skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it’s a negative cycle. Those already budget stretched people are getting paid poorly by Amazon, so they too will shop at Amazon. We’re not there yet but the cycle is reminiscent of the factory owners with factory stores and pubs where the workers spend all their money during the industrial revolution. Unions and worker laws stem from that era. So who knows - maybe we’re on the cusp of another revolution that’s similar, but in our current digital revolution!
Nice! I had no idea that existed!
Which behavior do you not condone? Hers or the recruiters? Because it would be pretty damn hypocritical to be OK with one but not the other.
The film shows how he betrayed and stole Eduardo Saverin's money.

If Zuckerberg looks like a shit person, it is because he is a shit person.
I'm reasonably sure that if I wore that shirt to work I would be out of a job very very quickly.
> I find iOS architecture fascinating and spend a lot of time thinking about it.

> It's an endless discussion with no right answer.

These don't seem like the hallmarks of a well-designed, mature platform.
Get Ready for the 'No-Buy' List
Not anymore, it doesn't ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX

> Microsoft dropped ActiveX support from the Windows Store edition of Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8. In 2015, Microsoft released Microsoft Edge, the replacement for Internet Explorer with no support for ActiveX, this event marked the end of ActiveX technology in Microsoft's web browser development.
I do not know how extremely common it is.

I am in the industry for 25 years and have participated (and in the vast majority of cases - spoken) at many conferences. I have never seen it happening.

I am an average man and met other average men and women at the conferences and it was like any other meetings: sometimes interesting, lots of chit-chat, lots of boring people etc.

I never saw anyone harass others - my experience is in Europe, the US and a bunch of conferences in Asia.

I have also regrettably not witnessed the executive orgies everyone talks about, despite having been at all the right after parties.

This DOES NOT mean that it does not exist - the case in the article is an example of assholes who statistically exist in all populations who should have been told to fuck off by someone around. And shove their sense of humor in a dark place of their body.

I am just kindly challenging the extremely common part.
This is true but a SWE doesn’t need to have a high level to make a lot more money than other types of engineers.
Hm, yeah I wonder if there was really time/resources for Netscape to pull that off if they'd even wanted. There was so much going on with HTML/CSS/etc. simultaneously.

And it definitely wasn't certain at the time that a scripting language, running in the browser, was going to be The Future.
Wouldn’t a better solution be to optimize the photo cropping for the specific viewer? Or, for whatever ‘group’ the viewer falls in?
I think it's more of a HN culture that discourages reddit like posts which add nothing to the conversation (besides the joke)

> The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and substantial.

The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything? There are two ways to do that: by pointing out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned, and by giving more information about the topic, perhaps from personal experience. Whereas comments like "LOL!" or worse still, "That's retarded!" teach us nothing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
It’s not specific to U.S. this kind of discrimination happens all over the world including countries like Norway https://sciencenorway.no/a/1780812
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/top-20-whitest-blackest-names/st...
Just like for Apple multiple platform means macOS, iOS and watchOS, because at the end of the day it isn't the same OS, nor hardware.
Ah. Americans use "state" to mean one of the 50 provinces of the US, leaving the word unavailable for what Brits use it for.
>Book stores

Ebooks killed book stores. Amazon was one of the many involved in that process. Like Pitney Bowes holding on to the printer industry for dear life. And stores sucked cause they charged ridiculous amounts of money for a glorified paperweight. Might as well scour Goodwill.

>Open Source

We live in a time with the most available and easily discovered open source code in the history of the world. This is nothing but false.

>Concentration of computer resources

Which is not a bad thing.

>American Cinema

That has been dominated well before Amazon came around.
The book makes the claim that the sophons they send over are very limited. It seems reasonable to surmise that they could not create a super virus. Yet they can disrupt sub-atomic experiments. We are talking about an advanced basically magic tech the author made up for the purposes of the plot. So the author can set the rules that the magic tech can do X but not Y.
The audience member is correct. Myopia is caused by light entering the eye being focused in front of the retina by our natural lens and cornea, this is usually as the result of increased axial length i.e. elongation of the eye.

The dangerous thing about this talk is that the first 2/3rds are true. Reading, looking at screens and working up close as a child and young adult do cause progressively worse myopia by way of progressive elongation. This isn't controversial at all. There's no evidence that spectacle use influences progression.

The latter 3rd is all bullshit. While our eyes continue to grow and elongate until around our mid 20's, there's no mechanism I'm aware of that can shorten the eye which is what you would have to do to "reverse" myopia. This is more or less common sense.

