skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of businesses have successfully kept trade secrets for decades, many very famous and gigantic company's recipes are trade secrets. Companies know that if they patent it, it will be in the public domain eventually, whereas trade secrets can stay secret indefinitely, theoretically.
Crypto solved literally nothing. It's just more waste we don't need.
I’m afraid the boss’ boss was talking with the wrong part of your team, in that his criticism really seems made for your boss, not you? That said, you were not treated like a novice at all, being given a fair share of high-level feedback. Take it as a nudge to improve and do better, without thinking too much: it will be your manager’s job to assess your output fairly.
Ah, this triggered an old memory! I used to do integration implementations in Microsoft BizTalk Server, which was all XML based: all of the guts were designed to handle XML documents, so it had out-of-the-box components to translate non-XML ("flat file") messages to/from XML as they were received or sent. These components were universal and designed to operate off of annotations baked into the schemas that represented the XML versions of the messages - things like field sizes, expected locations of line breaks, records that could repeat, etc. The BizTalk developer tools included a schema builder tool ("BizTalk Editor") that helped you autogenerate, construct and mark up schemas with the declarative flat-file translation logic.

I only had to interact with EDI once or twice, but I remember when I discovered that BizTalk shipped with a huge set of premade schemas for most of the X12 and EDIFACT message types, plus extra pluggable components that were "enhanced" versions of the regular translator components that handled the more complex aspects that most "plain" flat files didn't have, mostly stuff around batching/splitting/validating I think. Many of the schemas were gigantic and unbelievably complicated.
technobabble. a better term awaits.
Make it mobile so that I can use it as a mouse without taking my hands off the keyboard, and I'll go through the trouble of learning to use it.

Could even make both halves mobile so that I can use each one as an independent mouse.
I’m very curious what Biden thought he was accomplishing by bringing this all up today as if it’s some anniversary to be remembered and then putting Trump in the spotlight. The man is either that ignorant or is attempting to push the wedge deeper.
Feels a bit like trying to unravel web3 or category theory. I went to forgefriends.org. It's all about forges. Forge-this, forge-that. So like, what's a forge?
Yes - you're absolutely right. I should have (ha!) specified I meant in the context of a past participle ("you should have <verbed>"), not the present suggestive (is that the right term?) -- eg "you should have <object>" or even "you should <verb>"

Man, grammar is weird. ;)
My lucky guess is it'll be cheaper to have the planes in the air vs on the ground. IIRC every time a plane touches down its 10K$ and that rate for every X minutes it stays grounded.

The driving force for environmental damage has always been questionable business practices.
And what is about another (non-English) languages? Or not natural languages at all?
Looks like chorded mode is useless for anything but natural English text. And I'm doubt, that it can be easily adapted to non-English layouts even in "char per char" mode.
I think it's an archaic spelling of the verb "steer". I remember the edition of Treasure Island I had as a boy has Long John Silver use it in the line "We can stear a course, but who's to set one?" when they are discussing whether to mutiny.

Though when I google that phrase, Silver uses the modern spelling.
I thought the issues were more about the younger population than in Europe and the US. And the unknown number of folks that had already been exposed to previous waves. Not the racial makeup of the people living there.
I can understand people thinking that of him in 2016, but it's demonstrably false at this point.

Consider that Trump is despised in White nationalist circles. Hated and mocked perhaps even more than among radical leftists (with the exception that we appreciate his occasional humorous moments). Yet another grifter, and a traitor to his people.

It will be very interesting to see how his White vote fares next time around.
>We have, essentially, no truffles in the US

It sounds like you've studied this market, so I'm curious if you have thoughts on Oregon, as it has been my understanding that there are meaningful quantities harvested there. Is it a matter of variety, lack of commercial production, or am I just misinformed?
I'm currently formally learning Mexican Spanish in Mexico. In day to day life here it's very uncommon to hear the pronoun. The only exceptions I can think of are 'Usted/Ustedes' or 'Nos'.

Using or not using the pronoun has the same emphasis as saying to someone:

'You're drunk.' versus pointedly saying 'You, are drunk'.

----

Soy Latte, por favor! (In Spanish this translates literally as 'I'm a latte. please.')
So no one should have nice things to protect the incomes of the few lucky enough to possess the only natural supply?
Hey Jeff,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. The fact that you responded to this message at all resolves my initial concern, which had more to do with if I needed to change providers because of a cultural shift within your company. I understand that you are dealing with a very large and complex system that is changing quickly and will have problems, sometimes serious problems sometimes. Customer communication specifically is a very difficult and complex problem to solve at scale.

I actually spoke with one of the founders of Twilio when I first signed up. Evan maybe? He told me about how he studied cloud computing at MIT. This was a very long time ago.

