skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To paraphrase what others said: that’s a great way to become a multimillionaire, but to get to a billion you have to step on a lot of toes. I think Bill Gates observed that your quality of life doesn’t really change after about 50 million. Even with inflation, by the time that’s a billion, billionaire won’t be what people target. Hell, 40 years ago people dreamed of being millionaires. Inflation adjusted that’s only 3 million now.

If you were really that philanthropic, why would you carve out a billion from that revenue stream instead of giving back, or investing it in better equipment or people?
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Great article. The package that ties notebooks to git-friendly markdown equivalents sounds it solves one of the main problems with using jupyter.
Europe's language diversity is a trivial cost of business and does not impede tech companies.

But, obviously, that does make Europe a very good market for translation companies.
This is great! It means we're able to have states that care about privacy pushing the boundary on how we can regulate to achieve this without landing in an cross-jurisdictional nightmare.
They actually discovered it next year :-D
He's saying the issue wasn't a specific bug, rather they just haven't turned on enough capacity.
A lot of that looks less like issues with full-stack development, and more with start-up culture where everyone thinks they're google.

Scrum is pretty gross, I agree.

Typescript I'm unsure about, I typically stick to vanilla javascript with a polyfill for the fetch API. I kind of doubt it adds another 20% of workload.

Tooling, linters, and bundlers I mean. That's just programming in general tbh. Cmake is probably my greatest headache with C++.

> Deployement, done by a devops engineer? you must be joking right? That's also the work of the full-stack dev..

I don't know about fancy Kubernetes setups and what not. If you've scaled to that level then yeah, you probably need someone dedicated to things like deployment.

But for the most part I just use shell scripts, git, and make files for deploying our websites. Works pretty well.
Interesting question... How would I file a complaint against Mozilla?

Their privacy policy is only available in English and lists Mozilla Corporation in Mountain View as the legal entity.

They probably don't conduct many business activities in the EU.

However, it looks like they are providing a website for "data subject access requests" which means they might fall under EU regulation as it sounds like a GDPR compliance thing.

https://app.onetrust.com/app/#/webform/4ba08202-2ede-4934-a8...
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Speedtest showing download speeds 3X slower (around 35MBPS vs 110).

On PIA, which costs me around $3/month when I buy yearly, I get around 75MBPS, it does hide IP, and I can select the country and region I want. Also it's available on my computer and on multiple devices at once.

I don't see the value of WARP+ at $4.99/month. Less features and slower.
The distinction here would probably be with how state DMVs do things like 'only open every fifth Wednesday' (https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/feb/19/...).
I got my lastname @ gmail.com back in the early days of gmail.

So now everyone with that lastname uses this email address. I get party invitations, venmos, confidential hospital forms, tax returns, you name it.
> However I have no idea how encryption works so maybe my hunch is stupid

Your words, not mine.

The person who created Let's Encrypt started it as his thesis in college. From there he received assistance from the EFF, some of its staff, and a few other volunteers. None of them are anonymous, all working in the space before Let's Encrypt. It's fully open source and there are no backdoors in TLS encryption.
I'm getting the same on Chrome/Mac. Requesting /mock/ just 301's me back to /mock/

https://pastebin.com/vmgSU6nj
A phone book is not a primary source, the phone company's registry is.
Doctors are not trained scientists but I imagine the authors took the inductive position that many people at the wedding did not get the heart attack and the woman who ate the wasabi was triggered by it.

Come to think of it, triggers are not necessarily the underlying causes, so this particular diction in the abstract and title may be fully apt.
The original statement by a justice implying restriction on freedom of expression was later recanted (note it was not directly a precedent setting ruling either). There are people in the US that see any restriction, even for hate speech or incitement of violence, as against the first amendment.

You might think they are extreme in their views but rulings restricting speech are very, very rare.
When working in chroot jails on embedded distributions, I have needed to run `rm -rf /`. It's admittedly really edge-casey, but it's happened.
Whoever downvoted my above response should look up "reductio ad absurdum".

See, my MIT education was useful for something. I knows fancy logic things.

To elaborate a bit more on why I think that equating income with educational value is a non-starter, using a direct argument rather than a reductio ad absurdum argument: my MIT education instilled me with values, passions, and interests that could very well be in opposition to maximising my income. I.e., if I'd gone to a lesser school, I might very well make more money because my values, passions, and interests would be different. I.e., not necessarily for the better, but perhaps oriented more towards increased income. E.g., without certain passions and interests that MIT instilled me with, there would have been a lot more jobs–some of them high-paying–that would have been appealing to me. But with the passions and interests I ended up with, these jobs were not appealing to me. E.g., I could have gotten a very high paying job right out of college programming in Cobol. But that certainly was not for me after groking the beauty of Scheme.

