skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately, I've been having thoughts about this a lot. I've yearned for a simpler age in technology. I grew up on the internet around 96/97ish, mostly because I wanted to play games over dial-up. In those formative years, I forged a lifelong fascination with wanting to know how all (most? some?) of this worked.

Things have changed a lot for me personally and for technology. In general, I feel my enthusiasm has dwindled somewhat in the way tech's role has played out in society. In my opinion the big "Web 2.0" and social rush was more about bending the Internet to the wills of private enterprise rather then private enterprise bending to the wills of the Internet. Or maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon now, a salty junior level graybeard.

I do have hope, though. It's probably that my youthful enthusiasm has given way to cautious optimism.
What machine is this being hosted now? Is it the same Solaris machine?
That's fair from one use, but the other, way more common in Go, is the whole "I'm going to return either an object OR an error". There's no common interface between the two, it's a distinct two options. Because go has no native support for sum types you get all this nonsense where every function returns a tuple of an object and an error, with the implicit assumption (not at all checked by the compiler) is that if the error is nil, then the object is valid. It's awful
Timestamps are usually enough to infer end users, even on much larger data sets. (Researchers used the Twitter firehose to deanonymize a large dataset a few years ago).
> What does society look like when the ongoing cost of labor nears 0 and so requires minimal human participation.

Honest question: do you believe that we are anywhere close? And does that belief depend on an AI singularity?
It's absolutely catching on with younger developers who don't want to bother using multiple languages. Anecdotally, like 100% of developers in their 20s at my company push hard for JS.
Why do people always look at "shootings". The black experience with police extends to all interactions from fining, arresting, charging, overcharging, railroading all the way up to killings. That's like having a quality metric that ONLY considers times when production had to be shutdown, and never when people couldn't login, when transactions were lost, and when people got someone else's shopping cart's contents in theirs.
This reminds me of the book "Slack" by Tom DeMarco (2001):

https://wiki.c2.com/?SlackByTomDeMarco

Adding a little bit of redundancy into a system is better for the overall performance of that system. However redundancy costs money so it is important to strike the right balance between slack and efficiency.
You have to be a bit careful with the CLFLUSH method. I tried to use it in a widely used program years ago because Intel recommended it, but we found that it just hangs the CPU on some older VIA/Centaur CPUs. Presumably that's fixed these days, but the old CPUs are likely still around.
> That $80k American is at a higher chance of leaving for opportunities domestically.

From anecdotal experience, turnover is much higher in India. Changing jobs every 2 years seems to be the standard way of advancing your career and getting a good raise.
Given:

1) how broadly Google spreads its money to open source projects to get its products set as defaults

2) that Redhat is a private company who does not disclose their funding sources

I think it's a perfectly reasonable question, given the situation (Google product set as a default in an open source project).
When you have a ton of money and you aren't super Technically savy, you don't always make the right decisions.
In the general sense, I think you’re right that part of it is US employees getting unhappy that jobs are moving elsewhere because they’re cheaper. From a moral standpoint there’s not much wrong about giving people in other countries a better life. (There are probably some arguments about supporting the country that gave you the necessary infrastructure to succeed in the first place?)

That said, I think the debates mostly come from the amount of times this has gone very poorly in the past. CEOs who come in to cut costs are often CEOs who aim to replace their top of the line US employees with not top of the line Indian employees but bulk middling/bad Indian employees. And for the US employees who remain this makes working with their code awful and slowly drains the company into a mess that people then have to deal with when inevitably things get bad enough to bring everyone back on shore.

When I’ve worked at companies who pay the money for good Indian employees, they’ve been reasonable to great to work with. But that’s rarely been how offshoring has worked out in my experience.
This is too 2018
John Lewis (large UK retailer) just announced the same yesterday: https://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/media/press/y2020/jlp...

I wonder are we going through a similar phase that happened mid-2000s when outsourcing became very much the preferred delivery model. Then user-centered design and agile pulled it back onshore.
The question was posed, "What bad does someone expect to happen as a result of this[?]". So I'm putting on my least-charitable-to-Google hat. I'm not trying to make the most accurate predictions.

> They specifically claim not to though

That additional vector for monetization still exists. I stand by the statement that the ability to make those ad-relevant associations enriches Google. They are not necessarily monetizing that part of their empire right now, but they've pivoted other products in the past from "we're just trying to improve the Internet for it's own sake" to "we use this for advertising".

Privacy policies change all the time, often with little warning. There'll be a post here on HN if it happens and a bunch more techie folks will switch their DNS to 1.1.1.1 or something, but lots of people will just stick with 8.8.8.8, many of them unknowingly. Perhaps unknowingly because the Google address has become so common that FOSS projects are using it as a default.
Well, you're in for a shock. Fact is Indian employees (working in the main cities in tech companies) are paid more than European employees (besides London and Switzerland). Companies should be outsourcing to Europe, not to India.

