skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, throwing around "US Military bombing everyone" is a hyperbole seeded with deep prejudice and anti-US sentiments with no objective backing. The question raised was to show the absurdity of this argument.

There is a lot of shit wrong with America. But, seems like people are getting more nationalistic and throwing away logic, reasoning, objectivity, rationale and common sense - most importantly self introspection of tribalism that is going on these days.

Folks - the world is getting more inwards looking. Be careful if your psyche falls into the trap of nationalism. It will cloud your judgement and pretty much everything with it.

I am seeing this, frankly, a lot from our friends in EU. Authoritarian governments want the west to fragment and cause infighting amongst themselves. We must use facts, truth and integrity. Our democracies is at stake. It is unfortunately, not going to go well with this type of climate exasperated by Coronavirus travel restrictions.

We are heading to the wrong direction.
Yep or else none of this could happen. I work at a company that we need at least two methods to authenticate you to remove MFA through the admin console so this wouldn’t have happened.
Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
I asked this question a little over 3 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682949) and there was such a positive response that I figure it could use a rehash.

I'll go first. I think this tent is exceptional: https://hilleberg.com/eng/tent/yellow-label-tents/anjan-2/
Foreign Keys in a Versioned Database?
Show HN: Prevent failed login attempts on your Linux server
Yup, the laws around knife possession/self defense are much worse than many other things, at least in the US. As the OP mentioned running is a better choice and only if no options existed should you even consider it.

(not a lawyer)
>they will happily waste millions of dollars

Who is "they"? I don't think anyone but corrupt politicians and their cronies are happy about wasting millions of taxpayer dollars. Certainly not the taxpayers.
There's no bug bounty for "get an employee to reset an account for you."

"You can update the email address of any Twitter user, [...] without sending any kind of notification to the user" sounds like a bug, but if your repro starts with "get access to the internal dashboard" it'll get rejected out of hand.
Perhaps setting the atmosphere ablaze would have been an exceptional success? I remember someone telling me that this possibility was still being discussed before the Trinity test and, again, after thermonuclear bombs entered the arena. This seems to be a nice summary: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/chung1/
I've read this three times, and I confess I still don't understand what Excess-3 is or how it's encoded. While this isn't my area of expertise, I have a degree in computer science so one might reasonably assume this should be trivial to comprehend.

This seems to be a challenge for Wikipedia: certain types of technical and mathematical material are explained in terms that are esoteric enough ("pseudo-tetrade"?) that only the people who already understand them can follow the explanation.

Even something simple enough to be taught at middle-school level (e.g. Fibonacci sequence) becomes a page of dense mathematics on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Matrix_form

I wonder if this can ever be addressed with some form of adaptive content?
Huh—are these (presumably huge) areas guarded? Am I stupid for wondering what's to stop a group from making off with a plane?
Professionally : Leave IT asap, I'm fine with the "latest and greatest" leaving me behind, given all the time and freedom of a remote workday with no children or spouse to distract me, Id rather workout, watch tv, cook and read than implement yet another infrastructure automation tool. I cannot work remotely. I do not know what to do with myself professionally.

Personally : I lack life experiences, the Midwest is homogeneous and I need to upend my life the moment the world returns to normal. Planning life more than a few weeks at a time is very hard but not impossible. Two workouts a day puts me in a very happy place mentally. There is immeasurable value in community bonds, I lacked this for the first 25 years of my life and having found it recently I cant believe I never sought it out sooner.
But you can't make those trades anonymously. So everyone who even remotely profited from the stock movement gets put on the suspect list, and the FBI just went from needing to investigate literally anyone to maybe a few hundred people at most. The FBI is more than capable of going through a list like that and narrowing it down quickly.
The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson
The "small government" party also likes to push the fallacy that if it's private-sector work it must be efficient.

Now the government has been broken so thoroughly that it no longer has the capacity to actually audit the private-sector work it contracts out.
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If this existed for the Concorde, I'd get on it.
That's interesting. Why the difference?
Ice. Not to be confused with ICE.
Summer break in school.
I saw a Vox video recently that hinted that the Government WANTED broken unemployment systems after showing some of the bugs that existed in their interface. It infuriated me, because they mentioned Deloitte built it and I (like others have mentioned in this thread) know they are infamous for bad software.

It appeared to me Vox wanted to make people mad at some bogus government conspiracy that a specific state had against it's people. Also that they don't respect the complexities that go into software development.

Edit so you can get mad at Vox too with me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ualUPur6iks&t=1s
It's doxxing. My question is why is that a bad thing in this case?

