skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it’s the coverups that’s the problem! I do not fault the Catholic Church for the fact that priests raped children. I fault them for not immediately turning all evidence to the state, rather than simply moving the priest from the place where people were starting to talk about his raping to a new place where he could rape a new set of children.
Which is why I wonder they didn't make it an opt-in for those who want the extra security. Or at least provide an opt out
Rise of SUVs 'makes mockery' of electric car push
He/she said they pay well for a fast food place, which isn't the same statement.

For a company C, define S(C) to be the set of companies where the "average" employee at C could conceivably get a job without significant extra training. Under this survey, a company C is ranked highly if it is considered great within the group S(C) of companies. Said differently, a company C is ranked highly if employees working at other companies within S(C) tend to want to work at C specifically.

While we may not be telling our kids to strive to work at a burger place when they're adults, the reality is there are millions of people out there who aren't going to be working at Google for various reasons but they still deserve good jobs that pay well and treat them with respect. It could very well be the case that In-N-Out stands out as a great place within S(In-N-Out) more than Google does within S(Google).

Perhaps the point of contention then is whether lists like this should be aspirational or empirical. You could easily make an aspirational list by reducing it down to raw absolute pay. I'm not sure how useful that really is. This list is interesting (to me, at least) because these are places where people are actually really happy, given what their realistic options are.
Stripe's API is well documented, but I don't understand why it uses form data instead of JSON. Seems weird/scary to have an API driven by completely unstructured text.
>Are the horror stories about working at Amazon true? ️

Anecdotally I've heard mixed accounts, where some ex-Amazon employees say they never had issues, but still some others have some pretty bad stories to tell.

Recently Bezos said he only wants "to hire missionaries, not mercenaries", so take that statement as you will.
> How can one compare In-N-Out Burger to Google?

You can’t.

But on the other hand, in most tech companies, the on-site interview process is like Five Guys.
The lesson is that going over your bosses head and complaining higher up the chain is not seen as initiative. It is seen as a communication failure. If your boss is bad at their job, you are still supposed to be able to communicate with them, work with them, and get problems resolved. If you hold back from talking to your boss, build up grudges, then launch them uphill.... even if your facts are correct, you have just become a problem.

On the other hand, if you had been having ongoing discussions with your boss so everything was out on the table, and just weren't getting anywhere with your boss, then you could mutually escalate it in a productive way, working together to request some higher-level assistance.

Working well with people is often more important than being right. Because a group of people who work well together will work mutually find the correct answers, using everyone's strengths, and helping each other grow in the process.
I'm not seeing anything wrong with what OP did. By CCing everyone, the junior is trying to make themselves look good by making OP look bad. The junior learned that if they act like an ass, especially an incorrect ass, the other employees won't tolerate it.
Here are the rules: http://ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle

And they make for uncomfortable reading.
> As an attempt at an example, if you went to college and got an English minor and a CompSci minor you'd be capable in both areas but you would likely not be as knowledgeable as an English major nor a CompSci major within the respective domain.

I don't think this analogy works, because CompSci and English are pretty unrelated to each other as fields, whereas frontend and backend by definition work together to create a product. That makes a person experienced in both worth more when working on either, because they're more likely to have in mind the entire system when they do design decisions pertaining to their side of the network.
Lots wouldn't be comfortable, but there's a few who'd likely be ok with it. Urethral+anal electric stimulation is a relatively known kink. There's no way to keep still in that situation though, so I'd expect anaesthesia would be necessary for that.
For those Gophers reading this and sobbing silently, there may be hope: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27589
We are "Knowledge Workers" for crying out loud our role is to create knowledge and spread it that's all we're supposed to be doing all the issues that arise are based on people not knowing what learning really is and not understanding the value of the knowledge being created
> decided everything should return 200

Sounds like that decision came from someone who didn’t spend much of their career consuming APIs.
If you casually want to get into it without the commitment, I've found that even passively watching the Tim Roughgarden videos from Coursera (probably can be found crossposted to YouTube by third parties) to be stimulating in the past.

If you seek to acquire formality and rigor, I can't help you there; I figure shortcuts will be nonexistant ;)
> Corporation buys back $100 of shares from 1 shareholder. No taxes were due there as there were no capital gains for shareholder 1. Shareholder 2 now owns 100% of the corporation, so their investment is now, all other thing equal, worth $200.

Maybe I don't understand how stock works, but wouldn't shareholder 2 still own only 50%, with the corporation still owning 50% of itself?
URL's behavior is unfortunate and users should prefer URI introduced in Java 1.4 in 2002. error-prone warns about dangerous uses of URL:

https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/URLEqualsHashCode
Actually, I think you brought up something interesting. The stats are mostly about the "bulk" of the workforce. How are the general workers (grunts) treated? Kind of like, you can tell how clean a restaurant kitchen is by visiting the bathroom.

