skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably far more common than we'd like to admit.

I've certainly worked in places where they'd rather I didn't get involved in the hiring process. These kind of places often heavily relied on external recruitment, and would rather that I spend my time working on projects than potentially rejecting candidates that could do the job, but weren't up to my standard.

These aren't non-tech companies either - these are companies that deal in/sell tech as a project and/or service. Even in companies that live and die by their development team, non-technical management can run the show and dictate hiring.
haha look at Ted Cruz ;) !! though perhaps Senate isn't a big enough body I can find examples in the House too

yeah no one polls as bad as Congress, but I don't want some 'randomly' chosen Freshman as Speaker.

I've found that Reps that have actually competitive races are by far the most responsive by necessity to their District and I think that's a better 'fix' than this proposal.
You mean, Kubernetes is the COBOL of 2050?
The Wind in the Willows

I thought it'd be a shitty kids story but I found it quite touching. A buddy novel.
See https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/e-cigarettes which cites

> Public Health England's 2015 independent evidence review found that, based on the available evidence, vaping is around 95% less harmful than smoking. The Royal College of Physicians came to a similar conclusion in its 2016 report 'Nicotine without smoke: tobacco harm reduction'.
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> there are still new 'exciting' things happening in the COBOL space.

Out of interest, does anyone know if new COBOL specs add any major language features or are they just low-profile security fixes and things.
This is true for Go as well.

GAE has been a favorite of mine for years, but now they seem hellbent on ruining it, and I don't understand why ='(

(On the plus side, other things are improving and Run looks good)
One thing I'd wonder about is if this might reduce the number of people using it for cessation. One extra hurdle, especially seeing a person in such a formal setting, might be enough for some people.
Dan does quite a good job really. I think you are imagining the extremist agenda stuff.
I'm using K8S (with rancher's k3s) at home too ! My main reason is portability. When I need to unplug one of the Raspberries or move all services to somewhere else, I only need to change the storage layer.
I love this book too. Funnily enough, I also picked up the French version, and forced myself to read it despite not knowing French (but my native language is Spanish, so being familiar with the story, I could follow relatively well).

Something that really stood out for me was the description of the finances of the characters. It's like back then everyone understood that the goal was to live off investments, and that working for a living was an unfortunate, hopefully temporary condition. Seems like nowadays it's such a central part of everyone's default life philosophy (at least that of mere plebs like me) that few people question it.

Out of curiosity, did you watch the 2002 movie? If so, what did you think? That's how I discovered the story in the first place.
If you are an existing smoker and if your device and liquid are from a reputable supplier, absolutely yes.

The problem is that a lot of the industry is not reputable and not well controlled. This means that you can get liquids that contain all sorts of things and devices that heat in an uncontrolled way. Even the perfect liquid if overheated (as it is in many large devices) produces aldehydes. As you might expect, breathing formaldehyde is bad.

The industry also seems to be taking the opportunity to up the nicotine numbers, so if your intention is to give up that's not helping.
You sound extremely biased.
Kubernetes is our one shot at having the universal vendor-neutral cluster interface. The fact that it's time consuming to do simple things directly against it doesn't surprise me in the same way I'm not surprised that writing todo app directly against POSIX abstraction would be time consuming. It's a great way to learn how these interfaces work though.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, my favorite book of all time.

I loved the characters, how they evolved and their relations with them. A weak character will through years become successful while another character they admired will fail miserably.
>Right. What happens when Let's Encrypt is the only CA and they decide that they don't like you for some reason?

Or, more importantly, what happens when the US government decides you're too brown or Jewish and decides to sanction you?

Let's Encrypt has to follow US sanctions, so no more certs for you!
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I thought GKE the control nodes are free but but on EKS you pay heaps for them.
Whatever cools off the oil the quickest will work the best.
popcount reminds me of my first Map-Reduce program. It seems that I "reduced" by popcounting.
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In 2014, things were not quite ready so they extended it 6 more years. If you were upset by this you really need to get out of software development.
We are volunteers who make and take care of a Python2 fork with backwards-compatible Python3 features. That means we will keep on improving it without breaking your code base or forcing you to hire the language creator and spend more than 3 years porting your code to Python3, with no actual business benefits.

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/
Yes, and that’s precisely what makes the nihilist position so silly. (I’m sure the author wouldn’t describe himself as a nihilist, but if the position presented in his essay isn’t nihilism, then what—other than a waste of the reader’s time—can we call it?)
I would be skeptical about attributing too much to a newspaper report about an unpublished conference presentation, particularly as the reported increase is only 2 years (with no quoted uncertainties).

From this review article about post-Roman Britain:
(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1478-0542...)