Zero tolerance policies don't make any sense to me.
I did ICT support for the ACT government. Jervis Bay was a pain in the arse.
A lot of the apologies are "automatic" in Japan. As in, they dont even think on how to improve their processes and instead will default to a an apology instead.
All primary domain controllers are also DNS servers.
The same could be said for radio, whether Orson Wells "Alien Invasion" broadcast or the multitude of April 1st jokes that got out of hand.
Continuations can be implicitly used. If you have a language that is compiled using transformation to CPS. Then continuations are everywhere under the hood.
I'm thinking especially of the use case of sharing for people who have not been accumulating dotfiles forever and haven't set up some kind of way to manage their dotfiles in version control. (Heck, I don't myself have a system that I love for that, though it meets my basic requirements in that I can always ask Git exactly what changed.)

So "add this one line to get my prompt" is then a much lower-friction suggestion than "copy this whole little script".
Siberia Is on Fire
the scale and reach
When the early humans came out of Africa, the other continents were not necessarily safer overall. Better in some ways, worse in other ways. Yet there they went.
That's because your employer is usually an ass who needs you to come sharply on time (Flex work is still an alien concept in most Japanese companies) so you need an actual note to justify it was not your lazy ass' fault.
Yup, +100 on Benchmade. Their locking mechanism is the best I've ever used(strong, can be used single handed with gloves on, and doesn't put your fingers in the path of the blade). We've got a small farm and put their blades through a workout, really a fan of the 535 as a non-flashy, lightweight EDC knife.

Toured their factory pre-covid and it was pretty darn cool.
Although they aren't mentioned in the article, it seems like a pretty similar story: I worked for Accenture and they cared very little about the end user, product, or the client. The things they cared the most about were sales, billable hours, and reputation. As a software engineer, every review season completely ignored all of my technical accomplishments and problem solving skills and focused entirely on growing sales and billable hours. The cherry on top was the way they treated their employees that were working in the states on Indian salaries. They no doubt billed the customer ten times what they were paying the employee while claiming cost savings. The dishonesty, disrespect, and lack of integrity were palpable.

It's no wonder why projects managed by large consulting companies are total disasters.
I flew SFO to London a few times both upstairs and downstairs. Didn’t notice that much of a difference other than it’s a bit more cozy upstairs since there are far fewer seats.
“My dad's co-worker's, girlfriend's uncle works at ... and said...” doesn’t reach the whole world instantaneously
The virus is clearly evolving. In recent cases in Australia people began showing symptoms within a day of infection [0]
[0] https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/fears-of-further-spread-...
I think it's a good idea to include ones that stands out from rest of the pack.

https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte and https://github.com/ryansolid/solid stands out by being the only 2 that are compiled to standard js, so no framework is loaded at runtime.

Speed is important too and
https://github.com/infernojs/inferno (and solid above) is well known for speed and is backed by benchmarks.

Not sure if you want to add more beyond this point since a few more will push the boundary to just include everything which is over 100 nowadays.
Estradiol is about $7 for 30 1mg pills, so more like $233 per gram. Source: goodrx.com / I'm a trans woman.

(edit) - and just to reflect on what happened to this child, in addition to the physical changes & social problems, this "treatment" would have surely induced gender dysphoria, which any trans person can tell you is awful as hell.
The process is you get a meeting invite for a 1 on 1 with your manager. They come in, tell you that you're getting let go and why, and then invite HR to come in. They then leave and HR goes over the paperwork and asks you about if you expected it.

That must be an absolutely horrible experience, if you genuinely didn’t expect it! Is there at least a reasonably generous severance package?

Edit to add: in fact, thinking about it, doing the entire process in a single meeting like that feels like a bit of a mean trick -- catching people off-balance so they’re probably more likely to answer the HR questions honestly, rather than having time to think about what they want to say and what they want to ask.

I wonder what questions that HR team asks and what use they make of the data.
Alternative title: Incompetent bureaucrats wasted tax payer money, as usual.

There's a saying in the home building industry: "If the boss says put the toilet on the roof, you put the toilet on the roof." So often in government contracts, the people writing them are the complete and utter definition of incompetent.
It was the same for me the first time I tried, but the "View on GitHub" link at the bottom still worked (and now the main page works too).
An Pulse Ox and ABG are not interchangeable exams, with the ABG giving a lot more data about respiratory and metabolic derangements. A pulse ox can also be outright fooled such as in cases of carbon monoxide poisoning or essentially wrong in other poisoning. Also for a wrist ABG there’s no reason to use a giant needle. A 23g is usually fine, length is usually not an issue as the artery is actually quite superficial. For reference, an 18 gauge is the smallest that might be considered “large”. And the sizes are bigger as the number gets smaller.
Taxes: What happens when you move?
Did they switch to making plutonium bombs exclusively, after the war?
I have fallen into some incredible quotation-source searching a few times, spending hours looking through old scans of documents that only exist in archives. But when I think I find the original author, I'm astounded how some people can prove that even those are a paraphrase of a more ancient example. And then you have sites like https://quoteinvestigator.com/

What are some of the tricks in quotation investigation?
Not really. It was a very small gathering (< 10 people) mostly with people I already had spent a lot of quarantine with (doing camping, kayaking, etc.).
I don’t think the article convinced me that Deloitte is specifically at fault for these systems failing.

