skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it is way over-the-top.

Counterpoint to your conditioning point: kids tend to rebel against oversight, and will probably include this in the list of things they reject.
Here's an idea or two.

Wireguard. Stop sitting on your hands complaining about how wireguard isn't mature, and support it with the generic native apps (now there's even a (beta) windows client). The network address selection issue requires engineering effort, but wireguard itself is most likely not going to address that soon, because it's designed to be a minimal vpn codebase, so why don't you engineer a solution yourself? Or use NAT like nordvpn apparently does.

Explicit stock OpenVPN support. You kind of do this, but it's still difficult or off-putting for non-technical users to figure out which config to grab and how to install the stock client. On your setup page, make sure you're providing a link to the stock (windows) openvpn client and install instructions for Mac and major linux distros, so that people who don't trust your binary blob installer can use the generic one (minus all the fancy stuff like pretty config for auto-selection of endpoint, showing port number, DNS and kill switch things). Make sure to provide sample configs that are up to date and usable.

Nobody has to trust your software if you make it easy to use a generic client instead.

I realize Wireguard is tricky because it doesn't have ephemeral net address selection built into the protocol, but can you please just get that support done? What is your dev team doing if they're not doing that? They don't have to maintain openvpn, unless continually tweaking the custom UI is their prime focus. I'm tired of OpenVPN's instability and risk from its gigantic codebase. I don't care if wireguard has lurking bugs that make it insecure against the NSA. The NSA is not my threat model. You can support wireguard while cautioning everyone that you don't trust it as much as openvpn, and then let them make the choice based on how much they trust you, how much they trust wireguard, and how much they trust Matthew Green's audit of openvpn.
If only the media were less sensational kids would not be under constant surveillance by the technology that HN posters are helping to develop.
Calling them spy may be wrong, but I certainly won't ever work with, or use technology made by people who worked for an intelligence agency. That's something over which I'd also terminate friendships.

And many people have a similar mindset, so it's understandable to report this information, and make consumer choices based on it.

That said, Israel should probably consider solutions like other countries with mandatory military service have, e.g. in Germany (until it stopped being mandatory) it was possible to avoid military service by spending the exact same time instead working in social services, e.g. hospitals, daycares, retirement homes, etc.
Your experience is very much unlike my own. Every project I’ve seen hit issues with the database (e.g. unindexed queries, changing data access patterns) first, followed by I/O (especially other services like S3, search, etc.), and RAM usage before CPU became a major factor.

It’s possible, of course, but I’ve usually seen it as a symptom of not having a good culture around monitoring and troubleshooting — e.g. I remember someone porting an entire site to Jinja2 alleging performance wins, and it’s true that template rendering got (IIRC) 10-15% faster but they’d missed that 99.999% of the total runtime was being taken up by unoptimized database access generating many thousands of queries.
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And you know it is becouse of python reddit is often slow or down? Or are you just blaming pythin without any actual data on the underlying reasons?
One of the reasons I think the title Software Engineer should be protected as a professional designation (P.Eng) is to remove arguments like yours. If that lone developer were a real Software Engineer then he would be absolutely be guilty of malpractice. An Engineer can't escape culpability because they were just following orders.
It used to be unreliable. Is it not now?
No, but if we're forcing the kids to have clear backpacks because of an infinitesimal risk, we should ban them from biking to school, being driven to school and playing in the school football team.

Which is ridiculous.
qbittorrent has a built in search function that works great for me. Fire up a vpn and dump the file in my jellyfish indexed folders and away we go.
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> And while suicides, drug overdoses and alcoholism were the main causes

It looks like there is increasing mental health issues that aren't being addressed. This seems to get blown past too quickly.

We tend to look at the medical side of things and the way the healthcare system works. But, somethings have changed that caused the mental heath of many to go down. Will changing the US to single payer or medicare for all change the mental health problems? Given the research I've read it's highly unlikely.

Can we please put more time into understanding and addressing the increasing mental health problems? This is important for forums like this because studies have repeatedly found we have a hand in it.
Which bit of this are you upset with specifically? Monitoring internet access on school devices? That's been standard in every single school and workplace for decades.

The clear backpacks are silly I'll admit, and also pointless. I agree that kids getting conditioned to be okay with surveillance is bad, but this is all coming from the private sector right now.

In China, you now have to submit your face to be scanned into a database to get a new phone. This has already been normalized by all the face swapping apps, like Zao. Kids in the west wouldn't think twice about accepting the Ts and C's for Snapchat or IG or anything else that includes face scanning tech.
How hard was the learning curve? What are the main benefits over Django?
Since people are throwing out chargers they like, here's my current favourite: https://satechi.net/products/75w-dual-type-c-pd-travel-charg...

