skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People in this thread are seriously underestimating the competence of the authorities in dealing with financial crimes.

Any stats/evidence to backup your claim?
Yes, I’m sure the viral marketing for…a film SLR…that was introduced in 2004…is absolutely priceless.
Aurora design system, by the Government of Canada
And dude's camera got recalled:

"Taking a look at the serial number of my camera which is 35955 and comparing it to an F6 sold new in 2015 bearing the number 34875 I’d conclude that least 1080 units have been sold since then (approximately 270 cameras per year)."

"In fact, only 152 units are impacted… so few that Nikon actually lists every affected serial number in the recall notice:

0035842, ..., 0035955, ..."
The recommendations on YouTube are endemic of Google's general design problem as of late.

They appear to "go by the numbers" and effectively bucket all users together.

So children, who almost all use YouTube and want to watch the same content repeatedly, get categorized the same as say, me.

Then they look for the largest patterns without discriminating or partitioning and just cater to that.

So for search, they'll ignore the focused queries and just return general results. They place amateur and sophisticated computer users in the same giant bag.

This is why the order of the tabs on search (web/products/images/videos) just dance around and are totally inconsistent.

It's also why they axe projects and strip features, replacing them with effectively the bubbly hazy shoppingmall version of the feature.

Image sizes no longer have numbers in the toolbar. It's some amorphous icon, medium, and large.

It doesn't even serve the ends they are looking for. If I was really unsophisticated, I'd look for an "icon" and then be frustrated because, say Apple, requires 1024x1024 icons, which I will absolutely not get with the "icon" size filter. So not only are we worse off, but the newer way doesn't even service the demographic they're targeting.

Another example, same pattern: Recently all my android devices seem to have a much smaller dictionary on their gboard keyboard. Less common words are impossible to swype and perfectly valid, correctly spelled words are getting the red squiggly underneath them because apparently, using an uncommon word must have been an error. Almost every day I'm pulling up a dictionary to make sure I'm not making a mistake.

I call this "design by dictator" syndrome: some person or group (called the design group) is given unlimited unilateral authority over all aspects of a product. It's the opposite extreme of "design by committee". Nobody else can question or change things.

When nobody is allowed to say "that idea is stupid" then you end up getting stuff with lots of stupid ideas. There's a reason why the one word critical means "very important", "detailed", and "judgmental". Uncountable empires have fallen when it is ignored.

Back in the 90s/early 2000s when I did windows development, Microsoft was really quite good at bucketing users. There were "channels of usage" available which facilitated many kinds of needs and many kinds of users.

By ignoring the variation of sentiment, Google has lost its magic and in their quest to please everyone while assuming everyone is fundamentally the same, they end up leaving the majority minority dissatisfied.
Learning Rust: Let's Build a Parser
I think I'm going to disagree with this. I've seen lots of these systems foisted upon employees and the general result is people either try to game the system or else people feel forced into participating when they don't wish to. Praise ought to be both spontaneous and merited or else it loses a bit of its appeal in my opinion.

Thanks to this article (which I didn't even read), I was inspired to write something heartfelt to my own manager about another person on my team. No system would have pried that from me. I just needed a subtle reminder.
My father recently had an issue getting into his Southwest Airlines account so he called customer service. All he had to do was give them the email address attached to the account, and they read off a temporary password that he entered to get logged in.

As far as I’m aware they didn’t even make him create a new one and he thought everything was totally fine.

It was the moment where I realized I want nothing to do with IT Management/Security in the future and am actively working to distance myself from that aspect.
LOVE zulip!
Covid-19 Testing Is a Holy Mess in Houston
How to create a racial demographic dot-density map
So, if I'm in the EU can I GDPR my repo out of their vault?
"Why are we not funding these sectors when they are so essential to the functioning of our society? Where is the existing funding going, specifically whose pockets does it wind up in?"

