skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GWF is utterly useless for any non-trivial issues.

They have a mob of high-ranking posters upvoting each others' replies, patting each other on the back and ultimately ganging up on anyone who doesn't accept their replies.

We had an issue with a site incorrectly flagged as carrying malware. Submitted multiple review requests through the Webmasters console, all had no effect and produced no replies. Completely baffled by the situation, posted to GWF. GWF top rated reply and their "general consensus" was that we were morons who don't know our way around basic server administration.

A couple of weeks later we discovered that the Webmasters' console was plainly broken in the browser that we used to submit review requests. You'd click on "Submit", it would go "inactive" and the page was reloaded in a bit, but nothing got sent out. Re-submitted the request with a different browser, it worked, issue got resolved in a matter of hours, but the GWF interaction left a very bad aftertaste. F-, won't do it again.
"Such a solution cannot work, as long as we have a growth-based economy. The fact is that economists have long regarded natural resources as infinite"

This is a canard: the vast majority of 'growth' does not depend on natural resource extraction, and economists are quite aware that some resources are theoretically finite - but technology not only makes previously 'useless' materials 'useful' but increases the 'yield' makes better use of current material, and discovers new ways to extract material. For example, we were supposed to hit 'peak Oil' in the 1970's but extraction methods have improved such that vastly more Oil is available.

The 'tar sands' in Canada and Venezuela for example were 'useless' 40 years ago, but given some price point and prevalence of specific technologies, they represent massive pools of fossil fools, the largest on earth on par with Saudi.

The most disconcerting part of 'growth' is not resource extraction really it's population growth and the net per capita impact each individual has on the Earth. We can have growth in the quality of so many goods without externalities, but when 5B previously poor people on planet earth want to burn as much fossil fuel as is done in the modern world ... then we have trouble.
Also people in tech companies get bonus if they file patents.
No, these are outputs that the client pays us to generate for them. These specific instances that I linked were from an example that was made public and then filed with the SEC, but usually these decks remain private
I would certainly be interested in this connection offer. I applied with Google once but the offer they gave was not a high enough level. I'd love to talk about how to get a reasonable offer and interviews. Please see my profile for email if you have the time.
These figures aren't used to compare tragedies across countries in a professional setting. It is always about how a government should allocate aid resources or distributions within their own economy.

Except for foreign aid in which being devalued works strongly in the favor of poorer nations. Ie if I have 10 million in aid money to spend and I can buy 10 housing units in Germany or 1000 housing units in Uganda because the currency goes further, that money is going to be routed to the poorer place.

So this is a total strawman. No one respectable (and I mean 0) is using these figures to compare human worth between economies.
Right, and my point is this is the exact same argument the church, and other centralized publishing powers at the time, made about the printing press:

Imagine there being competing interpretations of God? How could we form a community? Wont people have completely different experiences in life if they don't have the same experience with God? If we let someone get exposed to the "bad media" before they are exposed to the "good media" how will they ever know what the "good media" is? Can someone please think of the children?

It turns out not a lot of people are actually in favor of freedom when push comes to shove.
10 minutes a day on a commute to work and back is significant and, if you drop down a couple mph, is low risk. That’s almost an extra hour a week without giving up any valuable activity.

I could only see the cost/benefit looking not worthwhile if you already have a lot of free time. An adult commuting 90 minutes a day might only have 2-4 hours of free time per day during the workweek.
I would imagine it queries sequentially so it wouldn't have too many parallel threads. Not much reason to parallelize.
I meant that "echo -e" transforms the four characters "\033" into a single byte, for example. Thus, the sequence is "interpreted" by echo. Then, the cat program just copies the bytes without looking at them. If you want "cat" to escape these bytes so that they are not seen by the terminal you can use the "-v" option.
Completely incorrect. H1 employees in SV have a lot of mobility as there are hundreds of thousands of jobs available that sponsor your visa. And your visa can be transferred under 15 days. You don’t even have to quit your previous employer before your approval in place. SV companies have 20-40% attrition rate and a large portion of that is H1 employees moving around
I'm not sure what you mean, regarding peat, lots of Scottish whisky doesn't use peat smoked malt.
A Third World country is a developing nation characterized by poverty and a low standard of living for much of its population.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/third-world.asp
Americans have whiskey and Scots have whisky

Ahem, the Irish had whiskey a thousand years before Americans.
Patents have always been about encouraging public disclosure of secrets. ... The monopoly is the tool of patent law. But the purpose of patent law is disclosure of information.

I like that formulation. But in that case we shouldn't be granting patents on things that can be immediately (or even within 5 years) reverse engineered from working examples.
> Run around and poll everyone on their feelings and make decisions based on anecdote points?

