skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be female. The pendulum is swinging back and overcompensating. At my workplace women are given opportunities and preferential treatment that men are not. And I work in defense software.
You can have all the options i still own on startups i worked at for $1500

email is me@dmitry.gr

Let me know when you want the wire transfer info
> Pay people with bitcoin.

I don't get paid in bitcoin. How do I pay people with bitcoin? :)

I think regulation concern is overrated in crypto, at least, with Bitcoin. Crypto complaint about regulation is mainly rooted in libertarian politics. If you are a cryptocurrency and you want to interface with fiat currencies, you need to comply with fiat regulation. KYC is painful but it is necessary. It even helps reduce fraud.

You can't throw your crypto no regulation gauntlet at fiat and demand them to comply to your game. It's crypto wanting to play the fiat game, not the other way around. Currently, there are many ways to on-ramp from fiat to crypto in the US. There's no government interference. If Bitcoin is an asset, Store of Value, you need to be taxed as asset. You can't do both currency and asset thing.
> How does DNSSEC at the roots actually protect you from an attacker manipulating DNS?

Assuming that is the question you mean... it works by not allowing the attackers to take the easy course of hijacking all DNS queries and answering how they like. Instead they have to inspect each packet and only hijack those they can, which is a lot harder to do. So it is raising the bar in hope of raising it high enough that it isn't worth it ($$ wise) anymore to them. Part of this is that most people don't do this.. so the economics are not the cost of packet inspection for all their customers, but for a small fraction.
We don't actually know for sure that Dual EC is backdoored, we have unexplained constants plus subsequently a way to pick constants that backdoor the algorithm have been discovered. The constants could have been chosen randomly or based on something that would be embarrassing to reveal, e.g. the project leader picked their children's birthdays. Since this algorithm is worse in other ways there is no reason to use it and it's reasonable to treat things that pick Dual EC as problematic because they had no good reason to do that once it became controversial. But we shouldn't forget that it's not actually proven to be backdoored, we have only reasonable suspicions.
s/far right/leftist/

As a libertarian, me and my family is beset by throngs of central planning meddlers at all levels of civic, provincial and federal government. Schools are a virtual leftist missionary sending base.

Not sure where you’re being attacked by “far right”...
Well, processing doesn't but the beauty of the language is that it starts with what the user wants as the output and the details of how it is pulled follows later.
Trump just said he wants Ukraine and China to investigate Joe Biden
The SQL-ish syntax in C# is pretty neat if you have joins or lets or multiple from's. But for simpler cases I also prefer the method-call syntax.
Yes, I remember the "Bring on IPv6" event when IANA ceremonially handed over the last IPv4 /8 to RIPE, at the TfL Museum, London in 2011.
keep an eye on the query planner. Last time I checked, the autovacuum doesn't run analyze on the parent table and it causes some issues.
> She has a whole section called "queries aren’t actually run in this order (optimizations!)"

Yep! Article is a big improvement; first I saw the image was earlier today when it was tweeted on its own here: https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1179449535938076673?s=20 and her images are often awesome because they capture nuance in a tiny poster
I have a set of those on a Mazda Miata and the better version built right into the tow mirrors on my truck. I love them -- much easier to see into the large blindspots on both. I really wish that they were built into more vehicles. I trust that much more than blindspot warning lights.
Get an Adderall or Vyvanse prescription. There are plenty of doctors who will prescribe it without grilling you too hard for a legitimate ADHD diagnosis.
Alphabet shifted the timing of stock compensation in 2017Q1, and this definitely screwed over some Noogler cohorts in 2017 (who may have expected a refresh in January 2017 or July 2017, but actually didn't get one until January 2018).

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2017_Q1_Earnings_Transcr... (first paragraph, page 3)
Lambda is great for infrequent, high CPU tasks such as batch processing. It isn't ideal for high frequency low CPU tasks like serving web requests. You'll pay a large percentage more doing it this way. Whether that extra expense is relevant to your business depends very much on your scale (or if you're sitting on a boatload of VC cash, I guess).
Microsize Lens Pushes Photonics Closer to an On-Chip Future
While not being a fan of Zuck, I sincerely hope his reply to Barr is "Fuck off, clown"
How do you fly?
Take a look at the breaches of security for open source, was it targeting specific customer data? DDOS? Trying to find specific examples of when it actually happened and then imagine if you could go back in time a month before the breach what would you have built to stop it? That might help you brainstorm.
You pay less heed to what you want to say,
and more to what is expected of you.

Ah yes, the unbearable burden of being polite to other humans.
Widespread Botnet Attack on Crypto Wallets Using Russian Malware
As someone who is involved in some of the recruiting process at a large tech company, I can say that the Amazonians who come our way tend to be decent people stuck in a toxic environment. Whenever I do a culture fit interview with them, I have several tactics I use to draw out the horror stories they inevitably have, and I'm usually pleasantly surprised by how they seemed to have maintained their own integrity through it all.

