skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to civil stuff (i.e. the safety critical thing people think of when they hear engineer - bridges, buildings, highways, flood protection...) you absolutely can't call yourself an engineer without professional accreditation in every jurisdiction I know.
During the spate of health care information leakage, someone invented a MTBCA, meaning "Meantime to CEO Apology" for the time between the breach and the CEO apology. At that time, it was running on the order of 8 months.
Someone does it for you https://www.lastweekinaws.com/

I am completely unaffiliated with this site, I just enjoy it
I took a 5% pay cut at an incredibly boring bank. But I wasn't unemployed at all. My dotcom job was nothing amazing. They teased an IPO but never got within a mile of it. My salary ($65k?) felt like a fortune at 22 years old but wasn't astronomical.
https://youtu.be/8tCC9yxUIdw

A wonderful 1 minute snippet of David Bowie explaining how huge of a deal it’s going to be to a skeptical interviewer in the 90s
Really had to laugh out loud at this one. To point out the obvious and make my comment more substantive- this article is concerned about the type of murder that isn't happening, when corporations kill us off every day for money. Hello, freedom.
Hm a 403 when one runs out of credit can be misleading as one would expect that for an authorization error. You may want to consider the `402 Payment Required` status code instead which seems to be used by some big players [0].

Best of luck with your launch!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#402
> high-pressure sales techniques and black box pricing offers - which then anchored our rate

If you have the ability to shift your entire enterprise CDN away from them, why not first try renegotiating?
The organizing of any neural network training program to create AI that can identify targets would also be a very laborious process.
This doesn’t seem to be the case. People drive more recklessly trying to avoid triggering a ticket. Cities know this and don’t care as long as they increase revenue. Bad people often run big cities.
If you really believe that three different papers actively hit crucial information, then there's not much I can say that would convince you otherwise honestly.
Yep, destroying functionality is what Apple has been doing for a while now. I am unable to understand how anybody could think that this is a good idea. Do not break what works!
I might, but that it the overly paranoid part I was talking about. But then since I don't trust or like Amazon and I'm in Europe I wouldn't have been in the position to do it.
Except the official report doesn't say what's being claimed here. If they've decided climate change is debunked, that'd be worthy of at least a new blog post.

It's pointed out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21313203 that /u/raarts misread that section.
No, he is right. Why would Elon Musk double the price of his cars to install Lidar? One sensor is $7500.

It would save more lives to make affordable cars which do 99.9% of what Lidar does, than to double the price for literally negligible benefits. Teslas now come with 8 cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensors and a forward facing radar.
I thought a lot about this comment and I don't mean to insult you but- I think you could constantly optimize towards the convenient and it wouldn't solve any problems. For instance, perhaps you would prefer to sit in a chair all day being fed by tube?
That made me go look for a long term stock chart. It's really kind of interesting:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/IBM/ibm/stock-pric...

...it would seem IBM is still in a (very volatile) huge uptrend that started in the early 90s.

Now that I think of it, you could say that if the PC platform worked out well for Linux then Linux ended up working out well for IBM.
Literally, no. Conceptually, maybe.

Lego represents the construction of objects from catalogs of standard components. That’s in comparison to carving unique, one off toys from raw wood.

Professional fabrication has followed in the footsteps of LEGO (and Lincoln Logs, Erector Set). If you use SketchUp to design a building you’ll notice it’s encouraged to use standard building components that can be picked from a library. Lots of those components can then be picked up at Home Depot. Ikea furniture kits are also similar to Lego (or at least the broader category of toy).

LEGO’s Mindstorms GUI programming model is very forward looking. LabVIEW and Simulink are picking up on those concepts & professional engineers are definitely using them.
> Which means the first person to pay the ~$500 is legally within their rights to reupload this product for the rest of the world to download freely?

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's not how the GPL works. If some company were violating the GPL with their product, the owners of the GPL work could sue them to stop them from shipping their product. Nothing in the GPL causes infringing works to automatically become GPL (though it would be one way for the infringing company to resolve the issue, if they so choose).

I don't know how or if the GPL applies in this particular situation, I'm just referring to how the GPL works in cases where actual infringement is happening.
Yeah I do this on almost every search
Looks like it got axed https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
Wouldn't google disallow this? i.e. if you allow access, you can't brand it "Android".

OTOH your explanation is eminently plausible. A dual desktop/phone seemed like a cool idea to me several years ago, but people would rather just use their phones. Plus, people now use websites/services more than local applications - and services like dropbox have largely solved the rest of the files-anywhere problem.
>automobiles put a ridiculous amount of kinetic energy in the hands of individuals, this has been true for 100 years, and somehow "the state system" has done just fine; strengthened even in that period of time.

