skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think fundamentally what a lot
Of people miss in the API standards discussions (debates?) is that GraphQL, JSONApi et al are not just about getting around the single operation per request/call, they are about abstracting your API interfaces always from a tightly coupled schema. I think this because most APIs are built in these circumstances (and this assumes that your endpoints are actually RESTful):

* the schema/Endpoint already exists and it’s being updated to a newer standard (like GraphQL or OpenAPI) and they simply use the schema of the existing data source (usually a database) and these are just coupled to the data source. This gains more efficient operations and possibly documentation and validation (all good things!) but misses another goal (will explain momentarily)

* That an api is being built from scratch and one of these schema based standards is being used as a stand in for the database store. In this case the tight coupling is just backward (your data source will likely be built to match the API)

What I seem to not see is anyone talking serious about how these standards and associated technologies or implementations aren’t being leveraged to create an abstract interface to data points regardless of data source structure or schema. The strength of GraphQL, OpenAPI (formerly Swagger), JSONApi and others isn’t just in pure description and validation, it’s in that it allows you to build descriptive and normalized APIs that can in effect act as middleware over any data source and keeps your data sources independent from API concerns.

The end result being you shouldn’t have to change your API schemas because you changed your data store or how you want to store your data. So you never have to version your APIs. It’s suppose to make your APIs inclusive of change.
It sounds like you’re describing “helicopter parenting” on the playground as a means of creating independent adults. I feel quite the opposite. Independent kids become independent adults. Kids need to be given the freedom to fail, to fall, skin their knee, make their own friends, solve their own problems, without parental interference.
good idea - thank you!
Oh yeah that's going to work out really well if the killers know each other and have some mutual respect...
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/christopher-colu...

"Although Columbus enjoyed a substantial revenue from Hispaniola gold during the last years of his life, he repeatedly attempted (unsuccessfully) to gain an audience with King Ferdinand, whom he felt owed him further redress."

So I'm thinking - well off, but not wealthy.
I'm pretty impressed from the content quality level at Mckinsey

Most enterprise don't know how to write content people like to read for some reason
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Whatever the substantive points on the topic are, posting like this just makes the thread considerably worse.

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I don’t think it’s just a few weeks of gaming. Maybe if you do 60 hours a week.

We’ve found that an average undergraduate or masters in CS or STEM field who just knows how to code basic Python will require ~250 hours of total work to become interview ready for FAANG. That’s a lot of time which is why I wouldn’t consider it gaming a system.
For those who don't know, Bill Wadge is an esteemed computer scientist who created the Lucid dataflow language with Ed Ashcroft.

Not that that has anything to do with the double slit experiment, but it's worth knowing.
I think it'd be cool if you provided any verifiable evidence/support at all to validate and support your silly assertions. I pointed out 3 well known OEM's that ship hardware with linux pre-installed, 2 of them target linux exclusively. This wouldn't be the case if there wasn't a market for it and if the experience was as bad as you make it out to be. You provided no rebuttal at all for this point and merely glazed over it.

Ubuntu doesn't even come with PCManFM, it comes with nautilus as the file manager. Are you quite sure you used Ubuntu? Here's a video showing you how to mount an SMB share, it is quiet straightforward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPnVzyMBlAI

No operating system is fool proof. For vast number of users that don't have specific OS specific software requirements, Linux is a very viable alternative.

Here's someone's mom trying out and using linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgGbZfR6Vec

I got many beginners to swap over to linux and they have been loving it. My mom and my grandmother both use linux.
How to sum quadrillions of powers by hand
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Please do not take HN threads further into ideological flamewar or nationalistic flamewar or whatever this is. It's off topic, nasty, and evokes worse. We unbanned you because you'd stopped posting comments that break the site guidelines, which is great—could you please stick to them?

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Yes. And there are also narcissists who believe they are so special, normal rules don't apply to them. And when I read the manifesto as a whole, I get that vibe more then then the smart bored kid vibe.

I mean in all seriousness, it was not learning nor existing without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias why "they called us criminals".

That claim is manipulative at best.
The Other Milton Friedman: A Conservative with a Social Welfare Program (2006)
As to the work being widely discredited, the following is an article that summarises and links to criticisms:

https://greggormattson.com/2017/09/12/tracking-wang-and-kosi...

