skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe he means you can't just arbitrarily browse the source code for any Apple software you're curious about.
I worked for Amazon (like you:) but that was 5 years ago. Things were a lot more breakneck then - but I can see how things could’ve slowed down with the 3x dev count now.

As many have pointed out, it depends on teams. I have seen engineers in retail whose sole job was ensuring data entered the catalog correctly through the input system and fix any errant data. I also saw teams like mine (early kindle / early dynamodb) literally perform magic. We launched dynamo across the world with a <15 person team. But it had 3 principals and 5 sde3s in a time when the whole company had <100 principals. That team remained highly motivated through my tenure but the members went on to different parts overtime because it was too much talent concentrated in one spot.

In short I look at FAANG as flexibility. you have a major life event, you will probably have enough good will to work it out with lighter contributions. You want to build bleeding edge software, you can do that too.

I’d suggest finding the local legends now, see what they are working on, building deep knowledge about it, ask for an interview and join them. In a big place like that, there are always movers and shakers - they are also looking for motivated and talented devs for their team, so it is mutually beneficial. It will only work with your initiative and a bit of luck though.

FWIW - I still have some of my old contacts there. Message me if you want a referral. Good luck!
No 'M' in FAANG ;-)

(Sorry, couldn't help myself! Many people still refer to it as a FAANG company)
Why I started GigoBooks (and how I got the idea for a startup)
SAS Training: Everything You Need to Know to Start
I love the concept of making this public but I feel like the audit wasn't very thorough if all it suggested was two security headers that a free online scanner could have picked up.
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What did cities sound like during the lockdown?
Not at all. At least around here, cable internet goes up into the hundreds of Mbps, while DSL tops out around...10, I think? for prices that are roughly comparable.

Excluding cable internet seems like a really terrible idea if you're trying to compare prices for broadband in the US.

Edit: units
Stretching the Reach of Implicitly Typed Variables in C#
It's not about convincing them of anything, it's about cutting the relationship

Have you ever tried convincing a flat-earther with arguments? Do you have time to waste in doing that? Do you think they really believe that or they just take pleasure in being insufferable?

And yes, if I'm doing something and people start complaining about it with harsh words I might reconsider it.
It's probably because when devs jump into the cloud they can be distracted by Shiny New Toys and cost is only considered once the first bill comes in.
Probably some kind of promotional rate situation. My 400/20 Spectrum cable connection is $45 for two years and then goes up to $70. (Edit: indeed they seem to be offering a $39.99 promo rate, marked down from $60 https://www.att.com/offers/advert/fiber/localoffer/)

Also on my last cable account I randomly went on the website to see what their current rates were, and noticed they were offering 2x the speed to new subscribers for the same I was paying. I called to ask about it and they told me the faster plan was the default but that I’d been grandfathered into the slower plan (thanks!), but that they could upgrade me if I wanted. It must be intentional that speeds and prices are super opaque.
It's not what you say, it's what you hear!

Each level has a combination of words that look like nonsense, but when recited out loud, sound like the hidden phrase.

Try reciting "fur stew hurled prop plums" out loud. Can you hear the hidden phrase? Listen closely... You've been saying "first world problems."

Complete to decode the hidden phrases to earn score and compete with friends.
Agreed. There's also the issue of falsetto versus natural range. It's funny to see Thom Yorke right next to Freddie Mercury with similar ranges, because Thom Yorke uses falsetto all the time, whereas Freddie Mercury typically didn't. It would not surprise me if Mercury's range was far larger on the high end than Yorke's.

To be clear, that's not a criticism of Yorke--there's a lot more to vocal talent than range, and I'm actually a huge Radiohead fan.
It's made me realise how crazy reliant my Garmin watch is on their infrastructure. I went onto the app this morning to try and alter a watch face I already have downloaded, which should totally be configurable through just the mobile app alone. Why the hell does it need to talk to Garmin's servers to let me do this? It should just be possible through the app alone, without needing any involvement from Garmin's servers.
Why not just pay down your mortgage? You’ll get 3-4% risk and tax free where else are you gonna get that kind of guarantee?
As a developer from 2005 or so onwards, I have only ever known the Markup + Stylesheet system, having read a huge number of articles, where it was touted having the document markup separate from the styling was the holy grail of web design and productivity.

Nowadays, I see mixing of styling and content to be all the rage, which I actually feel is easy to use. Of course, component systems still split out the styling and document markup, but the line, and developer thought procress is a lot blurrier.

I would love to know if there are any better systems of presentation, compared to the document + markup paradigm.
Nubank has a very inspiring story, both for engineers that are fans of Clojure & Datomic and for entrepreneurs that want to do "crazy" things like entering the bank sector.

This must be very validating and exciting for both Cognitect and Nubank.

