skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised by all the comments blaming the author here. Even if their content is garbage, they made foolish business decisions, yadda yadda, Facebook's policy of banning business accounts and all associated personal accounts with no explanation or recourse should not be allowed legally.
> As this image shows, the dithered gradient gets bright way too quickly.

sigh

Not in Firefox on Linux.

I vaguely recall seeing a multi-year-old bug related to subtly broken gamma behavior in either Firefox or Chrome, but can't seem to find it right now.
What? No it isn't. Smattering of links:

https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/right-to-...
https://legalbeagle.com/13720413-is-california-a-right-to-wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law#US_states_wi...
I really enjoy Rick's yearly DynamoDB sessions at re:Invent - https://twitter.com/houlihan_rick
Medical care and not being harassed/shot are also important, and the Democratic party doesn't seem particularly enthusiastic about those things either.
I feel that it's more the fact that a single person is always the same person (physically) over their lifetime, while a state and corporation is a rotating door of people and philosophies. The same idea as how a Monarchy can be a fine government system until you get that one terrible king.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efOs0BsE0g

There was an amusing twist after this was published. The creators got in trouble with the Australian Government, who were concerned about their use of the Australian coat of arms: it might confuse viewers into thinking the video was an official government one.
Yeah, think very carefully before having kids. What kind of life will they have in this country if they are not technical elites of some kind? In the old days, you always needed labor for the farm or factory, but not anymore..
I guess you simply purchase the domain. Just like bit.ly which, as far as I know, doesn't have an entity in Libya.
Startup research is needing to know enough
Please, correct me if I am wrong. How does this rule apply for highly regulated markets like Health, space, and Goverment?
No, it's not just a guess. The letter in the package is signed "Julio", an alias he would apparently sign emails with; the name of his dog.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13635429/nashville-bomber-pack...
When I was in middle school (early 2010s), I can't tell you how much time I spent on social media at night on my phone in bed. I swear I must've gotten 4-5 hours of sleep on average. Somewhere around my senior year of high school I started placing my phone across the room instead of lying in bed with it. Who would have guess that my sleep improved drastically. I never go to bed with technology.
Quinary
>Like for example in Star Trek the only people that can override the captain is the doctor. For medical emergencies they can basically force some course of action.

I guess most people who are familiar with this at all are familiar with it from Star Trek, but it's worth mentioning that this is just a natural extension of Starfleet's pseudo-military basis.

When I was in the Army, my word carried nearly as much weight on medical matters as my immediate commanding officer's, even though I was a lowly line medic, not a near equal as the doctors in Star Trek usually are to their respective captains. I had no official authority of my own, but the fact that I could go to my medical superiors for backup meant that I was never questioned when I said something was medically necessary.

My point is, we don't need to go to a SciFi TV show to see this dynamic. It exists in our own current society.
I'm about a month into a new FAANG job, and I hate it so far. I can't decide if it's better to quit sooner as to not waste the companies time (and avoid suffering more), or if I should give it some more time. My team's work seems super boring, I'm not interested in the tech we use, the setup process has been a shit-show, and I'm feeling zero motivation.

I've mostly worked for startup to mid sized companies in the past, but I decided I'd try to do things differently by cramming leetcode and chasing that fat FAANG pay check. Now I'm kicking myself, this is what happens when you follow money over passion. The silly thing is I'm fine financially, yet I lusted after a job with technology I'm not interested in working on just for the lure of the almighty dollar.
It's a supply and demand problem. There are a lot of folks who are willing and able to be teachers for a low amount of pay, but it turns out you can't live off discount engineers or finance people.

I assure you, if SV could get away paying $12 an hour to engineers or finance, they would.
I think people who think software development is about 'do[ing] quite a bit with computers' have blinded themselves to the fact that you mostly need to do quite a bit with people. They didn't know that was going to be the case when they signed up for college classes and now they rationalize as hard as they can that they can actually treat the profession that way.

I think people are just lazy and don't want to learn new stuff so they whine instead.
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Yes, the actual socialists and other economic leftists are the big losers right now. Biden admin will push idpol nonsense to the extreme while not delivering anything worthwhile for the economic left.

Next four years will be a feeding frenzy for the sociopaths of America.
I sit on my floor, back up against the wall/bed, for like 6 hours a day. Big fan.
Indeed, I think someone is just taking the piss out of the conspiracy theorists...

The sad part is that, despite the huge amount of (true) information available to them on the Internet, the majority of people seem to have become no more knowledgeable about the technology they use in everyday life. You can instantly look up the part numbers on that diagram and find out what they are; and if what you find you do not understand (e.g." what is an op-amp?"), you can continue searching. But the majority just take it at face-value, and re-share with zero thought. It's ironic to think that a lot of these people think we are the "sheeple", when they in fact behave much the same way...
Smacks of controlled opposition tbh.
Oddly didn't work so well on my Chrome (I have 100+ tabs open), but did great on Firefox.
Google workers form company's first union
It typically costs an employer double what your pay is, once including benefits, matching social security contributions, etc. So your employer had 10 people it was spending 200k-350k a month on, so 2000k-3500k in expenses, for a product that made 2500k a month.
My soy intolerance prevents me from reading this.
They are optional, but I'm not sure what pronouns have to do with religion.
Our natural rights are God-given and true since all men are equal children of creation, and thus no man has the right to stand above any other and deny them their right to speech or to gather.

