skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we are gonna see aversion from going public. Companies like Stripe and SpaceX are gonna stay private for a long time.

When SEC laws, shareholder interest, quarterly performance and stock volatility comes into play, corporations become this mindless soulless monster that will devour everything in its way and fuck consumers in every which way.

Democratization of funds from central authority to public creates disincentives and the shareholders don’t give a shit about many auxiliary things such as environmental concerns. Bottom line always matters.

It’s not just google but any public corporation. Can you imagine SpaceX being able to operate with the same passion with shareholder interests?
> - socket activation was never that useful to begin with and complicates the build process for lots of services.

One thing people often don't realize: socket activation wasn't just about simplifying daemons (though it does simplify writing daemons if you don't have to deal with the non-activation case). It was also about simplifying the boot process.

There exist many different system boot configurations that are difficult to express in terms of dependencies between services; for instance, depending on your particular system configuration, you might need to launch two services in different orders, because in one configuration service A will depend on service B, and in another configuration service B will depend on service A. Socket activation means you can launch the two services simultaneously, and they'll have access to each others' sockets.
No, I dont think he's overated at all. See the article linked.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-investi...
statistically it depends on whether tests are independent; i.e. if the cause of the false positive is to do with the subject then using three tests won't help. if the cause of the false positive is entirely random then doing three tests will help improve the accuracy. if the correlation between false positive occurrence and the testing parameters are somewhat correlated then it may help but maybe not as much as you'd want.
So, now they’re ready to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish open source?
For all the airtime this gets online, I've literally never been asked this question, or any variant of it.
How does profiteering reduce supply? Or it's use?

If anything it's the opposite.
I've worked on a project that forked for each test. We were working around the abuse of static singletons. I had a very small look at a tool that could start JVMs in a pool that you use later on.

We ended up splitting our tests using annotations to only create separate JVMs for tests that needed it. You could also look at class data sharing.

Not a fun state of affairs, good luck!
Maybe they don't know how to create it. You don't need to be a good cook (or even know how to cook) to say that a dish is too salty.
Sunday might be good because then the question "what are you working on" is associated with what you might be working on over the weekend, i.e. things you're doing for curiosity, fun, or obsession, rather than a workaday job.
2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053773
Yeah, seems like it. It looks good, most gaming cases look somewhat childish.
I second the motion for ADRs (resources below). A side-benefit is that they use Markdown: plain and simple. Try to use Markdown (or similar) as much as possible. Once you are used to it, it is hard to go back to the insane formatting friction in a word processor.

[1] - http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-archit...
[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMBqGPLvonU
Mine is aws lambda + redis. I rely on extensive testing to flush out bugs early. But sometimes I do question my initial choice :D
Any sources for this handy?
Or the mannerisms where chosen to express that the system can produce real voices and not just perfect ones.
We switched to Basecamp really and I'm really enjoying it. Far less faffing about.
Do you have a link to that thread where an anon google employee posted on why it occurred? Interested in what happened since I didn't realize it did.
Idea sunday never worked very well. A thread about things people are actually working on should be more interesting.
I was responding to the comment I directly replied to, not commenting on the specific color scheme of the style.
Maybe older generations spend less time reading internet hysteria (or news or whatever you'd like to call it)?
Fully agreed. When the blogs died one of the richest and most interesting parts of the internet died with it. The good news is that Wordpress.com and Blogspot still exist so the information was not lost, but almost all of the blogs haven't been updated in 5+ years. I'd love to see a concerted effort to have them rebooted -- maybe Google could up-rank them, or CPMs could increase, or Patreon-like models could be built in, who knows.

fwiw I don't see Medium as being a replacement for blogs. It's gotten quite bad from a user standpoint and kills the relationship with the reader in the same way that "blogging" on Linkedin or Facebook does (not quite as bad because at least it's findable on the open web).
interesting tool. thanks for sharing. it failed on a few sites that i tested it on though.
Naio Technologies: Agricultural Robots for Easier Farming
From the WHATWG/W3C definitions of the maxlength attribute:

> Constraint validation: If an element has a maximum allowed value length, its dirty value flag is true, its value was last changed by a user edit (as opposed to a change made by a script), and the code-unit length of the element’s value is greater than the element’s maximum allowed value length, then the element is suffering from being too long.
> User agents may prevent the user from causing the element’s value to be set to a value whose code-unit length is greater than the element’s maximum allowed value length.

The key word, I think, is "may" in that user agents do not seem to be obligated to truncate text from what I can find in the standard.