Some of the criticisms are technical, some are from the point of view of ethics. It would be a grave mistake to discount the ethical concerns, but if you prefer technical explanations there is quite a bit of meat there.
Cost-benefit is not the only way to rationally analyze the world. There are more than two options here, it’s not either cost-benefit or religion. The suggestion is not to ignore all costs, the suggestion is to be more thoughtful about using speculative estimates when deciding whether to do something big that will have a positive outcome, and not to prematurely limit our willingness to do it because the estimated benefits don’t total more that the known financial costs. The evidence here is that cost-benefit analysis has produced incorrect results, especially the larger the stakes, and further in the future the outcomes are. The big mistake in calculations is the estimated benefits, which are intrinsically difficult to put a monetary value number on, and highly prone to wildly incorrect predictions. Over-reliance on cost-benefit analysis in this sense might be just as bad as religion; it is not well suited to all scenarios, prone to failure when costs aren’t actually known, prone to failure when applied incorrectly, and it’s not the only way to rationally analyze decisions.

> focusing on goals rather than costs lead to programs that cost stratospheric amounts without producing the desired results.

Just curious, I don’t doubt there are some, I just don’t know what they are. What would count as some examples of that having happened in the past, akin to the examples I linked of leaded gasoline, damming the Grand Canyon, or removing vinyl chloride from workplaces?
> Take the nucleus of an atom. It is made up of protons and neutrons. If we add or take away a neutron, it changes absolutely everything. It is no longer the same atom, and its properties will completely change.

Are they talking about transmutation with lasers? Would it work for Lead -> Gold too?
Or sometimes rolling back has political consequences (rolling back could be construed as failure and an exec somewhere up the chain gets pissed off).
It was called "Silk Road".
I would never install solar panels on my roof, if it catches on fire, firefighters will let the whole house burn.
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Nationalistic slurs will get you banned here. No more of this please. We've had to ask you before.

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JavaScript's Object.freeze and TypeScript's Readonly
> One of the most valuable art collections in Europe isn't housed in a museum visited by millions of tourists, but in this warehouse in the back of his police station. It's basically an evidence locker for stolen artifacts. This is a Caravaggio. What does a Caravaggio go for these days? It is millions of dollars. It is a paint stolen at the end of 1990 and was from a private house.

What's not explained is why are police keeping all this artwork? If you saw the 60 Minutes piece on this you'd see that it's an enormous evidence room full of artworks they are hoarding. They know where the multi-million dollar Caravaggio was stolen from in 1990. Why hasn't at least this particular piece been returned to its owner?

I also wonder why such an obvious question isn't answered in the story. I'm afraid that the answer might be that it doesn't fit the agenda of the story about sophisticated art thieves and super rich collectors. The reason might be that the Italian police declare that your art is a national treasure and they simply keep it. Or they impose an impossible burden of proof that you acquired it legally (similar to U.S. asset forfeiture laws) and require you to show a chain of receipts back to Caravaggio in 1602.
I mean how is the security scanner supposed to know that you’re working on a project which is super specific edge case?

I mean almost all of the time that PDF will be malware designed to trick the reader into clicking that link and it did the right thing.
Being from Germany I never heard about government based security checks. IT-wise our government doesn't make a very competent impression. Do you have any background info on this?
I think it's pretty common practice. Otherwise search engine web crawlers would be wreaking havoc.
There is an E in Wales.
I wish we could put contacts from different apps in the share sheet. iMessage isn’t really s thing where I’m from.
>exploring why fairy stories fit uneasily in Christian cosmology

Possibly because fairy stories come from primarily animist and polytheistic cultures. In Christian cosmology, everything not human either explicitly serves God or Satan - outside the material world, as either angel or demon, black or white. But faeries can be good and evil, like humans, and they suggest a third "grey" order of supernatural domain (that of nature itself.) They can inhabit a world which is not our world, but also neither Heaven, nor Hell. Christianity cosmology doesn't really have room for that kind of ambiguity.
Does this fix any of tptacek’s issues with the Tor Browser?
I suspect it's vastly easier to add or remove a single neutron rather than to remove several protons like you'd have to do to transmute between elements.
When you go to court, the presumption is that the patent is valid. The judge is unlikely to be technical, and he must assume the experts at the patent office did their job. Since the patent office basically rubber stamps anything you send to them, it's a very uphill battle to start with.

In my case, we submitted lots of prior art (some over 100 years old) to the court, and of course they shared this with the plaintiffs. I was certain we should be in the clear. However, in the time between receiving those documents and the actual court date, the plaintiffs submitted our list of prior art to the patent office as some sort of addendum. The patent office re-rubber stamped the new stack of paper, and the judge disregarded it during the trial. We lost. I doubt the patent office bothered to read, much less understand, any of it.

I feel very strongly that their patent was not novel, and since I wrote the algorithm which got us sued from scratch as a new college grad with only a bachelors degree, I doubt it was non-obvious to one skilled in the art. Maybe we could've won with better lawyers, but as a small startup, we didn't have that kind of money.
Sorry about the confusion with our website and the roadmap. We’ve been changing our website around and still have missed a couple of things.