Consequently, a study showing that I would have statistically made as much money if I had received my education at a less prestigious school, is utterly irrelevent to how I value my MIT education.
How to deal with uncertainty:

If you are not in a position of judgement or power, give all parties the benefit of the doubt -- accuser and accused -- and show compassion. Especially if they are personally right in front of you.

If you are in a position of judgement or power, like a reporter, a judge, a prosecutor, or a juror; then use a fair and impartial process.
This can't be true... I use /etc/hosts overrides in chrome all the time
Truth isn't an absolute defense. If you privately record someone without permission, you don't get to share that just because it's true.
Well done. Looks like a lot of hard work. How long did this take you?
How many websites have you visited that are hosted or proxied by Comcast? The fact that Cloudflare is now mediating the connection on both ends is what makes it frightening.
I'm not blaming the players but as an observer, I'm merely sharing my experience working for one of the BigCos for a few years and seeing the "trends" in both Blind and in the office.

> It's not their fault that they have to do that. If that gets them a good life.

No complain here. Good for them.

> That doesn't mean there aren't people who genuinely care about their craft and want to be better architects.

Minorities. Unlike the past.

> That's why systems (infra / embedded etc ) have a higher rate of people who truly enjoy it joining.

I'm on Infra. Most of my peers who are working on Infra are older people (35-40+ years old) with purpose. Most younger folks prefer "mobile" or "app" teams.
Now, Suhail is starting another company, Mighty [1][2], a cloud-based browser.

I had a quick exchange with him about a potential position, but his arrogance and inflated ego left me uninterested. He shared very few details about the company, talking with a tone that assumed I was automatically convinced I would want to join just because he has founded Mixpanel. Hiring is a two-way street buddy.

[1] https://mightyapp.com
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/all-84-startups-from-y-com...
I was pointing to a time when both institutions were producing valuable tools from their research and development that significantly bettered the world around them.

MIT & Harvard have not been affecting change in the world around them like they did in prior decades.
Why be jealous when you could just learn software engineering? I also majored in econ, and now work as a sort of hybrid SDE/Data scientist. I mean it's not easy to learn, but it's better than being bitter.
Visual Studio Code itself is "a browser, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS", no?
Again, this is the first I'm hearing of this. Do you have a link that explains this?
> Can you elaborate on how performing DNS lookups over HTTPS is putting lives at risk

The article touches on this.
How is this achieving https interception with zero setup? Does that not require a system-level root CA to be installed and trusted?
The problem is that if there's no accountability or clear legislation then nothing stops someone from entering a name into a search engine, also because being fined for doing so would reveal an unprecedented level of surveillance. It probably depends on the context as you write, but I wouldn't be surprised by anything: years ago, probably 20 or so, there was a report of some companies or recruiters using horoscopes to decide if hiring someone was advisable or not:^)
Fruity flavors were a life-saver for me, because it allowed me to distance myself from tobacco flavor so much, that it made me nauseous when I would try to smoke a real cigarette again. It just so happens that the "something else which appeals to existing smokers", e.g., fruity flavors, may also be appealing to non-smokers. However, I don't see that as a strong enough argument to ban them.
Yeah, this. At my current company, which I would consider large (20k+ employees) and bureaucratic, we've actually gotten this part right. Managers in no way control what the team is working on or deadlines for that work. They behave more like career coaches and therapists. They DO ultimately have control over your career, and I feel like that's a part here where having a good manager matters. But it's very rare for them to step in and shape the teams sprints etc. This is all in my own experience, so it probably depends to some extent on the department you're in and your manager in particular, but I can say this is all true for every team in my department.

The managers are held accountable by their bosses, but usually what this boils down to is teams not doing what they said they would. Which of course happens from time to time because as the article mentions we're all pretty terrible at estimating and shit happens sometimes. It makes me nervous to think about changing jobs because it sounds like this is NOT the way it is in most other places...
Yes but this is unlikely given CF's response. If they were short on capacity they wouldn't turn on two million people in one day and then ask for bug reports.
Really excited to see this relaunched. Every DS team has issues around dataset management. We previously shared a tutorial on how to get a fully reproducible pipeline with Quilt + Comet.ml https://blog.quiltdata.com/building-a-fully-reproducible-mac...
Is it though?

The tooling is pretty wild and crazy but I see a lot of tools that really do solve problems.
Free and leaner, yes. More flexible? That’s debatable. As I pointed out, it’s certainly not more flexible when it come to returning multiple result-sets from a single procedure.

