skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's starting to "get up there", can you share what critical elements helped you get to that higher productivity? I am definitely much better than when I first started (9 years ago), but I think I've largely leveled off in terms of speed of delivery after about 6.
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You're an inspiration! I wish I was nerdy that much. Doing God's work
That doesn't follow. That post argues it's actually us because we export plastics to China for recycling.

But China shut that down and we haven't had a surge of western plastics in the oceans. They just go to landfills instead.

Much plastic also goes in garbage, not recycling. This doesn't end in the oceans.

I wish we'd move our supply chain off plastics for most things. But, the post you linked to isn't very persuasive on ocean plastic.
Haha yeah it’s called Bamba, it’s a very delicious snack and my parents said they would let me eat a bunch of it when I was younger for this very reason. You can get it in the states.
The Atmospheric Microbiome
We had two young engineers (who are no longer with us now) discriminate against applicants for software development roles because of their age, religion, or origins. One of them is a google developer expert and he quite openly rejected people by discriminating against their age (anyone 40+) and beliefs. I didn’t want to veto the hiring decisions even though I could have because at the end of the day they’ll have to work with him.

Then we had a 58 year old engineer apply for an open position. Happy to say that we hired him and it was purely on merit (even sponsored his visa). The retirement age is 60 but his ambitions go beyond that. Needless to say he is one of the best on our team right now.
Technology should be free
This argument always comes up with "we can all do our part" and that's absolutely nonsense. Many times you have no idea what is put into the things you buy or there may not even be alternatives or at least not easily discoverable because the market. Many people have tried to do their part for years and the problem has only gotten worse because companies run rampant and aren't regulated or held accountable.
That’s why I always push the message that we choose the right amount of bureaucracy for the task at hand. Simple change / feature? No need to make a lot of documents for that? Fluffy idea that several people needs to work on? We need some mocks, diagrams and take requirements from client.

I think that’s a healthy way of doing it, but sadly many almost have to be pushed to do it, even with bigger things.
Robots?

They can be your peasants.
>You think people aren't racially discriminating when they hire people!?

That isn't what the GP said. The GP pointed out that it is possible to do something about discrimination if we make a concerted effort. Racial discrimination has not been eliminated but has been significantly reduced.
This obsession with childhood min-maxing is not helping them. Stop worrying about getting your kid into the most private school and getting them a career where they make the most money and start thinking about how you can make them the happiest, and how you can raise them so they make other people happy too. There are enough ambitious assholes who had to wear a necktie to elementary school in the world. We need more kids who like themselves and more adults who don't hate everyone else.
It really is a shame that Cavedog died shortly after birthing Total Annihilation: Kingdoms.
Your link doesn't support that it's a portmanteau of merit and aristocracy. Just that the suffix -cracy ("power", like in demo-cracy) was applied to "merit".

It does say it was coined pejoratively, though. That's interesting, I didn't know that.
Great article. A few minor points:

“How did the Capital One + AWS hack happen”

They didn’t care enough to make it a policy to spend money on mitigations and practices that consistently work across known classes of attacks. Aka they didn’t care about it. They figured they’d litigate it, it wouldn’t cost much, it would happen to the next CEO/CIO, etc.

“It shouldn’t, in short, be on the Internet. On the other hand, properly authorized users, who are on the Internet, would like to be able to reach it from anywhere. Because requiring all the employees to come to an office location to do their jobs (“physical security”) seems kinda obsolete. That leaves us with a conundrum, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t it be nice though? “

High-assurance guards [1] w/ VPN’s, link encryptors, and/or leased lines running separation architectures using older nodes and designs for untrusted interface to beat the hardware vulnerabilities. DiamondTek LAN built them into PCI cards w/ Ethernet ports. Today, it could be an on-board chip connecting the external interface. Such architectures been doing great in NSA and DOD pentesting for decades. It’s what they use internally for TS/SCI at many sensitive sites.

Alternatively, simple hardware running OpenBSD on embedded box in front of (device/service here) mediating it according to (policy here) with mediation done memory-safe w/ input validation and fuzzing. That’s the cheapest solution that should stop most attackers. Also, throw them a donation if you do it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_(information_security)

“ the horrors of IPv6, “

On Twitter, apenwarr also said:

“I had a connectivity problem, so I enabled IPv6. Now I have two connectivity problems.”

Haha.
Major Saudi Arabia oil facilities hit by Houthi drone strikes
Notre-Dame’s Toxic Fallout
Peanut allergy is often linked to pollen allergy, and peanuts can be pollen "bombs". So no need to eat it to get a reaction
>You are what you think. I have no idea how or why... but I know this is so.

