skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To illustrate the point, let's imagine that 5 years ago, a driver in the linux kernel was written in such a way that interplay with a new disk drive could corrupt data when power failed. The disk on its own (and with other OSes) is fine, and the linux kernel in all other cases are fine.

An open-source database is being used and operated as a service by a vendor, which a SaaS company relies on to provide a feature that your organization uses to manage data on behalf of users.

We now have a chain that includes: users <- customer organisation <- SaaS vendor <- DB as a service vendor <- OSS DB maintainers <- Linux maintainers <- Driver writers <- Hardware vendors.

There is suddenly a power outage at the DB as a service vendor (because of an unmaintained powerline falling over) and their UPCs appear not to be functional for yet unknown reason (cost cutting or supply chain issues during covid time may receive some blame). Your users lose their data regardless.

What is the bug? Who is at fault? Is it the engineer? The team who wrote the code? The QA folks? The organization that hired them? Who should fix the issue?
Who should be on charge with repairing data corruption? Whose backups should be trusted most? The least? Have you been lenient in your usage of a SaaS vendor?
Has the SaaS vendor been lenient in the services they use? Which actors can be considered liable from a legal standpoint? Which actors can be considered liable from an ethical or moral standpoint? Are your customers the one who made a bad decision contracting you? Can there be more than one party responsible?
Do any of these answers changed based on whether the power loss is caused by an act of god or bad maintenance? Based on which jurisdiction you're in? How do you define honest mistakes? Negligence? A bug is a bug because the software did not meet the expectations that were set. Were the expectations reasonable? Who should have managed them?

Events happen. The meaning we attach to them is of course based on expectations and standards and the environment and context, but the way we build our explanation, the ways we attach blame and accountability varies. You can sometimes decide to assign accountability to individuals, sometimes to systems, sometimes both. Sometimes only some or sometimes neither.

So sure, you can point at the actual technical lines of code and say "these aren't doing what they should", but if you do this in a vacuum without also wondering who decided what these lines should be doing and what pressures were at play when they were written, are you necessarily learning a lot about how events unfold and how they might unfold in the future?

A systemic perspective will yield different reactions than one based on personal engineer responsibility, which will be different from one that looks at it from an insurer's point of view, which will be different from one which looks at it from an education point of view, etc. So the lens you take to look at the events surrounding the error and the interpretation you make of it are absolutely crucial to the corrections and learnings that follow.
"they" if there is such a they, depend far more on social media hypnotizing us and controlling what we perceive and believe. its not the absence of free speech that is the problem, its that truth about our situation cannot make a dent in our psyches while we are hypnotized with a firehose of propaganda and marketing.
I'd be objecting anyone that gets paid to produce cultural pollution.

Are you getting paid to produce cultural pollution?
>Wider isn’t safer, so width is irrelevant. The most dangerous local roads in NYC are extremely wide.

Yeah that's precisely my point; the physical space is there. Narrow the lanes and use the freed space for more sidewalk, bike lane, trees, etc. It means there's an opportunity.

>Perhaps licensing is in order for adult cyclists.

Absolutely not!
Windows Ameliorated does not require installing from an ISO. That was merely made for convenience, and for those without the basic technical knowledge required to perform a manual amelioration. There is detailed documentation for performing a manual amelioration, and it's all open-source. (https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=documentation_21h1)

The script you mentioned does NOT fully disable or remove the spyware within Windows. Windows Ameliorated gets rid of the spyware on an executable level, meaning the functionality of the spyware is not just disabled, but completely removed.
Haven't seen it was already submitted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043439
Twitter threads are just blog posts cut and simplified to fit the platform’s limitation. People have learn to adapt and write more concise post. I hope that if Twitter adds long tweets, people still write in a similar way.
This would be great because if the code stinks to high heaven then I won't work there. When they think I'm not a fit for not understanding their code, the feeling would be mutual.
Pick a different programming stack. Some stacks encourage large teams, agile and meetings about other meetings.

Javascript development with AngularJS or React lead to daily scrums and larger teams. Perhaps it's cultural but if you switched to Vue your chances of avoiding the daily standup go up. Environments with services that you are supporting include a lot of meetings discussing boundaries. A lot of services are written in golang.

Consider C++, Ruby, PHP, Perl and older tech like COBOL. These communities haven't fully accepted tbe daily standup.

Sticking to companies that are small (under 20 people) will force small teams and less meetings and more solo work.
I read this shortly after I got tinnitus and it did not help my mental health. I immediately wished I never saw it. I would probably delete this, it’s not out of line but it might save somebody a lot of negative thoughts and fear.
I'm surprised I haven't seen the 'steelman' argument for Musk and free speech on Twitter, made as faithfully as I can to emulate Musk's perspective. I'm going to make it (disclosure: I don't personally believe it).