While this does break the expectations from a developer point of view, I think it is perfectly in line with what users expect when they paste text. I think text falling off at the end after a paste with no explanation is more confusing than an the field glowing red with a message "you can only enter X characters here".

The old behaviour famously made people lose access to their PayPal account where the login form had a different maxlength as the registration form and where the password manager had put in a nice, long password. Preventing this sounds like a fine change for me, despite the compatibility break.
I cater my answer to the nature of the company. Each company has some internal culture of what is valuable and what is not and I try to learn that before going in there. There is an answer they want to hear and that is what they get.

The question is largely useless. The opportunities available always change and circumstances always change.

5 years ago, I was applying to universities hoping to work in oil and gas. I switched after first year as I was never keen on chemical engineering and tech had proven that it was around for the long haul (I learned to program when I was 13, so I had the passion but just wasn't convinced that it wasn't another 2000).

3 years ago I would never have thought about working in government, but when I graduated last year, I read the recession warnings and chose it over the startups. I am happy I made that choice right now as my other incidental offer at the time has since had layoffs.

If you asked me in February of 2017 what I would be doing that summer, I would have said trip to Europe. In March of 2017, I got an extremely cool innovation internship and still have never been to Europe.

Problem is, if I said any of that in an interview, I would seem like a dilettante and/or an opportunist.
I know you are relaying the public information accurately, but I wish authorities pushed better names. Like calling the virus "the virus that we know has a corona and causes these symptoms" and the disease "the disease caused by this virus that has a corona and that causes these symptoms" is circular. Also, it is not true that it is entirely a respiratory syndrome. There are serious non-respiratory symptoms, extent of which we are to discover. Finally, if it is a syndrome causing virus, by definition we wouldn't have the crisp boundaries of a disease around it, which indeed we don't.

If these were names for services and classes that came in a code review, how many would really approve?
Well you can have a link to my unsuccessful unfocused blog. I have posted fairly recently though. Software music mountaineering etc http://omnisplore.wordpress.com
Easy way to make money during the lock down
Get paid to predict the price of Bitcoin on pitacoin and use this code to get 1000 Satoshi free gJfFLu
Technocrats? Business leaders are selected at random by our economy, or are born wealthy. This has been proven over and over in studies.

Your flowery language is designed so that you feel smart. The fact that you started the first sentence with 'overbearing incompetency' and then in the second sentence said 'technocrat' shows the disorganization in language, and demands that we define what a technocrat is.

> Technocracy is an ideological system of governance in which decision-makers are selected on the basis of their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge.

How tiresome.
Vietnam determined to save British pilot, avoid its first Covid-19 death
Not unless there was an older repo that is now gone:

https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy/graphs/contributors

https://github.com/hylang/hy/graphs/contributors

It looks like macropy started around 6 months after Hy, around a time when Hy had multiple contributors going.

Perhaps Hy hadn’t really been heard about yet.
Half of the examples given can easily apply to food delivery, namely pollution and human rights abuses.
I don't get it. From what I can gather they are not testing a new medicine or vaccine, this is purely testing. So there is no harm to patients at all. All they are trying to do is understand the pandemic and the virus. Why stop it? Correct me if I am missing something really obvious here, but I cannot help but think it could be politically motivated given that its bringing out dozens of previously undetected infected patients. I really hope its not the case but cannot stop thinking about it.
If heart disease were contagious the panic would be justified because it would way more people than COVID-19.
More generally, search for works by the authors: Neal Ford, Mark Richards. Similarly, follow Martin Fowler. They all have many articles, videos, on architecture.
Pet cats kill 230M native Australian animals each year
This is insane. There are plenty of reasons to rent besides financial leverage, chief among them flexibility. Providing housing that you don’t have to commit to for thirty years is a valuable service and that’s why people pay for it.
A while back I walked into the mall of america to buy my wife a tablet to draw on. This was when the stores were right across from each other. Walk into the apple store, pick up an iPad, can't get it to vary line width by pressure with the stylus. Walk across the hall to the microsoft store, surface stylus works perfectly. Easy choice.
I don't think blogs are dead, just hidden from view. That's why I obsessively bookmark blogs when I see them posted to HN or Reddit, since I know I'll never be able to find them again if I lose the link.
> It's common in practice even if it shouldn't be.

It should be though, the backend should reject overlong passwords, and the frontend should have such limits as well.

Though by "overlong" I mean kbyte range, not 32 character. The point of the limitation is to avoid randos feeding megabytes of data into your KDF and DOSing your server.

> Also many bcrypt implementations truncate input longer than 72 characters.

