skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
given up on ... calculus a long time ago and started teaching statistics and probability

Well, Joel obviously wasn't taught statistics then, because you need calculus to learn it properly.

And trig is such a fundamental math needed for linear algebra and vector calculus that it shouldn't be dropped either.
Thank you. Apparently everyone on HN loves a contrarian until they see one in the wild.

You should get to work, there’s a lot of stuff to do. Of course we need to protect our precious peace and prosperity, but we also need public opinion to reflect on certain issues. And we need policy makers to implement solutions on said certain issues. We’ll get there but it’ll be really damn tiring and exhausting.
There are many of them (obviously not very many) - Universities, too iirc. Most have divested by now.

It correlates strongly with big organizations who were "into" networking early on.
... even for intent of contempt of cop.
Remember that "freecreditreport.com" is a scam.

The real FTC-mandated free site is "https://www.annualcreditreport.com".
You should read the book... nobody was put in danger. Snowden is an American hero.
Re: "special-purpose entities":

Why would landlords agree to this? "Hey guys, we'll sign a 25 year lease with you but only through a special purpose entity, so we back out at anytime and you can't do anything!". Given how choosy and patient commercial landlords are (eg. letting properties stay vacant for years to find the right tenant), why did they make an exception for wework?
Our devops team loves Gitlab pipelines and pushed the decision through. If you're looking for a "killer feature" on Gitlab, pipelines is probably it.

As a developer I don't think there's a huge difference, especially since we don't use the issue tracking or wiki stuff (we're all in Jira/Confluence). My main complaint about Gitlab is that there are a lot of places where the UI is rough around the edges (lots of pages lack or have very minimal search/sort options) or has outright bad UX, as well as lacking some features that feel pretty basic to me.

My main complaints about Gitlab at the moment:

* Lack of search/sort, as mentioned above

* We created teams in Gitlab to mirror our scrum teams... when you look at the team list in Gitlab, it shows everyone who has access to the team, which is our whole damned Gitlab account. The only way to find the actual team members is to scroll down the list looking for users with a delete icon by their name (which removes them from the team).

* If you want to set a required number of approvals on merge requests, you also have to set the list of reviewers. I wanted to set two required approvers but let the devs assign who (normally their team)... no can do.

* Poor support for making merge requests build the result the merge (instead of just the branch). We've tried setting it up a couple of times, but usually end up with MR's hung because Gitlab doesn't firing the right builds and end up having to turn it off.

* If you have the server squash commits when closing a MR there's no way to set the commit message in advance; you have to type in the message just before you click the merge button. This wouldn't be an issue if it defaulted to using the MR description as the commit message, but it doesn't do that either...
> Coraline Emkhe is a woman.

> Nuh-uh!

Fixed that for you. Gotta offer something better. I'm not a fluffy pink unicorn, just 'cause I say I am.

> gender presentation

Why should "gender presentation" influence some one's biological sex? Or how said person dresses? Or surgeries undertaken? Or simple "belief"? You can believe what ever you want, but that shouldn't force me to change my behavior; e.g. a Moslem with a religious objection to eating pork can't force others not to do so. Or how I refer to that person? I'll call him "Coraline" because that's his legal name, but I'm not calling him a "she".

If you're interested in seriously hashing this out, my email is in my profile. I don't want this to turn into a flame war. "Debate me in the ring, one-on-one!"
That is such a disappointment. The MIT ethic is all about proving yourself by doing worthwhile things, not by flashing wealth around. Cool people eat ramen and advance the world's knowledge. Losers drop out of that and work in hedge funds. (Okay, that's an exaggeration, but not by much.)

So for a long established MIT professor to show himself susceptible to a guy like Epstein showing up with a model at each arm and flashing money around is such an unbelievable letdown. Even if nothing else was wrong with Epstein.
Re: originalists:

The framers couldn’t’ve imagined the internet, and, despite that, what you say on the internet is protected by the first amendment as it is speech. Why would the fourth amendment be any different?
> The question is what was her experience prior to being promoted?

I agree this is the real question. If someone doesn't have a related degree, but has the experience, that's one thing, however I've seen a handful of examples where someone with both and unrelated degree and barely, if any, relevant experience get high up technical positions (I assume mostly because of knowing the right people in a company where tech is a cost center)
Eventually: nothing.

That may take a while, though. As an example, check what the “Commodore” brand went through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International#Demise:

”Commodore declared bankruptcy on April 29, 1994, and ceased to exist”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International#Post-C.... :

“In late 2004, Tulip sold the Commodore trademarks to Yeahronimo Media Ventures for €22 million”

That’s 10 years after they went bankrupt, and the story didn’t even end there.
> they just took 10 units of money from customers and gave them 100 units of tickets.

