skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what happens when you let something rot for electoral gains. Without historical knowledge, it is easy to take the humanitarian cause, but with it, things become complicated (like every conflict zone), which is perhaps why "liberal" outlets conveniently forget to talk about them (think Israel, Palestine, Jewish exodus from Middle East, Europe).

The year 1971 was when a party from East Pakistan won the state elections; this was rejected by the Punjabi-dominated Army, which started killing Bangladeshis by the millions. A letter by the US Ambassador (in Dhaka, Kolkata?) was completely ignored by Nixon and his henchman, Kissinger. This led to a genocide, which took a religious turn (as it always does), and Hindus were killed and raped en masse. The exodus, which was merely a repeat of the one following partition, led Indira Gandhi (a brutal dictator in her own right), to help create an independent state of Bangladesh.

The refugees were never repatriated, and the open border meant easy passage for people. Governments from states neighbouring Bangladesh have encouraged Muslim voters to illegally emigrate to bolster their electoral majorities; this is not a contentious fact in India. Indeed, the communists even killed over 5000 Hindu refugees using state police in Marichjhapi, in order to secure their vote share in the decade after the war; there is, as usual, a total silence to the brutal state-sponsored genocides by the Left.

There is however a strong distaste for the trespassers, and this is indeed along religious lines. Bangladesh is also a breeding ground for the global Jihad, and this is precisely why Myanmar too reacts the way it has. In India, Muslim majority areas are often ... erm ... not exactly places where minorities are left in peace (Kashmir, Ramanathapuram, Bhatkal, Malda, tons of districts in Bengal, Bihar, UP). Having this many Bangladeshis, being supported by corrupt political elites, is not exactly a problem it needs right now. India in particular has one too many Kashmirs brewing, and unlike the Christians and Muslims who have historically either been "harvesting" lands by one means or the other, India's natives have no real homeland. Not even India, which constitutionally discriminates against Hindus.

Letting a wound fester, sadly, has its consequences. The instabilities caused by the jihadis has grave consequences to India's economy and culture, and it has every right to deport illegal immigrants.
> The developer didn't think about what might be in what they were logging, the package assumed that the developer did, and the result could have been avoided by a more integrated whole

Umm, is there any all in one web framework that protects against this to any level of guarantee?
People who post selfies are seen as less likable and less successful
With the exception of fish, for probably a very, very long time we ate a lot of fish.
Your last sentence is the bullseye. On the whole, companies like FAANG hire for employees that supply the bulk labor throughput they need in large quantities with overall low risk. Their interviewing process very deliberately selects for this.
There was something very powerful that happened in Christchurch, New Zealand after the major quake in 2011, the Student Volunteer Army. I wonder if it's a good model, though sadly it may need to be triggered by disaster.

https://sva.org.nz/our-story/
I was really curious when reading the title, but think this is pretty poorly written article.

I don't know what this article is saying. Someone help me out. First he tells a story about how a teacher was passionate about a topic, but he wasn't. Then a story about he was passionate, but adult figure was not.

How shame gets weaved into this? Something about being yourself? But he was being himself with the french teacher.

Also, why does an adult who tries to steer him in a certain direction by "saying in a derisive tone, 'Don’t you want to go to the park and have an ice cream with me instead?'" gets called a abusive narcissist. Also "simply ignorant, unaware, and wrapped up in his own pain". As an adult, I think influencing kids in a certain direction is part of the job? Maybe this adult could have done it better, but going to park and have an ice cream isn't too bad of an attempt.
If you wanted to do something tricky, you could use a FUSE file system passthrough, and disable the showing of symlinks, so that dropbox is unaware of them. something similar to this: https://github.com/skorokithakis/python-fuse-sample/blob/mas...
Ask HN: What is your home WiFi setup like?
Same here. Compounding that, I usually can't justify reading things for enjoyment, such as various fiction or non-fiction books. Thus my go-to is usually technical literature, which suffers even more from the phenomenon you described.

At the same time I'll bounce around on the web and voraciously read a wide spectrum of things on a daily basis. Anything from programming topics to spending an afternoon reading a neurology systemic review.

I think it's the format. With books I really have to have a singular focus, and I can't periodically task switch or indulge in nervous tics like repeatedly clicking the page background as I read.

Definitely used to read a lot more physical books. Guessing prolonged computer/internet/smartphone/game use tends to fracture one's attention span in weird ways.
U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
Have you every tried listening to content. I’m adhd and dyslexic and have found that I retain content I listen to far far better than sight reading.
>Like any great invention, I stumbled upon the idea of the hotel-room vacation by accident, nine years ago, after Toony and I arrived in Chania, Crete, for our honeymoon. The “magical Venetian town” I’d read of in a British travel magazine turned out to be a maze of souvenir shops, Irish pubs, and “authentic” Greek tavernas, so described on the doors and menus. Our hotel room, though, was amazing.

