skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Everywhere you see ..."

Handwaving nonsense. You said that, not people advocating for serious and sensible public policy re: COVID-19.

> "Sounds so scary ..."

Have you actually listened to the people who had COVID-19 and recovered from more than mild symptoms? If there was an army or a terrorist group about to invade the US and kill 100k people, mostly at random, I suspect you'd consider that fairly "scary", as would most other people.

> "Is the same thing..."

As noted by another sibling comment, no it's not the same thing at all.

> "... there was a lot of uncertainty ..."

There is still a lot of uncertainty. We don't really know what works and what doesn't work. What you characterize as "clinging to ineffective rules" I would characterize as "trying to be cautious in the face of massive uncertainty".

I would never defend all of Cuomo's actions as NY Governor. He made a number of extremely serious errors, even though his demeanour in his later press briefings was exemplary.
You bring up a good point, and I've been pondering about this for a while now - do you think I should remove all the hyphens from the domains before querying them? Like, instead of "extra-small.com", should I be querying "extrasmall.com" instead?
Focusing on personal behavior is a bit more productive than trying to shape an internet community that's open to the public to some arbitrary standard of toxicity.
>if the restaurant was paid zero by the app but the app somehow got their food, you’d be be okay with it

If I'm the customer: yes. If I'm the restaurant: no, I would not agree to give out food if I'm getting paid zero.

> What is the name for workers who do work without pay?

Same thing if I'm the worker, it doesn't matter if the pay is $10 - $9 deduction or $1 - $0 deduction, in both case it really is $1. I then decide whether it worth my effort to do it for $1.
Great thanks will check these out and keep you posted!
IIRC one of the FoundationDB engineers tested with Jepsen and found that it passed in its default configuration, but the blog post seems to have disappeared.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150312112556/http://blog.found...
If the transaction surcharges were 30% then people would be demanding we stopped using Visas. You are being deliberately obtuse and dishonestly sidestepping the issue at hand. The exploitative and abusive charges have gotten dramatically worse in response to the pandemic as GrubHub and other app providers flexed their increased market muscle to extort restaurants facing no alternative. It is “willingly and knowingly” entering an agreement in the same sense that I willingly gave the guy who robbed me my wallet to avoid getting stabbed.
You said to check Wikipedia. I checked Wikipedia. Where did I lie?
RAID 1 is dead!! Long live RAID 1!!

Cloud had a meteoric rise due to the paltry size of storage at the time (edit: partly, compute too).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

10TB+ NVMe with an external interface changes the formula for large data transfers over slow pipes. Its faster to physically ship it or more likely, too cost prohibitive to use metered networks for distribution.

Long live RAID 1!!
> The Rust re-write was the third attempt; the first two were in C++ and failed.

AFAIK most of Firefox is still written in C++, JavaScript and C [1]

The JavaScript interpreter, which is particularly important to users perceived speed, is entirely written in C++

[1] https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/
Ask HN: How to grow as an engineering leader with mid-level hands-on experience?
I worked in a startup from its inception until acquisition 7 years later. I started young as an engineer and did everything required to make the company successful - code, take support calls, conceptualize the product, go for sales pitches and meet with customers. I understood the levers of the company - employees, product, clients and was acknowledged as a good leader. When our team was growing I jumped to fill the gap of an engineering manager even though I didn't get the chance to grow via the typical engineering ladder of SDE 1-2-3 > TL > PE/EM. We had 20 engineers at our max size and my performance (getting things done, fostering team culture) was quite good. The CEO and the tech architect helped to take decisions on tech architecture whenever my skills were not sufficient. Together we built a great team and a profitable product.

I have an amazing experience building a company, but I am struggling to figure out what my next role is. Larger companies (50-200 sized company) don't think I am good enough for EM/Director of Engineering role as I haven't had extensive hands-on architectural experience. Is it normal for managers to have more breadth experience than depth? I understand I cant ramp up overnight. Assuming that I don't want to startup in the next few years, how do I grow from here?
The english language is full of idiosyncrasies that don't quite make sense. Punc-quote is the correct "formal" way but informally you're free to do anything you want.
It is probably not a typo, they are aware of the difference. Just read their support page. [0]

> Unless otherwise stated, TUXEDO always uses ISO standard keyboards. Other standards, such as ANSI, are available depending on the model, but are also marked as such.

Browsing from the EU, I am not seeing an ANSI option on the linked 15" or either of the 14" models. It seems they're not capitalising on the enthusiast developer segment.

[0] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Infos/Help-Support/Freque...
I know! Would love some suggestions on how to fix this though - or should I just scrap the whole .com section altogether?
> What's the secret sauce here? Age? Reputation? Subject matter?

