skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick still works (and is quite common), because investors apply that reasoning to the upstart, not the established business. If you go to a bunch of VCs and pitch them "Comcast is making a ton of money because they own a monopoly and steadily raise prices. Their margin is our opportunity. Give us $20B so we can build out a national 1G fiber network and take all their customers", their response will be "What's to stop Comcast from dropping their prices and increasing their bandwidth once you've spent all this money building your competing market?"

Knowing that you're the attacker and they're the defender and that most consumer markets favor the incumbent, the investor won't hand over their capital unless you can show that you've already started to take their market. And then once you have shown that you're taking a fat incumbent's market, they're happy to fork over tons because they know that every other investor's reasoning will be the same, and nobody will want to attack an incumbent that can just drop prices to fend off a challenger.

BTW, Google decided to buck the outside investors in exactly this example, funding GFiber internally. It played out basically exactly as the scenario above - the incumbents rolled out gigabit cable/fiber at competitive prices in precisely those markets GFiber was threatening, preventing them from making serious inroads. There were a bunch of other factors (like regulatory issues and the difficulty of scaling last-mile telecom), but after recent examples like that investors would rather find virgin territory rather than fight price wars in large existing markets.

(IMHO, this is one thing wrong with American capitalism today, as our system relies on cutthroat competition and aggressive risk-taking behavior by investors to get good deals to consumers.)
The 6 points the media is pushing for includes this [1], See 4.

1. The right to contest search warrants: Applications for search warrants to be made to a high-level judge, with the relevant media outlet to be notified and given the opportunity to challenge the warrant.

2. Protections for whistleblowers: Expanded safeguards for government whistleblowing, including an expanded public interest test. The outlets want to see a culture of secrecy replaced with a culture of disclosure.

3. Restrictions on secrecy: New rules governing what information governments can deem secret, with obligations to regularly audit the material being kept from the public.

4. Freedom of information reform: A suite of changes to FOI law to reduce and restrict the significant delays, obstacles, cost and exemptions that allow government agencies to prevent disclosure.

5. Journalist exemptions: Exemptions to protect journalists from prosecution under a number of national security laws. Media outlets can currently mount legal defences against charges under these laws but want this strengthened to exemptions for public-interest journalism.

6. Defamation law reform: Overhaul of defamation law to adapt to the digital era, address inconsistency across states territories, and ensure it is operating as intended.

[1]: https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-culture-of-secrecy-what-is...
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Please go back and re-read what I said.

I was talking about protections, not privileges. The protected classes are the only ones that are actually protected by law. The fact that other groups (white, male, etc) benefit from privileges are a reason for there being protected classes, but they are not the same thing at all.
> Is there anything I can do?

Yep.

Start small.

When planning, look for tests that will speed up your work now.

Don't care about overall coverage, only that what you are working on now is reasonably tested.

Always remember: if nobody has told you to test and what test to write then they are just a tool to help you.

Your tests can work as both a

- lab bench, keeping your code in place while you work on it

- fall protection

- a colleague that does pair programming with you, pointing out when you are about to forget something important

If some advice you get doesn't make sense and you can ignore it, do that after trying to understand what it should help for.

Michael Feathers book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" might come in handy at some point.
Didn’t get to read the full article, but it sounds like a case of snakes in suits. Did the leaders and managers in charge at the time the poor engineering took place get any sort of reprimanding or blame, or have they walked away with accolades of their quarterly performance and cost savings with continued increases in salaries and public reputation?
A worthy sentiment. Its part of why in most sci-fi scenarios where humanity has expanded off world it’s usually some variant of the technocrats left everyone else behind.

Lengthy as they are, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy novels are so interesting for challenging that idea, from the very first chapter.
I don’t care what other people make doing a job. Someone else’s income, wealth, or assets doesn’t matter one bit to me.
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On the other hand, a friend of mine who is a bio guy told me some wavelengths of light turn on some wound healing mechanisms in our body.

I think it was 660 or 670 nm (red light)
Pirating is already casual. But situation is much worse.

I can have russian voiceover from 4-5 studios on the next day after popular TV series aired. They even go this far, as to put full time commercials of not so legal online casino web sites.
I dont even need to torrent, to watch any tv show next day after air. There is android apps that will allow to watch any show via http or torrent. There is pirate websites with payed and free access. And as I said earlier fulltime commercials of online casinos, that sponsor pirate translations.

This situation is very bad for any commercial tv show services in ex USSR territory. No low regional prices can battle 0 price.
Predicting 100 years ahead is extremely difficult. Just look at authors from 100 years ago.

