skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, but the issue is how likely is an arbitrary person interested in being a programmer but lacking a degree going to be able to self-teach the vast amounts of information needed to be productive as a modern developer?

You don’t need much to be productive. There’s plenty of great guardrails like code reviews, pair programming and shadowing that can make someone surprisingly productive.

The value of a degree is social signaling that you are the “type” of person to be able get that degree, socioeconomically and temperamentally. Plenty of people out there for whom the economics of a degree didn’t make any sense, or they had bigger needs that had to be filled immediately so didn’t have the ability to sacrifice for the long term.
I don't know, I work in the games industry and we're currently building a small project that's probably 95% C(the only C++ we have is for one library that has to have a C++ wrapper). It's just.....we don't need the C++ features, the compilation times are instant(last project I worked on was a large AAA game in C++ and compiling it from scratch was about 40-50 minutes on a single workstation), and pretty much all libs are C anyway. I'm not going to make the performance argument since it's mostly irrelevant nowadays, but I just don't see us using C as anything out of ordinary.
Thanks for that. I was scratching my head at the "in-kind service revenue". For others that were likewise confused, there is a line item on both sides: it's income and expenses and cancels out. So that makes sense.

The detailed audit report indicates that rent is about $1.5 million. The rest is essentially computer purchases.

I'd still like to see a better explanation of the professional services. But it definitely makes more sense.
This article recommends using venv instead of virtualenv:

https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-using-pip-and...
Hi, I am the author of this post. I had posted another link about this story a few days ago when this story was still unfolding.[1][2]

This blog post summarizes the timeline and the events that occurred to resolve the domain transfer issue. Like I have mentioned in this blog post, multiple parties such as Namecheap Support, the Shadowsecurity Foundation, and NIXI helped me in resolving this issue. Thanks to all of them and special thanks to Namecheap CEO, Richard Kirkendall, for looking into this issue on priority as soon as he became aware of it.

I wish the domain name management, in particular, and the Internet, in general, had a higher degree or decentralization, so that it were technically impossible for something like this to happen but I think there are many factors at play that are currently preventing from such an Internet to become mainstream at this time.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671579

[2]: https://twitter.com/susam/status/1200678538254393345
Sometimes I do this when I don't want to haggle; I just want a price on which I can decide a simple go/no-go.
Interesting choice of words given you can do practically everything you can do in C also in (possibly unsafe) Rust.
It's simply incorrect, and betrays a carelessness with facts. Now, if you wanted to argue that the fragment of Rust excluding "unsafe" is not a systems language, fine. But by that reasoning, I think you can make an even stronger argument that (standard) C is not a systems programming language, because in practice no kernel is written in a way that avoids all undefined behavior.
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That's not exactly a standard work on business management advice.
What is the likelihood that historians a century or two hence will have an application capable of turning an ISO 32000-1 file into a human-readable text?

If we are talking about archaeologists, rather than historians, even ASCII and Unicode could be a challenge to work out.
> I'm with you 100% that personal data makes search worse in in many cases, too much personalization is detrimental.

This isn't even my main objection.

Shouldn't data collection be reciprocal? I submit data you can use and you submit the data you extracted and used from me?

The ideal would be when I submit a search query to your server and it would respond "I have collected (this) data from you" "I have put for auction data.{xyz} on market Y" "The companies bidding were a,b,c and they offered amount g,h,i" "Company U won the bid, that's why you're seeing this ad".

If you think about it, there's no way someone would be transparent enough to give this data to the users.

If "you" aren't willing to share your "sensor" data, why should we be forced to share ours?
Act of war against .... Merck, a company? I've heard of some circuitous logic to deny insurance claims, but this was not an act of war against Merck, which BTW isn't a country, so by definition, one can't go to war with it? Well, maybe hyperbolically a competitor might, but unlike real war, they're bound by the rules and laws of civil society

This is the very definition of an accident, if the article is to be believed, with Merck not even being the target. Pay up insurers, this is why you exist.