Upfront pricing is paid 2-weeks after starting the program for the exact same coaching the ISA students receive and will work with you until you get hired.

Something new we’ve implemented is that we can adjust the mentor ship fee depending on your experience interviewing. Usually this involves just having a chat with me with a mini mock interview. If you’re already pretty strong, then we can give a discount.
Access Control and its variants -

source: building it right now for our app. supports sharing, organizations, and role hierachy (viewers, editors, admins).
The moderation comments we post against nationalistic flamebait and slurs are the same for all countries. I've posted many such comments in response to comments talking about the US, India, China, Russia, South Africa, you name it.

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If you see a comment that hasn't been moderated that should have been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't (can't) read everything that gets posted here. You can help by flagging it and, in egregious cases, emailing us a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com.
Haha. Nice.
There are a small number of distilleries that use peat, almost exclusively the island distilleries. The vast majority of scotch is _not_ peaty. There's at least 50 distilleries in the speyside area/category (notably not peaty), vs 10 in campbelltown and islay.
Interesting. I'll probably use it instead of Postman from now on (when I rarely do).
This will vary by jurisdiction, but most states have specific laws against selling fake illegal drugs.
Another trick management plays is they will ask you for super rough estimates. And tell you that whatever estimate you give doesn't mean anything.

So you play safe and give them a super rough estimates and a lot of buffer.

And now all of sudden you are invited to meeting to explain your super rough estimates. You remind them that it is just a super rough estimate. They ignore that.

Now if you are weak, they will get you to cut your estimate. If you are strong they will ignore your rough estimate.

So they create a deadline based on your estimate. You remind them that it is just a rough estimate and deadline seems unfair. They tell you just do your best, deadline is not a super strict deadline.

Of course, project scope is bigger and there is scope creep. You are unlikely to make deadline.

All of sudden you are being asked why is project going to miss deadline. They tell you you did estimation, you need to meet this deadline. Work extra hours.

You try to remind them that you were asked for a super rough estimate but you are ignored.

Also your teammates hate you because they think you promised the deadline and now they have to work over weekend to cleanup your mess.
Google will definitely “lowball” you if you don’t have competing offers. However once you do have them, google is very quick to match them. This is just my anecdotal experience though.
Can mindfulness be too much of a good thing?
>because from an investment perspective, of course you want to be able to buy the next big thing, but you shouldn't turn your nose up great earnings per share and return on capital. However, that's not the case with venture capital firms. Why is this?

Because that's not the VC's specialization. That type of investing is what Warren Buffet does. (E.g. the Graham-Dodd school of "value investing".)

- Warren Buffet : cares about Earnings-Per-Share, free cash flow, dividends, etc. This naturally points to mature and healthy companies with quality management like Coca-Cola and Geico. He doesn't flip companies. He's not a turnaround specialist.

- private equity funds like Blackstone / Carlisle Group : cares about things like EBITDA to know if the company's financials can service a loan (because they buy companies with loans.) Like Warren Buffet, they look at mature companies instead of startups. However, unlike Warren Buffet, they are open to investing in distressed companies that need a management turnaround or some capital investment. They will also look at companies with degraded bond ratings and buy them at a discount and use it if necessary to take control of a company. They will flip companies (hopefully for a higher price) after some years of ownership.

- hedge funds : they have all sorts of ways to invest in companies including buying stock, playing with options like puts, calls, derivatives, etc. They typically ignore startups. They can also ignore all companies and only play around with commodities, currency exchanges, or real estate speculation.

- Venture Capital : look at startups (even if they don't initially have revenue or earnings-per-share) in hopes of a unicorn breakout. VCs don't do management turnarounds, don't buy distressed debt, don't play with puts/calls/derivatives. They specialize in "new ventures" i.e. startups.

It's all about specialization and investor's skill set. Warren Buffet admits he doesn't know how to evaluate startups. Likewise, VCs are not in the "value investing" game like Warren Buffet. A big pension fund like California CalPERS will be an Limited Partner in all 4 of the above type of investment funds to diversify.

The VCs are doing what the LPs that gave them money expect them to do: invest in startups.

If the VCs were to look at EPS, they would no longer be VCs. The LPs don't need VCs to do non-VC type of investing because the LPs can simply go to one of the other investment vehicles that already specialize in analyzing EPS. (E.g. the LPs can buy some of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway stock.)
There is a search bar in Facebook. That searches Facebook, which Facebook would tell you is all the web you need.
Excavating AI – The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets
Nextcloud, CVE's and Apparmor
Let’s take it to another level: the candidate realises that if they kill a current employee with the skills exactly matching theirs, would you hire them (assuming you can’t prove they killed the employee but it’s blatantly obvious) or would you think that’s unacceptable?
Note that even if the screen resolution on your laptop is not unique, the resolution captured via fingerprinting can be quite unique. It was quite an eye-opener for me when I checked it against EFF's fingerprinting testing tool: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I disagree. SOME rust belt towns are not dependent on a single corporation. Other rust belt towns are and when that company ceases operations there, the town experiences rapid decline.

