skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I 100% acknowledge that senior employees / academic folks can be as dogmatic and stubborn as anyone, the phrase "the constant attempts to gaslight me" throws up some flags. It sounds more than a little paranoid.

What is their behavior? Are there any more-charitable explanations for their behavior?

It's fine to doubt and to question - that's how we learn - but they may have experience and competence that you're discounting. I hope you're lucky and work with seniors who can give honest answers, like "we've always done it this way, we're not sure it's optimal" when appropriate, and good explanations otherwise.
The other half of the time is spent editing the tightly coupled mocks/tests when you refactor the real code. Bad tests can be a liability, not an asset.
Veggie ipsum is great!
Of all the pre-flight inspection offices at airports in Canada, Vancouver and Calgary are the best.
No, it's just that not mentioning it is has a cool factor of 0, neither cool nor uncool, and mentioning it has a cool factor of around negative infinity.
Microsoft paid more than 100 million dollars to kill this.
> I don’t know a single developer that thinks “googling stuff means you’re not a proper engineer.”

I see it at least a couple times a week on sub-reddits related to software development. Junior devs who are convinced more senior developers are super-geniuses who know everything from memory.
I don't understand why this comment should have been downvoted. I disagree because I like White Claw, but downvoting someone due to drink preferences seems rather hostile.
Well sure, but the places where shitposters can hang around are the only places you don't eventually get banned from for expressing wrongthink opinions and they also have people that are interested in anime and programming. It's hard to get a sense of belonging to communities that just ban you. Maybe you just see a place with toxic, hateful asses, but I see a place where everything can be discussed and some random comments won't get you kicked out of communities you were a part of for decades. There's a true sense of belonging. Even if everyone on there hates you personally, at least no one is going to just ban you.
There is work life balance. In SF, in particular, some companies treat their tech work force like newborn puppies. Other areas of the country as well treat their engineers like they are unicorns.

If there is a move towards outsourcing it's that the effort of US programmers is lower than abroad and the costs are much higher (I'm not talking about quality, obv)

If you're being mistreated at work, I recommend looking for another employment. Last I checked there was a surplus of 80K programming jobs in the US per year.
I guess that there is no justice and no unjustice.
The world is just very random / complex.
Well, you can report odds ratios (or their log).
Every engineer on HN (several threads that I've browsed) seems to have a serious disdain for coder-pad interviews/whiteboard sessions. And I think HN has a good representation of software engineers. So, who are these companies hiring?
Man, I haven't heard of a flyaway in years.

I always assumed it was just pilot error that the pilot blamed on the drone. Certainly saw enough of those situations that it's more believable than a phantom software issue.
not for me, its all fine no problems and lightning fast as always.
I like Issac Author's "orbital ring" idea. He is on YouTube. If you like space and futurism you need to see this guy's ideas!

Also checkout my project:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poly-wants-a-cracker/po...
Food trucks serve this role in a few American cities (Portland, Austin). Nothing like the hawker stalls of Singapore, but fairly diverse.
* waves magic wand *

* poof! - Constitutional amendments are passed in every state requiring sales tax to apply to all items at an equal rate. Politicians suddenly have less power to punish or privilege individual sectors and industries, and so there is less reason to lobby and corrupt them. Sin taxes go away, so constituents are nudged and nannied and pandered to less. Much labor to track and charge differential taxes is disappeared. *

* wakes up *

Damn.
While it is true most traditional malls required a car to access, once inside malls offer freedom from the car. Today's big box store strip malls practically encourage people to drive to each individual store. Traditional malls are good for kids who can wonder about without getting hit by a vehicle like in a strip mall or a city.
America, the Gerontocracy
Command Prompt Here is also directly in the File menu of Windows 10's File Explorer's ribbon. Alt+F,R is the shortcut.

(File Explorer's ribbon follows your Win+X setting that if you have PowerShell your default, that shows up instead of classic Command Prompt.)
I often look up things I already know how to use just to see if there's a better way of doing it or any unintuitive side effects.