Yep.

States figured out how to turn automobiles into tanks, essentially strengthening their power. Yet the article implicitly posits that somehow the same won't happen with microprocessors and nanomachines? The entire article seems a bit fanciful. States aren't going anywhere.
Check out Target — they are ridiculously awesome. You can order stuff online and pull into a parking lot in a few minutes, with the guy waiting.
Not saying it is, but, how would you know it isn't?

I imagine that either "they" (the advertisers/companies) have either already figured this out and are learning how to leave grassroots-looking comments, or they will pretty soon.
I am not here to claim that Russia is all nice and fluffy. But their stated goal for making infrastructure independent from the West is totally legit. It makes 100% sense. The rest is all guesses and speculations.
You're saying it wasn't dissolved for bad actions? It even had the judgement overturned on a technicality, but it was moot by then.
What if you just didnt check? It's the rule, not the exception that these orginizations are filters. Access to original sources breaks their hold on deciding what is real.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10052
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/50332
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32795
Ask HN: Productive Alternatives to Slack?
I'm looking at https://twist.com right now.

Any options on that or other Slack alternatives?

I'd like something better than the Slack vomit of reading 10 interleaved conversations, no good list of unread threads, etc.
PDAs fit this IMO. We had newtons, palm pilots (Clie), Windows CE, devices (iPaq, Axim, ...), all of them were for geeks/hobbyists only until iPhone. Anyone carrying one was considered a geek out of the norm. Now you couldn't pry a smartphone from a non-geek's hands.
I was ~1.5 years out of college and at a small dot-com with a niche SaaS at the time. I distinctly remember 9/11 and the chill that came over our office that day. That passed in time, but our economic prospects never recovered. I used to hit the gym in the mornings and then work ~10am-7pm and I distinctly remember the day ~9 months later when the VP of engineering called me on my cell while I was finishing up my workout and asked when I would be in the office. He said to come straight to his office when I got in. About 85% of the company was laid off that day and I was among the "lucky" ones who was not.

What followed was almost straight out of the Silicon Valley sitcom. Management know our existing product was a dead-end, but with 85% of the company laid off, our remaining VC funds gave us a decent runway, so they decided to pivot to ... something. That is, the entire company (about ~15 of us) would sit around in the boardroom and try to come up with new product ideas. Needless to say, that went precisely nowhere.

The CEO was pushed out fairly shortly after that and I had been brought in through his network. My layoff came about ~6 months later in the second round of layoffs which constituted only me. Thanks to the VP of engineering going to bat for me, I did get 3 months of severance. I spent 9 months looking for another job and finally found one in fintech in NYC which turned out the be, to this day, one of the best jobs of my career. I also met my now-wife and many of my best friends there. That time was both the most traumatic experience of my working career and the best thing to happen to me at the same time. I know it was much harder on many other people, but it turned out for the best for me.
I imagine Google is what It is today because of their workers, not managers or enforcing “drinking of the Kool Aid”, so to speak ¯\(°_o)/¯
State is the root of all evil.
Scientists Create New, More Powerful Technique to Edit Genes
> Nick Bostrom argues that the only way to defend against a global catastrophe is to employ a universal and invasive surveillance system, what he calls a “High-tech Panopticon.”

I suspected as much since the simulation argument but looks like Bostrom has really lost his marbles.
It's a bit frustrating that the whole "never rebase" thing has become a cargo cult -- because it's only correct in specific circumstances (thus it's completely wrong to say "never").

The reason why the Linux kernel has a no-rebase policy for maintainer trees is that thousands of developers base their work on the maintainer trees. Developers are constantly rebasing their work (either to update to the latest development branch by a maintainer, or to restructure and modify their commits with "git rebase -i"). Thus, rebasing maintainer trees would result in many developers having to deal with frustrating issues when they rebase (they have to curate which commits the maintainer has removed to keep with "git rebase -i"). It addition, maintainer trees get tested automatically and rebasing a tree invalidates all of the previous testing (so if you ask Linus to pull from you and the tree was just rebased, you're sending untested code and will get shouted at).

Yes, you should never rebase master -- because there is guaranteed to be more than one user of master. But rebasing (for developers working on a feature) should be a very familiar thing to do -- unless you're working on a feature branch with someone else.
It was rumored that a friend had a $1.5million tax bill on options he had exercised. He apparently held onto his shares riding them down to about about $300K or so in value.