There are studies that show that low doses of atropine given to children who are myopic with reduce the progression, but not reverse pathological myopia. At this point we're just waiting on FDA approval of a low-concentration atropine drop. I suspect that in the near future the prevalence of high and pathological myopia is going to decrease dramatically.
How are we losing open source?
There's 152 other families to work as scabs for each striking worker. I worry all of this won't be resolved until the next State level paradigm shift, like when the world mostly did away with kings and queens for liberalism.
Sorry about that; apparently this is why we can't have nice things. I just wanted to reply to the original downvoted comment, but when I couldn't because it got flagged, that triggered my contrarian response here.

But I don't think it's such a ridiculous digression from the subject at hand - The original article was just a "water is wet" study saying that the more antibodies you have floating around in your blood the better able you are to fight off a virus. When you have that kind of article people will naturally digress in their discussions. And with COVID, dystopia is never far off-topic. (Just depends on your politics whether you see it more like V for Vendetta, or more like Pandemic or maybe Omega Man.)
I don’t think the previous commenter was saying that no startup could disrupt Amazon, but that no startup could disrupt Amazon simply by spending less time on tax paperwork.

Amazon didn’t disrupt B&N by spending less time on tax paperwork. They disrupted them by changing essentially every fundamental piece of how they conducted their business.
Every time X goes up 1 in the first example, the amount that's actually changed is different. In the second, it's the same.

I've eaten 1/5 of the pizza. Now 1/4. Now 1/3. Slices are all different sizes.

I've eaten 20% of the pizza. Now 40%. Now 60%. Slices are the same.
This is a 6 year old story that's now getting attention because of recent events. Not much they can do about that now.
not gonna lie. a big part of me groans every time i see "penetration testing."

i suppose maybe that might have been funny in junior high school or something. but, seriously?
No, that would be unbiased^^
I agree, I studied mechanical and then aerospace engineering. While these are still the kind of problems that interest me the most, on one side I regret not having gone to software. The salary difference is just too large to ignore, as well as the possibilities of full remote working.
I think it's a matter of theory supporting observed data. They point the, "camera" at a bunch of experiments, which generates a ton of data, then it's up to theoretical physicists to explain the results. Once the results of a theory have been explained and then reproduced it stands on solid ground. I'm just speculating, of course. But that is sort of how astronomy works, at the polar opposite end of a similar field.
A while back the United States government assembled a list of names based on last names and applied it to demographics. They then set up an algorithm to check it against car loans and then assume discrimination based on the results.

They probably used this same method to assume an answer.
Isolation between users.
Don't forget client side form validation as the main pre-AJAX "serious" usage. Often in the sense of "seriously misguided" when there was no corresponding server side validation of course!
Perhaps it's time for the security industry to pick more appropriate word for "penetration" like much of the rest of the tech world did for various other outdated offensive keywords.
Tech workers say CEO gets too much pay and benefits. All asinine comments like this do is foster disrespect.
In 1997, Britain should have handed Hong Kong over to it's rightful owner, the Republic Of China.
Ask HN: How do I act at work as to not be disadvantaged?
I don’t know how to communicate with co-workers and management as to not limit opportunities.

If I’m reclusive, people consider me detracted and dull to be around and nobody wants to do much with the dull, reclusive man.

If I’m open and friendly, I find that people don’t take me as serious and I potentially miss out on promotions and raises. Why give the man who’s happy a “please stay” raise? He’s happy! Why give him a promotion? We need somebody who’s not so friendly with people and is looked at as a leader not a peer. I also find it’s hard to be seen as a leader amongst peers if you’re friendly with them.

How does one balance these two extremes? I want to be friendly and kind but I also want people to take me seriously.
When I explain I worked as a penetration tester and provided hacking demonstrations, for some reason, both male and female colleagues have responded with naughty innuendo.

There is something to do with the word penetration that makes people feel as though they MUST comment sexually on it.
I guess they are Stanley Parable fans.

https://youtu.be/oV-nDRkhgvk
How we went from remote development environments to “Heroku in your own cloud”
> unless the aliens started out right next door (like in Alpha Centauri)

:D

Strongly recommended reading.
> SWE is... arguably easier than both Mech E and Elec E in my mind

The studies for ME or EE are hard, but are those jobs harder? SWEs handle ungodly amounts of complexity, trying to build and keep running a system based on poorly documented libraries, shitty third-party services, code that was written a long time ago and no one understands it, backcompat requirements, availability and scalability requiremets etc. etc. There's a ton of stuff to juggle in your mind, whereas an EE or ME can just work on button for a car cockpit or something.
And don't I as a Java developer hate the people who made that decision . TO THIS DAY it confuses people (often in HR) that they're not the same language.
An Examination of Executive Power at Apple
When was retail ridiculously profitable? The charts for public retail companies going back 2 or 3 decades show sub 5% profit margins.

The weakness of retail is that it has a low barrier to entry and does not provide much more utility compared to competitors. Quality control and branding and the internet make obtaining information about good products and being able to trust them much easier than in decades long ago.

