skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For everybody who was saying "Wikipedia is complete, there's nothing left to write about" yesterday, as far as I can there is not a word about this on the whole site, certainly not on the Pepsi page. Time to get to work!

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Pepsi+349&ns0=1&...

Edit: I stand corrected, there is a single paragraph in here. Nothing standalone/linkable though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_in_the_Philippines
Trickbot Trojan Spreads via Fake Black Lives Matter Content
The reason that these kind of jobs exists in the first place is not some inherent sudden demand for them by modern society. It's because this form was required to create the plausible deniability that the drivers were not employees and thus much cheaper labour. This is the entire USP of the gig-economy, lower labour costs. Don't get fooled by a shiny app.
Hey everyone!

I’d like to show you SOCCA, the first project I’m releasing. It is a text-only chat application, centered around philosophical discussions. It aspires to be a platform where people from all backgrounds and horizons can meet up for a few minutes to learn new things, share ideas and challenge their beliefs (although that latter part might be the most idealistic part of the pitch).

It is quite straightforward:

1. You either go with the Discussion of the Day, i.e. a pre-selected question to discuss, or choose among 50+ topics (an account is required for the latter)

2. You are matched with a random person with whom you can exchange around the question discussed, and share your experience

3. You can also vote for the questions that you’d like to discuss next. A new question is selected every few days, based on the votes received. All the questions and their description are also released under CC0 (in the public domain).

On the technical side:

- The front end is all made with React. I initially started the project without any JS framework in 2019, but in the meantime I started to learn React and decided to remake what I had thus far with it, to get practice.

- On the backend, it is a Node application hosted on a DO droplet. Socket.IO is used to provide the real-time discussions, although I’d like to refactor it at some point using ws, which is allegedly faster than Socket.IO. I’m using MongoDB to store the relevant information but I’m leveraging Redis as much as I can for the data that is constantly changing, and to get sticky sessions.

At the moment there is no “Connect with” / “Add as a Friend” feature. I understand that people might want to keep chatting with the person when they got a good match and enjoyed the discussion, but I wanted to try with the “randomised only” approach first. That being said, I wrote the backend with the “Connect with” feature in mind, so that can be quickly deployed if there’s any interest.

I’m looking forward to hearing what you think, and if you have any questions and suggestions, I’d be happy to answer.
Achieving a new breakthrough in computing is often very expensive. Deep Blue is estimated to cost IBM over $100 million over a decade [1].

And in comparison to large tech company R&D budgets, the amount cited in the article is a drop in the bucket. Consider the fact that Google spent $26 billion in R&D budget in 2019 alone [2]. Microsoft spent almost $17 billion [3].

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/76552-project-deep-bli...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/507858/alphabet-google-r...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267806/expenditure-on-re...
I disagree with respect to frameworks like React, Angular and Vue. Yes, they all "do the same thing" when viewed from a distance, but up close the details of say, managing state with hooks in React, is very different from managing state with services and RxJS observables in Angular.

These differences aren't always sexy, but understanding them is usually the difference between a developer who can deliver a high-quality solution and solve difficult problems and one who can hack together something that sort-of works with enough Googling. In my experience, a lot of "overengineering" in these kind of frameworks is really devs with insufficient understanding of their details inventing unnecessary workarounds and abstractions.

So, yes, devs flitting between frameworks is a problem, but not because they're doing the wrong kind of learning, but because they never learn enough to be truly effective. And I don't think this is a result of some pervasive attentional deficit, but because hiring practices, especially in consultancy, favour direct commercial experience above everything, and devs are economically incentivised to maximise their earning potential and pool of job opportunities by working with as many technologies as possible.
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This, big time.

Leaving people to guess at their own evaluation criteria is disrespectful, and implicitly biases in favor of people who have lots of free time/energy.
Yes, thats definitely a key point: people are not rational creatures, but emotional. The rest of the book is just about ways you can tap into or get around that.

Another key point of the book is to let your counterpart talk as much as possible, while you listen. Really listen. Again, the techniques discussed are tools to help with that.

Everything else is sbout calming the person down, making them feel understood and heard, and unearthing what it is they actually value.
The purpose for learning tech is to put money in my bank account. Why would I take a job and work eight hours a day using non marketable technology and then spend my free time doing side projects that “don’t count” as much as what you do on a job when I could just choose a company where I get paid while learning new tech and I can spend my free time on basically anything else?
What about fair use?

The transformative factor seems rather clear. People want the many altered things and consider it different enough to go out of their way to find it (despite it not reducing their out-of-pocket cost).

The nature of the work is that it is a tool rather than a work of fiction which is also in favor of fair use.

