skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm old enough to remember that Microsoft got this wrong back in the early 90s. In early versions of Microsoft Foundation Classes, which Windows C++ programmers were using before the STL took over and std::string became the thing, repeatedly appending a character to a string (I think it was CString) was quadratic, because they didn't increase array size by a multiplicative factor, but by a linear amount, so you'd get a ton of reallocation and copying. I used to use versions of this as an interview question.

However, language for concepts evolves with time, and younger programmers shouldn't assume that older programmers don't know a concept because they learned it by a different name. (Though they might not know the concept).
I like the simulation video at [1] which shows how a low head dam works in various conditions and how the risk can change dramatically depending on water flow, velocity, sediment levels or obstructions changing in a river. Note the hydraulic jump at 1:05.

Quite surprisingly, the incidence of deaths from whitewater kayaking and rafting is around 6 deaths per million participant days, compared to around 150 deaths per million participant days driving in cars[2].

[1] https://serc.carleton.edu/details/files/19075.html

[2] https://w.wiki/3Sma
Many hourly jobs love to schedule people at seemingly random times, so they'll never know from one week to the next what times they'll have free and can't make commitments outside of work.

Very few employers seem interested in hiring "part time" workers with higher priority commitments that may interfere with their desired schedule. This extends to "can't work on $holy_days" and things that have legal backing; hourly employees aren't likely to pursue the theoretical means of redress they have for those incidents.

Then add the other layers of suck jobs have now. Instead of being an expert in "what plumbing stuff our store has and where"; a clerk is now expected to meet credit card signup metrics, first, foremost, and only. A retired plumber who wanted to work at the home improvement store has what incentive to put up with this? Serving the community is great but those people have been eliminated as too old and crunchy and too hard for HR to deal with.
If you're full time you do, which is why Walmart and other big non-union companies strive as much as possible to have a part-time workforce. If you're part of corporate, or management, you're full time..

https://careers.walmart.com/us/jobs/WD597130-senior-software...

"Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more."
This is explicitly wrong. There absolutely is such a thing as a "public Internet" address, which is the exact terminology used by the IETF. NAT isn't a part of the Internet Protocol, but it is well-defined in other related RFCs.
Around here (BC, Canada) you'll see a single crow chasing away a bald eagle. They get very aggressive when they're protecting their nests.
Can't tell if you're talking up the spare $100 as a serious positive or being sarcastic.
> I believe the NRA or other pro gun groups should defend any person who shoots cops who do no knock raids

If Kenneth Walker (Taylor's boyfriend) had been murdered instead, would this not include demanding justice for him? Or if by "defend" you mean only against legal charges, why should the home defender have to win the armed conflict in order to receive support?

> I do not believe a pro gun group should work to get rid of no knock raids

No knock raids are logically incompatible with private ownership of firearms, and the right to self defense in general. They directly follow from assuming a compliant disarmed populace that will suffer attackers until the "authorities" arrive, which is precisely what gun advocates reject. As such, fighting no knock raids is firmly within the scope of gun activism.
To answer the direct question:

> Should a startup CEO tell his employees he's buying Twitter followers?

No, unless it's relevant.

To expand on the answer a bit, getting Twitter followers isn't traction or useful (for 99% of startups). Unless those Twitter followers are converting to paying users, that's a vanity metric.
I have a suggestion for a solution but you're not going to like it
Why Not Simply, collective action edition:

> If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.

(https://squareallworthy.tumblr.com/post/163790039847/everyon...)
I think it's third party contractors, sorted by conversion rate with optics not really considered.

Which, yeah, sucks but I'm a sufficiently intense competition and all that..
Here is a PDF version of the article. Apparently its from a 1999 speech given at Villanova. https://thesystemsthinker.com/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/100501...
I didn’t see ssh security mentioned maybe I missed it? I recommend, in addition to public key only authentication to also use an 2nd factor as well
Isn't Next a full stack framework build on React? How does Blitz differ from standard Next?
> What? Why would the death of Stalin impact the price and availability of caviar?

Because it wasn't free economy, but a centrally regulated one. So if Stalin wanted caviar to be cheap for whatever reason, he'd make that happen.
When you loose your job, that tends to give you a jolt that forces you to change your life. When the government gives you money at the same time, you go improve your situation in a way you couldn't before because you didn't have a spare $100.
HDD, in terms of Revenue and TB Shipped are still growing in Datacenter segment.

And people have been saying this for a long time. I remember a few vocal members in certain popular Internet forum keeps bagging on about it in 17/18. ( And we are half way 2021 already ) There are currently no roadmap from both HDD and SSDs they will reach per-GB cost parity. Not in the next 5, and nothing that shows this will happen in next 10 years.

As a matter of fact there are plenty in the pipeline and R&D that could drive cost /GB on HDD cheaper. I dont see anything substantial with NAND. Other than the usual multiple layers and die shrinking. Both of them have fundamental issues with cost.
> is healthcare not pro-rated according to how much you work?

