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Ask HN: What qualities show that you're an experienced software engineer?
I was wondering about what programmatic & design qualities draw the attention of experienced engineers & developers and signal whether you're a novice or a veteran.
The YT video is from 2007, the documentary is from 1966.
It currently is completelly owned by Google (Alphabet) so your comment would be more of a "there is a possibility that they would end up still relying on Google's ad revenue".
You mention nearly limitless options but fail to mention one. Can you give some examples?
I would say that we have different definitions of 'abuse' in the case of Google. Of course, Google doesn't sell your data directly to anyone, allow anyone to get your metadata, or allow anyone to view your data. In that sense, I also completely trust Google to be good stewards of my data.

That said, while I agree that Google does not 'abuse' my data by giving it to others in any form, Google absolutely does use my data to try to sell me things. From my perspective, this is abuse. Google is using data that I generated to psychologically manipulate my behavior.

When Google Search, gmail, and other like services from Google were released, Google was a tech company first and foremost. These properties/services were offered for "free". At the time, most people didn't realize that "free" meant paying with your data. Now, Google is an advertising company and I do not want them to have my data because of that fact. In a similar vein, if The Trade Desk or another adtech company provided a "free" email service it would likely not be widely adopted as it would be well understood that users are paying with their data.
Can’t wait for them to block stepbrother and BBC
Yes and that already exists - https://web.hypothes.is/ and works as a simple add-on. I don't see what new benefit the dedicated browser could bring.
I'm astonished that this is a DIY project... remarkable work!
Which side claims Robin DiAngelo?
I'm not so sure about that. Spending 2 years trying to pump the stock and failing doesn't change what happened later. You can't escape a murder charge by saying "I spent two years trying and failing to kill the victim"!
Some QLC drives perform quite well. And of course for any workload that is primarily reads, they're totally fine. I use one to hold my Steam collection.
So, in short, I'm stupid, you're smart, and "both sides".

Terrible is a very broad word. Who's terrible? Why are they terrible? How are their terrible actions addressed by their own? Are they held personally accountable, or handed a position of power?

Truth doesn't have a side, it's objective. It's not always completely knowable, but there are some great tools for knowing when you're nowhere near it, or someone is attempting to prevent you from heading towards it. I apply those tools often and one side has proven semi-reliable, the other not only completely unreliable, but an active hindrance.
Just another indicator that it's bad form to have a one-size-fits-all approach to filtering/sorting categories of content broadly.

Another blatant example? Go search for 'japanese' on DuckDuckGo or Bing with Safe Search turned off and observe the NSFW stuff you get as top results versus what's on Google.
Also love fraidycat, the approach it takes for keeping things “fair” is really nice.

It solves one of the problems I’ve had with other RSS readers around the overwhelm when adding a new source/neglecting an existing source. Opening up to see tens/hundreds of items in the backlog that you feel obligated to read isn’t fun.

I’ve got it set as my new tab page, which makes it easy to see new stuff at a glance, and then I can delve into the less important stuff when I’ve got time to waste.
Memory isn't stored "in neurons". It is stored in electrochemical oscillations created by interactions between a plethora of different biochemicals.
As someone who learnt R before tidyverse was a thing, I would have quit R a long time ago without the tidyverse.

Base R is that much of a pain.
Doesn't this exactly fit the "token goodwill gestures where it doesn't hurt our bottom line" thing?

If they cared for the customers they'll have improved things that affect hundreds of thousands or millions or all of them (tons of such long-standing, including for the Kindle, which has languished as hardware in neglect-land).

Doing a fuss to make the release day the same for 12 customers (or 100) in the Isle of Man is not "caring for invididual customers". It's either a token empty feel-good gesture within the company, a whim of some superior, or a "nice story" empty marketing stunt.
> I would rearrange your brain if you had cancer and I was capable of removing it.

With my consent, or without it?

Does that make a difference to you? It does to me. If it does to you, we probably agree more than it seems like we do from this discussion.

But if consent doesn't matter to you, we have a fundamental disagreement that I don't think any amount of discussion will resolve.
Not an "implementation", but for me cryptocurrencies seem like a nice way for replacing the slow international wire transfers that you get from the average bank.

I honestly haven't used crypto this way much, but it seems like it would be a decent way to transact across borders.
Sometimes I think of them as Xerox Parc as they obviously had some smart people sort of tooting around on neat stuff, not worrying about money.

They made so much money, until they didn’t. It’s interesting how these large organizations are able to sort of be patrons of certain activities. Other companies may have spent the surplus on hookers and coke, yahoo let engineers build stuff.
That sounds like a fun idea! I've been toying with the idea for years of having a fully incremental compiler - basically caching the dependency DAG of code compilation. "This function, depends on the definition of this struct, which in turn depend on these typedefs and this other struct..."

