skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree. This is a very professional example of handling a serious security incident. CircleCI immediately took action and notified all affected accounts afterwards and as with this post, they did a detailed FAQ-style breakdown of what happened and how they will stop another attack.

> Security is taken very seriously here at CircleCI.

Compared with the other security handlings i've seen, this statement sounds genuine.
There is no alternative, other than not voting. The political parties in the USA are not the issue, since they are both playing for the same team (big banks and corporations). It is unfathomable to many that Obama (either through naivety or deliberate will) let Wall St off the hook. That was a moment that defined the decade.

The system is corrupt because the checks and balances that used to be there were dismantled (or slowly erroded in some cases).

The non-stop materialism-consumerism and lust for money that defined USA after WW2 (especially in the 80s-90s) can be seen as a way to control-appease (or distract) the population at large so that the power players could continue their orgy uninterrupted. But even consumerism and cheap entertainment is now coming apart. You can see it everywhere around you. The masses are reaching a boiling point and fireworks are to be expected.
Sure, but 401(k)s have nicely~ distributed investment planning across the lowest common denominator worst case on both sides: banks with too much vested interest in cumulative commissions and fees on one side, investors with effectively zero knowledge and a large number of competing (mis)information sources with arguably little opportunity to discern proper advice versus zeitgeist and marketing.
I am using "democracy" as a synonym for "liberal democracy."

If you tell me about a country that:

- Has a beautiful founding document that ensures what we'd recognize as basic rights of all citizens

- Has a well-designed federal system that empowers individuals and lower-level governments at the expense of the federal,

- Has hundreds of thousands of enslaved people who form the foundation of their economy and are indeed bred into captivity,

I would never, ever call that a democracy. The first two don't matter when the third is true, to me. If you would, that's fine; you wouldn't be objectively wrong.
> "stressed how the project scope wasn’t met as effectively as he would’ve wanted"

The reasons don't seem to be clearly stated, but I could see the very active social life described in the article affecting the quantity (not quality) relative to other interns. The paraphrasing of her manager seems to lead in that direction.
Inserting BT toxins into plants makes them insecticidal. Organic farmers use BT bacterial topically, but the BT toxin rinses off. Nobody has tested dietary BT toxin. There is no reason to assume systemic BT toxin is safe.

The same applies to numerous other compounds. Each needs to be tested individually. Safety of one tells you nothing about others.

Breeding varieties of edible plants gives you small variations on what they both had.

Most GMOs are much worse. Tolerance of Roundup exposes us to large amounts of Roundup, lately discovered carcinogenic. Nowadays most oats and chickpeas are coated with Roundup, because they are sprayed before harvest to speed drying. Not GMOs, but a problem.
Integers are object pointers, too. CPython just so happens to preallocate a range of small integers[0].

[0]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/longob...
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> It is certainly okay when the rates at which these things happen is lower than the rates at which non-self driving cars have accidents.

Eh, Tesla likes to point to this statistic every time the safety of Autopilot comes into question, but it is an apples-to-oranges comparison because AP is only used on highways where traffic incidents are already far less common per mile driven.

Detailed data is hard to come by, but more nuanced studies have been far from conclusive in favor of the "Autopilot is safer than human drivers" thesis.
Every car has a measure of "autopilot" called "wheel alignment".

The car was built before Alta Vista was eaten by Google, yet goes dead straight on the freeway while you rummage through the glove compartment for your second favorite CD.

Maybe cars should have wacky alignment that pulls randomly left and right; that would teach drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and pay attention at all times.
... and that movement was integrated into the establishment, first through Rome, then European and American imperialism, but the establishment continues to this day to be just as venal and corrupt as ever.
I don't know much about Big Law, but I would be shocked if they don't have the same sort of thing. Hundreds of entry level folks with high turnover with a simple metric (billable hours) to track their progress; it sounds ripe for some equivalent to Agile.
But the teens and twenties of the '60s & '70s are now in their 50s to 70s. Maybe they have some clout?

