skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! I've never understood this meme about copy-pasting. I honestly rarely end up using SO and when I do, I almost never copy paste from there. It's not because it's some kind of weird principle I have - I will copy paste if I think it makes sense - it's just rare that I want the exact thing they have written there (it's in JS and I'm using TS, it's using another library than I am, etc) and generally I'm looking for information rather than code.
Sounds like a good project for Intuit. Create a new competitor to TurboTax for the low-end market. Upsell into TurboTax. And for #4, they could become the defacto IRS tool with perfect regulatory capture funded by government subsidies.
So here's an interesting problem.

To have a big disinformation effect, you need to influence many people in a strong way.

To stay undetected, you need to keep it small and soft, reaching few people with low intensity.

If you want to use amplification to convince a core group of spreaders, you need to be authentic (which, as the article shows, isn't easy because of language, culture, personal contact etc.)

It seems that the only remaining option is to convince people of obvious but harmful opinions which they unconsciously held before?
Check out the comments on the original post about GitHub co-pilot.

The top one reads just like an ad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676845

Some posts that definitely aren't by shills (including the third one because I simply don't believe there's a person on the planet that "can't remember the last time Windows got in my way"):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27678231
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27686416
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27682270

Very mild, yet negative sentiment opinion (downvoted quickly):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676942
This is literally because Intuit lobbied to ban the IRS from being able to do it for you.
The discussion is about working at apple specifically. With tangents about working at fanng companies in general in different threads.
That's quite an elevated take of my comment. I never implied they are 'sin' or telling people what to think (it would be a compliment as I'm usually not very persuasive). I'm just stating that I have limited sympathy for them as they are not as credible as you think. Any chinese will know for sure they will be shut for some reason such as crossing a redline. Whether that's right or wrong it's your judgement. There are plenty of good media being punished in mainland China that got people angry and people protested and reversed their ban but the ones in the articles are not those.
I got locked out of my Amazon account due to getting a new phone number and 2FA not working. It was a blessing, not looked back.
why? just because they're old doesn't mean they're immediately vulnerable. c'mon.

Your post here is so weak because it 'seems' to be the DNS provider and like other pointed out, nothing to do with GS really
Cryptocurrency miners in China are beginning to sell off GPUs for cheap
It's really just about making hiring easier. If you can say that someone with a Master's in CS will know all these things we think are important, then you can set the bar at MSCS and ignore all the people with a BS even if they have the same knowledge.

Having the MS means you filter out a bunch of people that may or may not have the skill you need. The filter reduces the number of resumes you need to evaluate.

It's stupid, but makes sense in the eyes of HR and as long as you can fill your pipeline with enough people, it works.
Ah, I see that you are the author of the blog post.

> Credentialism is such BS.

I simply presented your credentials.

> Anyone can look at data and present an argument

(Emphasis mine.)

Exactly. You need to know who's presenting arguments.

> to look at credentials and outright dismiss discussion is about as bigoted as you can get.

I listed your credentials. Your assumption of dismissal and prejudice suggest that you are at least self-conscious about your credentials in re. this topic.

> I think a better use of time would have been commenting on the content — which was US CDC and UK NHS data, as well as good old news stories.

Nah. That's the ol' "You'll find the evidence if you look for it!" chestnut. Nobody can read everything and then research everything they read. We have to take shortcuts due to time constraints.
Show HN: Auto-complete for VSCode by matching lines from your own project
> There's a reason that male suicide rates skyrocket not long after retirement. We are not happy alone and disconnected, even though being in that state in theory maximizes our personal autonomy.

That seems to be a completely artificial problem of the modern corporate first-world that discards or isolates anyone it doesn't find useful (the elderly and children) when, for a most of history; the elderly never stopped working in a meaningful capacity ever until they dropped or were incapacitated; children were working with their guardians much much more of the time without dipping into exploitative child labor of industrialism.

> But there are meaningful jobs out there and working together can be an important part of a fulfilling life.

It's like we're making the best of having our village raided for resources and saying some of the raiders don't take all the stuff (and they don't take nothing). What we need are appropriate walls so that our relationship with these outsiders can be one of trade/negotiation.
We are talking about inexpensive tax software as an alternative to free filing methods. It's not a big deal. Of course it could be more efficient and cheaper ... but so can many government programs. Are public sector unions evil when they negotiate outrageous contracts that the public has to pick up the tab for? This is what democracy looks like.
Bribery isn’t lobbying.
Whats happening with the slack now ?
Depends on what you mean by accuracy. There is no bullseye with estimates. It's a means to set expectations and to show that you've thoughtfully analyzed the work.