A lot of my work involves using Windows API and it has been around for so long that whatever issue I am facing, someone probably has had it before, and there might be an obscure function that already does what I'm trying to implement or work around.
Ding ding.
Probably not. Because I imagine they aren't retaining off the original data but rather doing an online method. This means the network retains information about those images.
Instead of thinking of them in nice ways think of the by their pejoratives. Architecture Astronauts, Premature Optimizers and script kiddies. You personally are more of a premature optimizer than an Astronaut. Makes sense that there would be lots of mathematicians and physicists in the optimizers. I'm an Astronaut mostly myself.
No, I saw that -- maybe you missed every other flavor-of-the-week coverage for the past 10 years? Panic refers to user's reactions -- not what the news cycle generates for a given week. When information about Uber came out, at least #dumpuber trended or whatever, actual users wanting to change their behavior in response to events relating to a company. I didn't see that at all with this. This article is entirely about how members of the industry feel about Apple I guess? At least when the assertions aren't completely passive like "Apple’s perception as the secure consumer device is starting to crack." -- Apple's perception has cracked WITH WHOM??

The general population is completely burnt out about security stuff -- they hear about their bank getting hacked and releasing all their records like twice a year now. No one "panics" over that anymore either. This is no different, if they'll even be able to recall them being separate events a year from now.
Jack Dorsey's Hack Could Have Been Prevented
I don't understand all that screening bullshit -- what do you proud of, why so, why such? Somebody, tell them (HR people), it doesn't matter for a person who codes, does an architecture, ops your stuff, etc...
Hey Peter, thank you for doing this AMA, here is my question:

I really want to live in the US permanently and bring my family over with me, what are the best ways to do that in terms of speed and/or cost?
A Tale of Two LEDs
Google Maps Is Directing Women Seeking Abortions to Pro-Life Clinics
Scientist suggests 'eating human meat' to tackle climate change
If you can consistently wake up at 430AM in a standard workday and just carve out 5 hours of freetime in addition to the time others have you're either a savant, an inhuman monster who doesn't need sleep, or your job probably doesn't require you to do that much. Either way I'm not going to take your advice too seriously when it comes to universality.
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Java debugging at scale: when rare events become commonplace
The best chance of a relatively quick and positive outcome is federal litigation. But you this is costly.
They typically have a barrier that says “no alcoholic beverages beyond this point”
Another study to file under "No Shit, Sherlock".
A good use of a dead mall is a Community College. A little ugly, perhaps, but workable. You have parking and large rooms already built out.
> css and javascript

> professional software engineer

Pick one.
> Last I checked, there had to be clear evidence linking a particular individual to a potential criminal act before a warrant could be issued.

(This is not legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.)

Not so. The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure apply here, particularly Rule 41.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_41

See particularly section (c):

(c) Persons or Property Subject to Search or Seizure. A warrant may be issued for any of the following:

(1) evidence of a crime;

(2) contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed;

(3) property designed for use, intended for use, or used in committing a crime; or

(4) a person to be arrested or a person who is unlawfully restrained.

--

Nor does an individual need to be identified. "John Does" are commonly enumerated as defendants in criminal indictments, and warrants can be used as a means to locate them.

The bar for what constitutes "probable cause" is also quite low. Even anonymous tips can give rise to PC. See, e.g., Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213 (1983). https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/462/213/
In an ideal situation this is a great strategy. But in my opinion there is already an incredible poverty of empathy in the construction of the interview questions. I would not expect the average interviewer to be detached enough from their pet questions to not only tolerate this kind of "dissent"[1] but actually reflect and deliver a useful response.

And since _my_ interviewer is almost certainly an average interviewer, asking that question seems like an exercise in futility. I don't feel as warmly rational about my answer here as I do about the one you responded to. Maybe I'm being overly cynical here, but it's informed by experience.