It's fantastic for travel. It can charge my laptop (USB-C), Apple Watch + iPhone (USB-A) and power bank (USB-C) all at the same time. It also has a detachable AC cable so you can swap it before you leave instead of carrying an international plug adapter.
schools are safer across the board than ten years ago (all violent crime has been declining for all groups for 30 years); there are actually fewer shootings than there were in the 90s despite the media narrative. technology simply follows its own logic of control unless there are hard constraints.
Its stunning how geographically incorrect that map is. I can't believe the MTA/NYCTA/whatever would ever approve such a map.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...

Compare 2000's to 2010–2014 to 2015 to 2019.
Not trying to take a side (though I'm against clear backpacks and monitoring), but here's a chart I found quickly:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/V8zMSpOAM50-sxWp--S6J...

Shootings are still rare, just less so.
> A city needs all kinds of people to function and affordability and density needs to be moderated so that there's enough diversity in families and employment to function well.

I don't necessarily see how one follows the other. So long as there's diversity in, for instance, bedroom count on units, what difference does it make if the units are stacked horizontally as they are today or vertically? To be clear, I'd love your thoughts, I'm not sure myself.

> Also some of the most affordable areas in the USA are also the most sparse.

Indeed because building up is expensive, so it requires demand. There's no demand in the middle of Idaho even comparable to what SF has.

Further, I'm proposing scrapping constraints on new development, not taking peoples 2 story Sunset units via eminent domain and throwing up SoMa style 50 story skyscrapers.

I think it's not an unreasonable place to start by doubling all height restrictions across all of SF. No more of this prime real estate on 17th and Brannan (the SFMTA bus lot redevelopment) getting wanged by a 4 story cap. That should be 20+ no question.
This is absolutely what you want, but any reasonable interviewee will respond with the answer that seems most likely to lead to an offer.

Instead, ask them about their experiences with legacy code. Not poorly written code, just "legacy". Talk through it with them, their changes, how they planned for them, how they dealt with the code.

This will tell you more than asking a softball question.
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> But the reality is that schools are a lot more dangerous than they were just 10 years ago.

Only in certain places in the western world, due to the governments refusal to implement gun control. Most countries haven't had a school shooting in decades (or ever).

Gun control doesn't work? Go tell that to the graves of children who died due to school shootings, just because the country they were born in refused to implement gun control.

It's frankly ridiculous to the rest of the world how easily people can buy guns in the US.

This is not a problem that can or should be solved with surveillance. It's a gun problem, that should be solved by making guns harder to get.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Is anything I've said not true? Please do explain.
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Yep, it sort of looks the same. This is how Rust entered Firefox, for example. The most straightforward way is to call `cargo build` from within whatever build system you're using for C.
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> Water bottles must also be clear, so school officials can see the color of the liquid inside.

Given the huge range of drinks available in the USA, especially soft drinks, I'm curious to know what colour isn't acceptable.
More expressive representations of source code enables better merging. Merging code as opaque strings of text is a bad choice, and causes lots of problems to programmers every day.
Comcast's X1 box will do this. It shows me stuff on Netflix, Prime, and their own streaming system. I can also setup recordings if it's airing anytime soon.
Too bad they don't support more systems, like Hulu or Disney+.
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Wouldn't that be declining returns from linear investments?
HVDC systems don't do too well in high temperatures. One thing the Nullabor has in spades is high temperatures.

Why would we go to all the expense to build a long distance HVDC link for that, anyway? WA's grid has very different capacity demands from the NEM grid for the east coast. The difference in populations (and energy needs) is huge.

Makes a ton more sense to invest in energy storage systems on each side than to dump tens of thousands of tons of copper in the ground to build a pointless link.
500k people per year would be bankrupt and basically ineligible for credit, probably unwilling to work if all their wages get garnished to service medical debt, yet ERs still can't turn these financially crushed people away.

So I think at some point or threshold there will be more elaborate effects than simply "healthcare costs up, people's lives suck".
You can’t divorce poor life choices from the economic context they are made within. These are complex issues, but is it controversial to say that people are more interested in investing in their health when they have less stress and more opportunity?