Souvenir shops and Irish pubs aside, Chania is indeed a "magical Venetian town", that can enchant even Greeks (who're used to all the tourist hoopla). There are also plenty of really authentic Greek tavernas if one looks beyond the tourist strip. And there's a whole island, of great beauty, and tons of places untouched by tourism all around.

The rest of the article (which has its merits) aside, that the author preferred their hotel room tells us more about them, than about the place...

Some people can find authentic places even in Las Vegas or Times square, and some people wouldn't know authentic if they were hit on the head with it...
I believe rudeness and arrogance are easier than kindness and empathy. It can then be tempting to let what's easy become the template for our confirmation bias.
I just read a chapter or two a night so that I always make progress and have time for reading.

As for remembering, you won't remember everything. I think the commentor that said it's about shaping your mind over time is correct.

It's just like how you want to surround yourself with smart/successful people. You might not remember everything they say or do but it shapes you.

"iron sharpens iron"
Beyond implementation, how do you prove that a new statistic is correct and meaningful? Especially when it’s going to become part of the ABI forever?

In this case, beyond the patches, we built oomd and ran the whole contraption in production on hundreds of thousands of servers. When it meaningfully improved metrics there, it became an easier thing to sell.
I asked a recruiter there whether someone like that (like the creator of a popular programming language) would have to go through the normal new-grad-style whiteboard coding hazing gauntlet (phrased diplomatically) interview process that they were expecting me to. The recruiter said no. I decided not to interview, because it turns out the hazing wasn't something "everyone" had to do, and I just didn't rate decent treatment.

The next time a recruiter from there cold-contacted me, I asked again. IIRC, that one said a person could skip at most only the first part of the whiteboard coding hazing (phrased differently), if someone at Google could vouch for them, but that everyone had to do the second part of the hazing, before they could advance to the interviewing phase of professionals with mutual respect (phrased differently). I decided not to interview.

So long as their process comes off as one-sided, arrogant, and negging, the company doesn't seem like a place I'd want to work.

It's like you're meeting a first date in the line at a cafe, and they're physically attractive and rich, but they're rude to the barista -- bullet dodged, we're not together, and I'd like my coffee to-go, please.
Nope. New features appear only in Office 365 (the subscription version). If you have the one-time purchase version (Office 2019), you'll need to wait for and buy Office 2022.
it seems like the protesters should make some home made blue water dye and spray random people with it to create plausible deniability
Here's a good example of an email which is far more than to the point (he's actively insulting someone, and basically telling them they should die because of a technical decision):

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495
Yeah all you have to ask is questions like why did you use A instead of B? Did you run into any problems implementing that?

It doesn’t take long before people start stammering and deflecting if they’re full of shit.
YaCy got you covered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy Never tried it, so don't know how good it is.
I'm actively interviewing. I don't think hiring is broken, but I think some companies get lazy or even abuse it. If we get the abuses down, and require less of a time commitment (no 8 hour take-homes), I think there'd be less complaints.

The key takeaway is that rejection hurts emotionally. Programmers who care about coding, take the rejection personally. Less time commitment, less hurt.
It’s not a grid.
Heya, great to know that you're interested.

A couple of things:

* Contact your local city or state and see. Colorado has a hackathon: https://gocode.colorado.gov/ See if your local state has something.

* Code for America is another organization with a finger on the pulse of what needs to be done: https://www.codeforamerica.org/

* If you are focusing on a particular technology, reach out to your local meetups around that technology and post a message like you did here.

* Finally, don't get wrapped up in infrastructure or setup. Use something like Heroku: https://www.heroku.com/, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, or Transposit: https://www.transposit.com/ (full disclosure, I work for them) to make sure you can focus on the business problem, not the intricacies of EC2 or ALB configuration. Seen too many good ideas crater on that bikeshedding.
Hey.. so based on my experience from the two previous HN articles this was mentioned in, in the previous hours, this submission will be flagged off the front page shortly. (Like in 5-10 minutes from now.)

You may wish to contact HN/YC about this.

Here are the previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847434 (I kind of hijacked that one)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20846681

Edit: there we go, it's now flagged off the main page.
3 hours of downtime per year equals to 99,96% uptime.

In what world is that a lot of downtime?
It almost seems like TLA paradoxically made systems harder to understand, since presumably it was the enabler for pushing the limit of complexity.
Broadly agree with one caveat -- the ISP. A mesh network is probably the last link in this chain needed for this to work, and even that relies on a central node: the backhaul, although (and please correct me if I'm wrong if someone more knowledgeable is reading this) I believe that the backhaul is a "dumb" pipe that is not usually censored/traffic shaped.
Yep, the same minority when in majority wipes out, or force converts the corresponding minorities till there are none left.
There's also the humanitarian toolbox (http://htbox.org).