Some retail companies with upper middle class clientele can afford a little bit of extra margin, but it is a small portion of the population with that kind of disposable income. You put a Target/Costco/Nordstrom/Home Depot/Best Buy/IKEA/Apple/Trader Joes somewhere, and a handful of other stores and you basically have it all covered.
I feel it's better to add keywords like that than to over load keywords based on context. See the keyword const in C/C++.

Also better to trust the end used to decide what trade offs they want to make. For instance code that converts a user click to a database query, clean and understandable is more important than performance. If it takes 10ns or 10ms the user ain't going to know the difference.
I find the lack of understanding of what is happening a little bit baffling (and comic at times).

We are used to living in countries where people have rights. We have constitutions which guarantee citizen these rights and make the governments subservient to the population. Our government is elected by the people directly or indirectly and technically works for us.

This is not the case with China. In China, people have no innate rights. Any rights they have, are given by the ruling body, whether it is an emperor or its continuation, the CCP.

For China, what they are doing in Hong Kong is completely normal. They have been doing the same to their own mainland population for thousands of years and the changeovers from monarchy to communist party is basically cosmetic.

China does not recognize Human Rights and so it is difficult to say they are "breaking" them.

It is a construct we made for ourselves in countries that technically the people are governing themselves (ie democracies).

This is an abstract concept in China. Just as if Iran started accusing Canada of breaking Sharia.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not absolving China of the crimes they are committing. Just because something is legal in China doesn't mean it is not a crime. We can and we should react to this and try to bring basic rights to Chinese people.

But it is much more complex and delicate problem than people try to make it.
Good point, but then the new word shows up on an adult-themed t-shirt.
10% increase every year means around 160% increase in 10 years, 570% increase in 20 years, 1640% increase in 30 years and 4420% in 40 years.

That seems a bit unrealistic to me.
True cases are equal in some areas like Louisiana and Florida. Florida is completely open with the worst possible scenario of practically no masks, low vaccine rates, and enormous crowds but has only 1.4 weekly deaths per 100,000, low but above the national average of .5 weekly deaths per 100,000. Compare this with deaths from all other causes which average about 16 weekly deaths per 100,000. So yea we have a problem but at the current rate you are more likely to die from a stroke than COVID. You are about half as likely to die by suicide. You are about 6 times as likely to die from heart disease than COVID. I’m just saying there are other things to be afraid of and focus on than the pandemic.
A better comparison would be if there was some salient feature surrounding my hands such as me holding an object. The object would be the equivalent to the jersey number. It's clearly not cropping on the thing that makes me feel bad but it did anyway. To avoid this, it has to be trained to take into account all possible human reactions. Basically, it has to know that these pixel values activate some social controversy and it's best to avoid. Not saying this isn't possible, but it seems absolutely fraught with peril and potentially more harmful than the original saliency, especially for social constructs with no clear consensus.
3 grand don't seem like nonsense to me.
I love this. And I like it's also consistant with the findings of the natural semantic Metalanguage.

NSM would be the minimum element set of concepts shared by all human cultures, which can be used to derive the rest of concepts, and it's heavily based on anthropological field studies.

And it includes the numbers one, two and many, (also few, some & all). So that indicates some special meaningful distinction for us in that jump from two repetitions to start abstracting away.
and then you read whole story and realize that she was the one that was """"playful"""" too, that t-shirt had purpose in my opinion - for lulz.

>"One of them asked me when was the last time I was personally penetrated, if I liked being penetrated, and how often I got penetrated,"

Don't get me wrong, it's terrible.
i think (the US ones) are extremely overpaid for the quality of software that goes around. It's just a result of captive markets
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You've got it backwards. npm has historically been much less deterministic than yarn, and recently decided auto-installing peerDependencies was a good idea...
Big evil predatory pricing.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/predatory-pricing.asp
I agree with you that the film also slights Zuckerberg by suggesting he has few or no friends and was creating Facebook over a girl. There are a number of things I think the film "gets wrong". The removal of Saverin made a lot more sense to me in reading the Facebook book I referenced above compared to when I saw the movie - where it felt much more like betraying a friend.

When I saw the film I did get the impression that it supported the "Mark stole the idea from Winklevoss twins" narrative. Granted, I saw it years ago and I may be remembering things incorrectly, but that's what I (remember that I) took away from it.

A big concept that I think the movie "gets wrong" (scare quotes because the movie successfully tells an entertaining story and isn't trying to be a faithful history, so the movie isn't exactly wrong, just not reflective of reality) is the focus on the drama with the twins, Saverin, and Mark. The book spends much more time with Facebook design decisions and a broader cast.