I think that PG actually did just add a feature called stored procedures though. So maybe soon for returning multiple heterogeneous selects! It’s one feature that I’ve been waiting a long time for…

I chose SQL Server in many cases for it’s very high quality, support, superior ease of use and flexibility. Free and leaner weren’t very high on my list comparatively. You think those are the best characteristics to go by?
> The two are indistinguishable, unless...

So are they indistinguishable or not? Two things can't be a bit indistinguishable.
Unusual? Most/all of them do it.
Don't lots of smaller hosting providers have DDoS protection? Did you try one of those and find it wasn't good enough?
"Can you imagine if there was a persistent button at the top of your screen that said “Open Notifications?” "

YES PLEASE! I've had enough of modern design. Text, links, and buttons all look the same. Sub-panels are hidden behind random things in random places and behind random swipes.

We're ready for a renaissance of discoverability in UI.
The New York Times isn’t a very credible source at this point.
They competed on both quality and speed, as in who will be the first to 0-day the program which had to work 100%. Whoever got the 100% crack first won, anybody else's crack would get nuked. Them's the rules.

So, either we have gross incompetence across the entire information technology industry in general if it's impossible or slow, or the people disassembling custom filesystems and protections, bug fixing binaries and adding custom speed-loaders in record time are from another planet. Which one is it?
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You are absolutely right -- I don't know how much he suffered. But then again, people who claim he suffered unimaginable pain because he accepted the sin of humanity have no idea how much it hurt (if you accept such a thing is possible).

This is just typical having it both ways -- he was fully human and fully divine. That isn't some cosmic thing worth pondering -- it is just a contradiction. If you believe he is god and that it was unimaginably painful, then you should also accept as god he has infinite tolerance for pain and so it isn't so impressive.
I think what she is saying is true, unfortunately the article is a bit shallow. I went into this article looking for examples of behaviours that mark people for victimization and strategies for changing those behaviours. I didn't find any, and despite searching I have yet to find a good guide to this anywhere.

There seems to be a vauge grey line between being properly assertive and being selfish or being a jerk. Finding the proper assertive behavior is especially a challenge for people who grew up in abusive circumstances and don't know proper boundaries.
Are you saying they should be in prison?

If they should be in prison then the countries don't differ.

If they shouldn't be in prison then they probably won't make a worse babysitter. It was a very extreme circumstance that they regret.
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Love it. We definitely need a fiddler in macosx.
Distractions are in the eye of the beholder ironically. Have you considered that /you/ are more of a distraction to them with your obsession with "being adult" to your own expectations - from childhood no less?

Just because imposing your prejudices on others makes you have to think less doesn't mean it is a good idea universally.
The niche JDK vendors are an order of magnitude off what Oracle needs to fund JDK development. I suppose the closest example is Azul, which is using the same "pay for performance" model of Graal EE.

I have absolutely nothing against some kind of commercial model for funding the JDK. My comments were that in my opinion, the model is unfortunately doomed:

- Lack of goodwill for Oracle - Enterprises who are not yet Oracle customers really really want to stay away from entering into a commercial agreement. True or not, the perception is that a license agreement with Oracle comes with aggressive and intrusive compliance audits.

- Worse is better syndrome - Indeed Oracle is the primary developer on the JDK, but the others entering this space are not hobbyists working on the side. Plenty of serious vendors with serious compiler chops have skin in keeping "free JRE" as the "fast enough" JRE. Redhat natch IBM, Google, Azul, Amazon, apparently Twitter (see pull request). Graal EE is supposedly 30-40% faster on some numeric workloads. But what if these players get that down to 20% or 10% .. or suddenly there might be workloads where CE is faster. Much harder to pitch that license agreement without compelling and unambiguous benefit.

I don't have a "problem" with Oracle, I'm just commenting on where I think the industry is right now. Maybe Oracle will prove me wrong - Microsoft sure did.
> or at any point that isn't physically or technically well protected

Kind of off topic, but I was wondering if ISPs use any encryption whatsoever between the home and their IX/servers. Could you theoretically attach something to the wire in the ground, or monitor a satellite-based internet signal, and observe the HTTP/unencrypted data?
Just run an old version. It's what I do. Too bad though.
Is this something that could be used in a CI pipeline as well?
Researchers discover new family of viruses
Thanks, this should have been obvious in hindsight.

One more for people with cell phone plans that don't adhere to net neutrality: Warp can probably bypass quality caps on video streaming.

Traditional VPNs are strictly better than Warp+, as far as I can see, but the free version of Warp is a generous offering for users who would otherwise not be using a VPN.
It’s not libertarians claiming that children can make their own life-changing healthcare decisions.
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> * In practice ISPs are the almost universally reprehensible in how they collect, track, and sell your data.*

This means it would be an enormous leap forward in privacy for vast amounts of people.

