skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you trying to do data lifetime analysis in V? I don't see that listed and to me it's pretty much Rust's key feature to enabling a high degree of memory leak and multithreading safety.
Smart move..

Step 1) Buy large swaths of mostly uninhabited, mostly useless arctic land.

Step 2) Ensure global warning continues unchecked, possibly even accelerate it so that the land you just bought becomes super valuable

Step 3) profit
I agree that there are claims (normative, aesthetic, etc.) that are not amenable to scientific inquiry. But most religious people would claim that 1) a god exists and 2) that god has observable effects on the material world.

If claim 2 is true we should be able to use the usual tools to know it.

If claim 1 is true but claim 2 is false, that is practically indistinguishable from a situation where God does not exist at all.
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The premise is that this is a fluff piece warning politicians to take it easy on Apple lest these precious jobs should disappear.
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> doing this really changes the economics of the platform

Not to mention that moderating this kind of stuff can seriously mess you up: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderat...

You end up looking at not just mean words but CP, seriously gory stuff, fringe sexual deviancy, and more. Do we really want to do this to moderators?
Well put. The history of science should be taught more and deeply.

That said, given how much the total number of scientists/ engineers/curious people with resources has grown, it feels like, for any work happening in one corner of the world with a particular cognitive blind spot, you can find one in another corner without it.
The folks at Facebook know programming and teach lot of us about that. They know how scale distributed system, what parts to write in Python, Go, or just Assembly. They also built new network architecture to optimize utilization of all links at scale, open compute systems for large scale DCs. So let us just appreciate and learn from what they have to share.

No, I do not or did not work at FB. Also do not use FB. But I learn from their writing.
Hopefully the IRS audits him too.
How much control do you have over your existing domain?

You could host them on subdomains:

I.e.: instead of site.com/tool-a

You'd have: tool-a.site.com

And: tool-b.site.com

etc.
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If you have strong foreign key constraints you should be able to update the record and let the changes cascade to each affected table.
In the US, where most startups are based, firing is actually quite easy. For a brand new employee, it's especially easy.

All that BS about it being hard financially or legally? Not true. At all. It's just an excuse startups use because they don't understand basic HR functions. And that's why every company of a reasonable size (i.e., more than a few dozen people) has an HR department, even if it's just one person. Because they know how to do this stuff.
For what it's worth, I'm not convinced that my approach will actually let more "bad" people through. My personal opinion is that you will improve both your rate of good candidate hiring and lower your rate of good candidate rejection.

I believe that the existing system intends to optimize heavily for "reject bad candidates" and actually fails at that too.

Give candidates a take home, then review it with them.

I have a lot of reasons for believing this approach would be far superior to the "sit in a room and get interrogated for 7 hours" approach.
What do you mean switched? It's usually spelled out in the contract, no? And they can't just change it unilaterally, right?

So if they want to renegotiate, fine, the rate goes up by the interest (and or risk premium).
Come on, user names don't change. Whether it's Hacker News (as you mention), a reddit username, a skype ID, or your gmail address, nobody expects the "username" to change, it is unique and can't be used if already taken, and everybody uses it as a unique ID on millions of websites without any issue.

In fact, I can't name a single service I've ever used (ever!) that lets me change my username.
This is not a good thing to hope for. We don't weaponize clerical agencies for criminal, civil, or political purposes. It's a very bad idea, and will come back to bite you when the "other side" gets power.
If you use any kind of name you run the risk of it being guessed. Use a passphrase generator to get something completely random and easy to say over the phone.
it is defiantly how probability works.

if you bet on an event with 50% chance of earning $1 or 0. your bet is worth $0.50

you need the bet to worth $0, and that is only possible by making CEOs financially liable, and that would never happen, nor is realistic, a CEO's decision could cost company billions.

so by this analogy the riskier the CEO's actions the outcome is greater for them.

if the bet pays off, they win big, if it doesn't the shareholders lose.
But is it any good indicator on future work performance?
What does angsty mean? I am never sure if people are using it as a fancy word for 'angry' or they're adopting the german meaning of 'fearful', or 'anxious'.
You are very correct in your points, but I would like to highlight that we push our phone and laptop batteries very hard. They are normally pushed to full charge and discharge and not properly cooled (In the case of phones they are sometimes even more of a heatsink for the cpu) and this causes them to die faster [0 for relation of use to decay] [1 for impact of thermals].