They were paid one time to design a system, seven years ago, to handle probably less than 1/10 of the kind of volume that we are seeing due to the pandemic.

It really isn’t Deloitte’s fault that our government isn’t willing to just pay civil servant employees to build and maintain technology in house.

I don’t claim to know why the government is so sub-contractor happy but I guess that’s the way it is right now.

Also, the government needs to stop thinking about software like it can be boiled down to a one-time cost. Building software one time and leaving it alone to rot for a decade doesn’t work.
Perhaps they weren't willing to risk losing their window of opportunity.
Who's managing the projects, and where are the workers doing the development? This story sounds awfully familiar.
I agree with you in regards to the delusion. People in the EU are so much happier and have better quality of life in comparison with your average American. Working in tech is one of the most valid reasons to remain in the United States. We still have the best salaries, job opportunities, and employers. That might change someday, but it's still the case.
That is the first time I hear someone praise Outlook. For an application that gets billions in billing, there are no valid excuses for it to be the same thing as it was 15 years ago.
One can be critical of China and the US at the same time. Difference being is only in one of those two countries can you open to do both.

I find these 'but the US' responses to be particularly unhelpful as they attempt to frame things very much in the vein of China's own 'do not meddle in our internal affairs ' rhetoric.
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I loved this read!
This doesn't make sense to me. You mention "reputation" as one of the things they care about. How does delivering a broken product not destroy that?
I'm a former tech consulting manager at one of the B4 and my experience is that the types of multi-million dollar software projects that they get involved in are lose-lose situations from the start. They are always high-profile, huge projects that a ton of executives, salespeople, etc all have their hands in, and everyone is fully aware that the delivered product is going to be a steaming bureacratic pile of shit with a never-ending list of feature requests and bugs, no matter who they hire. Then they hire Deloitte/IBM/Accenture because Deloitte/IBM/Accenture are so big that they are the only companies that will knowingly take on a losing project as long as they get paid handsomely for it.

And if the project is gonna be a loser anyway, why would you waste your best people on it instead of the C-stringers from your offshored development center? At my B4, the major multi-million dollar government projects like that were basically the company graveyard where you were staffed when literally no other project would take you.

For the actually successful and typically much smaller software projects, we actually had a subsidiary company with a much better reputation that would handle the design and development instead of our offshore dev centers.
Not with put options, no. You can make 1000% return on these, especially when you control the exact moment the tweets will be published.
And what if it's not us inflicting it on ourselves, but some kind of natural disaster - supervolcano erruption, Chicxulub-sized impactor, etc.? That doesn't mean it'd be fun, and building habitats out of a gravity well, like in asteroids or space stations would be easier, but I'd hope we at least try.
1. For the lulz
2. For a disgruntled twitter admin who thinks they won't get caught 100k is a good haul. If you steal 1MM dollars and you have a 80k/year job you're in trouble. 100k in btc cashed out over a year or two - less of a problem.
3. I can't think of how you could make more, at least not without putting yourself at huge risk.
4. Maybe these tweets were just to serve as proof you did something else we don't know about yet, and you are getting paid for that.
5. Maybe you are a Russian operative, and your job wasn't to make money, but to try and find dirt in the DMs of Trump's political opponents.
This sentence: "smokers are shown to be substantially less susceptible to both catching covid and developing severe symptoms"

is contradicted by the study showing that smokers with covid are more likely to have severe symptoms than non-smokers with covid.
I've always been fascinated by these misattributions of wise/witty sayings to famous figures. The words aren't allowed to stand on their own, they have to be vouched for by a suitably impressive and high status person.

My favorite is how, even in the realm of conspiracies that Shakespeare didn't write his plays, the posited true author is invariably another famous Elizabethan personality, e.g. Francis Bacon.

