skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a young-ish dev at a smallish (200 or so people) company in the Bay Area during the dot-com crash. I came in one day to find that something like 1/3 of the people in the company, seemingly chosen at random, no longer worked there. Those of us who remained were consolidated into one floor instead of the two we had before. My salary and options were not affected, and the (basic by modern standards) free food stayed pretty much the same, though I think WebVan was no longer around to deliver it. I left soon after that, and the company lived on in cockroach mode for years. I think it was eventually acquired, but I haven't paid much attention.

One reason my experience wasn't catastrophic was that I was at an infrastructure company, not a hype-driven one like Pets.com. If/when the current ad bubble bursts, average devs will fare best working at companies several steps removed from the hype. People may not want micro-targeted ads, but they'll still need software.
Larry Ellison in the grand scheme of things is a turd who while he has probably pissed enough people off hasn't pissed off anyone enough to try to flush him with extreme prejudice.

I'd be more worried about people of actual importance like police chiefs, prosecutors, senators, presidents.
>> it's still randomly losing files.

Whoa, no. That is a huge code red for me as a creative. Especially in the music folder. I work at all crazy times of day and night, inspiration hits, and is often impossible to replace. Not alright.
> Of course, this is a fantastical proposal. Even the real-world use of AI in the justice system is fraught with problems. But at this point, do we have a better idea for preventing the collapse of the state system under the weight of widespread technological empowerment?

I'm not sure what motivated this sort of soundbite-style quoting without digging in further, but I hope if you first read the comments without the article you realize this is supposed to pose a question, not offer a solution.
They don’t hesitate to purge legacy.
Thanks a lot @somada141! Apologies for any confusion.

Let me clarify: the Free tier covers the first 250k API requests made in a single month. If the number of requests in a month goes beyond the threshold, the API will start returning Forbidden errors. The counter gets reset at the first of each month.

If your service gets more than 250k hits a month, then you will be a perfect match for our "Pro" tier.

This pricing structure, puts us on a league of our own, offering to the developers a huge package of free API calls every single month. Nobody else does it!
I love a good hoodie, but I’d suggest a modest blazer or two in your wardrobe for rotation with dress shoes, even if you’re sporting a plain solid color T-shirt.
I totally agree, I think we're talking about orthogonal things.

You're saying that a good idea should absolutely be taken, whichever culture it came from, which I totally agree with -- I was saying that Western powers (all powers) tend to go after their interests first, and any talk of 'promoting our values abroad' should be greeted with skepticism, given the record. Not that I disagree with the values.
Serious question: Why is it that everyone believes that going to the cloud is cheaper? How is it that AWS can buy the same servers, same switches same everything, make a fat profit and somehow it's sell it cheaper than you can do it? I get that there are economies of scale, but not 2-3x right?

Sure, you don't need those admins to rack up new servers, but don't you just trade those costs for costs around AWS "devops"? (IAM / authentication anyone?).

I keep hearing execs telling me that moving from self-hosted to AWS is going to save a ton of money ... but I just don't believe it. I would assume if you're that bad at running an IT business in-house, you'll be just as bad at it in the cloud.
Let's not blame the victim. The general consumer does not buy a device assuming it's ripe for hacking and that they have to take extra steps to configure it more securely.

It's the manufacturer's fault to allow the weak configuration in the first place.
You joke but I think IBM or someone similar did already get a patent on patent trolling.
I prefer to always use fast-forwarding when pulling, either with `git pull --ff-only` or setting pull.ff to "only" in configuration. This way, if a merge conflict is encountered, it will refuse the pull and you can then do your preferred manual resolution flow of either merging or rebasing. This way I can get the majority of pulls done quickly, because more often than not, I don't have to resolve conflicts (of course YMMV). I also prefer the slightly more verbose output from `git pull --ff-only` vs plain `git pull`.

There's also `git pull --rebase` (mentioned in TFA but not really explained), which sort of combines `git pull --ff-only` followed by a `git rebase` if it failed.
Shaped charges are not bullets. They're bits of specially-molded explosives, such that the blast energy of the explosive forms the charge into a jet of molten metal. They don't rely on any kinetic energy at all to penetrate, and can be delivered by sticking a small candle-sized (the little ones, like you might see at a fancy dinner) device onto the targeted surface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge
I can't think of any other explanation why so many people condone China government to that extent. When was the last Chinese protest? Why is it so many countries have citizens protesting all the time, yet I bet this never happens in China. I'm just making some observations, granted I didn't choose the best words.
Yeah, but since OS's didn't come out annually, that effectively meant a significantly longer support cycle.

