skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be trustworthy, if Andrew hadn't talked about not having and never desiring +O on freenode 4 years ago. [1]

If he's willing to go back on those terms and agreements, why not on this one as well?

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27247619
As someone adjacent to this role, a lot of the time this sort of "hands off" behavior is incentivized; the reason the principal is not jumping in and taking point on making the final decision and implementing is because that severely reduces the agency and ownership of the senior devs below them (and in many companies risk undercutting the latter's career progression, if it depends on them showing that independent ownership).
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The marketting names are useless though. You see people saying 'I've got an i7, it's faster than an i3' when the i7 is a quad core from 2008 and the i3 is a quad core from last year. And the Nth generation they're doing know where the last three generations are damn near the same doesn't help.

You really need the architecture name to compare processors, and AMD currently has more usable architecture names; even if their processor number are still a disaster, zen 1 vs zen 3 is clear.
Good for them. Now what about rest of us?
Wealthy folks that can afford to start a company for little/no pay are always imagining some kind of moral superiority. I told a startup boss who tried that out on me e.g. "I'm risking my house too!". I said "you mean your 2nd house. I'm risking my first house. And my family's stability." He had nothing to respond to that.
House prices have gone up everywhere, your suggestion is uh, silly.
Some people pretend the Midwest doesn't exist.

Plenty of jobs and cheap housing. You don't get FAANG salaries, but if you're setting FAANG to be the standard, you are on of the "rich people who have trouble understanding what it's like to be poor".

Before the pandemic, someone on a typical engineer salary in the Midwest would afford a 2000 sqft home with a nonworking spouse and a few kids. 2000 sq ft is not big over there.
Prosecutors are typically promoted based on conviction rates.

Each false conviction, plea bargain or guilty plea should count as -20 convictions.

It all comes down to incentives. Murdering this man was probably great for all of the involved people’s careers (and I’d be surprised if he is their only victim). If it was a potential career-ender, they’d find some other way to game the system, or others would be promoted instead of them.

The same story plays out millions of times a year in the US (though usually with lesser crimes); it’s clearly a systemic issue.
> This implies that all courts are equal

LOL. It doesn't imply that at all. It repeatedly hints at corruption in justice systems.
Show HN: High-performance shorturl creator in Golang with source code [pdf]
> When she worked, you knew she was working. In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, she'd make sure everyone knew how much she was busting her ass.

I can't imagine any of these "ways" - could you give some examples?
I agree. I was trying to learn Phoenix but had a hard time with the DSL because it was so non-functional in appearance.
Virgin Galactic reaches (space) apogee
It's interesting that a "fail to comprehend" post is voted more highly than an informative post that at least partially answers the question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27246831
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
I remember Prop 13 from a case study in a government class. I had totally forgotten about it until you mentioned it.

Prop 13 was pushed by rental property owners---primarily apartment complexes, because they don't change hands very often. It's one thing to enjoy the value increase on a house you own for 5-10 years and another the increase on an apartment complex that you own for 20-30.
> “how many of these zillion studies cited that are actually replicable?” This doubt remains despite knowing that the scientist is one of the leading experts in the field, and very down-to-earth.

I think the problem is much bigger than simply a binary is it replicable or not. It’s extremely easy to find papers by “leading experts” that have valid data with replicable results where the conclusions have been generalized beyond the experiments. The media does this more or less by default when reporting on scientific results, but researchers do it themselves to a huge degree, use very specific conditions and results to jump to a wider conclusion that is not actually supported by the results.

A high profile example of this is the “Dunning Kruger” effect; the data in paper did not show what the flowery narrative in the paper claimed to show, but there’s no reason to think they falsified the results. Some researchers have reproduced the results, as long as the conditions were very similar. Other researchers have tried to reproduce the results under different conditions that should have worked according to the paper’s narrative and conclusions, but found that they could not reproduce, because there were specific factors in the original experiment that were not discussed in the original paper’s conclusions -- in other words, Dunning and Kruger overstated what they measured such that the conclusion was not true. They both enjoyed successful academic careers and some degree of academic fame as a result of this paper that is technically reproducible but not generally true.

To make matters worse, the public has generally misinterpreted and misunderstood even the incorrect conclusions the authors stated, and turned it into something else. Almost never in discussions where the DK effect is invoked do people talk about the context or methodology of the experiments, or the people who participated in them.