How does Google/Fb treat their grunts (developers I assume) and how does a burger restaurant treat their cashiers/cooks? It's sad if a cashier/linecook feels like they get more respect from their managers than a developer from their own managers.
On the other hand, Java code and byte code from 20 years ago still work the same as they did then.
Ha, that's fantastic! I didn't know it had a name.
Depends on the horror story and what employees factor into their happiness.

Steve Yegge (former Amazon and Google employee) once had to walk back a flippant remark about "dread pirate Bezos," in which he explained that while the work was fulfilling and he was successful at it, the background message he perceived of a consistent drumbeat of "Be useful to the company or we'll fire you" weighed on him psychologically.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2011/10/g...
Maybe google has to pay more to make up for the being a bad place to work.

Which is a bit of hyperbole, but higher pay is one way to get people to accept years of schooling, and soul-crushing busywork. You’re not paid for virtue or happiness.
Ha, I love it when people make dumb excuses for awful decisions like that. /s

I much prefer colleagues who can say, woah that was dumb thanks for informing me of a better way. Making excuses doesn't help anyone unless one has a valid logical reason they did a certain thing, otherwise I DONT WANNA HEAR IT.
Somehow "all available documentation about medieval France" somehow ended up being "oh, we don't know exactly, a lot is guesswork".

And that's France. What about Medieval Africa? The Americas?

Oh, we mostly burned that documentation because "it wasn't important". Right?
Thank you for this! I'll definitely take a look at the book you recommended. The product in question is B2C, and I'm thinking that perhaps it might be possible to offer as a B2B instead. I'm going to email a couple of businesses and see if I get any positive response.
Yep, I got the same thing. Haven't merged it and probably won't. Since it appeared to be a bot that created the PR, it seemed like a rather underhanded, spammy way of promoting the repl.it project. It kinda reminds me of the whole tip4commit debacle with the flask project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969
Are you comparing flipping burgers at one company to software engineering at the other?

Because I can't see how else you'd end up with that number.
>Surely there must have been a better way for you to handle this situation.

The junior was in the wrong, so I think you'd agree that a correction is in order. Replying-all is one way to do such a correction. The alternative would be to force him to issue a retraction himself.
This is a findable answer[0], though this only shows 3 or more children. Looks like 7,008,000 families have 3 or more children. Looking at the same site[1] for the number of people between, say, 15 and 49 (the thought being anyone less than 15 probably isn't a "parent" and anyone over 49 doesn't have children living at home anymore, or at least not ones they need to transport), we get 150.67 million "parents".

Some quick math gets us about 4.6%. Incidentally, that's similar to the number of LGBTQ persons in the US (4.5%)[2]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183790/number-of-familie...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population...
So what a $millionaire is not in the super rich or even the rich class - well of middle class yes.
Just set a memory limit on the process.
Well, I could be wrong. I remember reading in what I considered an authoritative source that MCAS was needed to preserve the type cert, not to comply with the FARs. But I can't find the reference right now.

If it's true that the Max can't be certified at all without MCAS that would be a whole nuther kettle of fish.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

Can't I build and use this if I want? It looks very open, but I haven't tried building my own client.
If the Github repo has a docker-compose.yml file in it, can it spin up all of the containers?
Force them to insist upon what every expert says is impossible.

What does "impossible" mean here?

It is certainly possible to build an encrypted messaging system that doesn't use end-to-end encryption and that allows someone within the company that runs that system to read the messages.

There are plenty of existing messaging systems that work this way, even today (eg, FB Messenger in non-private mode, Slack, plenty of video products).

Plenty of them have a long history of operating without having unauthorised information leaked.

So again - what is impossible?

I agree entirely that E2E encryption is much better, but we are fooling ourselves to say anything else is impossible.

Political arguements is a fool's game as they are experienced manipulators after power. Sociopaths in other words. Not playing the expert's games is the only way to win against them.

I'm not entirely convinced by this argument. I think that banning E2E is primarily pushed by security agencies, and I think politicians don't particularly care about this topic at all.
There has to be a reason for that (e.g. breaking the terms of service).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21766557#21767531

It's like AOP with user-definable join points.
Harbour Air completes world's first electric aircraft test flight
> IMHO jobs and economy are secondary. University is first and foremost about having educated citizens. And you can't do that in school because you need the freedom of not being forced to go to class and freedom from your parents too.