But I'm not sure if it's still actively developed.
I love when things related to my non-tech fandom of some random entity show up on HN.

YACHT is fantastic and explores a lot of fascinating ideas both lyrically and musically (try “I thought the future would be cooler” for a catchy dance tune with a depressingly great dystopian theme, never has our impending doom sounded so good. For the less cynical, try “Shanghai-LA”).
Why are we writing and reading positively-tilted stories about child rapists like Iggy Pop? Why are these white 70s musicians getting a free pass on sex crimes? Especially the only one with the shamelessness to record a song about raping a child?

https://genius.com/Iggy-pop-look-away-lyrics

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8i2NetVBzIc
> would just get traditional minimum wage jobs instead which are plentiful at the moment.

in which case they would not be Uber/lyft drivers and you would not have the convenience of these services available to you, back into the "dark ages of taxis" .

> Yet people are still taking these jobs over more traditional ones.

yes, and they are living below the poverty level by doing so. The fact remains that your experience of convenient uber/lyft rides depends upon people who willingly or not place themselves into poverty-level wages. For the moment, your convenience requires that people suffer in poverty.

OTOH, if regulations were imposed such that Uber/Lyft had to raise their prices, then you can have the convenience of these services, at a higher cost (more likely though, it would be simply be a regular low-margin business like taxis and supermarkets and no longer profitable to investors), and it would not require poverty-level workers in order to achieve it. This is the purpose of the minimum wage - so that the job market isn't crowded with jobs that do not provide a living wage.
I don't think the presumption of innocence applies like you think it would in this case.
I only listen to content for both short and long form. If it’s short form I archive the content if I don’t plan to return to it and put it in a folder if I would like to revisit. For books I bookmark, highlight and add comments. For most reading I listen around 450 words/min, but if it’s reading for pleasure I slow it down to 325ish. I’m dyslexic and find that I retain content far better and enjoy reading much more if I listen instead of sight read.
Sure, now average them with the other companies like Microsoft Google Facebook Apple etc
Ask your friends about their problems and solve those. Do stuff that you know best, for example, is registering for classes at your school hard and is there space for a better interface? Or maybe your school is socially dead and students want a way to connect with students .
Agreed 100%. It seems like most adults forget the joy that can be had with play, and just the endless possibilities to play when you're an adult.

I did not appreciate the power of a sense of humor, but IMO it kinda ties into this. Humor is essentially "playing" with language.
Asking to do the work of raising a bug to make a product better which is competing with other non profit product is in itself a bit arrogant in my opinion. On top of that the attitude to be lazy to search for the issue which was already marked as won't fix https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137247 is not the right thing to do. I would have appreciated if you have created the issue with the details provided and shared the link her for the op to fill in more details.
This is pretty good common sense post on not having your failure moods correlate with your client's failure modes.

https://trackjs.com/blog/separate-monitoring/

I don't work for any of the entities mentioned.
Tons of luxury hotels (4-5 stars) around the world have rooms for $133/night or even less.

Note that the grandparent didn't say "luxury" anywhere.
I'm not familiar with Infer or Zoncolan, but I wonder what percentage of issues these tools detect is already covered by IntelliJ IDEA "inspections". Inspections consist of a configurable series of static analyzers each targeting a specific case. IJ runs inspections concurrently in the editor, flagging problems as they occur. What's more, many inspections provide "quick fixes" -- they can fix the issue at hand for you with a simple keystroke. Inspections can also run in batch and can bulk-apply quick fixes.

The obvious advantage inspections have over diff-time tooling is that detectable issues are often fixed immediately when a developer is most familiar with the code in context (edit-time), which translates to improved productivity. Additionally since most inspections provide quick fixes, they not only save time, but also provide code consistency regarding how issues are resolved.

I realize FB uses languages other than Java, so I wonder if their static analysis investments would be better served focused more on building/buying better IDE tooling?
Sounds exactly like me. I was and am still in somewhat depressed states. Lot of anxiety preventing me from putting myself out there, impostor syndrome whispering "you're not smart enough to be a developer", self shaming, etc. The internet being too accessible, yet not having enough of a BS detector myself, and getting sucked into believing polarized, weakly true viewpoints (9-5 is not the way to go! Etc...).
I wonder what is the underlying urge behind the woo purveyors. There is more than a lifetime’s worth of weird trippy stuff that is 100% legit. There’s no need to muddy the waters; mystery abounds in the real world.
Name one country, at least one which is doing well economically better than its neighbors, which has open borders and anyone is allowed to go there and gets citizenship just by entering there.
That book also totally changed how I read for the better.