Given the evidence that conscious thought, self-awareness and "free will" are post-hoc effects, emerging after decisions are made by the brain at a subconscious level, it's more likely that that you are what thinks you.
Wow that was very good! Thanks for that!
On fads. In spite of the hype, I believe Rust is not a fad. It's going to be doing extremely well in 50 years.

I cant condense the background that goes into that statement into a single comment. But a few other languages are valuable too and will be for a while.
Well, at least in Sweden my photo-less CV hasn’t caused any problems. My lack of a LinkedIn account has attracted a couple of comments though.
>>>Checking some people at some border crossings may have helped somewhat, but it was only one part of a much broader response.

To clarify, the body-heat scans aren't "some people at some border crossings", they are literally every human who walks through the gate at most airports, including Incheon, Taipei, Narita, BKK, and Noi Bai (Hanoi). Usually just before the immigration checkpoints.

>>>The point stands; no recent, serious infectious outbreak can be blamed on immigration - authorised or not - any more than any can be blamed on tourism.

Handbook on Migration and Security, pg 320:
"The spread of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic...was facilitated by human mobility."[1]

Or look at the quarantines during the 2009 influenza pandemic[2]. Entire hotels quarantined and cruise ships diverted.

>>>likely invoked as an attempt to cast certain classes of foreigners as unclean and trigger susceptible people's disgust response.

I'm not trying to paint foreigners as "unclean". I AM a "foreigner". I'm an African-American living in Japan. I know exactly what being treated as an unclean underclass is like. I'm nevertheless able to rationally assess that the country's robust immigration controls are likely a major contributing factor to managing the assimilation rate of other cultures in order to maintain national stability.

But instead of responding with well-sourced and rational debate points you've instead lept to implications that I must just be a xenophobe who hates brown people.

[1]https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=ZP6lDgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic#Infection_co...
i hire junior devs directly out of school, because that's the only place where i get unbiased and trainable people.

that said, i think bias peaks after a few years, after that, people get more and more experience that helps them keep their bias in check.

i was like that. i had a strong bias against programming languages that i didn't know anything about. it was prejudice, pure and simple. but as i learned more and more, i realized the errors of my ways, and bias was replaced by experience.
What's it like to live in a castle
Can't speak for the parent comment, but for example back when I was in college doing recruiting, the big management consulting firms only recruited at and hired from specific schools (not mine).
Likely cause is the good old bias against publishing null or negative results.
How much is life better when you don't have to burry half of your kids?

You don't get mentally though for that, you just get jaded and even more fearful.
He's had some pretty shocking things on his personal site for a while. I wonder if now is when it finally catches up with him.

Sigh, I remember the good old days when eating toejam was his big controversy.
That is 100% false. Every company I’ve worked for, and none of them were by any means big, paid brand name law firms for work. The thing they all want is money, and if you have money they will work with you.
Writing formulae are like design patterns. They give us names to think and talk about structures, but too often become dogmata.
A MoviePass recruiter reached out to me a couple months ago. I regret not taking the interview just to see what it was like on the inside.
Can you imagine that? Going to mass and think the guy playing is pretty good, but then it is Bach?

I mean that is like going to a meeting with your sons HS teacher and it is Einstein.
The website refers to the cancellation technology as "their proprietary technology" so I'm not sure if it's licensed.
e^(i * tau) - 1 = 0
that's pretty good actually, thanks!
Come play starcraft remastered. I've been playing fastest map, BGH, and even some ladder, it's super fun! I feel badly as there are many newer players that I sort of crush, but that's always been custom games. Ladder matches, well I'm the n00b there and I usually lose 80% of those.
What's Sticking on My Window?
All you can do is make it harder (not impossible, just harder) to openly mention race as a factor in hiring. Three people may decide independently to base their hiring decision on the race of a candidate without ever bringing it up. Hell they might do it without even admitting it to themselves.

Maybe I'm wrong. But if you ever come to Auckland, NZ I could show you a lot of suspicious coincidences.
EOS gambling dApp's loophole exploited; attacker walks away with 30k EOS
yup, bias is acquired as soon as you start working. against everything you don't know. then, as you learn different ways in your next job your bias will (hopefully) be challenged and you'll slowly get rid of it.
At https://www.3dhubs.com we're using Rust to build the geometry processing side of our platform, which is the most computationally intensive custom part. Previously it was in C++ and we're a lot happier after migrating to Rust two years ago.
I felt it a reasonable answer, if you think not I probably can't help you. I have no idea what you think I'm aggreeing or disagreeing with. Did you reply to the wrong comment?
Starcraft 1 and Starcraft 2, neither are dumbed down, the pace of new features is just very very very slow, esp fof SCRM aka broodwar.
Thank you, it's really bad not to link the paper in a news piece, 1) for evidence, 2) for further reading and 3) for accreditation for the hard working researchers/institutions.