Likewise, you aren’t going to get a healthcare system which can make a meaningful impact on improving the lifestyles of the kinds of people you’re talking about without changing the current economic incentives.
Are you still trying to up your numbers or has your focus shifted? I'm going to be 50 next year and when I think about my goals it would probably be to get a bit stronger, improve my endurance, and to have a program that will work for a long time in a type of maintenance mode.
It really is just security theater so they can shrug & say "we did the thing" if (when) it gets pirated. Modern game DRM/anti-tamper like Denuvo (as horrible as it is) at least has a realistic goal of "delay piracy past the release week".
I’m skeptical of cryptocurrency solutions to everything but what if they tackled the under-demand problem instead of the over-supply problem and spun up cryptocurrency miners to eat the excess instead of shutting down the coal plants.
At least in Netflix's case, some of it makes sense because of how much work they put in to their website. Almost everything on their homepage is personalized based on what they think will get you to watch that movie/show. From the pictures, summary description, and video preview, that's all customized to get you to watch more.
Why are you hiring people with no experience?
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I would defend this statement 100% if Excel had regex support in Find/Replace.
What you're forgetting to mention is that none of the "improvements" is due to the industry itself. ALL of it has come from government regulation and threats from legislators to ban online gambling unless the casinos clean up their act.
From the account info [1], it is posted at "11 AM Eastern" whatever it is. One online time conversion site, says that you have to wait almost 2 hour to see it.

(Has the posting time changed recently? I remember it was posted earlier.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
That doesn't seem to be the case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#United_States

> Then what's an appropriate response?

Get rid of the security theater and actually do something about the causes.
This was a thorough yet concise overview of the Structural Causal Models framework that has been gaining in popularity recently.
Netflix had a simple model, sell videos. Many of these other services are selling you to advertisers. Streaming is awful when it includes ads.
A huge number of 74 year old technologies are available for $0.75 direct from China.

The fact the nuclear reactor hasn't been miniaturized to the size of a coin and included in every $15 childrens toy to power lights is in large part because of public perception and government regulation rather than real safety/health concerns - there exist plenty of typical household materials that are more dangerous than the safest nuclear materials.
> What's an appropriate response?

Work to heal the divides in the country and improve social cohesion. Figure out how to reinstill the sense of community that prevented these things over the course of history. Help all students find a supportive peer group.
The problem is not 100% supply. Supply is just sub-component. In this case Oakland had been zoned for many of those buildings for decades now (Jerry Brown had a 10,000 homes plan). I'm moving in to a building that was entitled in 2007 but didn't open until a few months back... Locally developers couldn't get projects to pencil out. After SF hiked a bunch of rates Oakland suddenly became financially viable for them.

There are also the issues of tenant protections (most of the unsheltered people in Oakland lived here better living on the streets, and they still have jobs here) and making sure low-income affordable housing is built.
I agree with what you’re saying, but that’s overly simplistic.

Infrastructure costs increase as you increase density. Charging an appropriate fee for new housing rather than limiting the growth is an efficient solution, but current methods allow for local corruption.

That’s just one of the hidden reasons for our current system. Another, is most people want to live as far as possible from poor people.
Sort of consistent with the idea that U.S. public high schools prepare students for prison.

Why respect authorities or society at all when it's arbitrary like that. It teaches learned helplessness and corruption and creates crappy people. Public schools don't have money, and when they get it, they spend it on this? Private schools and homeschooling programs seem to have a bright future.
Is it still TMC?
> But your comment was way over from the beginning.

Honestly bemused by this. How is the following single sentence way over the line, other than the parts I quoted (which amount to about half of it)?

So your personal experience does nothing less than illustrate Google's
tracking to an "obvious" degree, but my personal experience is simply
"making a sweeping judgement" and "confusing this with knowledge for the
sake of my own cognitive hygiene".

It's just a simple question asking why their personal experience shows something "obvious" (their word) about Google tracking, whereas mine doesn't.

Thanks for the links to the newcomments/noobcomments
Horseman.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow popularized the myth of the headless horseman.

This is a headless browser given a head. If we gave the headless horseman a head, he'd just be a horseman.
Agree. People that have no ethics or integrity tend to always revert to mean. People that I know that sell harmful products seem to have an uncanny ability to find ever more harmful ways of profiting.
My Aunt has a child in early middle school - years 6 through 9 or so, for people outside the US.

Not only does the poor kid have a school-issued laptop with heavy monitoring tools installed on it, but they are also required to bring a smartphone to school! My Aunt had made them tape over the laptop's webcam and explained that everything the kid typed could probably be seen by the school, but she was still concerned about the microphone. And the kid is completely incapable of avoiding the more toxic aspects of social media and adtech, because the constant use of smartphones has become a central part of their education. At the age of what, 11-15?