Discharging and charging your cars battery will cause wear, but I don't think It would be so fair to compare it to the degradation you see in other devices. Tesla has seen some success in getting more from its batteries by managing thermals [2] as well as limiting max and minimum charges to more healthy levels [3, we saw tesla give more capacity to units implying there is a reserve] [4, we know these cars will still drive even after there range is 'exhausted' for some time]

Considering the expense of batteries for cars maybe I wouldn't do it, but It is likely not so bad if you have a car with good power and thermal management

-0, https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/capacity_loss
-1,https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/05/60-kwh-nissan-leaf-stil...
-2,https://www.teslarati.com/watch-tesla-battery-thermal-manage...
-3,https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/09/tesla-unlocks-extra-bat...
-4, https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/reserve-power-when-sta...
That reasoning is precisely how corporations get away with these crimes and why we should hold CEOs criminally liable.
They already have a market share too big to effectively handle/serve.

MS will probably transform into a bit like Apple for enterprises.
This article is confusing to me. I went to EFFIS and looked at the 2008 data. [0]

There were 13832 forest fires in Portugal alone in 2008. The avg in this chart seems far less than that...

Maybe I'm reading this wrong?

[0] https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/media/cms_page_media/40/fores...
Or stop buying from Amazon ;-)
If true, is a problem for Europe and there will be consequences and significative economical loses.

In the list of posible benefits is the "instantaneous" recovery of submarine kelp forests vanished in the last decades
While it is a bit general i think it is valid. I’ve made some bad hires and they had common warning signs. Some people are obvious ronin developers that refuse to accept input or accept that there is a bitter idea than theirs. Also, I need my devs to talk to BAs, customers and other companies we integrate with. You will be representing us so it’s not just our team/company that gets affected by a bad hire.
Nobody is going to offer you priority stock with maximal liquidation preference, even if you are at CxO level (you get priority, but a lower liquidation preference). Investors get the best ones; regular employees are out of luck most of the time; they should be happy just to get (worthless) common stock.
Its quite impressive that this current transports 1 PW (yes, petawatts: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/thc_fact_sheet.html). If it would be stopping completely, this would naively (excluding other accompanying effects) remove 1 PW of heating from the coasts of Europe.

This 1PW of heat would need to disperse somewhere else.
The way I see it, hosting them on your personal website portrays them like a portfolio. If they have potential to grow into something on their own you may want to consider giving them their own website to keep it modular. I agree with you, if you're not going to make money off of them, or they won't grow into an open source sensation (even a minor one), why not just keep it on your personal website?
Ask HN: Database of Employee Agreements?
I'm someone for whom the employee contract is a huge factor in any employment offer - specifically the intellectual property clause - and I hate how it always just gets dumped in your lap right at the end in hopes that you don't actually read it before signing. In some cases I wouldn't even bother going through the application process if there were certain legal language, but I can't know what it is until I get an offer.

Does anyone know of a website along the lines of Glassdoor where people can post their employee agreements for perusal?
I never tried to get a job as a data scientist, and as a matter of fact, I never took a course in statistics as part of my undergraduate CS degree (only discrete probability), but I think a good thing to remember is that there are always interesting jobs you aren't aware of, so don't focus too much on what you think the ideal title would be.

I was called a few years ago by someone looking to hire a support person for scientists using supercomputers. I just couldn't believe my experience (SQL, ETL, data munging, etc) was applicable, and I talked him out of it. But some people might have taken the approach of get the job and then learn what it's about.
Yes, malicious actors tend to use the same infrastructure as everyone else, especially if it is good.

Figuratively tearing up the paving is a terrible solution to a speeding problem, which most countries seem to agree with. Usually speeding instead is a fineable offense, which I'm okay with.

Reserve the right to apply a fee if you release more than X apps per Y time, or update more often than Z times in Y time. Increase the allowed fee/fine geometrically (or lower, but still exponentially) for each offending update/app, but allow keeping a few "credits" if you have a reasonable update rate. This would make it costly to be a bad actor, but still affordable the odd time you mess up and need to push out an unplanned change.
> If someone claimed that Jesus Christ came to back to life, then it is a claim that can be challenged.

True, but doesn't change that science ultimately deals with models we create to explain our observations. They're nowhere near as nilly-willy as, say, scientology, sure. But it's also not 100% objective, everything is filtered through us, or the models and instruments we make.

> And so in its actual procedure physics studies not these inscrutable qualities, but pointer-readings which we can observe, The readings, it is true, reflect the fluctuations of the world-qualities; but our exact knowledge is of the readings, not of the qualities. The former have as much resemblance to the latter as a telephone number has to a subscriber.

-- Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Domain of Physical Science (1925)

> Ditto for system of morality where certain aspects can be subjected to empirical testing.

I honestly have no idea what aspects of a moral system one could test empirically, could you give an example?

