skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. I was trying to communicate that we should evaluate based on the underlying value rather than surface characteristics. Hopefully a great developer will also be popular (because of impact) but not necessarily. I frequently try to remind myself that I should assume value based on popularity.

Good software isn’t a democracy. Democracy is great for things that are arbitrary, but sucks for things where there’s objective value. I don’t want my surgeon taking a vote on how to proceed while I’m on the table.

However, that doesn’t mean democratic principles have no place. Consensus, discussion, collaboration are all important. But not to the exclusion of skill and responsibility. While I don’t want my surgeon taking a vote that includes the orderly and electrician who happen to be in the room, I hope that they solicit input and consider opinions from others before they decide on the course of action.

I also don’t know of a way to compare individuals for their value and think it’s a waste of effort to do so. People who encourage facilitation are awesome and I think frequently projects can do better with a fun person who attracts participation rather than some hard core coder who pisses everyone off. But not as an absolute rule. I’ve worked on projects with wonderful cheerleaders that never produced anything because they were all happiness and tons of people, but no one actually doing work.
Context: https://medium.com/@zephoria/facing-the-great-reckoning-head...
Their 1st gen service offered quite a bit of luggage and equipment transport for free (bike or surfboard) so it was super interesting to me. You could get on Friday night and go to sleep wake up refreshed in Santa Monica, surf, get a hotel or what not. Party until Sunday night and then sleep and be in the office by 8am. No Uber rides needed necessarily and less wasted time getting to the airport on time etc.
Money does not care about democracy :)
Is burning plastic waste a good idea?
There are alternative means to qualify if you do not have an automatically qualifying degree.
Nothing more than a cynical play by Microsoft to get a seat at the table for the inevitable avalanche of regulation coming.
I can't believe HN doesn't have a solution for this after all this time. It's a tech forum ffs.
No, someone who denies the importance of protecting the climate by definition cannot be hypocritical for not protecting the climate. Also, making hypocrites think is pointless because their thoughts aren't the problem to begin with, their actions are.

They say you cannot make someone believe something when their salary depends on not believing it. Of course you can't if society deems it more important that your thoughts match your actions than that they match reality.
The author alluded to this by referencing task queues. It's not uncommon to have task queue workers listening on "bursty" queues which are usually quiet, with the constraint that when work arrives in the queue it should be picked up really quickly (I.e. no waiting for program, pod/container, or hardware startup). If you have multiple task queues and sets of workers for different kinds of work (I don't know if the author does, but it is definitely a common pattern), then you can easily end up with a decent number of idle pods sitting around.

This isn't unique to k8s either; all sorts of queue-worker-oriented deployments have this issue.

The wasted idle capacity can be mitigated by having separate "burst" capacity (idle workers sitting around waiting for work) and "post-burst" capacity (a bunch of new workers that get created in response to a detected backlog on a queue), but orchestrating that is complicated: how much of a backlog merits the need for post-burst workers to begin starting? Instead, can the normal burst workers pay it down fast enough that no new instances/pods need to be scheduled? Do your post-burst workers always start up at the same rate (hint: as your application/dependency stack grows, they start slower and slower)? How do you define SLOs/SLAs for a service with a two-tiered scale-out behavior like this (some folks are content with just a max time-to-processed SLA based on how long it takes a post-burst worker to come online and consume the oldest message on the queue at a given point in time, other workloads have more demanding requirements for the worst/average cases)?