Because there is no capitalist imperative to keep people alive. If investors and landowners can't make any money producing food, then no food will be produced beyond that which is needed to feed the investors and landowners.
> Well, there's always 4chan, which is exactly what you just said.

I disagree. 4chan isn’t Twitter without visible voting, it also has anonymity baked in, you can’t register an account, and old threads are automatically deleted.

A more apt example of (my understanding of) the argument you’re replying to is HN: you can see your own points on a discussion, but not anyone else’s. Posts are given more prominence due to their score, but due to their invisibility you only get a rough idea of how popular they are inside their own discussion, not how much more popular they are in relation to other posts.
So you're saying insider trading is a well understood and highly prosecuted crime? I'd love to believe that, but I'm wildly skeptical that financial crimes (including insider trading) aren't incredibly pervasive in our society. In fact, I'd bet good money the overwhelming majority of people get away with it - of course there's no way to prove that because nobody wants to fess up to a crime they got away with.
> the underestimation of how advanced and pervasive insider trading / market manipulation surveillance is.

Can you please explain to us how all-knowing and how all-powerful the SEC / gov is?

Given the SEC only has a staff of 4600 employees?

How advanced and how pervasive are their technologies?

Any examples?
I take it you haven't spent much time on wallstreetbets.
The D compiler has a switch where you can select the compiler implementation itself to use the GC or manual. This gives options when compiling very large projects (the compiler allows an entire project to be compiled at once, giving the benefits of total program optimization without needing involvement from the linker, this of course uses prodigious amounts of memory).
> I’ve used PyCharm a little bit but I don’t think it’s that much better than what’s available in vscode.

I have a hard time fathoming the kind of python development you would be doing that would lead you to say such a thing. Let's just take the built-in library, nothing fancy, no type signature checking required:

import re
re.search(r'[A', 'oops')

Using the VS Code 1.47.1 with ms-python.python v2020.6.91350, mypy, and their preview ms-python.vscode-python v2020.7.2 ("pylance") installed, it says nothing about that snippet

I hear a lot of "oh, I run linters, I don't need an IDE" but my experience with linters is that they are great at enforcing line length constraints but are useless for finding logic errors -- the primary purpose of using an IDE
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PagerDuty is generally pretty good, but I haven't used VictorOps or OpsGenie so I can't compare.
Microsoft Chatbot Xiaoice Gain Independence as a New Company Led by Harry Shum
I'm incredibly disappointed this was the top comment.
Instead of asking whatever it is you want to know in an optimistic way, you just threw a random comment that with decent chance just makes the OP feel worse.

For starters, a really simple question you could have asked that may update your belief of how weird it is they got into YC: "How much money are they making and how much are they growing per week?"
What's the reason, then, that anyone with the capital to do so (again, e.g. Apple) doesn't just build a RAM fab, to both get cheap RAM for themselves, and join the cabal selling marked-up RAM to others?

Seems like RAM manufacturing is like building a casino: expensive to do, but basically a sure bet.
gitlab, metabase, graylog, TICK (telegraf, influxdb, chronograf, kapacitor)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carry%20out

Verbal sense 1/2:

> to bring to a successful issue : complete, accomplish

> carried out the assignment

> to put into execution

> carry out a plan
Police is the HR of the state: they protect the state from the citizens.
To the best of my knowledge: with (non-volatile) NAND; 1ms response times vs (volatile) DRAM; 1ns response times... For context; there's 1 million ns in 1 ms. They're in completely different leagues in terms of speed and they're used for very different applications.

While both benefit greatly from economy of scale; the manufacturing tolerances, equipment, etc etc used influences pricing; but I'm not an engineer... so maybe someone here can chime in on that :)
I would absolutely love to see something like this combined with a live video filter to make actual eye contact during video chat possible.
Very clever.

