skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was sure that I had read this story before but checking the date showed that this blog post was just published a few days ago. A little searching turned up the place that I had originally seen it: a comment on this very site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24799332
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> Would you say that white Americans homeland is Europe?

I would say — from a European perspective — a baffling number of white Americans cling on to a European cultural identity. It feels to an outsider like many Americans want to be American + something else. Many/most black Americans don’t have this luxury, and my hot take is that Kwanza and other pan-African neo traditions seek to fill this gap? As a counter-example, I lived in the anglophone Caribbean for many years, and it always felt like there was a strong sense of national identity there, very distinct from trying to associate with Africa in any way. I guess I’d also expect 2nd/3rd generation African immigrants to America to maintain their cultural identity — I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone with Ethiopian heritage describe themselves as anything other than Ethiopian whatever their passport or recent ancestry
My first thought when I saw the title was that it was due to Nagle's algo.
Do you remember when a named source, Colin Powell, showed some photoshops of "weapons lab trucks" to the UN leading to us going to war in multiple countries resulting in millions of dead people? That was a named person with claimed evidence. This is even less credible than Powell.

It's hard to get less credible than unnamed sources with no evidence.
Thats a good point, which is why I was noting 3/4 criteria were met in places where I witnessed great productivity. If it isnt interesting, people should be rewarded and at least understand why they are doing something. The hedge fund, for example, was not terribly interesting for many years. But I understood the importance of the work, the drivers for it, and I got rewarded and so did everyone else.

A company or manager might say -- well continued employment is the reward. Yes or no, depends on the situation. It is common for companies to hire people and then cut benefits (less healthcare benefits, 401k matches cut, etc.) -- well then the rewards are not being shared, especially if the cuts are not universally applied.

It is also common for companies to reward unequally. For example, many companies reward salespersons or executives yet continue to tighten rewards for Engineers/Ops/Support. As a result -- quite possibly not intentionally -- you have engineers like the ones on this comment section: noting they are finding 2 or 3hrs productive time. In an ideal world, rewards should be aligned to input and required effort -- and I've seen incredibly productive Engineers at hedge funds when they realize they have massive skin in the game with huge upsides.

Finally, with regards to respect and needs. I have never seen Engineers more unproductive than once they realize that all deadlines are false deadlines -- especially when these false deadlines are constant. I think people understand real urgency and real deadlines when they are explained, not "do it because I said so."

The problem is -- even if you pay engineers, "do it because I said so" doesnt work since there is such a creative element and so much uncertainty. You end up with 8 "productive hours" full of unnecessary bug fixes and shortsighted design because people are not bought into the vision. The worst situation is when management actually things that is real productivity -- then you know it is over.
200ms for that one.
I have struggled a lot with video streams decoding on Android. Every chip manufacturer does things differently. Some have a 11 frame buffer, some a 6 frame buffer, some will pipe data out after only a few frames.
Let aside the tens of different YUV formats from diagonally interlaced streams to split-byte ones lest you want to work with the output directly and not let the decoder render to a surface directly (to avoid the latency of reading from the surface).
Back then I ended up doing a lot of crazy things like piping "empty" NAL frames to the decoder, to force a flush among other things. If you really cared for low-latency specific streams it was very difficult to work with the fragmentation of the ecosystem.

That was a few years ago, the versions that came at around 2016++ (after API 23) were the versions that became more stable, and relied less on OEM specific magic.
Why are we talking about Fannie and Freddie? They are direct subsidies!

I'm talking about building power lines and wastewater plants and shit like that. Encouraging counties to adopt zoning that simplifies residential construction. Etc.
I'm always not sure when a conversation will need a thread. Sometimes I start a thread and then it's over with just one message that provides the answer. Other times I don't start one right away, but now if I start one then the first 4 messages of context will be missing at the top. I would use threads ofif there were a way to create them retroactively.
> It is not an ad hominem attack when accurately describing the well known attribute of the source.

That is literally what an ad hominem attack is. Attacking the source instead of the claim.

> The story also turned out to be not necessarily true, from another comment.

The other comment doesn't actually contradict the story, though it is pertinent information.

The story discusses the problems with Orion and points out that Dominion uses SolarWinds software, with a link to the page where they use SolarWinds Serv-U. That doesn't necessarily mean they also use Orion, but the article doesn't claim that.

Interestingly (?) they just changed the linked page in response to the story. It no longer contains the SolarWinds logo when it did earlier:

http://web.archive.org/web/20201214102053/https://dvsfilesha...

