skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It was determined that the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men."

https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g... (Tinder Experiments II: Guys, unless you are really hot you are probably better off not wasting your time on Tinder — a quantitative socio-economic study)
Read Influence by Cialdini. Take an improv class. Find some mentors with skills orthogonal to you. Learn to be fine with being uncomfortable as you learn and get feedback.
i think the parent poster meant changes done by or for a registrar like shown in whois. Zone changes wont show up there.
If you add up the lines of code that your javascript dependencies have versus the lines of HTML code that is generated with those hundreds of thousands of lines of JS, then probably yes, the lines of HTML are only few.

But to each his own.
I'm just talking about my personal infrastructure. If I host my crap in Vultr or Linode, I should be able to buy one cheap node on another provider just to run a simple status app: something with celary or sidekiq jobs to check my other stuff and intervals and generate a page with some red/yellow/green dots.
I’m sorry to say that, but C and C++ programmers will have to go.

I've heard that since I started my career in the early 90s and it's always interesting to compare what reasons people give why low-level languages are going to go away really soon now.

Other than that the article makes a lot of good points.
I think it is a bit harsh to say that the OP was trying to shame anyone. He did post a support ticket. When your domain is "off-line" it is literally a shit hit the fan moment, and no one likes to be given the run-around.

To combat, hey my issue is always a Sev1 ticket, one can probably institute something like, here is a red button and if you click it, we will charge 100$. If it is indeed an issue that caused you to lose 90%(say) traffic and it was our fault, we will return the money.
A lot has changed in 10 years. 10 years ago I couldn't care less where my cloud data was being stored. Now I do.
jgc is not a "random" Cloudflare person ;)
> Rankin warned that tech giants were now "redefining the word "privacy" in their own marketing." While they may claim to protect it, what they really want is to protect privacy from their competitors, he added. "They add security measures to their software and services so only they can capture, view and sell all of your data and others can't."

I've been making this case for over a year now, and I'm very pleased to see someone else making it too. It's an incredibly important point that not enough people are bringing up.
> BTW If you, dear reader, ever find yourself so frustrated with Cloudflare that you feel like your only recourse is a blog post... my email is jgc@cloudflare.com and I’m happy to hear from people.

I know that people will think it's great that you are doing this and I also know that you think it's good (for you) to have a feel for the issues that frustrate every day users. But I think it's not a great use of a company execs time and I am not even sure it's a good way to deploy resources at Cloudflare.

The reason is people will tend to (as a rule) do as little as they can themselves but then use as a hammer the court of public opinion to get something resolved.

You say 'ever find yourself so frustrated with Cloudflare' but you know that in itself is different for different people. What will happen is you will get people using you as a help desk and then after you don't help them as quickly as they think you should they will then follow up with a post, comment or story about how you did nothing.

Separately if someone is posting publicly about an issue (as this person is) and if you can verify that it's actually coming from the customer (I mean who says it is actually?) I don't think you need them to say it's ok to resolve online. In fact to me it's the opposite. You take the time to reach out publicly and you take what follows good or bad even calling you out (the customer yes you can do that by the way) if you think they didn't put the appropriate effort into finding an answer.
This whole "disruption" simply sounds like someone who can't get a date on the current apps.

Apps are simply a number game. You get to contact a larger amount of individuals than you could in person.

Steps to getting a date:
1 - match with someone
2 - ask a question related to their profile
3 - have non creepy casual conversation. Every answer or statement you give should be followed by a question
4 - ask to Meetup for a drink or coffee in the new 3 days

I don't know if that counts as a true date but it's a start. Step 3 is incredibly important
"One such task is the implementation of user interfaces." Clearly author has not used image to code tools before. The amount of junk code that is created through these tools is unusable in production.
DeFi is the new ICO

https://defipulse.com
I've always referred to myself as a Developer, as my degree is Info Tech, not Engineering.

I'm not an accredited engineer, so I feel I have no right to the title.

It really annoys me that some manages at work call themselves Release Train Engineers.
Oh god. the auto caps is just the beginning, auto-correct is not your friend.

And they expected to be able to run the resulting code afterwards!
> They try and make money by selling you audit protection, trying to get you to put your refund on their debit card, etc.

This is exactly the problem. They're not nearly 100% free. It's only free if you manage to navigate their byzantine, dark-pattern-ridden series of questions that effectively ask "Do you want to use the results of the last 12 pages you entered and try to save with TurboTax Deluxe or delete that half hour of work?" and confusingly named products like "Guaranteed Free", "Free Edition", "Start for Free" (all not actually free).

