skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whenever someone raises this gripe about drones, I wonder how they feel about cars. I'm currently in my office, with the windows closed and a heater audibly running. I can hear trucks/buses and occasionally cars on a 30-50km/h minor arterial road two blocks away. I can hear every car that drives down the road a block away.

I guess that his answer would be that this nuisance is good for the economy where flying a drone for entertainment doesn't. His argument was also about them being at at least 30m from bystander, which the nuisance is a good argument for.
Well, the person might not have been the most skilled guy around, but how hard did the team worked at integrating this person?

I mean, starting with a negative reputation in a team that felt betrayed by your arrival doesn't seem to be the best condition to give the best out of yourself.
I'd agree if you were searching for a Compass app.

But the take that I got from reading the article is if you say "Podcast" in the search box, you'll see pages and pages of Apple's own apps, unrelated to podcasts, before you start seeing podcast apps.
I also think it is rather strange for many projects to continue with C, esp for large projects, where c++ offers much conveniences to the programmer. IIRC gcc only recently started allowing c++ in it's source, and I wonder if emacs allows it still in it's source.
I feel like you list conflicting reasons. I imagine as in most situations there is more than one root cause and this is a multi-factor problem.

Economic inequality may be one of the contributing economic factors.

Regarding your statement "Britain is as much to blame for this situation, they never had intention to grant autonomy". This statement does not touch on economic inequality but autonomy of the state. From what I can tell Hong Kong diverged from China on a cultural level where by many would idenify as being from Hong Kong over China which has a more homogeneous culture. You go on to say "they were very clever, as they did in every colony, to let the subsequent administration take the blame" which makes it sound as if a key objective of the transistion was to ensure subsequent administrations were to blame which is far fetched. This statement is followed by: "But they are the one to blame" where you put 100% of the blame on Britain.
I never forget the IE war, when everybody complain about the preinstalled browser. And that time they called "monopolistic practices". At apple, they even don't know what these words mean... /s
Smartphone Nonusers: Associated Sociodemographic and Health Variables
I love fake-Agile, it's such a hilarious concept.
You're joking, right?

Even if we were talking about close tailgating, that in no way requires the kind of instantaneous reaction required by the sorts of discourteous/dangerous moves that make the other guymgal brake. This is in fact the exact problem - oblivious idiots will happily sit in the passing lanes for many miles creating congestion and hazards. In many parts of of the EU, this will at least earn them a ticket, but in the US, it's just ordinary to spread out & 'drive' in an oblivious state...
Forgive my ignorance, but how can C++ programs be easily as high level as Haskell, which is declarative, garbage collected and curried by default? Does C++ even have algebraic data types, not to mention more advanced stuff like GADTs etc. that are incorporated in Haskell?

I haven't been able to get exposure to a language that is comparable in abstraction power with Haskell, except for DSLs.
1) I would assume so
2) I have no idea what to say about this. The punishment should have been served by the legal system which as we all know failed the first time around. The forced suicide as you call it is a terrible outcome, lots of important people escaped and sighed relief. We don't know what Epstein would have divulged and now we will never know that.
> “do what you want, as long as k8s is up, what you run in your pods is your problem, not ours”

Until somebody cyberattacks those pods and steals all personal data of your users because the devs didn't bother to apply security patches. But hey, it's not your problem. You are not responsible for the pods. k8s is still up.
Excel spreadsheets, which contain an astonishing amount of business logic, tend to be backwards-compatible far longer than the OSes that Excel itself runs on.

Food for thought, anyway.
"Understand the business aspect of your work, and what makes money. Eventually, only that matters"

from link #3 thats coded has high effort, shouldn't that really be a medium or even low? It should be easy to figure out how projects impact the bottom line at the senior level. In fact, i would argue a senior engineer ought to be looking at some monthly sales figures every so often.
Whatever the cause, it has to be something extremely subtle and very unlikely to occur. We know that from the simple numbers. Tens of millions of people vaping on an hourly basis for years amounting to ~500 cases means that whatever is occurring is a freak occurrence and not some direct consequence that has a high likelihood of occurring in typical people.
I think your point about competency is the best point.

Recently though, I have been running into more and more projects that don't specify the version and are built using Python 3. I also used your rule of thumb, so seeing this was kind of surprising. Wonder if it's just the mentality shift that Python3 == Default?
The "Pages not preloaded" page notes that it excludes addresses with query strings just in case they run some action that you might not want to trigger on hover. You can override the default behavior if you know it's not an issue.

I'm reminded of a post from a few years ago where someone's website had a table of items with [delete] links and would take database actions based on GET requests to those URLs. Who cares? It looks the same to a human browsing it.