And 270 film SLRs per year sounds perfectly reasonable.
Interesting, I hadn't thought about it that way. I always prefer a month or two trial run before I commit to joining a company for the long term. I just can't tell enough in a few hours of interviewing whether I'll enjoy working with the people or not. And also you rarely get to meet all your future co-workers in the interview. But then, this has always worked out well for me. I could see it being worse and/or disruptive if it led to a situation of doing one or two month contracts for a really long time.
Tell that to hundreds of thousands of Indian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Philippino, Taiwanese, etc immigrants that work here in the tech industry.

I am a little bit speechless at all this vile of anti-US propaganda. It is insane.
Ugh - I want to scream whenever I hear some idiot spout "the science is settled!" - there's so much wrong with that statement it would be less painful if my head literally exploded.
The Rust ecosystem typically has much more conservative version numbers than other ecosystems though, and higher quality standards. There are several very high quality crates with 0.x version numbers.
Thats what the implementation is today. the larger idea/problem is e-commerce optimization which is a big problem worth taking a bet on.
Inelastic demand and cartel behavior. People require jobs to survive; survival is an inelastic good; businesses know this; they work together to suppress wages to as close to subsistence level as possible.
Yup! The LFs can also actually be correlated- just not too correlated (roughly, think of needing at least three mostly uncorrelated cliques, to be precise).

Part of the high level description, though, is that a lot of different parts and lines of work are integrated into Snorkel Flow beyond just this original programmatic labeling idea. So also programmatic operators for data augmentation, "slicing" or partitioning of data, and the overall end-to-end platform (UI + SDK) supporting iterative development of ML models via this paradigm of programmatic training data.
Also, no downvoting. Just discussions. On Reddit they use downvotes as a way to disagree
> iOS market share is less than 15%

iOS has 25% share worldwide. And in the USA, where most customers will be for most startups, it has 58% market share.
I suppose that might be an option, but in my experience people are highly unlikely to grant a site permission to their camera if they aren't using it as part of a conference call.

But I do agree if you have some A/B testing, that the users are doing it as a part of a study, it might be usable.
I think the parent was referring to the Slashdot effect of knocking small websites offline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
This is dope. As close as one can be to the money, niched down and in a growing market. Good job! Keep us updated =D
Rowhammer can be eliminated through RAM encryption, e.g. (Transparent) Secure Memory Encryption in Ryzen processors.
Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state
Of the commercial options, I used to use Navicat. Then moved on to DataGrip by Jetbrains.

Of the open/free options, I like DBeaver.
I disagree. It's not about her ignoring her obligation for doing her schoolwork, it's about her not following the court's order.
Law may be harsh and fair in the same time. Being ordered to do her homework was a weak sanction, she ignored it, so she needs a stronger stimulus. So law isn't dumb, it's just consistent.
Agreed. There are people in jail at this very moment, not because they were convicted of a crime, but because they couldn’t pay bail to get out.
Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
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Further, these three countries are completely different, culturally and ethnically. Germany invading and occupying Austria might work - there isn't a great deal of difference between their people. But Russia, US and China are poles apart. Especially China
> `as` is not considered idiomatic in Rust code

Yes it is. It's used all the time. There's a reason as_conversions defaults to Allow in clippy.

Of course, there are lots of situations where `as` is the wrong tool for the job, but I think it's a bit of a stretch to call `as` "not idiomatic". It's perfectly idiomatic in lots of situations.

Whether or not it should be idiomatic is a separate question.
I think for those it’s best to subscribe to the RSS feed of the channel. Feed readers are great for infrequently updated content!
I was talking about iPhone users. They have no alternative to the apple app store.
did anyone else do a double take and think the name was Jira?
The problem is that the article tries to mix two very different concepts: working remote and working outside of the Bay Area. And makes it look that you can either work onsite in the bay or remote outside the bay.

And most of the point the author gives are about how onsite work is better than remote work.

If you agree with his views, there still is an elephant in the room : hundreds of companies will hire you for onsite work outside of the Bay Area. And you can get a great career there.