One could have said the same about Netflix and Spotify. The key point is to find a monthly fee that is low enough to get masses of people subscribing, but high enough that the masses of 1-movie-a-month ordinary users support the 30-movies-a-month power users - or to cap the "power user" limit at something reasonable.

The other thing would be to gain value from the users beyond the subscription, for example by having them rate the movies they see or giving out boni (=one high quality review gets you two extra visits even if you hit the cap).
What I never got about all these solar business es (models) is why everybody considers them in the first place. They are capital intensive because the installing company has to pre-finance the whole thing which means it is also likely to be cash negative. Selling to the actual users, commercial or private, means high sales efforts and especially for private customers low lifetime value.

With the ever decreasing costs of solar I'm not sure what the exact value proposition is here. Financing can be done by banks and installation / sale can be done local installers. The latter are anyway needed to plan and ultimately install the whole thing.
So, FTL meets Dwarf Fortress?
The point is not really for me to circumvent restrictions, it's more that a bad actor could. This can largely defeat the purpose; though malware using this is not common, it's started to crop up.
Cmd + alt + r
> everyone will want to go home at 5 pm.

You say that like it is a bad thing.
Wow, didn't think about that. I'm not familiar with so automated hiring processes but I guess that is a big concern.

Did you find out why? layout, text style? they need a specific template?
Somehow I doubt the US government is after a few dollars from his book sales. It is more of a message to anyone trying to publish "unapproved" material in the future - don't do it or we will make your life hell.
If your hobby was making cake designs and you share them on the Internet to whomever wants them with a license that allows even businesses to use your designs then we are right back where we started.

That's still a perfectly valid hobby.

P.S. You give away your designs because everyone else does and you get this big collection of free cake designs to bake. That's worth more to you in your cake baking hobby than selling your designs and making it a business. Invariably someone comes along and sees all this huge body of cake designs and says "This collection is worth money, you should be rich" and completely misunderstands the whole situation.
Amazon Echo screen flicker angers owners
> It was intended to be a rare power.

I'm making the case that less than one a year in a population of 300+ million is, indeed, rare.
I recently finished Brad Stone's The Everything Store, written in 2013. In the last chapter, brands complained about Amazon pricing below the their Minimum Advertised Price (MAP), to the detriment of physical sellers. Stone used the German knife company Wüsthof as an example. Wüsthof at one point around 2010 stopped supplying Amazon, but its products were still sold by third parties. Looking at Amazon now, there are at least 100 in-house Wüsthof products being sold by Amazon at prices that seem lower than the mid-hundred dollar price ranges cited in The Everything Store.

Does anyone know what happened generally to Amazon's relationship with brands over the past six years? Presumably over this time, Amazon has only gained in bargaining power over brands at the expense of physical locations, in accordance with Ben Thompson's Aggregation Theory. As an outsider, it seemed like Amazon and brand buyers have done well at the expense of brands and retail stores.
Another noteworthy but unmentioned fact is that the victim's niece recently committed suicide, an event which the family claims was caused by her witnessing the shooting.
Not if you're an economic powerhouse like the US, China or the Euro zone.
I agree with your observation and statement, but also want to add there is a moral argument that if one objects to a law or a contract, one should remove oneself from under it (leave the country/company) rather than break it, even if the law itself is immoral.

Not that I'm arguing one way or another how that applies in this situation, though.
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If swatting continued but it was merely an embarrassment and annoyance it wouldn't be such a problem. The police are 99.9% of the problem here and thus that is where the solution lies.
They might be. I don't see SC peaches in Georgia, and I haven't been there, so I haven't tried them. I assume the South Carolinians are hoarding their peaches for themselves.

(If I have a dog in this fight, it's actually New Jersey, where I grew up.)
Make a calendar event. If it's not on the calendar, it doesn't exist.
> These efforts were undoubtedly cheaper than building all-new track

Well, that depends.

Part of the justification for building HS2 (a high-speed railway from London to Birmingham, Manchester, etc) is that building a new line is much cheaper than upgrading the existing line (again).

Making changes to a railway that's being used is expensive: time is used preparing and restoring the area to be worked on, labour at night or weekends is more expensive, and it's much more important that the work is right the first time, so trains can resume on schedule.
My understanding of the militarization of police relative to the actual NEED for such implies that the amping up is the problem.

However, I can certainly be wrong about this detail. Nonetheless, if police are deciding that an anonymous claim allows them to move to kill-first mode, then they are forfeiting the respect that taking risks for the greater good entails.
Know your stack. Intimately.

There's a very interesting book called "Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success"†. Actually, IMO only about half of it is interesting, the parts about how Hollywood makes movies is fascinating, the rest of the book seems to me to be a mildly enterprisey pitch for Agile Methods, (of which YMMV.)