Not sure how he resolved it (whether he negotiated his tax bill down with the IRS or came up with a payment plan).
I really like this idea -- it seems like it would be impossible to optimize both for Google and something like this
"Hunker down and weather the storm" was exactly how I felt in 2000 and 2008 both. I actually didn't know many tech people that lost jobs, but.... everyone stopped hiring, everyone stopped quitting. Just lay low.
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.

- from Wikipedia.

Pretty sure his proposal nails the dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society parts. After all, that's the whole point of all-encompassing surveillance.
It's generally poor form to direct link a Google search as a reference as you can never be sure if the results will be the same tomorrow or if the person clicking it will get personalized results that differ from those you get.
Nanotechnology at least had the possibility of being the singularity if only you would learn to relax and enjoy it. Bostrom seems bent on realizing the Inferno and adding a 10th circle of people saying 'it's your fault from not stopping me.'
What I read is that $5B is on top of their past investments of roughly $11B.
The Bay Area is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

Believe it or not most U.S. programmers don't live in the Bay Area.
I'm the author of the article, and I would like to add a few things to hopefully make my point clearer.

- While I'm flattered by the attention my piece got by 'making Hacker News', it is simply a personal view and a personal disappointment towards the direction Apple is going with Mac OS. It's not a prescriptive article. I'm not telling people to avoid upgrading to Mac OS 10.15. It's your Mac, it's your work, it's your data, it's your time. Do whatever you please.

My decision to not upgrading is the result of a lot of time spent gathering information and evaluating costs and benefits of the upgrade. And my conclusion, as I clearly stated in the article, is that I'm not upgrading because "what Catalina takes away from me is more than what it gives me."

I also took the opportunity of sharing a few reflections and my criticism towards Apple's recent treatment of Mac OS. Whatever the underlying causes, it's undeniable that Mac OS is not as robust, consistent, and well-designed as it used to be. It wasn't bug-free before. Nothing is bug-free. But I remember past versions very well. I use a variety of Macs of older vintages, so I still use older Mac OS X versions. The degrade in software quality and system stability isn't a matter of opinion. It's out there to see.

And yes, I don't like the direction Apple has been moving after Steve Jobs's passing. That's an entirely personal preference, and I respect the point of view of those who, instead, love what Tim Cook & Co. are doing. I'm not really 'complaining' that Apple's not doing things 'my way'. However, as someone who has been using computers for 38 years and Macs for 30, as someone who knows a thing or two about user interfaces, user interaction and user experience, I think I'm allowed to share a few criticisms about the direction Mac OS is going without being called a 'whiny entitled teenager'.

I try to approach technology by focusing more on the forest than a single tree, and sometimes I struggle to see all this 'progress' and 'future' other tech geeks keep talking about.

Technology should adapt to us, not the other way round. Progress should mean making things better, improve what we do with the help of computers and devices. Instead, as I wrote, "I also notice that — for everything to keep working smoothly — you have to do more work than before. It just works, with Apple products, has lost the frequency and consistency it once had. It is a strange progress when you keep feeling the sting of two steps back for every step forward."
This is all great and exactly how I approached basic async stuff in Python 2.7 but I’m surprised there’s literally no mention of async/await syntax or the AsyncEventLoop.
In Switzerland, the worst event was not this one but 9/11 in 2001.

In a matter of a few hours all new IT/IS project were cancelled and budgets for IT/IS were frozen to below the minimum in all companies. It took almost a year to recover a little.

I started my career during the summer 2001. I was hired in seconds without any technical test.

All (no exception) my friends who wanted to chill during the summer before finding their first job... ended jobless for 1 full year.
the ppc -> intel upgrade was amazing in that it was ho-hum.

There was a whole machine architecture change, and most people didn't even notice.
When I see a new language, I always want to see the Hello Word and Fibonacci examples.
Does it matter? If you're a tourist/newcomer, simply don't try to make it through a yellow light just because you can. If you can stop, do so.

That may get you rear-ended or barely so, because the driver behind may be accustomed to the usual traffic of the area going through, and perhaps he may be the one who should stop, but is not expecting you to.
Founders Brewing manager claims he didn’t know Black employee is Black
Ask HN: How would you maximize rent of a parking space?
I have a space in my condo building I want to rent out, and I’m looking to maximize the rent paid.

Assume that I post a sign, and get only one person interested, and they ask me for a price.

1) If I give a number and it’s too high they may drop off

2) If I give a number and it’s too low then I have undercut myself

3) If I don’t give a number and ask their budget, they are incentivized to give the lowest reasonable number, which may be significantly lower than what I’m looking to get

My one data point is the HOA rents out spaces further away than mine for $200 / mo, and they have excess supply. So I’m looking to get at least $200 (since my spot is closer), ideally $225.