The way I see it, science can tell us that malnutrition in kids can affect their development and how, but it can't tell us whether it's right or wrong to let children starve, for example. It can't even tell us if it's better for people to be healthy or sick, happy or unhappy, and so on. It can at best measure physical reality accurately and even with some predictive power, but that still leaves all the moral questions (I can think of right now) to us.
No one mentioned GrayLog. They're a relatively new player in the game, but they show great promise. I should mention that their dashboards are probably not as mature as Splunk and some of the other platforms, but I've met a few people who use it and they seem happy!
https://www.graylog.org/
I just use those previously written projects whenever someone asks me to provide samples of my work.

There's no contract nor payment for these and I write them from scratch, so it's still my IP.
I'd imagine there is significant value in capturing small customers with a free product who end up growing into their enterprise products.
I'm personally a fan of getting democracies to play Dance! Fetch! Roll Over!

atta boy
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I know it's definitely a hotfix solution until Google fixes things, but would a soft-launch followed by a properly timed launch a few weeks later be better?
I think you've overlooked the fact that enriching investors IS enriching its workers, because they are generally given real stock grants upon employment, and gradually as time goes by.

This applies for countless engineers from the company past and present, whom I (as one of them) personally know.
Done, really appreciated
I was downvoted because the same people who have the influence to legalize their crimes have the influence to make the public believe that it is right and proper.
This just seems like pondering, not anything concrete. I doubt there's much to expand on.
What Hegel would have said about closed-source software
> In fact, I can't name a single service I've ever used (ever!) that lets me change my username.

Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? Any of the phone-number-based social apps (which have a poorer UX because of it, but still all allow changing usernames seeing as phone numbers change)? Also I believe Skype does allow changing usernames.
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Private domain is fine if it's just your thing you build at some point. Something I sometimes see people do if things are vaguely related is to get one domain for all of them, with the idea that's it might be easier to remember than your personal domain and makes accessing them faster.
How would "the government" go about doing that?
>I think religion's job is not to explain things, as the very non-religious (and even now, most religious!) seem to think, but to leave you in wonder, to fill you with the mystery of the world.

Religions were created when there was no concept of a separation between a physical and metaphysical world, when everything natural was also supernatural. Religion's job is not only to explain things, but to assert itself as the only valid explanation.

Also, I disagree that religion is necessary for one to be able experience wonder and mystery in the world. One doesn't need to believe in faeries at the bottom of a pool to appreciate its beauty.
There is distinction between investigating how people’s moral intuitions work, which science can do, and answering the question “what is actually Good.” Many materialists would say the latter question doesn’t have an answer, because there is no such thing as morality outside of human opinion.
Do you never write bugs?
The purpose of an IPO is to raise money to do something. It doesn't make any sense to sell part of your company to a random set of people, just to pay them back over time. That's like me getting a mortgage for my house and after 30 years I pay back the mortgage and the bank still gets to own my house.
Thanks for feedback about convention and variable naming- you're totally correct I should work on both.

As far as 0 input, they actually told me it would always be valid so edge cases were not accounted for.
It's just silly that startups will go months without filling a position so they can avoid spending a week on a person that they might need to fire. This is an example of a premature optimization. A problem faced by less than 1% of companies nationwide is not something you need to worry about. It would be like leasing the top floor of an office building in Silicon Valley for top dollar because you heard that NYC occasionally floods in the winter.

If someone is in a protected class and they get fired within the first week, does anyone really think they'll win a lawsuit alleging discrimination? Does anyone actually think they'd get beyond a motion to dismiss (usually the first motion filed by a defendant)? If the employer was discriminating against protected classes they wouldn't have hired the employee in the first place. These types of claims are quickly dismissed and usually incur minimal legal fees.
We haven't found that to be necessary. Typically our customers welcome the idea of introducing us as their partner who will be handling the commercial logistics of their contracts.
I did exact same thing for my Apple account. Later I found that even if I have access to my email and to my password, they still keep asking for these secret questions I dont remember the answers.
I wrote Bitbucket.org, a Mercurial hosting site. Doesn't seem to get much fuzz
Fried chicken boxes used to warn young people about the dangers of knife crime
I am ignorant, might be really wrong and stupid, but aren't most problems in the world just curve-fitting in high dimensional spaces?

Isn't human education simply discovering spaces that somewhat resemble a reality with arbitrarily many dimensions and finding functions that match curves/surfaces/bodies to some degree of precison and exactitude?
When i got hired by Pivotal Labs, i had:

1. A phone conversation with a manager to see if we were on the same page.

2. A one-hour on-site coding test, writing a fairly simple class using very strict TDD (i think we did this in the evening, after my day at my previous job had finished).