Gregg was able to get the problem resolved within about 30 minutes once I reached out to him. He also provided me with a few solutions to prevent the problem in the future.

I understand the complicated problem that that led to this mistake and I think it is reasonable to make mistakes like this sometimes, especially if you're providers are threatening to suspend you.

The main problem that I would like you to solve is the lack of phone number. There needs to be a way for people to contact the company if there is an account administration emergency like this. Even chat would have been fine.

That being said, I did call sales and could not reach someone. If this is due to covid omicron and if normally I had called sales and would have been able to plead my case and gotten them to connect me with someone, I think that would have been fine and this truly is an edge case.
Why can't we just get the vaccine before exposure? I'm sure there's a good reason just curious
Sure, the current utility is that most people do currently comfortably fit into the binary. We should introduce language to account for people that don't, and if demographics shifted such that most people didn't feel like the current binary fit them then we should adjust, but currently the majority of the population is happily self identifying within the binary and it's a great shortcut for them to communicate some assumptions about their identity. Only assumptions, not hard rules, but there's still utility in that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalyps...
Also, there have been plenty of violent struggles over agrarian society goods, eg land.

The thing is like all "leap of faith" essays it falls down on faith. If it's a leap of faith why do you need to explain it? The essay boils down to "try a new things and don't worry about the consequences, you'll find a way". Which is a nice thing to think sometimes, but it's also worth your while to take considered bets.

I do like the about blurb of the website though.
Thank you for telling these stories.
*2001.

Shrek and 3 other stunning movies had gone out. The world had been in mostly peace for long. That was before they hammered the terrorist risk on TV, mandated water bottle checks at the airports. Everything went down after that.
> Empathy as commonly defined includes an impulse to comfort and stand by, as opposed to avoidance.

Right, and thinking something is delicious includes an impulse to eat rather than avoid, but lots of people still avoid food they think is delicious in order to diet. When empathy becomes too strong then it starts hurting you as a person a lot every time you see someone who has problems, so you learn to predict and avoid those situations, or you might even learn to fear them since the empathy creates too much agony in you. Empathy is just a feeling, your rational part can still work around it.
We created a new programming language just for our interview process
Does your boss like you very, very much? Does their boss like them very, very much? Is your boss powerful within the org?

If all the answers to these are yes, you have nothing to worry about.

I wish it wasn't that way, but it is.
The rational man as a concept is still used nowadays as often as it is, that itself is a proof that the concept is as broken as it can be. The modern consumer economy is based on irrationality.
Can't be trusted => can't be fully trusted != is useless

Also nothing is perfect.

And even severely imperfect things can be reasonable good solution/improve a situation.

So don't base a curt ruling on it.

Be very careful about using it when it can put lives at risk (e.g. self driving).

EDIT:And make the people selling the system responsible for it's failure!! You can't expect a person you tell to not touch the wheel for hours to then be able to react asap if something goes wrong, that's not how humans work. Hence putting the responsibility on the human which happens to sit behind the wheel is completely unreasonable.END EDIT

Anyway my main problem with DL is that its hard to evaluate how trust-able it is if applied to a very diverse real world situations (i.e. self driving). You can evaluate it on data sets but data sets are extremely unlikely to get anywhere close to representing a diverse reality, and while each edge case not represented is very rare due to the diversity of reality there is a endless number of them so sooner or later they will be hit. And as they are edge case not represented by your data or evaluation sets you can't relay reason well what will happen if they are it. Furthermore due to the nature of data collection it's not rare for independent data sets to unexpectedly share subtle biases.

A good example is a Tesla car getting confused because in front of it was a truck which had traffic lights loaded on the back. A extremely rare/unusual situation, which happened anyway.

So you have to layer different systems, preferable also some fallback emergency systems not dependent on DL.
I haven't seen enough data yet, at least not from sources that aren't obviously predisposed to bias one outcome or another.

That said, I imagine there would be some significant differences simply due to the weather. Also, the metrics for "success" sometimes seem questionable. Example: percentage of residents still in the same residence a year later. Aren't we trying to help them progress out of the lot they're in and towards returning to a productive member of society? Stagnating in a room just means they're dying slower, not becoming better.

What I've seen firsthand is 'street people' moving from a tent or the like into an SRO, but continuing with their addictions, criminal behavior (often to sustain said addictions), etc. I've even seen people whom I know have a room in an SRO on 6th street (SF) produce bodily waste in an alley because they didn't feel like going back inside. I would think a better metric would be the percentage who move from a housing-first program into transitional housing, or rehab, or find employment, or some other indicia we're doing something other than giving them a roof and calling it a day.
ADHD people have a different calculus that affects their project management.

NonA-DHD typically respond to deadlines with increased urgency, commitment, and re-factoring assessments.

ADHD may respond to deadlines by abandoning tasks and starting new extraneous tasks.