So by all means: move to Denver if you want to go there. The bay is not the only place on earth you can get a great career, interesting jobs and meet great people.
It's ranking countries by an opaque "power index" (sorry, "PwrIndx", because vowels cost more or something?), and there is no description of what this entails other than "over 50 individual factors". The only thing I could find to drill down on contains effectively a bare listing of things such as army size, population size, number of tanks, oil reserves, etc.--which emphasizes quantity over quality.

So you might understand why my trust in those numbers to mean anything is rather lacking.
To me this whole report basically translates to "Someone did a nmap/nessus scan of some IPs and some people received phishing e-mails". And I really hope we won't ever have an actual real war over some Citrix admins not updating their internet facing systems and some employees clicking some spam e-mail...
> This is a more general and larger problem where society is constantly bending over backwards to cater to the 2% lowest performers.

As your parent said, it's not 2%, it's more like everyone. No one is perfect all the time.

More importantly, it's one thing when hiring, but are you seriously suggesting 2% of the population shouldn't be able to use Twitter or online banking or other online services? 140,000,000 people should effectively face social death because you can't be fucked to help them?

This is backwards, we should be sacrificing profits and convenience to be more inclusive.
FWIW Rust has a zulip, I'm on it, it's the only community I'm part of on zulip.

It's mostly frequented by the infrastructure teams. :)

Apparently the compiler team is also >primarily< there: https://rust-lang.github.io/compiler-team/about/chat-platfor...
Banks and trading firms have substantial compliance departments that do a lot of the leg work.
Encouraging the adoption of democracy is never a true goal to any geopolitical decision. It's only used to deflect criticism from naysayers. The US has used the same justification to bomb nations and install fascist dictators. "You oppose going to war with Iraq? So you hate democracy then?"
> It's not some crazy utopian hypothetical, it's literally how most dense cities already work.

In which large city is private car ownership prohibited?
That’s a very interesting idea. Is that how the stackexchange/stackoverflow/etc sites operate? They seem siloed but I don’t have much experience with them.

I also saw an interesting point here recently that the reason Instagram seems to be better than FB/Twitter is that there’s no built in way to signal boost with shares or retweets. And really, you can’t even have hyperlinks. Would that be a consideration?
That’s a big achievement to be honest, so who cares about the word they happened to use there. Takes a lot of focus and work to be that good at strategic games like League, Dota, or Starcraft.

Edit: Actually I think optimize is appropriate in that context too. To be that good, you have to min/max every game mechanic you can.
Take a look at the partners named at the bottom. From GitHub's perspective, this is in part a PR stunt. But the Internet Archive, and Software Heritage, are quite serious. The people in those organizations are there for the mission, and if they're in on this project it's because someone there believes it matters to their mission.

You're free not to care about what situation humans might be in in a thousand years or what they might need then. I can't say I spend any effort day to day working with that distant future in mind myself. But I'm glad there are people in our civilization who do.
The Wikipedia page history section [0] talks about stability. The most relevant part is this:

> The release of Andrei Alexandrescu's book The D Programming Language on June 12, 2010, marked the stabilization of D2, which today is commonly referred to as just "D".

In other words, D is backwards compatible for 10 years now. At least, I don't know any breaks and the little code I have in D never broke.

The transition from D1 to D2 did break backwards compatibility in 2007. The change is comparable to the Python2 to Python3 transition but in a much smaller community. Outdated news from that time still pop up sometimes. Maybe you heard something related to that?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)#Histo...
> but we like pfSense for the router/firewall part.

Thank you very much!

> FreeBSD's wireless support has been horrible every time I've tried it compared to the same hardware running a Linux-based platform.

That’s why Netgate and the FreeBSD foundation are employing bz@ full-time to work on the 802.11 stack. FF for mostly intel client 802.11ac support, Netgate for the AP side, starting with Atheros, because Intel 802.11 parts are somewhat crippled here prior to 802.11ax.