[1] Hyperbole to illustrate why I used the word dissent: "Who are you to ask me what I'm trying to learn? Shut up and answer the question!"
So what you're saying is (with needlessly complicated terms) that we can brute force the search for sums of three cubes?
Hey, author here. There are some pros and cons, but here's my (obviously biased) position. I'm not a CFSSL expert so I invite people to correct me if I'm wrong anywhere here.

- CFSSL by default runs open -- it's an unauthenticated API that'll sign anything. Figuring out how to securely authenticate to the CA is one of the hardest parts of automated enrollment. `step` & `step-ca` solve this for you.

- Building on the last point, there are multiple ways to authenticate to `step-ca` for various scenarios: one-time tokens, OAuth OIDC (SSO)[1], and now instance identity documents for VMs (more coming soon)

- The `step` command-line tool integrates with `step-ca` and makes the entire enrollment process super easy -- we focused a lot on usability (and misuse resistance)

- `step` also helps with other certificate management workflows[2] like root certificate distribution, root federation, root certificate (un)installation[3], certificate renewal, and (passive) revocation

- `step` is also useful as a generic swiss army knife for security tech like JWTs, JWKs, NaCl, OAuth, and more... not necessary relevant for this comparison, but useful[4]

This might be unfair... but I think philosophically the projects serve different purposes. CFSSL was created to serve CloudFlare's specific internal PKI needs, and it does that well, and it was awesome of them to open source it. `step` & `step-ca` was created because we believe everyone deserves great internal public key infrastructure and there's a tooling gap. So I think we're more interested in addressing a broader variety of use cases than CFSSL is.

There are some definite advantages of CFSSL though. Someone can probably extend this list and I'd love to discuss, but some obvious ones from my perspective are:

- They have a bigger community (at least for now :)

- They've been around longer

- There's more documentation out there about how to do things with CFSSL (see point #1)

Functionally, I think the only thing that CFSSL has that we don't at the moment is "active" certificate revocation -- CRLs & OCSP. We think short-lived certificates[5] are a better approach, and design for that primarily, but we're planning to fill this gap soon so at that point I think we'll be parity+ with CFSSL.

[1] https://smallstep.com/blog/easily-curl-services-secured-by-h...

[2] https://smallstep.com/docs/cli/ca/#commands

[3] https://smallstep.com/docs/cli/certificate/install/

[4] https://github.com/smallstep/cli/blob/master/README.md#Featu...

[5] https://smallstep.com/blog/passive-revocation/
Because Yahoo isn't a search engine; the results are powered by another search engine (at this time, Bing)
I’m a Bayesian flavoured, and the “problem” IMO is that model driven statistics are really hard and beyond most scientists (people generally tbh).

If we required scientists to be good statisticians there’d be far fewer scientists.
The Jewish Stake in America's Changing Demography (2001)
Then there doesn't appear to be anything that you can do right now unfortunately.
Mandatory pre checkin automated testing. Did you do this? Ok, you're good! ;-)
Unless you are a certified engineer in your state... you know, one who has a degree in engineering and has passed the respective FE and PE, then this is sort of like the pot calling the kettle black. I would suggest you: "Choose your words with more precision."
True, and the Taycan may well be a better car in many ways. But a discussion of the gearbox has nothing to do with handling or sports car feeling.

I'm wondering what we're missing here. 5% efficiency improvement at high speeds isn't anything to write home about today. The transmission is a known quantity -- it's just gears, it won't get more efficient as they develop it. The efficiency of the whole system (battery/drivetrain/regen/motor/aero/etc) can be optimized quite a bit going forward, but if the 2-speed transmission will only ever get us a 5% increase, I'm not sure it's worth the added weight and complexity.

Obviously Porsche knows what they're doing, and it may be about thermal management on the Autobahn more than about outright efficiency, but I'm skeptical.