The movie's narrower focus on a few main characters and their drama makes it seem like the consequential moments of Facebook's history are things like getting the idea from the Winklevoss twins. The movie thinks more about a spark of an idea - Facebook, whereas the book thinks more about taking a prototype and turning it into a big business. I think the latter is more of what is important about Facebook.
Yes, and generating more revenue would tend to instead demand for your skills, no?
I'm thrilled to be an adult in the age of computers where i basically never have to write anything by hand ever.

My penmanship was always terrible, and this was magnified by being left-handed and being taught to write in a manner which drags my hand through recently written ink. Half my notes in hs and college were illegible. I'm envious of kids today taking notes on laptops or tablets.
Basically, ride the wave while it lasts. And that CEO should suck it up and pay market rates, why else did he raise all that VC money?? To spend it on swanky offices and aws compute?
The sophons are not that powerful and have very limited capabilities. Humans perceived as being very powerful because we doesn't understand how they work and they are being used to frighten us. It's like showing a gun to someone who doesn't know what a gun is. The limitations such line of sight, range, limited ammo are not immediately obvious. It looks as though you have a god-like ability to strike anyone dead by wishing it.
Yeah, that has occurred to me. lol
I was focusing on the Blizzard frat boy stuff, but the back of the shirt screams marketing innuendo that encourages it.
This shit happens because people think they're clever and can walk a string in a for loop.

Its not the fault of c or strcpy just as it's not the gun on trial for taking human life.

You're a bad programmer and its too painful to admit. Do everyone a favor, use training wheels and stop coding in C.
Thanks a lot, that was great overview!
It's pretty dumb, think of building your Mii on the Wii, plus some basic heuristics if you turn your head towards someone past a threshold, your avatar makes eye contact. It works more than enough to trick your brain.
Semi-related: Most humans stopped valuing the stars after mechanical clocks were invented. That led us to follow the abstract time rather than the sun, seasons and therefore the stars. That combined with cities with light pollution, makes you realize we're one of the first batches of humans with almost no contact with the stars.
> I am someone else who apparently never understood what technical debt was supposed to mean.

I've always assumed engineers (myself included) write code to the best of their abilities to solve a given problem at the time.

Another way of looking at technical debt, that I unfortunately must use regularly, is debt accrued by not updating systems. I work with hardware and software that is, in some cases, from the 80's. As these machines age, they become more and more likely to break. The longer we wait to replace them, the more value their initial investment is worth, but also the greater the chance that production will be halted for months while we try to design and implement a new system. So this is technical debt accrual as a function of time, not as a function of development speed.
Wow guys well done! It's a ripe area for disruption and I hope you can find the right formula for growth. I'm a homeowner for 5 years now and finding good contractors for small projects has been miserable, every single time.
I actually took on a similar model to yours but for custom metalwork, with Fit to Forge (https://fittoforge.com). There's a huge quality problem and crazy pricing ranges. A lot of the good craftsmen would prefer being able to stay in their shop and build.
> Backends are so much easier to build compared to frontends, and I mean decent and reliable ones.

Backend:

- running a migration on a table of 100 million rows... in MySQL 5.6. Well, things can get complicated.

- building the infrastructure and monitoring of a k8s cluster

- debugging concurrency bugs

I think these topics are not really easier than their frontend counterparts. I do believe some aspects of frontend development are harder than some of backend development (and the other way around). I do not think, in general, that "backends are so much easier to build compared to frontends" though.
For millions of years the males would kill other males in competing tribes for resources. Luckily we have moved past that and are able to use our higher order brain functions to suppress that desire in most cases, so we can live in a peaceful civilization.
It's inevitable that in a few years this whole practice will be called vulnerability testing or some variation thereof because of nonsense like this.
I figure it's kind of like a musician busking on the street corner.

It's a no risk way to add a few constraints to the practicing you're probably already doing and if you're lucky maybe you'll earn a few bucks too.
If you see anyone trying to make a joke about penetration testing and penetration, stay well the fuck away and tell everyone you know to stay well the fuck away.

Not only are they being inappropriate by trying it with people at a security event, they're probably an idiot for ever thinking it was funny.

But aside from that, we probably should retire "penetration tester" as a job title because dipshits can't resist being dipshits and there's enough barriers for women in security as it is.
Your username contains "foobar", which comes from the military acronym "FUBAR", which stands for "fucked up beyond all recognition". Should the tech world move away from foobar as well?

"Penetration" is not as offensive as "kill". Would you submit the s/SIGKILL/SIGNINE patch to any project?
Yeah foreign, untaxed, gray or black money is a very good source to buy houses.
Meanwhile, as a resident and citizen, you're taxes 40+% and every coin is turned upside down because of "anti money laundering".

Realestate and banks are the biggest fraud ever.