You could argue "well, what changed isn't price, but release cadence," but they all go hand in hand. If upgrades were paid, the release cadence would probably have to be slower.
Simon Wayne?
As far as I understand, the reason why Google sold Boston Dynamics was not because it wasn't able to make a profit, but because the obvious way how it would make a profit - military contracts - were not considered strategically acceptable.
And shaped charges are entirely besides the point. They could instead carry a small auto-injector (like an EpiPen) containing a few mg of ricin [1]. It'd be like getting stung by an insect. Within days the symptoms would start to appear.

If this happened to even a few hundred people, let alone thousands, then hospitals would be completely overwhelmed and people would be dying everywhere. It would cause a mass panic.

Injection with ricin was how Georgi Markov was assassinated [2]. It was shocking to say the least.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella
I'm sure that the name is alsona nod to Mantle, the direct predecessor. I haven't seen the Mantle documentation, but rumor has ot that Vulkan 1.0 initially was little more than Mantle with renamed identifiers.
My default for those kinds of queries now is “<item> reddit”. Google results are generally poor otherwise. I’m not sure if this is because their algorithms are gamed or if it’s just because the internet outside of the main website hubs is just generally low quality (most high quality content has moved to hubs like reddit).
Ken Thompson interviewed by Kernighan is a real treat. I love this interview.
You think 9% of all workers will switch to being remote every year starting now? By that logic, there won’t be any non-remote workers left in 15 years. The current number is only about 3% [1], so a more reasonable growth number (although still large) is 0.25%, which means (by the rest of your numbers), only 0.045% of all workers (in the US) each year will switch to WeWork.

[1]: https://smallbiztrends.com/2018/04/2018-remote-work-statisti...
Now I'm waiting for FIDO U2F key support. Also waiting on Cloudflare on doing it as well!
.. AWS surprisingly doesn't.

Why is this surprising? AWS seem to know what they're doing in general, and this is obviously the right policy in this particular area.
It's my understanding that much of Facebook is a monolith, and I don't think their success is limited by that fact...
> * WeWork market share = 90%.

I think that's where the error lies. WeWork has no lock-in, there's no good reason to choose them over a competitor and it doesn't take much capital to start a local competitor (and there are many already).

I was looking at offices like this recently and the most important factor was being close to home which had local competitors. When I look at WeWork locations, they're mostly in the CBD, so they're not even attracting anyone with a local office.

It's not even a new business model, just SV hype.
Nice to see the competition. Qwant (without JS) is interesting too.
It tastes far better, and as long as basic hygiene is followed, is very clean, too.
Yeah, this "article" is pretty much complete bullshit. And I say that as somebody who is a pretty strong proponent of microservices in most contexts. But their over-the-top rhetoric is just ridiculous and conflates a number of different issues that have nothing to do with whether or not you deploy a monolith or a suite of services.
That article is some FUD about a real bug in a feature branch being masked due to other bugs that were introduced by the rebase itself.

That is not realistic because, firstly, a very specific test can (and should) be used for git bisect. You're not just testing for "software fails", but "very specific case fails in a specific way".

If some intermediate issues prevent you from testing the specific test case (you're not able to call "good" or "bad"), you can tell git bisect to skip that commit.

Shit happens! Bug was introduced a month ago, but two weeks ago, a range of commits happened that don't even build in your environment. git bisect will hit that.

The article also glosses over the possibility that git bisect goes back farther than the bad commit. Commits that are not testable can occur earlier or later than the one we are looking for.

Basically the article is just a new version of the old meme "merging is dangerous". except that it doesn't make any sense, since both "git merge" and "git rebase" textually merge code.
The singular form of "data" isn't "anecdote".

If you search "news" on Google, the 2nd result is Fox News[1] (first being Google News). Half the suggested articles by Google on my phone are from Fox News, even though I've never clicked on any article from there. I do not use that to conclude that Google is politically biased.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=news
Um, it caught on because there isn't room for 200 ports on the side of a computer. Eventually you sometimes have to ditch old standards to move on to newer, better standards.

Btw, Apple's reportedly putting the Esc key back on the new MB Pros. And they still have an audio jack. And they still have USB.
Absolutely everything about this has no basis in science or logic.

A 3 million drone attack which would cost $40+ million fails because of windows, and they run out of power after 5 minutes, who puts all of them together with explosives, a Chinese factory?

And one gram of explosives would only maybe blind you if lucky.

I can buy 10,000 small bombs and drop them on a stadium from a plane using tech from the past 100 years, but no one has done it yet......
You can just put any executable in your PATH with name of git-WHATEVER.

e.g.