The contrast of their own attitude and actions in the face of being in a bad situation ends of very much working to their advantage. I enthusiastically recommend many of them as a "hire." On the flip side, every so often I churn up one of the perpetrators of toxicity, and I make sure what they tell me about themselves gets meticulously captured and reported to the decision makers.

So just having worked at Amazon doesn't automatically disqualify you in my book.
I was hoping for some Machiavelli-style tips as well, if only for the entertainment value. Something like, “if you cannot be both loved and feared by your employees, it is better to be feared.”
Encryption or not, if "bad" people can access illegal content "good" people can too. It might take actual work instead of passively reviewing the private communications of every person innocent or otherwise, but it's not made suddenly impossible.
Go Proposal Process: Representation
My favorite Dropbox feature is folder point in time restore. It saved my hide a few times.
I don't think the fidelity here is high enough for self driving vehicles, but the expertise built-up in the process would pave way for next steps.
Thank you for your valuable feedback. There is a free trial but reserving a VOIP number and send texts we still have to pay the carriers etc. So we'll definitely take a loss plus the freeloaders always find a way to abuse the system. e.g. Write a bot to create an account and use the new API key to send 10,000 texts and repeat that. Cannot explain how much spam we receive with people trying fake CC numbers from different countries or behind proxies
Most software developers like the principles of Agile development but its become a marketing term that high level management don't understand. For Agile to work, it has to have buy in from the top, hence it often is assumed Agile means quick results for the business if they follow Sprints. Recruiters market places using Agile, but never really understand what it means
Depending on why, static / manual statistics on tables (also normally a no-no) may also help.

(This is assuming whatever applicable regular maintenance (stats, index or table reorgs if needed) is done prior to the time-sensitive batch... and understanding sometimes there's just not enough hours in a day to run batch AND maintenance :| )
this is neat. i use a bare git dir for mine (https://github.com/tmm/dotfiles), but am looking to switch to something more opinionated and structured.
Why do you guys automatically want to hate on Amazon so much? Amazon compensation doesn’t work like that. In fact there are no bonuses. You get a sign on bonus and 4-year stock grant so no way you get anything lower than the number specified in your offer letter.
+1. One of the few programming languages that allows you to "work backwards" from your desired result to the data / computation needed for that result.
It already has, after the primaries. $ARGT lost 30% over one day, ergo things got cheaper. But this must have been in talks for longer.
Its great especially as a duckDuckGo user. I no longer have to use Google/Google Maps to see a satellite view.
Correct, an inlined view - which again if you are referencing the view multiple times in the query, I would again offer a temp table as a likely performance improvement.

edit: I say this from experience fixing hundreds of CTEs that came down to "I want to simplify the downstream query so I am going to package a heck ton of relations in this cte and combine it with this other one to hide the complexity as I do some other stuff!"
I think there are two factors at play here.

1) We have the curse of being first. Our cities are old so our infrastructure is old.

2) We can't just say, "Your land is ours, get the fuck out, construction begins in one week"

They can also cut corners on safety and pollution. The ends always justify the means.
IME, third line support staff for a start.
> By this argument, literally no protection or liberty that allows even one child to be harmed could ever be tolerated

It's an appeal to emotion and a commonly used tactic of politicians to get what they want (and to convince people it's what they want too). Used all the time in gun control debate.
I must have misunderstood you then, sorry. Can you explain better what you meant by "I wonder if we just won't be able to have statues any more?", if it was not fretting over the future of statues?
Project 62 Valencia Floor Lamp Review
> your crypto no regulation gauntlet at fiat and demand them to comply to your game

you can pay a homeless person with cash. you can pay a street performer with cash. you can gift cash. it's all anonymous no fuss. that's what crypto is, digital cash, not a digital credit card
Yes they can tell people to move in the name of public development. But it’s not like they just kick people out without compensation. My wife’s grandparents’ and parents’ had to move. The government provided them with new housing. The new houses are more modern, with toilets and running water, which they didn’t have before. The new houses are located in better places. Oh, and they have houseS now — previously they only had 1. Their standard of living improved.
I've done similarly career-threatening things in the past and my strongest advice is to stand and deliver in an actionable way.

Telling the CEO he is full of shit is not actionable. Telling the CEO that his plan will not work and that to save the situation he needs to do XYZ is. If you've judged the situation correctly and that level of drama is actually necessary, then either they will respect you and do it or they wont and you'll quit/be fired. Either should be fine for you from your perspective as an employee even if financially it's a leap.

