skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interview a decent number. At least in my area, college grads have leveled off. There's still a ton of them, maybe 5% growth a year and a lot more applying for first jobs. But its a steady percentage.

There's been a huge jump in code camp grads. Gigantic. And unfortunately the vast majority are not great. We give them coding assignments first, otherwise there's just too many to even sort through. I would say over half are unable to complete the (very simple) coding assignment. Build 3 API endpoints in any language that can do a couple different sorts and limits of a static set of data in CSV.
We have all sorts of data flowing into Prometheus and charted in Grafana. Grafana lets me alert based on thresholds and that works fine for many things.

EXAMPLE 1:

Imagine a service. Load avg of 2 is unacceptable and means things will be slowing down. However, a heavy job runs every night and pushes load averages between 1.5 and 2.5 during a 30 minute window.. I wanted to set a load avg alert threshold @ 2.0 but can't since it would fire false alarms too often. So i end up setting it at 3, and end up getting a late alert when things get really bad.

Instead, an anomaly detection would look for a number of standard deviations away from a mean, and ideally account for seasonality (i.e. compare the data with same data last few weeks). Now, things will behave better. If loads hit 2 during the day, it'll fire. But during that 30 minute window at night, loads would need to exceed 3 before it fires.

EXAMPLE 2:

Let's say I'm tracking 30 metrics for a service. I understand the service well enough to set thresholds in 5 metrics. However, I'm sure a failure won't happen alone and the other 25 metrics may show some oddities and give me an early warning of "something wrong happening" .. Here, some kind of loose "anomaly alerts" could help as an early warning. If a certain metric throws too many false alerts, we find a better way to monitor it.

EXAMPLE 3:

Lets say you have a service that auto scales. There's no limit to how many requests the service handles. So I can't really thresholds on requests/5min. Here, some kind of "anomaly alert" would be useful to let the team know that something is going on that's causing a high level of requests. Again, accounting for seasonality because things tend to change on weekends.

At the end of the day, an anomaly alert is not some "magic solution" but just and extra tool in the toolkit to use when it makes sense. Datadog and AWS both have built in easy to use anomaly alerting. Would be nice for grafana/prometheus to have something similar.
Pro tip: sell your used 6700k on ebay. Somewhere, someone can put it to good use, and judging by the latest closed deals on this model, you can easily sell it for something like $225.
Grep is not much of an advantage when Mac, Windows and Linux all have as-you-type full-text search of common formats like HTML and PDF.
An architect that doesn't leave documentation and share knowledge might also be thinking about protecting his own job. Being irreplaceable is good job security.
Does WorldBrain Memex save any data about the sites I bookmark?

I‘ve been using Onenote for the past 10 years to bookmark or save websites.

It had worked OK to share from mobile but my Onenote notebook is now approaching 10 GB in size.

And I have a pretty bad experience with syncing as it doesn‘t reliably sync in the background if I don‘t regularly open the app on mobile (especially on iOS).
>I am not sure I understand the case to curtail one person's rights for another's benefit.

Thats pretty much the entirety of laws that involve safety. My right to drive 150 mph is curtailed for the benefit of people I might kill.
> Not at all. I think you've just misunderstood what gender fluidity is.

This is certainly possible! But if someone is genderfluid today, and genderfluid tomorrow, they are genderfluid immutably, are they not?

I could be wrong, but from the genderqueer people I know, identifying as male one day and female the next isn't normally how they describe it, instead they wish to present as (note: this is not the same as "be". Gender expression vs. identity) one or the other, or even wish to present as more masculine or feminine. It's not "I am a man" or "I am a woman", but "I am neither but I'm left with three choices: present as (more-)man, (more-)woman, or put in a lot of effort to present as explicitly neither".

Like I said though, I could be wrong. I'd love to hear about some people who view their gender identity the way you describe (or documentation thereof), it sounds interesting and would certainly be something for me to think about.

> Are you willing to admit your previous statements can marginalize people and strip them of their identity?

Not specifically, but for the purposes of discussion, absolutely, I can certainly agree that things I've said in the past have done the same.

> Are you willing to accept that your previous statements are, in fact, hate speech according to the social morays of our time?

