skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, fuck. That sucks.

Here's my penny's worth, as someone with no actual experience of the disease:

From a programming and work perspective, make sure that other people have the knowledge and skills to take over. Little things that should be obvious (and ideally avoided up front), but only in hindsight, like write access to repos, third-party accounts linked to email addresses. Now is a good time to audit them.

And the bigger things, like "so how is this library Charlie wrote supposed to work?" Now might be a good time to pair with someone unfamiliar with it to make sure documentation is up-to-date and encompasses what the intention behind the decisions was.

Depending on what you're working on, there might be a point in the future at which you might be inadvertently capable of harm: accidently publishing secrets, etc. I don't know enough to know how best to mitigate this, or even if it needs worrying about at all in your work.

If you've got any projects that have downstream users, you might want someone else to also have write access to the project. Managing their expectations on the future may be of use to them.

Consider getting pictures/video of your favourite projects, people and places in the work environment; I've heard these sort of external memory cues can be helpful later on in sparking recall of memories.

Best of luck in what is going to be a trying time for you and your loved ones.
Fixed now, much thanks
Sinkhole opens near the Pantheon, revealing 2k-year-old Roman paving stones
I feel like they should be able to sell something like that for $7000-$8000 if they can get proper mass production.

I mean to me the price needs to go down by half or more from $17k or whatever. At which point I might be interested.
Billie Eilish is our Lennon, Elon Musk is our Tesla and
Donald Trump is our JFK.

What a mess we are in culturally.
I found a small insect that has been painted over. It's only visible at the max magnification. I saw it, but then lost it again when I closed the window. Can anyone else see it?
Where did the term "software engineer" originate?

The only anecdotal observation I had is that people in nontech, non SV companies use the term "developer". People in SV style tech companies use the term "engineer". YMMV.

The line is blurring though, as I see the term "engineer" becoming more common in nontech companies too. Just like how leetcode interviews are spreading too.
What does randomness look like? (2012)
Covid-19 lockdowns significantly impacting global air quality
Might this just be the parents responding to the stimuli of each others presence? E.g let me think about whether or not he/she will pick them up or should I do it. It makes sense that both parents would think this. In the situation where they are alone, such a computation does not need to be done by the brain.

There is no way to actually characterize the thought processes using these imaging methods. No where does this implicate that the actual actions or thoughts specifically relating to the child are any different. This makes the conclusion much less interesting.
As a conservative, I do tend to see the liberals as the ones who are acting irrationally -- e.g., social justice lunacy -- but it is definitely my fellow conservatives who are not thinking clearly about this. And, just as the liberals in their blind spots, it is a WILLFUL refusal to accept the truth!

I wonder what the results would be if we were to break out the responses from those who have had a loved one die from those whose families are thus-far unscathed?
As someone who has had to deal with a few architects - the number one thing I’ll say is - listen. Really listen. Listen and credit. Don’t take everyone else’s ideas as your own work. You’ll see the employees you cheated leave and then you’re gonna run dry on ideas.

I’ve stopped thinking of the architect role as one where a person gets creative freedom to figure out the best solution (on their own or with another similar person or some consultant). Instead, I’d think of an architect as someone who just has good enough taste to determine what will be most effective.

As usual, as soon as you have poor taste - you lose all respect from peers. So, be aware.
You're only thinking about the top 1 or 2% of software engineers. There's nowhere near enough FANG jobs to employ most SEs. What the heck is everyone else supposed to do? sit around unemployed forever? There's plenty of SEs for startups. Although working at a FAANG is great compensation for someone in their 20s, it's a whole nother story if you have a family. At that point, the cost of living/housing is so excessive that you're not better working at a FAANG in the bay area. If you're renting, a house in palo alto will cost at least 90K per year, after taxes. That's a pretax cost of 150K. Which means, you need at least 500K minimum just to be doing ok (factoring in the much higher taxes at those salaries, and all the other cost of living).

If anything FAANGs are stifling innovation due to their walled gardens.
So far Duolingo has always taught me to use du, and never Sie...
If you're interested in this kind of thing, Invisible Things Lab are really worth checking out https://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/10/evil-maid-go...
It depends entirely on the company and their policies and strategy on hiring.

FWIW, I can't even remember the degrees of the guys I've hired.

Probably not even at the time I hired them.
This was required reading in a highschool English class. I really enjoyed it then.

Tried to read it again in my early 30s and stopped about 20 pages in, just thought it was terrible.
I felt similarly after a career change via a coding bootcamp regarding what perspective employers would really think about someone coming out of such a system.

I think bootcamps can work, but the incentives for those running them are off.

At the camp I'd look around the room and think that about half the folks straight up can't do the job, and "If one of these people interviews before me / or worse gets a job and bombs ... am I even going to get an interview?"