The amount taken is substantial, but it has already been ruled that even 100% taken can still be fair use. It also contributes a great many man-hours of work though which means it wasn't just a blind copy/paste either.

The effect on the potential market is the big thing here. MS would claim they lose money by not being able to spy on users or show them ads. However, their licensing scheme remains untouched which seems to indicate that theft is not a motivating factor. Considering the use of the new work, it could be argued that ads and telemetry would be blocked by a DNS filter anyway and no actual profit would be lost. Further, those people would have moved on to the free alternative Linux which is already the defacto standard for a lot of pen testing and event the license profit would be lost. Then there's the question about if collecting that data is even legal (I don't believe it has ever been tried in court) and how that would interact with the DMCA.

It really doesn't seem like a case MS would really want to go to court over.
The software is a good chunk of the revenue, but youtube makes more than the sw. But when others talk about how much they make on youtube, it's alwas more than me per view. Biggest revenue contributor is plan sales.
Living in a neighborhood in Oakland CA with no enforcer and annoyingly blatant property crime, I’m willing to give an enforcer a try cause it’s not like people trust the police here or that they even come when you call them.
wow. haven’t heard ‘heroine’ in forever. sounds like actress or stewardess. ‘hero’ is probably a better, non-gendered choice.
I see, I used it only for a small org. Maybe those companies can pay the 2x penalty.
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Hey Matthias! I know this is off topic for the thread but thanks for jhead! I used it for years in order to sync up the exif times from friend's cameras when we traveled together. I was pleasantly surprised to see your name when looking at the man page.

Love your channel. All the best with your new little one!
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Relax and don't take all advice and catch sayings a gospel. I have risen thru the ranks to the CTO position several times in my career and I brought my friends along with me. If he is a good worker, he will remain a good worker most likely. In my career I have only had to fire one of my friends and it was literally because he developed a drug problem so bad he was showing up to work totally out of it. I counseled him, tried to get him into rehab and did what any friend would do but the drugs had taken hold. I was friends with him for years before that and did not know he had a drug problem before we met. He relapsed and just could not shake it this time.

That being said, there is no doubt the dynamic changes but that does not mean you have to give up your friends. It means you have to be more transparent with them, it means an absolute commitment to honesty so that you remove the feeling that you may be "managing" behind their back.

Jumping back to my friend, I was candid with him that he would leave me no choice, that it was completely unacceptable and that most of all I was concerned about him as a friend. He understood and understood my actions and that it was he who left me no choice.

I had another friend who battled depression, she was a rock star for years and then just hit a wall, due to a life event. I took off my CTO hat, put on my friend hat and worked with her thru it. Helped her build a path to put her life together and helped her get her career back on track. She had some extremely self destructive behavior in the throws of depression and I resisted outside pressure to fire her, due to knowing the sensitive nature of her medical condition, that knowledge came from being her friend not her manager. In the end what I gained was a loyal employee and a rockstar again. What I also gained is a group of people that any time I have an endeavor, I can pick up the phone, make a call and they will quit their job on the spot to join me. Have an unwavering commitment to your people and they will have an unwavering commitment to you, when they know that you are honest to them.

Point being take conventional wisdom with a grain of salt. Don't be jerk and don't manage behind peoples back and you will be fine. But the original point of the article is spot on, never, ever, even jokingly, joke about someones employment if you have a position of power or a decision in that continued employment. It's off limits, but if they are not meeting a standard be honest with them and be honest with them in the short run. Be a friend and put a plan together to get them back on track. Help them be successful, part of being a good manager is being a people builder.
Is that still a thing? How much can you gain from customizing your ISOs using that tool? A few hundred megabytes?
It's not because it's not part of western culture. Is Eastern France part of the west?
In what way is it "unscientific"? That's an odd choice of words in this situation. What we're aiming for is rational and in this instance, it's perfectly rational to be suspicious based on an abductive argument and unproven extrapolation. As another commenter aptly noticed, once you're able to prove it, the harm has already been done.
Cassandra counter columns: nice in theory, hazardous in practice
Don't forget to account for planned obsolescence. If a fridge lasts 10 years, what happens when GE stops producing those filters? You start looking at new fridges. The GE fridge pissed you off, so you upgrade to Fisher & Paykel… turns out they are produced by the same company, so they don't care that GE 'lost' a customer.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier )
Just from a performance point of view, opening LinkedIn webpage is a traumatic experience. I've rarely seen something so slow & heavy.
It's quite sad because LinkedIn gave birth to a lot of fantastic techs, such as Apache Kafka...
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I'm not sure what you're seeing is scraping. There are various services where companies can upload a job posting once and it's automatically posted across multiple job platforms, with LinkedIn being one of them. Formatting often gets lost on the way.
Github already released their package repo last year (and have since purchased NPM). If anything I imagine that had Artifactory pretty scared vs. this. If your company already uses GitHub it's a hard sell to say why you'd need something like Artifactory over the Github package repo.
I feel like that would make cops target wealthier communities. A simpler solution is that any revenue from traffic tickets goes to the federal government rather than the county or state.
I generally don't care what the tech stack is. I can learn how to program in just about any language and use just about any tool. I care about the domain. I care about the market for that domain. I care about what position the company is in in that market. But, primarily, I care about solving interesting problems in that domain. I want challenging problems to work on. I don't want to do the same thing over and over except this time in <fancy new tech>. You want me to put data from a form in to a db? Pass. You want me to figure out how to shine your company name onto a baseball as it is traveling to home plate? HELL YEAH!
I understand what you mean. That makes sense.
Both GH and DD do this now, honestly it feels like a massive bait and switch because you don't know which order # you'll be and the system never clarifies that there can be others ahead of you. Notably, the other orders can be from other restaurants so your driver may have to stop and wait while your food is just in their car. If you don't live in a metro area the total out of the way time can be more than 25 minutes. This means that ordering a small hot meal over GH can show up 20 minutes after preparation or 45 minutes after. There's a very large difference between these two orders but they make you set the tip ahead of time and charge the same fee. I once ordered ice cream, they made a second stop. It was just goop. Just completely absurd.