In many cases, just keeping the peak-scale amount of idle workers sitting around waiting for queue bursts is cheaper (from an operational/engineering time perspective) than building something that satisfactorily answers those questions.
Just calculate the impact of one launch in tons CO2. It's not a great picture, and half of it is in stratosphere.
In every case you suggested, yes you would be charged as described, except the theft unless there was evidence you were not involved. In the first two you would go to court to prove your lack of guilt. We're talking about grown adults going to the house of a convicted sex offender finding young women who are held against their will in a harem and then having sex with them because they were told to make you happy. If you cannot understand why your defense wouldn't hold up in this case then you'll never be convinced. Stallman, a man I've met and had a very nice conversation with, holds views that literal children have the intellectual and emotional capacity to engage in sexual relationships with adults on equal footing. This is just plainly untrue. A child cannot fully understand the consequences, they aren't even fully developed yet. This is not the middle ages, this isn't the neolithic. We know the proper development is required for children to become proper adults. Stallman has repeatedly made statements and actions that are inappropriate, blatantly sexist, and has himself abused his position within the community for personal gain and satisfaction. As much as he has given to the FOSS community, it's time for him to step back as being the face, if he's not willing to do so then it's up to the community to police itself lest we all be considered supporting his positions.
Reduce overhead = eliminate their job
Private school tuition, starting with preschool at $15k/yr x 2 yrs, elementary at $25k x 7 years, middle & high school at $60k x 6 years, 13 years of "enrichment" at $9k/yr, and undergrad and graduate school at $90k/yr for 4-11 years.
Who owns those corporations, and is in government? Who can afford lobbyists?

The answer is of course still super-rich.
Reflections on Linux kernel quality, development process and testing
The Mysterious Case of the Pacific Northwest's Vengeful Owls
A source for the heritability claim, to allay your scepticism: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/06/heritability-...

It shows the heritability of intelligence at age 26 as 88%. Perhaps you're one of the 12% (forgive the statistically meaningless phrase - you get the idea). Or perhaps you underestimate your parents.
Same as banks have to inform tax or money laundering authorities when certain types of transactions take place, you require any French bank to notify the currency crime unit of a transaction from a known Libra exchange. Maybe you fine the bank for accepting the transaction without proof it was a legal cryptocurrency.
>who are ostensibly left-leaning

They absolutely are not. They're capitalists, neoliberals, in all senses. There are no left wing economic policies being created anywhere in the western world right now.
Since the cert log is public, all of this is auditable, as indeed the OP audited it.

Should there be some formal/official mechanism of auditing _every_ EV issued?

Perhaps cert authorities should be required to pay for an auditor to audit their certs -- not just the process or a sampling of certs, but automated auditing of every cert. The problem with this of course is the usual 'auditor capture', if the auditor is getting paid by the entity getting audited, the incentive is not to continually approve the auditing, but to make all the audits pass.

In some sense, this is a success story -- the transparency of the cert issuing log allowed the OP to choose to audit some of them, voluntarily. But transparency of the cert log clearly isn't enough, it's been years of bad certs before someone decided to volunteer their time to audit some of them. Just transparency isn't enough without social/business structures in place such that they actually _are_ being checked.

(This has parallels/analogies with other things...)
Invention from the 1930s is cutting period poverty
If those parents stopped obsessing over their offspring's social and institutional metrics, they'd likely have to confront their own psychological and existential voids.
Same here - over 50, remote worker - no complaints...
I hear about age discrimination on here a lot, but I can't honestly say I know any coder impacted by it. Even my friends in silicon valley are still employed in their 50s.

I wonder if its a regional thing? Areas with high demand for coders can't afford to throw out good candidates because they have grey hair?
why would people want to use libra? Especially if the currency is declared illegal to use inside the EU/Eurozone.

Let's not forget that the euro is a stable currency compared to most other markets libra wants to compete in (the developing world). What is in it for me as a consumer? Atleast the Eurozone has rules in place to protect my savings (up to 10.000 euro[0]).

Libra brings nothing to the table in terms of transaction speed or costs either (for the consumer atleast).

1 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/explainers/tell-me-more/html/depos...
Even if FB were willing to take the risk, they partnered with institutions that understand the world a bit better than that.

Would-be volcano-dwelling evil geniuses in the tech world will learn patience eventually. (Arguably, some are - that's why Palantir is such a frightening entity that I'd like to see reigned at least as much as FB.)
> There is no literal threat to democracy.