I don't understand why people think doing things like that helps them. Of all the election fraud claims, the Dominion Hugo Chavez bit is the furthest out in conspiracy theory land, and then they do things like that which are just going to end up on Glenn Beck's nightly rant.
More examples:

When debugging a web app, you can debug the code (and add print statements / breakpoints). Or look at the HTTP queries its making in the inspector. Or debug the server - look at what queries its receiving and returning. Or experiment with different values in the database.

Last year I was trying to track down a memory leak in some wasm code. The tooling for that sort of thing in wasm was/is quite primitive, so I did some work to compile the module natively then ran valgrind on the resulting executable. That didn't work - the C code executed differently from the wasm and didn't exhibit the bug! So I added print statements randomly through the program and ran it both natively and through wasm, then diffed the text output to track down when the execution traces diverged. (It wasn't a compiler bug, fwiw.)

I wanted more information about the memory leak. So I wrapped all the malloc/free calls with a replacement that stored all outstanding allocations in a list, with the stack trace when malloc was called. When the leak happened, I could ask for the stack trace of all outstanding allocated objects[1]. That was fast and effective, and I added a memory leak check in my CI.

At one of my first programming jobs we were using visual source safe (oh god, kill it with fire). I ended up losing some changes I'd made in a ~3000 line java class that we'd already deployed to production. I didn't want to do my work over again (or admit the mistake to my boss!). So I ran a decompiler against the class file we deployed to production - but it was huge and unreadable. To find the changes I'd made I took the current version of the java file, then compiled it and decompiled it again. So then I had two ugly files - but I could diff them, and that highlighted immediately the dozen or so changes I'd made. Then I just manually rewrote each change back into the original source file. Importantly, I had complete confidence that I didn't miss any of my changes.

[1] Its not pretty, but the code looks like this if anyone's curious: https://github.com/josephg/mime-to-jmap/blob/2a7429f7b805cb0...
> that Android Threads are a userspace construct

Whoa!
The NBA drafts more on potential than current playing skill, making it even more of a crapshoot.
It’s limited to 250 speakers at a time. We stream to the web and unlimited people can tune in!
I don't understand the question. The socioeconomic structure of many of our largest cities is defined by redlining. Lawndale and Englewood in Chicago? Entirely the product of redlining. The property values of houses in areas cordoned off for white people? Redlining.
My money was on: someone ported NT thread priority inversion to Linux.
Friendly reminder, Tech is not San Francisco, it's just a city, treat it as such.
My impression (strengthened by your argument) is that nearly anything we can say about a DSL we can say about data in general (as opposed to code). A DSL at the end of the day is just a specialized, idealized schema for data representation. Most of its advantages would also apply (in varying degrees) to storing business information as JSON, or in SQL tables, or as s-expressions for that matter. In any of these cases we get the same benefits of portability, introspectability, automation, etc.

That's not to say that DSLs are useless. In many cases they have advantages against the above formats in terms of both what they can, and (just as important) can't, express. I just think they're part of a bigger conversation.
Larry Magid said: “I don't think it matters where the CEO sits. What matters is: where is the innovation and where are the job and both HP and Oracle will remain in the valley as employers,"

What would be a move Sufficient enough to meet Larry’s assessment?
Having never met her, I won't pretend to know what she gets off on.

But I have seen Twitter brigading, and I don't have a good suggestion on how to deal with it. She's taking a novel approach of asking friends of followers to intercede. If it works, it could serve as a model for diffusing brigades, which would be nice to have.

(I wouldn't consider anything regarding Trump to be a useful model here. The power difference between any corporate director and a President is too significant).
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I don't follow the reasoning. Even if you have a reliable prediction of performance, what prevents you from hiring some candidates who are exemplary and some who are just well-qualified? Or are we assuming that the best candidates would be given a higher-tier job for which they just meet the requirements?
Because it’s native to the platform. Seriously, that’s huge. The React Native toolchain is cumbersome to say the least.

There’s something to say about a first-class library, meaning one that is being used exactly as designed. I mean, why do people use Javascript? Because it’s the native language of the browser.
For some reason it seems that the fitness+ app is not compatible with airplay 2 TVs. Neither regular airplay casting nor iPhone mirroring
Because it's an Apple sanctioned technology within XCode?
You know the irony of refusing to take precautions for concern about the future is it makes the future worse. More people get sick when we are not careful.