No. Innocent mistakes do not a hate speech make. This indeed relies on context. Stating, apropos of nothing "trans-women are not female" is probably hate speech since the context doesn't really support it being anything else. But the same sentence, in the context of an example, stops being hate speech. I generally believe people are intelligent enough to use context clues to guide the decision making process. You're correct that this leaves us without a completely objective way of making decisions about hate speech, but that's no worse than any other system. We have no objective way of making really any decision when humans are involved in the loop. The idea that we can define perfect rules that will be able to objectively discern someone's motives and whether or not something is "good" or not is a programmers fantasy. But that doesn't stop us from having a legal system, for example, even if that system is full of context clues, human judgement, imperfection, inaccuracy, and much, much higher stakes than keeping online fora polite.
This is going to sound stupid but at some point, it's less important what's right and more important how something makes people feel.
There are a couple solutions, with tradeoffs of course. It's important to remember that this isn't merely a technical problem. Some choices can be judged by human reviewers to be violating policy.

The obvious solution is to use isolatedProcess, the isolated_app SELinux domain, just as web browsers do. The restriction on executable code "does not apply to code that runs in a virtual machine and has limited access to Android APIs". Of course everything depends on what "limited access" means. Filtering out paths that start with "/../this-is-a-limitation/../" probably isn't enough.

Another solution is to ship all of the executable bytes. Turn an entire Linux distribution into something like busybox. It would be possible to exclude the non-executable pages of memory, shipping those separately as code-free ELF files. Installing programs would work the normal way, except that the .text sections would be empty holes in the files. As long as the mremap system call works, a loader should be easy to implement.
Yes, I saw this last year. Complicated and requires a lot of effort on the user's part compared to let's say CloudWatch anomaly alerting: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
Funny you replied with those two. I've worked in both finance and casinos.
The page doesn't load for me. Here's the content from the Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200226133832/http://www.davisr...
> broken by seemingly innocent-looking aptitude or RPM package upgrades

Not on Slackware, no.
Nike Run Club does something really annoying which is that they keep the GPS locations in their app and there's no way to get it out. They could easily give it back to HealthKit (on iOS at least) like all the other workout apps but they decided to lock people in that way.

As far as I know then you can't use the location on Strava.
We typically refer to the latter as "controller tracking" (ex-Oculus here).
This is an interesting perhaps meta-relevant topic for HN.

How many of us bookmark or otherwise record interesting posts from here and elsewhere?

How many of us ever refer that accumulated digital memory?

I have about 7,000 links with notes accumulated over the last few decades.

I’ve read a lot of them, but the hard to acknowledge reality is that even with a refined workflow, recording my links in a near perfect taxonomy, to a repository with full text search and spaced repetition reminder cards, the things I remember are those that I took the time to read.

I suspect most people here has a comparable metric to share.

Maybe the best bookmark repository is nul:
I suspect they got the point, and rather you are missing their point, which is taking the (trivially easy) opportunity to be more gender-neutral with our language..

That's all!
I can summarize what both the original author, and what the person wrote criticizing agree on. Yes, sleep is required. Get enough sleep that you feel rested.

A lot of the critique was around the 8 hours, and the conclusions about what happens if you get less.

Anecdotally, I never sleep 8+ hours. I also get up without an alarm clock every single day. I'm not going to stress that I normally sleep ~7 hours and feel rested when I wake up. I know on the rare occasions if I get less than 6 hours, I'm going to be really tired that night.
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> I can't post on how it worked out yet (I might do 2 months from now)

A wise choice. Over years of trying different productivity hacks, I've learned that most of them have a lifetime of about 3 weeks for me (which is about how long it takes for the novelty to wear off), after which I regress to the mean. However, the rare trick that survives longer becomes a slight but permanent improvement.

Anyway, I wish you the best of luck with your new system!
>Yes, we can write letters and stuff, but that doesn't really allow us to hold them accountable

Public protests/rallies/marches do bring about change in government/government policies. Many politicians do care about their public image, and are susceptible to manipulation based on public pressure.

>Compare that with private sector. Even for entities like Google, we've got huge latitude to vote with our feet. We can use DuckDuckGo, etc. Our choices as consumers provides a comparatively enormous bandwidth.

Okay, so agreeing with you for the sake of argument - they provide a bandwidth, in theory, but what is the pointif nobody actually uses it? It is "effectively" zero accountability. No mass exodus from Google/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook/Twitter/Whatsapp/TikTok/insert bad company/...
I wonder if the grandparent meant "non-transferable" -- some countrirs have a shared pot (and then women often take all the pot), other countries enforce some amount of the pot to each parent. You do not have to take it as the man, but you lose it if you don't.
Well, everyone wanted Android to be just as open as their computer and for the “experts” to be able to install any app that you wanted. You have your wish. There are no such safeguards on computers.
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I have never witnessed a company at least the size of Uber where this wasn't the case. This isn't exclusively a culture thing, it's a bandwidth thing. There is limited human IO available to coordinate, and available bandwidth diminishes in proportion to org size. The org can either choose to slow down to match available IO, or run at closer to natural pace and accept duplicate work. I guess the latter must be the obvious choice, or the automatic tendency

I imagine the same problem is why so many large orgs inevitably turn into hyperstructures of insane management layer cake.. coordination overhead will eventually send everyone begging for the ability to shed work or delegate
Was adaptation to Uberman staggeringly difficult? I tried it multiple times, each time thinking I had come up with the perfect system to push through, and each time failing. On my final attempt I would go for bike rides to stay awake and would actually doze off for a few seconds at a time ("microsleeps") even while riding.

