skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is exactly the reason I am using ZFS for important data -- one should not really trust the storage devices to be fully reliable.

Is is a real pity that so few filesystems systems have integrated data checksumming -- I'd love to use something other than ZFS for this.
Slang as in the definitions given in the link I provided? No, that slang and the common usage of the word you see associated with it today online and in younger generations is not at all similar to 'fucked up' or 'screwed the pooch.'
in real companies that don't have G's resources, quality and velocity are tradeoffs, not things you can have both of

god bless them for trying though

in particular, the idea of having one or more reviewers doing multiple rounds in a day is pure fiction in strapped startups. Rejecting a code review for readability isn't always an option. Even getting a timely review from someone who understands this part of the codebase can be unrealistic -- sometimes there is no such person. Sometimes nobody is left in the company who understands the affected module and even the PR author is taking confession before merging it.

Love the phrase 'unless it's an emergency'. In resource-constrained cos everything is an emergency because to get any non-emergency work done requires emergency level urgency.

G's way of life requires an even power balance between eng & other silos. And also requires a baseline level of technical involvement by PMs which isn't present outside big tech cos. Most companies just aren't hiring PMs with a programming background. They could never justify the spend.

Major missing section in this is 'what shouldn't you review' -- various kinds of nits and out-of-scope changes that derail the process, waste expensive CI cycles, and make people take the rest of the day off from frustration.
> If a black hole is obeying thermodynamic laws, we can presume that a statistical description of all its fundamental, indivisible parts can be made.

No. It is posible to define the entropy of an object that has no internal indivisible parts, for example a black hole.

> Here’s another way in which the analogy falls flat. Black hole entropy is given by the black hole area. Well, area is length squared, volume is length cubed. So what do we make of all those thermodynamic relations that include volume, like Boyle’s law? Is volume, which is length times area, really length times entropy? That would ruin the analogy. So we have to say that volume is not the counterpart of volume, which is surprising.

This paragraph makes no sense at all. No sense at all!

First, Boyle's law is a law for ideal gases (that can be applied somewhat correctly to real gases). It can't be applied to solids, it can't be applied to liquids, it can't be applied to a photon gas, it can't be applied to black holes. Trying to apply it to black holes shows a completely lack of understanding of the subject.

In particular:

> Is volume, which is length times area, really length times entropy?

What? First the entropy of a black hole is not equal to the area, it's only proportional to the area, there are some constants. (I had to look up S = A * c^3 / 4Għ.) Second, you can't pick any three length [1] and multiply them and expect that the result that has the units of a volume can be used in any formula you want.

[1] For example, the height of the Eiffel tower, the atomic radio of an iron atom in the Eiffel tower and the width of the door of the elevator of the Eiffel tower. You can multiply them and get a volume, but this volume doesn't follow the Boyle's law when the atmospheric pressure changes in Paris.
The argument that Tesla is not fully to blame because people also fails seems fundamentally flawed. A human driver at fault cannot avoid blame by simple asserting that other human drivers also make similar mistakes.
Microsoft OWA for business. It automatically sends a 2FA message to your phone whenever a session times out, whether you asked for it or not.

Because it's totally not a bad thing to train users to accept unknown 2FA requests in the middle of the night because "it's probably just my work computer refreshing itself".
Aside from companies just not generally understanding the value of a low common stock valuation? They could mistakenly believe the low common valuation will impact a future funding round.

The value can creep up over time, and then companies try to avoid the perception that the common stock would ever become less valuable, so they also might try to keep it rising.

Or perhaps more dubiously, they could be quoting stock option grants in terms of dollar value of the strike price, and want it to look higher for the same number of shares. In an offer letter, which seems like a larger/better grant; 10,000 options at a $3.80 exercise price, or 10,000 options at a $0.38 exercise price? You will almost never see a percentage value quoted, and I've heard of some companies claiming the total share count is not even public information!
The only reason I can figure why anyone would do that is if at some point the password in the db was a varchar with a length and then they changed it but didn't change the frontend - big isolated development team problems.
I know several people in the merchant cash advance business and I wouldn’t trust any of them. This is the lowest rung of finance.
the idea that elites behave more morally than non-elites (whatever they are) is so ridiculous I have to assume you're being sarcastic. low bar to entry just means LOTS of stuff happens, not that a larger percentage of bad stuff happens.