Is that rational? It’s what happens, and since it is such a dramatic and consequential difference, it warrants a reconsideration of the meaning of the term “rational”, and it’s limitations.

ADHD isn’t an isolated minority. It’s a transient condition in a significant number of people, prevalent enough in the population to make economic text books about monolithic “rationality” unfit for purpose.
DNSSEC does the same thing (tradeoff: fewer corporations, but most of the important ones de jure controlled by governments, and no transparency logs†) --- you're just handing the CA role off to TLD operators.

To the extent DNS is an attractive attack vector, DNSSEC doesn't actually do much to mitigate those attacks. Most DNS corruption doesn't come from the on-the-wire cache corruption attacks DNSSEC was designed to address, but from attacks directly on registrars. There's nothing DNSSEC can do to mitigate those attacks, but not having CAs tied directly to DNS does mitigate them: it means the resultant misissued certificates are CT-logged.

If there was a huge difference in security from switching to DANE, this would be a different story. But in practice, the differences are marginal, and sometimes they're in the wrong direction.

Two really big things happened in the last decade that influenced the calculus here:

1. WebPKI certs are now reliably available free of charge, because of LetsEncrypt and the market pressures it created.

2. Chrome and Mozilla were unexpectedly successful at cleaning up the WebPKI, to the extent that some of the largest CAs were summarily executed for misissuance. That's not something people would have predicted in 2008! But WebPKI governance is now on its toes, in a way that DNS governance is unlikely ever to be.

(Cards on the table: I'd be a vocal opponent of DANE even if 1 & 2 weren't the case.)

† Not only is there no CT for DANE, but there's unlikely ever to be any --- CT was rolled out in the WebPKI under threat of delisting from Mozilla and Chrome's root cert programs, and that's not a threat you can make of DNS TLD operators.
> Method and apparatus for adjusting volume levels in a multi-zone system - https://patents.google.com/patent/US8588949B2/en

Is this why I can’t change the volume on a Google Home speaker group anymore?
> You know how capitalism ensures prices are correct by a process of negotiation, and supply and demand?

This is true if and only if one defines adopts as the definition of “correct” something like “at whatever levels the particular variant of capitalism in question sets”.
> awesome ad block built in and by default, no need for extensions

I'd much rather keep my choice of adblocker and browser separate.

> free of the political WTF-tier decisions of the organization backing Firefox

Instead you get a bunch of crypto stuff, silently adding affiliate codes to typed urls and similar shady shit. Neither brave or mozilla is free from controversy but from what I've seen I'd rather have mozillas than braves.

Another reason to keep firefox around is to make sure we keep a somewhat independent browser engine vendor.
He is a bad boss. He is trying some weird power game. How do you proceed?

- You can challenge him back with logical facts
- You can agree with him and include him in the process make it as team failure
- You could treat his opinions as not important
- You could quit and look for a more emotional supporting place
- You could ignore it and let it eat you up
- You could ignore it and realize some form of this non-sense exists everywhere and learning how to deal with it is your next step
Sort of. I think everyone should read "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. I think in any interaction, if you want to maximize your success, you have to approach it from the frame of reference of the person you are talking to. Put yourself in their shoes, and think about what they care about, what they value, and then whatever you want to do, express it to them with reference to their perspective.

This is especially true for hard conversations (like firing someone, or leaving a company, etc etc). Note that understanding and getting into their shoes does not mean bending over backwards to do it their way; you can still do things your way (or find a compromise between the two), but you have to convey that you understand their perspective and (ideally) how what you are doing can be beneficial / neutral for them from that perspective.

Another good source is Coyote Talk vs Giraffe talk (it sounds silly, but I promise it isn't). That one is more focused on personal relationships, but I think much of it can be applied to work interactions too.

Most fighting and animosity in the world is caused by people talking past each other, not engaging in actual constructive dialogue.
There is no Etage 0. People will just confusingly look at you if you ever said that. And the "Je ne sais pas' is called "Sous-sol"
I would argue that in no point in history has it been easier to make a living producing things that other's want to view than today. You can make a very high quality movie with an inexpensive computer or even a phone, youtube will host it for you for free, and, if people like it, they can watch it and share it with others. Youtube will even pay you ad revenues or let you sell your movie.

If your movie is only good enough that it takes massive marketing to become popular, then that doesn't work, but then you are in the realm of producing what others are told to like rather than what they will like and share with their friends naturally.
> Try making something like this in the traditional web. People have tried and failed.

Keybase.io is a quite elegant solution and didn't "fail" due to any fault of its own (the team was acquired by Zoom).
It's probably very hard to measure truffle mycelium growth: its fragile and buried under very heterogenous dirt. And mycelium is the form this organism takes the majority of the time: the fruit is just the end product.