Fortunately I got a chance to prove myself with an employer and got my foot in the door.

But even so sometimes in casual conversation I just say "self taught".
Yeah... I bet that would make for some really exciting gameplay :D
I’d prefer to avoid text blob artifacts if this was being used at work with plenty of text blobs to babysit already

IMO the end days for TF and YAML engineering are close, at least for new work

It’s all HTTP APIs. Build a web UX and store the state in a DB.

SRE/ops people ...at work just use the methods everyone else does

Unless the company still has hardware, cloud ops/SRE is just making their lives harder to be different
But then who will do the delivery?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23153863
Tesla workers’ unemployment may be suspended if they don't return, emails show
Vladimir Putin's spokesman infected with coronavirus
A billion years missing from geologic record: Where it may have gone
The course load isn't the critical aspect, though, is it?

Licensing typically means professional standards set by a licensing body, continuing education requirements, insurance/liability rules, etc.
Two that did it for me:

- The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt. Really deepened my understanding of how Western and other cultures think about moral and ethical issues.

- The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan. It's a feminist book that is very non-ideological, and helped me, as someone born in the 80's, appreciate some very real and practical issues that feminism has helped us address.
The God Delusion by Dawkins perhaps. I was agnostic before, atheist after.
It's interesting to see how trusting another criminal with your address opens you up to serious blackmail... maybe I should set up a PO Box for Bitcoin business :)
Truth be told, a lot of people with engineering degrees or titles are not doing any real quantitative engineering. Probably some sort of 80 20 rule in any field. Most "engineering" is just organizing and arranging things, fitting building blocks together. A lot of engineers stay "at the bench" just long enough to go into management. The people who keep their quantitative skills end up getting all of that kind of work.
I've seen this bias in myself. I interned with several guys from India during college. I was an undergrad, they were grad students, having gotten their undergrad in India. We all went to the same university in the US. They weren't "crappy" engineers, per se, they just seemed to not actually have an undergrad degree in CS. Obviously I never saw their transcripts, but we seemed to be working from very different knowledge bases. I've since worked, as many of us have, with brilliant people from all over the world. It just gave me a weird impression of CS education in India. But, I'm sure others have similar experiences of graduates from [random school in the US or elsewhere].
Swift is nice but I don't see it making much sense outside of the Apple ecosystem.
Great work! Now let's drive faster than 25 mph -- it's called Grand Theft Auto for a reason :)
Who defines what a fair wage is?
My guess is that Apple knows a lot of people need to keep on buying macs to use Logic and Final Cut.

Look at the price of Logic compared to other DAWs. Apple is almost giving it away for free. It only costs $200 but in contrast comparable DAWs cost many times that. Ableton Live Suite costs $750. Nuendo costs $1000. Etc.

AFAIK Aperture never had such a hardcore following and didn't offer such a unique product. The photography market is clearly dominated by Adobe anyway.
Amartya Sen: Development as freedom. Gives perspective what is needed for a country to develop to (and stay) a good place to live for the citizens.
Google vs. Oracle: The Next Chapter
FWIW, Dick claimed it was a record of communication with some cosmic intelligence named VALIS: Vast Active Living Intelligence System

Here's a thing TIL from the wikipedia entry:

> At one point, Dick claimed to be in a state of enthousiasmos with VALIS, where he was informed his infant son was in danger of perishing from an unnamed malady. Routine checkups on the child had shown no trouble or illness; however, Dick insisted that thorough tests be run to ensure his son's health. The doctor eventually complied, despite the fact that there were no apparent symptoms. During the examination doctors discovered an inguinal hernia, which would have killed the child if an operation was not quickly performed. His son survived thanks to the operation, which Dick attributed to the "intervention" of VALIS.
Yes. A lot of universities were found to be fake and shut down. Though it has been a couple of years since I've heard anything more about it.
I hesitate to label that "racist". Developing a feeling from interviewing engineers trained in India or China that they're generally not competent is not equivalent to feeling they're inherently stupid or bad people. They just came through a crummy education system.
Molecular orbitals are a useful tool when studying, well, molecules. But, it is a simple model that doesn't capture the full complexity of reality. In particular, it doesn't work at all for metals.
Yeah, I guess it's reasonable to expect sound UI/UX decisions from a company that sells touchscreen-controlled car interfaces which have been clearly demonstrated to be safer.

That sentence was a lie. Touchscreens are less safe (read: more distracting, impose a higher cognitive load, lead drivers to veer while operating them) than tactile buttons. Touchscreens are excellent at reducing BOM costs, and they're excellent for glossy marketing pitches. Unsurprisingly, Tesla is big on touchscreens.