(This is a strange world where I can say... obviously Uber is more ethical here. The Uber X service is clearly labeled as such and has realistic arrival times and an option to pay for ensured rapid arrival)
That's really interesting. I'm a highly skilled C dev (not bragging, it's just genuine) on LinkedIn, yet I don't tend to get "found" much, except by recruiters.

One thing I found both awkward and fascinating was a job rejection from somewhere I never applied to or had any prior contact with! That was a strange feeling.

Someone internally recommended me for a robotics position. I didn't ask them to, but it was a glowing recommendation I was told. HR looked at my LinkedIn profile and concluded that since it mentions web (I do different things at different times), I received a surprise mail telling me I was unsuitable for the role and I should watch their company site in case webdev positions come up. But I'm not often a webdev, it's just up there for those times when I am!

From that strange incident as well as the types of approaches I get from recruiters (we think you are a perfect match for... our client asked me to write to you... oh, having now looked at your profile I see you are not... etc),

I'm inclined to think LinkedIn profiles for those with a variety of experience just confuse people looking to hire.

I haven't figured out a way to solve this dilemma and from talking with others at a conference, it's a common problem. The way it's done outside LinkedIn is tailored CVs, which focus on relevant items to each role and leave out the less relevant. But you can't do this on a big shared profile.
If you don't like it there is always Voat.

HN has a decent amount of curation, too. Been seeing a lot of flagged and deleted posts these days...
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

The transition I've seen people who enjoy traveling and hanging out with friends a lot is to developer advocate roles where they travel a lot to conferences.

I actually did that quite a bit last year (14 conferences which is hardly a lot but then again I'm not a devrel). Now I'm stuck with the boring parts (making the talks) and none of the interesting ones (traveling, meeting people and tech).

If you spent a decade doing hobby projects - what happened that made that "just a job"?
Jepsen 0.2.0
The list of demands came from an open mic discussion. They let anyone come up and suggest a demand.

Someonen transcribed those demands and then posted them.

I think it would be better to view those demands as the union of demands of each person willing to speak to a crowd. Which is why you see inconsistency in then, why it's such a long list, etc.

I just think that list of demands is better understood in that context.
It's the whole "Somebody Else's Problem" field that bureaucracy generates.

Same thing happens in pretty much any large gathering of people: "I only signed off on blah, nobody told me foo and bar would happen". "We only did foo because someone signed off on blah, we had approval it's not our fault". And round and round we go pointing fingers at each other rather than improving the world for anyone.
For those interested, this is a previously streamed speaking event in the CHAZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7nDkd3V2V0
All scraper job sites have low quality inventory eg indeed.

Last time I was looking I used those sites to fil the quota for job applications per day that receiving JSA (social security) requires in the UK - whilst putting the real effort in to the 2-3 decent possibilities a week I found.
Wow you are really smart! What an insightful reference. See ya in home room
Interesting story, but the clickbait headline is not needed here. Story ends with:

> At the end of everything, Pepsi’s total combined losses, between physical, legal, and brand equity costs, would top $20M. Their market share would plummet and take years to rebound.

