skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's something to be said for having the physical object that belonged to someone you knew. For example, I was recently given my mother's collection of 7"s. Yes, they're completely impractical by today's standards and I can find almost all of those songs on Spotify, but the collection included her handwritten index and notes scribbled in the columns about memories connected to the various songs in it.

I don't have a specific example in mind, but I'm sure the same applies to books people have inherited from friends and family. People write all sorts of interesting notes in books, tuck photos in between the pages, etc. These items offer a connection that a library book or its digital equivalent (often) cannot.
It’s hardly random. R functions could be noun-adjective or adjective-noun or underscored or camelCase or dotted ... and that’s just naming conventions. If someone, like you, says that Numpy sucks, but R is the real masterpiece, then that’s totally insincere. The good thing about R is that it’s free, the C FFI is OK and R-studio is decent. It’s API is a patchwork. It’s cool to say Java sucks or Python sucks on the orange site because they’re popular and if you say something popular sucks, well you must be a pretty cool guy who is smarter than all those rubes out there. The arguments are almost always total nonsense, though.
This is the sort of reason I don't put much stock in titles, personally.
> We don't know anything about the accusers, do we?

That’s the problem. The system is broken because it’s designed to give the accusers every benefit of the doubt, while giving the accused no recourse.

The accused is at the mercy of anonymous complaints. The accusers have zero accountability or downsides.
Indeed, meaning any buyer who wants to purchase it as a speculative investment "sealed box" and not to actually open it would get fucked. It might actually change hands several times before being opened in a rising market like this one and the seller may have either been the source of the scam (and played the oblivious fool when it was opened in front of him) or was scammed himself.
You'll note my phrasing was "can get a lot of mileage out of" and not "never need anything more than"; that was for a reason. If you pick up a particular spammer, with the toolset they have, who either has a personal reason to attack you, or who notices that you have a lot more Google juice than you realize, or even just misidentifies you as a large site for whatever reason, obviously they'll blow right through something as trivial as this. It is far from solid protection.

However, it does quite often work for extended periods of time, and for someone running a small site, it's worth it to try this out before going to something crazier because there's a decent chance it'll work. There are sites I frequent where such simple things have been working for years. It's so easy, that if it doesn't work, there isn't much time wasted. Very good bang for the buck, even if it is not even remotely a guaranteed solution for everybody.
>implies that the series is going to look at how the majority of companies (as in, not startups) are implementing SRE

That's exactly what I was expecting as well.

>either FAANG or SV-style startups, and ignores everything else

SV in a nutshell. Also obviously only North America exists.
Slack is async in the same way phone calls are async. You absolutely don't have to respond immediately on a phone call or on slack, the technology really doesn't care.

They are both used conversationally though and that means they follow the social conventions around conversations.
We seem to disagree whether a significant number of people in the BLM movement pay any attention to the BLM Global Network Foundation.
A post I wrote about toilet years ago: https://sequoia.makes.software/fun-with-toilet/
According to a source equally reliable as this (Reddit), someone tried to interfere but got stabbed.
47 years is pretty long.
It could does not mean it does.
The topic is whether FOSS developers should use Bazel, not whether Bazel is good for Google.

For many it is Bazel that is inferior due to development environment constraints.

And "outdated" is a questionable term: if it satisfies their needs, why upgrade?

Maybe Google should build better tools.
feature flagging allows you to separate code deployment from feature releases. It’s a change in dev methodology/mentally and usually goes hand-in-hand with “trunk-based development” (trunk/master is always stable and you should avoid long lived branches).

a good feature flag service should also allow you to do % rollout to try to de-risk the release of a new feature, some times even auto-closing the feature if some specific metric passes a certain threshold (e.g. dau dropped 10%, number of errors increased x%, etc)
Owing to hacker news denizens contrarian and independent nature, you may have found the one way to get people to not correct you (by asking for them to :) )
Of course it is. Count every time the human has to take over as a crash for the computer, and then see what your statistics look like. The computer is much worse.
Sounds like folks who love the field but hate the job, should teach!

The trouble is that the students will see the instructor as the barrier between them abd a paying career.
I mean, $60/11gb = $5.45/gb, and you’re already on a higher priced plan where prices are lower.

I know providers like to think that SMS or voice calls are a big extra, but 95%+ of mine these days are over data.
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I feel you bro since I'm in a similar boat.
What area are you in? - There are always lots of recruiters looking to fill various robotics roles at well funded startups
I was a Nintendo fanboy during the Iwata era. IIRC he owned a majority of their stock, so pleasing investors meant pleasing him. And that seemed to involve very cautiously dipping their toes in micro-transactions (eg. Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball), and maybe generally being fairly customer friendly in a few other areas.
Check the flags in multiple parts of the system, or duplicate some logic and have two completely self-contained components, one with the new pieces and one untouched.
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And his evidence is...?
Perhaps because you don't like Candy Crush?
You can think about this purely within a tech space as well.