I concluded that physiology determined whether or not something like Uberman is even possible for a given human being, and I don't have the right physiology. I have a close friend who tells me that he "doesn't get jet lag" and seems to have other resistance to circadian disruptions, so I've always thought that he would be perfect for Uberman but he's not interested so I can't really test my theory.
I think this is fair. Strava summit is a cheap subscription, and running a very cheap sport to participate in. Segments in my experience appeal to spreadsheet heads who get a kick out of meaningless drilling down into data[0]. I imagine most casual runners are not that.

In many ways I can see this making Strava more appealing to casual runners, as for people starting out on a fitness journey, the last thing you want to see is how much slower you are than other people.

0: https://twitter.com/stravawankers
Why would refunds scale sub-linearly with revenue?
I’m looking at their front page right now and I see “ Connecting the world's athletes” which sounds like a social network for athletes?

Scrolling the tiniest bit but still without changing pages pages, I see “If you're active, Strava was made for you. We're the social network for those who strive” and it shows a map and details of someone’s workout.

That tells me everything I need to know. It’s a social media app to track your workouts and compare them with other people.
I don't alter quotes, even for PC reasons. And If I am going to reuse language for effect I am not going to make changes unless they add to the point I am making. The first comment said man-years and I stuck with that as I wasn't trying to correct their gender grammar.

Also, "person-year" is vague as "persons" includes non-humans entities such as corporations and partnerships. "Man-year" refers only to work by biological humans. "People-years" might be better but that is plural. Had I been the first I might have used person-years, but when someone else sets a precedent that avoids confusion I'm happy to stick with it despite potential microaggressions.
You can try to make better decisions, but it's hard to have better timing. While, a gut feeling or a statistic for the market's rationality curve might be possible, it certainly seems wiser to make better decisions.

In today's economy Netscape's value would be in its user base in the same way one would expect chrome to be valuable. In the data marketing world, nothing is really free.
How would that be a constitutional challenge? If you're arguing for a different interpretation of the CDA that seems like a legal challenge and argument.

What's the constitutional argument against the current legislation of the CDA?
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Hmm, I thought I was the only one who thought like that. I've just been exporting entire browser trees from Tree Style Tabs (with hierarchy) at once and attaching them to a page in my Zettelkasten or another part of my knowledge base.

It is great to have the entire context of my browsing session to go back to.
I'd like to add my thanks to that of @google234123, while I've not read this (yet) I've seen you and dragontamer discoursing on memory bandwidth and it's quality stuff. And your StackOverflow stuff.
they made a Expansion Pak allows 8MB of RAM. I just replaced mine it was bad I couldn't play perfect Dark with out it
Yeap, it does. Thanks man.
In this case, the regulatory board is Microsoft, and there’s nothing telling us (yet) that there isn’t a partnership in which they gave them certification knowing about some of their dirty tricks.
Try hiding your business’s website from Google and see how that goes for you.
Everyone wants their phone to be just as open as their computer and without restrictions - you have that with Android. The minute apps are forced to be in a sandbox, you forgo “openness” and “choice”.
Were there any dedicated UX people involved? To me, a UI engineer is someone who works exclusively on the front end, and would implement the work of the UX designer. They wouldn't actually do the designing and research themselves.
Totally agree. He also seems like the type of person that would do this.
This comment has no place being downvoted and grayed (as of the writing of this comment.) It's a direct sign of people misusing the downvote per guidelines.

You made your point very well across this subthread. The fact it's being downvoted is a truly great illustration of the particular fuzzy borders problem with policing speech that you point out.
This was one of the most sincere comments I read on HN.
Thank you for these words.
The ridesharing line of business has been profitable for at least a year from what I can tell. The plan was for it to cover all the other costs by EoY 2020, incl. HQ expenses and other bets like Eats.
This is not a common way of speaking anymore, IMO. When I read "all the developers are men", I didn't understand what you meant at all. I thought maybe you were making some kind of ironic joke about sexism. I did get what you meant after re-reading of course, but "All people are men" sounds very archaic to me, like something out of Tolkien.

Usually when we want to talk about humans as a species or whatever, we now use the word "human."
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There is also Bing.
> Ergo, ADHD might have a large sleep component.