Being a woman. The dogpilers are most likely cluing in on her name.

https://i.imgur.com/Kowemhz.jpg
When I saw the title I thought it was a list of profanity that one might want to filter out from an open web application (i.e. a list that also includes swear words from multiple languages).
With or without the hyphen, it's two words. But for the purposes of the value of the site, rather than pedantry, it probably doesn't much matter.
>> Why do you assume a human has to be involved in the judgement process for it to be taking place?

I don't. A human is not necessary to the process. A human is necessary for the process to be done well. And if the NSA has broken its own encryption, to the extent that it can read past traffic, call the IMU because there are some Field's medals that need handing out.
> Do you know how much infrastructure you can buy for the fully allocated code of one employee?

$10k does not get you very far with AWS.
It's probably better to keep it professional. Your average employee can afford some snark. But when companies hire you for this sort of consulting, you could turn off a lot of potential clients by including it in materials you produce, even when they didn't pay for it. Because it is a representation of the product they would be paying for.

It would be kinda like you including this sort of thing on your resume. Which would also be a bad idea.
Essentially the White House can do anything it wants by asking the White House Counsel to make up a legal opinion supporting whatever the President or VP want to do.

Then the onus is on people outside that circle to learn, investigate and prosecute, which could take years, or never.

Sounds bizarre, but it's a real thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Counsel
I’ll try this for my phone:

1. Most used apps are the browser, Facebook (marketplace only), Snapchat, Messages, Amazon, and RobinHood.

2. Browsing the web, browsing local listings, messaging people, shopping, trading stocks and options.

3. I wish the browser had better tab management and persona management. I wish Facebook Marketplace had a lot fewer ads and better categories. Also I wish it wasn’t Facebook. I wish there was a way to disable Snapchat notifications about the other person typing. I wish Messages had a way to disable notifications if I am, say watching a video or have some specific apps on (like games). I wish Amazon had a proper filter for “items I can get soon”. I wish RobinHood allowed me to list options bids/asks for longer than a day.

4. Of these the Amazon and RobinHood ones are the only ones that are feasible. There are alternatives to Facebook Marketplace and they are all worse/less popular. I doubt Apple would let me change their apps or OS code.

I suppose there is something here with an unofficial RobinHood API. Scraping Amazon is a popular thing to do but I don’t want to develop a complete clone of their app with just a single additional filter.
The disaster that was Google Buzz has left a thick bureaucratic scar tissue designed to prevent something like that from happening again.

Here’s an old article about it: https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/google_privacy/i...

I suspect TripleByte is about to learn some similar lessons.
The TLD doesn't count
It sounds like the old session object is reused and becomes live again or something.
Sure, I replied to this statement

>Redesigns should never, ever happen unless absolutely necessary

There is a place for redesign, but it has to be done properly. It's not something intrinsically bad.
Reading this made me think why there are so few middle-aged engineers in tech. There have been several theories for this, such as ageism and the field's rapid expansion. Reading this made me wonder if they just get sick of it and leave.

Friends had reached out to me. "We need a director for our reliability software engineering stuff". They asked for my help. They wanted to build something good, like the early days of a few former places I had worked at. I was willing to help out, but honestly, only as a contractor. I had enough of the full time tech thing for one lifetime already.

Tech has an image of itself as a magical place where we're changing the world while getting to indulge our inner geeks. And yet a director title for an individual contributor and top 1% pay is not enough to close a hire. The top people are essentially taking early retirement. People in other fields (doctors for example) continue working long after retirement age. Maybe tech is not such a magical place?
The world does not revolve around HN votes. If your first urge is whether the post gets downvoted or not you might want to rethink your life a little bit.

So don't worry about me.
I can see this odious little twerp without thinking of Eric Cartman: "Respect my authoritah"
Me too. As I know more and more about languages and computers, the more I hate it but I end up doing 85% of my projects because with it I can focus on ideas, not implementation details.
For what it's worth op, I never saw the criticisms, just the original article. Replying is like a Streisand effect. If you must reply, replying less directly might serve you better.
The main argument for using MongoDB when you’re abiding by DDD: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AggregateOrientedDatabase.htm...
Lending is tight to a banks equity. Prior to Basel II (early 2000s) this was some 8% per loan. So the more equity you have, the more loans you can provide. As small regional banks are unlikely to have the same amount of equity than JPMorgan Chase, they cannot provide the same amount of loans.

