck for several cascading reasons:

* there's no FE exam needed to call oneself a "software engineer"

* the MBAs doing the hiring have gone through school hearing "software engineer" and so they mentally place them alongside other engineers

* companies hiring software developers don't care to differentiate between a engineer/developer, and as a result...

* software developers (from senior level all the way down to bootcamp graduates) don't give a shit and will put "Engineer" on their resume
Hell of a lot easier to generate, and to render.
The EPA range of the electric mini is 114 miles, the Model 3LR is 310 miles. Make sure you use the same measurement standard when comparing vehicles: the WLTP standard massively overstates range.
Wildfires in Canada are burning down forests of mushrooms
I had the exact opposite reaction. The details the author includes and the way he tells the story conjures up an image in my mind of the kind of person I want nothing to do with.

The whole article reads like a submarine advertisement about how the author checks all the boxes a stereotypical millennial urbanite is supposed to check.
If your product is at all worthwhile, it will constantly be tossed back and forth between lawyers, trying to uphold or disprove its validity. ("Well here's an independent study done on how arresting officers with shaky hands get inconsistent results when administering the SannTek Cannibus test" et al et al ad nauseum) While yes, this is a problem in any society that applies capitalism principles to the practice of law.... I don't think there's necessarily a better system, sadly. Don't feel responsible to fix it all yourself. Anyway, pursue the technology as well as possible, by all means work in as many checks and balances as possible for correct use, and constant calibration, BUT ALSO talk and document openly during your design phase and testing the ideology you develop to govern false positives versus false negatives. This is an extremely engaging technology ethics discussion. If you drive the error to be false negatives, at a rate of 5%, will you not be able to sell it, because your customer is most interested in an effective tool? What is the societal benefit of getting this device to be accepted and used by the police? If you can achieve FN=4% is it worth it, or is the societal benefit actually much higher, possibly at FN =20%. Can you just run the test 5 times in a row, or with 2 stand alone devices to reach the dependability rate you desire? If you drive the error to be false positives, at a rate of 1%, can you sleep at night with the lives your product will effect, or do you need a fall back like your device determining with 100% accuracy that cannibus is present in someone's system (just not a definitive, exact amount), PLUS a statement from an arresting officer stating erratic or dangerous driving or behavior in conjunction with your device's input. I'm very excited about what you're doing. I didn't know (still not yet convinced) that the science is solvent, but I've been asking about this device for years.
> they can't produce enough of them for demand (the waiting list was around 8 months when I left and was growing)

> there is at least a six month supply of i-paces at US dealers now

Both of those could have been true at different times: dealers ordered large allocations of them thinking they'd dent Tesla's market, then the ex-Jaguar employee left, and as the i-Paces arrived, they simply didn't sell. That sounds logical with my own experiences with those - the early reviews sounded like Jag had really nailed it, but when I saw my first i-Pace in person, man, no way was I gonna buy one. It's just flat out not attractive, which is a shocker for Jag.
This is unfair.

The US had a long history of very nice looking cars up until the 1980s through 2010s...
Shouldn't all 'software engineers' be 'product engineers'? I don't really get his point, all he's describing is what any good engineer should be doing anyway.
"Our Man in Havana" is also interesting because it inspired John le Carré's "The Tailor of Panama" (1996; movie in 2001).
Vendor lock-in from serverless -- It's not the boogeyman that many people make it out to be.

Two broad use cases for serverless -- event based triggers and APIs. With event based triggers you're already locked in by the events you're subscribing to and as far as API's, at least with AWS, if you're using proxy integration, you can use your standard Node/Express, C#/WebAPI, Python/Flask, etc. framework. You add a few lines of code for the lambda proxy but you can use the same code without any changes with your standard web servers.

With AWS, you also have "serverless Docker" with Fargate and you use standard Docker containers.

Production debugging? The same issues and solutions with any micro-service implementation. The solution usually being a common logging infrastructure.