I never understood the “perfect or nothing” approach to security that manifests itself in circles of the tech elite. Football is won by getting 1st downs, not throwing touchdowns every time.
It's for Go. For libraries it probably should be in the title.
Probably not! The 2nd law of thermodynamics is a statistical law describing the interactions of many particles, so it doesn't necessarily apply to microscopic scales.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2572-second-law-of-th...
I knew just fine how to search for something and copypaste from Stackoverflow; I just didn't even realize that the solution that I immediately thought of was sub-optimal.

Sure, that example maybe shouldn't necessitate a $50k degree, but my point was more that the theory inherently informs the practice. Taking a theoretic discrete math class does make your software better, even if it doesn't immediately seem relevant because all the job postings are asking for 10+ years of React experience or something.
There needs to be some more information out there as to what specifically is causing this illness. Everyone is quick to lump all vapes together when there are a ton of rumors that the ones making people sick/dead are blackmarket/bootleg THC cartridges from China. For all of these illnesses and deaths to come on so quickly, it seems more like a tainted product than the typical PG/VG/flavoring mixture causing this. We already know smoking kills. It kills way more people every day than have ever died from vaping. If we aren't going to ban cigarettes too, then we need to regulate them both equally. I don't think vape ads on TV are appropriate and Juul employees visiting schools is definitely not good, regardless of whether or not the kids are 18+. They can be used as smoking cessation but they can also just be used as an alternative as compared to patches and gum which are really only good for cessation.
DoH is a vendor-neutral protocol. There are already many DNS providers beyond just Cloudflare offering it, and there's no reason that every existing DNS provider couldn't offer it in the future. DoH is simply DNS transmitted over a secure encrypted medium, whereas existing DNS is transmitted over an insecure unencrypted medium. It's very similar to HTTP vs HTTPS.

Somehow, groups that stand to gain a lot by continuing to be able to read and intercept DNS traffic have led a successful astroturfing campaign against DoH by conflating it with one specific implementation in Firefox that happens to use Cloudflare as default provider (though of course with the ability to choose other providers, as you can for search engine). This is not a good argument against DoH in general, for obvious reasons.
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> We must have wasted that safety buffer; there is no other explanation for how it disappeared.

Or you just accept the research that people aren’t able to estimate time, and so it wasn’t a safety buffer on top of a real estimate so much as trying to compensate for the gut understanding that the estimate is pulled out of the air.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
Lifelong ADDer here. Yes, the damage of lifelong undiagnosed mental / attentional issues is absolutely a real and crippling thing.

You HAVE to break those patterns and the negative self-talk.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is helpful for this. Probably the biggest thing I've found helpful was David Goggins book "Can't hurt me: Master your mind and defy the odds". [1]:

>>"For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare — poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes..."

The audible version is PHENOMENAL IMO. He talks explicitly about learning disabilities and attentional issues - but be-forewarned his language is very raw, but it is 100% authentic.

1 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41721428-can-t-hurt-me
> It's pretty unusual for ISPs to do this. But Spectrum is big enough that it's a still a valid concern.

At least one major ISP owned by a German company does it. It's not that weird.
Yes, I understand the concept of "that government office is a pain to deal with", but that concept is not conveyed by calling it "no DMV".
I love that Amazon is moving in this direction.

Employer-provided health insurance is a total racket. I would love to see Medicare-for-all in the US, and support that. But we also need a plan B.

But how do you break a racket? You can’t just built a startup, because the market is fucked: everyone with money already gets care for free. Most of the people who need care are broke.

And there are so many layers of indirection: patient -> employer -> insurer -> provider.... that you’re not just dealing with a single racket, you have layers of protectorates that are milking people at every stage.

Plus there’s the scale issue, with a pool of 100 patient-customers, a few bad years can sink your startup. Yes you can buy specialty insurance, but it would need to be a very complex product and you need scale to make that appealing to an underwriter.

Which brings me to why I am excited about Amazon trying this:

A big employer seems like the only party other than the state who can break the racket.

Amazon is more or less bearing the full cost of their employees care, and they have the scale to act as their own insurer. They also have the software and data science teeth needed to build the backoffice.

Medicare for all is what we need, but I support Amazon because I believe in the diversity of tactics.
To be honest, I usually don't turn down phone calls for new opportunities -- even if I expect them to not go much of anywhere -- since it's a new connection, and you never know where the conversation could go. In this case, it was the name that threw me off.
The parent comment is referring to the explosion of standalone vape shops that sell a wide variety of products. Not a reference to Juul being a small company. This is the biggest fail in all of this, there have been a huge number of successful shops opening up that are all but put out of business by these bans.
Given the way teenagers don’t really fawn over authority figures, this seems like the most counterproductive thing they could have done. Stupid.
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