If you are a UI designer, a little bit of knowledge about web developer can help you make UI choices which work for both the customer and for the developer.

If you as a developer know a bit about Ops, you can tweak your website design to hopefully make OPS better. Or atleast start broaching the question with your Ops girl

It happens anythime there is collaboration: knowing a little about the capabilities and constraints of the people upstream and downstream of you (suppliers and customers (perhaps internal)) helps you make better decisions or at least have better conversations etc.
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"According to Snopes, LifeSiteNews is "a known purveyor of misleading information."[13] The Associated Press described the website as "ultraconservative."[14] In May 2019, Philip Pullela, in a Reuters article, wrote that the website "often is a platform for attacks on [Pope Francis]."[15] The LGBT magazine The Advocate has described LifeSiteNews as an anti-LGBT outlet, and criticised it for articles blaming clerical sex abuse, including that of children, on homosexuality.[16] Research has shown no evidence that sexual orientation affects the likelihood of a person's abusing children."
Yea so that won't happen.
Hospitals don't audit anything for real. The hospital admin just hires their buddy to rubber stamp junk and gets a kickback.
The actual software and hardware solutions too are based on who gives the best kickbacks to hospital admins and doctors.

Thats it. That's the American healthcare field and why its a complete shitshow.
IT staff is made to deal with decisions they have no say or power in and turnover is quite high.
> Why NOT formalize rules to some extent?

Besides the reams of examples of CoC's being abused and arbitrarily enforced like the one in the attached article you mean? I've never even heard of a CoC being applied in any way except a petty, bureaucratic way.
To my mind when I interview people there are two types of people who match what you've described:

1) I'm a generalist and go wide but only surface deep.

2) I'm a specialist in multiple areas, I go deep and because I know how to do that I have done it multiple times and can also do it for whatever your problem domain is.

The first of these feels more like your full-stack web developer and the lack of depth usually deter me from hiring... the latter though, the latter feels like an interdisciplinary master that I would want to hire so long as I can see that the candidate is able to apply that to solve our business needs within a month or two of ramp-up.

I haven't seen your CV but I'd make sure that #2 was obvious at the top of the CV as that would provide context to the roles on the CV, each one enriching who you are.
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There's a youtube channel by a guy who ran/runs an Apple-affiliate repair shop. He has definitely seen storefronts remain idle for multiple years. I see this happen in my local area as well and don't understand it.
>Why NOT formalize rules to some extent?

Because, at least in the case of CoCs in open source, the sorts of people most vocally pushing to implement and enforce them are almost invariably of the sort most likely to use them as political weapons and enforce them lopsidedly.
Likely easier than forging a Mona Lisa or something like that but certainly not an easy feat. Some Magic cards have been in the 5 figures for a decade at least, the opportunity has always been there.
Actually I think most middle management has very little power or authority. Try firing a customer and see how far you get with that if you aren't running the company.
Wealthy Chinese fleeing oppression aren’t money launderers.
When and where has the copyright period rolled back? It’s like a ratchet.

Actually I do know of one: Congress granted an exception to the visually impaired.
that whole website is like stealth alt-right-wing, how is the domain not blocked here?
Yes but big bulk of google plays features were stolen from it and they did their big marketing PR push using their stuff
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> His show broke the record because more than half of American population are basket of deplorables, least educated, and white supremacists.

In another word, mainstream.
Yeah these numbers seem way off. I did some stress tests for my thesis and was able to get 20-90 requests per second served from a Raspberry Pi 2 running a PHP website with a PostgreSQL database, depending on the complexity of the page. An equivalent site programmed in Elixir fared even better. With plain Nginx serving a static HTML file, I could hit 1000 requests per second.

So it does seem the bottleneck here is the writer's Internet connection.
For a linearly recursive sequence x_0, x_1, x_(n+2) = ax_(n+1) + bx_n, the general formula for the terms is

x_n = cα^n + dβ^n,

where α, β are the roots of the quadratic x²−ax−b; c, d are solutions to the system

c + d = x_0
cα + dβ = x_1.

If the series Σ x_n⋅10^n converges then its value is

10c/(10−α) + 10d/(10−β)
= ((100−10a)x_0 + 10x_1)/(100 − 10a − b).

If a, b, x_0, x_1 are all rational then the above series converges to a rational number, too. This is the case for the Fibonacci sequence, with a=b=1, x_0=0 and x_1=1.
Fwiw, I know someone who wasn't able to get a police report for assault but was able to ban someone from an event.

If you're interested in making spaces more welcoming and existing legal structures aren't doing the job, codes of conduct are extremely valuable.
Thanks.

> has been around since at least 1483

I should have guessed that it would have been used "before".

> what's truly bothering you...