And then it got crawled by a search engine which followed all the links to see where they went.

But if you're not doing anything unusual like that, I don't see how prefetching HTML would cause any problems.
You jest but a dev chucking an insecurable thing over the fence to ops is very common. I will bet that’s how there are so many open MongoDB’s out there.
WSJ decries “The Great Student-Loan Scam”: But the flimflam is even worse
The chain is likely Ume no hana (https://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=TAns&from=&to=en&a=http...).
Breach of contract is not illegal. It's a tort, and you might be able to seek recompense through the courts, but I don't know how they would determine damages.
What can you use the number of code points in a string for? I can't think of a single use case where that is actually useful.

Length of a string in bytes is useful, though most code shouldn't need to operate at that level of abstraction.

Length of a string in glyphs is useful if you are formatting something to a fixed-width display, though that is kind of a niche use-case.

Length of a string when rendered is frequently useful, though impossible to calculate from just the string's contents.

Length of a string in code points can't be used correctly for anything.
ProtonMail does not support Yubikeys. I would like to ask all of HN to think seriously about this and what this means. ProtonMail does many things exactly right. This 1 oversight suggests something very very scary going on at the organization.

HN does not allow you to delete comments. I would ask that if you think that not having Yubikeys does not require a significant and immediate answer from the ProtonMail team, to sign your name (I will) at the bottom of your response. If you can’t do that, perhaps provide a burner email address.

Dan Ehrlich

dan@ehrlichserver.com

CISSP, CCSP, CISM

EDIT: spacing between my signature, change of comment to commentS
Any engineering books on control theory and signal processing is systems theory using mathematics such as linear algebra, differential equations, etc. The reason why books like Meadow’s are so light on the math is that there is already a large body of works that use the mathematics. Books light on the math are meant to accessibly extend the philosophy to those who may feel they do not have the proper math background.

“Modern Control Theory” by Katsuhiko Ogata applies the theory to thermal systems, fluid systems, mechanical, electrical, etc.

“Discrete-Time Signal Processing” by Alan V. Oppenheim is a great book on its subject.

Both are related to analytical approaches to systems thinking.
Most employees (at least in the US) aren't given a contract, they're given an offer of employment. This provides no guarantees as to what work you'll do, or the conditions you'll do it in, and both can change at any time.
Not just RedHat - Google and Amazon have LTS that they're providing that will most likely include some flavor of 2.7.

Google has flat-out stated that they will continue to support 2.7 in App Engine for an undefined period of time.

Amazon has inferred through their Amazon Linux 2 LTS support page that Python 2.7 is included in that support for 3 more years.
is code exfiltration really the threat model though?
I appreciate the response, but I don't think you really took the time to investigate and cherry-picked a single quote to prove your point. The source you listed is actually disproving your premise.

> ... the risk of police victimization, police homicides and assaults were found to be very infrequent occurrences during traffic encounters. The results of this study cast doubt on the Court’s assumption of danger during the routine police–citizen traffic encounter.

> Despite anecdotal accounts that show particular instances of danger confronted by law enforcement officers, there are few research findings or statistics to support the assumption of police dangerousness during traffic encounters.

> Most, if not all of the assertions that routine traffic stops are dangerous rely on the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI)’s data on police homicide and assault victimization during traffic encounters. All of these assertions share one crippling methodological flaw. They fail to appropriately account for the frequency of the police activity in the risk calculation

So yes, there are going to be a number of fatalities during traffic stops, but there are also a very large number of total traffic stops. Police work is inherently dangerous, and if you're stopping a large number of people you're going to run into dangerous people with a much higher chance of a fatality.

To assert that the average person be fearful of a traffic stop because some people were killed is just completely false. Police work is dangerous, I imagine they go into any situation with the assumption the person is dangerous.
Dammit, I skipped the "at least" part... I read "during the last 100 years".
Would this apply to vaping 'dry herb'? Or is it specific to oil?
I see it differently. Way back when Microsoft shipped Internet Explorer with Windows it ruined companies. We see companies being arbitrarily ruined by Apple's actions every month. This platform abuse triggered massive antitrust actions in the US and EU that Microsoft lost quite spectacularly, costing them a fortune and forcing many changes to their software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars
> Read the commit history

You're assuming there's always 'commit history' to review :)

I completely agree you need to do investigation, and document what you can about the system. Some of that documentation will take the form of tests. Without a doubt.

The 'assumption' I refer to is either clients or other devs assuming something is correct. I've lost track of the number of times I've heard "it was working fine until 2 days ago", when, in fact, it was never actually working, just not throwing a visible error until 2 days ago.