If you disagree that some rust belt towns are dependent on a single corporation, I think you are either using a different definition of dependent than how I read the original comment use it, or you are not aware that towns where a single factory employs a significant portion of the towns population exist.
Patents started out as 7 years and have been extended through lobbying efforts.
JavaFX and QML are pretty much based on XAML.
exotic windows 10.
There's a nice paper by the philosopher David Lewis (http://andrewmbailey.com/dkl/Punishment_Chance.pdf is a copy of it; I don't know whether it's in any sense a legal copy) that offers (though it doesn't exactly endorse) the following justification for this:

1. Imagine a system where the punishment for murder is exactly the same as the punishment for attempted murder, but that punishment has an element of chance: you might get a longer or a shorter sentence.

This doesn't seem particularly unreasonable. Now we're going to make successive modifications to the system, which (Lewis claims) don't obviously make it worse.

2. Now suppose that we attempt to make the punishment for more wholehearted attempts at murder greater. It's hard to tell what was in the criminal's heart, so as a reasonable proxy we try to evaluate, somehow, how likely the murder attempt was to succceed, and we punish more-likely-to-succeed attempts more harshly.

3. Now suppose, more specifically, that the way in which we punish more-likely-to-succeed attempts more harshly is by increasing the probability of getting the longer sentence. In fact, we'll say that the probability of getting the longer sentence is to be the same as our estimate of how likely the attempt at murder was to succeed.

4. How to estimate that probability? One effective but obviously impractical way would be to run some sort of reenactment or simulation of the crime, and give the longer sentence if and only if the victim dies. Aha! But we can simplify and improve this by using the original crime as the reenactment, and give the longer sentence if and only if the actual victim died.

And now we've arrived at pretty much our present practice!
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https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/IT-Crisis-Management/CERT-...

https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/IT-Crisis-Management/IT-Si...

https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/IT-Crisis-Management/IT-Cr...
Gas, water, garbage, etc., never mind internet.
I guess it depends on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go and what you want to learn?

For example, we recently built something to the same effect to deploy our single page applications to AWS. It creates a new Cloudformation Stacks for each site, sets up CodePipeline for continous deployment, build artifacts are placed in a public S3 bucket, and then it's served through CloudFront as the CDN. Beyond that you just need to set up Route53 for your domain and use the Certificate Manger to handle SSL.

I know that's pretty specific to AWS but hopefully it gives you an idea of where you'd start.

Basically to build it from scratch you'd need:
- A service that can respond to GitHub webhooks, build projects in an isolated environment based on a config, and push build artifacts out.

- A content distribution network that you can deploy those artifacts to.

- A DNS server to route traffic.

- An SSL service like Let's Encrypt CertBot to issue certificates periodically.
In my view, it‘a a rather lot of work. The hard parts are probably less visible: combatting abuse of the free build system, sysadmin/scaling stuff, et c. Getting build scripts running and static pages on a webserver, their main function, is relatively straightforward.

If you want to build one just for yourself, that is probably a weekend project. Doing multitenant safely is likely where it gets a lot more complex.
Why do you think there’s an agenda? The article talks about returning the stolen letters to their owners, so it’s not like the police are unwilling to repatriate stolen goods. Perhaps these artworks in their store have unknown owners or there are conflicting claims? And what do you do with antiquities like an ancient amphora? Who knows where it came from originally, so who do you return it to?
This is so weirdly disconnected that it sniffs of spam. Does Netlify run opinion bots on HN?
> Should the public pay for the increased cost to cover someone with a house and property much larger than what the median home and property is?

A large real estate property pays large property taxes every year, so I don't understand your argument.
Predicting the success of an employee and how well they will perform on a brand new team/stack over the course of potentially several years is very challenging and likely impossible especially when the people interviewing you aren’t even on the team you’ll work on. Hence this is why leetcode interviews are the best they’ve got.
I'll grant you a) and b), but not the last one:

take the risk of asking for trouble while cycling on a cycling path with no other cyclists near me (within, say, 300m).

You don't know. If you start looking at your screen and you are moving, you are a danger to others. I don't care what happens to you, but I care that you don't hurt others. And you may.
Ask HN: What interesting or unusual practice has your dev team adopted?
Curious what practices you’ve tried that have worked for you. Hopefully something you think provides value and was maintainable, but things that definitely did not work are probably interesting as well.