I've seen that consistently across companies in the past decade. Europe salaries have been stagnating while India and China can be growing 10% a year. The gap, assuming there was one 20 years ago, didn't last long.
We spend tax money to make the nation worse all the time already, why does it matter now when it’s for helping out poor people?
Not so - you need evidence backed suspicion of a serious crime in the eu jurisdictions I know of. And even then it needs to be narrowly targeted to individuals.
C++ is faster (due to inlining and templates).
Hey. I applied to a .NET position and never heard back...
> Can it be addressed with, say, liability insurance premiums (and is it already)?

if it's priced in already, I would guess that it's in a way that doesn't really discourage driving heavy vehicles. if you get in a collision in your SUV but you're not at fault, the people in the other vehicle are more likely to have serious injuries but your insurance doesn't have to pay for it. if anything, the risk is probably distributed across everyone's premiums, unless SUV drivers are more likely to be at fault for some reason.

frankly I'm not sure how best to deal with it. there are a lot of people who would do just fine with a small sedan but are unwilling to drive one because they (correctly) perceive it as less safe. this is of course a negative feedback loop where the average vehicle gets heavier and the incentive to buy a heavy vehicle for yourself increases.

perhaps there could be an additional tax for vehicles over a certain weight with an exemption for people who genuinely need it for work or have a large enough household to justify it.
It is a hilarious excuse for DDG to claim they are doing this for a favicon. Even if DDG is legitimately not using the data they are definitely collecting the data.

The problem with that is that it requires users to "trust" DDG, which is not how the world works today. If you are a company that collects info, and you expect users to trust that the info will remain safe, secure, and never get misuse that is downright foolish for anyone to believe a word of that.

We all know that DDG cannot claim it's impossible for them to get hacked and have all that data leak out. Hacks happen all the time and so the solution for DDG is to simply NOT collect the data, rather than collect and claim it's all secure.

And we all also know DDG has (or will) get a NSL (National Security Letter) from the NSA to secretly turn over the data anyway, and when that does happen the DDG employees are not even allowed to admit it ever happened.
I recently found out that Barr Sr wrote a ‘SiFi’ book with the theme of sex slavery among space aliens. The book apparently starts with sexual assault on a minor. That this same man ran a private school simply does not compute for this middle class person unless Kubrick’s last work was not fiction:

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/william-b...
What are you comparing it to and would prefer?
Her brothers aren't much better.
Interesting that auteur theory is being applied to the morality of the production of film - usually it's just for artistic content. In much the same way that it's not fair(?) to attribute the artisitic merits of a finished film which is touched by hundreds of people to a single person, there must have been dozens of people directly enabling or contributing to Khrzhanovsky's abusive behaviour.

This is quite the list of participants of the film (from Wikipedia):
European Cinema Support Fund Eurimages; Arte France Cinema, Société Parisienne de Production; WDR/Arte, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Essential Filmproduktion; Swedish Film Institute, Film I Väst, Plattform Production; Hubert Bals Fund, AG Interfilm B.V.

I wonder how a young inexperienced director was able to access such backing with apparently so little oversight.
This reminds me of a quote from my international econ class in college: "You can take our tomatoes, or our workers. It's up to you to pick which you want" - Mexico to US
Because the privacy concerning aspects are literally irrelevant.

These are set for testing/development purposes. For which the priorities are availability/reliability/speed. For those criteria, Google/Cloudflare are empirically the best worldwide.

This literally is used for test-resolving that at best probably would identify a systemd-dev. Everyone else shouldn't care because it's overwritten by distro maintainers.
Been poorly worded doesn't make the question bad. Your example makes the exact same assumptions.

And they're fair assumptions - Google is well known for giving funding to open source projects to get their products set as defaults.
Transparency should be an important step, often time the body cameras were not on or the videos were lost. There also seems a lot of cops covering their mistakes so more transparency and fairness could help with trust.
Mostly private courses and experience built up over the years driven by the need to use and train on it for journalists and activists at risk.

On a few, thankfully limited occasions I've had to use it in relation to myself where a real threat existed but rarely enough. Mostly when I've had to use it personally it was to ensure I wasn't risking anyone I was meeting or if I wasn't sure if they might be a deliberate/accidental security threat.

We teach it on some of the source protection training courses with do with journos/NGOs. Also we write some basic stuff about it in our open source app, Umbrella. Some activists are threatened by actors ranging from kidnap to ISIS, from corporate to government intelligence, from crime to stalkers. So it's very useful for helping people identify a wide range of threats early.