It'd be like trying to understand how plants grow without being able to see or measure light.
They'll hire people from AMD, Intel, or whoever else happens to be around then. Money talks, and Apple has a ton of it throw at the problem. Their marketcap is larger than AMD, Intel, TSMC, and NVidia... combined.
A project being late involving a junior dev due to architectural and scoping issues is probably not because of the junior dev but the tech lead and product/project manager. The junior dev is still at risk in practice because the team is at risk and their manager can use them for the blame game.

In this scenario, I'd work through a 5-whys for figuring out why the multiple reasons why the "you're effectively on warning for being fired, and certainly not being promoted" just happened, and the reasons behind them. Ideally with someone at least a few years ahead of you who, and not at the company to avoid politics/bias issues. Maybe you need a tech lead or a senior dev mentor. Maybe project planning is broken. Maybe product expectations are broken. Maybe they don't know you're a junior dev and that means basic stuff like teaching you how to work in a team. Once you've done that, then repeat it with your team: they want to do better too, hopefully.

From there, if possible, maybe get it fixed... but it's not your job to fix team culture as someone junior, so also look at switching teams (managers) or even companies. If you believe you're being diligent and working hard, it's a net loss for yourself and better functioning teams to keep underdelivering for reasons not under your control. Other places would be happy to have you, help you be more productive, and your career + their results will be better. Leaving at 1-3mo point is not that bad on a CV (and you can drop it later) -- leaving at 6mo-24mo is the bad one.
Why bring in outside materials into this conversation? Do we lack the capacity for reason?
Which "side" are you talking about?
To be fair, Parler and 8chan did deserve to get Parler'd and 8chan'd respectively. To also be fair, even if you are not Parler or 8chan, it is a valid concern.
The 'bother the professor' part is key. With new teammates, I want them to reach out if they're on a project I'm leading. If things look like they're going well - then it's great to get positive feedback. If not, better to change direction early (lost work due to changing requirements).

Do you have a weekly 1:1 with your manager?
Trump may or may not be a racist (there's plenty of circumstantial evidence that he is, but some people won't be satisified unless he walks up to a podium in blackface or a Klan hood something) but the wellspring of support for his populism among white supremacists, and the effect of that support both on his election and throughout his first term has been so thoroughly substantiated and documented by now that your comment speaks to either naivete or willful ignorance in pretending it never existed.

Edit: oops, you used the term 'TDS' in another comment. The jig is up, seems you're not a disinterested party, and you're just here to troll.
Yeah, that's pretty much my take on it as well.

Everyone says they want rationality and unbiased thinking, but don't really care if it takes extra effort or time. This threw me for years. When I would point out gaps or mention hidden assumptions I would get dismissed almost every time.

Like just because you have data to back up your point/idea doesn't mean your point is right. That's NOT what data-driven actually means. No, what people want is numbers to add to make a story seem more trustworthy.

Once I started treating "rational" or "data-driven" like a buzz word everything made sense.
Google copied Sonos’ multi-zone speaker technology, US import regulator rules
I'm not talking about the feelings of anyone involved in ICANN. I'm talking about what the technological function of the DNS root is.

> I wasn't aware that ICANN felt powerful enough to threaten to take entire TLDs off the root zone.

What do you think happens if you don't pay ICANN the fee for a gTLD?

Of course, they're not going to remove `org.` -- and `org.` isn't going to defy their rules.
> Are people being locked down? Is mobility down? No?

Sure isn't.

Food and medicine shortages due to COVID-19 caused the biggest anti Castro regime protests since the 90's [0] [1]. Thanks to the communist regime people are back to starvation. Even the government was forced to acknowledge it because it got so big.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Cuban_protests

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/11/americas/cuba-protests/index....
Failure happens in a system, not an individual. Your boss is a attributing systemic failure to a Junior developer.
I found myself wishing for hip waders to even try to get through part of this self-congratulatory pile of BS.

Reading between the lines told me he quit his job, mooched off of friends and girlfriend/wife, then managed to con people into investing in a magazine. I figure he had a trust fund somewhere, or has the gift of gab and could easily part fools from their cash.
And users are able to buy and sell the items from each other? Does Steam take a cut?
I chose this specific angle for aesthetic reasons but also to convey that the map could be rotated and tilted.
There are services that can do that. https://www.pipes.digital/ is mine and filtering feeds is probably its main use case. There is also https://siftrss.com/ and I know that some RSS reader have similar functionality, like https://blog.feedly.com/leo-and-mute-filters/.
We need the government to break up big media once and for all.
While I agree this would be the best way to design things, is it really a net positive for the first owner of each car who might just have it for 1-3 years?

That’s the primary target for the design after all. And with more and more cars being leased, what the second and third owner will feel about outdated or flaky tech is becoming even less relevant to the person who is the customer.