TurboTax makes more than a billion dollars every year. Of course they'll want to squash competitors who threaten to harm that cash cow.
Thanks for the kind words! I hadn't seen qri.io before, but from a read of their website I think it's broadly similar to Dolt (https://www.liquidata.co/) which is git for datasets. Kaggle has a similar data hub at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets that's not open source but is in the same space.

Our approach is to scan the datasets wherever they currently live in production rather than being a new way to store the data. The industry seems to have settled on FTP and S3 for now, and we think it's important that we connect to the same exact thing a customer would access. That lets us keep the dictionary up to date automatically without the data providers needing to change their storage infrastructure.
To add to this: In my career I've personally witnessed so many instances of people saying "Well, this can all be automated..." and then starting enormous projects to automate a process that is currently the sole focus of literally hundreds of engineers. As if the reason there are hundreds of engineers doing this job is that all those guys are just idiots. The result is these massively ambitious projects that promise senior management the world, drag on forever, often justifying themselves with hand-optimized toy examples to show progress. In the end the actual problem is very obviously intractable and years of progress are wasted.

It might be true that eventually we can solve "implementing cross-platform UIs in the general case" but we could also be literally 100 years away from achieving that, and in the mean time the fact that it's theoretically possible is worthless.
Why do you say that? It's essentially the cold with a new name. The death rates are deeply exaggerated,since there is no random sampling in the population to establish the number of actual cases. It is the old and sick dying -- and dying at far lower rates than the actual flu, at the moment.
ab uses a single OS thread. Broken by design.
Build it for yourself first, see if you can get yourself using it and maybe a few clients. If it provides value to your clients you have a potential viable SaaS.

Sounds like you would have to do something unique, maybe focus on a certain niche. Maybe offer integrations to other services.

Good luck.
> There may be more that is knowable now than back then

That is not true. I guess you mean in the sense that our horizons have broadened because we have access to so much more information than people used to have, but in terms of things that can be known, nothing has changed. The facts of the universe are the same as they ever were.
Does this support more complex data structures - for example parquet files?
Thanks for your feedback.
I thought about the following ideas to make sure reviewers are genuine:

-picking reviewers by interviewing them initially - someone who owns and uses the product for a while

-The reviewers introduce / refer other reviewers (circle of trust)

-mandatory picture upload for every review

-phone number verification (like Twitter does it)
Still my favourite source on unit testing and mocking: http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/
How should it handle NaN? It's not clear where an incomparable value should go when sorting.
that prevents you from assigning null to a non-nullable reference. does it also error if you dereference a nullable reference without first checking if it's null?
After spending $50 on a "Recommended" and "Prime" counterfeit PS4 controller (proven by a tear down), I no longer buy electronics from Amazon. With a brick and mortar, some sort of incoming quality control still seems to be in place.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techspot.com/amp/news/79848...
Why not the NATO alphabet? It is designed so the accent doesn't matter.
On the other hand, I'm encountering more and more normal people who refuse to install any additional apps on their phones at all because they don't trust any of them. If that becomes a more common attitude, then there isn't any inherent advantage to having a large app store.
Watchful waiting – Experts predict that covid-19 will spread more widely
i think the line is sufficiently blurred since it is based on real people and events. there's a certain level of social contract that comes with this.
They're the same kind of prerequirement to get to the same kind of wage and benefits. And I agree they're less compelling. Hence.
Thanks for the feedback, will definitely think about the helpfulness score and the mistery shopping approach.
In the blog post he mentions that Cloudflare recommends posting your problem to their open community forum to try and get things resolved. He couldn't access their forum, so he posted it on a different one.
> Technology companies need an "ombudsman" - a contact that customers can go to when the normal tech support processes have failed.

From what I read this is nothing to indicate the process failed (so far) just that the user decided to skip to the head of the line by writing a blog post internet style to get something resolved and attention. Failed is not 'I didn't get a reply or find what I needed as quickly as I think it should happen so now let me complain publicly so I get a reply'.

> To avoid the Ombudsman being overused, you could give it a price of say $20, which is always refunded when the case is resolved.

In theory nice but first it would be a 'deposit' and also opens up a host of new issues as far as the money being paid back and how that would be done and so on.
Have the 'dating app company' organize small group dates, and broadcast on FB live or similar. Turn it in to a reality show. Well... not FB live - you could only watch if you're a service member (or perhaps paid?)
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I address this in TFA.