I'm excited of the future impact on Clojure and Datomic. I get the impression that _all_[0] involved parties deeply care about what made them great so far.

[0] I'm getting that vibe based on some talks I saw of Lucas Cavalcanti and Edward Wible, available on Youtube.
Look, do you really want me to wade through sixteen pages to discover the notation first (written by someone who doesn't know about \langle and \rangle, either)? I would consider it bad argumentative form of the same water as Euler's apocryphal "does God exist" debate with Diderot.

At the very least, you will struggle to persuade me that the use of \wedge is easier to understand than the English word "and" with line breaks.

Also you've picked a specific example where the objects of study are these long strings of symbols. Of course any paper worth its salt is going to use them - they're literally the things that the paper is there to examine. It's the metamathematical statements in this context, not the quotation of the formulas under study, that I want to replace with English.
This is meant to be helpful, but it does not help.

And you cannot say to someone that is depressed - most out there are worse off than you. It will not help with the depression.
I'm not necessarily asking for better metaphors of quantum phenomena. But the opportunities or affordances of quantum computers is extremely unclear, even to experts. It's like explaining the physics of a transistor to someone and waiting for them to come up with an app design.

Taking the analogy of a GPU, how would you describe what a quantum coprocessor could do for a specialist (in, say, neuroscience or material science)? What kind of datasets would be appropriate? How should they think about what can be done with quantum processing? That's where I think there is room for metaphor development.
But my (twin's) photos could likely be used used for:

* Linking them to the location of a crime using Clearview AI and similar scraping facial recognition services

* Creating fake but believable defamatory photos and videos, such as deepfakes

* Being scraped and used in fake profiles by spambots and other nefarious actors

* Being exploited as a tool in identify theft and identify fraud, via various kinds of social engineering.

Do you not consider some of these scenarios worthy of a similar amount of consideration?
Of course they can be, but the problem is finding one that has some overlap between:

- Fulfilling

- Stable

- Decent salary

I find that it’s hard to get all of them in the same position.
And if it didn't the insurance companies could just demand a dna test before underwriting any policies.
Those should be called Special Corporations for Acquisitions and Mergers (SCAM). They only exist to sell to people who believe anti-fraud regulations are for losers and that real world markets should be more like EVE online.
Government bonds/markets are a different story than mortgages.

If you own the bank $100k, you have a problem.

If you own the bank $100Bi, the bank has a problem.
Cython already translates Python to C. And if the translation introduces a bug, the Cython developers can find a solution.

This ML crap is inexplicable, and nearly guaranteed to introduce subtle bugs and performance regressions.
Nice, I didn't know that, thanks for telling me!
A good chunk of their watches are designed for triathalons, and if im not mistaken pretty much all use the same (proprietary) usb.

They are all perfectly waterproof. (Current owner of a forerunner 945)
From the Timaeus “To earth, then, let us assign the cubical form ; for earth is the most immoveable of the four and the most plastic of all bodies, and that which has the most stable bases must of necessity be of such a nature. Now, of the triangles which we assumed at first, that which has two equal sides is by nature more firmly based than that which has unequal sides ; and of the compound figures which are formed out of either, the plane equilateral quadrangle has necessarily, a more stable basis than the equilateral triangle, both in the whole and in the parts. Wherefore, in assigning this figure to earth, we adhere to probability"
It's not viable to look only at raw price, because these ISP are amongst the most aggressive price marketing companies. They have bundles, they have 3, 4, sometimes 6 months promotions for new users, they negotiate a lot, etc
Seconded.

I've been quite miserable in my day job for the last 2-3 years.. At first it was allright, but the shit just kept coming. I even started looking for something new late last year, but when the lockdowns etc came, I gave up on the job hunt, since my anxiety of "nobody is going to hire me" now had two companions named "who in their right mind would be hiring now?" and "i don't want to meet any new people" XD

Since jan or feb I've been getting up everyday at 5am to work on an assortment of private projects until I have to leave for my day-job at 9am. I love working on these projects, I used to play Overwatch a lot, but now my favorite pasttime is my non-day-job work.

I still would love to get rid of my day-job but just to commit even more time to my own projects.

However, none of these pay any bills, and so I toil away...

Oh yeah, and to top it off I meditate for 15 minutes in the car before I get in the office. Helps me alot against "the shit" that just wont stop coming.
They did a code audit in 2018, and this is a network/pentest audit. They're two different things, that's all, and both are valuable.
There is a blog post on the Art of Manliness about how to fall asleep in 2 minutes based on research done during WWII to help pilots rest [0]. You can begin training now so the middle of the night feedings, etc. can be handled easier.

Beyond life saving things, like prevention of SIDS for example, there are a ton of books out there with different tips or techniques on raising a child. Treat them like you would someone telling you about a new software development process: there might be some stuff that might apply, some of it just doesn't matter or work for your situation.

As time goes on realize your child is their own person. They may not have the same interests or beliefs as you do and that should be okay.

Other practical things: instead of toy/clothes gifts from relatives, setup a college/savings fund and an easy way for them to put money in it as gifts. Don't go overboard on clothes for the first 18-24 months. Keep a couple sentimental things if that's your style but they outgrow clothes sometimes surpassing sizes before they even wear them.

[0] https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/fall-asleep-fast/
I very much appreciate the feedback!

When you say you tried to check a subdomain, do you mean a subdomain with hosts beneath it or do you just mean a hostname? The code does a check that a name entered is a subdomain with an NS record. It is not intended for hostnames. (My target customer is a business owner who just wants to ensure his domain is configured correctly. [I think.])

Please feel free to contact me directly at mcculley@stackframe.com if you are interested in discussing further.
On the other hand as of ~3 months ago it wasn't enough to show all the typical covid-19 symptoms to be allowed to get tested at all (in the Stockholm region at least).
They have since expanded testing, so in principle anyone can get tested now (if they can manage to book a time slot at least..).
far inferior is a pretty huge exaggeration, graphite pads are plainly good enough in the vast majority of cases, without all the annoying downsides of paste.
> Don't fall into the trap of thinking a company of FAANG size cares all that much about individual employees.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking everyone posting on HN comes from a similar background. I work for a non-profit who go to great lengths to make the workplace comfortable.
Throwaway account, for obvious reasons.

This is great for nubank, but how is this supposed to work for other users of Clojure and Datomic? Who is really going to be interested in building on top of tech owned by a (new, unknown, regional) bank?

Someone said that this is just like Amazon (who would build on top of tech from a bookstore??), but I hope it's obvious the two situations are very different.

I expect that I'll have to be looking for a new job in a year's time :-(
Interesting! Do you mind sharing some URLs?
FAAMG is so much more appropriate to describe the dominant tech players. People just like the sound of "FAANG".

Netflix doesn't come close to matching Microsoft or the others.
I believe flat earthers are intentionally weaponizing their ignorance as an act of rebellion. So yes in that case it is meant to be insulting, just nit anything to take personal.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for telling me!
That url is atrocious. It looks like the MIT tech review doesn't pay for its Heroku account.
Getting to the bottom of goosebumps
Next headline, presumably: "Federal Agents Prepared To Arrest Philadelphia Prosecutor"

(This is black humor; it is never a good thing when different law enforcement factions within a country start openly fighting each other. Perhaps the next stage looks like Catalonia.)
I've implemented this same system in two companies throughout my career so far. Take that as some validation.

How do you plan to handle the data layer?
> "reinforces membership in their tribe"

This was mentioned in ComicCon@HOME video panel: "Watchmen and the Cruelty of Masks" which I watched last night [1][2]

And it's been mentioned by Richard Dawkins in the context of "flat-Earthers" [3], and, of course, religion itself.

Right now I'm thinking a lot about memetics as having explanatory power for the long-term effects you describe.

[1]: https://www.comic-con.org/cciathome/2020/wednesday
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5R-9kcV0WY&feature=youtu.be
[3]: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/richard-dawkins-flat-ea...
Very few of the metrics that are assessed during interviews are quantified (making bias correction very hard).

It's highly unusual (except maybe at Google) to compare how well someone is doing in a job to how well they were thought they would do that job.

The idiosyncratic nuances of most jobs is hugely underestimated (in the sense that the more specific the prior experience the more it should be discounted).

My suspicion is that we'd all do a lot better if we took all the candidates that applied that we thought "would do" and then drew lots.

We'd probably do even better if we agreed "no fault" severance packages in advance that could be triggered by either party.
Always take articles like this with various amounts of salt. My thought is most of what he's saying sounds plausible and it's relatively easy to see if it begins to happen.
> If someone accepted to do the same job for cheaper (or free), they'd take it, regardless of the value it generates.

They wouldn’t hire you for the job in the first place if it generated negative value.
A lot of people don't seem to mind building on top of tech owned and developed by a telecommunications company - Erlang.
The human genome is about 3.4B base pairs (G-C, A-T). The specific DNA used for genealogical matching is 700K base pairs. So the testing companies are only using 0.02% of your DNA, hardly enough to compromise you.

Furthermore, the matching process is based on SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) and STRs (Short Tandem Repeat) in the "junk" DNA section, which constitute 92% of your DNA, and is distinct from the coding DNA that contains health traits, among others.

So, not much to worry about.
Feedback wanted on new IoT platform
Hi there,

Check out this project we are working on: www.seashell.sh

It is a platform to setup and manage cloud infrastructure, devices, and applications for IoT/edge projects from a single dashboard.

Think of it as a control plane for the whole lifecycle of a connected product. As of now, the platform supports the whole Raspberry Pi family, but support for new hardware will be added in the near future.

We are still at an early stage, and would love to get any feedback so that we can shape the platform according to the needs of developers out there.

Any comment/idea/criticism is much appreciated :-)

Cheers!
Seconding this, I had some similar questions as OP at my Amazon internship (moreso stemming from going from Data Science work to web dev). The thing is every team at Amazon is so different u can find teams moving at breakneck speed in JS monorepos and u can find teams barely moving just fixing random build configs for months without even many unit tests in their repo (some people enjoy maintaining mature software in a customer focused team).

I suggest OP browse through the internal code search tool, find a team that fits their needs/values, and then try to find a job under that manager. OP has the unique ability to see the actual day to day work a team is doing before applying, they should take advantage of that. You can find a team like OP describes at any company but how many times can you see the day to day work before applying, take advantage.
Why isn't Verizon on the list? And where can I sign up for Verison it seems like a pretty good deal:

USA Verison - $39.99 200 Fiber
In the PGO category, there's also this recent proposal: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-April/140763.h...

At compile-time only, people have also been using trained models to derive cost functions for sequences of instructions (as opposed to analytical models which become very difficult to derive these days given the complexity of modern CPU architectures)
My life is none of their business.
An Introduction to Linux
This is amazing! Does it mean that our modern artist can utilize these AI paints to create more abstracted and imaginative pictures?

I'll be glad to see that happen when those paints are ready to be sold on Sotheby's or Christies. :D
> Loosing or breaking it might shut you out of certain accounts forever.

But isn't this what the backup codes are for?
I agree salary is correlated with demand, but I also believe there's a reason for that demand.

CSMs have no leverage. Engineers are powerful because their work can have an org-wide impact.

If we're talking about business value I think that sales (B2B), marketing (B2C/DTC) and engineers are the largest generators of business value in companies because of the leverage they have.
Marx was big on getting people to the place where they don't feel like their work is pointless. But in order to get there, you have to get rid of the social stratification of the current system, where some people do their labor and give it to somebody else to sell. That seller not only gets to keep the majority of the profit, but it also keeps the work from being very fulfilling since you're disconnected from the end product of your effort.

So Marx didn't say it was impossible. He just said that getting from here to there was going to require changes -- changes that could easily be unpleasant.
Adversarial Machine Learning and the CFAA
Whether or not the earth is flat, and a host of other discussions, mostly exist to satisfy people's need for conflict and attention. Ask yourself how many times you have seen someone change their view in these confrontations. Then ask yourself how many times you have seen people admit that they are trolling for the sport of it, or for the attention.

It isn't worth the effort to take part in such discussions. It only legitimizes trolls.
Also lets hope they acquire cursive ide too and offer it for free.

Clojure deserves an IDE for larger adoption.
Shame has been used to police human behavior throughout history. See: all religions.
With all due respect, the fact that you haven't found that "dream job" yet kind of proves the commenter's point.

I'd love to work a "dream job" myself, it just doesn't exist. The whole purpose of a job is to make a company money, and money just never really motivated me other than in the freedom it buys me to not have to sell my time. Everything I enjoy doesn't make money, and if I wanted to "monetize" any of my hobbies it'd completely kill the fun out of it.

Being an entrepreneur and your own boss sounds amazing, but it's difficult and requires a lot of hard work, time, and money. The safest path for anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur is thus to get the highest paying least demanding job with the most prestigious title (for fundraising purposes), and work on it on the side until it has enough traction and you have enough financial cushion to quit the day job and go full-time on it.

Of course one shouldn't put up with a job they absolutely loathe, but in my experience the search for a "dream job" is a journey bound for disappointment. If the job were so fun, the company wouldn't have to pay people to do it.
Apple co-founder sues YouTube over Bitcoin scam
Also the promoted speed for DSL is often the max speed you will be capped at, if your connection can attain that speed that is. Where I'm from most ISP's won't sell you a DSL less than 40-50Mbit. But my line only supports up to 15Mbit. So essentially I'm forced to pay for more capacity I can't even use.
A table (in French) comparing FTTH prices in France: https://lafibre.info/images/doc/comparatif_offres_fibre_ftth....

From https://lafibre.info/free-les-news/keynote-freebox-pop/.
Does anyone here use assertions in anger in a web app? I sort of feel that frontend app that is jock-full with assertions and logs every assertion failure to a Sentry type service, would be much easier to get error-free. Almost to the point of needing significantly fewer unit tests, maybe. Is there any downsides to this approach? Do people do this?
In what ways do you find Bitwarden lacking? What are the advantages of Dashlane?
Why even unused data needs to be valid