On a broader scale, "vendor lock in" is severely overrated. Despite all of the "repository patterns that will let us hypothetically move our million dollar Oracle implementation to MySql", it rarely happens and often you end up with sub optimal and more expensive/harder to maintain solutions by not going all in on your vendor's of choice solution.
I concur. As much as it pains me to realize I'd lose the comfort of the title if someone pushed it.

As a for instance; I'm a high friction actor in software implementations. I dig into the requirements, question the excessive ones, point out when implementations are starting to approach the macabre, and do my best to pressure companies away from being excessively intrusive in their data gathering or use of dark UX.

I've been asked more than once just who it is I think I'm working for informally, and warned at least once via indirect threat that I'm treading on thin ice.

While I'm not technically an Iron Ringer, I've always done my best to live up to the ideal in my practice. Without a PE for Software Engineering and the regulatory framework that comes with it though, for every one of practitioners like me who push to preserve the public's interest first, there are thousands pushing without a second thought to the consequences of what they are making.

Every risk management data corpus, every shortcut taken around regulations, every expedient hack can only have a protest lodged against it, and a suggestion of an alternate implementation given before the inevitable bouncing up and ignoring of the advisement.

In this type of environment, all one can do is puck their battles carefully until more steingent regulation gives one more leverage to bring to the table.
How do you keep motivated?
EU has more citizens than USA and it is unthinkable that such thing would happen in EU.
And of course, the Guardian would never propagate misinformation. Only a right-wing bigot would think that!
I wonder how they come up with these stats.

I have a security camera on my house. I don't know how that would be captured in the statistics at all.
I've read that London has a lot of surveillance cameras, but most are privately owned, not directly controlled by the government nor the police. Is it true? Who control them? How it works?
Impressive! I wonder what they're using for video editing and vfx? Blender is great for 3d assets, but what open source software can make this?
Or be protected from bank fraud. Not that the AV will stop it, but having no AV gives the banks a reason to reject the claim. At least with DB in Germany. But they accept Windows Defender!
Tesla is moving the goalposts by producing more and more electric vehicles that people want to buy.

The Nissan Leaf and Leaf Plus doesn't come into consideration for me because of its pitiful range, the ChADeMO connector and lack of active cooling for the battery pack.
Official range numbers come from a government testing cycle (EPA in the US), so you should get the listed range under more or less the same conditions with any car.
When I first read it I wasn't aware that some of my relatives by marriage where off course bookies in Birmingham Pre WW2 and post.

They would have known the gangsters that Brighton rock uses as the base for some of the characters. One of my cousins who is an actor has actually appeared in a theatre version of Brighton Rock.

BTW this was when off course book making was illegal in the UK
There have been countless bad games where players have to resort to a "probe everything" approach in order to find items which are needed to progress in the game.

But "good games" generally strike a balance between all the gameplay mechanics and that's precisely how they came to be known to be good.

You wouldn't change the way mario jumps in order to reach higher places and call it "enhanced gameplay".

Similarly you wouldn't show every hidden question box with a blaring icon so that you'll always know where all the secret boxes are.

These two elements are defining features of the game. You don't change that.

I think the current approach is to make games so approachable to "casual gaming" that anything deep loses meaning. Many old games that I consider beyond "good" wouldn't fly today. But adapting these games to a more modern hand-in-hand approach will simply destroy them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching

https://alvinalexander.com/scala/how-to-use-if-then-expressi...
Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy
I think we're hoping (even if it's a double edge sword) that the aliens are smart enough to communicate with us not the other way around. We have been unable to fully decipher the "language" of dogs beyond some body language. And they have lived with us for millennia.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/638/
4) Fabricating a probable cause for a search when there is none: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10942196
Influence Operations Kill Chain
NASA chief alienates Senators needed to fund the Moon program
Cries in NYC with mediocre employer-provided health insurance
Years and years ago, there was an aol live chat with Koko, the gorilla who could sign. An early experimental cross species AMA.

The crowd mostly asked questions like "is there a god?"

The ape generally replied that she was bored and wanted food.