Essentially I felt that this was alright because when I filed a ticket I was informed that I should expect a long wait and that they recommend that their non-business customers post publicly on their support forum for crowdsourced support because that leads to faster replies. I was unable to log into that forum, and I suspect that may be because the way they set up SSO between the forum login and their main login may have failed in Firefox (with all tracking prevention and ad blockers disabled).

I felt that if a company invites me to ask for support publicly on their forum to save on customer support costs it's reasonable to talk about the issue in another public place.
I'm actually surprised it took so long for companies like Tinder to start monetizing their male audience more.

With a 9:1 ratio, it seems like a ripe opportunity to enable progressively more pay-to-play options for men with disposable income (or despair) to try to stand out, by paying their way to the front of the profile advertising queue. They recently introduced the super boost, which is $50, I believe, but IMO that's not going far enough.

You have cities of many frustrated, but wealthy bachelors like San Francisco where men would gladly pay their way into a date.

Ethics and morality aside, there should a platform out there that allows men to bid hundreds, or thousands, on going out with someone, and the highest bidder wins the first spot in line. Of course the woman should not be obligated to take the offer, but it would send the signal that 1. the man is affluent and successful and 2. the suitor is truly committed to getting to know her. This gets somewhat close to the Seeking Arrangement turf, which may or may not be a good thing.
If a service doesn't function properly without tracking I wouldn't blame it on a privacy respecting browser.
IMO that [Bessemer process] is really the sticking point that prevented the Ancient Romans from harnessing steam engines, and we had to wait until the early 18th century (1712ish) for the piston steam engine. The ancient romans did know of a rudimentary steam engine though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
It's probably because engineers are not good at dealing with customers.

Edit: Apparently nobody gets this reference anymore, and I'm old.
To be clear, the vulnerability was with the specific server configuration for the French Matrix deployment (authing people based on email domain), and not a flaw in Matrix itself. We're not aware of anyone else running in that config. https://matrix.org/blog/2019/04/18/security-update-sydent-1-... had the details.

The actual bug was thanks to a long-standing bug in python's standard email.utils library, which finally got fixed: https://bugs.python.org/issue34155, combined with insufficiently-defensive coding and testing on my side. (I wrote the auth code in question).
I've used ns1 for a few years, they've been great!
If you're able to do the work just make your resume about your abilities.

We almost didn't hire an engineer because one of his arms was paralyzed. After interviews our manager didn't want to hire him but I went to bat for him and he was one of our best hires.
As a person who has worked in American restaurants, I can assure you that this is not true.
But that's only if you believe that the number of measured cases are the number of actual cases. They would need to randomly sample the population for that to be true. My guess is that most people just get a small cold from this virus -- and some have a big reaction. So we really don't know the death rate.
I would argue JS is a lot faster than you think, and the sluggishness you feel is due to the massive number of files being downloaded. Dozens of JS libraries (think jQuery, Bootstrap, etc.), several CSS stylesheets, and a hundred images or more. If each one of those files is even a few kilobytes each, there is still a 10ms (or even 100ms) download time on each of them, and unfortunately its very common for these files to be downloaded sequentially. JS on its own is quite performant.
Yeah, but so does every US-based consulting outfit I've ever seen... IBM, Oracle, Accenture. The knowledgable Senior Dev answering your questions during the bid goes away _quickly_ once you sign. They're off to convince the next sucker...
Any plans on a hosted version? Either regular on prem or as something that can be privately hosted on e.g. AWS like DataBricks or Snowflake?

I love the idea but we could never expose most of our data to a public SaaS. There are all kinds of restrictions we have on things like data privacy and data needing to stay in specific regions.
I'm skeptical of these sorts of claims for two reasons.

1. Creativity. What objective function do you optimize to write the first Super Mario Bros? Can you then get from there to RocketLeague or Braid? (I think not).

2. Imagine that you somehow obtain a magical technology that takes in a natural language spec and emits highly-optimized code, just like a human. Who's writing that spec?

For interactions with actual humans, there's usually a professional drafter (lawyer, contracting officer, etc) carefully specifying what the other parties should and should not do. We'd presumably need the same thing even with some fancy AGI. This is perhaps a bit different from worrying about whether foo() returns a Tuple or List, but it's not totally dissimilar from programming.
> Technology companies need an "ombudsman" - a contact that customers can go to when the normal tech support processes have failed.