the vpn skullduggery referenced by the OP was being done by facebook. you think they couldn't afford to pay an elite coder to do exactly that?
And then you decide to get another job and next guy to maintain the code is utterly confused and misdirected because let’s be honest, there’s no documentation or there is but is either not up to date or sparse, theres no thorough unit testing (lucky if there is any). Not saying that’s your case but it happened to me personally to be on the other end a few times and let me tell you, it’s quite an effort to ramp up on such projects.
The researchers are not making any claims wrt semantic information density.
I always point folks looking to get into cyber/infosec to this great post by Daniel Miessler: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/build-successful-infosec-car...
She may not be a crackpot within her field of expertise, but she is writing confidently without doing background research. I stand by my characterization of this piece as being of crackpot quality, and while I trust that she is perfectly capable in her own field, I think her willingness to write such a slapdash post—a post that will be read and trusted by very many given her large platform—indicates a pretty cavalier approach to physics writing in general. As someone with a reasonably large platform, I think she has a responsibility to do more research before writing a piece like this; I can immediately tell that she didn’t talk to any one of the hundreds of people who could have addressed many of her points. Instead, she cites hearsay that has been addressed in detail. I don’t consider that to be good faith writing; it’s lazy and she doesn’t deserve praise for it, regardless of the quality of her other work.
why don't they put accoustic retroreflectors (perhaps with a tailored high q resonant frequency response on it) on the thing?

then its just a question of raising the signal from the noise floor at different locations to locate it...
The entire team (three of us) have been on the website multiple times a day and didn't notice at all. Only HN can find these things haha!
Shift to electric vehicles will radically change auto factories
There's another common developer issue which these don't rectify.

Apple gets 15-30% of the revenue for subscriptions and purchases through the App Store, whether it is an Apple-published application or a third party application.

IMHO, Spotify's only really solid complaint is that it took so long for Apple to have a third party music intent.

The rest of Spotify's list amount to them signing a contract with Apple having a contract stating that money for digital goods and services taken in-app or through referral by an app to another place (such as opening a registration page in Safari) require the payment to go through Apple, and Apple gets a cut. And Spotify repeatedly tried to cheat Apple out of this agreement. And repeatedly had issues where either the app version was rejected, or a deployed app version was given a deadline before it was pulled.
It's hard to take issue with people wanting to set up their kids for success by prioritizing academics.
Expectations about Paris are created by fantasy driven marketing about foreign places by the tourism industry as well as local representatives of said countries. Note that mass media is also guilty in Japan for propagating the illusion of a perfect Paris.
Ask HN: What are your biggest pain points working with Kubernetes?
I've worked with Kubernetes at a small startup now and we've had some challenges with it. Wiring up a deployment pipeline and figuring out how to work effectively with Helm took us some time. We also had to invest a lot more than we expected in working with other developers to teach Kubernetes concepts. It really, in hindsight, was probably overkill for our use case.

What are some of the biggest challenges that you've had in working with Kubernetes? How did you solve some of them?
you have a different memory to me. I remember switching from hipchat to slack, and it was night and day, obviously better. Slack had more features, a better UX, and wasnt buggy as hell like hipchat
Japan has lots of artistic expression that doesn't degrade someone else's property. They have a strong tradition of craftsmanship, and there are handmade things all over that are just oozing with skill. Their manhole covers are even artistic.

I suppose that if you really wanted a rebellious display in public then the Japanese culture isn't for you. But if you want poetic and clever art then you just need to look.
so you can paste with the menu? Because I guess they would just catch the keyboard events?
I'd really like to go other direction, and have SSDs expose non-uniform storage.

Right now, if my filesystem dies, I have a ton of tools and manuals for recovery. This is the format is well known, and diagnostics tools are easily available.

If my SSD dies, it's just gone. In two cases I had, the drive just was not allowing any file reads at all -- I had zero chance to recover the data. The drive internals are totally opaque.

So no, I would prefer my SSDs to be super dumb -- I do not trust the manufacturers to get recovery tools right.
I'd guess that most people don't see a sentinel value to distinguish between empty and unknown as a serious problem.
Sorry about your friend. How is Metformin helpful for glioblastoma ? My sister has this. How is your friend doing? Any lessons?
WIP PRs are fine. Essentially the PR is used as a mechanism to clearly communicate an idea, rather than containing code that is intended to be merged into the codebase.

There shouldn't really be a PR review where the author is seeking input on naming/testing completeness and major design choices. Those two types of reviews are mutually exclusive.

Alternatives to WIPs include whiteboard discussions, pair programming, and written proposals.
> No they couldn't. Because those APIs would become frozen and required by nature of large software vendors deploying software that uses them. Functional compatibility of an API which was documented as not finished would have to be maintained across OS releases.

Yes, they can. There is nothing stopping Apple from marking an specific APIs as "Unstable" with the understanding they could be removed or modified at anytime.
What? Americans dump their parents in retirement homes and loads of aging Americans live in dumpy apartments and trailer parks as well. And not a day goes by without articles about the rise of social anxiety/NEETs/“incels” withdrawing from the world.