I can only imagine what this is teaching the child. When we caught up over the holidays, they seemed to be more fed up and disgusted with technology than interested in it.
This may come across badly, however this looks like we are using TypeScript as Java on the frontend.
Swift playgrounds seem very much aligned with notebook style ML development. They're in many ways a much more powerful version of notebooks.

https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
I have a bunch of USB-C devices - two laptops, a Switch, a phone, and a pair of headphones. The only one that I regularly charge from a USB-C PD port is the larger laptop. The rest do just fine with USB-A to USB-C cables from a four-port (one PD plus three USB-A) adapter. Occasionally I'll pull out my Atom and corresponding cable to charge another one of those devices more quickly, but that's actually pretty rare and I never need more PD ports than that. Never, and I travel more than most. I wish more people knew that A-to-C cables are a totally sufficient, cheaper, and more compact alternative for many devices.
Well... not everything, Rust is actually good. Just sit back enjoy the effects of the investment in this stuff, and don't worry about other people being foolish with their money.
I think this is a gross over-exaggeration. While it is not uncommon for kids to rebel against, for example, their parents at a certain and whatnot, I think this is different than saying that the majority of kids will do it.

The public school system functions as a major conditioning environment to get children used to the norms of society, including deference to authority, following rules, and other things that are generally accepted as good. This is the ideal time for those things to happen because of how pliable the young mind still is.

However, we must be very careful how constrained we make such environments and the idea that safety is guaranteed by subjecting kids to what is effectively zero privacy means we've traded, yet again, liberty for security, thus relinquishing the effective right to both.

This will be as effective at rooting out violence in schools as bombing 3rd world villages has been in rooting out terrorism. Until the underlying issues are addressed (mental health, social disparities, racial divides, etc.) the kettle will continue boiling over and more-and-more unpredictable and chaotic ways.
Is there something about bomb water that doesn't allow it to be made clear? Alcohol is already clear so they're not stopping that.
The trouble is that some markets will operate at a loss due to the glut in Natural Gas. See the northeast reactors.
Probably file under "economics":

The nukes and communists share the No True Scotman's defense: the prior failures weren't true communism, err, nuke power. If only we had clapped louder, Tinkerbell would fly.

Maybe only Tennessee was more pro nuclear than Washington. Alas. Incompetence, corruption, delays, and cost overruns aborted the nukes under construction, which then killed all hopes of building more nukes.

For decades, WPPSS (pronounced "Whoops!") was the punchline for local jokes about government, waste, bureaucracy. My favorite was a two-billed baseball hat that said "WPPSS", kinda like this: https://www.villagehatshop.com/photos/product-alternate/gian...

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https://www.historylink.org/File/5482

"Several factors combined to ruin construction schedules and to drive costs to three and four times the original estimates. Inflation and design changes constantly plagued all the projects. Builders often got ahead of designers who modified their drawings to conform to what had been built. Safety changes imposed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission increased costs too,

but the biggest cause of delays and overruns was mismanagement of the process by the WPPSS.

The directors and the managers of the system had no experience in nuclear engineering or in projects of this scale. System managers were unable to develop a unified and comprehensive means of choosing, directing, and supervising contractors. One contractor, already shown to be incompetent, was retained for more work. In a well-publicized example, a pipe hanger was built and rebuilt 17 times. Quality control inspectors complained of inadequate work that went unaddressed."

(Attempted emphasis mine.)
> Monitoring internet access on school devices? That's been standard in every single school and workplace for decades.

Blocking has been standard in some workplaces, and stricter blocking has been standard in schools, but monitoring isn't. Small and medium businesses and academia often have little or no blocking.

No-one gets any alert if I write "I want to kill myself or maybe the president" here (over TLS), nor will they when you download this page. For some children, this does generate an alert -- even on a secure site.
> Also often the puzzles have very little to do with your coding skills and everything to do with knowing some mathematical trick

Yeah, my favorite "puzzle" that highlights the folly of such things is this; write a function which, given the number of participants (n), returns the number of games/matches necessary to be played in a single elimination tournament to determine a winner.

I actually asked this question in an interview once, only I was the interviewee. I had just fumbled about with all the nonsense algorithm problems that had no relevance for the job when the interviewer asked if I had any questions. I popped that one on him and to my surprise he actually took up the challenge. But since he didn't know the trick he fumbled about on some recursive goose chase.
Can you point to newer products that reflect these improvements?
It a reference to the Groovy language - http://groovy-lang.org/
Perl 5 development has moved to GitHub
Why should we be trying to keep coal plants online?