No.

> Or is this casual work where you get a higher hourly loading to compensate?

No.

It is precisely as horrific as you would imagine for those low-wage workers who want full-time jobs to obtain those healthcare benefits, but keep running into this issue in job after job. The official tax-oriented definition of "full-time" [1] is a bit more nuanced than what you will colloquially hear in discussions, but in broad terms, once you are put into the HR system for more than 30 hours in a week of work, the threshold to full-time is triggered. It is a binary switch, no spectrum, no gradient.

This doesn't even begin to get into how capital-inefficient and service-poor so many of the healthcare plans are once you do get access to them as a low-wage worker. Nor how so many of these workers are so completely unequipped and unprepared to comprehend the fiscal realities of engaging these plans.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employers/identifyin...
> Just because virtually none of the best-regarded security teams haven’t implemented yet doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t implement it

Unclear how it makes sense to do something allegedly security related that best-regarded security teams recommend against. Sounds like security theater.

Meanwhile, consider the failures: https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html

Misconfiguation can cause the sites to disappear from the internet.
Note that the bottom half of the above article confusingly is an interview with yet another Nick (Hampshire).

Sidenode, here is another interview with Nick Sheridon from 2009, apparently not even retrievable using Google: https://web.archive.org/web/20090413144446/https://www.epape...
Browsers Apply User Styles (Web Browser Engineering)
Many of these are similar to malaphors:
https://www.reddit.com/r/malaphor/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Malaphors/
And all most 'apps' need these days is to have an icon of the website with cookies on the home screen and switchable from the apps list. But then how does Apple/Google get a cut?
There used to be a grudging respect between the ACLU and the Federalist society. They disagreed on a lot, but not everything by a long shot. I saw ACLU officials speak at Federalist Society events and vice versa. RBG was famously friends with Scalia.

But the current mood is absolutely moral certainty and off the charts self righteousness.
Wouldn't the TOTP seed be stored in the same breached database? Where else would they store it?
RHCA(rchitect)

That cert is no joke.

RHCA(dminstrator) is a great cert to get (not super difficult but not super easy, but like all RH certs you need to actually know the material).

RHCE is awesome to have, and a good bit harder than RHCAdministrator. But when I grow up I want RHCArchitect...
> generated C from its AST as the target assembly language, relying then on the C compiler's optimizer and machine-code generator.

That qualifies as a preprocessor to me.

You can get the sources to it, as late as 3.0.3 from 1994 here.

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/c_plus_plus/ind...
What are the associated important ideas with a statistic like that?

Because the participants are removed from the population, it seems different from the case where they aren't.
Why do we see things that aren't there?
Ahh, thanks, that's a very useful distinction to me
You have to sell a lot of $1 hamburgers to recoup the costs on your million dollar hamburger assembly machine.
It's not the premise - although there are a lot of lazy people in the world (I'm one of them without hesitation or denials).

This is the brunt of it: It's not worth it to work when the benefits of being unemployed is more than a "low paying" job. Those low paying jobs aren't worth more (Flipping burgers can only generate so much money - same for stocking shelves and other low experience jobs).

Raises or not the fact remains its better to be unemployed than having a number of jobs. The fact that people choose to remain on benefits instead of working is only tangentially related to "laziness".

If I can be unemployed and get 50k/year in unemployment, health care, free phones, living assistance, food stamps, etc... or I can do a minimum wage job and make 30k and lose all the benefits?

The math is simple... it's more "profitable" to be unemployed for most people.

My original post may be phrased wrongly - people seem to be hung up on the world "lazy". It could be phrased differently but the fact remains that the US "benefits" system is broken and is a large part of the problem. We need help but we shouldn't have such large portions of the population enslaved to "handouts" with a massive benefits wall in the way of personal freedom.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/newsroom/budget-background/the...

> The ‘Welfare Cliff’: How The Benefit Scale Discourages Work

> ...

> The dramatic rise in welfare spending has created a “welfare cliff.” As more people have become eligible for increasingly larger benefits, the “penalty” for working—lost benefits due to increased income—has steepened and been described by analysts as the “welfare cliff.” This has been especially true for workers near the poverty line who are eligible for multiple programs (e.g., food stamps, Medicaid, the EITC, TANF, and subsidized public housing), as workers reach a point where every additional dollar earned can result in a more than 50 percent reduction in benefits.

> ...

> For example, the CBO study found that households with incomes just above the poverty line—or between $23,000 and $29,000 for a family of four in 2012—stand to lose 60 cents of every additional dollar to either taxes or lost federal benefits. In the face of such a high penalty, many low-income people choose either not to work or, as CBO finds, “put in fewer hours or be less productive.”
Ha ha, sounds like my DSP class in grad school. 27 Asians and three white guys.
> funds aren't made specifically available for purchase of lesson plans

You mean no teachers set up a github repository where they give away lesson plans just to be helpful? Teachers are unable to pool their resources and help each other? "Hey Mr Hand, I'm teaching science for the first time next year. Can I use your lesson plans?" "Sure, Ms Halsey!"