This human tendency to tell a story and lose the context and details and specificity of the original evidence, the tendency to declare that one piece of evidence means there is a general truth, that is scarier to me than whether papers are replicable or not, because it casts doubt on all the replicable papers too.
What if, and hear me out, we changed the system so it isn’t the only way to accumulate wealth. You can walk and chew gum at the same time. At least I think so. One can decry immorality of rent seeking and understand it is a reality today.
Their out of pocket maximum was likely no more than $10k, if that.
Also that 1% would keep on diluting before the money would actually become liquid. I figured that the 1% would be 0.35% if the company had IPO'd in say 8 years. At a 1B valuation, I'd net 3Million before taxes, while the company would have gone from 6M to $1B in valuation. This didn't seem fair and I said no to this offer.

I'd have no financial regrets at the $1B valuation, but I'd if they make it to $10B/$100B.
Interesting statistics. I’m an American, and out of everyone I’ve personally ever known to have gone to jail, one was for rape, another for methamphetamine production, drunk driving, financial crimes. They were all white, and many of them were offered plea bargains and accepted instead of a full trial. Is the plea bargain part of your “haven’t been convicted of a crime?” I don’t personally know of anyone who’s been in jail for a single day that wasn’t guilty.

I don’t question the statistic of 50% of the prison population being black, yet only being 10% of population. I also expect the majority in that prison demographic to be equally as guilty as the criminals I know.

I doubt you’ll find an American who personally knows 10 people that are locked up, and of those, 8 who were falsely imprisoned.

You might find an American who knows 100 people who are locked up, and 1 was possibly falsely imprisoned.
> Intro : why we are legitimate to write this guide

Trying to justify unsolicited email is like trying to justify the theft of penny candy.
> Using date range commands, the author claimed to compare searches for five months in 2019 to the same five months in 2020 — pre-pandemic to mid-pandemic. They did so not by turning to Google Trends data — the method promoted by the scholars they cited — but by inputting their search phrases with date delimiters using Google search.

> They reported the number of hits Google displays at the top of the page as the number of searches made for that search string.

>These numbers were exceptionally high because, well, the search phrases were not enclosed in quotation marks. All this in an article arguing for the value of tech-enabled “rapid response” research. A culture of “move fast and break things” is common in Silicon Valley, but academics typically work a bit more slowly and carefully to avoid these kinds of errors.
Is that 35 hour work week the one available in France? That sounds awesome, it allows a nice work/life balance.
But that first trip to Costco would cost them $160 and they can't go without $60 worth of food for a week in order to save up. Being poor is incredibly expensive.
I bet this is why Bitcoin is taking a big hit at the moment. Yes, there are many good reasons for that to happen and maybe it's for the better. But I would put my mouth where the money is that this is the actual reason. It's probably an attack organized by US/Israel against an income source of Iran.
What. I thought it was pretty well known that Greece used lots of non "Greek" soldiers and mercenaries. Same with Rome. Is this really a non-mainstream idea?
The only thing worse than an object system is...three object systems. I never quite know what is the cool kid implementation, and I don't even like oo.
My biggest annoyance is with the company General Motors who requires your entire social security number to be interviewed contract.

This means giving your SSN to a random person calling. Every GM recruiting house has to do this.

Not even worth it, the other auto companies pay just as good(minus Tesla)
This post is good in that it doesn't try to define what a principal engineer is, but just give the author's opinion on what their job is.

One thing I realized with getting jobs with increasing degrees of ambiguity and autonomy is that you can _somewhat_ make it what you want. If it turns out that what you want aligns with what is needed, then things go super well.

The other thingis that titles are just a construct. They're nice badges that help rewarding people by giving ego instead of money. being a principal in a startup is different from being one at Amazon is different from being one at Facebook.
There are enough stories criticizing "the tolerant left" to support the notion that had Moodles been in the opposite end of this situation, he likely would not have reacted in the same extreme way. There is a culture with an express goal of fostering intolerance of average people, and San Francisco hosts a concentration of it.
Thank you for your feedback, we will take into account all what you have offered as features, some of your proposals are already included in our service and others are not, but we will work day and night to make our system easy, simple with reasonable pricing.
Or move them to cold storage periodically that's air gapped and they are transferred via sneakernet encrypted.
1) CreateTags does support scoping using StringEquals with ec2:SourceInstanceARN and comparing that with the aws:arn

"aws:ARN": "${ec2:SourceInstanceARN}"

It will give you a warning when creating through web console, but the condition works.
Education NFTs Will Replace Diplomas and Resumes
Andrew, the link clearly states you can't just take over channels. Why are you deferring to clearly void "policies"?

How does this address any criticism?
Interesting; at the places I've worked, "architects" are more senior and highly paid than "principal engineers". This description is totally unfamiliar to me.
Everybody involved is taking some fraction of that risk. "No raises until we're profitable", "Here's stock to make up for the lower pay", "Lets cut benefits again to increase our runway" are all tall tales that essentially squeeze cash out of employees with empty promises.