Also just generally for getting peoples heads up out of their phones and off the ground and taking in more alertness of their surroundings - the sort of Coopers Colour Code style thinking.
Yeah that also caught my eye, it was a very nice touch :)
> This is provably false. It only went to people who filed taxes in 2019 and who met the qualifications.

The stimulus check will be part of your 2020 tax return, and you will claim the money as a refund then if you have not already received your money. Any money incorrectly paid out will likewise be reclaimed via that process.
Yes. “Site map” links in the footer of business or government sites are much less common than they used to be, and those that are still there are regularly just an auto-generated list of URLs or of links with their page names, which in most cases is atrocious. The idea of it was that it present structure, and be curated.

For most sites, I’d say the near-ubiquitous mega footer pattern has supplanted the site map.
Are there any Estonians here on HN who would be willing to chat a bit about digital identities in your country? I'm working on bringing e-ID to more people (https://getpass.app/) and looking to get a better understanding of current solutions.

Feel free to reach out, my email is fabian (at) flapplabs.se
East European country => Poland, Ukraine or which country?
Looks like an HR CRUD app.

Where does the AI come into play?

What does the product actually do? Something about playbooks?

If a person thinks giving me an app to sign up for fitness classes is going to stop me from hating my job, they’re naive.

But I can’t tell what Leon actually does, so maybe it’s giving out pay, benefits, and time off.
Contraceptive – Never miss the pill again
I do:

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

on my own servers to stop things from fiddling around with it.
Sorry, it is hard for me to untangle all this. Some of this money is authorized by CARES, and some is independent action. We are already at a trillion dollars to the largest companies now when you combine CARES and the fed's commitment to debt purchase.

In June they just committed to deploying an additional $250 billion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-will-amass-corporate-bond-p...

Add this to the existing billions of debt already purchased and we could easily be at half a trillion dollars of independent fed action to buy corporate debt in a short time frame.

The CARES act also reduced corporate taxes by 210 billion. So There is at least half a trillion dollars not mentioned in articles like the one from NPR.

The CARES act separately authorized 500 billion just to the largest corporations in America. Some of the additional hundreds of billions deployed to "small" businesses is really to large companies as well.

It would be great to get a detailed breakdown of what the fed is doing, I am certainly not doing it justice in my description.
Depending on the situation, the Fed could take on government securities from banks so that the banks may extend more credit to private lendees (mostly companies) without running too low on required reserves. This balance sheet may not reflect what other agreements are attached to the treasury assets in holding.
Just a friendly reminder that this isn't normal and that you are responsible for helping to shape the kind of society that you want to live in.
how/why did this fall off the first page after barely an hour?
Well yeh, that particular idea is not worth it. It's ridiculous. On the other hand in the UK I know people who make huge amounts of tax free money and when they get caught (usually after 5-10 years) they go to prison for a year or two. Not so bad.
GitHub Sponsors and OSS Sustainability... are broken (2019)
Accept the facts. It's not an emotional issue, you just made it one.
It's one of a few plays Uber still has before going bankrupt. It typically a sign of a final phase of any SV company. All current Uber engineers should try to move on while they still can.
> The idea that corporations are receiving “trillions” in cash payments is a myth.

Some were more clever in how they got the money:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Ygl2DiUdQ
Video game industry?
I absolutely agree, the government can certainly have other goals other than making good investments.

But don't muddy the waters by saying that they are making money on the program if they're giving below market loans. They might have good reasons to do it, but they're not making money on the deal.
You can use annotations without reflections, you just need another build step, take a look at Micronaut [1], it really looks like Spring Boot but makes all annotation processing in compile time. Because of that it also supports GraalVM as first class

[1] http://micronaut.io/
Vendia’s founders aim to leverage serverless and blockchain to solve data sprawl
If your browser is Firefox, then it encrypts your history before sending it to the vendor.
What to Say When You Get 5 Minutes with a Billionaire
SoftBank Looking to End Partnership with Wirecard After $2.1B Went Missing
There was an obsession for a while with advanced Flash websites to design interfaces that extensive and complication transitions and loading screens. Best example being "2advanced".
Many bridges have collapsed in Italy recently. So, yeah, they do not always last hundred years...
What fraction are retirees who have rolled over their 401k into an IRA?
The only factor here that matters is development/testing.

Drama is irrelevant and wouldn't change anything. At worst, he gets his issue tracker filled. If it bothers you, then the only thing that you can do is change to Devuan or don't use systemd-networkd/systemd-resolved. Distros are going to continue using systemd irrespective of this nonsense drama.
This is very cool. While I do not speak Korean, I can appreciate the part-of-speech tagging and the other features, as that's required in any NLP framework. I'm wondering, is there a way to generate a syntax tree using this framework? Just looking at the docs now.
yeah, full stop. I wouldn't lie when questioned about that either.
Exactly, there is vast amounts of evidence if one searches for it.
That depends. I work with great people in India, but they don't understand the US customers like I do, even though some have been with the company longer (this generalization is false in some cases, but overall it is true enough). As a result I can often make a good decision about some unclear requirement without asking for help, where they need to ask. Of course we are also trying to break into the India market and there it is the reverse, they understand the customer in India better than me.