When Trump was booted from social media, it was censorship. We tend to overlook this, because Twitter & FB agreed on it; but another perspective is possible, that Trump should be able to speak freely as the leader of the country supported by half its population (no less than 40%, anyway). Trump should be able to make statements that aren't censored because, when he makes them as President, they are inherently newsworthy & worthy of circulation.

But to take this even further, this isn't simply about one guy's Twitter takes; it's much larger than that. Because under Trump we were starting to see the emergence of something that is probably inevitable: the full hybridization of popular culture, technology, and media, in the form of a perpetually on engine of user engagement. This is probably the model of the future, and Twitter is uniquely positioned to not just bring it to the people (as it was under Trump), but to monetize it (which they didn't do, really).

What are the upsides of this? A more engaged voter population. A move of politics back towards the center of cultural life, where it should be. A closer integration of politics, culture and ecommerce. And, if done in a principled way, an end to the perception that people can be suppressed for saying the wrong thing (see: Trump).

That's the value that Musk could unlock. That's what could conceivably make Twitter as important as FB, and even more central to American life. That, combined with some aggressive product delivery, and a shakeup away from the product doldrums, could be transformative for Twitter. If Musk gets his way, that's the change he could make.
On the contrary: I like the idea, but for context, my most recent HN comment contained:

> [...] That said, I do find [it] hard in interviews [to talk] about past experience[s] and prefer to just be given a web application riddled with every type of bug and try to bingo them all in the time given to show that I understand them all. That one was my favorite interview.

Now I see johnqian suggesting to ask interviewees how to best see their skills, and it sounds great. If the interviewer doesn't have something like this on hand, we could still go into different types of bugs that they care about.

I've also had interviews that went terribly, particularly when no technical details were asked at all for a technical position (e.g. a manager just asking the standard questions where you need to give platitude answers, such as "why are you specifically excited to intern with Vodafone", methinks: "because I want that degree and you were the only option I could think of within 45 minutes commuting"... but one can't say that so I made something up.. he probed further on that... it went downhill from there), so being able to steer away from that sounds great.

But it might also be that I would feel unprepared for such a question and give a total non-answer, helping neither party.

Asking this in an email ahead of time might be better, though then the effect you're suggesting might be even stronger.

Edit: I'm not the downvoter, to be clear. I think you raise a good point even if I am not sure whether it would necessarily be that way.
It really does seem like an extremely capitalist concept! The idea is to force the market to compete much more thoroughly. Not sure why folks are saying it’s a “leftist redistribution ploy,” when the main benefit is to force owners to make a profit on their land or sell.
My thesis is that the true measure of reading code is still the ability to fix and extend it. So my current ideal interview problem is still a tiny toy codebase, where the interviewee is tasked with adding some (relatively trivial) feature to it. Like ten lines of code, but where those lines require you to have grokked the other couple hundred or so. Any downsides?
> Of course, that requires tenants trust Intel's security.

I generally agree with you. But I recently realized there might be one usecase, and it's pretty much what signal is doing. They're processing address books in SGX so that they can't see them. I don't have much faith in the system because I don't trust SGX, of course.

But there is one interesting aspect to this. If anyone comes knocking and tells them to start logging all address books and hand them over, they can say that it's not possible for them to do so.

Anyone wanting to do that covertly would at least need to bring their own SGX exploits, meaning it probably offers SOME level of protection. Certainly not if the NSA wants the data or some LEA is chasing something high-profile enough that they're willing to buy exploits and get a court order allowing them to use them. But it does allow them to respond with "we don't have this kind of data".
My question to that would be: is a pacifist in the trenches of Vietnam on the side of the Americans equally culpable as the infantry soldier with a rifle? Both carryout essential tasks, both are likely conscripts. The only different is 1 has a rifle and didn't object to compulsory service. The other one made an objection but still performs an essential service.
I mean, if you take it as a case for why moderation is hard, that's fair. But while Elon describes himself (identity politics) as a "free speech absolutist", his concrete proposals seem to include things like an edit button, long-form tweets and some monetization strategies.

I think the fairer critique of modern Twitter is that it prioritizes the needs of media personalities and PR firms over ordinary users, not that it isn't "free" enough. I am blandly optimistic about the prospects of things being shaken up at Twitter, and for who Elon is, it could easily be someone much worse.
I think musk believes we wouldn’t be on the midst of WWIII if free speech was allowed.
>Too often for me, I have tried to figure out a solution to a problem, when someone was just trying to let me know how they feel

John Gray addressed this in "Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus" - I believe he argued that this is the #1 mistake men make in relationships.