THe fascinating thing about Hollywood is that it's old (over a century) and they have developed a system that works: it's rare for a film to go over-budget or over-schedule.

I can't do a proper summary here, but the fundamental gist is that they have detailed plans, that experience says are realistic, and they track those plans closely and deal with divergence systematically.

†https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hollywood-secrets-of/97...

Anyway, one of the tools they use, if transposed to the IT industry, would be something like an Inventory of Dependencies. It would list every piece of software that your system depends on along with costs, risk assessments, and alternate dependencies for each. I don't have the book with me or I'd give more details.

My point is, we should do this and usually don't. It's kind of on the company management if you're using, e.g. cURL, and your stack blows up and only then do you discover there's not a great "support story" there, eh?

Taking infrastructure for granted is not how you get reliability. FWIW.

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BTW, readline and bash are maintained by one volunteer.

> GNU Readline is today maintained by Chet Ramey, a Senior Technology Architect at Case Western Reserve University. Ramey also maintains the Bash shell. Both projects were first authored by a Free Software Foundation employee named Brian Fox beginning in 1988. But Ramey has been the sole maintainer since around 1994.

> Ramey has now worked on Bash and Readline for well over a decade. He has never once been compensated for his work—he is and has always been a volunteer.

> I asked Ramey what it was like being the sole maintainer of software that so many people use. He said that millions of people probably use Bash without realizing it (because every Apple device runs Bash), which makes him worry about how much disruption a breaking change might cause. But he’s slowly gotten used to the idea of all those people out there. He said that he continues to work on Bash and Readline because at this point he is deeply invested and because he simply likes to make useful software available to the world.

https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20772053
I suppose this is the next step after saying executives at companies shouldn't be held accountable. Now companies shouldn't be either, only those funding them.

Wild.
Lease obligations over the next 15 years: $47.2 billion ($262.2 million/month for 180 months)

Lease commitments for the first 15 months of that 180 months: $3.4 billion ($226.6 million/month)

Shortfall for the first 15 months which we know there is contractually-obligated income for: $35.6 million/month.

I haven't read through the original filing, but was the expectation that We would see increased per-month margins over the next 15 years to make it to a break-even or better point?
Do you think people thought this was okay prior? Obviously not, but what do you think they were assuming the worst case scenario was for them?

Prior to this whole case playing out, I would have assumed "going to jail" would be an extremely likely outcome for the crime of swatting, especially if it had the (intended?) effect of killing the person involved.
If whistleblowers weren’t so often targeted by the government in retaliation or to silence, your argument would have merit.
Asimov 3 rules as the final policy when making decisions should sort this problem out. This assumes that the rules cannot be changed by the AI.
>we should be warning people who want to contribute to Open Source that they should probably spend their time doing their own studying and personal/skill ...

Its Open Source that is chiefly responsible for every bit of that personal skill I have.

In this game, the "giant" corporations are the irrelevant little players that hardly matter. They don't contribute, so they may as well not exist. They can be safely ignored except for the rare occasion that they "fart in our elevator" with their patent nonsense.
Yes and no. They use a guest registration system (on an iPad) that takes a photograph to send to the person who invited you on arrival so that your host knows who to look for in the shared space. You can simply choose not to stand in front of the camera (there’s a countdown) — it’s not mandatory, and certainly nobody would take issue with you opting out. I was a WeWork member for years and, as far as I know, the photos are only used in the emails to hosts.

Also it’s worth noting that the same systems are used by lots of companies, especially tech companies: they go as far as taking photos to print on temporary badges. Photos of guests is certainly not unique to WeWork, most startup offices I’ve visited do it.
I think if a startup I was trying to do business with used any of these, I'd start to question how professional they are..

A few emoticons or emoji? Fine. Reaction gifs in business email? Ehhh, no thanks.
> I really wish I had more of an opportunity to play with AI/ML in my day to day work.

Anyone who feels this way — we're hiring :)! https://openai.com/jobs/.

(Also if I can answer any questions about OpenAI, feel free to ping me at gdb@openai.com.)
Jesus Christ, is Ben Bova, not Ben Boba...
> Does anyone have any suggestions for how we should actually handle situations like these?

Mandatory country wide minimal training standards for all LEOs, automatic investigation when a shot is fired, demilitarization, getting rid of trigger happy or clearly racist officers, lowering qualified immunity to a remotely sensible level, it's not like there wouldn't be approaches that work in other countries. Oh and of course doing something about America's gun culture on the other side would be another good start but that's never going to happen either.