Do you happen to have access to the paper through the pay wall? I'm interested in the data itself, the abstract certainly doesn't match up to "worms fail to thrive [..]", I want to see some numbers. There are enough environmental disasters on the horizon without the need to manufacture more.
Bunz locks down employee BTZ wallets as former admins lead mass exodus
If Python community would be reduced to PyPy, the TIOBE index would be exactly the same as it is now, because they would still be asking questions about the programming language named Python.

As for the rest, I guess I can only say thanks for the remarks and feedback.
rms comes from the old macho male programmer culture of, “logic and reason over all else”. The original hacker mindset of, “this is a meritocracy, and everyone who happens to be into programming is white and male. And there’s no problem with that.”

Eric S Raymond is the same way, but much, much worse. I don’t give him a pass, cause he has no clear vision or morality. He’s just a self-aggrandizing loser.

Linus Torvalds also grew up in that world, but is trying to change: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
It seems that the GPS protocol is just too simple, and lacks proper security elements.

An article linked by the article contains an informative section "How GNSS spoofing works", [1]. Excerpt:

> Effectively, if you can transmit to a GPS receiver, you can speak GPS to it and it will trust you. There's no authentication process involved, and you might even be able to MacGyver together a working spoofing device out of a hacked $15 USB-to-VGA adapter. Granted, you could easily wind up with thousands of dollars in fines or even prison time for trying it—but in strictly technical terms, there's very little stopping you.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/06/claims-of-tesla-hack-wi...
Sure. I just don’t see how that’s not a tax.
Adverserial Examples in the Physical World
It's too hard for most players. Dota and LoL have similarity in being real time, but you get the comfort to blame teammates for your loss and it's much slower paced. In starcraft, you are literally playing by yourself as fast as possible for the entire match, win or lose, no breaks for respawns or waiting, and you can lose in some spectacularly frustrating ways. Ever move command your army into theirs and lose it all? Ever hit yourself with a spell? Find their hidden tech or hidden base way too late? I love it but it's seriously a masochistic genre of gaming.
> optimal way to drive

Isn't it basically just a straight interstate shot for the vast majority of the trip between SF and LA?
I actually remember very much liking the FPS version.
Thanks. Will go through it and follow in letter and spirit.
This is not new. It's new that it has a brand name, but there have stories released repeatedly about exposure therapy for some time.
It IS a meritocracy problem. If you are unable to measure who has the most merit, if you're not concerned with this problem, how can you possibly be having a meritocracy?

Connections and the ability to play politics seem to be much more important for getting to the top. Current systems, managers, etc., are just not setup to evaluate skill from what I've seen, you have to sell yourself, which means "ability to sell yourself" is how the system is stratified, and that's not merit.

So when you say "the best", often what you get is "best at selling self", which is not actually the best.
It was Nancy Levison with this article having a few links:

https://leepike.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/n-version-programmi...

Levison's a brilliant, influential person in software safety:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Leveson
> The wars are fought, the infrastructure is built.

The wars are just beginning - over water, rare resources, arable land, whatever - and the infrastructure across Western countries is rotting under our feet as maintenance was mostly skipped on.
I'm not a huge fan of Apple, but I love everything about my 2019 MBP minus the keyboard. After using Linux for close to a decade it's a fairly seamless transition compared to going back to Windows.
Says the president of the largest spyware ("telemetry") distributor in the world
In traditional industries, experience built up connections, and older workers would be hired for their "Rolodex" to bring in the money. In tech as an IC, proving the value of experience is much more subtle.

In my day to day work, I recognize that a lot of what I do could just as easily be done by a college intern. It's those rare occasions when I can stop a terrible decision that my experience comes into play. I will speak up when a PM wants to launch a stupid idea, or an Exec tries to pursue a strategy that I know will fail. It's those rare but valuable instances that I highlight in my performance review.

And still, I don't know how long I will be able to stay ahead of the curve and one day I might not be able to justify my value. Age discrimination is a symptom of a larger problem to which this hyper-rational capitalism we've inherited is subjecting all of us, young and old. Prove yourself or die, it's actually quite disturbing.
Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)
That FPS was C&C: Renegade, and I absolutely enjoyed it too. It had all the cheesy dialogue and cliché elements that kinda gave C&C an 80s action movie flick flair, and I was really disappointed that it wasn't so successful. I think that the multiplayer parts weren't really refined enough to make it a hit... there was too much "base-building-components" for an MP game, I think they should've went with a "Battlefield 1942"-style of gameplay... holy crap, now that would've been awesome! EDIT: They were released around the same time, so there wasn't any blueprint for the BF1942 style of gameplay around at the time. I think making vehicles spawn for everyone and not tying it to your success is part of what made BF1942 so popular in the day.