Toni Morrison is close to a safe bet but sadly doesn’t meet your criteria any longer.

So Pynchon seems like the clear winner. He’s the James Joyce of postmodernism so I’d be very surprised if he isn’t read in 100 years. If you want more accessible literature there is Franzen and Chabon.
Do you think you can learn how to solve a Sudoku problem by looking at the steps here?
how long is your career and how many times do you think you've interviewed? I've been asked at least 2 times, also the ones like what is your biggest weakness, or if I could hire someone that can do everything you do but is better at X (where X is are lcoal, or will work for less) tell me why I should hire you (which I think means you're supposed to say something like because I am a creative problem solver or something like that - I just say you shouldn't, you should hire them if they can do everything I can do but property X is better)
Chinese censorship is no longer just a China problem
Consider forking it.
Then there's also the fact that... time in space is a messed up fact. We could see evidence of life that was sent out 50k years ago (say a beam of light), but their whole race could be dead for a few thousand years and we'd never know until we set foot in their solar system.

Or there could've been life nearby that went extinct the minute we began fashioning our own tools out of stone and metals.

There could've been whole wars fought in space with the winners/losers going extinct before we were ever even formed through evolution.

Would be nice if we can ever explore all of the universe and figure out all those secrets, and see the archaeology of other races, but I don't know if we'll ever get there. Would be amazing if we did, to only find out that we are the only sapient species. How rare a thing that would be that we're the only ones to make it past the great filter.
There's DOT aswell. Http over tls which doesn't use http.

It's on your andriod phone now!
I used DejaVu Mono Book for quite a while, I had no problems with it.
> ingrained misogyny was so common

Was? I wouldn't call it misogyny, because it isn't out of hate but out of the unique social dynamics between genders, but absolutely nothing has changed except one thing: it's now politically incorrect and against the rules to actually say what you think/feel, so everyone hides it.

Men and women still don't work well together. The attraction dynamics between them still overpower any attempts at keeping things professional. The social differences are still all there.

As a proud owner of an ADHD brain, I don't understand the victimhood narrative at all. If someone doesn't want to work with me because I feel "weird" to them, why would I want to work with them? Why should they be forced to work with me? Who says I'm entitled to a job? Who says they owe me anything?

And most importantly, I would need to be sickeningly entitled and delusional to assume that society has to adapt to fit me rather than vice-versa. That's the kind of reasoning children use when throwing irrational tantrums.

I've never had trouble socializing, but ADHD does produce all sorts of strange behavioral patterns. It's 100% my responsibility, as a human being with personal agency, to read the room and adapt my behavior to the society in which I'm participating, not for the entire rest of the world to cater to me.
Comically ironic that this is coming from Murdoch, who shamelessly uses his ownership of a massive share of the Australian media to push his own political agenda. If we really wanted to tackle censorship and manipulation in this country, we’d start there.
Do you mean Richard Wolff?
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So now I have to work 16h a day for a week? That won’t affect my performance at all.
Answered this below:

> I've been tracking nim, and would agree it's the most promising so far! I feel though that it's trying to be too flexible in many ways. Examples of this include allowing multiple different garbage collectors and encouraging heavy ast manipulation. I'm also afraid it is different enough to keep it from attracting a significant amount of developers from the Python community. Nonetheless, it's something I plan on using and contributing to, since it's the best option so far.

Though, now that another commenter pointed out mypyc: https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc I believe I'll invest my limited free-time in that project instead, as it will allow me to stay within the Python community and eco-system that I love so much.
I can imagine small services in hundreds of zones colocated near the clients, rather than clustered in a couple dozen regions. But whatever their story is, they will need to tell it better.
> Hiring bad people in engineering can cripple your services. Adding code that's hard to understand, has poor time complexity, or is over-engineered can add more technical debt that any one feature is solving for, and reworking that code can cost way more time than it originally took to write once it's part of some production service.

So use code reviews prior to merging, and prevent that code from becoming part of that production service. If they're then unwilling to incorporate that feedback into their code, it might be time to review their contract.

Edit: Assuming people are capable of reviewing each other's code.
It isn't controversial. But we should teach people to think independently, rather than devaluing education and critical thinking. Why not have both? Businesses should have integrity and consumers should be able to apply a basic level of critical thinking. I don't think I placed blame on the victim, either. I'm merely pointing out people should think critically of what they read, because that has a lot of valuable applications in life, beyond outside of protecting yourself from people who will lie to you.
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I might amend that to say "professional authors sell."