Democracy sounds pretty dope when you put it that way.

> You fail to present a better alternative

I just want people to treat human life with dignity. Chile 1973--we've seen what happens with your line of rationalization and commoditizing human lives.
Can you cite one of these patents? That way we can see what you mean by 10%, gauge the quality of the patent, and look at its history.
Utter silence from Adobe on this (I'm a CC customer)
I'm a bit in two minds about this one.

Let's generalize it a bit. Say your kid is a member of some demographic, and very few in that demographic have done some thing that your kid is interested in. What are you gonna do? IMO it's better to just find a positive role model and make sure the kid understands they are a role model because of qualities pertinent to the role.

Another thing is that those positive qualities tend to have nothing to do with any demographic. They tend to be such well known qualities that it's a bit cliché: hard work, perseverance, humility, team player, positive attitude, and so forth. There's not really any of those that women would not have as a result of being female.

I'm not sure going out of your way to find female service providers is useful. Your kids are going to be smart. If they see daddy is trying to rig the outcome of a hiring process, they are going to wonder why women need that help in the first place.

What you can do is be realistic about how things actually are in the world:

- It's true that women still do most of the child related stuff, and your daughter is going to have to think about how that affects her choices.

- It's true that people will have prejudices about who can and can't do a given thing. Some of those things will be true, and some will be false. It's in everyone's interest to acknowledge the things that are backed by evidence, and to inform everyone about the things that aren't.

- Some sneaky people know how the prejudices are set up, and they capitalise on it. "She isn't tough enough" and that kind of BS that's often part of corporate politics. For those kinds of things I'll tell my kid how the game works and she can decide how to play it. But it's a feature (or a bug!) of how the world works, and it doesn't help to deny it.

He's absolutely right about talking about it to boys and men. Somehow it happens at my other kid's all-boys school they get ideas about what girls can and can't do, and it's not right for them to be perpetuating myths that damage the chances for everyone to make the most of their lives.
If that couple sentences of analysis (not counting the guesses of context) is too much then maybe it's not a great post to submit to HN.
Solution to Pin Artifacts to Repos with Digital Ocean Spaces, Docker Hub
Agile Problems at Scale
Thanks, ill get my daily propaganda from the BBC
Examples of APIs actually proposed by POSIX, that weren't already in widespread use before adoption by standard updates?
Namespaces were not created by google, but rather Al Viro back in 2002. Google developers had input, but it is a bold claim that it was "donated" to linux kernel.
Cgroups were created by google devs, but later on developed by the community, so wouldn't really claim they were "donated" too.
It's unreasonable to assume that (a) Google hires smart academics to do cutting-edge research and (b) they forget the stuff they already learned and don't keep up with outside literature.

You can safely assume that any of the stuff we commonly talk about on Hacker News is known to many Googlers.
I read the article. But I don't get the point.

What are they proposing? That people with means be prohibited from hiring people to perform services for them?
Ask HN: What piece of code you wrote are you most pride of?
It's also because there aren't really alternative investment forms. Investing abroad is heavily restricted. Local investment markets are not mature enough for there to be Chinese equivalents of 401ks. And local pensions aren't great.

Housing is pretty much the only thing in China that has generated positive return on investment.
The FBI does this in the US.
That may be true but will also effectively exclude strong experienced candidates with options. It worked well for Google in post-dotcom crash frenzy of early 2000s but may not work very well today ;)
Are you suggesting that the massive wage inflation that happened in SV over the last 10 years , combined with the massive increase in real estate prices, in a place where H1 are probably 50% of eng workforce is an example of not getting raises ?
What's a good source for practice questions? Many problems on Leetcode are completely unsuitable as interview questions.
Is the income share agreement for life?
I did a talk a few years ago on the history of layout in CSS, and those newsgroups were an invaluable source of information for why decisions were made.
At the age of 28, I still receive help from my mother. She buys me food periodically and has given me well over $1500 this year to help survive.

That being said, I grew up in an abusive household, followed up by one that was incredibly unstable. I was incarcerated from most 16-21, with very little time out in the real world during that time.

Another person responding to this mentioned that parents "either pay for it now or later."

I find that to be incredibly true. I think that my mother helps me so much now because she sees how much I've struggled and how some of that struggle is inevitably due to her choices. I don't blame her, but(and this may sound incredibly entitled to some)I don't think she has too much of a right to throw me to the wolves so to speak. I can't remember a time I've been stable outside of the past 2-3 years and even now, I'm actively using IV opiates. A large chunk of my life seemed very much outside of my hands at a younger age and I don't necessarily know how much more I could've done for myself other than get to the point I'm at now.