What would you consider a threat to democracy?
Your German example is a bit silly to use here given that its exchange rate is 1:1 with euros. There are other regional currencies in other countries, they don't usually operate independently from the country's own currency though.
There seems to be an overvaluation of the time spent typing.

Does anyone spend any time thinking, researching, planning, designing or communicating?
DoH should be supported on the OS network stack, if needed.

I can’t understand this move. Firefox should retreat from this default.
Reading or writing about things in depth (and thus slowly) used to be a virtue. Society used to look down on unsubstantiated gossip, and up on the people that read long texts.
That changed when the stock markets became fast, by the 70's and 80's. Quick access to gossip started to mean money, and gossip reading or writing became virtuous.

I have no idea what to fix, but any solution probably involves restoring that one value to its previous state.
Not sure if you are aware of the community that keeps Supreme Commander Forged Alliances - but this goes on sale for a couple bucks every big steam sale. If you have any version of the game on CD, steam will convert your CD keys into the gold version (both vanilla and SupCom:FA). https://www.faforever.com is an updated set of rules, graphics, patches, multiplayer, etc that totally updates the game to a very playable experience. Even the original single player missions were updated to co-op.
Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?
I'm currently working 40h/week as a backend php developer and I think I can put an extra 20 hours every week to increase my earnings. However, I struggle finding remote work or above the average freelancing projects. Basically I don't want to waste my time on sites like freelancer.com where I have to compete against many low-quality programmers who place low bids just to win projects and then they mess them up.

Where could I find jobs like these?
I asked a friend of mine who lives in Ventura how he gets to Stanford and he told me that he takes the train -- and avoids most of So. Cal and the bay area.
Indeed. And if you use aerial surveillance photos (google maps) and build a star positioning sensor, you can do dead reckoning with no external radio dependencies.

It's how the missiles do it, btw.

Or you can include GPS with sanity checks. Then only subtle deviation attacks would work.
This is indeed a good breakdown of things that aren't intended as age discrimination, but look at feel a lot like it.

Another factor is that many large companies have roles and expectations tied to length of experience - so if you have 20 years experience, fine, you're being compared with other candidates with 20 years of experience, and people who have been with the company for 20 years and promoted a few times.

In this situation, it's not the case that a candidate with 5 years experience, and a candidate with 20 years experience that are both qualified for an opening are compared against each other and the more experienced candidate will be preferred.

When comparing candidates with 20 years of experience against each other, there's huge variation. Some have been developing, are well-rounded, and have worked in a variety of interesting roles, others have been doing similar things, piecemeal work, contracting with no overall ownership, and not so much to show for it. It's the difference between 20 years of growth, versus the same year 20 times over.
I learned this from #python on irc.freenode.org.

"Don't ask to ask, just ask" is their rule, and the frequently repeat it.
Germany has zero interest in devaluation; in fact they've been accused of being far too strict in Euro monetary policy, with the 0-2% inflation target.
If you banned everything that causes people more pain than good, half the economy would evaporate overnight.
Wow... bad news
What if I find out what is the supposedly "non-fake" distribution of green/yellow/red/violet words, and generate my text accordingly?

Generally, whenever your detection strategy is "a spam generator would never do X", I simply update my spam generator to do X. (Note that "X" must be something that is relatively easy to calculate, not things like "this actually makes sense", because it must be something your detector can recognize.)

Also, if Google suddenly started penalizing all text that doesn't "seem natural", there would be tons of false positives: languages other than English, jargon-heavy websites, dyslectic people, etc.
Murder is also immoral.

Libra is hardly morally questionable. If you want a better comparison take (software) piracy.

Piracy is illegal and while I'm sure Steam, Spotify, and Netflix has reduced it a lot it is still thriving and many people break the law if not daily at least monthly.

Best thing you can do is to make a law that forces banks to prevent payments to known Libra sellers, but again if there is value in Libra this hardly makes a difference.