I don't think someone who labors over their darling story for a decade, self-publishes it, and only sells a dozen copies is any less a "real" author than Tom Clancy or Stephen King ... she's just not as professional. Writing to her is a work of love, a hobby, a passion.

She doesn't just sit down at the keyboard and hammer away until she has her thousand words for the day. That's what makes the professionals professional: they see writing as a job.
> Practicing with no repercussions(100) is the best way to level up.

Is this claim based on formal research? Analysis of famous biographies? Long-term personal experience? (Care to share?) Or just a hunch?

What exactly do you mean by “no repercussions”? What does it mean to play chess without repercussions (it’s a game where you either win or lose...)?

In my experience the best way to improve at things is to throw tons of semi-structured data relating context and actions to tight feedback at your brain (personal pattern-matching neural net), and then wait a while for it to subconsciously integrate it.

To improve faster, figure out how to make the data more varied and relevant, by e.g. continually pushing the limits of what you can currently manage.
I have an HTPC. It works very well. Any other solution would involve compromises that aren't acceptable to me.
Yet when offered opportunities for change, Aussies nearly always reject it. We have a skittish & ignorant population which is extremely easy to scare with lies. The old truism that populations get the representation they deserve seems particularly apposite of our nation.
Let’s try to make this more constructive than the Herald Sun letters page, shall we?

For instance, I read a profile of Jacqui Lambie [0] in The Saturday Paper [1] the other week. I’m a Green-voting Fitzroy-dwelling hipster, literally, but I found it gave me a real appreciation of someone who I would have dismissed out of hand the week before [3].

Being a politician is probably a thankless task. I’ve no doubt it’s difficult. They really don’t get paid that much. I wouldn’t want to do it.

If you’re generally cynical of politicians as a people, I can’t recommend Ben Rhodes’ book The World as It Is [4] enough. It might not make you any less cynical — spoiler: politics is a shit-fight — but it might give you a little more appreciation for the fact that the people doing this job are just that. They’re mostly just regular people, who thought they could do good. (Rhodes was Obama’s adviser: if anyone has similar recommendations for Australian politics, I’d love to hear them.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Lambie.

[1]: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2019/09/21...

[3]: Actually, a few weeks prior, Jacqui sat beside us in the Qantas lounge at Devonport. We moved — mostly because of the annoying kids clambering all over the furniture and the toxic hellstew that is Sky News blaring from the TV, but we joked that we didn’t want to sit next to her. Now I wish I’d said hello.

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_as_It_Is_(book)
Great example of the original definition from TFA, thanks.

I've found that people can usually relate to this sort of difficulty. If I said, "Phew! I just spent 3 hours keeping the coding style thread from getting out of hand." I think most people would understand. Many of us have been there.
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Better to lose your digital asset due to your own incompetence than to a hacker of an exchange. Taking the money out of exchanges makes them less appealing targets, too.
"He instead attacked me and said it wasn't his job to teach anyone anything."

Sad to read this after having taught so many information technology professionals over the three decades, some of them in the heart of Silicon Valley. What I probably told you is that I don't owe you anything, which is still true. You disrespected me and attacked me several times. Why should I teach you?

As for the "what's left of Solaris is dying" "argument", I would be careful to make such statements, as they reek of casual usage: SmartOS isn't Linux; one deploys it because one has understood his advanced capabilities and features Linux doesn't have, to do a job and do it reliably and easier than with Linux, not because it's a good old buddies club where we comb our Ken and Barbie dolls and drink-pretend to have tea at 4 o' clock. If you want an echo chamber, stick with Linux; if you need to do a job, read the SmartOS manual pages, then come back with concrete questions. I'm not about fanboyism and casual usage, "community" and all that "Stack Overflow" nonsense.

Now, with all of that out of the way: what do you need help with in SmartOS?
I've been wanting this for Firefox since Opera exploded. Nice!

It also amazes me this kind of "store everything [locally] so life is easier" mindset isn't more common in today's world of extensions. It's one of the few things that can make the computer work for you instead of you working in a way the computer understands.
I don't know why this entertains me, but I started using Google Street View to take a look at the addresses of the IXs. Some look like Cyberdyne System from the Terminator movies. While some are these rundown single level plaza buildings with tire shops right beside them.
This is definitely a step in the right direction!
Ideally, I’d like to have something that I can set up on my phone and desktop(s), so I can have an aggregate search over all the things I visited, and on whatever device.
Is there a way (architecturally) to make that happen, without having to rely on (say) using one browser on every device?
Weird may be a simple emotional feeling people get because they sense you will mistreat them. (likely based on previous experience)

What I have found dealing with people that are Aspie/ADD (father and brother) is they expect others to change behavior to adapt to themselves, but refuse to change their own behavior to adapt to others. (even when directly told their behavior is not acceptable)

This means that many social problems (like work interactions) only have a one sided solution, and this turns into a simple form of abuse acceptance.
There are a few living stereotypes just up the road from me (rural countryside) but so many more who are friendly and so full of life that every chance to talk to them is a joy.