The alternative would be to error as bcrypt works on 18 words (of 32 bits). You need special handling (pre-hashing with a non-broken cryptographic hash function) to fix this issue.

Also it's 72 bytes not characters. And your pre-hash needs to generate some sort of textual representation (hex, base64, base85, …), as bcrypt will also truncate at the first NUL byte.

The original paper actually specifies 56 bytes.
I’ve been using fountain pens all my life and this kind of stuff absolutely horrifies me. Basically they’re cheap metal ballpoints.
Even the Abbott antibody test which is considered a good one is backed by a disturbingly small clinical study. The positive result pool had a sample size of around 75 people, and 1k negatives. I read the reagent insert for this.

Then when labs are running this test, they have very poor correlation studies that are essentially useless. Everyone is trying to rush these tests out the door.

I agree that they should start running them at scale, but all the data needs to be centralized and analyzed. They also need to bring in a lot of previously RNA tested positive COVID patients and see how many test positive.

The problem with all these fragmented efforts with 100 different tests is that we never get the full picture or a good sample pool. I think the FDA does need to apply the brakes here a bit and get this going.
Because Trump has come out and said too much testing is bad, because it might spook the almighty stock market.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-res...
> A company in Google's position is exactly the company that could figure out how to get a billion users to pay them directly for services those users want, instead of using their eyeballs as commodities, but Google has put zero effort towards that highly desirable innovation.

Fwiw Google has tried this more than once. It's just that the value that advertisers get is way higher than the value that consumers get.

There are specific search terms that can go for more than $50 ad bids. Individuals can't really pay for that much. Like how much would you be willing to pay for Google search each year?

> If this hypothesis were correct, we would have expected to see lawsuits against those other monopolies during, say, the Obama administration. But we didn't.

This only follows if you believe the Obama and Trump admins are equally corrupt.
states with no money for a bit might tighten things up.
I am still blogging [0][1]. And I thought static blog generators where quite the thing, I even wrote my own [2].

[0] https://plurrrr.com/

[1] http://johnbokma.com/blog/

[2] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
Take a look at Monday.com - I use it as a todo.txt with colors and built-in hierarchy: board, group of tasks, task, comments hidden on a task.
Yes, this is the big unknown at the moment.

Governments and central banks will certainly attempt to prevent contagion by buying assets and handing out bailout cash.

Does that fix the problem and then we go back to normal? Does it result in Weimar-style hyperinflation? Does it cause negative rates on long-term bonds?

I can only think of two historical precedents for guidance on how this might play out. First, Japan's "Lost Decade" (which was really more like 25 years). And second, the 2008 financial collapse.

Not sure either of these are directly comparable to the current predicament, though.
My comment is specifically about the US, where support for the lockdown is strongly correlated with support for one of the two major ideologies on the US-specific political spectrum.

Sorry for not making it clear that what I was saying wasn’t intended to be applicable internationally.
It seems like you're starting from the assumption that this is a gotcha question, and if you don't look ambitious you'll be immediately disqualified. That's not always the case (and if it is the case, I would question if either the recruiter is just kind of clueless and has no idea what skills are actually important for the job, or the company/team have some unsustainable or unhealthy idea of what to expect from their employees).

As a hiring manager, personally if I ask a question like this I am genuinely just interested in figuring out what your priorities are and getting to know you. What motivates you, how do you approach your work, and what do you view as your strengths? Depending on the existing makeup of the team, I may be looking for different things at different times in terms of who would be the best fit.

But I definitely don't want a team entirely composed of people who are all unhappy in their current role and all looking for a promotion. Yes, maybe they'll all work hard but it can easily backfire too. Maybe it will tend towards a hyper competitive environment with a lot of big egos and interpersonal conflicts. Or maybe people will start checking out or leaving the company if they don't feel challenged in their roles or don't feel that they have the impact they want.

It's true that you also don't want to seem lazy. Don't say something like "I'm just looking to clock in and collect a paycheck". But as long as you seem interested in the company and in doing solid work, you really don't need to have ambitions of becoming a manager or beyond.
At the peak of the last financial crisis in 2008 a stock I had been keeping my eye on dropped nearly 50% in value, so I dumped a bunch of money (for me at the time anyway) into.

I told a friend about it and he looked at me like I was crazy. "The system is melting down! What makes you think the stock market is ever going to recover?"

Six years later I sold that stock for a pretty massive profit.

The stock market will always recover because people are always going to want to make money. Yes, some businesses will fall by the wayside, and yes, we don't know when it will get better, but people like making money and that fundamental truth will always keep the economy moving forward after things like this.
That's not really giving the full picture of ROSE online!