$ echo echo hello world > ~/bin/git-hello-world
$ chmod +x !$
$ git hello-world
hello world

You'll even get typo recognition:

$ git hello-worl
git: 'hello-worl' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

The most similar command is
hello-world
It's also very random whether you'll find what you're looking for. You're just not going to find a $300 retail pair of jeans in a thrift store on your first outing. And even when you do, odds are they won't be in your size.

I live in Brooklyn and go thrifting a lot, mostly because it's a fun activity and because you find things you wouldn't normally think to look for. But 9/10 times I'm leaving with nothing. And for all the time I spend thrifting I could take up just as many hours doing freelance web development, use that to buy things I want brand new, and still have extra money left over.
Ask HN: Why do my questions disappear off the board so quickly
My last question made it less than an hour and then I could not find it anywhere. Why is that?
The silver lining of deepfakes is that now everyone has plausible deniability for any 'leaked nudes': anyone with a gaming computer and a lot of free time can put anyone else's head onto a pornographic actor's body.

Within a decade, 'nudes being leaked' will no longer be controversial or damaging because they'll cost a couple hundred dollars or less to manufacture and won't have credibility.

I'd argue that one of the best things a 'chaotic good' actor could do today to fight revenge porn is to manufacture a huge quantity of deepfake porn of random targets and release it, so speeding along this process.
But now they have all the Fox News crackpot stories featured in the news feed. What bias?
Exactly.

> How am I supposed to replace unmaintained/old software when there's no new 64-bit, notarized version of it?

You are not, and therein lies the problem that apparently some people are incapable of recognizing. It was a terrible decision, and some guy tried to justify it with "technical debt", but somehow other OSes are perfectly capable of handling it while Apple cannot. Why is that?
You're in good company with the flawed memory. I went to Purdue out-of-state and a native Hoosier told me that you had to clear the intersection before it was red. Everyone else in the vehicle backed him up on it too.

This not being the rule where I was from (Virginia), I stopped by the DMV and picked up the handbook to see what else might be different, only to find that the rule was essentially the same as in Virginia (must enter intersection before it turns red).
You know whats good for your career? working. Working is good for your career.
Amor fati has joined the game... cool to see Neitzche get honorable mentions still
> You are not, however, entitled to some kind of reparation for that

Did you get the sense the author feels "entitled to some kind of reparation"? That's not a sentiment I came away with at all.
this is the reason we need carbon & pollution tax! this is like whack-a-mole, way too many industries lurking under the radar & polluting our common resources for private profit. unless we put a price to it they will not factor in the cost to the rest of us.
I don't trust general impressions about whether things are getting better or worse. Maybe our expectations when it comes to always finding specialized information on the Internet have gradually increased without our really noticing it?

In the early days of the Internet, for example, I wouldn't expect specialized information about, say, car repair to be found online anywhere, because the people who obsessed about that sort of thing weren't online. You did find some really specialized stuff, but it was more serendipity and hit-and-miss. You couldn't count on finding what you need.

These days, we tend to assume it's all out there, somewhere, and we should be able to find it with a simple search, assuming we can figure out the right keywords.
We offer additional datapoints which ipstack doesn't.

We expose high detailed ASN data which include company name, company type, ASN network, web domain.

Also we expose a crypto datapoint, which flags if an IP is an active Bitcoin node.
Pretty sure the scale is exaggerated to help emotionally highlight the concept. A nation state level scenario to act as an “upper bound” since that’s currently the only organized human social structure that could acquire the materials at that scale.

Of course smaller attacks using the same technique can be emotionally devastating if not as mathematically impressive
I totally agree. except "probably" contains a weak notion of probability . What does probably mean? 51% likely? 55% likely? 90% likely? If you're going to attach a probability to an opinion, use "most likely", or "almost certainly", or "unlikely". That to me, isn't hedging an opinion. That's attaching a real probability to the outcome.
But I am. I was born ready, and I have been waiting. Preparing. Training.
Inter-AZ traffic is Metro Area Network ("MAN") traffic. There is a cost for running network between locations.

This explains the cost.

Price probably should be based on value, not on cost. Why do they charge for it? Because they decided it's a good way to make money and profit.
You mean like what the sketchy reputation websites have? Or dark pattern home listing sites? Or pump and dump academia “social networks”?

It’ll burn any goodwill you have in my book.

No one wants to know you sucked up info about them and then compiled it all into a shadow profile. And it’s practically blackmail to make them claim it to correct your errors.

If you’re in the B2B space it may be different.
This is a really insightful point, design wouldn't be learnable if it always relied on discovery through testing.