I will look at the fence - have seen reference to it before.

"until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood." - you may also need to realize the original rationale may never quite be understood. I've hit this a few times, and we've ended up just scrapping a particular set of functionality because no one could actually tell why it was there any more - everyone involved who may have used it or wanted/needed it is gone, and it's useless (or is now a blocker for other progress).
I would love to know more, anything specific that has changed which you think will render some of this old text obsolete?
Spotify was the 2nd result under Apple Music when I searched myself, though I have both installed so it probably came down to that
I heard several people saying that 3.6 was the first Py3 worth transitioning to. Largely for async (I think async/await came to live then). There is this take on performance: https://hackernoon.com/which-is-the-fastest-version-of-pytho...
In a democracy you have recourse when abused by the police. In a dictatorship, police is just a tool of the ruler to control the population.
Ah, I see the confusion. In this case, "easily" is relative. The assertion "you could easily write Python 3 compatible code" was in response to the (implied?) assertion "you can't do anything to migrate unless your dependencies are migrated". Perhaps "simply" would have been a better word choice than "easily". To your point, writing 2-3 compatible code has a real cost, but to the GP's point, it's the obvious solution to the "can't do anything until deps are migrated" problem.
> What if I say that Apple has 100% monopoly on the iOS?

That'd be a silly argument. By that logic, Ford has a 100% monopoly on F-150s.

> why not 50% + 1

Because the "mono" in monopoly means "one", not "two".

You can accurately say that Apple and Google enjoy an oligopoly in the mobile operating system market. You cannot reasonably say either one holds a monopoly.
Seeing past the hype: How to think about 'AI'
Is there a contact e-mail I can reach you at regarding any of those tools?
You are using your intuition of the past instead of any actual knowledge of such to formulate views and values. Yes, the Mongol empire was extremely tolerant of cultures by any interpretation of the word. For instance at the time religion was a huge deal and while himself a shamanist, he exempted all religious leaders (of any sort) from taxation and public service requirements. He also built a wide array of houses of worship for most of every major religion. With religions that proved troublesome to integrate, such as Islam, the Mongol leaders would themselves genuinely convert to the religion to try to help maintain better ties and relations. In places were there was religious persecution, Genghis Khan would happily depose leaders (including other Mongols) to ensure freedom under his empire.

Outside of religion they also even allowed local leaders to remain and organize their subjects as they saw fit (subject to things such as guarantees of religious freedom) including even maintaining their own militaries. The only requirement was a 10% tax to the Mongol empire.

They way he spread his genes was pretty much as the way we do today. The only difference is that he had hundreds of wives. Take somebody with several times the wealth of Jeff Bezos today and make him the absolute ruler of the USA, EU, and China. And now he imagine he asks, genuinely asking - not an offer one cannot refuse, practically any woman on this Earth to be one of his wives. Very few would say 'nah, I'm holding out for somebody better.'
Maybe you missed this line: old Rodolf, usually so benign, standing upright to hurl a four-pound rock at Godi's prostrate body
They manage merging though, so it has to be a fork.
The reason the market is so hot is precisely because so many shops are like this. If they were better managed then they could get away with fewer technical resources.
> Because unless you are some sort of celebrity engineer, "interview is a conversation between both parties" is nonsense.

I disagree. Unless the candidate desperately needs this job, he/she can walk away. The candidate is free to consider "company won't bother to answer my questions at the point when they have most reason to be nice to me" as a bad signal.

> I am specially referring to companies that don't really have to care about your feelings towards their interviews

"This company doesn't have to care about my feelings because they are huge and have lots of applicants and a giant incessant interview machine chugging through them efficiently" is certainly something I'd consider in whether I want to work for them, because it tells me I'd be a cog in a machine. (And if enough people consider that, perhaps they will have to care.)

To the parent question: I wouldn't ask a whiteboard question exactly, but I would certainly ask some questions about existing architecture and rationale so I have an idea what I may be working on.
I don't think even this is true. The nicotine isn't really what's bad for you, it's the smoke and 600+ carcinogens in cigarette smoke.

I'd imagine it'd be safer to vape 10x than smoke 1x.
>It doesn’t matter how well you understand Unicode, it is impossible to compute “the length of a string” because there is no single metric that means that.

That's already covered in my comment: ("[the problem] stems from there being multiple, similar, metrics one wants").

Whether we call all of them length or a specialized name is not the real problem.

The real problem is you need to know what you want of each, and some of them (e.g. regarding normalization, decomposition, and so on) can be hard to grasp.

In 99% of cases people either want to know "how many bytes", or "how many discreet character glyphs of final output" (even if they have combining diacritics etc).
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On the other hand, Apple products are (or were) frequently marketed towards the tech illiterate ("it just works") and so it's possible grandma accidentally deleted the calendar, tried to re-download via the App Store, downloaded the wrong one, etc.
I mean, they definitely are doing that:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/losing_weight/eating_habit...

But that kind of content very definitely grabs fewer headlines.
The report he cited proved his point.

Fog machines cause noticeable effects on breathing at significantly lower exposure levels and concentrations than vaping. IOW, it provides a lower bound for the purported safety of vaping.
>> Don't be the chump that's at Goldman Sachs acting as a code monkey for the traders.

> I don't think the GP intended to call engineers at those kinds of companies lesser.

Yes, they did - bit difficult to argue good faith when you are calling people chumps.
iOS revenue is 2x larger than android. There might be more cheap android phones out there but Apple has the majority of high income individuals.
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Most Americans see catastrophic weather events worsening
> What about -3 * -2?

My son actually asked me that a while back (or rather, “why does a negative times a negative make a positive?”), and I honestly didn’t have a very satisfying answer. The best I could come up with was to go back to the definition of multiplication as repeated addition and then start with multiplying/repeated-adding a negative number by a positive number: that would work backward on the number line and give you a negative number. Then, since multiplication is commutative, a positive number multiplied by a negative number must behave the same way: multiplying a positive by a negative causes the negative to move backwards. So, if multiplying a positive by a negative moves it the “other way”, multiplying a negative by a negative must move the first number to the right.

It works, but it’s not as intuitive as I would have liked - I did better with why negative exponents are 1/x^n and why the angles in a triangle add up to 90 degrees.
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I love the man replacement packages like tldr, bro, etc. for exactly these kinds of simple, yet easy to forget incantations.
Are you working on my project?

I'm trying to get out, but not having much luck. I wonder if recruiters are turned off by the fact that I'm looking for another job again after just a few months.
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You could also recognize those protections were put in for a reason and thus support the economies of countries willing to put up with the economical handicap of enacting them in order to better the overall lives of its people.
It is darkly humorous that the US Government is freaking out over five vaping deaths, but the weekly shooting sprees have led to zero new gun restrictions at the national level.
I think this may be a better way to phrase what I was thinking. It doesn't have to be directly related to revenue. The revenue relation just makes it easier to be counted as core to the business model. I think it's important to say business model too. IT is core to essentially every business now, but when IT is core to the how the company fundamentally positions itself in a market it really changes things.

Though in the context of this thread, I don't know a good question to ask in an interview to tease out that information when it's not already clear. If you simply ask "is IT/engineering considered to be vital to the business model or core to company success", everyone will answer yes regardless of how the IT/engineering is actually viewed.
Demographic diversity, diversity of backgrounds, diversity of experience. Monocultures are actively destructive of successful outcomes, and lead to miserable working environments. The question is asked open-ended in that fashion because I want to discover what a potential employer thinks is important.
I came here to say basically this. I've worked at enough companies to know that their ideas of what their values are may not be accurate.

Instead of asking about values, ask about behavior. No one is going to say no to "Do you value code quality?" Aking what they've done (and sacrificed) to support code quality will give you a better idea of what their relative values are.

Asking about their tech ladder will get you an HR answer. Asking "Who was the last person promoted to X? When?" will give you a better answer. And if they can't remember the last time, that's an answer in itself.
> "in May 2018"

If you search for podcast now you see an ad, then apple podcasts, then a story about creating podcasts, then apps. In my case I have Spotify on 3rd place after 2 popular local radio apps. The article conveniently omits a history chart for 'podcast' search to push their agenda.
Can you elaborate why not supporting Yubikeys (yet) "suggests something very very scary going on at the organization"?
Interesting: I feel precisely the opposite: reading text is incredibly efficient and having to mess around to uncover the content is distracting and annoying.

I'm not trying to say "you're right, I'm wrong", or the opposite: different strokes and all that. I found your excitement about the design quite interesting.
Guessing it's https://shwep.net/
So better is to use community fork of Python 2 with new features which are not compatible with Python 2 nor Python 3. Additionally most of public libraries switched to Python 3 and Python 2 will be not supported (and probably will not be compatible with this fork). What are guarantee that this run time will fix issues, security bugs or it will not lose support after a day?
We're talking about harnessing wind power. There is no "10x more efficient".
React Native vs. Flutter vs. Android vs. iOS, on Stack Overflow
It wouldn't be a big deal if Apple allowed you to install apps from outside the App Store, like they do with MacOS programs.