You can probably name some "capitalist hippies" with money and influence.
Survivor bias
Unfortunately a lot of managers tend to give continuous positive feedback until the big review, regardless of actual performance. I am not sure why they do this. It is a misunderstanding of the purpose of feedback in the first place.
Thanks Benjie, would love to connect with you at GraphQL Summit in San Francisco if you are attending in October. Let me know!
This is an incredibly bad idea. What countries is he flying to? In much of Asia a pound of dope would suffice for the death penalty.
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This one time I go stopped at a fruit fly control point on the border between South Australia and Victoria, near Bordertown.

The person staffing the control point indicated with hand signals for me to stop on the highway in the lane I was in.

So I slowed down to walking speed and pulled off the highway into the car park next to the office.

The agent then lectured me about not following instructions and that she could fine me for disobeying.

I then calmly explained to the agent the reason I didn't stop in the lane on the highway: drivers of cars and heavy vehicles are known to have a terrible habit of not seeing other vehicles stopped on the road.
I understand where you are coming from, and I have been on the receiving end of very vague rejections as well (or being straight up ghosted of course).

However, I don't think it's helpful to say "your work wasn't good". My natural inclination after hearing that is to say "ok, can you provide an example?"

If they even have an example, you then jump into an analysis. They say you did x wrong, and you attempt to explain how x was influenced by y, or that actually you did x correctly just slowly and using a different methodology but ultimately the same result is achieved.

I don't think I've ever met a corporate middle manager who has said "you know what, you're totally right. I'm going to cancel the firing process right now!"
If 1% of the money in index funds exited the market in any form (not just index fund withdrawals), it's going to be a bad day any way you look at it.
With petrol’s energy density, why not make gas powered drones? Gas engine → generator → small battery (backup power) → electric motors. This is what manned drones (still in development) do.
Dollar cost average purchases of index funds, and slowly draw down your shares in retirement. Maybe rebalance every year or so as you get older. In other words, don't panic or try to time the market. Those are purely speculative and usually pro-cyclic movements that just introduce noise into price discovery. After all, when there's a market crash, did millions of machines in factories fall apart, or millions of workers in offices forget how to do their jobs? It's just a psychological overreaction.

As to institutionalizing this stability, it would be nice if index funds offered fund choices that prohibited selling or trading for one, two, three decades. Since you as the investor would be adding information to the market ("I'm not an index fund band-wagoner, I understand buy-and-hold and I will practice what I preach") you would be rewarded with better returns in exchange for signaling your intentions and acting as a cushion when everyone else is panicking.
I once saw research that said English speakers utter about 4 words per second. Shannon once empirically determined each English word carried about 6 bits of information. For what it's worth.
You don’t need to assume. With any medical procedure, there is risk involved. Including routine vaccination. That’s why there is a dedicated program to both report and compensate people who suffer adverse reactions from vaccines. See https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
Yep, this is totally implementation-defined behavior, so it's actually kind of harmful to think that you should "know some internal designs" here.
So the market is virtuous when it charges usurious prices for medicine because people are getting something they value more (their lives) in exchange for something they value less (literally anything else)?
Thanks Lisa. Patience is a virtue! I have never had a lot of it but with a self-service product, We are competing against the entire Internet and none of us have the time to fiddle with half baked products.
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Focus on internships, for the sake of getting a job it helps more than coding competition/side project
Look into the argument between Robert Nozick and Jeremy Waldron over historical justice.

Waldron tries to solve the problem that you and your parent comment are laying out by changing the basis of property rights from the Lockean idea (we mix our labour with something to make it our property) to a new idea, that property is based on the organisation of a person's life around a particular object. Intuitively, this gives credence to the idea that the nice fountain pen I found on the ground four years ago is now nearly totally mine, and that the person who lost it has much less claim over it, particularly if they only bought it a few months before losing it.

It also makes sense of our intuition that I ought to give it back if it has been in their family for three generations. Four years of my life organised around the thing does not stand up to his deeper attachment and ownership of the object.

Obviously, there are traps inherent to the subjectivity of these judgements here, but it does provide a nice philosophical answer to the historical issues.