"There is just no alternative to the conclusion that urban life ceased in most places by the mid‐fifth century, doomed by the virtual cessation of market activity, a climatic downturn which arguably destroyed the capacity of agriculture to deliver a reliable surplus, the collapse of state funding of officialdom and the soldiery, and the impact on trade of an era of barbarian raiding and internecine warfare."

Of course, since historically urban life expectancy has tended to be less than small-town and rural life expectancy, it's even possible that the de-urbanization of Britain did lead to a slight increase in life expectancy.
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Hi, I just discovered this yesterday and wanted to say thank you! It's exactly what I was looking for.

I'd like to concur with the other commenters here: it would be great to have some more information about the architectural choices (especially the database... and how to backup or connect this with other data sources?), as well as who's behind the project & its roadmap.
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I'm not trying to sound accusatory, I'm just interested. Aren't you interested in choosing the people the people you're going to have to work with every day? Are managers doing interviews where they're asking technical questions?
I wouldn't be so keen. The local OSM mapper communities often find these corporations hard to work with. Lots of half-assed work, non-transparency in communication, doing armchair mapping (without local knowledge).

On the German OSM sub-forum there's a thread about improving OSM with data from Amazon drivers. It's hilarious how incompetent their mappers are and how sloppy their drivers are (e.g. reporting wrong speed limits).
Huawei Unveils World’s First Wireless Earbuds with Noise Cancellation
Or is it that personal transportation is so expensive in those cities that even middle class people (who could afford personal transportation in most cities) are forced to use public transportation. I know that's the case for at least New York. Unsure about the other three.
I mean that Kubernetes is the NoSQL, CoffeScript, BigData, Grails, SOAP... of 2019.

It is a bit unfair for Cobol, given that its latest revision is from 2014, and while verbose as it might be, it supports most of the nice features of any modern multi-paradigm language.
I'll second manojlds's comment. If there is bad code/design decision on production - it not necessary means it was bad all the time. Software grows, requirements changes and it is very likely there is a reason why the code is as it is now. Even if it does not solve the problem efficiently today.

People also tend to forget human and business impact. The code might look different if there is 1 week or 4 weeks given for implementation. Timelines, pressure from management/stakeholders to deliver faster has impact to made solutions and implementations.

That is when respect is needed - having empathy to understand why this part of software looks like it is now.
The cycle of picking a tech, jumping ship to it, religiously evangelising it, riding the wave and then jumping ship to the next related tech is typical in my opinion.

It is typical for devs.

Meanwhile ops have to support every half-arsed tyre-fire technology until the end of time, because a dev wanted to try it once, and now it’s in prod with users relying on it.

Kubernetes is in a sense the pushback against that “do what you want, as long as k8s is up, what you run in your pods is your problem, not ours”.
Many countries have some sort of premium health insurance as a benefit from the employer, but that's generally a benefit in 'good jobs' that's not relevant for low-paid factory or call center workers - I mean, if someone's getting paid the legal minimum wage or close to that, they're also getting the legal minimum of benefits, not extras.
Interactive fretboard Switch effortless between scales/chords/keys/modes
Peculiar name. I would have named that "bitsum".
I have a huge functional programming proponent, but not when it comes to UI components, in my opinion this is the one and only place that OO shines, now in saying that I am not a big fan of deep nested inheritance, I prefer wrappers around more generic objects that delegate to the more generic object, but that is a personal preference. I am not too keen on hooks myself and prefer to use class based components to represent UI black boxes.
You're completely right about the problem of socialized losses, but that's a system level problem rather than a problem of individuals - it would exist even if everyone in the financial industry was completely replaced. And it's ultimately a problem created by governments, which implicitly promise to bail out bankrupt institutions if they're "too big to fail" (where how big that is, isn't defined anywhere).

I haven't heard about Dick Fuld, I'll read your link, thanks.
Switch to Arch Linux and live the dream. It has had python3 as /usr/bin/python since 2010.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/
Mostly compare-and-swap mechanisms at critical points so that everything is always consistent (for very specific definitions of consistent).

I think there are alternative paths when contention starts becoming too high.

It's been a while, but the code is the real reference. You can go back and look at the mailing list archives as well.

http://cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-interest
"models who" would read more normally.
I sympathise with the BBC as it must be hard finding people who are both articulate enough to appear and coherent when defending Brexit.
Well, he's... he's, ah... probably pining for the fjords.
You get all those benefits from water also.