I think a lot of people are messed up and need a lot of help. I think that if you make the decision to bring someone into this world, you don't stop being responsible for them after an arbitrary amount of rotations around the sun.
usually you want to a release to be all the way deployed or all the way rolled back not sitting in some half state.

because it gets really hard to reason about the state of mutable resources like databases and storage that is being written to by two different versions of the application simultaneously.

in this situation pushing on with the deploy or rolling it all back are valid options.

however everyone knows rollback are always more difficult than deploys
> even burn it if you have a source of oxygen

How does that work? What are the combustion products? The closest reference I could find is this, https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/1... , which seems to be talking about something else.
How do I quickly check if my Tor Browser is up to date without the Onion button?

Either I'm getting old or I'm using too many different systems and programs because these little UI changes start to bother me.
I think people consider it gaming because hackerrank is not accurately representative of day to day as a FAANG engineer.

That being said I don’t think there’s a really great way to assess that in a 5 hour onsite interview. So hackerrank ends up being the best they’ve got.
> but I think you're too harsh.

What I found when I took thermo which is where you learn this stuff. Nothing really prepares you for the basic concepts before hand. So it's a steep hill to climb. I think some students get through it via rote memorization. Which means they don't actually understand it. I had to retake the first semester because I got a C-. Which was likely for the best.

I also think that thermo is somehow very deeply connected to how the universe actually works. And the next step down is a doozy. So it's difficult to explain it in terms of something familiar.
what does "yes the tech lead" mean?
Will just share some brief points. As we pump more energy into the atmosphere, the climate will continue to change until a new equilibrium is reached. There will be winners and losers when that happens, recall that the Sahara was once a tropical jungle, or that CO2 ppm was higher during the jurassic era. Florida may be unhabitable but Wyoming may become a paradise. Any city, county, state, country that looks to be a winner does not benefit from contributing to climate change efforts and therefore will find little incentive in doing so.

Shifting focus to alternatives is noble, but the technology is years from maturation. It took us a long time to master the steam that drives electricity generation whether the plant is coal, oil, natural gas or nuclear (hydroelectric being the lone exception). These sources are mature enough to be reliable. We often take for granted the level of engineering effort involved in building and deploying a stable power grid. Switching to alternatives before they are mature will introduce instabilities across the grid, rolling brownouts/blackouts will be prevalent. Subways will shutdown in major cities at arbitrary times etc. It will dramatically reduce the quality of life. This is what happens in third world countries with inadequate and unstable grids. If you wonder why cellphones outsell desktops and laptops in Africa, this is partly why.

The energy density per unit volume that gasoline offers is unmatched by all other sources except nuclear. It’s stable and portable, and yes it definitely damages the environment when produced or consumed, but then every fuel source does. There’s certainly some great work on better batteries, but it’s years, potentially decades, away from production grade. It’s also unclear whether there won’t be other externalities from mining and transmuting rare earth metals at the scale required to replace gasoline. We may be trading one problem for another. The world is also slowly running out of potable water.

A big problem like climate change requires big solutions. A complete rethink of transportation, energy infrastructure, food production, housing, etc. at a national scale. And any sustainable solution will have to address population limits. But nobody has the courage to talk in those terms. Thing is, even if one country manages to wean itself off of fossil fuels, other, poorer countries will be happy to absorb the excess supply in the form of lower prices. How do we stop that? Put a global price on carbon? Look above for why certain countries won’t agree to that. That requires a one world govt., and we’re probably not getting one of those until we face a mass extinction event (meteor, aliens).

Climate change is the ultimate tragedy of the commons. And humanity has a terrible track record as far as the commons are concerned.
Which major tech company has the most difficult interview process?
Well, a successor to JPEG called JPEG XL[1] that adds lossless compression, better lossy compression, the ability to further compress and then losslessly restore a traditional JPEG, HDR, animation, alpha channel, lots of other technical improvements, and a commitment by a long list of major players that if one of their patents is involved, it will be licensed at zero cost...is still scheduled to be officially published this month (Oct 2019).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_XL
I would say incent rather than encourage but otherwise I agree completely.
Having used Scientific Python and R for more many years (with dabbles in C++ and Julia), I recently started Haskell so my code could look like what Dex has in their samples.

I really want a language like this to go mainstream.
> It consistently delivers results

Perhaps. Whether those are the results intended are another matter qv. Enron and many more.