If this were 2010 I'd say "yeah, obviously Porsche knows something about building a real sedan that you can take on a real highway trip, Tesla has no idea what they're doing".

But, having produced actual sedans that actually work, and Porsche going with a more complicated system for 5%.. I don't know what I'm missing.
"Our research creates a lot of confidence that the hypothesis is true. If our hypothesis happens to be false, then only 1 in 20 independent repetitions of our research (P = 0.05) will obtain the good results that we present here."
I'm not sure that calling science "social control" in any context is fair. It's certainly replaced religion as a tool for explaining things, but that's what it's for.

Your wording makes it sound like there's only one "scientific" belief system, but It's in my view really only a component of one. I think constructing your worldview around at least theoretically verifiable claims is a definite improvement over religious dogma, but most important is the scientific mindset of accepting uncertainty and "I don't know" answers (until you figure them out).

I also think it's valid to trust experts, but extraordinary claims will still require extraordinary evidence.

Now, the social structures around science aren't perfect and bad science can definitely be used to mislead people. That's just another problem to solve.
> A mall is simply a privately-owned small-town urban core "Main Street".

With a lot better parking. On the other hand, people could walk to the small-town urban core...
I also imagine that neither configuring a few hundreds of routers in an industrial setting could be called a hobby.

But I wouldn’t call myself an engineer for swapping a wheel on my car.

But I would call myself an engineer if I were responsible for a small business making car wheels, even if we were not doing any R&D.
One day, my grand parents told me a secret to access Medium without hassle.

I can't tell you in details since it's a secret but it really works, believe me. It's incredible. It has something to do with herbs, mindfulness and blocking JavaScript. Medium is so great when you do that.

On Android, IceCat Mobile blocks non free JavaScript and on Medium, it's a feature beyond the expectations.

I would call this graceful enhancement, or progressive degradation.

You start with a sane and nice baseline, and then add crap to that for supported browsers and configurations.
Every major SaaS already has an API available for their product as far as I can tell. What sort of nontrivial service is just API endpoints? e.g. if your product is just an API to get weather info or a headless CMS, isn't that just a feature of a more-complete product?

I'm genuinely curious, because it seems like API-based SaaS would be good products for engineers to launch.
I saw the writing on the wall in 2008-2009. A developer created a podcast app that downloaded directly to the phone without syncing through a PC running iTunes. I was running Linux, and I really wanted to buy that app.

But Apple rejected it, so the developer lost out, and I lost out. I could not accept that Apple was preventing me from running an app on hardware I "owned"! I never bought another iPhone after that.

I've been an Android developer since 2010. But now I've realized that Android has similar flaws because it is controlled by one corporation:

=> 30% Play Store transaction fees!

=> Apps delisted without any explanation

The freedom on open platforms is vital; so I will invest more time in them than in closed ones.
WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor
I can say that in my college dorm, one of the essential things was that the people near me were not random. They were my same age in the same college and in the 700 people who lived there a lot shared my interests. That’s what these facilities are trying to recreate, not just having a Homo sapiens within ten feet.
Does anyone else here find that the idea of a slow morning could have anything to do with the decline of quality, youth playtime, or time parents spend with kids. I found a fantastic article about this here a few months back that reminds me of what Hanock does here. Definitely worthy of a try. (https://houseoflawandorder.com/the-alarming-decline-of-quali...)
For real. I was in UK for a week, the mixed drinks over there are amazing. Had something called wkd, which is apparently regarded as a pretty trashy drink, but it tasted like fizzy gatorade, couldn't even tell it had alcohol in it.
The rule was placed so the community could swallow the pill. Once factory built products make it into the marketplace, it is a lot easier to gradually decrease rule enforcement over time, until you are effectively a niche alibaba, allowing factories to sell directly to consumers (they probably sold the board on that exact term)
There was an earlier version of this game known as "RobotWar", originally on the PLATO mainframe system in the 1970s and ported to the Apple ][ in 1981. Not that Omega wasn't a nice update of the idea, but it wasn't entirely original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar
What's your educational and professional background or country of citizenship?
Likely because they work on multiple products and don't have the time or authority to move them all to one standard.
Google "ken dilanian cia". I hate to blame the messenger, but in this case, Dilanian has some ethical problems, maybe conflicts of interest when reporting on CIA.
Wikipedia Is Down in Europe
The graphic at the top of the article with the thought bubble is just fantastic
When you take all three to extremes you get problems, but when you take the third to an extreme you get problems which hurt other people.