Gray parrots and corvids and dolphins and squids are exceptionally fascinating and worth studying. They aren't the same as the mythologized first contact people are hoping for. The precise expectations we have for such an exchange may say something about the Fermi paradox. Very similar intelligences can still be so different as to render communication, a real exchange of ideas, impossible.
Show HN: MadeWithGhost – A collection of sites made with Ghost
> So in the next email (sent a minute after I received his reply) I sent him a zipped file of code with an explanation that "this is what I've done so far which is about 70% of what you want" and he immediately replied saying "Whoa you are serious. That is refreshing .. '

> So a few days later, I sent along a detailed algorithm that expanded his idea, with a formal proof of correctness and a code implementation and he suddenly switched to a more expansive mode, sending friendly emails with long and detailed corrections and ideas for me to explore.

And then the whole internet stood up and clapped.
I worked in London for 7 years, now in NYC for 3 years. London's definitely better for work life balance. I've managed to find a great balance here in NYC after trying hard to do that but struggle to find friends/colleagues that get it. In London you'll find plenty of talented and smart people that don't feel like working beyond 6pm is acceptable.
Top 1000 Business Machine Learning Companies
>the gate keepers of old media kept us safe by drip feeding us outrage. Now we are drinking from the social media firehose, always on, always connected, constantly fatigued.

>Choose your channel and pick your side, you’re either with us or against us. All those complex issues boil down to a binary yes or no, this is what defines who you are, are you good or evil?

Quite the heavy, negative manifesto for a piece about the negative undertone of common words.

I don't quite know how word frequency necessary has anything to do with trust (or lack thereof), but.. Interesting to see that "milkshake duck" made the 2017 list.
Half of Android "password managers" are scams.
For any customers that do use said bank, take this as an indicator of their own security practices and consider if you still trust them with your money, data and PII.

I wonder how they share credentials without a PAM or similar. All service accounts are using 'S3cur3P@$$w0rdzSuck'... Or more probably just a 'passwordz'?

What a shocking state of affairs.
How is this any different from the Japanese real estate buying sprees of the 1980s?
London is probably easier than NYC having lived in London and visited NYC.

Both are pretty... 'fast paced', for lack of a better term.

I've just moved out of London after being there for 5 years - the income required to have a decent standard of living is just getting daft, especially if you care about others around you and not just yourself.
Aside from the clickbait title and the rough writing, good article. The key to excelling as a developer isn't your technical prowess, it's your soft skills, which includes understanding the business you're in and how to interface well with stakeholders in other divisions.
Seductress’ Cave of Depravity from Homer’s Odyssey Found?
Londoner here. I've never worked in NYC but having been there for pleasure I can tell you things like commuting will be a lot easier (possibly even cheaper? Weekly tickets will set you back 35 quid if you commute from zone 1 and 2).

My wife is American and recently quit her job with Delta (she's done both office jobs there and she's also flown as an FA). And based on her experience I can tell you you'll have a much better work life balance. This is especially if you're planning to work as a limited company contractor* as your responsibilities don't go beyond your contracted obligations.

Having said all of that, Brexit is coming up so no one is really sure what is going on.

* be careful if you do contract, if you do, read up on IR35 as that's about to shake up the contracting industry for private companies.
It was challenging at first but you are definitely right that once you do it consistently for (maybe a month or so), it becomes a lot less taxing.

And yes -- a big part of the appeal is definitely the flexibility in terms of hours & location. It's been such an improvement to my quality of life to find a fully remote job.
Dunno, at Autobahn speeds (~155mph) both the 3 and S seemed way noisier than a 3L straight-six BMW 7er.

Tons of road noise, tons of wind noise. Although the Teslas had worse tires on them.
You have posted something about the majestic moose of Sweden in a forum that is frequented by... well, let us call them persons with an arguably non-standard range of interests and a tendency towards fixation on those interest for the nonce, and which strongly discourages insubstantial, uninformative comments like this one. Surely there must be some sort of rule against that.
application serverless?
It bears mentioning that this same judicial philosophy is extolled by hotly-controversial and recent appointments to the US Supreme Court.