Compare to giant companies like Twitter, where I have heard engineering & product managers say "Every idea has been thought of, it's only a matter of testing them one after another." What an intellectually bankrupt idea.

It is the most experienced product designers who can just look at something and tell you if it is good or bad, before trying it, that big corp product undermines the most.
We already have photoshop and this isn't the case.
"Will emerging technologies make the state system obsolete? It’s hard to see why not."

Yeah, it's hard to see why not if your view of technology is something like that of medieval demonology, which appears to be the thesis of this article.

Meanwhile, in reality land, you can make explosives and poison gas out of stuff in your kitchen, 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.

Also Bostrom is a nincompoop and no article that mentions him deserves to be taken seriously.
you should probably read past the first paragraph
9/11 truly tanked the economy. Business stopped for a month after that terrible day and it took years to recover. Seeing friends lose their jobs never get easy no matter how many times you say your goodbyes.
> Wow, I didn't know the Writer's Guild and Actor's Guild in Hollywood had seniority-based positions.

The Writer’s Guild doesn’t have seniority based positions but it does have seniority based pay. That’s why after you get enough years experience in a writer’s room for tv shows work starts to dry up unless you become a show runner. So after ten or fifteen years of working in tv you have to do something else for many years until your awesome pension kicks in.

The Actor’s Guild does work very hard to dualise acting, black listing anyone who works with non-members. The median member of the SAG doesn’t make much off it but the minimum rates the SAG negotiates mean if you have steady work you’re making a solid living. Without them many more people would be actors and fewer would make decent money at it.
After thinking about it some more, I stand by my original wording. The first time that we do something - whether it be with a woman or a new server - we make mistakes. That is what I was trying to express. In no way did I say or suggest that I would do things without somebody's consent. I'm sure if somebody is out looking for examples to make then he can twist my words into meaning that, but it is very clear from the context that "against consent" was not my intention. Those people out on their witch hunt are the problem.
I don't like this "panopticon" but I don't think suggesting it as a solution makes the author an "aspiring" fascist.
I think the parent's thought is "How do you rate an otherwise great product that is sullied by Amazon's poor inventory management?"

In a situation like this, it seems like the best approach is to put pressure on Similac and others to remove their offerings from Amazon.
How can I determine whether a function can be pickled? A few months ago, I developed a concurrent system using ProcessPoolExecutor. In that case, the function made use of numpy, scipy, and some instaces of classes. I worked as expected, but I am not sure if that function was pickable.
This has to be tough for all of the WeWork employees who were paper millionaires and now have stock options that likely won't survive all of SoftBank's preferences when and if WeWork finally IPOs.
It’s far easier to build a zip gun than a killer drone, yet we don’t see too many of the former in countries with strong gun regulation. Why should we believe that hunter-killer drones carrying explosives will be any more of a large-scale problem?
Yup, that's it, thank you
Though it's still better to do fetch when you want to compare first, pull outputs the ranges of commits that it's pulling for each branch, so you can just copy and paste that into a diff or log command, too.

I say this because I used to just ignore the output, but then I found that it's useful, too.

So, if git-pull outputs

b3b2007..9bad624 master -> origin/master

I can do `git diff b3b2007..9bad624` or `git log b3b2007..9bad624` to see what I just pulled.
Both of your links show a power-law distributions for the returns on talent, not the underlying distribution of raw talent in the population. We already know this. Wealth begets wealth- a successful book author is more likely to sell another successful book than a new author. Likewise with artist paintings and salesmen.

But actual talent, like human height or average running speed, is probably normally distributed.
It’s s sad state of affairs for product search. I do the same (site:reddit) and I’m almost certain most people do too.

Google search I guess is good for entertainment search or “buzzy” things like whatever is trending on the trendsetting social networks of the day, but regular search is too spammy and farmed stuff. Often it’s junk.
Paper: http://s3.amazonaws.com/fieldexperiments-papers2/papers/0068... (https://www.nber.org/papers/w26380)
shaped charges are made of a metal cylinder with explosives inside and a concave copper cone on one end. insurgents can and do manufacture them. the explosives and detonation rigging are the only part that has a meaningful cost, and if you're talking about one gram of explosive that isn't much.
A few hundred is within the scope of what people are doing with conventional explosives. The article is talking about the ability to target millions of people.

I just don't believe we will see a day when tiny drones with epipens pose a greater threat than guns.
I have had the same experience. Over the years I tried DDG and gave up a few different times. A year or so ago I gave it another try and never left.
I’m way more worried about home gamers buying gene editing kits and tinkering with pathogens.

Can you tag a gene with your twitter handle?