The "$32 billion" seems to come from the amount of bottles who would win the prize, but Pepsi didn't actually pay out the promised amount, so it didn't cost them $32 billion in the end.
That's the opposite of my experience but I'm assuming it's just more used where I'm from. I've gotten 3/3 of my job positions in these past 4 years by recruiters finding me instead of me looking for them. And I was a junior then. I still get contacts and offers in messages and get a connection request or two on the daily by HR people.
Why would I necessarily assume my end-to-end encrypted calls with a trusted party are being surveilled?
Nvidia has always had super high quality Linux drivers. It’s their lack of desire to open source pieces of them to make them work better with desktop Linux that is the issue. I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of Nvidia GPUs used on Linux don’t have a screen connected to them, so supporting wayland isn’t really a priority.
Same here! That is a digital lending system like every other public-library does it...
As an intruder?
Probably an automated tool. Sometimes I even get the "Hey |REAL_NAME|," ones..

Worst thing, these recruiter emails rarely have an unsubscribe link or some sort of opt-out. I don't have a LinkedIn but I once accidentally set my email public on GitHub for a month or so, now every once in a while I get those kind of emails. I'm sure it's been scraped and added to some database/spreadsheet somewhere.
Yeah, that’s why I basically use it as an online CV host and little else. I din’t think I’ve ever read a post that was shared on linkedin, and rarely ever bothered reading any of the news/notifications/updates.
Its not a list of demands if it's ridiculous and can't be realistically filled. At that point its just a list of wishes.
Whoa, you have very inflated view of how much an author makes. I follow Myke Cole on Twitter his tag line is:

9 fantasy novels, 1 sci-fi novel, 2 history books, 2 TV shows, 1 comic series, 1 day job, 0 sleep

The guy has published 12 books and STILL needs a day job.
No reason to stay so isolated now that covid testing is widely available. Get tested, have your friends get tested, hang out, be human.
I can’t help but think a car would have been a better delivery mechanism but then Google wouldn’t get much press from it. Doing “good things” just for better optics really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
The thing that stuck me is that this person never seems to admit that his acts were wrong. He gets internet access taken away in prison and then figures out a scheme to work around it, then he blames the work-around for additional punishment. I will say that the punishments did not fit the crime, but this person sort of doubled down by working around the system. Did this person do anything to help or improve himself? That is where I find a lack of empathy. And that isn't a 'complaint', just saying how I feel.
> How does this follow "logically"? This is just an opinion.

On the basis that there is no justification for "punishment" or "vengeance" based on responsibility if there was no choice. We still need a legal system because events still happen that causes harm and that needs to be resolved, but if we acknowledge people have no agency, then there is no justification for assigning blame, but still a need to e.g. prevent reoccurrence. But when we take steps to protect society against people we recognize are blameless or without agency today, such as e.g. mentally ill people or children, we aim to pick the least invasive means possible, because we recognize it is not meant to be a punishment.

> In the end of the day if _everyone_ had no free will, legal systems are besides the question - we would busy ourselves in figuring out whether someone is going to commit a crime before it is committed, and would be capable of doing so highly reliably with enough technological advancement. Some war criminals today think they can already do that, killing innocent children by familial association to terrorists.

No, this does not follow for two reasons: 1) Sheer systems complexity. E.g. we still can't reliably predict the weather, and the weather is far simpler to predict because of 2: 2) it devolves trivially to the halting problem, in that actions can and would change depending on our actions to try to prevent crime, because people, deterministic or not, act on input from the environment in extremely complex manners.

As such it is wildly unreasonable to think that we can remove crime. Reduce it, sure. We know many ways of doing that: Redistribution for example; poverty is a massive driver of crime. Education; low education is a massive driver of crime. And so on. But nothing we do will remove the need for a legal system at any point in the near future.

Your war criminal example is an example of #2 above: how response feeds back into actions, and part of why trying to resolve this issue will remain largely as difficult.

But it would be easier, as harsh punishment-focused legal systems are a massive driver of high reoffending rates.
I'd do the same if I wasn't concerned about Android privacy. My pi-hole is blocking literally 10x as much phoning home stuff on the Android device I've got vs iPhone. And that is with the iPhone having way more crap installed on it.

Literally phoning home every 2 mins:

https://i.imgur.com/VJH8Yqa.png
I feel the almost same about LinkedIn as Facebook: I have privacy concerns and concerns about wasting my own attention/time on those sites. My compromise is to keep my accounts but to spend less than 15 minutes per month on each site.
We're all learning in the past few years how quickly institutions can fail when you have bad faith actors at the highest levels. In this case he can do a great deal of damage simply by openly being against environmental causes, because it sends a message that the laws will not be enforced, even before he started actually dismantling the laws.
what did you read wind energy handbook for?