We are now outsourcing development to Mexico, not only is it cheaper, but they are in similar timezones so if there is a question they can ask directly not send an email that they won't get a response to until the next day.
> n this paper, we describe several security flaws found in the ID card manufacturing process ..

Like accidentally on purpose,secure up to a point, but weak enough to allow the spooks to generate their own IDs. I mean if the cards were unhackable how would a spy do his job :]
The cool thing about debt is that you can make it go away by printing more money (which is exactly what the government does).

Ever wonder why homes cost so much? It's inflation caused by cheap debt and money printing.
They shouldn't be too cocky, all someone has to do is start a boycott campaign of companies still advertising on Facebook which might place pressure on those companies to drop off from Facebook. For these big companies, they might also be shocked if they notice no change in their sales after dropping off from Facebook.
How do you define "normal" ?
Your making a big assumption that criminal==stupid. Every single criminal has the exact human capacity of everyone else, the difference is in education. Check your privilege.
I'm kind of behind on systemd, can someone explain why it has DNS and NTP at all? Shouldn't it just use whatever the rest of the computer uses?
Bezos seems pretty happy to be shaping the kind of society where he sits alone on top of the greatest pile of wealth ever amassed by man.
Google discontinues the Pixel 3A and 3A XL [without a successor.. yet]
Can you explain to us how that's communism?
Our services can be tailored to your specific business needs from defining a
You say that, but I'm not so sure.

At some point where you live matters a lot. You can be rich, but if you can't get things shipped because the roads are bad, you can't get clean water, there are no local services around (haircut places, restaurants, tradespeople to fix your house), not to mention fun things to do, it looks worse.

I have this conversation with my friend Mike. I work and live in SF as a software engineer. He lives in Indiana and earns 8-10x what I do as a surgeon but I'm not sure he's actually better off. Especially considering there aren't great schools for him to send his kids to or interesting people to see in meetups.
>the conversation is always framed as a shortage of labor as opposed to a market unwilling to raise wages to attract qualified candidates.

I had sorta thought it was Microecon 101 that these two things are mathematically equivalent. If the labor market doesn't clear due to a "shortage", you're either in the immediate aftermath of a war, or you need to raise wages.
Handled perfectly would be "No, reference bug #X, closing" and closing/locking the thread. Question gets answered, nobody gets insulted.

Denigrating your community as the "script kiddie peanut gallery" is, at best going to piss off your community and at worse make them less likely to work with you in the future.
:( Stumbled upon this place on a visit to Seattle once and the joy on my face to sit down at an early IBM PC (XT or whatever) and code some BASIC in a wave of nostalgia was magic.
Unfortunately leadership want to grab into the most salient examples and purposely use raw language like “police brutality”. Not denying there is police brutality because there is, but pointing out the leadership themselves are pushing this angle, so how do you expect people to look at the finer points?

But I get it, it’s not sexy, it doesn’t draw headlines, it doesn’t draw middle class protesters.
No, sorry, an $80k salary would cost $94k for the employer in Germany.
once you figure out the best way, you _still_ have to sell it to stakeholders which are each optimizing for different things, some of which you probably don't even known, and that's when the politics kicks in.
stores forever every DNS request

That’s not what your link says.

The permanent logs are a sampling of the temporary logs
I agree in some sense.

But I have found that every code base needs some kind of way to write "temporary" code AKA code that needs to be refactored at least.

If you don't define a place (and time) for this then it will happen anyway. Just all over your code base: patches, fixes, workarounds, todos.

The clearer it is to distinguish temporary code the better: "Start just writing what works here and then gradually move pieces of it over there, while testing and refactoring it."

When your code and communication is setup like this, then you will naturally incorporate this process because it is both pragmatic and very visible to everyone.
> you should take it up with the FTC who would really enjoy making an example out of Google.

How do you prove it though? Google will not just give you the source code of their DNS infrastructure and even if they did there is no way to prove that it's indeed that code that is running and not a modified version that does collect data?
2020[reaping the results of years of mismanagement] is not the year for softbank.. always in the news, always for bad stuff..
Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?
Nobody will have self-driving taxi service in a couple of years, maybe not even in 20.
Also, ironically, go doesn't even do this - it fails compilation on the most useless and pedantic of errors - unused variables and imports. Despite the fact that it's common practice to comment out sections of code during development and debugging, which inevitably leads to unused variables/imports.