When there's no way it will every even make up for the sacrifices of the employees, all those demands are empty noises. Just a way to fool folks in to making the founder rich. And nobody else.
It is supposed to be a super-smart engineer who is extremely vertical in multiple disciplines, can solve complex problems, and can navigate politics.

I worked at Intel. A principal engineer in the process or architecture was vastly different than a principal engineer elsewhere. For the most part, you become a principal engineer by sticking around, doing lots of extra work, and making at least several major contributions in your career that impact multiple products' bottom line or viability. As a bonus there is a weird deferred-income strategy they use that helps you avoid taxes, your regular bonus multipliers skyrocket, and you are expected to work 24/7.

However, I witnessed several abuses where:

- You can become one if you are friends with an upper manager who scoots you ahead in the line. Several times I saw this type of PE later pushed out by new management, because it was painfully obvious they were in over their heads to everyone else.

- You can become one if you are in a small group that wants to justify its existence. Every group needs a principal engineer, and without one, it is a risk the group will be dissolved. Some managers of tiny groups like their ego trip and want to continue being big fish in small ponds.

- And you can become one if your work a site that hands them out to puff up its image. In the latter case, there was one non-US site that was almost 40% principal engineers, and used that as their claim to fame. "We have the most principal engineers at our site" said the VP. Duh! You are also the VP that approved all of them so you could say that!

So while Intel's definition makes sense and is generally true, it is abused about ... ~35% of the time?

Disclaimer: Intel is an up or out company. You move up, or you move out. It is hard to hover in certain high-pressure divisions. I was passed over twice for PE and shuffled between divisions, and eventually exhausted to the point where i was "out". So i'm a tad bit bitter.
Efnet and it’s non registered chaos is what drew me into computers and made me write my first lines of code. I really felt like a part of community having to hold channels. I learned so much about the underlying network protocols that made the internet work and went on to go to a vocation high school for networking. This story was actually confusing to me at first because I never really joined IRC servers that allowed the registrations of usernames let alone channels.
What if it was rephrased as an indefinite sentence, but a minimum of 21 years?

(If the law doesn't permit a longer minimum, then 21 years is the "maximum sentence" in that there cannot be a longer mandatory period imposed.)
I agree, but I would expand that to love what you're good at doing... or at least good at learning to do.
This is so true! One of the main pillars of friendship is consistency which takes time.
Possibly golden handcuffs (the options are worth much in theory, but cannot be exercised or cashed in until IPO for instance). Another reason why it's often bad to be a normal employee in a startup when it comes to equity. The terms of the options are often against you.
It is absolutely consequential if you give any priority to credibility. It is consequential when such images from other conflicts are used to exaggerate or otherwise mislead - and if a journalist is willing to use unrelated material then all of their work is suspect.

Integrity is black and white. You write truthfully or you don't - and frankly most outlets today don't. But they'll be the first to tell you that the other side has a fake news problem.
The MBP 16” is a buggy garbage machine. It also routinely kernel panics when disconnecting thunderbolt devices. For the first month it also regularly kernel panicked waking up from sleep like some piece of shit Windows laptop, but that seems to have gotten fixed in Catalina.
This implies there's something else that's not "procedures/calls" out there, i.e. subroutines. What else is there, can we name one of them?

Subdividing a big problem into a set of smaller problems is not just some specific way of programming, it's not even a specific way of factoring a system. It's universal, as in the entire Universe essentially is factored this way.

We have areas of "widening" cohesion and coupling (implementation) and areas of "narrowing" cohesion and coupling (interfaces, incl. argument/return types). These occur both horizontally and vertically as we move towards smaller and smaller problems to solve.

Your actual CPU works this way, itself.

So I'm very curious what we're talking about and why the dismissive attitude towards procedures i.e. "cobble it together out of procedure calls".

In these conversations usually people just bring up something else that's also a procedure, but we call it something else, like "message passing to object methods".

That's a useful metaphor at a higher level for sure. But let's not forget a method is just a procedure that runs and does things like any other procedure.
One of the unfortunate quirks of current ML algorithms is that you can sometimes accidentally train your model to recognize something correlated with the target label that is not actually the target label based on other tells (think of the tank image recognition story that was circulating again a few days ago).

In this case, some style of writing or a particular set of authors, publications, timestamps, etc could be features useful in determining whether something will be fake news with high accuracy. If so you don't necessarily need to always analyze the factual contents to detect fake news with high accuracy.
A channel is shut down when it is dropped or expires. There's no grey area about it, really.
US based multinational.
Thats seems more like a arbitrary cultural distinction versus a rule. It sounds odd, but a half second of thought should make it obvious it makes perfect sense.
I have scoured the farthest, deepest reaches of the Leftist Web to retrieve the lost scrolls containing the arcane encoding of this horrifying acronym:

L: Lesbian (This means women who like women.)