Under the followup regime (Basel III) its: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III#Leverage_ratio
If the jerk is brilliant enough maybe you can buffer it somehow and include it in the structures, eg a dedicated jerk handler etc.
Because of the weird phrasing of some sentences, my first thought was "hmm, something interesting from China?". Then I saw the price is in Euros, then I found that it's a German company.

What I mean is, it's a sales page, in English, presumably for English speakers. Appearances matter, and this one's easy to fix.

Some people like feedback, although I admit my comment was poorly written. English is not my first language, either, and I like when people point out my mistakes.
Title should probably say "(2018)".

Also, it's already been submitted a bunch of times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070888

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22856746

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20778477

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16118776
This seems like it could be a useful offering but "Makely" sounds like a parody of a tech business name; have you considered rebranding?
Then I stand corrected and applaud the creators of Rust for haven taken these measures for writing thread safe code, because it is supereasy to get threading wrong, even for the most experienced developer.
loading it through tor and handing it over on a usb stick is already more difficult though
And if the prospective employee asked you what you think makes you special as an employer, what would you say?

Would have an answer about what makes you unusual and distinctive compared to tens of other possible employers?
It won’t be Apple branded. More likely a generic brand, or something that’s linked to Apple without using the name. Like how their campus cafe is Caffé Macs.

(Best hotel name I can come up with is “Energy Saver” in the style of macOS System Preferences. Cute, and comes with a free logo. But I doubt the Apple of today would dare to be so whimsical.)
a different take: why not look for existing abandoned projects that need a new maintainer. every year we have thousands of new ideas that will never survive in the long run so why not help out on something that already has a user-base but doesn't see updates? maintaining an existing system, and making it better might not give you the same glory as inventing something new, but imvho it should.

e.g.:

slide #46 and #47: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packag...

https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams
Are you talking about draw_down’s comment? Doesn’t look dead to me.
This is a relatively new feature and there have been one or two ABI breaks since they thought it was done that required recompiling half the world. I think it's been solid for at least most of the last decade though so... stable enough? I'm not sure if there is an actual spec somewhere though, certainly not a proper one from a standards body. It's just "whatever GCC or MSVC do on that OS/CPU combo" and those two happen to have stopped changing the ABI every compiling release at some point. They're both at least based on the relatively well specified Itanium C++ ABI though so that helps.
The Design Principle of “Going Tiny” ● an Interview with Dr David King
I have a different understanding of tone. I'm not stupid, what I'm being asked to do is stupid is the content, the tone is how it's written.

You can sound arrogant, you can call people names, you can sound like you're about to ask to speak to the manager, you can add some self-deprecating jokes, you can show empathy for whoever created the mess while describing the problems you had with said mess etc, that's the tone.

The content stays the same, but people will react very differently to it based on the tone. Some styles work for nearly all audiences, some don't.
oouch thats so huge, btw community like stackoverflow also has the same stats or they tried to improve the ratio?
I'm in complete agreement with respect to the benefits for CNS stimulation. I have no doubt there are other ways to achieve it than lifting heavy weights, just that that method has been particularly helpful for me. I recall seeing some research a while back that the neural stimulation of lifting actually improves brain health. Naively that seems weird, but once you learn a bit about how motor units are recruited it starts to make sense. My knowledge of biology is at the undergraduate level, but my intuition and personal experience both say that there are no truly discrete systems in the body. They all affect each other to some degree, just some more than others. Given that, the idea that breathing exercises could cause positive adaptions in the CNS is something I'd expect. Where I'm ignorant is what the magnitude of those adaptions is given what appears to be a relatively mild training stimulus. My guess is that advanced efficacious breathing techniques must be far from mild, but I freely admit my ignorance since I've never done anything past the silicon valley corporate mindfulness workshop.
Rachel's most recent job was at Lyft.
> ... where instead of using Merkle Trees, other cryptographic primitives could be use to ensure tamper proofness, such as Zero Knowledge Proofs

What would your zero knowledge proof _prove_ exactly without some data structure behind it? In many applications, the zero knowledge proof is being used to prove that something in a data structure is correct/valid/etc. You can't just replace these data structures with zero knowledge proofs arbitrarily.
Really? https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers/issues...

Am I the only one that thinks it’s annoying that people feel compelled to announce their enthusiasm? I’ve always thought reddit comments along the lines of “have you an upvote” were annoying noise, but this seems a bit more egregious. Issues are supposed to be for reporting issues, it’s on the name! Not only did someone have to spend time to read this, and close it, but it crowds out actual issues.
The hotel on campus at UT Austin isn’t affiliated with any such program. It’s actually affiliated with the business school, AFAIK, and the circumstances around it’s creation sound similar to Apple’s.