3. A whole day on site, spending each half of the day pairing with someone on something. In the morning we wrote a little demo app for using Redis on Cloud Foundry (in Ruby, which i didn't know!), and in the afternoon it was some made-up webapp (using Spring, which i also didn't know). Both things either were or were very like real development (on the Spring thing, we spent half an hour setting up the environment, fifteen minutes coding, then two hours debugging and reading Spring docs to find out why it wasn't working, so exactly like real Spring development).

The first two stages were pretty undemanding, which was good for me. The final stage took a lot of time and energy, but i got to spend the whole day with two current employees, both of whom really impressed me (shouts out to Chris B and Nick S), and that was really good for me.

In general, i really like to be given a stringent interview, because it indicates i'll be working with high-calibre people who have passed it. But it does have to be effective in its stringency, not just unpleasant. Amazon Instant Video's hiring process was the latter (and not just because it took a whole day with no break for lunch).
People use both science and religion to say what other people should do:

* What they should and should not eat.

* Who they should and should not marry.

* Who/What they should and should not kill.

When some people think that science backs their ideas and other people think that religion backs their ideas, then you got a discussion.
What if monetized videos can't be viewed without spending "ad bucks"?

To earn "ad bucks", you have to watch an ad. The ad watching takes place in a dedicated ads section of the site, completely independent of all videos.

The vast majority of monetized videos would cost 1 ad buck, so watch one ad. The ad watching is just a giant "watch ad" button. The algorithm goes through all all the info about me and shows me a relevant ad, just like it does already.

If you want to opt out of ad bucks, you can just subscribe to that channel and pay some money. YouTube takes some, the creator gets the rest.

Why not just use this model instead of this politically driven sham that currently exists?

I'm the viewer, I'm the product. My attention has value - so why not let me to worry about what videos I want to support and leave the corporations out of it? YouTube is nothing without the viewer.

If YouTube is a platform and not a publisher, then they should act like the phone company. If I want to call some psychic hotline, just connect the call and take your cut.
What proposals are in place to specifically target Apple for negative legislation?
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Install the recap extension which posts it publicly on courtlistener.
Does it really matter where the data is stored? The data is encrypted beforehand, so whatever cloud storage provider can't access the data. The point about integrity doesn't seem super relevant. Even if Apple hosted the data themselves issues could still occur that resulted in data loss.

The paragraph about paying premium because you think Apple is hosting it seems equivalent to suing them when they find out that Apple doesn't make all the components for their iPhone or Macbooks either.
Sometimes I do wonder... how many people I see with regular jobs feel like they are using 10% of their abilities at those jobs? At this very moment I am making an effort to re-enter the corporate world... studying Python or Ruby or Elixir any of the other 5 languages I have used in the last 10 years to convince a company that I can do their work. But inside, I know I'm doing it 99% for the money. It's only because I didn't run the gauntlet in the past and strike out on my dreams with 150% effort (I tried once, at probably 90% effort. I failed.)

I had a friend and consulting boss who once told me, "I don't care what work I do; it's just a day job, and it's money." And as with people who can happily do hookup after hookup on Tinder, I sometimes wish I were like them. But when you really care about shit, it ties you up. And when the stuff you care about is just one or two cogs in a big machine that isn't really worth supporting, you die slowly for a wage.

My advice to young people (those of you who are in your first 5 years of employment) is to realize now that unless you want to become a business owner or want to do 12+ years of good effort in one of the big 5 (4?) consulting firms, you should just never grow your personal cost of living and instead focus on doing stuff you love - money be damned. You may just find yourself in the enviable position where doing the thing you loved resulted in a windfall (Google bought you), or at least funds you 5+k/mo while you travel the many other awesome parts of the world which cost way less than the US and western Europe.
Things today are a LOT different than they were 10 years ago. Not only are ORMs encouraged out of the box, which are (pretty much) immune to SQL injection unless you consciously run native SQL. There is also a HUGE amount of documentation, warnings, etc. on almost everything - got a few links at the end.

You could argue that the major source of insecure code these days is old answers on stackoverflow which show vulnerable examples. Though, i believe there was an initiative to go back and change old answers which posted vulnerable code but not sure if that ever took off.

Some URLS:

As you said SQL server, i literally googled microsoft ado.net example, first result is showing how to use parameterized queries: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adone...

Googled the same with sql injection/security: huge article on it all https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...

As an (ex) security professional myself, i definitely agree with the guy above saying that these days in general you do see a lot less of the "schoolboy" vulnerabilities. Definitely still out there though, even in tier 1 public-facing websites of global banks, but certainly not widespread, and certainly not ubiquitous. I'd say this is due to a combination of hand-holding in frameworks, and better education all round.
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