skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but this triggered me getting defensive... here's the rant.

By programming, I mean starting from a sketch on a piece of paper at lunch at Wendy's outlining an idea, and implementing it on both a handheld computer programmed in PL/N, connecting to it via a weird custom serial card/cable, then in Turbo Pascal on an IBM compatible PC, implementing a database, text editing routines, multitasking, and all end user support... in the days of MS-DOS through Windows 3.1

Building my own multi-tasking definitely wasn't plumbing, but after I had the libraries built I needed, it was all plumbing.

The nice thing is in Turbo Pascal, everything had help that was complete, with a working example piece of code.

GIT still is way better than backups to zip file on floppies.
Indeed. People seem to forget that when Facebook goes down, it's not just your feed of depressing posts, photos and messages that go away, but also the entire Oculus VR platform, since they demanded a FB account to use Quest headsets.
what an embarassment. IBM should just rename itself into RedHat.
RedHat and IBM Research - are the only parts worth saving in this company
Seriously! If I see something like mbps written I have to wonder whether it's saying megabits or megabytes per second. Bits is more likely only because it gives a higher sounding number, but outside of marketing either bits or bytes is equally likely.
> The very idea of left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) has received not only little academic attention, but a lot of scepticism from psychologists. “I think I have not found any authoritarians on the left because if there ever were any, most of them have dried up and blown away….”

WTAF? How old are these people? Don't they remember the seventies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw
Awesome, thank you, I will watch for it! The source of the comment was that architects making decisions need to be able to reason about it. The virtuosity in the article is apparent, where my practitioners view at perhaps a higher layer of abstraction is mainly a question of where the risk goes, who holds it, and how the protocol distributes it.
What's a better metric to be judged on than merit?
The "pipe fittings" reminds me of the first season of "Patriot", an Amazon Prime show whose first season was excellent, a spy/engineering thriller (I only watched the first two episodes of season two, not sure whether it's good or not, seemed weak by comparison).

In any case, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-9Rfrui9A "'Patriot' Piping Lingo, The McMillan Way (Amazon Prime)", where a seasoned CEO / engineer talks about pipe fittings at length. I'm sure software/devops engineers sound just as obtuse to those not familiar with software.
I would think of this like a normal customer development / lean startup problem.

Is there anyone other than your company using this API? If not, it might make sense to find a single "customer" and make sure the API solves tons of problems for them. If you cannot get first adopter, iterate on the product/API until you can create something that a customer loves.

It sounds like people don't see strong enough value in being the early adopters of these APIs. You might need to iterate on API/product until they do.
Of all the big tech companies Facebook is the only one where it can completely disappear overnight and my life would be completely unaffected (or possibly improved by not having to explain to people I don't use facebook, please email or text me your invitations rather than use messenger). If Google, Amazon, Netflix, Apple disappeared the story would be completely different.
Yes! This is exactly the kind of coloring that really helps fill in the gaps in your first comment and helps me understand what you mean. So, I don’t have solutions for you, but I can still share my reactions from my own perspective.

You are experiencing a serious and legitimate culture issue, and I know it exists and happens inside some companies. My impression based on hearsay is that this is worse in financial companies than many other kinds, but I know it happens elsewhere. I’m not convinced that speaking to your manager is a viable avenue to fixing it, because your manager is part of the problem, or for you potentially the whole problem - telling them that is not going to make them suddenly recognize it and fix things, it will probably only cause problems for you and get you labeled as uncooperative.

My additional personal reaction is that quibbling over single digit percentage compensation versus a promotion might be a little short sighted - perhaps losing sight of what’s important. The bigger question you need to be asking is what you really want in the future, and where you want to be. If you don’t want a promotion because it seems like a pay cut, then think about whether your time at that company has already reached it’s ceiling, and whether you should move on. If you don’t want extra responsibility, maybe you aren’t really interested in promotions and what they come with, which is perfectly fine, but that also might imply something about how much money you’ll ever be able to make.

A lot of managers and companies definitely will look at superficial indicators of how “invested” and “engaged” you are in your job, so it’s up to you to figure out how to display the right set of indications that you’re above-average in terms of your commitment compared to your fellow employees. Talking to your manager a lot is helpful in that regard, but not necessarily in a critical or adversarial way, more in a help them do their job kind of way.

Being told you lost rating over PTO is pretty awful, that seems like cause for some kind of action - however you probably shouldn’t trust HR by default, you should probably communicate to your manager that you feel it was rather unfair, and remind them about the extra time you put in. Is it possible your manager was surprised by your PTO, or did you plan well in advance and remind them beforehand? Did you communicate the extra hours you were putting in before and during the time you were doing it? Do other managers break the PTO policy, or is it just your manager? Are other people on your team having the same problem? There are always shitty managers, maybe that is your problem, and not something more general. Are you on the radar of your manager’s manager?