Part of your argument rests on reducing novelty. However, that's already covered by the myriad of manufacturing process improvement books. Programming is unique because every project is novel. Any migration, any integration, is going to be heavily dependent on company culture and environment.

Like it or not, estimates are necessary to weight A against B, to scope, to plan marketing releases, to compete, to sell, to budget, etc. You may not get value from it as a coder, but that doesn't mean that there is no value in it.
You can also be in one alone to signal "I am willing to have a conversation right now" and people who want that too can just join at will.
Sure, I'm talking about even the RTM build for ARM which is the first non preview ARM build. They've said that final builds will require TPMs, but I'm making the argument that there's a good chance this will only apply to x86 and won't apply to ARM builds.
And it is the lawyers who never lose in this game
>planning is part of the model

Even if it was (which I doubt, except implicitly, which is not the same thing), there can be no planning without a goal.

It's a kind of mirrored Chinese Room fallacy: In that case, the complaint is that the performance of the system cannot be ascribed to any distinct part of the whole, concluding that the whole cannot perform. In this case, the performance of the system is falsely ascribed to one distinct part, ignoring the contribution of the other.
Have you ever tried hiring these people? At FAANG scale? Good luck …
This is the group you think will defend the little guy? "IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor"[0]

[0]https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
It reminds me of Yugabyte, which is Postgres compatible

> YugabyteDB is the open source, distributed SQL database for global, internet- scale applications with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures. *

However Fly is nicer from a developer's point of view, because it doesn't require you to learn a new query language, you can write good old Postgres.

* https://www.yugabyte.com/
Check how many US based Jews are part of anti Israel organizations such as BDS compared to other organizations that are anti other countries. Why? because they care more about the image of Israel in the world than the image of Iran or China for example. Even though they don't live in Israel and are not Israelis. That's because non-Jews often put Israelis and Jews in the same bucket, due to ignorance and/or racism. Similar to how many people put all Arabs/Muslims together.
There must have been multiple Star Trek games. This is the one I remember playing. Written by Mike Mayfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)
Sure why not. How old is the president of the united states again ; ) ? Besides it is a great combination. So you could always get back to management consulting, with coding experience. I think it just adds value to your skills.
PS:
Career as a software dev also means managing people as well. So in the end it is rarely just coding.
That's a strawman. Nobody is seriously claiming the count was "totally 100% accurate".

The serious assertion is that Trump's claims that the election was stolen are, to quote Trump's attorney general, "bullshit".
When passengers ends, if feels like a cheap-o movie. Hollywood but with only two main actors and in total three actors for the whole film. So empty, no ensemble, no people. Only the two actors, production, special effects and the movie making machine.
collapsible sections are possible using css only, or using the details tag (not even css needed). As for search, you don't need a framework for that.
It may be apocrypha, but supposedly Intuit years ago realized that people don't think the system "worked hard enough" if results returned immediately. (These kind of calculations are what computers do well and generally return immediately.) Supposedly Intuit has been A/B testing for decades how many artificial delays to give people the impression that the system is "working harder" for them. They intentionally want their interface to be worse and "slower" because of the idiot dark pattern that our dumb monkey brains think that "serious things" like taxes need lots of "calculation time".
The Architect's Guide to Multi-Cloud Storage
I think the context there is Google's Search Ads 360 product is supposed to be a unified interface to search marketing campaigns across all major search engines, but is aledgedly favoring Google search over others (or at least Bing and dependents).

State AGs are part of the article because when big companies disagree, they sue about some things and complain about some things to officials including regulators and AGs.
Donald Rumsfeld Dies at 88
Lol. No.

State Legislators are really cheap. Donate <$500 and you’ll be able to get in-person meetings.
Yeah, never did the chain email in my old job, but every single person I talked to wanted to stay remote. Management said "We're hearing that people want to come back to the office". After that, headcount dropped from ~40 to ~28, including me.
> I'm a teacher so I get exposed to every cold and flu the kids get every year, but I don't get sick.

As a parent my reaction to this is a severe WTF?! Our kids cannot get vaccinated, but they are forced to spend six hours with you every day. Your profession in particular makes your choice not just about you.
This is different from lobbying.

How would you feel if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission soft-balled Mr. Burns, then one of its commissioners jumped ship to work at Springfield Nuclear?

Even if that commissioner was an enlightened patrician of high moral character, it would create the appearance of corruption. And that alone is corrosive to the rule of law.

People with less integrity, people downstream in industry, might interpret that as a signal that regulators are a joke. They may go on television and say things like "I don't respect the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
Personally, I've found pay and work life balance to be positively correlated in my SV career.
All good questions to ask!