They’re not unique problems. Countries just frame other countries as having foreign problems by using different words for the same stuff.
ZFS, exFAT, and UFS are all supported on at least NT, Darwin, Linux, and I believe the major BSDs. I will happily grant that only exFAT is likely to work for embedded devices, but you do have real options.
>to a lesser extent (ironically enough) China

i heard people attribute that to Mao who explicitly encouraged the younger generation to challenge established authority (which was a way to turn and use them against the rest of the state and the Party power who became critical of Mao blaming him for the failures and disasters of the Great Leap Forward) as part of the Cultural Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Red_Guards...

"At the Red Guard rallies, Lin Biao also called for the destruction of the "Four Olds"; namely, old customs, culture, habits, and ideas.".
Only the bubbles, though. The text input field and the sidebar are standard Cocoa controls (at least that was the case when I last checked).

It's not as bad as a full web app
It's a dog!
From the GitHub issue about BMO:

The original entry didn't even fully capture the stupidity of the BMO password system (which I recognize they have now fixed).

The most egregious part was not that your password had to be only 6 characters. It was that whatever password you chose ended up getting mapped to where those characters were on a telephone keypad. So, for example if your password was passwo, you were also able to login with 727796 or rARsYo or anything else that mapped to the same characters.

I really should have switched banks when I found this out.

That's so strange (and awful). I wonder how they discovered that this mapping was being done.
Facebook’s lead EU regulator is asking questions about its latest security fail
Absolutely.

It's sort of the same as the "We don't negotiate with hostage-takers" policy. Once you negotiate, it's now a strategy known to work and you'll signal how good of a tactic it is.
Provide a tool that show's the loan repayment based on historical data e.g. a scenario.

Let me go back 12 months, pretend I took a loan of $X amount at Y date and simulate the repayment based on a customers actual historical data.
Are you asking me? I don't see your point.
I need this movie in my life!
Teaching developers who already knew linux and ssh that learning kubectl was worth the investment.
Why doesn’t anyone weep for Docker?
Why not have one round of hashing in the browser?

That way the input to your server-side hash function is fixed-length, whether the users password is 20 characters or 20 billion, and DOS attackers are only hurting their own computers.
you can't copyright an idea for an app, a name yes. you can patent something though but there are always ways around that.

I'm not agreeing with Apple, just stating an observation.
But S3 is so unified because has heavy limitations -- only basic file ops, no consistency guarantees. It actually has less capability than FAT32 in some ways (For example, no attributes, no way to say "create file but do not overwrite it")

Sure, someone can make super-limited drive which only does 3 basic ops (read, "upsert", list). Would it be useful for general purpose computing? I doubt it.
Key: backup

Do you ... backup?
people dying alone is nothing specific to Japan. This is the standard of most of the developed world. 引きこもり is also not something you face in Japan unless you look for it. You could say there is also a lot of mental health problems in other countries and this is just a different manifestation of it.
Ok I mixed up the DX and SX; at least the DX has the fp hardware. Still, many of the x87 instructions you'd want to use to implement pow() take hundreds of cycles on a 486, so I'd bet it would take tens of usec to do each pow().
Also things like "My Computer", the recycle bin, the network, phones connected via MTP, etc. It's basically something the actual file system is only a part of, and yes, some file system locations are hidden, some are merged, some are redirected, etc.
> he knew more about Windows internals than Microsoft did.

> So Microsoft acquihired Sysinternals, and his tools continue to be supported :)

That is not the reason MS hired him. He used to openly challenge and piss them off [0]. Just like what Steve Jobs did to Disney CEO at the time. It's a very slippery slope.

[0] - https://www.wired.com/2014/05/mark-russinovich/
They must be running without backups, or else they're too dumb to know that backups can replace a dead machine.

Either way, those sysadmins are worse than useless. EVERY system should be able to be up and running, back to normal service, within several hours of a complete software crash with either a complete restore from backup, or an 'assisted' system re-installation. (One where previous system config files and user's files are replaced too.)
MIT had a similar internal debate about Saudi-affiliated funding, see https://thetech.com/2019/01/14/mit-cut-ties-saudi-arabia
Black holes are the most astonishing of stellar objects. They were mathematically predicted first and then discovered, which is fascinating.
Since this is a Jeff Bezos' washingtonpost.com hit job, it's worth pointing out that Amazon Basics does the same as well,

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/number-of-amazonba...
The worst hit I think is Duet Display
> Unemployment for men is under 4% ...

Official unemployment data aren't reliable. Mainly because they ignore people who aren't actively looking for work. Typically because they've given up, or won't accept what's on offer.

Women do have high standards, according to this study. Somewhat implausibly high, I admit.
Would you like your home to be ravaged by the random graffiti that you did not ask for?
And where exactly is this benefit of the doubt coming from?