If your manager is toxic, you might be trapped, and the best move you can make is to leave, not to confront them. But if your expectations are a little higher than others and/or you’re making assumptions and getting upset before having had a complete conversation, then it’s possible you could start those conversations and put yourself on a better path.
There's a lot of people who have been waiting on an aluminum and autism study for > 15 years.
The TTL was most likely very low, so I don't see that as being an issue.
very based response, sir
I worked for one of the "bad actors" that was terminated by Cloudflare. To this day they have not provided anyone with a reason for the termination. To my knowledge, the site in question was not breaking any terms of service and when I asked customer support why the account had been terminated they pointed me to the clause that said something to the effect of "Cloudflare may terminate an account for any reason or no reason at all."

They also refused to provide a refund. I will never use Cloudflare again nor recommend them to any of my clients.
I always thought that it was generally accepted that if people tried to get hold of your library-loan records; that that was a red line. You can't call a place a free country if the police can ask for your library information.

For instance: In the Netherlands, libraries tend(ed) to destroy your loaned-book information ~ when the books were returned. (They seem to have since picked up some data-mining habits?)
lobste.rs? mastodon?
These two go hand in hand

> This has been discussed a lot, but the generated code is nowhere close to good enough for large projects where you really need intelligence.

> Except that it's not linear scaling. The larger NLP models consume absurdly large resources, it's not straightforward to "get enough representational power"

When allowing maximizers to run wild, just like reinforcement learning, they will find hidden solutions, and when the model can provide an action in the form of a dense representation, it can also use code generation models with much more precision that we do because it can skip the encoding part.

> Also, most models fail to adapt to new tasks outside of their narrow training scope, that's a massive problem. Even if you make models large, you will find that getting data covering all edge cases is exponentially expensive.

We are still 6-7 years in. Deepmind's last paper on general agents has them generalizing to new tasks relatively easily. It's still not there, but we miles ahead than we were 5 years ago.
The joy that people are getting from this is quite shitty. I hate social media but there are people earning a living working for these companies. Like others have pointed out, businesses and neighborhood watches rely on tech like this.
At some point we've all had sites/apps go down, in a situation like that the last thing you want is people enjoying it.
The lack of empathy in this thread is telling.
Climate is getting warmer so we need humans that can stand higher temperatures.
First and only website for Edge is ninite.com
100% the m1 reminds me of the leap from a BlackBerry to my first iPhone. With my m1 laptop, I never have to worry about bringing my charger. My intel MBP always had slowdowns, with my M1 I've never noticed a slowdown.

The m1's compute/watt will enable designers to change the dimensions of a laptop to be even smaller and compact. If the iphone's a15 starts to be near m1 compute-power, we could actually see the iPhone merge to become the device powering our monitors and keyboards. The new possibilities of such a revolutionary technology is endless!
Here's the BMI chart: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi...

My weight at 21 was below the "Normal" range for my height. Today (at 59) it is at the upper-end of "Normal".
> a nuclear accident that was covered up for decades

The cover-up of Chernobyl lasted barely days.

> with no good estimate of the indirect deaths and illness from exposure.

Only a multitude of studies. The current consensus in the scientific community is that somewhere around 20,000-30,000 total deaths attributable to Chernobyl have or will occur.
> Also the culture in continental Europe vis-a-vis the military is entirely different. It's not that it's less political

In this case, it is. Now that the Vice-Admiral is done with the vaccinations, all he wants is to be promoted to Admiral (which led to a kerfuffle between the President and the Government). He wants no political post whatsoever.

In fact, there was a doctor ahead of vaccination task force before, but he was pushed aside after supporting one of the losing candidates for president.
This issue isn't about privacy, it's about reliability. How reliable is Signal compared to WhatsApp?
b/c most humans are on the wrong end of fb's covert, exploitative attention-manipulation
I looked at the posters comment history before making the comment. They have a series of posts against covid measures, zero connection to BC and no history of posting about drug abuse issues that I could find.

As a fellow British Columbian I felt a little offended they were using this issue for political points.

They clearly have no interest in debating the issue (see lack of response here), they just wanted to get that tasty sound bite headline some visibility. Even though it took me only 30 seconds to prove it wrong.