I should say "Learnings sounds incorrect to me". Just the use of it makes me cringe. Just like nails across a blackboard.

Ironically, I do quite enjoy "obscure" English, in the sense that the US use 'fall' and 'soccer', both of which are "old" English, but fallen out of use in the UK.
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I’m curious, what everyone wants to see in a feature flagging service? privacy? (gdpr, caap) %rollout? flexibility on rules?

from my perspective the most important thing would be privacy and ideally no sdk, but I acknowledge that I might be bias...
Formalizing rules is fine. But then be clear about the expectations. Either those rules exist to create a fair, safe, productive space for everyone - at which point, as 'wruza[0] and 'defen[1] wrote, you should go all in and set up institutional support that ensures the rules are fairly applied and there's appeals process to correct mistakes - or, they exist only to codify the capriciousness of the rule setter, at which point it should be said explicitly. Either is fine, but it's important they never get confused.

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24928833

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24927974
"A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."
For multiplayer online Scrabble with an active community and a bare-bones but very functional UI, try this: http://isc.ro
Sounds truly horrible, and meets my experience of SOA around 2005, but let's not forget that younger devs don't have the luxury of having tinkered with stuff hands-on as it was introduced, such as SQL, pre-jquery js, SOA, Unix/Linux to form an intuition.
This article isn't entirely true.

Yes, prices are set by the margin, so small changes in supply and demand can have outsized effects on prices.

But the article completely falls apart here:

> If you are money laundering... The objective is to move as much cash, as fast as possible. This often involves large assets, and the bigger the price – the better... Both the seller and the money laundering buyer want the highest acceptable price... Competition between interests align, and there’s minimal friction preventing prices from going higher.

This gets it completely opposite and wrong. It doesn't matter if you're laundering money or not -- you still want the best deal on an asset. You still want to sell eventually, and the lower your buying price, the more profit you'll make later. Everybody still wants to make a profit.

A launderer will always prefer to buy 2 properties at a market value of $1 million each, over buying one of those at an inflated $2 million. Always. The laws of supply and demand don't disappear just because you're laundering money.

The idea that "the objective is to move as much cash, as fast as possible" is totally made-up and totally ludicrous. The idea is to move the amount you have, in a reasonable timeframe, at the most profitable price.

The only reason money launderers can have an outsized effect on the real estate market is because they generate more demand. Period. But that demand is no different from legitimate buyers. Demand is demand. That's the entire story.

(Of course, if laws around LLC's and scrutiny around real estate deals were changed then that demand might dry up. But that doesn't have anything to do with the laws of economics.)
Step 1. Ban private equity and investment firms from owning healthcare providers.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 per thousand impressions so not a ton per person
Do you have Docker? Then you can use an open source web UI rather than run the command-line tool.

cat > youtube-dl-webui.Dockerfile <<EOF
FROM d0u9/youtube-dl-webui
RUN pip3 install --upgrade youtube_dl
EOF

cat > conf.json <<EOCONF
{ "general": {"download_dir": "/tmp/ytdui/download","db_path": "/tmp/ytdui/webui.db","log_size": 10},
"server": {"host": "0.0.0.0","port": 5000} }
EOCONF

docker build \
-f youtube-dl-webui.Dockerfile \
-t youtube-dl-webui:latest \
.

mkdir ytdui && chmod 777 ytdui
docker run \
--rm -it \
--name youtube_dl_webui \
-p 5000:5000 \
-e FLASK_DEBUG=1 \
-e CONF_FILE=/conf.json \
-v `pwd`/conf.json:/conf.json \
-v `pwd`/ytdui:/tmp/ytdui \
youtube-dl-webui:latest

firefox http://localhost:5000/

That's the simplest one to get running I think (https://github.com/d0u9/youtube-dl-webui). Another is in PHP (https://github.com/timendum/Youtube-dl-WebUI).
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Well yah, that’s exactly it. Ego thing. Things will roll down hill until it hits someone who can actually fathom a coherent story for the org.
At the size / scale of grubhub, it will always be cheaper to do unethical things for money now versus settling out of court later.

Knowing someone that used to do sales at grubhub, this doesn't surprise me at all. The company that person currently works at is probably doing the same, because if you can get away with it, why not? Worst thing that happens to the people who put those policies in place is they find another job.
Attacking a hospital is a war crime, so how is it not terrorism?
Yes, and the article provides an example of both.
I have not been to Vancouver, but it sounds very attractive: next to the sea and the mountains, good health care, working democracy and civilization and so on.

It does not sound implausible that housing prices are soaring.

Also perhaps a lot of government regulation that make it difficult to build more housing.

And there are other sources of money besides "money laundering" - why assume of all sources, "money laundering" is the driving force?