If you were in a region with Ebola you would wash hands, wear a mask and more. And for 300k dead Americans, this essentially was Ebola. Right now is a once in a hundred year event where the whole world has to endure this pandemic. These are temporary steps that no one takes lightly to make the future better.
Wow, most of that is new to me. I appreciate you taking the time to reply.
Honestly, after using spring and lombok annotation processing, I cant stand Java without them. So much code and functionality gets auto generated, the value is huge. Its just that if you havent worked with them before it looks like a huge abstracted mess.
Where have you seen this? I've been in and out of Penn Station (NY) and Union Stations (DC, Chicago) a lot over the years right up until COVID and have never encountered any TSA.
good sir
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> In a rather unexpected turn of events Dan Dodge, co-creator and CEO of QNX Software Systems himself reached out to us and offered to extend the contest to finish the process properly. Dan is offering $2000 prize for making QNX 1.2 boot from hard disk without use of the boot floppy disk.

epic classy move

By the time QNX got cheap enough I could think of playing with it, I no longer had the time. Always wanted to, especially when wrestling with MSDOS based UUCP crap. There was supposed to have been a real uucp for QNX as i recall.
If only a small fraction of the population has the organ, then yeah, possibly.
I wonder if the people fleeing California will end up voting for the same bad policies that are the reason they had to leave in the first place. That is, do they connect the bad policies to the bad outcomes, or will they still favor the bad policies?

There is one major area for tech people where Texas may prove a nasty surprise to employees: non-compete agreements. For large employers this may be a bonus though as they can keep wages low by stifling competition. Texas does limit non-compete agreements to some degree, but it seems they can still be a serious problem.
Would you condone the post-birth infanticide of a weak/dead-end offspring as a smarter form of not spending resource someone probably does not have ?
I have tried a bunch of steaming platforms (Netflix, Amazon, hbo max, Disney plus, Apple TV) and Netflix has the best playback experience (and overall experience), followed by Apple. They definitely take engineering more seriously than the others.

We have considered ditching Netflix (content is meh for this household) but after using one of the other apps we frequently bail and find something on NF simply because the overall experience is better.
The military is always full of people. I don't think it changes the power dynamic that federal loyalists wind have access to modern high tech equipment and also their private caches.
Forced anything is obviously bad. But if there is the possibility of taking drugs to temporarily alter ones gender identity, perhaps to match their body, or the sex they are attracted to, it would give people with these issues more options to explore. Perhaps they would be happy in their altered state and not need to undergo years of therapy or surgical procedures. Or perhaps seeing the "other side" would convince them that they need to stay true to their original self, at any cost. This could eliminate a lot of internal self-doubt and "what if" debate.
From what I've seen, there's some mentality among current students to keep your head down so you don't get kicked out for criticizing it before you land the job. Also, it's probably more like 40% or less new grads, it seems to mainly be people changing careers right now. Bootcamps are a bit less than "glamorous" now, and the pandemic shook things up for a lot of people, especially coming from retail/restaurants/small businesses.
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Texas is bigger than France, a country of 67 million people. There should be enough space :)
I often refer to squirrels as cute, fluffy-tailed arboreal rats...
> Why assume that this is the kind of application that would be used?

I guess because trans people are treated like lepers and because conversion therapy used to be a pretty common thing.

> Do you really think it's so uncommon that someone might have the seeds of these feelings and really rather that they just go away?

No, I don't think it's uncommon. Which is why I engaged your post instead of downvoting and moving on.

> If it's something that can be handled therapeutically and allow the person to live in the skin they were born in without dysphoria, doesn't that seem like something an awful lot of people would probably consider, especially if it's not invasive?

And, we're back to conversion therapy. I don't necessarily disagree with you here. I think my reservations don't come from the therapy itself, but rather the circumstances under which it's recommended or administered.

For instance, is it better to take HRT and be closer to the person you feel by default? Or is it better to take b-yr-c15-53lf trans-blockers to get back to living your happy norm life? Is it being pushed by a therapist? Am I discovering it myself? It brings up a lot of questions about vulnerability, self, identity, etc.
> "Infrastructure As Code" is a misnomer in my opinion. The underlying mechanism is more "Infrastructure as Configuration". Terraform syntax is called HCL "HashiCorp Configuration Language". The "code" aspect of (consuming) Terraform is oriented around providing dynamic configuration capabilities utilising reusable code Modules.

While TF is the most popular interpretation of IaC these days it is definitely not the only way to do it. I have maintained that HCL is the worst part of Terraform -- it's likely that DSL will grow until it very nearly rivals a full grown language, when they could have gone with full blown languages to start (like Pulumi[0]). Terraform does now support native programming language via their CDK support[1]. This meets the "code" requirement.

There is a trade-off of course -- opening up the door to a fully powered programming language means opening the door to infinite complexity, but I think I'd rather have that than have the DSL that has spiky (though constrained) complexity.

> . As GraphQL has led people to question the applicability of REST type API's in SPA contexts, so I believe IaC will eventually suggest a transition towards single Cloud API endpoints where the entire required state is described; reducing IaC to configuration

Agree -- the interface will likely be kubernetes-like.