First some context, there is no "win" in life. it is the journey that you will look back on and either be proud of or regret. And understanding that, understand that everyone's journey is different and so it is nearly impossible to compare yourself to others and their journeys and say with certainty your are doing 'better' or 'worse' than them. It is one of the few cases where it really is "all about you" :-)

So should you keep growing yourself? Absolutely. It is how you don't get bored and how you move to the next stage of the journey. Some of the choices you make will be less satisfying and being in the practice of always growing and learning you may find, as I have, that you don't feel 'trapped' by them, instead you just change direction.

Are you underpaid? Who knows? I have known people with the title "VP Engineering" who make literally three times what you are making as a base salary and have a bonus program besides. Not all of them liked their life. One in particular was constantly fighting depression and guilt over how little time they spent with their family and how their non-work relationships suffered. Their life had plenty of money but not enough joy. So it is a balance. My philosophy has always been if I'm making enough to cover my needs (current and projected), and I've got a life outside of work that is rewarding and enjoyable, then I don't need to change things (at least in compensation).

In my career more money has always come with more expectations and more responsibility, which manifests itself as stress when things are not going as they need to. I have turned down raises and promotions when I knew they wouldn't increase the quality of my life and would likely decrease it.

Should you pursue a Master's degree? If you have the resources and time, it helps with flexibility later. I have known folks who "grew up" in a company, started as an undergrad and were looking for a new job 20 years later. And their experience gave them a masters or PhD level of experience in their area of expertise, but without the certificate any new job was going to assume their expertise was over stated and there would be a 1 - 3 year 'ramp' period at the new job where the new employer got to internalize if they really were as expert as they thought/said.

From a technical perspective, if you're an engineer and get an MBa or business degree that makes you both more valuable and able to 'span' more of an organization. There is only so much you can accomplish as an individual, being able to bring a team together under a single vision gives you a huge boost in what you can get done. To do that you have to be able to talk to everyone in the concepts they understand so that you can clearly articulate a vision they can then help you execute.

Lastly, one trick that a college counselor taught me is to imagine you are doing your dream job or living your dream life. Now write a fictional history of that persons life, like someone reading an introduction of you before a TED talk. Start with the end point and work backwards in the history to where you are right now. It can give you ideas about what your next steps should be.
you're worried about....the ads? Having ads around doesn't make the content any less valuable. We're talking about the content itself still being available, who cares if there's some ads keeping the system up if all those live concerts and how-to vids are preserved forever
Lobbying is lobbying. There is a tendency by some purist to label democratic actions like lobbying, patronage or campaign donations as 'bribery' or 'corruption'. No no no no. Democracy is messy and involves horse-trading, negotiation and balancing of many interest groups to push political priorities.
Amazon is more expensive on many items even with free shipping. Shopping for coffee makers, air conditioners i noticed I could get them cheaper and with free shipping from home depot and walmart.

While amazon is super handy, even food items like can goods are cheaper on walmart, but you have to wait a few days for shipping. Its can goods, theres no hurry, save money and shop around.
Google wins MLPerf benchmarks with TPU v4
The sneaky but probably legal way the rich shield retirement savings from taxes
Hi Hacker News,

I made this VSCode extension a few months ago after playing around with some AI autocomplete tools like Tabnine. I was writing a lot of React code where there were many duplicated lines.

I've continued using the extension while learning Unity/C# over the past few months and have intermittently found it useful. Thought I'd add to the conversation now, given all the hype around Github Copilot.

I'd love to hear others' thoughts.
> besides retiring super early.

This is the dream. Get the second half of my life for myself, if I'm lucky.
> Packing everything together is a "selling point" until you find that a service can fill up ephemeral storage and take down other services, or consume bandwidth without limit.

Ephemeral storage has resource requests/limits in pods.

Traffic shaping/limiting can be accomplished using kubernetes.io/{ingress,egress}-bandwidth annotations. It's not as nice as resources (because there's not quotas and capacity planning, and it's generally very simplistic) but you can still easily build on this.

Pods can also have priorities and higher priority workloads can and will preempt lower priority workloads.

> Let's not forget the potential security implications of not keeping things properly isolated.

For hardware isolation isolation, you can use gVisor or even Kata containers.

> People who were around when provisioning on bare-metal was still a thing already learned all these lessons. Somehow it seems they have been forgotten by all the people driving hype around Kubernetes.