For one unless there is official list of every entity that sells them and they get instantly blocked you could just buy them before they get blocked. Secondly you could just use PayPal to transfer the money (first to your PayPal wallet and then to the seller), EU is not crazy enough to block PayPal without an alternative in sight.

Secondly take any gray-market on the Internet. On these markets you can already use a range of payment methods starting with freaking Starbucks Gift Cards to just plain old cash.

Yes, yes, just like most laws it will keep the honest people honest and we can assume that at least in the start that will be most of the population, but such a law would be so trivial to bypass that if there is any benefit of having some Libra people will have it and outside of completely breaking privacy of EU citizens there is nothing they can do about it.
High speed trains can be very expensive in European countries as well: https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-adv-bullet-fare...

> The French bullet train from Paris to Lyon is often cited as a line that is profitable, but it has a fare of 52 cents a mile. The German bullet train from Hannover to Wurzburg charges 46 cents a mile.

> On the East Coast, Amtrak’s Acela system, the closest thing to high-speed rail now operating in the U.S., charges an average of about 50 cents a mile for the 454-mile trip between Washington and Boston.

US bus fares are much cheaper. The exact same trip on the Bolt Bus would cost just $212 for a family of four, $0.11 per passenger mile.
Aha, I see, thanks!
And in addition they can can claim to be unbiased and blame it all on the ML modell.
It is amazing...then, if you ever get alllll the way down to their private insurance policies, you find that they are nothing like our generation's insurance policies...they actually pay for stuff and have low deductibles!

I try not to get too bitter about it, though, because their great coverage means we don't go bankrupt trying to help them: we're very lucky for that (although eldercare is a whole other ball of wax)...

It just kills me to see all of these young people begging on GoFundMe just to afford insulin -- and dying! Over insulin! -- while it's stockpiling pretty nicely in Medicare-recipients' closets thanks to overzealous pharmacies that know Medicare will pay for whatever they keep shipping, and seeing young people cobbling together their own makeshift slings for broken bones while so many nonagenarians are technically part-robot thanks to Medicare's great coverage.
In Spain it's also common.

I don't have one on mine because I'm from the UK and it just feels weird.

Nowadays they can just look on LinkedIn or Facebook or whatever anyway so it feels kind of pointless.
Bad Coding Practices That Wreck Software Development Projects
Gold toilet stolen in Blenheim Palace burglary
How so?

The Libra proposal kept its value constant with respect to a basket of currencies.
> I see this a lot on HN, the idea that "CRUD" applications are trivial, but it's a myth.

Nah, it's true. For the average small to medium size company, CRUD apps are mostly "plug library A into framework B, with a dash of glue logic" and you're done. The most difficult part is the yak-shaving needed to get things to work together.

Things like embedded systems or scaling to FAANG levels are much more difficult.
Chuck Tingle's NSFW dinosaur tinglers, bigfoot tinglers, unicorn tinglers, living object tinglers, and living place tinglers have become enormously popular.

https://www.chucktingle.com/ebook.html

Unlike the output of a neural network, his surrealistic enigmatically erotic prose is somehow coherent and uniformly stylized, makes perfect sense in terms of its own internal logic, and consistently rationalizes and explains even the most absurd topics he imagines.

Vox has covered his brilliant work:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/18/12775742/who-is-chuck...

>The secret behind internet erotica icon Chuck Tingle: his own life may be the best story he's ever written: Behind the surreal performance art, the gay dinosaur porn, and the political erotica may lie a beautiful reality.

>The list of things that Tingle’s narrators have had sex with includes, but is not limited to: the state of California; glazed donuts; the Dress; Bigfoot pirates; a gay unicorn biker and a gay unicorn colonel, though not simultaneously; Donald Trump’s attempt to avoid plagiarism accusations; Starbucks Christmas cups; a billionaire triceratops; a T. rex comedian and a clan of triceratops rappers (stand-ins for Bill Murray and the Wu Tang Clan); ghost boats; velociraptors from outer space; a secret-agent brontosaurus; the White House; the British pound; a plane; a train; a vampire night bus; his own books; press about his own books; existential dread; his own concept of linear time.