I am the property of myself and have the sole right of ownership - not anyone employed by the state.

This was worded well by the writers of the American constitution, but the idea is as old as time - it’s the idea of universalist ethics.
18000 customers downloaded the backdoored version so the attackers got access and could have gone into any and all of these networks. As far as we know, they did move forward in 250 or so and did not proceeed with the others (presumably because of resource constraints) - but still all those 18000 networks were infiltrated by the malware, and if I was one of these 18000 companies then I would not just assume that we got skipped - so at the very least that should result in 18000 careful audits to verify if the potential intrusion happened.
It's true that consensus reality shouldn't be confused with reality.

But at the same time most people who are at violently at odds with consensus reality are kooks, or bad actors, or sometimes both.

Believing that a guitar pedal circuit is going to give you Covid is the perfect example.
Yes, like people using Icarus as a company/product name in the aerospace sector.
> This is after he went to a robotics company because it seemed different.

> He may also have felt out of place with people who know computers, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. If all you know is webcrap, you may feel way over your head in a robotics company.

I agree with you, but that is worded really harshly. I was surprised to see it come from you, of all people. I usually love to read your comments.
It's likely this person is good technically, and there might be a place for them in large corps where software engineers are just cogs, but their attitude and their resume suggests some issues: their resume is listed with year long stints in every major company, and their attitude suggests that apparently nothing can keep them happy. And also not interested in solving the most important problems (as evidenced by the knock on what sounds like a reasonable promotion deal), just the ones they might (or might not, even they don't know apparently) be interested in. Sounds elitist as hell and doesn't reflect someone who's genuinely seeking growth in their career.

Which is fine, compared to twitch streamers making millions for doing squats this is still a great career, but if anyone's looking at all for constructive criticism then they should introspect how priviliged all this stuff sounds like and whether it's healthy for their own development to live in such a bubble for too long.
Oh, I definitely agree that those example exist on the fuzzy line, but the question was whether they didn't read to Americans.

The more I think about it, the harder the actual barrier between "pleased" and "convinced" is hard to draw.
Find something in your house worth $10 and sell it on ebay.
What a Year That Was
I did notice that the initial coverage of the hack blamed open source tools ( which was interesting in itself ). I am not sure if I can ascribe it to malice though.
> The other challenge with unions, is that while one can succeed it leaves everyone else that is outside of the union at other companies completely unprotected.

The 5 day 40 hour workweek was championed by the trade unions but everyone got the advantage of that eventually.
To think that there is a singular defined answer to any possible thing and that we know it for any given field is to conflate models and reality.

For some reason, and after many collapses, we've started to understand such distinctions when it comes to bridge building - which we've done for millenia. That it takes a while for mental health to be seen in the same light is not surprising to me, as we've really seemingly started to give it some attention only in the last century (or last few centuries if we're being very generous).
"pro-lockdown" and "why the fuck are we giving people so little money" tend to go together, in my experience. Lock down for a month or two, give everyone more than enough money to cover rent/food/utilities and some entertainment (to keep from going insane), and greatly reduce the spread of this virus. But here we are in the US with a paltry $600 coming after the entire duration of this stupid, stupid pandemic.

As to "defunding police", I like to rephrase it as "fund people, not police" - use those budgets to give people help before they get to the point where the police get involved, rather than having next to no safety net and a bunch of cops itching to use all the military hardware they've got.

There you go, some coherence. Have a nice day.
Ok you win job posting of the year award.
Ok, changed from https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-berkshire-hathaway-jpmor.... Thanks!
> Russia, we now know, used SolarWinds' hacked program to infiltrate at least 18,000 government and private networks.

The question of whether it was Russia is not that interesting.

This thing of countries blaming other countries for attacks is getting boring. In cyber, there are no borders. If something is vulnerable, it's vulnerable. You don't need the prerequisite of APTs or 'sophisticated nation state cyber threat actors' or whatever. Attribution is boring these days and so much emphasis on Russia as if we don't know already they have their fingers in so many American pies.
You also need a developer community, standards bodies, universities, regulatory bodies. You are made valueable by the interplay of all those institutions. Guess who makes your laptop and provides access to your internet, its directories, and communication channels, the same companies you have to work for.
20- and 30- somethings at FAANG is hardly a picture of America as a whole. Also if 20- and 30- somethings ignore the rest of our neighbors in other fields because “F you got mine”, we’re hardly better than the elitists.
A wake-up call for security on third-party packages
And yet you've just generalised without looking deeper. "They fire all the young people" is a hot take, until you realise that young people will far more easily find a new job.
I'm also not a lawyer, but AFAIK publishing a specification has nothing to do with whether the tech can be legally used without a patent license.