I sympathize with this view. When I was young (and foolish), I was really upset at how university education was being commoditized to teach job skills when really it should (in my opinion) follow the Classical Greek model of education designed to better a person -- the word for school also means "leisure". I also bemoaned the lack of intellectual curiosity and anti-intellectual atmosphere in universities, even elite universities.

But over time, I realized that this model of a university where you go and find yourself or discover the truth or become an enlightened person was fundamentally impossible as a method of national policy.

It is an indulgence for the elite which doesn't scale to 70% of the population, most of whom have zero desire to become intellectuals and are going to school so that they can have job skills. They need job skills. Why would we make them take out huge loans or waste a key portion of their lives role playing as intellectuals?

Moreover, it's really hard to teach young people insight about life because most of us are complete fools when we are young and all we get is the feeling of having deep insight into things, we don't really get that insight except by _doing_, whether that means engaging directly with the world via travel or talking to people outside our bubble, reading things that challenge us, experience life by having kids or watching a relative die, or whether that means doing on the job -- secluding yourself into a dream world on a walled off campus with a strictly controlled idealized environment is an indulgence that does not actually make you a more knowledgeable person.

In terms of an elite school offering superior results, that is always easy to do if you are selective. It's trivial to create a high school with much superior results than the average high school if you can pick out good students. The hard thing to do is to scale that to a national policy for everyone.

So if this secluded campus model of the university doesn't promote your intellectual life and it doesn't give you job skills, then why are we doing it?

There is a reason why the original schools were basically theological training institutions and later became finishing schools for the wealthy. That model of university education was always a type of bubble, but at least in the past, people were sent to the bubble because they were going to live in that bubble for the rest of their lives so the university was preparing them for their future life, either in a monastery or in elite circles where employment was considered a dirty word.
Hmm, layers don't have an immutable past. Can you elaborate?
But they are higher ups and should obviously be allowed to make ALL decisions, why listen to some developer who is beneath them. That dev has only spent the last 5 years working with APIs, databases, and web applications, what does he even know, probably nothing? /s
There's no need to shame people who are wrong.
Iowa City and their pedestrian mall is easily one of the best places to spend a couples days at in the Midwest. Being a college town, it’s a bit of an oasis in the Midwest for all sorts of fantastic local restaurants, arts, and people. Without the pedestrian mall, it wouldn’t be half the city it is today.

https://thinkiowacity.com
A) Yes I do

B) I’m not sure Google ain’t evil. Even if they’re good, if I fail security on my side, some other evil person, unrelated to google, may be able to delete all my e-mails before shutting down my gmail account. That’s why e-mail client alone is good but not enough, also need backups of that local DB.
Thanks, that’s interesting. Would that, in your experience, also tally with what the faithful think they’re contributing to? I live in the UK and anecdotally would say that here it’s traditionally understood to be a collection for the Pope to be used as he sees fit.
This isn't the ArcGIS Server API is it?
This. It reminds me of the recycling campaigns shifting responsibility to the consumer with the transition from glass to plastic.

As a web developer though I know the agent shortcut is tempting. Without it I imagine we'd have to wait for a quorum of popular browsers before dropping feature detection for any given capability.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-d...

Here's an article that asks this very question, not sure if it was posted on HN prior or not.
On the flip side, I think this would make pinpoint the device‘s geo-location much easier.
OTOH, Google and Facebook, with annual incomes larger than the GDP of a medium European country, can log everyone’s every breath, on the internet and, more recently, in real life, with impunity. I just can’t wrap my head how the municipal police doing it is “nightmarish authoritarianism”, but big adtech, de facto way more powerful, gets a cursory pass.
I have been working in this space [0] for a number of years, and I agree, it's becoming extremely promising.

[0] https://sonicmultiplicities.audio
(couldn't read the article - firewalled)

Concerning Switzerland (other countries are probably similar, e.g. Germany) (from https://awa.zh.ch/internet/volkswirtschaftsdirektion/awa/en/... ):

When registering in the municipality of residence, you will be asked about your religious denomination. In the Canton of Zurich, members of the Evangelical-Reformed (Protestant), the Roman-Catholic and the Christian-Catholic Church are required to pay church taxes. Church tax is levied along with the income tax and tax on assets. It amounts to between 8 and 16 percent of the cantonal base tax (“einfache Staatsteuer”) for members of the Catholic Church, between 7 and 15 percent for members of the Evangelical-Reformed (Protestant) Church and 14 percent for members of the Christian-Catholic Church.