Artificial sweeteners also increase appetite and cravings for sweet food, so if you are suffering food-related illness, it's better to stay away from them as well.
Honestly it's sometimes been tempting when you look at things like Uber. How long have they been around now? No signs of investors pulling the plug yet. How long is a long time?
Many things are harder, not easier, for large companies than for small.
Societies with robots tend to be wealthier than those without. The big problem with robots is wealth inequality.
Four in Five Schools in the UK Suffer Security Incident: Report
To call him a nihilist based on his views of Mathematics is a bit too reductionist, I think?

All Mathematicians are human, not all humans are Mathematicians.

Humans look for (and find) meaning wherever they can.
Meanwhile, TensorFlow build _still_ defaults to Python2. :-)
I love TypeScript. I started using it around v1.0. Microsoft has hit some gold with it.

When I first started using it I had lots of `any` in my code (like the Google employee is describing here). But over time it really starts being extremely clean.
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I think 'ln' as a tool which creates a symlink. And symlink is a new object, a new kind-of file. So it must be the last argument. The source is just an attribute of that symlink "file" holding the path it points to. If I want to overwrite an existing symlink "file", I simply add -f meaning force-overwrite-if-the-symlink-file-already-exists.
PHP-style shared hosting is not where Python users are. The shared-hosting story for Python has always been pretty bad, with rare exceptions (webfaction, before godaddy swallowed it). Python users are overwhelmingly on VPS and PaaS, where versions can be easily upgraded. Any PaaS provider without Python 3.6+ at this point is not worth paying for.
AFAIK Github actions are still in beta. I had some time set aside today to set up some build actions for a project I'm working on, but was roadblocked by a "request access to the beta" page. Do agree with your main point re: article though.
If you ask nicely with a sob story you can get it for free.

(I was trying to track down my father's 69 mustang not stalk someone)
With Software Collections[1], using more recent Python versions on CentOS 6 is trivial. Bad excuse.

[1]: https://softwarecollections.org/
When my kids started school I was surprised to learn that at age 4 it is not obvious that the number of items on a whiteboard remains constant if all the items are moved to a different part of the board. So what seems obvious, probably is something we just don't remember learning.
There are way more libraries and plugins for Coq though. Using Lean would require writing them by yourself.
"todo app directly against POSIX abstraction"

After trying a few cloud based ToDo applications with mobile apps etc. I gave up and started using org mode files from a text editor.
Is that actually true? Bread contains very high carbohydrate levels, I'd imagine a hamburger bun is not much worse than a glass of coke.
> PHP's killer feature was mod_php. It was dead simple to integrate into any shared hosting environment, and so pretty much every shared host did

Also safe_mode and open_basedir, which promised shared hosting providers that their users wouldn't hack the server and each other
Those details are all public record. They are not exactly useful without more information
I like your organism explanation. This is something I've learned over the past decade, albeit not at any company at the level of Google.

The way I've often describe software to clients is likening it to Formula 1 cars. With a normal car, you turn the key and drive, and it should definitely work for anyone. With a Formula 1 car, the tyres need to be warm, the driver needs to be experienced, and there are so many reasons why a working car can stall that careful monitoring, maintenance, and revision needs to be done long-term by an experienced team.

Sure, the software on your computer might run like the former, but in the background that huge pit stop team has been plugging away for years, and will continue to plug away with optimisations and fixes.
I didn't have any previous account. No where in my account I am trolling anyone.

>Sometimes they even post to HN to make it look like we've treated them unfairly.

Yes, it's unfair. You are accusing me of having multiple accounts and trolling but you don't provide any proof till than it's just an accusation.

Secondly, did I hurt your feelings or something that you are framing me as a con.

For anyone reading, here I posted why I got banned (detailed analysis):

https://www.reddit.com/r/MGTOW/comments/d1nk82/hacker_new_y_...

Your actions will last even when you cease to exist in future.

Don't remove my ability to respond to your blantant and baseless accusations.

You can keep pedaling ellitist propoganda of your billionaire masters, I understand that you are actually a sociopath enabler who doesn't benefit from doing this but does so because your masters want you to.

Just because I am not femminst like you and want to live my life without females around you choose to accuse me of things i never did and ban me.

You call my posting as troll even when I accured all the karma points without your "moderator messages". You yourself are destroying this board with propoganda of your masters and destroying the valuable discussions I can have with others.
Pythoff.
Sure, that's totally fair, but let's step back for a second. Let's say there's you, who's got the company's best interests at heart and a great technical/product direction. Then there's Steve. Steve is rubbing backs, in it for himself, but in the pocket of everyone who matters. Who's gonna win? Sadly, it's Steve. Not playing politics is a great way to lose at politics because you're going to get beaten by the first person who is.