I don't know how the release to Open Invention Network affects things, though.
I (from the UK) don't understand: you don't have to join a union. Keep your current contract and don't have a say in Union representation and negotiation, if that's what you want.

It's 'take greater combined power against the corporation you work for' (and in things like representation of your industry before government) or stand on your own as you do now.

I don't understand how it's possible to lose?

You can even wimp out at the first call for solidarity of you want to.

In my current role there are 3 unions that are well represented in the work place, I chose one that seems best to represent my interests and that has members in industries I might move in to.

Benefits for me are currently advice seminars on career progression and work related issues (pensions!), and annual pay negotiations (which are quite weak, pressing for inflationary pay rises).
> waited out the clock on the rape charges

There were never any charges in Sweden.
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This is pretty awesome, I ended up just creating my full profile and swapping my personal details from here to there.

The only thing I'm missing is the Publications and Certifications section (had to create an award for the certs)
> I've mostly worked for startup to mid sized companies in the past

I saw an anecdote a few years ago about a hiring manager basically saying, "If you worked happily for a small startup, you will most likely be unable to put up with the bureaucracy of a large enterprise from now on"

I've often wondered how much truth there was to that statement.
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Yep, just copy-paste a bit of REPL history for a docstring, then use `doctest` to make sure it holds. Pretty soon you'll have ~100% test coverage. Minus the error paths you didn't test in REPL.
1. It’s amusing

2. The proliferation of these conspiracy theories is a byproduct of the communications platforms created and worked on by many people here.

3. The boss mt-2 is a great sounding pedal
Well done. I'm going to use it.
Do we even really know it was Russia? Everything I've seen so far seems to assume that rather than have a confirmed link.

edit: source seems to be Washington Post article "according to people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity"

https://web.archive.org/web/20201213220635if_/https://www.wa...
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I did this and still feel gross about it even though I don't regret the decision. Accepted an offer for a Java/Spring developer, but a week later I got a better offer for a Scala engineer at Apple that had swept me off my feet. I don't know why I still feel gross having to renege after accepting the first offer; I think its because I annoyed the recruiter. That even if the first offer had salary-matched the other offer, I'd rather be programming in Scala than Java/Spring and that wasn't something they could compete with.
Right. I usually start with creating global objects in the repl. Write little snippets in the repl to operate on these. The snippets end up with all these objects parameterized as functions. Which I can test again from the repl itself.

Turn the testing code into unit test as I go along.

Rinse. Repeat.
Salaried employees usually get paid straight time for overtime rather than time and a half. (That's my personal experience - I've always been paid straight time for overtime) That at least takes away one incentive to delay work to work overtime - you still get paid more, but you don't increase your hourly rate.
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I have changed my first project because manager was unbearable. After spending one more year in the same company but different project and almost ideal manager i have realized that company in general has so many problems that make me unhappy that i have started job search outside. It's really hard sometimes to predict what difficulties are waiting for you in new team/company.
Is the problem actually the presence of juniors, or rather the fact that in "agile" all developers are treated as replaceable, so the juniors randomly get assigned strategically important tasks where they can do long-term damage?

I imagine that after a month, when the senior developer(s) laid down the foundations, it should be possible to find work for the juniors (not all at the same time, but adding them gradually). They just cannot be assigned tickets at random.
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Did the whole country have a smallpox outbreak? No? So it sounds like it was localized to one state.

The point is that this is a nation-wide problem, and the federal government is in a unique position to be the most efficient at handling production and distribution of vaccine/testing supplies/PPE. What exactly is your argument around why it should have little or no role? There is a shortage of these things and production happens in a few centralized places. It makes sense that one centralized entity coordinate the production and distribution. What is the problem with that? Please show your work on how 50 states plus territories would handle it better.
Conversely if you don't get in on the first wave then there's little reason to come in later because you'll never catch up no matter how well you play.
BS

The only thing "killed" XMPP was that proprietary made money, XMPP didn't.

Apart from that, it's alive and well. See Conversations for android, Prosody for server.
Yes. The Chinese state and the US state are both proven to spy on their citizens. For reference, see the heroic Edward Snowden's 2013 leaks.
I never understood people who have no issue with typing on a laptop while sitting or laying in bed. Or outside on the grass. It just doesn't work for me.

I need a keyboard on a table and sit in a chair in front of it, or stand in front of it if it is height-adjustable.

I need space to put things nearby, like a glass of water, without having to care if it will fall and spill.

But I'm ok with having a tablet in bed to browse HN or Reddit or listen to something on YouTube until I fall asleep.
Love the design -- pretty cool work!