Of all the RTS games from C&C, RA2 was my favorite. Tiberium Sun was just a stone throw before my time, so when I played it, I was missing all the new elements from RA2. It's no fault of TS, just that I have already been "spoilt" by that time...

Tiberium Wars was also pretty nice, though I only played some LAN skirmishes with friends, never the campaign. But from the looks of things, it was the last "real" RTS in the C&C series. The latest two RTS installments, RA3 and the last Tiberium one, already forgot what it's called, were just trash, IMHO. In the latter, the publisher (EA?) was obviously trying to kill two birds with one stone, i.e. make a game for both PC and mobile markets, and C&C was the guinea pig brought in. Obviously, the publisher had no idea what C&C is about and where its true value lies. That's some pretty bad management, actually, but that publisher is known for treating their consumers like replaceable goods, completely neglecting any artistic value a game might have and the therefore resulting fan-base/community like consumer-behaviour.
> exposed nearby schools, day care centers, public parks and other parts of Paris to alarming levels of lead.

This, right here, mainstream media, is what pisses people off about you. "Schools" and "day care centers"? Jesus fucking Christ, stop the fearmongering melodramatic bullshit.
Sometimes, though, an infrastructure team will want to manage the service internally, even if a managed service (e.g. GKE) is available and compliant with the workloads, and would reduce overhead.
I do this all the time and didn't realize it was a power move. I find myself saying it to curb additional discussion I feel like is going to be superfluous - especially over slack or whatever. Noted!
CRUD apps are simple. You need one or two architects and seniors to make sure that things don’t go off the rails and to gather the requirements and once you have that, some boot camp grads can do the grunt work.

When I was a team lead, I wouldn’t overpay for a crud developer.

I call myself an “enterprise developer/architect” on HN for context - meaning I don’t work for the cool hip startups but let’s call a spade a spade, I’ve spent the last 10 years working on yet another software as a service crud app or bespoke internal apps. Yeah I spend some time in meetings, dealing with “cloud native” infrastructure and I can hold my own up and down the stack.
>Dropout is essentially half your network malfunctioning. A computer that randomly caught fire could "come up" with the same "algorithm".

This is so incredibly wrongheaded I don't even know where to begin.
Uhh they recommend it so the traffic between your server and cloudflare isn't unencrypted over HTTP
How Hackers Won the Water
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20969633 (45 comments)
Stripe Issuing lets you specify a webhook can approve/decline transactions [1], so you could use that to only approve transactions at a certain movie theater.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/issuing/authorizations
USA is not the largest exporter of oil at all. It scarcely exceeds 3mn/d. Saudi exports 7.0 currently and that’s restraining themselves.
Open source software is driven by powerful economic forces, not by RMS or his politics. In contrast, “free” software is a sideshow. The FSF is mostly irrelevant these days.

It’s interesting to note the history of the GNU project, which bootstrapped itself by ripping off pre-existing BSD licensed projects and publishing new implementations as GPL. Open source predates “free” software.
Parents’ Financial Advice Is (Kind of) Wrong
Children are most sensitive to lead exposure.
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And it’s also not true. There’s a spectrum with this title in the context of skill like any profession.
Circular polarized light is a spiral, at least in terms of how we normally draw the vector annotation.
Oh. I didn't realise Stallman's rigid stance to freedom of software also extended to having sex with children and victims of sex trafficking.

It's amazing how much hanging out in the tech world you don't hear anything about this.

Of course, just like he argues that a perpetrators is the real victim. I'm sure I'll read some article about how admirable Stallman's views are.
This is a common young person view.

You're probably conflating age and experience level here. You also seem to be assuming that people necessarily get promoted at regular intervals based on age - that's flat-out demonstrably not true. If it was true, everyone at age X would be a manager, everyone at age Y would be a director, etc. I've consulted with a lot of big cos and it's extremely common to see people well into their 40s who haven't made it to a manager role, and certainly most people will never make director no matter how old they get.

What happens is that there tend to be implicit experience minimums, not age minimums. To get to manager you need X years experience in the industry/department, director requires Y years, etc. If you start later in life, the age at which you hit that minimum will change. Big co promotions are also tied into politics and visibility of things you've worked on. Plenty of young people shoot up the ranks quickly because they're either well-connected or talked/lucked their way into working on something of high importance and visibility to the company early on.