I say it's good advice because it's turned out to be very good for my career. I've had it blow up in my face once and turn out better than silence every other time. That's a muh better ratio than I would have guessed, I suspect because it's easier to fear the consequences of action than inaction.
They're chasing parity with Google Maps
Unless you wanted to build an HSR line through a long coastal mountain range most of way from SF to LA further driving up the cost, having it go the majority of the distance through a relatively flat valley definitely has its benefits. I do think that the line should have paralleled i-5 instead of going through Bakersfield and Fresno, but that's not the choice that was made.
Interesting, from https://www.amtrak.com/acela-train:
"Superior comfort, upscale amenities and polished professional service at speeds up to 150 mph, Acela offers hourly service downtown to downtown during peak morning and afternoon rush hours between New York, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other intermediate cities, as well as many convenient round-trips between New York and Boston."
Cars and the Fourth Amendment
It's also career limiting and traps your kids into a life they may not want.
anime: Kabaneri, Princess Principal

games: Frostpunk
Google selling facial recognition to China and China use it against people.

Is anybody actually reading what these Google whistleblowers are saying ??

Hong Kong is in bad shape at the moment!
Thank you for your valuable feedback, I'll definitely make some changes
Or, as with everything these days, pay another company to deal with it. I've been seeing ad's for Pilot.com all over recently which claims to do this work for you, in exchange for a fee, naturally.
What we really need is some sort of a cyber-fatwa calling all valiant friends of freedom to kill those working on these sorts of surveillance systems without delay, no one shall infringe on the fundamental right to privacy. And whoever is killed in this cause shall be a martyr.

Meanwhile, if someone has access to the authors of the surveillance systems but is incapable of carrying out the execution, they should inform the people so that the perpetrator is punished for his actions.
But there's a work crew on the tracks so make the trip four hours instead.
You are definitely being unfairly downvoted. The China shills are in full force.
> "Having used my own hollow core desks going back to 1985 or so (with an original IBM PC sitting on such a desk)... I have yet to see a reasonable load they would crack under."

yup. part of the founding tale of idealab, the pasadena startup incubator, is the use of hollow-core doors on filing cabinets as desks. they have maybe 150 such desks in use there. i've used them and they're more than adequate for that purpose.
Turning Over: Why page turners matter
You specifically stipulated that the data optimization was bad - then why is data optimization of ads harmful? Doesn't serving relevant ads have more utility?
I found Elm's type system to be extremely cumbersome in comparison to Haskell's.
Yeah, I figured it was something like that. There are plenty of things that I believe are true but don't say because the blow-up potential just isn't worth it. (And I'm someone who actually likes arguing on the Internet.)

Why not do something actually anonymous, though? Put up a form box on your website where people can write anything in response to the prompt, and let folks access it through Tor? Then post the results with the appropriate disclaimer. You might need to moderate it a bit to cut out crap like "PENIS1!!11!1!", but you might also get some genuinely interesting commentary.

Then again, this is basically what Blind does.
Apple, not enough interesting platform anymore.
Be smart enough to determine if your interests align with the company's interests before talking to HR. Sometimes they do.
They’re not complete opposites, since criminals don’t always have perfect privacy: they leave other evidence that can be discovered with a warrant. On the flip side, mass surveillance will just create selective enforcement.
I suspect you're asking more figuratively, but I saw this PDF from Stonebraker on the developer of databases and query languages that literally answers your question[0].

I've always done data heavy work, but as a recently hired data engineer, I'm really diving deeply into this layer that previously I had taken for granted. In doing so, I find SQL highly expressive and beautiful for data work; much moreso than Python, my other primary language.

Which languages do you feel manipulate data beautifully?

[0] - https://people.cs.umass.edu/~yanlei/courses/CS691LL-f06/pape...
Postgres: Have you VACUUMed your tables lately?
For me they are beatiful. Because they allowed a lot of people to have their own house. It's incredible achievement. They should be replaced by better houses with time, of course.
thank you for your valuable feedback. This is very helpful
I worked for a startup that was only founder and myself at the beginning. I took responsibility to build the product, the company grew from us two to 24 in 3 years.

At some point he invited manipulative manager into the team who had a very bad habit of making friends with people by badmouthing other people. Founder did not want to read these signs until the point that manager got private phone line with investors and started badmouthing founder and everyone else. Half year later founder was fired, that manager took over. Soon after I was told off, but I was on my way out anyways after I found him shouting at his subordinates. Anyways this was way too long after I was stripped off from any voice in the company.
Because we live in three-dimensional space, there's no reason for us to run out of room unless we stop building (especially upwards).

The constraint isn't necessarily that people have to leave the planet so much as we need to ensure access to minerals and high industrial capacity.

When we exhaust "nearby" minerals and space transit has advanced enough, colonization will look more attractive.

Will we hit a bottleneck along the way? I don't know. But it would be an awful shame if it were political.
I'd say they have different use cases.