I know Adrian, and I like Adrian, but his mention of bz@‘s efforts seems dismissive to me.
Only disappointed that the new badge does not show the 2 open source projects I contributed to in the last 10 years of my work for open source :( They are not super big, but also not super small.

Seems organisation work is ignored and only individual username fork/PRs respected (is this a bug?). Software is teamwork ;)

I mean awesome-react, tldr-pages or homebrew-cask are probably not unimportant but that's not where I contributed most to.
You think the government is that efficient (or cares)?
This is like pitching feature requests during a sev-1 call. It’s an election year (nothing will be done on this), there’s a raging pandemic (nothing will be done on this). I know we’ve all interviewed for other places while still employed but damn I usually do it with less gusto and publicity.
Flynn told FBI he didn't discuss specific sanctions in phone calls to a specific person. He did.
Primary source, the phone transcripts, available for all to read: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05-...

What am I missing?
The company I work at has this culture. Feedback is valued greatly, not just at review time, but regularly. I've had people who report to me tell me that they think I was wrong or that they would like me to do things differently, and vice versa. The trick is to build trust and understand that when something's negative, it's from a place of care, not malice. We all want each other to grow, to get better and to keep being great in areas that don't need any work. It sounds cheesy, but it's true.

Hands down the best company I've worked for and I hope that other companies can do the same. It is indeed refreshing to be able to hear/say "Hey, you know, actually there is a much better/nicer/less stupid/more efficient way to do what you are doing" and be sure that it's not going to be taken badly.
> I would probably go for that if I carried cash much - but I pretty much just use cards now.

i don't use it for cash, either. but it's extremely thin and is comfortable in the jeans front mini-pocket. much lower profile and no cheap plastic compared to their standard keychain knife:

https://www.rei.com/product/403028/swiss-army-classic-knife

the clip portion of it goes high enough on the frame where you could use it as a pocket clip, with ~0.3" protruding upwards.
Your post comes across as needlessly biased, pejoratively modernist, and ignorant.

> Books from fifty years ago are difficult to read now, mostly due to a blatant sexism.

Fifty years ago was 1970. I don't think anyone has a problem reading Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret, Johnathan Livingston Seagull, or Ringworld due to blatant sexism.

"Finis" is a short story and was first published over 100 years ago.

> An example from the first page of this text: “Probably she had brains...”

"Probably she had brains..." is not evidence of sexism. It's not even evidence of a bias that people generally don't have brains, much less women. It's literally a character's (Eastwood's) conclusion based on observation of another character's (Mrs. Davis') behaviors and habits. Eastwood doesn't show surprise that a woman could be smart. He doesn't deny that she is smart in spite of the evidence. And even if he had done so, a character being sexist wouldn't ipso facto make the work as a whole sexist.
More advanced structured prediction tasks are still definitely on the cutting edge- mainly IMO down to defining the semantics of the programmatic user input like labeling functions for these kinds of tasks. Some recent work (http://cs.brown.edu/people/sbach/files/safranchik-aaai20.pdf) has extended these semantics for sequence tagging, as an example- so some exciting moves in this direction!
"Plenty" of distinct being Samsung, Micron and Hynix.

They are not necessarily price fixing illegally. It's just that they all keep their production and capacity expansions closely in check to not ever let prices down.

That and in rare cases when prices are down due to unexpected decline in shipments they're all very swift to shift wafers to produce something else. Feel free to dig DRAMeXchange reports for for details.
Yes this. I was thing same. It would have more real and more people would have fall for this.

Even media could have fall.

Than they can come with Jeff Bezos yes I'm donating too. It would have more real.
And sleep. Since I made a real effort to re-establish regular sleeping patterns of sufficient length (sadly I need a full 8 hours) the diet and exercise thing also got a lot easier to whip into shape too.
CJEU Invalidates “Privacy Shield” in US Surveillance Case
TBF the benefit is to their entire business.