God forbid the Shakespeare plays were actually written by some random nobody.
The wonder what they saw on the dms
What is the solution? How can these huge systems be developed economically and correctly? These government agencies don't have the technical experience to hire and manage their own software developers and, from what people say, the big consulting firms don't either and/or they don't care. But a smaller firm that might be able to deliver a working solution would be seen as "too risky" to be awarded a big government contract when compared to a large, well-known consulting firm.
Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
Not to defend the doctor, but common sense? Sex hormones obviously have a huge effect on behavior, and anyone who has interacted with both men and women can see these effects. I'll refer you to the following study to answer your question about "non-science based theories and treatments": https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
The people consulting firms “deliver” to have no idea it’s broken and don’t really care because they’ve never seen the software or process and they never will.

Plus, Deloitte said it’s fixed now and Deloitte knows best or else they wouldn’t have charged so much, right?
Bad analogy is bad. The difference in livability between Africa and the other continents was small. The difference between Earth and Mars is enormous.

If you go to Mars, you will find yourself confined in tiny metal living quarters, surrounded by sudden death, and everything you want will either be unavailable or extremely expensive. You can get that experience today in places we call "prisons".
Well, yeah. We, uniquely among life on earth, shape our world rather than suffer it. That's a good thing.
> It’s probably a leading indicator of COVID pneumonia

This is incorrect. In some cases, COVID-19 causes blood O2 levels to drop, even while being otherwise asymptomatic. See: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/hcp/puls...
As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23865244 mentioned, the link should be able to point to anything, including a specific commit in version control.
But you do see that the problem is US law? Just a little privacy and this wouldn't have happened.
I've literally never heard of that plan except from people shooting it down as a straw man. Mars is a good backup in that a tape drive is a good backup. A catastrophic event on Earth will likely not impact Mars as well. It's a biology backup, not a backup for a full life lived on Earth. It's still something we as a species really need, but it's never going to be a replacement for the original thing.
Climate change: Siberian heatwave 'clear evidence' of warming
>But the closer we look, the more it’s apparent that Mars is, at best, no less risky a place than Earth.

I thought everyone knew that.
This is the intent of arbital.com , but that project seems to have stalled
The point is that designing an iteration that does something should be a trivial operation requiring no thought at all. If you can leetcode problems then we can be sure that you can do loops without effort, otherwise it might be that you struggle with them and as a programmer it will really hurt your productivity. Testing if you can do loops doesn't test if you can do loops easily, so we test something requiring a bit more thought.

Edit: And I think that you'll find that most leetcode problems are pretty easy if you are an expert at doing loops and recursions.

> I'm not saying you'll never have to do it, but it's going to typically be a small proportion of your day job, so why test this stuff so much at interview stage?

It isn't a small portion of your time spent at Google at least. Almost no engineers at Google ever talks to non technical people, product managers or engineering managers does that. Most engineers works to reduce cpu usage of backend servers or build scalable features for backend servers or similar stuff. Even high level decisions like deciding what service to use requires more engineering hours in time spent refactoring the thing than engineering hours spent deciding what to use, so there is much greater need for people who can code than people who can make decisions.

And if you argue that Google is bad at making new good products, that isn't the fault of their software engineers since they don't decide what to build. Instead it is the fault of VP's, and those don't do white boarding interviews.
Even after a KT-level impact, the Earth would be more habitable than Mars is without an impact.

In any case, to be a backup, Mars would not only need to be economically self sustaining (in the sense of earning more than it cost), but it would have to be able to produce absolutely everything it needed to survive and grow, as Earth would no longer be available. Every material, every component. Everything. This means not planting a colony, but planting an entire global economy.
South African used to have coach upstairs when I flew it. New York to Johannesburg was an amazing flight, I think it was 16 or so hours. Eventually you’re just sitting there wondering how long can this thing fly?
> So, if you run a company, and you're afraid of getting sued by your shareholders for not pursuing profit at the expense of your ethics and morals, I'd suggest finding a new job.

Who’s to say that’s not exactly what normally happens? In which case it should surprise no one that those who remain are disproportionately lacking in ethics and morals.
Not OP but (s)he never mentioned anything about shipping broken products ...
That's my point. Those things still happen, even without a formal process. Most likely if you're in that meeting, you've already had multiple meetings with HR and your manager about your performance.

If HR is just hearing about it for the first time in the meeting, that is when they would be following up, because it means the manager made a quick rash decision.
Well, they don’t leave the keys in the ignition ;)
That's partially because the sources formally seen as primary, at least in the US, have started to be viewed as biased and unreliable.

This is largely through their own actions. Examples are legion, but a recent one is debacle at NYT over an op-ed. The news-consuming public was able to view the shenanigans of NYT reporters and staffers, which would formerly been done being the scenes.

Many eyes were opened, and I'm certain I wasn't the only one thinking "These are the people in supposed to be trusting for my news and analysis?"