Besides, teachers complain a lot about spending all their time devising lesson plans. They might do cost-benefit check on whether they might be way ahead taking a second job, using part of the wages to buy plans, and spend the rest on a vacation.
Do they spend any time defending firearm rights? Because it is, after all, the second enumerated right after free speech.
I didn't see ransomware mentioned anywhere in there.

At best being ignorant of that risk is going to result in fiscal losses and dubious legalities wrt sanctions, at worst existential risk to the company.
The phenomenon of multiple prey animals swarming larger predators to drive them off is known as mobbing.[0] Crows seem to do it quite readily. Very cool that you got to see it!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing_(animal_behavior)
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Jobs are about more than a wage rate. To have unstable hours that you can't plan for makes some employers look terrible.
I've worked plenty of those kinds of jobs over the years.

Your opinion is the minority, a sizeable one but obviously the minority. The opinion of the person you're replying to is the majority.

Nobody wants to hang around and do nothing at work, even if you're getting paid. If the job is done people want to go home and sit on their ass on their own terms.
Web pages require an Internet connection to access, an app doesn't.
> ‘*’ is fewer characters.

yes, but that produces false positives, whereas both 'apex|ibex|index' and '(ap|ib|ind)ex' do not.

Your original claim was that 'apex|ibex|index' was "simplest", which means it has some property you think that '(ap|ib|ind)ex' lacks, but you haven't yet articulated what that IS.
I think of myself as pretty security-conscious. But it's striking to me just how _long_ this list is. Even as someone who is trying to constantly think about this stuff, if I were faced with a list of this magnitude, I'd be tempted to throw in the towel and admit defeat right off the bat. It's no wonder so many SaaSes end up getting exposed. Even with a lot of best practices built in to so many cloud providers... how did we as an industry end up in a place where it's this dang hard to keep systems secure?
I'm saying that's how it is, I agree with you on that Apple should be allowed to do this to protect their revenue model, even if it comes at the expense of users not being able to run unsigned code/other app stores on iOS.
The writer links to some data at the end: https://krcproject.groups.et.byu.net/browse.php. Do you know of any other data they could use or ?
Yes it is? I'm not talking about a situation where you send a packet to a DHCP server with 0.0.0.0 in the headers, I'm talking about what happens after the fact.

Once you have been allocated an IP address, there should be a way to fetch said address. That's the whole mechanism behind forging UDP packets. If I didn't know what my source IP address was, it would be OK to send 0.0.0.0 out into the world all the time.

Practically speaking, today, it is, considering most, but not all, ISPs won't let you do this and they will rewrite UDP packets that attempt to forge their source.

Edit: OK, since I'm not being clear, let me be explicit: There should be a mechanism in DHCP which allows for the querying of your public Internet address when receiving a packet from a client in one of the Private-Use Networks as defined in RFC 6890. This query should be exposed as a feature of ifconfig or ip, lest a user be forced to manually write such a packet to receive the data.
Oh wow second amendment rights make it more easy for right wing extremists to overthrow our democracy? Surely the bastion of personal liberty!
> The way textbooks work now, the people making the decision on which books or book bundles to go with have almost no skin in the game when it comes to price. So why not pick the Cadillac of textbooks Everytime. Or heck, just pick the textbook from the company with the slickest and biggest marketing budget.

This is absolutely NOT true of all professors.

First, any book I would choose would ALWAYS have several copies (generally 3) in the library that I would immediately place on reserve (no checkout--4 hour usage in library only). If those copies don't exist, I make the department buy them immediately. I probably put any older editions on a lower tier of reserve (can check out but only for a day or two) as well.

Second, if the book is remotely technical, it's going to be expensive no matter what I choose.

Third, I may not have chosen the cheapest book if it is something that I firmly believe that you will need in your career. If I'm teaching algorithms, the book WILL be the latest version of CLRS--"Introduction to Algorithms" no matter how much cheaper or better I think another book will be as the extra material, support and later usefulness for that book VASTLY outweighs other considerations.

Fourth, I generally try to point out in a slightly obscure fashion that there are some places to get the book that are not strictly speaking legal.

Most professors of technical subjects generally try quite hard to not grind their students on textbooks.

However, I'm not going to try to rationalize the content between 3 different versions of a textbook, either. If you want to use the Second Edition instead of the Third Edition, fine. However, if there is some mismatch between the two editions, that's up to the student to catch and compensate for, not me.