I've seen the world change a lot in my years, and I can only imagine what it's like for someone who has lived two or even three times as long. Keep in mind they were born at a time when nearly half of the houses in America didn't have indoor plumbing.
And that child’s name?

Albert Einstein.
Do you see little kids losing it over little things like not getting their art work just right? Or a bit older kid getting very upset over something their friend said? Or maybe a young graduate taking their first job extremely seriously?

We even play along and parents share a chuckle at their “important” problems, appreciating their young and limited perspective, and knowing everything will be just fine. Now consider how grandma thinks of that critical deadline of your “world changing“ project or that important deal that are losing sleep over. I always try to think about their perspective during stressful times :)
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Did he refuse to help write cards, or refuse to help talk to his mother on her behalf? I wasn't clear above, and I don't think the original poster of that story was clear in her rant in the article either.

Maybe she asked for help and meant that she wanted his support with his mother. But he thought she wanted him to write cards and refused to help on that basis. So now she's really mad at her husband over a simple misunderstanding.

It sounds really silly, but this sort of thing is obnoxiously common in practice. And again, good communication skills really matter in these sort of situations.
No is not what happened here, what happened here is that engineers voices get amplified from their anger because they value megabytes because they are more aware of their existence than the average joe; for average people nothing of this matters as the assets are being cached, it doesn't matter even for the developers of the site because is doing pretty well being one of the most visited sites in the world.
Is that with retina or wound exposure?
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On the other hand, many situations like this require someone who isn't emotionally insensitive. The hypothetical person who would be less reactive may very well not notice that there was trouble looming in the first place, and so would have no reason to moderate. (And if nobody steps up, it's very very common for things to descend into flamewars or at least very subjective argumentation.)
Firefox supports grid-gap for flex, but I no other browsers do yet.

https://caniuse.com/#search=gap
I'm pretty sure most of the people who have problems with where do you see yourself in 5 years, what's your biggest weakness, tell me about a time when things didn't go as planned etc. will have just as big a problem with how you'd like to be interviewed - I know for me the answer for how would you like to be interviewed is honestly I would not like to be interviewed in any way whatsoever.
You and your parents' experiences echos a lot of my own.

When Bitcoin started going up again several months ago, a few guys bought in near the peak despite my warning.

Gambling in general was weird. Like betting on how long it would take to eat something.

There's a surprising number of conspiracy theories. We've had to create headphone rules for certain topics.

That being said, hiring former convicts has been both a rewarding and challenging experience for me. If you have the time and it makes business sense, I would highly recommend it.

It's generally a polarized outcome. You either end up with a great employee or a problem. If you handle the problems, you'll always get better people by expanding your pool of applicants.
You’re not the first to mention Bookings lack of tests. Supposedly it’s because their code has a very short half-life, gets rewritten in no time and thus tests are seen as a hindrance.

Not that I agree, but it’s what I’ve heard.
oh wow...good for you.
Not sure if you're pulling my leg here with the stock picking suggestion; but directly holding stocks seems to be overall a losing bet for retail investors. A few do well but most don't; and that makes sense because retail investors have full-time jobs and they're up against traders whose full-time job is investing.
Although the current state of affairs seems to be that we are hellbent on activating said filter and we‘ll be long dead (at least as a technological civilisation) by the time anyone else receives our current radio transmissions.
I suspect this isn’t the case with an OLED, since it wouldn’t even emit any blue light in the first place if those pixels aren’t on. However, a typical laptop / monitor will have a white backlight that then gets blocked. Often there’s bleed through even if the screen is completely black.

If someone with more specific knowledge about screens corrects me, I yield to their judgment. :)
it sure is a good thing that most people don't have children or stuff they need to do after 8-10 hours workdays otherwise this wouldn't work for most people.
>PS: It’s odd, but I suspect a random process may actually work better because the great people actively looking for jobs are likely to be bad at getting them.

Somebody should almost build a toy startup around that random process eg Chatroulette for hiring. that might make sense.