Then I can imagine a compiler which takes the DAG from the previous compilation and information about which lines of code have changed, and can figure out which intermediate compilation results need to be recomputed. And the result would be a set of blocks which change - globals and symbol table entries and function definitions. And then you could implement a linker in a sort of similar way - consuming the delta + information about the previous compilation run to figure out where and how to patch the executable from the previous compilation run.

The end result would be a compiler which should only need to do work proportional to how much machine code is effected by a change. So if you're working on chromium and you change one function in a cpp file, the incremental compilation should be instant. (Since it would only need to recompile that function, patch the binary with the change and update some jmp addresses. It would still be slow if you changed a struct thats used all over the place - but it wouldn't need to recompile every line of code that transitively includes that header, like we do right now.
- Why so we can go back to political carveouts of AB5?

- Why are you ok with only these freelancers being allowed in California? "Recording arts, music, performing arts. landscape architecture, translation of documents, copy editing and illustrations, registered professional forestry
real estate appraising ,home inspections , insurance underwriting inspections, auditing, and risk management and loss control, manufactured housing sales, international and cultural exchange services, competition judging, digital content and feedback aggregation, master class performance." https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ab2257-not-much-better-tha...

So you are ok with California government deciding who can and can't be a freelancer?
I'm a little less than halfway through The Power Broker. It's a riveting read, especially as a New Yorker (quite possibly living in housing built by him!). I suppose I haven't quite gotten to the part where Moses goes full corrupt. From what I've read so far, he seemed utterly vicious, sneaky and deceptive, but also ridiculously competent. Anybody who's had to sit in committees and meetings spinning their wheels, hearing excuses on why stuff can't be done, will likely find something appealing about Moses' sheer ability to get shit done. It'll be interesting to see how that opinion gets revised as the book goes on.

One area that appears to have come under attack is Caro's accusation that Moses deliberately lowered the bridge heights: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-mo...

I found it particularly amusing how Moses—"the best bill drafter in Albany" as Caro dubs him—was able to write bills that gave him far more power than the politicians who passed them expected. Indeed one part where he referenced a niche definition of appropriation in an old 19th century bill felt almost akin to return oriented programming!
Linux kernel development survives because its biggest users develop it.

It's certainly possible for a browser to survive that way, but Konqueror doesn't seem to be terribly successful.
Or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
The reason is to make sure aborting the command is fast and safe. PostgreSQL has no infrastructure for spawn background jobs to clean up stuff like this on aborted queries. A patch would probably welcome if it could be done in a good way.
That is helpful, thank you
default search seems to be pretty lucrative.
- I never claimed huawei stole 5g ips i don't know much on this subject but you can not argue that China has not stolen IP broadly and aggressively
- sure fix the house. but why let a foreign actor in the 'house' who would do even more damage.
Thanks for this nostalgia. It was so easy to browse web servers in the 90s.

http://9ol.es/beauty.php?url=/etc/passwd

http://9ol.es/beauty.php?url=/proc/version

http://9ol.es/beauty.php?url=/proc/uptime

Now it's time to put it offline.
I really love the beautiful UX experience
For use as a file format, where one priority is to compress columnar data as well as possible, the practical difference between Arrow (via Feather?), Parquet, and ORC is still somewhat vague to me. During my last investigation, I got the impression that Arrow worked great as a standard, interoperable, in-memory columnar format, but didn't compress nearly as well as ORC or Parquet due to lack of RLE and other compression schemes (other than dictionary). Is this still the case? Is there a world where Arrow completely supplants Parquet and/or ORC?

EDIT: Just found https://wesmckinney.com/blog/arrow-columnar-abadi, which helps answer this question.
It appears they've already lost -> https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/03/ca-supreme-court-denies-la...
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/05/17/disinformation-from-...

"Even after the Mueller report clearly indicated that there was no provable collusion or coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, Schiff continued to propagate the lie."
Republicans aren't doing much to attract Asian-american voters either. Although it's possible that since AAs voters aren't a significant percentage of the electorate to make a difference.
It's not just about looking cool. It's tough to make a film where characters are interacting with a screen or drawing on a whiteboard because the director usually wants to show the actor's face along with the screen so we can see their reactions. Which is why so often you see shows where actors draw on clear glass whiteboards even though no real office would ever have them. Likewise transparent phones: It's an unrealistic moviemaking concession that audiences mostly tolerate.
Yeah, if there’s one impression I get from Twitter, it’s that people on the left try too hard to be nice.
> We can donate to organizations that do have the stated purpose. We can vote for politicians who propose laws and policies that make it extremely difficult for it to happen.