All companies should have that!
Padlet (YC W13) Is Hiring Designers in the Presidio of San Francisco
Introduction to Sorting Networks
i encourage the downvoters to actually read the wiki entry. some of the central points of drama revolve around an atmosphere and conditions that did not exist at nasa when these events took place. e.g.

"I didn't feel the segregation at NASA, because everybody there was doing research. You had a mission and you worked on it, and it was important to you to do your job ... and play bridge at lunch. I didn't feel any segregation. I knew it was there, but I didn't feel it."

the primary character clearly states that there was no feeling of segregation, yet the movie centrally revolves around her direct experience of blatant, overt racisim.

imo, the story is amazing/inspirational on its own without this intentional misrepresentation.
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Nagios. Or its descendant with a better configuration language, Icinga2. They're fairly easy to do a minimal install and configure in a container or on a VM.

</opinion>
My employer resets sick days to 0 at the beginning of the year, and you have to accrue them over time. I was sick very early in January and they were unhappy about it.
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My point is precisely that to me, "jgc" IS a random person. How the heck do I know who this person is.

It shouldn't matter, and it should not be required, that someone "known and important" within an organisation decides to start doing hands on tech support in social media following a PR disaster.

If "jgc" is actually someone important within this company then maybe after fixing this issue, they can then go fiox their tech support by setting up and ombudsman and get their PR disasters off the front page of HN.
50 million people, yes, thank you. Edited.
Out of this very fear, when Evolving Web started using CloudFlare for DNS, we wrote this backup script that runs on cron and pushes our settings to a git repo. https://github.com/evolvingweb/cloudflare-dns-backup-tool
It's almost better to get infected now where hospitals are not full (if you're in a developed country and generally a healthy person). Wait out 2 weeks, then you build immunity after. Except when the virus mutates :(
Slightly pedantic but the largest "Wikipedia" (depending on how you define it) is http://wikidata.org/ and it's also primarily written by bots.
Are you saying that a UBI should, or perhaps only can, be funded by "money printing"?
IIRC, that link was not firmly established early on (though I had seen it hypothesized).
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In SW development we try to avoid this by building a framework where the second instantiation comes at almost no extra cost. However, we have the problem where we start building the framework and then never solving the original problem...
The only time I interviewed with Google involved a phone screen that apparently went very well and then dead silence for three months: my recruiter has apparently gone on vacation for 2+ months and was finally getting back to me. In the intervening period I had taken another job (that turned out to have been worth more than the google job would have been).

The recruiter was nonplussed when she called me out of the blue months later trying to schedule my on-site. She couldn’t believe I was not interested in continuing - how could I turn down Google??

This was when the google koolaid was far stronger - early/mid 2000s. To this day I consider it the most amazing example of a company being so entranced by its own narrative that it was genuinely incomprehensible to her and required spelling it out slowly.
words form a net

hunt writhing concepts

some escape
This years TT version actually makes it quite hard to get to Deluxe from Free edition if you get there from e.g. IRS site. Basically what happens is when you get to the end, it tells you "Surprise! Your return does not qualify for the free version!" but doesn't offer you any immediate way to upgrade. There's a sequence of clicks which allows to do that (took me about 30 mins to find it) but it's not very trivial and rather hard to discover.

Once you are in the paid versions, the upsell push is relentless. But not in the (actual) free edition, at least that was my experience this year.
It is hypocritical to say "haha China's unprepared for this" when we're clearly also unprepared, yes.
Amusingly, Twitter itself could use one. My account (@acangiano) has all of its images censored under "sensitive content" even though they are 100% benign images. No amount of tweets to @TwitterSupport has done anything at all to change it. There is basically no recourse. My account is like 12 years old and has 4.5K followers, so it's not like it's a random spam account, either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think the data is already tracked by many jurisdictions, it's just a matter of exposing it publicly.

For instance, here [1] is the status of state plow trucks in Iowa. They also have a road conditions map that I believe is overlayed on that map as well. Currently there isn't much weather going on though so I think it doesn't show anything.

[1] https://iowadot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html...
It's odd that functional programming enthusiasts always love to put the mantle of "math" on their favorite functional tidbits, while real mathematicians write imperative, stateful (and often sloppy) Python.
FWIW, a lot of cellular providers have an email gateway for delivering SMS messages. There's also paid SMS gateways, and options for providing arbitrary push notifications to smartphones.
Many of us could, but would not be. After all, there was a lot of time without any digital distractions. I don't think digital distractions is what keeps us from educating ourselves.
You're conflating natural selection with sexual selection. Overall, the paper argues that taller people have more offspring who survive to reproductive age.