I don’t dispute anything you’ve said, and wouldn’t have commented like this if it weren’t for the commenters history. I like to give the benefit of the doubt in most cases.
So far the pattern isn't the same. Slack published a DNSSEC record that got cached and then deleted it, which broke clients that tried to validate DNSSEC for slack.com. But in this case, the records are just completely gone. As if "facebook.com", "instagram.com", et al just didn't exist.
It's amusing that the top 3 trending reports are the FB sites that are down, and then the mobile carriers themselves, presumably because when FB doesn't load they assume it's their mobile network's fault. People really do think FB is the internet
This simply does not work for open source projects where you cannot control which compiler versions are used by people. Almost every time there is a new version of gcc or clang there will be a bunch of new warnings in any major code base. Additionally -Werror makes it harder to run git bisect.
I think Pi Nano will be seriously underworking in this setup.
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Sure :), the really nice example would be

return default, default, default, err
Maybe intentional?

Zuck trying to give an example of what a world without FB would look like, kinda saying to detractors what would happen if they had it their way.
Historically speaking, this problem can be traced from me-too movement back through gamergate as its come to be known. Some will deny a uniquely gendered aspect to this phenomenon but that only speaks to the successful rebranding of cancel-culture from the original purveyors as they were known only a few year’s prior. The roots of this problem can be delineated even though we no longer seem to recognize the culprit, sjw’s as they were accurately described, indeed were self described as such. The warfare lives on but now we’ve allowed it to be rebranded as the reputation economy or some such foolish newspeak. Perhaps this is another example of history being rewritten by the victors but those of us who have aggregated more than a decade or so of experience on the net, know that this was a recent change and that things were not always this way. For sure there are people, a specific interest, that have brought us to this juncture.
The first NYT article was problematic and more of an editorial, however the second follow up article did expose real issues with the "firewall" that deserved to be brought to light.
Well yeah, but then there's stupid design warts like size_t being unsigned, and it's much too late to fix this now.
I've had this weird thought stuck in my head over the past few months as I've been reading "Humankind" and watching the horrors of politics and the pandemic:

The idea of "human nature"—good and evil—makes a hell of a lot more sense if you think of humans as a colony species where each tribe is a single individual competing against others.

It's not so much that humans are uniformly capable of both good and evil. It's that what we deem "good" is mostly how we treat our own tribe and what we call "evil" is how we treat others. It's like trying to decide if an arm mostly good or mostly evil because it washes its own body and strikes other people. Those actions are fundamentally different—on incompatible moral levels—because the former is done to the arm's own organism and the latter to another.

It may not even be meaningful to try to aggregate how we behave to our in-group and how we behave towards our out-group into any unified metric.
Guess it's too late for Bowie to have the "Major Tom" ending.
Presumably, you’re trying to imagine facebook 2021 without the shittiness, or facebook 2012 without the shittiness. Facebook 2005, however, was an entirely different product. Sure, people were shitty then. But the product didn’t bring it out. Maybe it’s a way of saying the virtual vs IRL behavior gap was really small back then, and each “product improvement” widens it.
As curious as I am about what you think snitching to Paul Graham would accomplish here, the comment is likely downvoted because it undersells the importance and stickiness of defaults for most customers.
> The Catholic Church teaches that contraception is immoral as it frustrates our natural sexual powers, thus your position would never be able to be adopted in the Catholic Church.

Technically, yes. The official stance of the Catholic Church is that contraception is immoral - solidified by Pope Paul VI's "Humanae Vitae" in 1968[0]. However, that part of the doctrine is extremely contentious (even at the time it was written) and ignored by most Catholics. The church held a commission on it a few years earlier and they reportedly voted 64 to 5 in favor on allowing artificial birth control[1].

Catholic pastors often get around it by framing contraception purely as a means of preventing STDs, so it technically isn't violating Paul VI's rules against interrupting procreation. Some find more creative ways to justify it and go so far as to promote its use in responsible family planning. Pope Francis seems to tacitly endorse those creative interpretations.

I doubt it would be too much of a stretch for pastors - especially those who are already breaking their vows of celibacy - to use creative interpretations to endorse the use of contraception for themselves and each other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanae_vitae

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Commission_on_Birth...
Because combined with the abysmal state of education in most places, and a general lack of government action, Facebook is an actual threat to our civilization.
I had problems with my internet connection and loaded my ISPs site. Strangely, my bill was paid. Even stranger, some sites load while others do not.

Then it hit me: I am so dependent on Facebook owned properties (Whatsapp, Facebook, insta) that a Facebook failure looks to me like an internet failure.
> Where and when I grew up, your political opinion was irrelevant to your college admission

I agree that people should be forgiven for mistakes they made as children, and that the internet should be more anonymous in general, but you lost me there. You sound like a right-wing conspiracy theorist decrying "Cultural Marxism".
With clickbait this good, you can apparently outsource your artwork to a 5-year old. Good job!
CookieIDs are specific to one browser, are they not?