Edit: Then again, it depends on what you mean by capitalism. If you mean as generally practiced my criticism stands but if you mean pricing that reflects all aspects inc. externalities rather than ignoring them (as with fossil fuel use) then I'd agree. Which do you mean?
Somewhere out there a person was inspired by these threads; seeing an inefficient market they started prototyping an "Uber for Assassination".
I don't know about that. I lived with my parents through most of college and commuted 20 miles to campus. it made a lot of sense financially, but you definitely miss stuff commuting.

students who live on campus tend to make plans very spontaneously just based on who's around. I would often get invited to do stuff fifteen minutes before driving home, and I would decline a lot of the time since I knew my parents were already halfway through making dinner. it's hard to have full agency in your social life when you live with your parents.
You may want to correct “receieved” typo here:

https://codebreakersacademy.com/about-us/
> There was another time when a kid said that girls can't be doctors. This sort of shit is easy to pick up, and it becomes ingrained.

Nearly half of doctors in the UK are women. I remember going to see my friend who'd joined med school in Scandinavia and being amazed by the proportion of young women in his year.

I don't get where people are picking up the stereotypes from though. There's plenty of female empowerment stuff in kid's books, and schools are pretty keen to push equality in educational opportunities as well.

> IT

The thing about IT though is that it's like an unofficial freemason society. You recognize each other by certain rituals and values. It's not just your daughter who'd feel outside, grown men who aren't in the club will also feel a bit foreign. And in fact this is the case with a lot of skilled professions. Say you took her to a lawyer's chambers? Why would she feel any more at home there?
Right - was it not Mexico?
Thanks—changed from https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/christopher-columbus-letter.... The software missed that one for some reason.
that libc update spawned a wealth of dependency solutions. And 'dll hell' of course
But that's also part of the job. It's certainly unfortunate and unfair, but it's not more unfair for him than any other public figure. That's why a qualified leader needs to be careful with words and so far above reproach that a) it's hard to accidentally mischaracterize what you say b) if someone does, it seems out of character with what you actually believe.

Deliberately making public statements about controversial topics that have nothing to do with your leadership role is certainly your right, but it's a strategically risky move. It's like "defensive driving" - whether or not it's illegal to brake check a driver behind you, it's definitely a bad idea.

RMS and the free software movement would both have been better off if he'd stepped into an internal technical leadership role and found someone else to take on the advocacy / moral leadership / public speaking role. It would have been a better use of his talents (and honestly it might have left fewer GNU maintainers bitter about how he isn't actually writing very much code anymore but still tries to overrule decisions every so often).
There may be a monetary incentive for a polygraph manufacturer to push the site down.
I feel like you can infer these services are stochastic and not deterministic based on the documentation.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/cu...

"The quality of your classifier depends on the amount, quality, and variety of the labeled data you provide it and how balanced the overall dataset is. "
I don't know if it is that crazy.. California produces around 86 million bottles of wine every year, which is over twice the population of California.

If you consider how long whiskey ages, it really isn't surprising that there is that many barrels.
Is everything made of particles, fields or both combined?
State of Play: Six Trends Revolutionizing Games
More people should use tor
Nope, it’s only for 1-year.
There is no difference between working for one company and providing services to three different clients and working for three different companies. The paperwork is the same. Every time they have to file an amendment.

I have changed jobs on this visa as well. It works the same way.
Copied (with permission, but so far as I can tell without a link) from MIT's press release at http://news.mit.edu/2019/fractal-patterns-quantum-1016

Actual article in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12502-0

PDF version of article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12502-0.pdf
If I go for an interview I'm not there to play board games and I'm not there to be your friend. I'm there to interview for the jobs. Stay on point and focus on the position and don't waste both our times. If you are into this psychological nonsense then I'm not interested. For fit and culture you can ask open ended questions but only in a job context.
Your fd command:

Why type=file and a size? What else has size in 500k range on a filesystem, except files?

=+500 isn’t how math works, that’s implying it could be -500 or using equals for an inequality because the commonly used greater than symbol is off limits, it’s a learned bodge.

500kwhats? Bits? Bytes? Base2? Base10? Can I put a suffix on, is it kB and kb case sensitive?

Why is your filename on the left of the folder you want to look in? That’s so backwards to the left to right order /folder/files are normally written.

Why do you have some arguments with double dash, some with single dash, some with no arg name at all, what’s the pattern for any of that?

What’s -x and why is it short for a word beginning with E?

Why is the find command executing anything at all?

It’s no more immediately sensible than find, it’s inconsistent scribble and workarounds you’ve learned instead of the same that you haven’t learned.
http://archive.is/GQ6Aw
I never assumed anything you said. I assumed that there culture promotes certain philosophies like the philosophy behind go which is very antithesis to something like Haskell.

You will note that in the design of go, rob pike actually admits that many of the flaws in go were in response to things he didn’t know. Which makes your last statement categorically wrong. I would even argue most googlers aren’t too familiar with ml style languages or algebraic data types.