Sites that continue to be sacred probably ought to be handed back because they continue to play a central role in the lives of indiginous people. But the CBD of Sydney, for instance, has a far stronger claim by those who own the land and have built several hundred thousand lives around the property. Generic indiginous claims to the land there don't hold water any more.
Great question. 8base's developer experience is different than Hasura's, including that we provision infrastructure so that devs aren't required to have AWS/Heroku/other skills nor pay for that separately. Ease of use is a big thing. There's significant differences in the GraphQL engine itself, role-based-security, integrations of external systems and more. Our roadmaps will diverge dramatically in the next 12 months as 8base rolls out more and more application infrastructure services.

Another way to put it is that Hasura is mostly about enabling GraphQL on Postgres; 8base is the backend for powerful, enterprise-grade (when necessary) software. GraphQL is an essential design detail for us but not the business or product itself.

Regarding your comment about freemium; I've seen many backend products falter, pivot, and shut down from having unsustainable business models. We are offering a robust plan for $8 / month to start. If developers agree with us that their DX is better, then $8 shouldn't be an issue as their time is more costly. But we appreciate what you are saying and are watching this closely.
Great idea if you have robust controls! Terrible idea if you don't, because a crash can handily result in a fire or an explosion.
So are you saying Autopilot does or doesn’t allow you to disengage?

Because you said it didn’t then argued it did...
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If you want to prescriptivize me that's your option, but you know what I meant.
> So much so that it’s law in Canada a provider can’t lock in your number and must let you take it with you to another provider.

Same in Germany.
Practically speaking this is a non-issue, since its not 1996 anymore. You install the JRE / JDK into your VM or container image. And you basically never think about it until you need to do an upgrade...
> There's virtually no way of being both attentive and passive for long periods of time.

How do aircraft pilots manage it?
For me, when I'm reading something dense, my WPM fluctuates. It could be 300WPM in the easy areas, and down to 30WPM in the conceptually challenging areas.
I think hydration as a phrase/concept has been around in the OOP world for a while, in the context of ORMs. At least I remember it as far back as 2011-ish. Its not an Uber-ism
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Switched to the Japanese page just for fun, to see what this is called.

Sigh, yet another homonym: 幻日(genjitsu).

If you try say this in Japan, nobody will know what you're talking about because "genjitsu" (現実) is an extremely common word that means "reality".
I believe her manager's comments came after she received the news, and she was requesting a deeper explanation. At that point sugar coating is less necessary, if they are asking for genuine feedback you should give it to them.

The way she handles it is positive, sounds like she's got a bright future.
A useful read that provides a counter view to Mr.Burry's:

From The Economist.

(1) http://archive.is/2oco0

and

(2) https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/07/05/t... (Unable to archive this)

and

(3) https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/02/08/p... (Critical piece to note here is about rebalancing. To quote "Someone who bought all listed American stocks in 1986 and did nothing would by now own less than half the market.")
>One thing that link throws around is the word "illegal". There are customs and treaties, but there is not a world government to enforce the rule of law for these treaties

The inability to enforce a law does not make a crime legal. The occupied territories are a violation of international law, even if they are never punished for them.
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In my experience, it is a function of strong preparation from both a product and pitch perspective. Technical founders tend to focus on the deficiencies in their product rather than the strengths when selling. It may make them feel embarrassed and lack confidence. the best medicine is to do as much as you can to bolster the product so you are confident it is valuable and then make the pitch fit your audience and your personality. And most importantly, put yourself in the sales situation over and over again and when someone says "no," you say "next" and move on to the next deal not reading into the rejection.
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For me, it’s the FAA notification requirements that seem daunting. It looks like the situation may be better than it used to be, but it’s still confusing at a glance.
Unless my math is wrong, that's about 70 people. They all probably already know each other.
I agree that we're all kind of watching ourselves die a slow death, but at least they're putting their money where their mouth is. What do you think a reasonable thing for them to do is? Even if yc divested from every company they have a stake in and donated it to climate efforts, would that make a dent?
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Drones are huge in my department at school for collecting data with lidars and multispectral cameras. New drone techs for VC firms to invest in are going to need better technology, but a huge rollout of drones being used by everyday companies to do this is still in it's infancy. It's a good time to be someone graduating with experience with UAVs.
As I'd mentioned above: I'm still formulating this, so my arguments and evidence aren't as cogent as I'd like them to be.