Finally, photos of "rails and posts" painted yellow doesn't contradict the fundamental assertions in the article that the color scheme of the factory floor is dominated by Elon's aesthetic sense.
And it's not like Tesla has a strong record on safety in general:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...
You mean my internal sauces?
I was recommended Stoner by someone I respect.
"Lists" of serious literature are usually crap; either apple polishing bullshit, or political oriented nonsense. I've tried this sort of thing; even Adler related "Great Books" groups are hot garbage at this point. You need to find well read people worthy of respect.

Anyway, Bloom's list: http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

Adler's:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...

Stoner isn't on either one of them lists, FWIIW. Neither are other favorites of mine, such as The Bjorndal Saga.
"The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life"

It gives you an alternative perspective on art, school, charity, politics (including office politics), religion, and, well, yourself. This book will likely make you revise at least some of your beliefs.
Can you enumerate the better stuff if possible?
The second edition is CC-BY-NC-SA. (This is indicated inside the cover of the print edition.)

[Edited to add NC.]
Show HN: tailwind-ppx – Compile-time validated Tailwind CSS classes
Almost 100% of people that I work with, at a large email provider have a CS degree. That said, we don't discriminate at developer/team level. That's handled by recruiters and management :D

CS degree from right places puts you on at a advantage. So, without a degree you will be competing with guys who had benefit of formal education. And that may seem like a glass ceiling if you don't interpret correctly.
Google Search results topped by suspected scam gadget store
"The Illuminated Mind", supposedly. But I've just started reading it.

It's a guide to meditation, without the religious parts.
Yes, correct, or through an open sauce repository
> I also have a problem with calling developers engineers.

I held this point of view for a long time but, after lurking at r/engineering, I've learned that their jobs are (depressingly) similar to ours. I.e. it's almost never deriving things from first principles, but rather trying to quickly bolt together a solution out of pieces looked up at different vendors' catalogs. Most engineers don't even remember the basic equations they have learned at university.

> Heck, I would be offended if someone called me a developer rather than a programmer.

It depends on the specific job, but currently, I can spend 30 minutes changing one line of code followed by one week of deploying, testing it, making sure the configs are all right etc. So that's 30 minutes of programming followed by one week of "installing dishwashers" (as the joke on the team goes). Lately, I see myself more of a software configurator than creator (my nominal job title is a backend web developer).
Developer: builds subdivisions and "develops" real estate.

Related: I've come across a handful of programmers that describe themselves as "contractors". So you hang drywall and install toilets?
'Tesla's Reopening Lawsuit Doesn't Make Sense'
Selling the super high end Mac pros into the audio industry probably
Hmmm.

This implies that you have set your boot order to CD-ROM first, so anyone can - say - boot their own system on your machine from CD and either access your data or make a dd-copy of your disk and look at it later.

You need also to password protect your BIOS so that first device in boot order is hard disk and settings cannot be changed (without BIOS password).

Depending on the BIOS this change in booting order could be possible at boot time (providing the password) or a reboot would be needed.
A programmer writes programs, but a developer writes applications? Really odd line to draw in the sand.

If I build an iOS app that streams video to a webpage, am I developer or a programmer?
I'm not using API gateway. I invoke Lambda via the API.
I find that GrubHub will also oversubscribe their drivers by a huge amount. We tend to support restaurants more and don't use GrubHub but a few months ago we placed an order for a Thai place near us. The restaurant called and was like yah Grubhub took your order, and we'll make it, but they won't have someone here for a long time (2+ hours 10PM!) I'd cancel it.

I thought it was the owner not wanting them to take the rip but sure enough there was no sign of GrubHub going there. Calling them resulted in being connected to an offshore call center that said that we shouldn't cancel it is "in progress" but the projection was still over an hour later after we had been waiting 45 minutes. We finally cancelled and went there and got it ourselves. The restaurants I frequent often and know the owners I just call them or use their chow-now powered site. It is much more fair that way. Also saves the unpredictability of the whim of gig workers.
Five years ago I was working at a software company in Europe that was willing to accept hires from anywhere, globally.

We managed to hire about one smart person a month, out of a torrent of perhaps 1000 applicants per month. The vast majority (like 85%) of the applicants were from India and Pakistan. And out of those, 95% used the exact same resume/personal letter layout and content, sometimes down to the exact same wording.

We tried to be openminded, so we set up a bunch of interview calls with especially promisingly people from this "pool". After about 10-15 of those calls we just gave up.

We did eventually hire two indian people and were very happy with their contributions, but only after they had made their ways to our little country on their own. Imagine being a talented developer in India, interviewing for a job overseas, against this background of overwhelming mediocrity?
They're intended as "Clear goals that we widely communicated allow normal people to make design decisions autonomously" as per the parent post. In any case, architecture can be just as much about setting the constraints as it is about discovering them.
“You can’t blame cops for shooting innocent minorities. You have to blame guilty minorities.”

Yes, you always blame the racists for being racists.