If you want to develop native-looking or information-dense UIs, Qt Widgets is the way to go. If you want to create a more Electron-like UI or develop something for mobile devices, I'd go with Qt Quick.
It's also possible to combine both by embedding a QQuickWidget[0] inside a Qt Widgets application.

If you want to get an idea about what both solutions provide, take a look at the examples for Qt Quick[1] and Qt Widgets[2]. Especially Qt Quick Controls[3] are useful to see what UI controls are available in Qt Quick.

I'm working on a desktop app in Qt Quick using QML and C++. Happy to elaborate if there's interest.

[0] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qquickwidget.html
[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-codesamples.html
[2] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols2-examples.html
[3] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/examples-widgets.html
That was never the intent, what makes you feel that?
By such developer's many people who don't even heard about Agile can knew about it.
> Electric cars, electric buses, bullet trains, low-speed maglevs, high speed maglevs... China is making it happen!

No rule of law, organ harvesting, labor camps.... China is making it happen!
At least that our government wants!
Article comments and comments in this thread seem to miss the point of the title entirely. Here's some actual advice I don't want my name on, but seems pretty effective based on working at a lot of different Big Cos:

- Always go for prestige over purpose. Have a choice between a shiny project with very little actual impact to the company and a behind the scenes project that will actually make lives better for employees and customers? Go for the shiny project. It will look better on your resume and to executive teams, and will get you promoted faster.

- Learn the art of looking busy and practice it often. If you look busy all the time, people will assume you're productive and also not give you a bunch of extra work for no extra compensation.

- Play politics. A lot. Especially throwing other people under the bus. The key is to align your politics with the right power players in your org. You'll get promoted faster, get more bonuses, and be able to get away with more things in general.

- Get the scoop on what's actually going on at executive levels by making friends with the office managers/personal assistants. You'll get an early notification of problems coming up, people to avoid, opportunities to take advantage of, etc.

- Loyalty is for chumps. Play the game for yourself. If you get a better offer somewhere else, take it. If your boss is an asshole or putting a glass ceiling over you, leave. If you need time off, take it. If your team isn't being effective, throw them under the bus and move on.
Observed: Cluster of galaxies 12bn light years away linked by gas filaments
When did they institute this process? I never saw it in the years I worked there.
it gets nicer at the end:

"As a result of the negotiations, both sides agreed to retain joint military occupation of the island until a final settlement could be reached, reducing their presence to a token force of no more than 100 men.... During the years of joint military occupation, the small British and American units on San Juan Island had an amicable mutual social life, visiting one another's camps to celebrate their respective national holidays and holding various athletic competitions. Park rangers tell visitors the biggest threat to peace on the island during these years was 'the large amounts of alcohol available'."
Ask HN: How to effectively deal with recruiters?
I'm a Golang developer based in western Europe with around 5 years professional experience.
I frequently receive unsolicited messages from recruiters, mostly on Linkedin, introducing this and that amazing job opportunity.
Right now I'm happy where I am, but I won't mind hearing them out if said opportunity is especially compelling.

I'm not sure how to engage with them in an effective way. My goals are basically two:
1. avoid wasting time
2. avoid coming across as arrogant - they are doing their job and their time isn't worth less than mine.

To know if their opportunity is compelling I need to get some key information upfront, e.g. what's the client's budget. I don't want to even start discussing anything if it turns out that the client pays 25% less of what I'm making today. Of course money is not my only concern, but it's still a very easy way, and a very relevant one!, to filter out jobs that have no chance whatsoever to fit my definition of compelling. Another deal-breaker would be a company that doesn't allow any form of remote work.
Also some of them absolutely want to talk over the phone and I don't feel comfortable with that.

So what's your strategy for dealing with recruiters? Do you demand employer information upfront? Do you ignore them? How do you interact? Thanks!
> I thought the steampunk genre was born with Wild Wild West - that awful Will Smith movie from '99

I'm very curious, how old are you? This statement baffled me because it reads as if talking about ancient history.
Not having query hints isn't the "SQL at fault" - it's very much the optimizer, or you wouldn't need to override it with said hint. I've seen it where one index hit an arbitrary number of rows and then the query flipped to joining on another, non-indexed column, increasing the time to run massively - that sort of 3m to 3 hours magnitude. Had to throw on a hint but that's only because the optimizer decided it knew better.
By this argument, literally no protection or liberty that allows even one child to be harmed could ever be tolerated.

Well, I think the aim is to create (or in this case, maintain) a emotional button that when pressed, create such an extreme picture in the person's mind that they instantly respond with "your freedom? versus this?, yeah screw your freedom, we gotta stop this."

The extreme the pictures shown on media, the more minachean the TV plot, etc, the stronger reaction.