I tend to have two books going at a time. One I read seriously, usually in the morning and take notes etc. The other is purely entertainment band is usually an evening or weekend mornings book.
>It's a common figure of speech

Only for certain audiences of a particular age group.

It's not globally common. It's commonality doesn't remove the other characteristics of it which ruins the entire point of drawing attention to how often it's used.

Please don't be disingenuous when the conversation needs to be more constructive in the first place.
Are you in an area with homeless people? In my neighborhood, there's a homeless guy named Mike. His wheelchair has been stolen 4 times in the last two months, and he can't walk without it. I was thinking it'd be cool if there was a municipal registration system for wheelchairs, like there are for bikes, that would work for homeless people. Just an idea. No clue how practical it'd be!
You don’t think 20¢ is astronomical? A person does not simply send one message. A teenager will send a hundred micro messages as day as short as “lol”

I wouldn’t dream of communicating the same way if messages weren’t “free” (i.e. part of your internet fee)

I say this as someone with “most of my friends” living in other countries at any given time.
Do you have more details than an unverified Genius annotation?
> In my opinion, reading is more for shaping your thoughts over time.

Absolutely agree. I often liken reading (at least reading fiction) to the leaking basket fable [0]. I'm not sure of it's origin but the linked description is in the context of reading Buddhist spritual texts. This mindset has also made reading much more enjoyable for me, because I've stopped caring whether or not I can instantly recall details of books that I've read.

[0] https://www.itstimetomeditate.org/leaking-basket-indian-fabl...
Staying in a hotel room and not going outside... But also telling other people that you are someone else, as he mentions doing. I can understand the phase, a kind of complete isolation. Not sure it should be instead, rather that in addition to, other kinds of activities.

I can relate to room service being annoying. Though leaving "do not disturb" on the door usually works, even for 5-6 days in a row. They do not knock when they see that. Just pester you at the corridors if you pass by.
Loneliness in Tech: The Isolating Irony of Social Media
The hardest color to see is probably silver, second-hardest grey. These seem to be a lot more popular than super-black.
I do think that Trump is a problem. His treatment of classified material is a good indicator of that. It's just that, in this case, the classified material is not very revealing.

I do think people are exaggerating how bad this leak is to make it worse that Trump leaked it.

And really, we should not be blowing Trump mistakes up. Because when he really does do something horrible, we need the other side with us. If we keep blowing things out of proportion, the other side will just be pushed into immediately dismissing us every time.
Ethereum 2.0 Guide: Ewasm
That's the many eyes thing but I don't see how it's unique to Clojure's culture which was my point.

Node only got to that point through plenty of failure and last time I used Go it didn't seem much different than Clojure.

The only reason I'm not using Clojure is the lack of types but that's another issue.
> If their families have been there since 1938

But they hadn't been. Don't base your opinion on a single article. A lot of process was followed after decades of issues and finally on the order of Supreme Court.

In fact, the number of people identified by most counts is order of magnitude smaller than what it should have been.
Data scientists are fundamentally problem solvers.

The best way to assess technical problem solving is a structured hackathon. That is, to be given

* a problem with multiple subproblems and solution milestones

* with both objective and subjective criteria

* freedom of tools

* a "junkyard" of resources

* a fixed amount of time for each deliverable of the problem

And then you observe the process and the results.

For data science, the subproblems should be:

* requirements gathering / understanding the problem

* data acquisition, prep, and analysis

* refinement of requirements / communication

* feature engineering

* modeling

* presentation / storytelling / viz
As others have mentioned, How To Read a Book does a great job educating on the skill of reading.

Most books I just read once fairly rapidly: skipping over parts I don’t get or find uninteresting. Just a few books ever get an ‘analytical’ reread.

I don’t keep a notebook generally to keep reads portable, I instead talk about what I’m reading pretty aggressively as a strategy to memorize and absorb knowledge.
For every “vegan diet problems” article out there, there should be a “fiber deficiency” article written for people eating a SAD.
I think they're talking about the initial 'phone screen' portion of the interview.
Nuance comes from experiencing constraints from implementing the solution.

Eventually the liar runs out of those details when pressed.
It has failed him for the last time.
In a world where you have SLAs with your customers, in which you commit to something better?
When I'm able to break through creative blocks I've been wrestling with for long periods of time and seemingly get weeks of work done in days. It's some combination of the novel environment, lack of distractions, ambience, etc. I assume.

I've trained myself to be somewhat "productive" on planes to get large amounts of work done out of necessity, but the creativity (new/novel work) tends to happen in hotels with the ambience I described. On the flip side, shitty hotels tend to have the opposite effect--completely unproductive (the ironic costs of saving money).

I hope that makes sense. I actually haven't thought deeply about what makes this work before, so these thoughts are rough.