As for the argument that they can still find it: The laws usually allow for the company to decline on the grounds that complying would be an "undue burden." In other words, if their usual method is to run some program they wrote to handle the common case, and this time they'd have to write a new program, they might claim that's an undue burden.

Might. If they feel like it.
Wikipedia wfm.
https://www.speedtest.net is down too
A bit disappointed to be honest. The produced a bunch of models and then checked with a team of meteorologists what they thought of them vs the other models? This sounds more like GPT-3 writing sonets and getting a bunch of poets to evaluate them. Why not just check the predictions?
El Salvador basically runs on WhatsApp. From the small food stall to CEOs and maybe even government.
Neighbors watching Neighbors and reporting via WhatsApp...sounds like the Netherlands.

I think if its staying down for a few more days
Canibalism will ensue by the end of the week.
I want to add from anecdotal experience that this conformist ideology spans beyond just university applicants. I have had to declare my views and positions on "equity and inclusion" at job interviews for software development positions here in the Bay Area. I'll call them out; it was DoorDash in SF.
Are you a Facebook employee? Your justification sounds a lot like the internal propaganda that is being fed to employees. “Facebook is net positive”, “it’s just a tool”, etc
A bit disappointed to be honest. They produced a bunch of models and then checked with a team of meteorologists what they thought of them vs the other models? This sounds more like GPT-3 writing sonets and getting a bunch of poets to evaluate them. Why not just check the predictions?
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah (2018)
YouTube’s used to be really excellent. I discovered so much good music when it seemed to work by automatically cueing songs or videos that other people who enjoyed the current video had enjoyed as well. They seemed to make a change a couple years ago to cue items I had previously watched instead. So now, instead of fresh and interesting items relevant to my tastes, it just plays things I’m already familiar with.
People mostly don't know how to measure advice. You ask one person and they tell you "it's all about marketing", someone else will say that "technical excellence is more important than anything else". Even though a lot of advice is contradictory and very context-dependent, people don't notice this and lap it up.

The truth is that probably most successful people can't tell luck, serendipity and hard-work from wisdom. Times change, opportunities change etc. so how much is advice really worth?

The only good advice is an answer to a specific question with very clear boundaries: "How much is a good amount to spend on Facebook advertising?", "If you have a product aimed at the mass market and you can correlate success of click-throughs, spend as much as you want as long as it's less than what you make per-click".

Otherwise you get stuff like, "Facebook is great value for money" or "Facebook is a disaster" both useless pieces of advice.

I also suspect that those with the correct brain for business probably don't need very much advice because they will quickly work things out themselves.
I've always wondered about this too. Seems like it would be cost prohibitive if nothing else.

During one stretch of my life where I was really stressed out I was having 2-3 glasses of wine a night for about 3 straight months. Aside from that, I can't imagine having more than a glass or two of something every week or so.
How does the internet collect data (and share it) about someone offline (presumably in the wilderness)?
You need to start with the question of who _benefits_ from using your protocol. You think that it's "your competitors", by which I read other software vendors that are providing solutions to the cannabis industry. Hot take: Your solution isn't helping other software vendors, it's making more work for them. Working with a published (and probably over-designed) specification is _always_ going to be more work than just hacking some glue scripts together that solve the specific issue you need to solve right now.

No, the beneficiaries of your standard are the actual farmers, labs, and retailers -- in other words, your competitors' customers. But how do they benefit? Your standard won't make their software _cheaper_, at least not in the short term (see the point above). There are a few situations where these standards help software consumers. First, it can make migrating from one software vendor to another (relatively) easy, as the data can be exported from one system in a format the other can _theoretically_ ingest from. Pro tip: it never works this seamlessly in practice. The other primary usecase is where the consumer wants to incorporate several different software products in a modular fashion. If you don't already have a software ecosystem like this for your industry, this will be a chicken-and-egg problem. You're asking non-technical consumers to demand something from their vendors that doesn't currently provide value to them.

Good luck.
But people moving from Facebook to another social media or messaging platform is just changing the company. That new company could do whatever things you don't like that Facebook is doing.
Your example seems to mean that we move to another healthcare system as in method of implementation not just moving from one company to another.
"Asking for a friend."

I kid. If it were to come down to a single person, that's really a failure of the whole organization system and not of the individual.

This apocryphal [1] punchline to the Jack Welch story also sums up how most orgs deal with this sort of thing:

"I just spent a million dollars on your education - why would I fire you now?"

[1]: http://www.nickmilton.com/2016/03/jack-welch-on-learning-fro...