Now, if you're a good politician with the best interests of the company at heart and the technical skills to deliver, the math is different, and the sky's the limit for you :)
What tripe.
I think you're quite correct. If you're investing in obfuscation, you're probably making the wrong investment. Malicious actors have to obfuscate to avoid detection for as long as possible, and benign actors would probably be better served focusing on their core tech. That said, obfuscation is very good at increasing the difficulty of interpreting and understanding the purpose of code.
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> "In the Dark Ages, on the other hand, literacy was heavily monopolized by the clergy, and a preponderance of new books dealt with theology. It's a period where even many kings signed an "X" for their names. A period where intellectual energy went into religious ruminations and little else. A period of intellectual barbarism, in other words. A thousand years of barely any scientific progress."

Careful there. You quickly move from what's true and run into what's false in that paragraph. Yes, literacy was down, but it was absolutely not a thousand years of barely any scientific progress.

A lot of important advancements stem from the early middle ages: windmills, water mills, pumps, many agricultural improvements. And if you want to look at a 1000 years (from 500 to 1500?), you're going to have to include steel metallurgy, gothic architecture, and the renaissance, the introduction of Arabic (Indian) numerals, the invention of gunpowder, and many others.

There may have been a lot of problems with that period, but claiming there was barely any scientific progress smacks of Voltairian revisionism.
There are companies offering extended support beyond EOL for version 2.
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A while ago there was a thread about an article that claimed that more people than you think can afford to buy a Superyacht but less people than you think an afford to maintain one. The article called those groups "LeBron James rich" and "Abramovich rich" if I remember correctly. The article claimed that this was the reason that most Superyachts are "playboys luxury pads" (as another commenter called it) where most passenger pay in some form or other be allowed to be on the yacht.
The best way to learn about the incident is to read the discussions first-hand from the Hacker News, for example, by searching "inurl:ycombinator protonvpn tesonet". There is no point in reading any journalistic articles if you can read Proton's responses here, except one article [0] - a compilation of changing Proton's responses and them successively admitting more and more things not in their favor. The compilation starts at the part called "Online accusations fly".

[0] https://restoreprivacy.com/lawsuit-names-nordvpn-tesonet/
> No one wants that

Why would you write a statement that is so demonstrably false?
I'll call out click-bait when I see it, but I don't see it here. "Dead Sea scrolls study finds salts used in construction are not common to region" is not particularly meaningful to non-archaeologists. I think the important point is the increased mystery, and "raises new questions" is a reasonable way to phrase it.
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Serious debt crises are always eventually handled by printing money. Or, more precisely, the crises keep on going till the authorities decide to print money. It is only a question of "when". This can happen in a variety of ways, for example in the Great Depression it was handled by devaluing the dollar against the gold (Executive Order 6102 and the follow ups), in 2008 it was handled by QE.

There is such a thing as excessive money printing, though.

See Ray Dalio's book "Principles for navigating big debt crises" which analyzes 48 debt crises across the world, a few of them in great detail and establishes a general framework of the way those play out.
Somebody has done just that already, it’s easily googleable. Nobody really cares though - why would you purposefully tie yourself to an objectively-inferior featureset, full of problems that have already been solved in py3? Because you can’t bear the use of parentheses for print, really?
I don't know if drewcoo is saying that, but I certainly am. There was plenty of intellectual stagnation during the Roman Empire, and plenty of progress during the Middle Ages. The claim that the Roman Empire was so enlightened while the Middle Ages were stagnation, is revisionism.
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The biggest obstacle, at least in my experience, is actually getting that interview.

In ten years of writing software, I've had a handful of emails/messages from FAANG recruiters, and they've never ended up in an actual interview. I won't name names, but I was offered an interview and we agreed a three week timeframe to prepare for the phone screen, but that screen never came.

In another 6-12 months I might be lucky enough to get an email from someone else, but unless I spend my entire life on Leetcode to prepare for an email that "might" come it's likely that I'd fail it anyway.

Let's also not pretend that these interviews are easy. If we assume that FAANG interviews are around Leetcode medium to hard level, it still takes a significant amount of ability to do well, even if you can write a Max Heap from scratch and can traverse a BST. Even if you're had time to warm up for these interviews, you can come across a hard problem that rules you out for that company.
This was made into an opera too.
why support hong kong protests? and not others, like yellow vests protests? attempt s at suppression is greater against yellow vests;dozen+ protesters killed there, zero in hk.
>It’s not possible to slowly reduce your nicotine intake with cigarettes. The only alternative is: stop all your smoking habits, and maybe one of these nicotine substitutes will help.

Why not? Just go from 2 packs a day to 1.9, to 1.8 etc..
Chimp and humans have similar levels of outgroup violence, but human ingroup violence is much lower. In wild chimpanzee groups violence or threats of violence are daily occurrence Young chimp males start to beat weakest females daily when they grow enough.