- The official server (arcturus) is awful to work with code-wise. But all the decently big private servers uses it because at one point we only had the binaries of it and it worked out of the box. When the source started to leak too, it was easier to continue forward with that thing.

- The "simple version" which I am assuming you refer to is os(i)rose. This was the only thing you would get BEFORE the official server got leaked. It had some momentum simply for being there since roughly 2006. It was based on Brett19's code which at the time was a 14-something teenager. The same brett that now works on a fully modern C++ codebase that is decafemu.

- The Modern C++ version which if I remember is worked by few folks from osrose came out something like 2 years ago. Passing 2015, the momentum for the game is close to none. So yes, no one will even spin that codebase.
Treating stocks as fractions of future real productivity ignores why companies sell shares in the first place. If the value of a company was wholly in its future real productivity, then companies would never part with ownership. However, companies do sell shares because they need liquidity now, whereas the future value of the company is purely speculative. Shares are but one of many alternatives for companies to raise liquidity. These alternatives provide opportunities to investors with different risk/reward profiles. As you say, there's nothing special about stocks that makes them inherently superior to other forms of investment.
I don't think you really understand how software works. No software has a "physical reason" to ask for money once they are done. It's really a terrible argument that you seem to try and turn into a quip against delivery apps.

Your moat argument is the same that had people invest in uber 10 years ago, which we are seeing is failing in regions like EU where Uber is getting lambasted.
There is harm to a patient if you tell them an incorrect test result.
Same here. It may be basic and crappy, but if you want to read an unsuccessful blog with no attempt at monetization or ads or even visitor counting, mine[1] is where you should feel right at home.

But I guess the author means a platform, not loose websites without a collective 'new' feed. I remember looking for one when wanting to make a new blog and I haven't found a platform that felt right, at least back then (probably ~2015). Heck, I couldn't even find software to install: everything is either super heavy stuff that requires caching or at least a beefy CPU to survive the HN homepage (with custom software, HN can be survived on an ancient Atom CPU even if you use PHP (also pre-PHP7) and do multiple SQL queries per pageload) or some static generators that I wasn't looking for.

Edit: While we're at it, another blog I read is Robert Heaton's one[2], and I'm subscribed to a few others but they don't seem to post anymore since I stopped getting email notifications. I remember Coding Horror[3] was also nice to read but he posts very infrequently now (for those who don't know, that's by the co-founder of Stack Overflow). Finally, Cryptography Engineering[4] might be nice if you're into that sort of thing. But I suppose those can all be mostly considered successful in that they all have a following.

[1] https://lucgommans.nl/blog

[2] https://robertheaton.com

[3] https://blog.codinghorror.com

[4] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Generous of you to give away such comic gold for free to those in need.
For someone interested in learning about how to cover risk while taking during a dynamic market event, what would you recommend? My investment education pretty much stopped at "A Random Walk Down Wall Street".
I moved mine from Wordpress to GitHub pages, and basically stopped using it; I could either pay Wordpress to not show gross ads, or host a mostly static site on GitHub.
They don't do it from scratch but use a service like Shopify or WooCommerce.
I can offer one small anecdote that maybe reinforces some of the criticisms of academic circles.

A long while ago, I worked in IT in the admissions department of a top-5 ivy league school. While there I became good friends with many of the admissions officers for the undergraduate and MBA programs.

It's an open secret that admissions are highly influenced by who you know, but what I was stunned by was the overwhelming percentage of each incoming class owes its entry to the connections of their parents.

I had always assumed it was some small single digit percentage, but the first time I saw "the list", I was dumbfounded. There is a list of students each year that is sent from the Dean of admissions to admissions department containing the students that must be admitted. The process for rejecting one of those students required the admissions officer to submit a report outlining why - an incredibly rare occurrence.

The admissions officers rationalize this as a necessary evil, and cover themselves by pointing to the special attention they pay to diversity candidates. "If I see one more white, indian or asian kid from the upper-east side with a perfect GPA, I'm just going to throw the app out the window" was a quote that stuck in my mind.

The list was a collection of applicants who were the children of staff, professors, administrators, and financial or political benefactors. Surprisingly, children of alumni (even those who donated regularly) were not in the group unless they really made an effort over the years and had someone at the school who could call the Dean personally.

It sort of bothered me because it made me realize that someone like myself - a good student, non-diversity, with good EC activities was competing for a tiny tiny portion of the admissions slots for any top school.

Is it really so much to ask to have a transparent and level playing field in college admissions?