> Currently the programming or Code aspect is required as a function of API design and the corresponding wiring of components together. Potentially not necessary and not particularly helpful.

On the meta level, it looks like we've run into the ol' "are declarative languages code" (alternatively, "is HTML code?") question.

A free unsolicited hot take on GraphQL: In my opinion GraphQL is just funny looking SQL, which offers every codebase the opportunity to become as complex as the time-tested query execution engines in real production-ready databases. It's almost like how mongo let you pull schema validation and constraint checking from your relational database up to your application language, which as far as I'm concerned is a bad idea most of the time. That said, just like mongo, the productivity brought about by GraphQL is undeniable (whether real or imagined), so I tread lightly and often don't speak ill of it.

[0]: https://www.pulumi.com/docs

[1]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-enabling-py...
Seeing the same message over and over and over and over has been proven to have an effect subconsciously.
That would have surely shown up in this research?

It could happen that it weren't randomly distributed and that it occurs with a statistically higher frequency in the part of the planet where it was done.

But that is quite rare for organs.
High taxes, regulations for everything, the government running every part of your personal life, cancer labels on everything... seems like a dream come true. What went wrong?
Supercentenarians are in areas of no birth certificates and short lifespans
Does climate change play an unspoken role in this? Is California is an increasingly unstable place from an ecology perspective?
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Maybe that's a good policy that was voted for that they can vote for again in the new location?
Both HPE and Oracle are not moving many people to Texas per the news release so outside of some tax incentives, I am not really sure how this would help Austin and Houston.
Try finding the actual REST API docs for "Open Banking". Lol.
I know multiple people considering abandoning California due to the homelessness crisis, as the unhoused population (and the problems associated) are expected to increase 10x in the near future as a consequence of the pandemic, with no hope in sight.
> Q10 is at least a little bit secret sauce.

I wonder what's really the limit in Q10a. For example companies will have huge recommendation models built, likely very automated without manually assigned labels. If they never ask for "“yes,” “no” for whether the natural Person is of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin", but one of the automated recommendation dimensions is close to 1:1 match for that question, would they have to disclose that? (i.e. give statistics per-dimension)

This applies to the rest of Q10 too. 1000 top attribute values? Does "around vector (0,0,0.3,0.9,....)" count? Because barely anyone asks explicitly for the real user attributes anymore.
Neither is it in construction.

Now do you have any numbers to justify that it's, for example, more common than in construction work?
Oh wow, I'm not sure how I missed that. Thanks for schooling me. That's really helpful.
Texas doesn't have a full time legislature so unlike California the amount of damage they can do is limited.
I hope this place is okay to ask this question: is this move means all the videos now disabled can not access it anymore?! All purged to oblivion forever? This move will destroy this platform, no doubt!
Me too. I don’t understand how they release an IDE without Vim emulation or some support for plugins that enable Vim emulation. It’s quite miserable. Last time I checked you had to root the app to install a Vim extension.
So, do you mean that in the above loop example, it would require you to prove somehow that the loop always finishes, or if the programmer fails to do that, fail with "possibly infinite loop" error? In what language/system you would require that proof?
HP and Oracle don’t exactly represent the heart of Silicon Valley today and what makes it special/unique. I actually think zombie corporations like Oracle, companies that haven’t innovated in decades and instead rely on an army of sales people to sell legacy software, are somewhat the antithesis of Silicon Valley which is really about real technological innovation and disruption at it’s core. I know there are lots of exceptions to this somewhat idyllic version of Silicon Valley but at the same time, you can’t really argue that there is a place in the US (or the rest of the world for that matter) that produces more technological advancements than Silicon Valley. I’m not a believer in American Exceptionalism — just stating facts. This is a long winded way of saying who cares if those companies leave, the Bay Area is probably better off.
Do these tech companies telegraph their moves in advance or does this sort of thing become public once all is said and done? Is there anything in the public record with elected officials in dialog with the companies that could be examined after the fact?
Of course. There should never be more than one way to do something in c, even if it makes things easier or less error prone. This is why the -> operator would never be included in c. You can already use (*x).y, it would be SILLY to introduce a whole operator which isn't orthogonal to all existing features of the language.
Is there any evidence that the people moving are responsible for the bad policies? Something tells me the NIMBYs that bought their homes decades ago and pay $3.50 in annual property taxes aren't going anywhere.
That depends on what language you use to develop projects. For example, I use python and java, so I installed extension python and pylance. Java Extension Pack almost includes all needed extensions for java.
I was a Google employee from 2005 to 2018. I HATED inbox, and I certainly wasn't alone. It divided users into two pieces, and the real issue was Google tried to force it on users rather than make it an option.