A significant factor is the writings of Joanne Yates and James Beniger (independent books), both looking at the development and evolution of business writing and communications from the 17th century onward (Beniger goes back further, Yates largely looks at the late 19th century onward, principally via DuPont). The nuggets of the idea formed reading those.

The reasons I feel the tendency may be generalisable is that the trend appears to be independent from any given technology, far more dependent on the factors of scale (amount of comms) and rates (one-way and round-trip information), and how systems respond given informational, control, and feedback cycles matching these descriptions. That is: it's a fundamental cybernetics / systems effect, not a response to any specific technology.

Keep in mind that "oh, I can trust people far more who I can stay in touch with by mail / phone / email / chat / SMS / voice chat / Skype ..." is actually a form of the argument I'm making. Yes, if you can rely on technology then those you can keep tabs on are more trustworthy. But that gain is relative to those whom you cannot, which is to say baseline trust is lower.

Maybe.

Then there's the problem that technically mediated information is itself no longer trustworthy. Analogue transmission and recording formats (photos, phonographs, film, phones) were fairly trustable in that they presented analogous representations of a ground truth (subject to framing, editing, selection, editing, and other effects). Computers are enabling fabrication of perceptually realistic media and signals, close to or at realtime in cases, to the extent that we cannot trust records or transmissions. The fact that information can be tuned to us (whether we want it to be or not) makes it inherently untrustworthy. Reality, as a rule, doesn't bias itself systematically to our preferences or weaknesses. Digital media does.

Media intermediates. Screens are projections, of our biases, the sender's biases, and the system / intermediaries' biases.
get together with people who have the same problem you have. More and more there are groups of founders in different places around the world that not only support each other emotionally but also with best practices.
I understand that it is hard to digest criticism. Have a good day.
I think React gives you more specially-crafted tools than you suggest and Svelte gives you fewer than you suggest. Even in this case, bind:group is just a shortcut -- Svelte also provides the tools to "do it yourself" if you need that ability in some special case (see https://svelte.dev/repl/3cffb15ef71f43b08872f72c527089a2?ver...).
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That's an appeal to authority if I ever saw one. He may be qualified to talk about it, but he certainly isn't showing that here. The parent comment shows what we're taking issue with.
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I stopped using any kind of social media five or so years ago, and I've never looked back. I have a bare bones profile with no personally identifiable information on one particular social network so I can keep in touch with a few people who are interstate, but I never browse the public site. My fears that I would lose touch with people close to me were unfounded. It may be a platitude to say that the people who don't make the extra effort to contact you aren't your real friends, but it is true. I lost touch with many people, but not with anyone who mattered to me. My real friendships all endured.
The impetus for my exodus from social media was the realisation that my online activities weren't a reflection of my real life persona, but was directly affecting it. I realised that by using these mediums in the manner that was intended I ( and so many others ) was beginning to engage in what I would call dysfunctional, histrionic behaviour. I came to the realisation that the person that I want to be does not do this kind of thing, and I was completely right.

Not only do I disavow Facebook on moral grounds for the political implications of their overreach, but I think that it is a product engineered to prey on human insecurity and profit by perpetuating dysfunctional, harmful behaviour.
True, but spasmodic dysphonia doesn't cause slow speech [1]. It's the source of other speech issues she's worked hard to over come.

Her pattern of speech is in general among the slowest I've ever heard -- sometimes approaching single digit words per minute. She's not always so slow, there's interstitials and other moments when her speaking is just kind of slow not unbearable.

Despite my personal feelings, I think her pace of speaking is part of what her appeal was. After being assaulted by other media all day, her show can also be a very relaxing listen and was nearly always a very intelligent conversation.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqzfsKMaLqk
Mm.Hmm... Not sure the researchers have yet encountered the Deep South (US). I estimate approximately 17 bits of information in "Mm.hmm..." based on the 128K possible meanings. It takes about 5-10 seconds for proper gestation, when uttered expertly during the course of a lively conversation.

So more like approximately 1.7 to 3.4 bits/s.