Not just you, but a lot of people ITT are saying similar things suggesting his wealth is legitimate, despite now knowing that he is a child sex trafficker. Once someone stoops that low, all bets are off. From that point forward, claiming "he got his money from a hedge fund" is the far more extraordinary claim.
An odd article. The takeaway between all the fluff is that Parisa spends 12 hours a day working for Google and half her meals are cereal?
Companies like Knotel are set to eat WeWork's lunch. I cannot fathom how WeWork's astronomical valuation is even remotely justified.

Relevant: https://stratechery.com/2019/what-is-a-tech-company/
Good point. At our company, we try to always assign two devs to more complex tasks, the actual developer and a "feature buddy". They don't actually PP the entire thing, but they discuss the strategy in pairs before starting to code and clarify question along the way in pairs. When the feature is done, the buddy will already have a very good idea about the feature and already agree with the fundamental decisions that were made along the way.
I recall seeing your project almost 2 years ago. A bit of unsolicited advice - It would really help if your Github and docs page linked to a few actual interactive examples showcasing the different chart types supported, and the general capabilities of your library. Screenshots really don't do justice to projects like dc.js and your lib that hinge on interactions between users and charts/data.

It also appears that your demo for multi-chart is:

1. Broken

2. Blocked by most browsers and requires manual override of security suggestions (probably related to https and some sort of cross-domain things going on).

I'd be curious to see any working examples like the one dc.js has on it's main doc page. Cheers
The reefs are already lost. We've already emitted enough GHG to raise temperatures sufficiently to kill most of them and there are no signs that we'll stay below 2° of warming. At 2° all coral reefs will die.
So... Apple added support for domains that don't provide them a competitive advantage well before they added support for the domains that do. Is this supposed to make it look better?
I remember this from when I was in Australia! I also remember that you couldn't type in your password, you had to use the website and click virtual keyboard keys.

I use westpac here in New Zealand and their website works really well, normal password, normal inputs, nice looking UI... but IIRC they are technically different companys.
That part you’re getting wrong is that the anti-trust scrutiny comes _just_ from being hugely successful. That wasn’t enough - it was about how Microsoft achieved that success with Windows and how they were using that success in the OS market to unfairly influence the browser market.

What I’m saying is that Microsoft didn’t get scrutiny for bundling a browser with windows (they got scrutiny for a bunch of other business practices related to that) which is the part of the story that does parallel what Apple does. Bundling useful feature in the OS, which happens to hurt competing solutions, isn’t new and isn’t a problem. The problem lies in their other business practices. Saying Microsoft didn’t make it impossible to install other browsers is wrong, because for a major participant in the market (OEMs) it was in fact impossible to install competing browsers without paying a price that made the end product not viable in the market.

90s Microsoft and today’s Apple situation don’t really parallel, but they don’t not parallel for the reasons you brought up. You’re still ultimately right, but the justification was based on a misunderstanding (or miscommunication) of the history that I think muddies the waters.

>edit: more background: just being a monopoly isn’t illegal if you get there and stay there legitimately. Anticompetitive behavior is the illegal part. https://www.classlawgroup.com/antitrust/unlawful-practices/m...
# This is for a code review which would be well after architecture and be the entirely wrong place to systematically question architecture.

I think that is part of the scrum philosophy: management can question whatever it wants and whenever it wants to; if the timeframe explodes that that is the blame of the developer.
a couple things to introspect about that:

1. how many of the things you bought on amazon were things you would have bought at the store otherwise, and how many are things you bought because it was effortless to buy?

2. how many of the things you bought did you need next day delivered? If there were delivered slowly, by a USPS or UPS/fedex driver on a regular route, that would not have been an extra car on the road.
There's been various studies saying that pair programming is not as effective as code review.

It's easy to see why. Code review you can focus on some code for awhile, pair programming you have to move on with the pace.
Off-the-shelf vs. Custom ERP – How much does custom ERP cost?
Is this your first time encountering a government saying one thing then doing another? :D
For a proper discussion I'm surprised no one has mentioned this principle from Extreme Programming possibly predates Google as a company.

https://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/practices/pracnotneed...
The horizontal scrolling makes the quoted part pretty hard to read. If it's still editable, please consider changing that to simple `> ` based quoting.

Edit: Link to the github issue comment mentioned - https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules/i...
Amiami has a pretty dumb password system. It even tells you how passwords are "6 to 12 letters and numbers" on the login page.

https://secure.amiami.com/top/member/asp/
It had been once. I laughed. But I can agree that it’s less enjoyable on residential property.
You don't think Apple does this?
I don't know of,a case where it's more efficient, but tail recursion is exactly as efficient as iteration, because they compile to the same code. No stack is used and there's no function call overhead. But you need a compiler that knows how to compile tail calls.
Congress Promised Student Borrowers a Break. Ed Dept Rejected 99% of Them