Extreme mathematical programming is turning theorems into code; Metamath is an example of this, as is Coq. Nobody uses this code because it isn't meant to be used outside of a mathematical context.

http://us.metamath.org/index.html

Extreme hardware hackers are either designing missile guidance systems or mirrors which turn your face into a plot of its Fourier transform. If their code explodes, it's either doing so in accordance with a design document taller than you are or it isn't a problem because exploding mirrors are even more fun than the normal kind.

Extreme maker programmers, as the site says:

> Taken to the extreme, this world view doesn't value the beauty in the engineering itself.

Taken to the extreme, this group actively derides good design because good design takes time and Real Artists Ship. Real Artists Make Deadlines, too, and Real Deadlines Are Set By Marketing. You end up with janky crap that looks good but leaks your password to anyone who breathes on it, as sold by people who think being proactive with lawsuits is a good substitute for keeping your data secure. Security Through Suing Anyone Who Says It Isn't Secure, in other words.
Microsoft should be broken up too, yes. But a phone OS is much more powerful than a console platform.

Elizabeth Warren certainly cares about this, thankfully.
So free electricity?
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I think that was the web 2.0 "mashup" era while the current trend seems more focused on being "headless".
TIL there is a documentary called Paper Clips (2004) - an inspiring story of a small town middle school who collected 6 million paper clips to represent the people killed during the Holocaust: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380615/. Thanks for posting.
I was confused by another commenter's post saying Smirnoff's ice and Mike's hard were made with malt liquor, both are made with vodka here. But, booze can only be sold in licensed stores here so there's not much incentive to make them different and I imagine mixing vodka with carbonated sugar water is cheaper than using malt liquor.
Every student I’ve ever met seems to have a serious disdain for exams, but for some reason universities keep giving them.
> Invert the binary tree it's the tricky one.

This is too easy for everyone in this thread. Try this:

Mathematically prove that the time complexity of the DFS algorithm is O(V+E).
This adds useful context about the size of the actual problem: https://twitter.com/KateRoseBee/status/1169999577660850176
U.S. states launch antitrust probes of tech companies, focus on Facebook, Google
These days I don't know of any professional software engineers who don't need to write CSS and Javascript at times.
ok now this is getting a little more precise.
> Unstated was that the same sites had 0-day Android and Windows exploits on them.

Have any source of that?
why is 3 bad? seems introspective to me, unless the answer is just 'most money'. maybe geared towards people who choose professions based more on interest/growth for happiness than getting fat stacks and buying happiness.
US Space Command was around for most of the time that this gun was used, it didn't go away until after 9/11
Yea that's why I'm surprised that Google has issued more certs than Amazon has :P.
3 years and 9 months. Not a very representative sample, I'll admit.
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They are in a no-win position and keeping silent is worse.

Android security has always been a bit of a contradiction of terms, and while Google has improved the OS, the combination of limited availability of upgrades due to carrier nonsense and the state of apps on the platform. An Android zeroday isn’t news.

The iOS defects are particularly jarring as they have been rare to date.
We can easily verify using SymPy on live.sympy.org:

https://live.sympy.org/?evaluate=(-80538738812075974)**3%20%...
He is much worse because his policies led to widespread starvation killing millions. Not just killing 100,000 people. Both are terrible of course, and should have died in a brazen bull.