At the time, there weren’t many good hotel options around that part of Austin unless you were willing to stay in a motel or a long drive away. I imagine this was a big obstacle when trying to attract MBA students to the weekend MBA programs (where the students are put up at a hotel every weekend) or trying to get business bigwigs to visit campus for events, so UT just decided to build their own hotel.
Big if true :-)

But here is a great article

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
Working for a team like this with psychological safety does indeed sound magical, but I rarely encounter teams like this, big or small corps. I'm not saying they don't exist, just rare.

With that being said, two questions arise:

1. What kinds of incentives, business area and market forces create or prevent such teams from forming (since I feel these teams are rare), and how does one ensure a pit of success here ?

2. Is it already hopeless when you inherit a team with low psychological safety or flat out incompetent team members ? Are there incremental steps to get there ?
Yes, in general all prices ought to be transparent. It's a basic necessity for a competitive market. You want people to be able to easily find out if some firm is making a lot of money, so they can do it cheaper.
At this point I think we might be going a bit overboard with title changes.

Now that it's just "MongoDB 4.2.6", the title makes me think that this is a release announcement, not an analysis of the software.

The first title (that specifically referenced a finding of the analysis) was best, imo. Mildly opinionated or whatever, but at least it quickly communicated the gist of the post. On the other hand:

"Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6" – not super helpful if you're not already familiar with the Jepsen body of work.

"MongoDB 4.2.6" – as stated above, sounds like a release announcement.

If you want a suggestion, maybe something like "Jepsen evaluation of MongoDB 4.2.6"? Not overly specific (/ negative) like the first title, but at least provides some slight amount of context.

@dang
Around that time (2013) I knew a European defense contractor was trying to build a triple store that could inject a trillion or so triples a day without purging any; they went to an RDF specialist and a columnar database pro and they said "are you kidding me?"

I told them that they were not.

See also Mark Lombardi an artist who died under mysterious circumstances after hanging meticulously designed linkages between folks like G Gordon Liddy, GHW Bush, Oliver North, A Kasshogi, BCCI inked by French curve in MOMA and many other art galleries.
Yup, can't view the file using the GitHub app for Android
Usually you write these sorts of things as append only with an optional garbage collect. You get a minimal sort of Atomicity with that.
Risk of coronavirus is a gradient due to age. But more importantly IMO is the number of other people who are also at risk- the obese, the diabetic, the immunocompromised... and of course all the family and friends and roommates who also may go into isolation so that they don’t accidentally expose their loved ones.

That looks very close to a lockdown to me... (especially in my country with a very high proportion of obese people. There’s probably an order of magnitude more of people living with an obese person.)
This is inevitable when someone tries to turn forge hosting into social media (and succeeds at it).
Excel can be an excellent source of new line-of-business applications.

Many of my employer's applications started out as a shared spreadsheet or Access database.

Our development team worked with the users and built a web application to solve the same problem.

This approach has a lot of advantages:

* The market exists and has an incumbent. There's a lower risk of a write-off.

* The users are open to process changes. You still have to migrate people off of the spreadsheet, though.

* It's easy to add value with reporting, error checking, concurrent access, and access control.

* You can import the existing data to make the transition easier. This will require a lot of data cleaning.

Edited to add the following text from another post.

You can cover most of the requirements with a set of fixed fields.

The last 10% to 20% of the use cases requires custom reports and custom fields.

Users should be able to define their own reports and run them without your involvement.

They should also be able to define custom field types with validation, data entry support, etc.

If your web application has these two features and other advantages then you should be able to replace Excel.
If done accurately and professionally, something like you're suggesting could be really useful to aid people and organizations during vendor selection.

https://web.hypothes.is/about/ or similar could be used to develop commentary overlays on top of marketing materials.
Rural communities with minimal testing also tend to lack their own hospital / ICU resources, so outbreaks in those communities also tend to unexpectedly deplete resources in nearby cities. Sometimes these are also counted as deaths in the city rather than the rural area the case originated.
Show HN: Share Streaming Services With Friends(Even if they don’t own accounts)
Available as a firefox addon or chrome extension.

Share your netflix/hbogo/youtube with up to 5 friends even if they don't own an account.

The host requires a fairly good graphics card to stream the screen, netflix, and videorooms. Viewers can run on simple laptops without owning the streaming service. If you own a streaming service and would like us to add support, it can work like a viral marketing strategy, since your customers would share and sell your service for you. If they want the full experience or to become hosts themselves, they can purchase it.

I appreciate any feedback, bug reports, or requests to support streaming services.
>If I'm the customer: yes

Well of you enjoy that restaurant you shouldn't be ok with it, because with price margins like you describe, that restaurant's not going to exist for very long.