Yeah, I can count on one hand the number of times in my life when I woke up in the morning, even after a good night of sleep, and felt "refreshed". I didn't even know what that meant until I had a conversation with a coworker who just hops out of bed and is "on" immediately. Feels like there is a connection with my ADHD diagnosis.
Its not about advocating for. That would be paying people to not reproduce, which is another perverse incentive.

Presently a relatively small fraction of western populaces can afford children without assistance. Trying to artificially prop up birthrates is putting a bandaid on a gushing wound of wealth inequality. If productive gains weren't being realized by capital to such an absurd degree more people would be able to afford doing zero-revenue labor like raising children for longer periods of time.
Of course I have no idea about the real capabilities of that 6GHz equipment to use different bands in case of interference, that is most probably classified info. But economically, it would be silly to have all military equipment in continental U.S. work nominally on many different frequency bands. Likelihood of effective jamming of 6GHz bands in the U.S. is quite small (island with large area far away from enemies, low effective range of 6GHz radiation). Some systems have to be resilient against radio interference, such as attack warning systems or government - military com systems, but there is lot more in military - support systems, test systems, research systems, training systems and god knows what else.
Do WordPress plugins affect website speed?
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Sure, that's a valid but separate concern. You'd have to ask the dev team what their precise security approach is.
Seriously. After 15 years of struggling with various self help programs, an ADHD-PI diagnosis and medication fixed 90% of my problems. I feel like that movie Limitless was inspired by someone who really needed ADHD medication and finally got it.
Tiny websites are great
I second this. I've worked for a variety of early and mid-stage startups in my career, and to varying degrees, all of them had a non-trivial amount of hand-waving in calculating their LTV.
My tools of choice for advanced bookmarking and offline read:

* org-mode [1].

* org-board [2] for offline archiving.

* Org Capture [3] for getting links or text chunks from browser.

* git repo for tracking history.

With org-mode I can create really complex connections between articles and citations, add tags, have TODO lists and many more. To visualize things and connections, org-mind-map [4] can be useful. Because everything is text, grep, ripgrep, ag, xapian and other similar tools works without problems.

I'm aware this setup isn't for everyone (you need to be Emacs user), but I still need to find proper alternative with this amount of flexibility, keeping everything in plain text format.

[1] https://orgmode.org/

[2] https://github.com/scallywag/org-board

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/org-capture/kkkjlf...

[4] https://github.com/the-humanities/org-mind-map
Perhaps it is, per the textbooks. In practice, it's the norm.
So now, in the case of Android, the complaint is that the alternatives don’t know how to market. Should we also break up the record labels and the book publishers because you can’t easily discover independent authors and musicians?
Ask HN: In Microservices, How updates/upgrades of software tools are handled?
we use lot cloud native frameworks and many are actively developed in open source. Which means they rapidly update to newer versions and/or change their design completely with breaking changes. How does a mid-sized team keep up with the pace and still deliver their product features. what are the best practices your team follows ?
> refute reasonable minor comments

If they are truly minor, they should not block the change.

I am guessing colleague tries to refute reasonability, which totally makes sense, because if in every review they have to fix minor unreasonable comments to progress, that stalls the thing completely.
But what are you going to do that your 6700K couldn’t do already? It’s only slightly faster in aI by le threaded. More cores, great, if you’re rendering video or 3D or compiling all day.
We called it 64 cd we where kids so we where waiting every day for a n64 cd kit
Which offices are they closing?
That’s the software economy we’re in. Everyone’s thinking in terms of “productization” and “features” and “user journeys”. Only old grumpy hackers care about minimal, composable tools anymore. Sigh.
It's more like a pause.

What makes you think it's a collapse?
> Section 230 provides immunity to Google and similar for content posted by other users and services.

To be more clear, Google and other web publishers already enjoy immunity for content posted by other users and services. That is the default state of things under American law.

What section 230 does is preserve their immunity even if they exercise editorial discretion over some of the content that other users/services post. Without section 230, they would still have immunity. But they'd lose it as soon as they did any moderation at all of user-provided content.
Most regulations that are passed are not by law. They are passed by agencies like the FCC, FTC, FDA etc.

So let’s say this mythical law is passed where you give the government more power over private business. The actual execution of the law is going to be carried out by unelected regulatory agencies where your main recourse is unelected judges.
Really, I think we should call Google and Bing the real two and lump all the alternatives that reuse it into the "half".
I think the route builder is better in https://ridewithgps.com/ - and it seems to work better with my Wahoo Elemnt Bolt
which app is that if you don't mind me asking?
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horn | unicorn | alicorn
infinite growth forever, of course