The best response in the US so far seems to be registering on potential victims lists like in Seattle (https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-swatting-before-it-h... - HN discussions exist if you're interested).
From whom did SolarCity source their modules? Seriously asking because it was either faulty modules or faulty installations. And in the first case I guess Tesla could hold the module supplier accountable.
Ego strokes is just one form of non-monetary compensation. OSS is not alone in being the product of voluntary work. Lots of worthwhile civic, charitable, communal and religious endeavors rely on volunteer labor which is compensated through recognition, friendships, power trips, reciprocal benefits, satisfaction of giving back, etc. The power of non-monetary compensation should not be underestimated, even in the context of paid work.

On the other hand, software maintenance is a category of work that tends to be poorly compensated even in the case of proprietary corporate software. So it is no shock that OSS maintenance also is poorly compensated either monetarily or non-monetarily.
And, unfortunately, majority of people in the North of England blame the European Union for this.

Edit: OK, the rather few people I know from the North are not representative.
More context: she had been living with the victim since 2002. So they likely knew each other well at least.
> If someone from Amazon reports a bug it's kind of scary, you feel like you've broken Amazon.

Really? If Amazon filed a bug on one of my repos I'd probably see dollar signs flashing.
Is This Legal?
Is this legal?
Just received an email from Xoriant about a new Sr. Data Engineer position.

Here are the requirements:

7-10 years of experience. NOT looking for someone with 15+ years. They will NOT be considered.
Must have experience with any Graph Database - - client uses Neptune
NOT looking for a Data Scientist. MUST be a Data Engineer who does the actual work of getting data into 1 place.
AWS experience – implementing graph database in AWS (required experience)
Python experience – for data pipelining

I am wondering about "NOT looking for someone with 15+ years. They will NOT be considered."

Can they openly put this requirement into their position requirements?
There should really be some kind of indicator on submissions that are paywalled.
Agree with this. You’d think they were putting them up 50% or something.

My local council did that with parking fees a year ago. They didn’t tell anyone or say sorry and everyone just sucked it up. But then I can’t cancel my local council account.
Yep. That's how "growth" was reported in the Soviet Union.
Inflation! yay!
Owners of office buildings aren’t stupid. If WeWork created a special entity to rent each building, rent would go up significantly, or the landlord would require the parent company to guarantee that rents would be paid.

Or did WeWork pay for refurbishing the building, so that, if they stop renting early, the building’s owner ends up with a better building than what it had before?
If a project starts having large companies relying on it, traditionally there have been 2 mechanisms to address this:

- start a company around providing enterprise support services;

- ask for the large companies to provide some resources such as a part (or all) of an employee's time to work on the project, for the parts that are more dear to that company.

If a company is unwilling to pay, either in the form of a support contract or employee's time, it should look at another solution. Not just because they are being disrespectful/annoying/distracting to the maintainers of the OSS project but also because it means they don't have a good contingency plan for when things go wrong.

For a larger business, the value of using OSS is not to save money, it's to get the right level of customization for specific needs.
It's on npm. It has some simple query abilities. Also there is `tql-cli`. The basic idea is pretty simple, just that you use log files and query by date and time range and key and so you avoid querying or analyzing the entire dataset at once. Note that since it uses the disk with lots of files so much, the assumption is that you are on an SSD.
I think the mismatch is that I never developed websites, think games, media tools, developer tools. Anytime there was a dependency on a web component I was using a cloud service, external or internal. Internal cloud services were operated by different BU's like a separate business.
Software was distributed via boxed CD or 3rd party web stores. I've never looked into the eyes of someone that configures routers or even heard them mentioned in all my years. They were always essentially in a different company.
As I understand it, there is some speculation by observers at LIGO/VIRGO that two neutron stars colliding with each other may eject neutron-degenerate matter into space before they coalesce into a single new compact object.

Not sure what that ejecta would look like...but if I had to guess, it would be release a shitload of energy as it came out from under compression, and would eventually condense into normal matter, much of it comprised of the sort of heavy elements not easily created via stellar nucleosynthesis.

Imagine a cloud of incandescent radioactive gold dust weighing as much as multiple earths, and you've got the idea.
Try laughing at the absurdity of that until the nervous edge blunts. You should be feeling some empowerment once the existential terror has worn off.

You know it's gone when you're ready to send them a cost estimate at twice your hourly rate.
I guess I just put more responsibility on Equifax itself even if these actions were through an intermediary of theirs. This makes me think of the Tylenol tampering in the early 80's [1]. Johnson & Johnson's response wasn't court mandated (what doesn't seem to be mentioned is that it wasn't just a targeted recall, but a wide recall encompassing unaffected product in order to regain trust with consumers) Equifax chose their response to be court-mandated and minimal. Someone chose this representation that's creating additional hoops.

I'm glad to see them citing sources properly. I can understand your concern they're not emphasizing the right party, but I don't think that would really help. Most people think class-action settlements are a joke, which means they don't have faith in the legal system. If Equifax feels like their reputation is damaged after fulfilling their legal obligations, they're free to do more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders#Johnso...
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