Like lets say newly rich Chinese people appreciate the investment in Vancouver. Is that then "money laundering"? Do they just equate "foreign investors" with "money laundering"?
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I'll admit I don't know the full story behind grubhub's practices with adding restaurants without the owners' permission.

It does sound like a case of "fake it till you make it", in a sense that adding restaurants without the owners' consent would be a way around the chicken and egg problem.

Not saying it's a particularly nice thing to do, I'd be super annoyed if it happened to me
> Change your CTAs from being labelled "Buy" to "Buy a limited license for on-demand viewing over an indefinite period of time" if that's what it is.

It should be the other way round. If it said "Buy", the buyer is deemed to have been sold it and owns it. If it turns out the buyer did now own it to sell it in the first place (eg. someone else held the rights, not the purported "seller"), then the seller now owes the buyer a refund.

The situation should be dealt with just like any other fraudulent misrepresentation/misleading labelling, whether driven by a corporate marketing department or not.
> Having a hidden set of implicit mores is far worse.

In every arena I've operated this is always the case. Military, Big Company and on the streets. Not saying it's right, but it's extremely common (in my experience)

> Rules shouldn't be implicit in professional environments.

Totally agree. But again, everywhere I've been there are at least 2 sets of rules.

Maybe I am jaded by conforming to the 'It is what it is' mentality. In practice though, that has been my experience.
CoCs are about politics to the extent that politics affects one's ability to be empathetic. If you believe that genetics cause women to perform worse in technical roles, that will be reflected in your social behavior.

To use an extreme example for the sake of discussion, would you similarly feel that excluding a skinhead with Swastika face tattoos from a scientific conference constitutes an unacceptable example of political oppression? If not, is it because they cause minoritized people to feel unsafe and unwelcome? Where do you believe the line should be drawn?
It's a paradox related to "meta-logic", but it's different.
Surprise exam is about temporal reasoning -- It's only impossible to be surprised on the last day (or else the premise of having an exam is invalidsted), and reasoning backwards in time from a contradiction is not valid.

Uninteresting number is a simpler contradiction in definitions.
Blind mimicry of Google SRE as-it-is-written in the book is one of the most difficult ideologies I've had to deal with at work. Small 5-person teams that historically have helped other teams throughout their projects are now bent on everyone adopting their stacks, their metrics, their security policies, and anything outside that realm becomes "unsupported". These teams are tech obsessed with the latest great thing, except it's not great. Or at least it isn't if it's not aligned with the business.

It's been mentioned in other comments here but I'm super fond of SRE embeds for reasons already shared here.
> Hash is a Brazilian fintech building the next-generation of payments infrastructure.

In general I agree with the point you're making, though.
>the larger point is that you are willing to do what is needed

They seem to be unable to organize and delegate work effectively even when it's needed and instead rely on polyglot-engineers to bridge that gap by overloading their responsibilities.
Tax avoidance is not money laundering. Not even close. TFA does a good job of describing the process, of which zero pieces fit "purchasing foreign property to avoid local taxes". Reintroduction of these funds back into the local economy after performing whatever tax avoidance tricks might qualify as money laundering.
I would certainly hope a minimal HTTP library would be simpler than a suite of functions to manipulate and plot tabular data.

“My application is slow, the language sucks!” Doesn’t indicate a very serious investigation into the problem.
The announced pricing for the current "beta" is $99/month plus $500 upfront for the hardware.
Let’s not conflate fleeing an oppressive regime with actual crimes.
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> Propaganda is just old-school name for PR

“Marketing” might be more precise, though not originally in the context of business. Specifically, Propaganda fide, from which the term “propaganda” entered general usage, was the older name for the Vatican organization that is now the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Fibonacci died in 1242, so 13th century not 15th.
From the abstract:

> In the United States, we have stagnating or declining real wages, a growing gap between rich and poor, overproduction of young graduates with advanced degrees, and exploding public debt

Quite interesting that this article only focuses on the 3rd entry of those
Google is a trillion dollar company based on 3 very important products.

Chrome, the browser installed in billions of devices. On Android it comes installed default, on desktop using gmail, youtube will prompt to install chrome (even using MSFT Edge which is chromium based, will prompt to install chrome)

Chrome drives traffic to Google.com as the default search engine.

The search engine is more like an ad engine since most of the above fold content is ads.

Google’s actions say their motto is “Google ads on every page, on every device”

A search engine that doesn’t optimize for ads would be a great boon for humanity.
It's really simple - after you submit the request to Steam it takes 3 days to transfer ownership. Problem solved.
"Blindly trust us, or bad things will happen" has no place in a Free society - especially after they've been repeatedly caught abusing that trust. There are many steps NSA could take to increase their transparency without exposing the details of operations, but as I said the problem is that they actively oppose oversight. This is likely due to the usual authoritarian delusion ("taking more power will help accomplish our benevolent goal"), which is at odds with democracy.
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