Further, what is the point of insurance, especially for sensitive IP laden companies like pharma research, if there's no protection against nationa-state attacks, which isn't outside the realm of possibility for such companies.
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How is this the top rated comment? It swats down the post based on points that the post has already addressed:

> Why do we place the blame and assign malice of intent to those who have little control over the constraints?

The post suggests searching and hiring outside of the traditional pipeline, which is something that is within control. The comment is then topped off with a strawman argument:

> If we put actual performance metrics and pay on the line for achieving these physically unattainable goals, everyone would be fired.

50% is clearly a goal that is a long way away but it doesn't mean we cannot work towards it. Yes, it's probably unrealistic to expect anyone to bring 50% representation to a significant sized workforce within an average tenure. It doesn't mean that the pursuit of gender parity is delusional or that meaningful and achievable targets cannot be set.

If anything this top comment is a prime example of the prevailing biased and unwilling attutide to improve representation in the industry, that has been placed on a pedestal.
If you analyze the NotPetya attack, it differs from other ransomware attempts in two respects. First, it was specifically targetting Ukraine. Second, the attackers didn't actually take any money but rendered all systems defunct. If you are a criminal, you aim to make money, right? Why give up on that possibility? It makes no sense.

So, even if in the infosec world you can never say never, but just as Stuxnet is generally attributed to Israel/USA, in the same way NotPetya is attributed to Russia, even though none of these countries will ever admit they actually did it.
If they are to snooty to play with those with less experience/skill to help them learn the game, and to help the joy of their game spread, then that is their problem. Let them stew in the boredom of only ever playing against the few they consider worthy while the rest of us have a good time!
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> Why do professions need to aim for 50-50 but not non-professional hobbies?

The logic is (from certain points of view at least) - if programming is a desirable occupation, both for individuals, and also for us as a society, then if we have something that "artificially" restricts the amount of programmers - we want to get rid of that something.

In other words, if it really is true that we could have twice as many programmers, that's better for society. If some segment of the population is far less represented in that profession, it could be for a number of reasons, but it's certainly some indication that there might be many potential programmers who are missing out on a possibly valuable profession (and who we as a society are missing out on being programmers), and this is possibly "fixable".
Anybody inventing AGI would be a big deal, but (1) don't hold your breath and (2) it could just as easily be a negative for Google and for the rest of us.
How any US serving member is allowed to use facebook or random apps is beyond me. The entire premise here is absurd. Of course it is a risk, just like the app partially owned by tencent that one of the most popular sites in the world insists you install when browsing on mobile.

Australians legally do metadata and spying better than everyone else on many metrics and then share it with the multiple eyes. Something to remember when the media is whipping up a threat frenzy.
Given Australia's treatment of whistleblowers and slow descent into authoritarianism, I very much envy the few protections Americans take for granted.
Google Play Store link for Android app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.craigslist...

The Android app requires you to sign in with a Google account, which is disappointing in terms of privacy.
I really hope they don’t think they can fix a few “bugs” and make this thing usable.

I’ve noticed this in the past, when a previous employer got rid of their Markdown interface for interview candidate feedback. In response to everyone’s angry comments about their flaky piece of garbage WYSIWYG replacement, they responded “please file bugs if our Markdown-like shortcuts aren’t working right!”

They were completely missing the point since even if their tool was 100% bug free (which it wasn’t, and I’m sure still isn’t), WYSIWYG editing will NEVER feel like text editing, and I NEVER want it in a critical work tool.

Honestly people thinking their WYSIWYG editor “supports markdown” because “Star Star” is an alternate shortcut for Ctrl+B seems to be so severely missing the mark that I wonder if they’re deliberately insulting my intelligence.
What's your best price is a good tactic with a poor negotiator or someone who isn't attached to the item. Maybe they play the numbers and it works. Just like you though, I hate that tactic when tried on me and it will never work.
See https://marc.info , its by far the best mailing list archive, popular in open source communities but it absolutely never appears on Google because it has the same content as massively SEOed crap mailing list archives like Nabble. Google has definitely manually unbanned it a few times but it seems to expire after a while.
Japan sounds like a high tech society that is seamless yet it is not as futuristic as it seems.
HN's version of Slashdotted.

They might well use UWaterloo's CS Club infrastructure, which can withstand enough traffic. For instance, the FOSS mirror at https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Kansas City would be lovely. I rent a server there, but not from AWS. Denver would probably be good too.
Ah, that explanation makes a lot of sense actually! :)
I usually check ratings for a charity by reviewing it on Charity Navigator (which is itself a 501 (c) (3) and in need of donations as well). The rating for the Wikimedia Foundation happens to be really good: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

I use Wikipedia for reference on various topics on a daily basis and I know my kids do it at school as well. Hence, I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the approximate cost of my yearly Netflix subscription as they provide huge amounts of valuable information without any ads and to everyone without paywalls. There aren’t very many free services on the web that run without ads.
It also sounds like a mostly American thing. I fly several times a year and I am yet to be on a flight with any form of Wi-Fi available, it's quite exotic to me stil.
Sure, there are no completely innovative products. But the difference I see is this: going from a clunky, ugly, essentially business-only phone like the Blackberry to ubiquitous smart-phones is a more close to a difference in kind. Essentially, before the iPhone, most people did not believe they needed a smartphone. On the other hand, most people before Gmail did know that they need a mail provider, Gmail was 'just' a much more convenient mail provider. Most people did know they need a browser, Chrome was just much nicer. When Android rolled out, people already knew they want a smartphone, Android was cheaper and less walled-in.

A good example would be if Google's Stadia succeeds. Even though there have been attempts in the past (e.g. OnLive), the mind-share is so low that they are almost irrelevant. If Stadia gets anywhere near console-level market penetration, I would consider it an innovative product that Google created. I don't expect it to succeed, though, based on the track record.
Bitcoin’s Success in the Future Will Depend How It Emerges from the Chasm Phase
There is a big reason but I don't know what you need so I can't say.

Don't blame me if you're unhappy with that response, "Anon" . You need to let people know what your pain points are. Not prepared to provide any details in your question? Then don't expect any details in a response, is that unclear to you? Your reaction is your responsibility, "Anon".
I don't know any other company that people love to hate. A large number of those will flee Google in droves when/if a viable alternative presents itself. Their lock-in on email and dominance in search may be enough of a moat to last forever but if your users (paying and free) hate you then you are on borrowed time.
I thought it's only a Polish phenomenon. It's bit of a meme in Poland, about services such as Olx. People try to haggle for every product. Let's say the price for a product is $300, you will have people messaging you with messages like "$50 and I'm there in few hours", often being aggressive if you refuse them. Also a common method is try to get emotional and lie to get a better offer, for example claiming to be a single mother who wants to bring joy to her child.
I can't, which is why I would definitely like to see more transparency. But you do need a certain amount of trust as well in these things. I don't want it to be the case where people are questioning each and every penny. Instead, I want to have knowledgeable, smart people whom I trust run the company and give them some freedom in investing as they think is right. Exposing too many details will make it difficult to make long-term investments, but I do think we should have more details than what is currently available.
No he didn't.

But it very well might be (biased against him).

Racism exists. Racism is widespread. People in populations that are targeted by racism are much more familiar with what racism is present than those of us in untargeted populations. Much racism is subtle and implicit.

If you can logically accept those statements, then I don't see how you can claim to know how likely the presence of bias might be. And worrying about something that could actually be true is not racism. Even if the reasons involve race. Assuming that the interviewers are thinking X or will do Y because they are white is racist. Worrying that they might is probably just being realistic.

Again, though, I am the one making this argument that you are declaring to be racist. The person you replied to wasn't. He was just expressing an anxiety he experiences, and wasn't even speculating on how likely that anxiety might be based on reality.
I emailed them to tell them I would stop using slack completely and start emailing my coworkers instead if they didn’t revert it. I assume hundreds of others sent similar mails.
Even if the answer there is "never", so what? Do we really need to set the bar at "replace all vehicles everywhere in all situations" for it to be a success?
Even without the images, just the descriptions alone were enough to trigger feelings of revulsion.
I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m
No one can compete with you on being you
Probably.
This also explains that people find comfort in pimple popping and ASMR. The first is a direct skin health care routine and ASMR is simulating human intimacy, probably giving the impression of being cared for by others, which helps when being sick.

I guess it is not widespread because the evolutionary pressure only evolved it on part of human people for local reasons.

Or what I want to believe: Its phenotypical expression is different for different folks because of gene activation. Could be that traumatic occurences in the past (like being serious sick of s.th. like that, or being in the midst of an epidemy, while avoiding it oneself) activate the gene and this is passed on to the next few generations.
Me, 2015: "This engineering code is some serious fixed FORTRAN"

My 80+ year old boss at the time: "Yeah it had to be" Whips out several boxes of punch cards
The problem isn’t that they launched a feature, it’s that they unilaterally removed a feature people were using.

Everyone would have been totally fine with it being behind a toggle, even if on by default.
Bignums are there because of Macsyma (Maxima's ancestor)!

"Bignums—arbitrary precision integer arithmetic—were added [to MacLisp] in 1970 or 1971 to meet the needs of Macsyma users."

[https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf, P. 10 bottom]
Huawei to move research centre from U.S. to Canada
Thanks to UNIX adoption.

C is the JavaScript of systems programming.

Had it not been for UNIX workstations and universities adopting it, we would probably using BLISS, PL/I or something else instead and not bleeding billions of dollars per year fixing security exploits.
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Step 1: google “how to make text bold in Slack”

There is no step 2, that’s literally all you need to do.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step back from top roles
As mentioned in this blog post, the domain transfer was done as part of an international operation against the Avalanche botnet. As such, it was a legal action as opposed to an administrative action. Further, the action was taken at registry level as opposed to registrar level (which is one level lower than the registry). Therefore, no EPP code was necessary and the "clientTransferProhibited" domain transfer record was ignored.
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Maybe instead of doing share buybacks to transfer .9% of the value to shareholders, major conglomerates could just give money to poor people to spend on their products.
I did exactly the same thing a few months ago (sans kids). Turned my 35-40 minute tube commute into a 10 minute leisurely cycle ride.
Authorization Techniques Using Firestore and Parse
But for how many years can Wikipedia run on that much money? IMO not having a large endowment which comfortably lasts a decade is irresponsible for the kind of resource Wikipedia presents to the world.
thank you, that seems like a plausible idea to me.

It also seems possible to me that such an intervention might reduce feedback loops which cause the bias in the input anyway. Like, if women who are aware that a smaller proportion of the people employed in a field are women than the proportion of people in the population, maybe they might see that as a factor weighing against picking that field as one to go into? (of course, some might find it a reason to pick that field. I just mean that it seems possible that there is such an effect on average),
and so, the #2 intervention might reduce such a feedback loop problem, if such feedback loops do exist.
Yup, in order to be able to paste into any of those inputs you need to have clipboard events on
> uncle's connections in Washington

The uncle, then still Tsarnaev, lived by his father in law in Maryland and while living there incorporated there "the Congress of Chechen International Organizations".

See my other post here.

> It's basically "blowback" from the covert operations to use Islamic extremism against the USSR and Russia.

That's how one part of the whole story can be interpreted.

One of the most interesting titles from The Washington Post I've read was: "The Taliban indoctrinates kids with jihadist textbooks paid for by the U.S." (2014)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08...

"As The Washington Post reported in 2002, the United States had spent millions of dollars beginning in the 1980s to produce and disseminate anti-Soviet textbooks for Afghan schoolchildren. The books encouraged a jihadist outlook, which was useful propaganda at the time for a Washington driven by the imperatives of the Cold War."
Did you come up with a different design that doesnt trigger it? I would be interested to hear.
US Considers Banning Huawei from Banking System
Yes, some of the many features : Tuples, left to right declaration syntax, references with auto dereferencing, constructors destructors, nested routines, extended case with ranges, choose (switch with no fallthrough), overloading and polymorphism.
This is great news!

Have you consulted a lawyer?

It seems that the Shadowsecurity Foundation did act recklessly. But you'd need to prove monetary damages.

But perhaps they'd settle to avoid the hassle.

Edit: This is an admission of guilt:

> He explained in his email that my domain name was sinkholed accidentally as part of their Avalanche operation.