As I already pay that, and as it's not a small amount, I was hoping that at least what I donate directly whenever I'm in the Church (the small box into which people put their donations - don't know how it's called), was used exclusively for the poor and not for something else?
> If you're going to play the "game of thrones" as it were, learn the rules first.

Agreed. Or decide to not play. And just leave to a different job.

One thing though that I see far too commonly is that engineers think that people in power "don't know or care" as opposed to "don't want to know or care" or "know damn well and want it this way". People in power may not be geniuses, but they likely aren't incompetent either. They probably have a fairly solid level of political skill or they wouldn't have gotten to that level.

Start from the assumption that things are shitty for a reason or you are going to miss something important.
> unintended consequences

If you think those consequences are unintended, then I have a bridge to sell you.
That runs counter to the data I’d previously seen. Business owners claimed spending went down when it was reported as going up.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4390635/king-street-pilot-project...

Or see the city’s YoY report, page 16:

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/8fb5-TS_Ki...

The restaurants that suffered were belonged to the fellow I mentioned and those that aligned themselves with him. He was already a bit of a notorious blowhard.

What you’re describing is what they claimed would happen, but didn’t because more people were encouraged to spend time there.

Even anecdotally I certainly spend more time there after films than I otherwise did because it’s so much better to move through rather than a total blockade of cars every single day rendering it basically a non-consideration—at least on our part.
Not really? From my perspective as an outside observer, the WHATWG is the one built/captured by corporations. The W3C gave up and agrees now that the HTML spec is mostly just whatever WHATWG says it is, but that's partly because the W3C seems more interested in putting time/money/effort into standardizing things where they are wanted such as ActivityPub.
Releases were stalled for a long while, and then, past week, released a really big update, both technical and cosmetic.
It's a shame none of us will ever find out if the RCC will last another two thousand.
That's super interesting. Those are international departure airports. I wonder if what they're doing is sniffing for phone numbers of interest showing up in the international terminal indicating a 'person of interest' is trying to leave or arrive. I assume people trying to leave or enter the country without permission might have false ID and a false name on their ticket but they probably don't think about changing their phone number.

Once you have a number pop up on the Stingray you distribute that person's photo to all the border agents.
Work from Home Positions in AI Data Collection and Data Annotation
Archives of personal letters and ephemera, preserved in manuscript/special collections libraries, are incredibly important research sources. This often includes letters which were never meant to published. LOC had a project to preserve every tweet (published to the world) until a few years ago - who knows what tweets might be useful to future researchers?
That's a pretty good selling point. I always was quite disappointed that after years and years of finding more writable alternatives to the verbosity of HTML, we picked up the worst version of it (from a writing-as-a-human perspective). That always bothered me way more than mixing markup and code.

HTML5 by comparison ain't that bad and it's the language you'd also be using when writing things manually. So I appreciate the effort. Pairing that with preact might be a good toy project.
Once a company gets past ~20 employees the CEO can't evaluate employee competence directly and has to rely on proxies.

In sufficiently large companies, gaming these proxies gets you promoted faster than doing great work. This is one reason big incumbents eventually fail.
...or maybe these people don't remember (or have never had the experience of) working a low-paid job. Or maybe people like to complain. Or maybe there's just a lot of selection bias in the commenter pool. Maybe all the people happily working at Google are just busy working and don't care about HN drama.
Emoji aren't a fixed set; there are new ones added all the time: 230 this year, 157 last year, …. When I see an emoji, I can't tell whether it's an existing one drawn in a different style, or whether it got added since the last time I memorized the code chart.
They should distribute all those fantastic works of art and scholarship they've got locked up. Sell them to public institutions that will preserve them and show them to the general public.

I guess that's a bridge too far. It's more important to steal from the poor...
Which hardly matters if your product has an excellent price/weight ratio.

My understanding (not being involved in the field in any role) is that even car-based street dealers carry far less product than one could comfortably pack on a bike.

And a cargo bike could probably move a quite respectable quantity even by wholesale dealer standards.
A non-backtracking regex engine like re2 should be linear with respect to the regex size and can be configured with a memory budget.
The Great $50M African IP Address Heist
At one point in time I believe there was also a discussion on why somebody was removing it from their site. I'm having a hard time finding it currently and remember it being for excessive contacts from people using automated tools to scan their site.

Edit: Found it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19152145
I get what you’re saying but I think you’re not being pragmatic enough (and perhaps being a bit developer-centric, ignoring that there are millions of people out there who run businesses that have 0 need for offering a consumable API).

You’re asking for access to the heart and soul of a company and demanding to pay the same price as a customer who asks for much less. I’m having a hard time understanding why I should pursue you as a customer when I can get the same money out of someone who is way less demanding.