Kubernetes explicitly aims to solve resource isolation. It was built by people who have decades of experience solving this exact problem in production, on bare metal, at scale. Effectively, Kubernetes resource isolation is one of the best solutions out there to easily, predictably and strongly isolate resource between workloads _and_ maximize utilization at the same time.
I don't follow. They've added a legitimate definition, not removed anything. Is that distressing?
There might be limit to how efficiently a general purpose machine can perform a specific task, similar to the Heisenberg uncertainty principal in quantum physics. That is to say, there might be a natural law that dictates that the more generic a machine is, the more power it requires to perform specific tasks. Our brains are kind of specialized. If you want to build a machine that outperforms humans in a single task, no problem, we’ve done that many times over. But a machine that can outperform us in any task, that might just be impossible.
Ask HN: What are some good programming books that are suitable as audio books?
In general I would say that most books about programming are not really suitable as audio books since they might provide long code listings, tables and other stuff that's harder to digest in audible form. Of course there are exceptions and I would like to hear which books are particularly well suited.
I’ll bet a six pack of decent beer the % of all sales that are counterfeit goods is double digits.
Nintendo wasn’t a tech company for a long time but it made the switch. The same is true of Intuit, if most of your money comes from directly selling software/computer hardware ... your a tech company.

That’s still not true of most large companies like say Walmart or McDonalds which still invest a great deal in technology.
It sounds very much like the constraints of the Project management triangle:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle

It's probably the first time i have seen estimation described so clearly as a choice between scope or date.

Am still trying to figure out how something like SAFe works with the above, the gut feeling is "not great".
It doesn’t calm to solve the bottleneck either. On the contrary, it clearly states that its mission is to solve the easy parts better so developers can focus better on the true challenging engineering problems as you mentioned.
I used to hate Best Buy because I had some poor return experiences back in the 90s, but now it's my first choice for online shopping because they only sell first-party items and they have control over their supply chain. This is particularly important for frequently-counterfeited products like SD cards.
> Agreed. And this was how hiring was done up until about 15, 20 years ago. For example, if you knew C++ they figured you could pick up Java. Or if you knew Perl, you could be assumed to be able to pick up Ruby or Python.

That's why FAANG still do whiteboard/algorithm questions.

If implemented properly you get a good idea of who can code and solve problems, and who can't. Of course, there are false positive and false negatives, but the signal to noise ratio is pretty good.
Drygulch is mentioned at the end of the article, along with notes that he can't seem to find any screenshots of it.

As Drygulch was played well into the mid-1980s, I can't help but think that some photographs, if not screen shots, must still exist somewhere, but there don't seem to be any online. I don't know why Drygulch wasn't preserved by efforts like Cyber1, but I suspect it's because the game was owned by CDC and not the University of Illinois.

In case you run across something you're fairly certain is an image of this game, I'm sure he would appreciate the authentication. :)
> Also, there is no evidence that vaccine save me from any mutation of coronavirus. Would be stupid to take a vac and to catch a covid soon.

This is absolutely not true. The vaccine make COVID—even the variants—a much less dangerous disease. It would be stupid not to take the vaccine if you might later be exposed to COVID in any form.
It seems to mostly be driven by managers who are not part of the productive class and therefore can’t perceive the hit to productivity and WLB the office incurs. If you spend your entire day in pointless meetings anyway, then yes, maximizing your commute time and “random office conversation” time is a rational choice. And it’s not like you can measure the productivity of the code monkeys anyway so who cares?
PHP RFC: Deprecations for PHP 8.1
What new query language do you need to learn for yugabyte ?
/s/testers/users

Just kidding and in reality UI tests exists and aren't super difficult to set up. The front end has plenty of tools like Cypress and its pretty simple to automate running a bunch of tests that screenshot and diff compare your site.

I never really pulled down UI code to test them out. There has to be a certain level of trust between engineers. Sometimes I'd ask or post screenshots of changes but that was rare.
"Found not guilty" and "innocent" are not the same thing. "Conviction overturned because of prosecutorial mistakes" and "innocent" aren't even in the same ballpark. Nobody is questioning whether Cosby did it—the evidence at the heart of this is his admission that he did. The issue is whether that evidence could be used in his conviction.
A Modest Proposal for Operator Overloading in JavaScript
Absolutely terrible timing for this type of mistake. If there's anything positive that can be said about it, it's that they owned up to the mistake despite how bad it makes them look especially in context of last year's election.
Can you define “dubious” and “crossing a redline” (so that they need to be shut) according to HK laws?

Without a precise definition we cannot have a fruitful discussion.
I appreciate their honest status page.

In contrast to Amazon/Cloudflare’s “some users may experience delays” when in fact everything is down for a whole continent.
AWS IAM is no different.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498678
Children of Time has this vibe. Though it’s not just one person out of cryo working to save what’s left of humanity (or what they think is left…)
My suspicion, which I don't have data to support, is that retail investors where largely screwed over by other retail investors.