I say assume one person responds because obviously having multiple would give me leverage to get to my ideal price. I’m trying to figure out a strategy if only one person responds, which seems likely given the “market” seems slow paced, maybe one person a month posts an ad for a parking space, and it may be up for a week to a month.
Yeah, seems like SoftBank isn't doing this just to save face. They're doing it to prevent the whole party from coming to an end, right quick.
And I think that the author's view is totally and completely backwards. If anything, it will solidify the importance of the state as a law enforcement entity. If someone from Brazil attacks an Italian citizen in his home, is Japan going to help the Italian or bring justice to the criminal in Brazil?
I really wish places like Docker Hub and package managers (pip, npm, apt, etc) would articulate the edges of their security boundaries better.

Like, can I expect that every docker image I pull has been audited for at least obvious and intentional backdoors? What about if I update a trusted image, and some time down the line the original posters account is breached? Has the code had an in-depth audit that at-least indicates that it's /somewhat/ resilient to being poked with a sharp stick?

2Factor at least improves security, but my security model must still rely on the Dockerfile maintainer not getting breached - I've never met any of the maintaners, and cannot independently verify their operational security at all.

I know there's at least some foil covering my hair right now, but the security of these kinds of services means anyone who's using them is effectively building a whole bunch of infrastructure right on top of a handful of houses of cards.

If anyone has any solutions that would solve this, I'd be interested in hearing and maybe implementing them. I've long thought of some sort of centralized community driven independent code-review/pentest notes to at least provide some level of assurance, but I don't think there'd be enough interest to hit critical mass, and the project would just die out.
Luckily the modern automobile is so simple in all its functionality that anyone who wishes to purchase one can learn everything about the workings in a half hour over coffee!
In another comment [1] I compare this with a pro-Marxist subreddit which is similarly "quarantined" and has noindex.

Google indexes it perfectly. [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21316065

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Reddit+ChapoTrapHouse
Google.ca no longer shows URL on search results
What the heck? Compare search results on google.ca vs google.com. The .ca domain hides the urls and instead shows favicons and site titles.. is this a bug? beta test?
Cyberlockers are an example are they not? Criminals are killing people in hospitals by locking up hospital computers.
How Slack revolutionized the modern workplace
It felt bad because our dot com hopes were dashed, but life for a regular programmer wasn't too bad. I was about 4 years out of college then and it just meant I had to take boring jobs at big companies like Home Depot writing database front ends. I was still able to pay the bills though.
I think WebAuthn is going to be the thing that finally pushes this into the mainstream. The browser integration is fantastic.
Why is it a given the unit economics are positive?
It's actually kinda the opposite, 4chan traffic more than doubled[0] (with a matching decrease in quality) after gamergate and the election, and there is a general consensus that it's going to get worse when the next election ramps up

[0]https://s2.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/a/image/1543/01/154...
My understanding here is that you wouldn't owe taxes if you sold exercised options (at loss or even) because you would make no gains. You may even be able to write off some taxes?

I'm not exactly sure what happened with people who go bust. My guess is they could have had the type of options where you don't pay taxes up front, and then they weren't able to pay when it was finally time.

Like you, I would love to hear more about this.
I played a recent season, and got pretty far in the completion checklist with a few characters in hardcore mode. Overall the experience is just mediocre, but the game itself is quite polished, which means the design itself is flawed.

There's something about character progression that seems very shallow. The overall feel and experience of the game is closer to an arcade action game like Gauntlet (3d version) that has repetitive levels as oppose to an ARPG with RNG content that has endless replay value like D2.
Honestly speak to an accountant - there are so many different ways you can get shafted on Tax for Options / Employee stock grants / Capital Gains.
It's 旧金山 (jiu jin shan), but otherwise you're right.
This is why you see a lot of insurance companies, for instance, with their tech folks quartered in Ohio. Easily half the cost for 90% of the talent.

I'm surprised that more companies aren't playing moneyball with nice, but cheap, locations.
'Helical Engine' Concept Could Reach 99% the Speed of Light
Cory Doctorow's short story "0wnz0red", about Silicon Valley geekery (not to spoil anything), was published in 2002.

Apart from some technological touch stones, it's impressive how it still feels culturally current.

https://www.salon.com/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/
I got to say, my Windows 10 PC at work, with an 8 year old CPU, has been rock fucking solid.

So has my 2013 MBPr at home.
Book Review: Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday