skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not meant as a snark, a constant reminder I keep telling myself every day, that there is way more in IT than I'll ever have time to learn. All I have to do if I ever think I'm beginning to get my arms around it all is look to someone like Fabrice Bellard or innumerable others. We only win as a team, not many such Free Electrons in the world to pass around, I'm certainly not such a talent, I just heave against the entropy with the gang and share like everyone else.

For IBM professional services, you'll have no quibble from me. Very mixed bag from what customers tell me, and customers nearly have to be domain experts to make smart purchase decisions on contractors. A non-trivial chunk of big name professional services placements (not just IBM) are third parties, most of those third parties get run through mandatory sub-sub-contracting relationships and there is even a thriving industry feeding off of sub-sub-sub-contracting relationships.

IBM Support however, IME while it has declined markedly in L1 and marginally in L2 (you need to get to the L2 leads quickly if you know what you're doing and want to save time), is still quite good in L3, and if you pay for the enhanced support, exceptionally good (but it is so expensive that few people outside the IBM ecosystem have even heard it is an option).

IBM's documentation has always been very thorough, but I've seen a decline in accuracy and editing (to organize the typically voluminous standards) that corresponds with their gutting of the US technical writing teams who when I worked with Redbooks upon were typically very technically proficient in their own right. I try to help out these days by insisting upon a documentation APAR when I run across documentation defects in my accounts, but I'm likely in the minority of users. Ever since they took away the ability to comment on individual pages in Knowledge Center, they've considerably increased the friction for users to help increase the quality of documentation.

YMMV of course, just sharing my perspective.
>Also why was never the full tracks of the two Russians the victims revealed?

They are revealed here pretty well:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180927051828/http://news.met.p...
there was a journal of negative results in biomedicine, but i don't think they've published since 2017.
My admittedly limited understanding/speculation (from what I saw disclosed in the media and the timing of the events) is that this breach came to light shortly after Dara took over as CEO (presumably from a review of finances), and that Dara then voluntarily disclosed the breach to the public as part of Uber's reputation house cleaning effort, and that the failure to disclose the breach was the reason for Joe's termination.

I don't know whether Uber had a proper bug bounty program setup at the time this happened, nor whether this could be considered one, so I can't comment on the specifics.
Could not disagree more. It's a disingenuous rhetorical device to say "anything I disagree with is waterfall and therefore wrong".

Planning is necessary and useful. The detail of that plan depends on how far out you're going. The next sprint's plan should be very detailed. The next year's plan should be a rough sketch. The next quarter's plan should be somewhere in between. And regardless of the level of detail, those plans can still change if they need to.

I've run into enough garbage code and garbage systems to see what happens when people don't plan enough up front. No thanks.

It's odd that this bit from the Agile Manifesto is used in part as justification:

> Responding to change over following a plan.

I don't read that as "don't plan"; I read that as "plan, but expect your plan to change over time".
I dont think that is a fair comparison, you took away all the issues with branding, your customer dont really care if you are hosting a website yourself or aws or anything else, probably most of them wont even know what that means.

If you want to start to sell ebooks (or anything really) you get an advantage by placing it in a well known store, you can prove me wrong but i think that is a fair statement.

So it is really hard for me to accept as fair a situation where you could build a store, build the brand reputation, host other people product and not get a compensation.
This is simply not true. Higher orbits are useful for longer line-of-sight links, greater earth observation area, etc.
Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Hotjar?
Any Alternatives to Hotjar?
Regardless if the program works or not, the effort deserves all the props, in my book. Your brother just won the internet for the day. Well done.
cleaning up unicorn poop has been an excellent business. Nice to see it will continue for awhile.
Because unfortunately the world doesn't revolve around me :)

It wasn't only the PM, the AI lead apparently felt the same, although I think the AI lead was the one that kicked up a fuss in the first place.

At first I was really pissed off - I didn't think I'd done anything wrong, and was completely baffled about the complaint. I went over my emails myself, and thought about calls we'd had, and I just didn't get it. TBH, I still don't understand how it could have been misconstrued, but I have to accept that it was.

Anyway, I guess the point is that while I'm terse, open and honest, not everyone else is. Consider your recipients before sending that mail - who are they, where are they from, what approach are they likely to be receptive to.
> “It’s like opening a fairytale book”

Breathtaking photos and awesome article! I knew nothing about the Kush before reading this.
Wouldn’t sexual harassment settlements between two private parties violate this?

If someone is attacked and they accept money not to press charges, isn’t that concealing a crime to authorities?
Science can only "lead" you to that conclusion if you already think in specific philosophical ways. In this case it sounds like you are presuming materialism.
It isn't clear to me what you mean by "illusion".
I generally interpret "illusion" to mean that things appear to be contrary to how they are.
That is, an illusion is a way in which appearances are contrary to reality.
But to say that "reality is an illusion", would then be to say that "reality is a way in which appearances are contrary to reality." .
Which, appears to be nonsense.

I suppose if what you mean by "reality" is "perception", and if what you mean by "illusion" is also "perception", then what you mean by "reality" and "illusion" would be the same thing, namely, "perception", but, I don't think that's what you mean?
Sure, so Citi should recoup their money from Revlon, except that won't happen because Revlon is going to go bankrupt. Which is the whole reason Brigade held onto the payment.
Seems that this is answer why today there was short outage of few G services.
I think ultimately it comes down to the fact that many developers, for reasons which are usually out of their control, simply do not have the mathematical background to that makes notions of O of n intuitive or even understandable.

Even if they went to a good university, they might have sleep-walked through their calc/analysis courses and then encountered this stuff later in upper level CS, and learned by rote just enough to pass the class.

It's because of a lack of focus on fundamentals in undergrad education.
I once had a technical discussion with my manager, he wanted me to use a technical solution that did not work, while making me fully responsible for the result.

In the end I implemented both my solution and his. Mine worked like a charm, his literally caught on fire (it was power electronics development). Got fired anyway...
>For the first one, criticising a product while owning it isn't illegitimate. You can like a product for its strength but still see its incredible flaws.

The problem is what you are calling a "flaw" is a feature to others. If you don't like that "feature", others are saying you should leave the ecosystem rather than lobby Apple to "fix" it.

>For the second one, this doesn't account for tens of great apps we miss out on because they just won't make it on AppStore's rules.

It's acceptable collateral damage, and if those apps are truly great then someone people will (and have) switch to another platform. Just like if I get an XBox I can't play Playstation games.

IMO, if this was truly a great issue, people wouldn't choose iPhones. If you really care about being able to install software on your device, then don't buy an iPhone. It's even easier to make this decision because there is very few iPhone exclusive applications that do not have alternatives on Android. To me however, it comes across as the same lip service Linux gets where for users all these "power features" are important, but everyone just buys a macbook instead.
You've lost me now. You've gone between multiple topics and I don't really understand what your stance is. Are you saying:

- There should be a limit on number of hours worked (regardless of type of employment).

- Everyone should be an employee, and not a freelancer or otherwise independently employed

- Everyone should get benefits

Or all 3? Those are all to me at least independent things. You can have work hour limitations as a contractor or you can be an overworked employee.
Wonder what the potential for side channel attacks (eg timing analysis, etc) will turn out to be with wasm?
> So, I don't know what the right balance is. I believe France has some mandatory maximum work hours regulations. Those might be interesting to look into.

I never thought I would see the French system pointed to as a potential example. If you’re talking about the 35h week keep in mind that it is a really contentious topic there!
> So if I prompt it with sexy Spock, do I get TOS slash stories?

Most likely, yes. See my comment elsewhere in the thread: I recently prompted AIDungeon with a mention of a holodeck, and among other things, the game introduced - by itself - a PADD, turbolifts, Andorians, and was able to correctly guess what happens if you shoot yourself in your face with a phaser on stun, with holodeck safeties enabled ("Nothing happens.") and disabled ("You are knocked unconscious by the blast.").

It's honestly the first time for me that I'm actually impressed with deep neural networks.
This sounds great. I’ll try again with input from other guys here as well. It wasn’t obvious to me that I have to sing up in order to get the GPT-3 (and set it as such in the settings).
And how about: one developer creates a web-browser with some features that will make it start fast on certain web-apps that don't use javascript but only wasm, while other developers create apps for that browser?
Ask HN: How do you search using regex in your web browser?
Looks that it's currently impossible in most popular web browsers. One have to install some extensions and I'm not sure if I can trust them.

What do you use to search web pages using regex?
That's a good point. I think we know enough about building things that fly now and we can do it quickly and cheaply enough that we can build prototypes that fail, and iterate until we get it right.

I could be wrong, but I think that was less of the case in the past. Or perhaps we just didn't know better. Building big expensive things that can kill lots of people - I'm thinking infrastructure, commercial planes, etc - comes along with the idea that we should know ahead of time how we will make it safe without it failing. We can't build a prototype of a skyscraper in a city and have it fall on people. But perhaps the way we engineer those types of things could borrow a lot more from agile than I was initially claiming.
Buy and hold is the better strategy. Even when you think a stock may be overpriced, you incur capital gains to sell and switch somewhere else. Usually better to just hold and defer the gains indefinitely.
My first thought was https://github.com/cilium/hubble
The first example in that link is inside a compiler, so if compiler engineers can make mistakes that makes me feel better! I read it and I think it basically comes down to don’t concat strings for intermediate results, do it at the end.
The rich irony is that the problem is probably due to our reluctance to throw-away old code and rewrite better software with improved domain understanding. But that requires thoughtful and disciplined stewardship. Instead we recklessly patch leaky abstractions on top of each other because we’re too lazy to work from scratch and are focused on “shipping” instead (cue: Titanic).

We are so afraid of reinventing the wheel and actually having to understand something that we will happily refactor out a car wheel and use it for a bicycle (hey, “code reuse”!) and play the charade of “best practices”.

Software is one context where we don’t have to worry about “disposing off” waste; we ought to make much better use of that.
Nature may be indifferent to our existence, but we are not indifferent to nature. How is this?
> Uber drivers get their healthcare costs covered by the rest of us

So what? People without jobs also get their healthcare covered by MediCal (with zero out of pocket expenses). Is that also a problem? Wouldn't it be better if we had universal healthcare?
Do you also not eat at small independent restaurants? The owners also don't meet the same requirements, and in many cases make even less than uber drivers.
DLaaS (Data Loss as a Service) !
You mean Google Dork?
Stripe Atlas has now been used to incorporate 15,000 companies
Uber now lets drivers set their own rates, with a multiplier: https://therideshareguy.com/set-your-own-rates-uber-feature/
Definitely! We'll support it very soon. You would be surprised with the amount of people requesting it.
I think what happens is that overtime certain groups have taken "ownership" over the word by using it as a racial slur but originally it just means "someone from Kush". In Hebrew if you take a location and add "I" as a suffix it means someone originating from that place, e.g: "Americai"-> someone from America, "Kushi"-> someone from Kush which is a country occasionally used in the bible to refer to Africa.

I guess in English there are also such words that originally had no use as a slur but later "denominated" to racial slurs.

The reference to Kushi->Kof (monkey) is totally off. Doesn't sound similar at all for my native Hebrew ears.
You can't ever prove that switching to X doesn't change the result. All you can really hope for is putting smaller limits on the amount by which something could be improved.

For one dumb example: if you wanted to see if rats can fly, you might observe 100 rats and see that none of them fly away. But this doesn't prove anything: in reality even if 3% of rats could fly you'd get this result about 5% of the time. You've really shown with 95% confidence is that less than 3% of rats fly.
Maybe they are but they need interviewers to interview the interviewers.
Facebook wins preliminary approval to settle facial recognition lawsuit
> Its a poor argument for choosing browser extensions over cut & paste because the circumstances where it has an advantage are incredibly specific.

I agree that malware that has that power could do something else, but the parent post incorrectly asserted that the specific attack of keylogging would work, which it doesn't. I wasn't arguing that as the reason to use them over copy/paste.

The main thing extensions save you from is phishing attacks because they verify the origin of the page is correct for the entry, which is a really common attack and a hard thing for humans to verify consistently, and doesn't require any malware on your machine.
The decommissioned mail sorting machines are part of a long-term plan to respond to reduced demand for paper mail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/20/postal-se...
The USPS has been saddled with a series of unfortunate events and in my opinion should be full-backed by the US government. That said, this article seemed apt focus on hyperbole rather than attempt to articulate an accurate story. Dead animals, bugs, ballots... The same brand of doom and gloom so popular in the media these days. I suspect the problems reflects the capacity to accommodate increased demand but I wouldn't know because I have to read between the lines of several articles intended to get me riled up instead of telling me the real story of cause and effect.
I don’t have a practical choice to use iOS: my extended family uses FaceTime and iMessage instead of WhatsApp and Skype for example - and my company develops for iOS-first as well.

If Apple made-good on Steve Jobs’ promise to make FaceTime an open standard and I could use it from Android devices and and PC then your argument would be stronger.

Apple put us in an unfortunate position where the strength of the iOS ecosystem means that many of us don’t have a choice in phone platform to buy into - which in turn opens us up to being exploited by their App Store practices.

Point is - I feel like I’m being dicked-over by Apple and the alternatives are just not feasible. Responses like “Just buy two phones lol” or “you still have a choice to use Android and not talk with your family at all” aren’t helpful or productive.

I’m sure the same arguments would have been made with Standard Oil when anti-trust law wasn’t on the books yet: arguably consumers and companies still had a choice to not use oil: they could use coal or natural-gas. People have a choice to drive a car or they could walk or ride a horse or take a train... hopefully you see why your argument is seen as being made in bad faith. We have a choice, yes - but it isn’t a free choice. We are being coerced into making a choice by our circumstances and Apple is taking an unreasonably unfair advantage of that.
Yeah. Consider that BigCos end up writing transpilers and new runtimes for their target platforms before rewriting the application, which would entail discarding the decades of built-in bugfixes and application logic as well as reconstructing the organization around a different platform -- HipHop for PHP, Grumpy, etc. A language change is no small thing in any company of appreciable size.
I think information like that is perhaps useful, at least to avoid wasting time repeating the same research, but publishing that does not prove that there's no correlation between X and Y, only that the things tested didn't show one.
You might want to read this one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2020/08/19/why-t-...
So your refutation of my argument is: “Because Marx said so, it must be false”? Note that I’ve never mentioned classes or power struggle in my arguments, so you are putting words in my mouth.

I don’t understand how my argument is circular. If you strip away any ways for a person to provide for them self except selling their own labor, you are basically saying to them: “work or perish!” Technically perishing is an option, but it is not an option most people will consider (including my self; and demonstrably Uber drivers).
> "Moving from scarcity of capital to scarcity of attention" is where my bullshit filter lead me to stop reading.

"Scarcity" is perhaps the wrong word, but we don't really have a better one. Perhaps aggregation? Regardless, we can see that there are problems (and not just in the form of bubbles) being created by a lot of capital in very large piles sloshing around chasing opportunities for investment around the globe (even though capital still isn't exactly not-scarce), and that the current big winners in 'tech' are mostly purveyors of attention of various sorts.
Well... they did. That's basically called a Xeon 8180. :-)

Or alternatively, an AMD EPYC (64-cores / 128x PCIe lanes).
That sucks to hear. Null results are important, as you say, if only to dissuade others from doing the same.

See also the "file-drawer problem" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias). Also, with regards to the incentives in the field and the lack of null results, there's always Ioannidis's classic work (https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...).
Half of US adults say dating has gotten harder in the last 10 years
Didn't NHibernate have the cartesian product problem solved in a neat way by having various fetch strategies?

You could specify to eagerly load some collections and have NHibernate issue additional select statement to load the children, producing maximum of 2-3 queries (depending on the eager-loading depth) but avoiding both N+1 problem and cartesian row explosion problem.
Why ‘T Cell Immunity’ Won’t End the Coronavirus Pandemic
The vaccine is true, but not "doesn't sweep through the population". The CDC estimates 35M Americans got the flu last year.[1]

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
ETF format can more easily defer capital gains with losses. Though the more stocks in the index, the more economic situations in can do this. It wouldn't be possible if the index was just 5 stocks and they all gained disproportionately.
I don’t think you understand how banks earn money. People deposit funds which they then loan to others. The interest they get from the debtors is more then the interest they pay depositors. If everyone repaid their mortgage early they have no profit, so they need to cover themselves for that. They aren’t charities.
My buddy has built an entire career hopping to late stage start up after late stage startup and refactoring rails into java
When Is Lockdown Justified?
REBL was free for personal use before. Commercial use required a Datomic license or a monthly Patreon subscription. REBL is now free for commercial use as well. At least, that's my understanding of this latest bundling change.
totally agree. big O notation is like super high level that that doesn't require really doing any math.
I've been wondering about ransomware protection through snapshots. Presumably (and I do know more or less nothing about it) the malware aspect of it is present on the system significantly before the ransomware aspect is triggered - so restoring to yesterday's backup just puts you back in the position to get pwn3d again? How do companies get around this?
Well what about 0.000001 seconds after the big bang (add zeros as needed).
I don't know... Can I run Netscape Navigator on Ubuntu 20.04? How about Gtk 1.2 programs or old Qt3 programs? Can I run Opera 12.x?
Neural Network Restores Old Videos [video]
I don't agree at all. The point was that software has changed the world the most in the last some-odd amount of years, more so than any other discipline, and I don't really understand your counterpoints - there's always been multiple food products in every home, that is actually a demonstration of how little agriculture impacts our lives. It's a mainstay.

And climate science is once again really not impacting our lives - it should be, we should all be making sweeping changes to our behaviors and requiring massive corporate overhauls & pricing in costs of disposal & cleanup - but it's not, because no one cares, and no organization with real teeth bites you for that.

Software, though, it doesn't matter what you do, it will find a way to impact you & what you've done, and if you have non cognizance of that someone else will probably eat your lunch eventually. It's obvious how climate science doesn't have the same level of import wrt every aspect of our lives [note I'm not saying this makes sense, and I would argue climate science is the most important thing, but someone saying "pollute less" isn't more credible for it].
I think it is responding to a project as if it were a product.