Sure, if we think such organizations and politicians actually exist. (I'm skeptical that they actually do, but I'm willing to assume they do for the sake of this discussion.) But to me, that doesn't count as "drop everything you're doing and fight", which is what you said earlier that everyone should be doing. If what you meant by "drop everything you're doing and fight" is just "support organizations and leaders that you think will improve the situation", then I don't disagree with your suggestion as a general thing (though I might disagree with your specific selection of which organizations and politicians to support), but I think your choice of words was a very poor one. To most people, "drop everything you're doing and fight" means "completely rearrange your life so you are spending all of your time and effort fighting this problem".
So, this in contrast to docker? Is this for development or for deployment?
That’s a clip made in 2007 from the 1966 documentary titled, “Universal Mind of Bill Evans” — here’s the full video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwXAqIaUahI
That doesn't make them correct. Constantly averaging your position is a good way to get dragged in the direction of the outlier.
Not so. I use pip freeze to manage my dependencies, including all transitive dependencies, and my builds are deterministic.
> “I felt the bulk of tech I was working on was detrimental to society,” he said. “I wasn’t very happy about having 150 guys waiting in the staircase of the company to get a $15 an hour job. I felt myself going the wrong way. So I quit.” (La Poste later acquired Stuart in 2017.)

I actually find this quote quite disgusting. You're not happy with having so many people who need a job come trying to get one from you? Do you want to go back to just the land of rich people with rich people problems?
>Extinction rebellion?

I would say the key difference about the left is that the supporters of these kinds of movements rarely get much support at the top. Even Bernie Sanders and AOC have stepped back from supporting certain movements after criticism (I'm thinking of Venezuela), while such contrition on the right is rare (until the Capitol sedition).

>Members of Congress who think that climate change will destroy the world within 10 years?

Who, precisely? And what did they say?
What would the bad consequences be?
Neither that ASDF, nor that kind of VM, despite the URL.
If you're successfully doing data science or data engineering in PHP, you're already a god among informaticians, and don't need any extra help.
You are right that if you want to do this in a heterogeneous computing environment, one of the layouts is going to be "wrong" and require an extra step regardless of how you do this.

But ... (a) this is way less common than it was decades ago (rare use cases we are talking about here ) and (b) it seems to be addressed in a sensible way (i.e. Arrow defaults to little-endian, but you could swap it on a big-endian network). I think it includes utility functions for conversion also.

So the usual case incurs no overhead, and the corner cases are covered. I'm not sure exactly what you are complaining about, unless it's the lack of liberally sprinkling ("no deserialization in most use cases") or whatever around the comments?
Both parties are advancing the neoliberal economic consensus - the free enterprise and the free trade.

The divisions between the two parties only serve to drive a wedge between the blue-collar working class on one hand and the white-collar/service working class on the other. The Free Trade generated enormous riches for the country over the last 50 years, but the worker incomes stayed flat. Both voting groups have the same economic interest in a different distribution of the spoils of the free trade, and it's only the political antagonism that prevents their collaboration.
You couldn't think of an equivalent of qanon for the left, so you just elevated some minor critique until it satisfied your desire to say "both sides" and shut down any actual analysis.

THIS is the problem!
It might also lead to another presidential candidate arising in the same mold as Trump, and people latching on to him in vengeance against what they perceive as unfair treatment of the martyr Trump.
There's more than one way to skin a cat...
Is there a Democratic Party controlled state that allows this?
I am ashamed to have written this comment. I didn't know about clearing houses and shouldn't have been so arrogant in a field I'm not familiar with. Funnily enough I put my money where my mouth was and profited, but that was just luck. Whatever.
at the very least, Google could pay to be the default search provider... it works for Mozilla, so far, and if Google had to , even at arms length, separate Chrome from the rest of Google, it would strengthen, not weaken, the case for Google's investment in paying Apple and Mozilla for top placement, helping to reinforce competition on both the mobile and browser fronts.
I actually think this was a price we paid for some of the stop and frisk police work. It did reduce crime, but at a cost to justice for the innocents arrested, killed, and bothered.

So it’s important to plan police not to eliminate crime, but to reduce crime as much as possible given liberties. There’s probably some optimal frontier to it, but I don’t want to trade tyranny for crime.

What will be interesting is whether these higher murders had some trade offs elsewhere. I would like to see some research that all those fewer arrests also did something positive.

I don’t think there’s many accidental/unjustified police shootings of civilians but I would guess those went way down.
Turning off shrinking makes little sense to me. If tests are passing there's nothing to shrink. If you are bombarded with so many failures you can't afford to shrink them then more testing is pointless.
Hey, why not have a 'company store' where people can buy everything they need right at the office instead of having to spend precious minutes travelling to some questionable generic store. Think of all the time saved. While you're at it you could even extend credit to the employees for anything they might want to buy, and have their payments come directly out of their paychecks. How convenient! You could even issue company scrip instead of dealing with the costs of payment processors. There's lots of room for innovation here!