So much of it is also biting social commentary and political satire about current events and controversies, like "Pounded In The Butt By The Sentient Manifestation Of My Own Ignorant Climate Change Denial":

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XRH69VR/

Or "Pounded By The Pound: Turned Gay By The Socioeconomic Implications Of Britain Leaving The European Union":

https://www.amazon.com/Pounded-Pound-Socioeconomic-Implicati...

He counter-trolled the alt-right "Rabid Puppies" Hugo Award trolls:

https://www.therabidpuppies.com/

And wrote "Slammed in the Butt by my own Hugo Award Nomination":

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EUC93RE

Here's another Vox article about his troll of the alt-right "Rabid Puppies":

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/26/11759842/chuck-tingle-hugo-awa...

>Satirical erotica author Chuck Tingle's massive troll of conservative sci-fi fans, explained:
Right-wing sci-fi writers tried to delegitimize the Hugo Awards by nominating a writer no one took seriously. Here's how he took them all by surprise.

This video explains his Literary Genius:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5zLGZfheY

>The Literary Genius of Chuck Tingle: Chuck Tingle is an author of some of the best erotica of our time. From dinosaurs to unicorns to political satire, his writing never fails to elicit a sharp tingle down the spine.
Yes, this developers vs operations divide is originally the raison d'être for the "devops" (or SRE in google-speak) concept.
Not really a bank-to-bank system; money doesn't instantly arrive at the recipient's bank account and paypal's ability to withhold it is notorious.
DNS over HTTPS is great for the average user.

Anyone who needs some other configuration, clearly is knowledgeable enough to change the behavior.
Really?

Sadly it is not uncommon to see people going to jail for stealing a few chicken because they were hungry, while many company owners and politicians hardly face any jail time for their proven corruption affairs.

Being popular and law seldom come hand in hand.
Oh people tried. It's just that the effort required to develop these kinds of game worlds relative to the amount of fun gained is often very poor. That's not to say it's nonexistant, it's just that its easy to say something like "I want NPCs to go about their lives in the world convincingly and be affected by player actions", but it's quite another thing to program such a system, pay voice actors, hire writers to write thousands of possible permutations of dialog, with high chances of it ending up having little concequence for the players except as an idle curiosity while they wait for something else.
I think if you were focused on driving smoothly as to not wake sleeping passengers you could do a lot with software. It would be pretty easy to use an accelerometer to map road conditions and tell drivers that bumps are coming up and to slow down, or to switch lanes to avoid this pot hole, even while driving the same route.
US banks created Zelle, with free instant transfers via your banking app. It’s a shame more people don’t use it. Otherwise people just use credit cards for paying for stuff.
Why do we need big government to prevent us from stealing or killing each other? Maybe the whole society should self regulate?
So..... the game is both difficult and unchallenging?
0.1% of 1000 lbs is 1 pound, but that’s still the equivalent of ~10 empty 2L bottles.
I create fake videos. Here’s why people even believe the obvious ones
I've been using NewPipe for a few months now instead of the Youtube application. I tried the Youtube application the other day and the app is one big advertisement. You get more ads than traditional TV now between sponsored Youtubers, ads every 5 minutes, full page ads in the Youtube app, dark patterns to make you click ads, except Google has all of the live analytics and demographics where traditional TV didn't.

Things really went south and nobody noticed.
I don’t see anything sinister here. Many of us who care about utilizing DoH may already have an appliance that performs this task, but leaving it as an option users can eventually opt into is a good thing.

If Google was the one offering DoH, and Otto made this change basically saying, “We don’t want all our traffic going to Google,” I think it would add perspective.