Edit: instead of deleting my (incorrect) parsing of the parent poster, I’ll leave this here and accept my well deserved lashings and downvotes...
Do you support throwing non-violent drug offenders in prison too? Or are you in only in favor of jailing rich people who might actually have enough leverage to prove in court that the law is unjust (or better yet, completely unconstitutional)?
I see your point and I agree with it. But I also want to remark that in many ways, building a company is also a silly thing that in fact requires skill.

I mean, I'm pretty sure I'd be way richer right now if I had just taken a job at some bigco. Or kept doing consulting.

I don't feel that what I'm doing right now (building a startup because I can) is fundamentally different from my demoscene past (coding computer graphics because I could). Sure, some startups make some people obscenely rich, but the vast majority don't :-) It's not too different from art or AI hobbying or gaming or game modding in that sense.
I don’t want to play word games but you clearly said he was singularly focused on his dreams. I was merely pointing out that painting things so black-and-white is unfair.
nah its just kind of creepy the multiple ways that Google and services assign a GPS location to your SSID

that has nothing to do with sniffing packets or network security
Gotta say, Stardog's been shipping a virtualization-powered Knowledge Graph platform since 2014...
Why is Kite trying to access all of the folders on my machine?
"It started to raise some interesting ideas about the effect of "black swan" events but then failed to give any insight into dealing with or preparing for those effects beyond vague generalities"

that is exactly what Antifagile, the book he wrote after does
All cultures revere great men, even- perhaps especially- atheistic ones.
* (Theory) Surfing Uncertainty by Andy Clark

Basically a unified theory of consciousness. 100% must read.

* (Theory) The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

A bit long winded but it really changes the way you think about the voice in your head, about consciousness in general. Pairs well with Surfing Uncertainty

* (Self Help) Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
Really wakes you up to the domination language that rules our interactions and provides an alternative framework. Its even great if you don't plan on implementing NVC, just to understand what non nonviolent langue is. Pairs well with Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness for understanding how language formed our minds and our societies.

* (Theory) The Force of Nonviolence Judith Butler
Wakes you up to the highly dominant and persistent narrative of violence. Provides frameworks for something else.
If this doesnt blow your mind im not sure what will.

* (Theory)Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway
The name says it all. Ways to stop trying to wipe the slate clean, to start from scratch, but instead to "stay with the trouble" and make new things WITH. Wakes your mind up to disrupting in whole new ways.

* (Theory) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Another book that helps you see the world through different eyes, or even if I dare, to see the world more clearly.
Pairs nicely with the unnecessarily long winded "Fall" by Neal Stephenson for understand a post truth world, specifically the idea of "Edit Streams"

* (Scifi )The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
This one game me a framework for science and spirituality to coincide

* (Scifi ) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Questions everything, blows your mind on multiple levels.

* (Self Help) She Comes First by Ian Kerner
Wakes you up to the massive comfort imbalance in sex between genders and provides simple ways to help fix it (for heterosexual)
Ancedotally (I don't have a ton of concrete details here):

1. From what I understand restaurants doing delivery largely were breaking even on it considering the costs - there was no third party looking to take 20-30% of the gross.

2. Again anecdotally, I suspect the old school pizza/chinese delivery places are more efficient in terms of deliveries per driver per hour. What I see with a lot of UberEats/Grubhub etc is drivers waiting a lot at restaurants, bouncing around a bunch to pick up one or 2 orders each. Vs the old-school pizza model of a driver being able to pick up a bunch of orders at once.
Yes, I've been thinking about this! It might work as a New Tab page.
Do these use Lindenmayer systems? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
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GrubHub is also public, and therefore has a harder time burning piles of cash compared to its competitors (looking at you, DoorDash).
I have never stopped using RSS for nearly 20 years now.

The beauty of RSS and RSS client is that I choose my own source. And RSS client compared to FB tends to be much higher information density, Command Click to open everything I like in new Tab and I have lots ( and too many ) to read.

I think twitter replaces some form of blog post more than anything.
This kind of arrogance is rife on HN. Yes, the lucky billionaire has better judgment then a system that administers 330 million people with infrastructure and necessities, creates and maintains the worlds biggest economic engine, and enforces justice. Jesus.
Bitwig 400$, expensive, but closer to the goal and it seems that it provides more content.
Scrabble fans slam 'sparkly abomination' new app
If a credential gets less exclusive over time (meaning they relax the requirements on it) and the same company seeks someone with that credential repeatedly over time, the value that the company expects from that credential does go down.
Don't worry, Apple gets their money back on the hardware.
Ask HN: Do You Use Webflow?
Does your company/project/personal site use Webflow for its main marketing site?

Any risks/pitfalls in transitioning over?
The question is, what would he have done if it wasn't a kill switch, but happened to be a server that received bitcoin payments from ransomware victims?

He was still selling banking trojans the year before, so who knows?