/s :)
Stalin was (justifiably) frightened by nuclear weapons. Any time between August 1945 and mid-1949, Truman could have picked up the phone and said "we've decided to step back from the brink". Stalin would have eagerly agreed. Instead, USA developed vastly more destructive fusion weapons, and the first unofficial act of newly created CIA intentionally leaked designs to the Russians. That's why their first functional weapon was a carbon copy of early American weapons.

Truman would later regret creating one of the several monsters that ate his soul [0], but he was clearly out of his depth from the moment that he learned of atomic weapons. None of the top military brass wanted to use the atomic bomb. [1] The reptiles knew what they were doing in 1944 when they replaced Henry Wallace with an easily controlled Missouri hick. Truman himself didn't know their precise plans, but he had to know he wasn't the man who should've gotten that job. He let ambition overrule propriety.

Of course, Truman isn't the only human to blame for the mess we've been in for 75 years. Most of the scientists who developed the bomb knew better than he did what the result would be. "MAD" is not an acceptable condition for human life. We endure it because some reptiles desired further enrichment. No good intentions paved their way to their current location.

Throughout our existence, USA's projections of the worst possible intentions on the part of other nations have driven our deepest depravities, to a far greater extent than the real situations we've faced.

[0] https://truthout.org/articles/trumans-true-warning-on-the-ci...

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-the-us-really-bo...
> Why is taking a percentage of someone’s company better? If anything that’s more exploitive.

Where did I ever claim that? Islam doesn't dictate that at all.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-Nisa,_34

Yep, the one that guarantees women the rights to inheritance, not to mention that many other texts in Islam that order men to be lean and kind to women and not to exploit them (compare to what we see in the West today where women are sold as a commodity).

> but then you’re just creating some special reference class that ignores the bad stuff.

I'm not, because for any action that someone who ascribes to the religion does, we're able to go back to the texts and decide whether or not that was truly Islamic. There is no cherry picking or filtering. It's quite simple really. This isn't a "no true Scottsman" fallacy, it's going back to the Law books (Quran, Hadith, etc.) and checking whether what was done was legal or not.
Google's way of leveraging their browser dominance to use 3rd party cookies as a way to gain competitive advantage:

Step 1: Implement a whole new browser functionality where Google alone can track people.

Step 2: Eliminate 3rd party cookies so Google's competitors have to create increasingly unethical and invasive fingerprinting techniques to remain competitive.

Step 3: Increase advertising rates since they are the only company able to effectively target adverts on the web. (Profit)

Did I miss anything?

Google in their enthusiasm to prevent Microsoft from dominating the web has become worse than Microsoft was in its heyday.
We're heading towards an era of cargo cult where Apple's silicon is viewed as pure magic and developers scratch their heads over why they are now paying 60% to be in the App Store considering that they are doing the exact same things as when the rate was still 30%.
I often say both parties are similar though not symetrical.
"Decency" is all a show. Politics has always been about power.
The year global health went local
I can’t quite picture how this would work in practice, can anyone else? So say you’re a retailer with a commerce app. Is the idea you put a TikTok clone inside of it in the hope users sign up and use your app as a social network?

I get the end goal is targeting ads at your customers better and having user generated content to create ads at the same time, and that’s obviously an appealing concept to businesses, but who would actually sign up and use this as a consumer?
Jwtxploiter
A cli to test security of JWTs. You can test a token Against all known CVE and much more. It supports all algorithms defined by the JWA standard. Release provides deb and rpm packages. It can also be installed via pip; pip install jwtxploiter. The repository also provides a wiki to be used as documentation. It has to be considered a must read, since one particular feature have a complex syntax
No, he is referring to the image map on that site. Although it worked fine for me. Here's an appropriately old school reference: https://cmd.inp.nsk.su/old/cmd2/manuals/web/using_cgi/ch9.ht...
There's no way I could follow as many sources of information without RSS. Being able to quickly scan the titles and summaries of articles wouldn't be as efficient if I had to manually load each websites frontpage, and I'd probably miss some stuff if I didn't check periodically.

I used Google Reader, then switched to Feedly, and then jumped to Inoreader and now I feel like home.
I have quarrel with my enemies. Not because I’m divided from them but because they’re a deadly threat to me and people I love. You can find irony in that all you like but I am personally motivated by not being dragged to death behind a truck or strung up for immutable facts about my being.
AOC: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019...

> 'The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez says
Right, so now the outrage is about the other side's outrage? Ironically, they probably talk about the tan suit more now?

And I don't know, how can you have it both ways? If you make fun of Trump's hair or his wife's coat, then isn't it exactly the same?