Teaching your class is already 40 hours of time a week for me--which means I get paid about $8 an hour. I don't do this for the money. I'm teaching the class because I think you need someone non-academic to teach you occasionally.
https://vivaldi.com/ . I know it isn’t fully open source, but it is amazing.
Cicero was a conservative in some ways. But I don't think he was particularly prejudiced or classist, for the time. Remember that he was technically a plebeian himself, although obviously a privileged and successful one.
If you're hosting user content I always recommend hosting that on another domain.

There is plenty of prior art about this on hacker news. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366
What OS and sites are you talking about? Firefox is as fast (if not maybe a smidge faster every once in a while) as Chrome on macOS.
Losing one name of middling popularity seems like a fair tradeoff for now having a good succinct way to describe upper middle class entitlement.
The jailing and fining of holocaust deniers is pretty slippery, I'd say.
As far as I remember none of the other bill of rights amendments feel the need to justify themselves
> “I would make more money doing anything else with my capital”.

Workers should choose to walk away from the current bad deals.

Franchise operators should walk away from the bad deals that result from paying enough to fill out their work force.

Eventually, corporate McDonalds should face a choice about whether to lose market share or stop extracting so much rent from their franchisees.

Isn't that how markets are supposed to work?
It's different this time. Firefox really caught up in terms of speed. But it was always held back by its clunky ui. I'm very happy with the new version, and I'm definitely not a regular Firefox user. Give it another shot.
I don't know what the absolute best alternative is or how you would define the absolute best, I just know that there are several alternatives. The grandparent knows this as well, hence my post. [0] https://coinmarketcap.com/view/stablecoin/
$100 a month is really not that much. It would take years to save up enough money just to cover a financial emergency, let a lone save anything for retirement. So, even if you are diligent, you are only a few large expenses away from falling into a debt cycle
We are here to demystify DeFi
Not that you'd actually be able to buy it unless you were quite privileged...
Depending on the type some are more vulnerable than others - https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual/
Usually the trade off is criticizing the agency of your UBI, not the person being taxed for it.
Damien Hirst, Cathedrals Built on Sand
> * Many hourly jobs love to schedule people at seemingly random times, so they'll never know from one week to the next what times they'll have free and can't make commitments outside of work.*

A number of years ago I heard Reid Hoffmann on a podcast discussing how algorithms would replace management. How could technology replace the human demands of management? I couldn’t wrap my head around it.

Now I see that this type of thing is what Hoffman meant. The human aspect would be removed.

A faceless, nameless algorithm would take over. Scheduling some of the most vulnerable workers in our society to ensure they don’t cross over the 40-hour per week threshold for work that would require benefits or overtime but also to ensure they don’t get paid to work an extra minute when there may be a bit of downtime.
IIRC the neverssl maintainer _works_ at AWS.
> Are there enough to run a largish organization? Nope.

I'm not convinced this is true. I can think of some small organizations full of employees who could make more money elsewhere but who are dedicated to an altruistic cause.
Oh man, this has been on my mind lately. I’ve been considering writing a thinkpiece on the word “just” in software tutorials, as in “just install Python” or the worst offender, “just NPM install --save-dev” as if that, with no other information, is enough, when what they’re really saying is “just do this and then all that other complicated stuff you should have learned already”. I think it’s fine to preface a tutorial with “this assumes you’ll know x, y, and z” but wow do I see a lot of “installation instructions: npm install --save-dev” where the reality is two days of troubleshooting to get a thing working.
The point is that "why not simply" is pretty patronizing and dismissive.

The use of "simply" implies that the counterpart failed to see a simple solution.
It is bizzare to advocate for fewer rights.
Thank you, that knowledge will come in handy someday.
> Sometimes it seems, that there is some kind of animosity towards any non-markdown format

Can't speak for anyone else, but for my part there is animosity towards any format, period. Documentation should be plain ASCII - or, when strictly necessary[0], UTF-8 - text, and readable as such with only human-generated ad hod syntax such as *emphasis* or

+------------------+
| ascii-art tables |
+---+--------------+
| + | corner |
| | | side of cell |
| - | bottom/top |
+---+--------------+

or http://links.to/whereever.written-literally. To the extent that markdown is tolerable, it's because it does not demand any obfuscation in how documentation is written.

Admittedly, I'm not necessarily a repesentative example of anything.
Does anything happen if they keep you back for an hour and you "accidentally" go over the 30 hours? Or is it entirely based on the contract?
Wage stagnation is probably a myth caused in part by highly paid boomers exiting the work force.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/25/have_u...
Great article, I think an important one as well. The 'Science Game', really just a misalignment of incentives, seems to be at the core of other issues in science research - the replication problem in social sciences comes to mind (for me, as a non-academic). What do you see as possible solution(s) to this problem?
`ip a` will tell you your IP addresses. As far as I can tell, for IPv6 it actually does know it's public address since that is globally unique with no need for a public/private split.