G: Gay (This means men who like men.)

B: Bisexual. This means women and men who like both women and men.

T: Trans. This means you do not identify with the gender you were assigned at birth.

Q: Queer. This means you do not identify as straight but don't feel like you necessarily fit into just one of the other buckets all of the time. Maybe you don't feel particularly like a man or a woman, or you don't feel like masculinity or femininity really even come into play in your sexuality.

I: Intersex. Some people are born with sex organs that don't look like the venerable "man/woman" anatomy charts. As it turns out they are still living breathing people.

A: Asexual. Some people do not feel sexual attraction toward other human beings. As it turns out they are still living breathing people.

+: Sometimes people feel like they fall somewhere on a spectrum of the above. Sometimes people using the acronym intend to include allies. Sometimes people just haven't figured out their sexuality yet exactly, they just know 'one man and one woman' isn't it.

LGBTQIA+. It's not alphabet soup, it's not a joke, appending BBQ isn't clever. It's just lesbians, gay men, bi people, trans people, queer people, intersex people, asexual people, and allies or people who are still having trouble categorizing themselves and how they feel.

Now you know all the letters. It didn't even use up the whole alphabet.
Wikipedia says that the murdered woman’s husband bought it for her for self-defense rather than to check tire pressure.
But they do. They pay salaries, benefits, overhead. Its a team that gets funded.
Yes, but then you’re holding illiquid startup stock that can easily to go 0 in value.
I grew up working poor, then struck it rich in the software biz and became a millionaire, then got sick and became homeless. My take on it is the rich and poor both struggle with money anxieties. A significant difference between being rich and being poor is the way other people treat you. When I was rich everyone wanted to be my friend and help me out. When I was poor I suffered judgements of all types from people; scorn, contempt, pity, avoidance and generally being considered a person no one wanted to associate with. I thought it was interesting and said more about my fellow Americans than myself, but it did hurt all the same.

Edit: Scrapper Blackwell - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626pNZB8xXE
Forgot a crucial parameter in the first xclip call: -t image/png. Without this, your system don't know its png data and will paste the raw data when you hit ctrl-v.
I recently watched the films "Hannibal," and "Silence of the Lambs," which convinced me that killers who aren't executed will continue to orchestrate murders from inside prison by psychologically manipulating people.

I think those films really capture what happens when we only imprison killers, even if we feel certain that there would be no public harm from handing down a life sentence instead of the death penalty.
Scythian archers were paid to guard the walls of Athens, so there was a clear understanding in doing business with barbarians (which is their word).
"29. The benefits, risks, burdens and effectiveness of a new method should be tested against those of the best current prophylactic, diagnostic, and therapeutic methods. This does not exclude the use of placebo, or no treatment, in studies where no proven prophylactic, diagnostic or therapeutic method exists."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo-controlled_study#Decla...
Trickle down economics. The only problem was that it was and still is a lie. Corporate welfare doesn’t translate to the general public. Cutting corporate taxes didn’t massively increase jobs. During the Trump Administration several companies made public statements that the tax cuts proposed and the enacted would allow them to keep their manufacturing in the US. Then after they were made law what did they do? Harley Davidson decided that actually they were going to offshore anyways and close their factory.

Not all rich people are bad. There are very wealthy people advocating for increased taxes on themselves. But many have a vested interest in maintaining and accumulating more wealth. The government allowed these things to happen, specifically because people with wealth and in power colluded to change and create policy. This is the point of lobbying, not to mention literal regulatory capture (FCC, Ajit Pai).

Republicans/conservatives howl and scream about social welfare programs but are all too happy and eager to provide corporate welfare. The result is plain to see.
What would be the equivalent of earning US$100k in the UK?
Single family homes cannot meet demand, period.
About the 'red big ball': you can use that, but the weirdness itself suggests that you better mean something different than an ordinary big red ball with that phrase.

Also interesting and surprisingly rule-bound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletive_infixation
I know. At the time when I wrote the GP comment, the person whose profile has been linked didn’t join the discussion yet; so e.g. I was’t aware that this profile existed.
Or even if the startup is successful, because no initial MVP survives 10x userbase growth. Every company I've ever worked for was constantly reworking parts of the codebase that were "good enough" 2-3 years ago but aren't anymore.
> In the case of Outer Wonders, we weren't able to set up old Linux distributions, because the installation of such distributions depends on online repositories where installable dependencies are stored, and repositories containing the packages for old distributions are either removed or archived. This is why we fell back on Ubuntu 20.04.

docker - we do exactly this for a non-game app at $WORK - building an app in some ancient centos or something docker image.