IIRC, he also argued that the #1 mistake women make in relationships was trying to help men by giving unsolicited advice.
You are right, but so is the grandparent. A noise, click, or tone-based ABR is very basic in terms of measuring restoration of natural hearing. There are issues of rich spectrotempral aspects of speech, music, and natural sounds that (ideally) would be accounted for. Along with amplification and gain control, to which Outer Hair Cells are a major contributor in the cochlea.

There are various ways to measure these thing in animals and humans physiologically (ABRs, otoacoustic emissions, invasive and noninvasive electrophysiology), and with careful psychophysical experiments. None are perfect or comprehensive. Each method has its own strengths and weaknesses.

But it is indeed more complex than just testing a basic audibility threshold. The same issues come up with audigorams for hearing aid calibration and hearing in noise.
Ask HN: How does Elon Musk have $43B of liquid cash?
Does anyone have a better understanding of this? Is it from pumping and dumping crypto? I understand he is super duper rich, but I don't understand / have a hard time comprehending a number as large as $43B.
If 2.txt is tracked by git, there’s no need to go through these hoops. Then, sponge starts to make sense. Except from that case, I agree totally.
You should do a google search before posting on HN. Dude's done tons of really mean, rude, or questionable things. At many levels. It's not on the OP to prove it to you with exhaustive sources or whatever when you can just look around you and get examples.

But since you want an actual link, here: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=elon+musk+douchebag&ia=web
there are better "good faith" postings on Wall Street bets than HN, this place is an asylum
Also genuine, why would a person believe that would happen? The foremost thing that comes to mind is they'd be giving something of great value and receiving nothing in return.
Ask HN: Application Advice for Junior Dev
Hello everyone
i‘m a soon to be finished computer science student with internship experience in full stack web dev, some personal projects and some team projects on uni and I am based in Germany and want to work in Switzerland. How do I apply for junior positions? What do I have to mention and what should I pay attention to?

Thanks in advance.
I like to point to HyperCard anytime someone says the Web was only meant to display static documents. Or NLS. Or any of the other hypermedia progenitors!
I disagree. When you look at how many young people were scammed by College for their chosen major and then actively bootcamped their way into Tech, you realize there is a strong commitment within the country to fill these industries.

We really don’t need to contract out at all. I’m sorry my Indian friends, but Jonathan at the local community college has been learning AWS too. But don’t fret, you guys have a billion people in your country and they need tech too - stay there, and improve it.
Right, if you're a big company you can more easily afford to have false negatives than false positives, so why not add knife fighting to the list of qualifications, just in case?
Is it not for you? I’m at least 10 times faster at reading code than writing code.
The premise here is good, but instead of asking the same question again and again, I would rather supply more and more information until I get the answer I am looking for. (and jot down what prompting was required to get that answer) I agree with the sibling comment, otherwise this becomes a guess what I am thinking exercise.
I remember seeing some very realistic gradient stuff done in Paint aeons ago. Here's one of them (honestly looks less impressive now though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7JHQMDO-w
Maybe you are right, but the instant price of stock will probably fall down after "dilution", so for example if you had $10 000 worth of stock before dilution, and you want to sell it the next day, you probably will get less than $10 000 because now there are more shares available in the market (more supply, but the same demand as yesterday).
He does not have $43B liquid, which is why there are a lot of questions on how he would actually execute a hostile takeover.
The more interesting thing to me than SGX is that all of TSX-NI is deprecated? Not just HLE, but RTM too? Meaning there'll be no more software transactional memory at all?! Anyone able to shed any light on why they're doing this? Is it just security or is it just not worth it even regardless of that? Is there a chance they'll reintroduce it in some form, perhaps in other processor series?
I mean, you don't have to believe it makes him one, but it's not like people can't find examples of things that they might consider worth the label:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

his defense being....

> Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase "pedo guy" was common in South Africa, where he grew up.
Haven't used them. Looks good. Costs a lot more than the Amazon one, so could be different class with different expectations.
There are different categories of H-1B including for academics, you can't just abolish things like that. It is also a good way for people with unique skills (usually not in software) to wait for their green card availability.
Universal Analytics is going away: it's time to revisit your analytics habits
I'm not sure how France could police this? I mean shoot them out of the sky I suppose.

"You can't provide internet here."

"Yes I can... Look I'm doing it."

"Please stop."

"No"
Average expenses for a landlord on a well-managed SFH run 45 - 50% of gross rents.
If you lose a bunch of money and don't change the "free speech" policy of a website, isn't it still an L?
There is good reason for all of those.

1. ~70% of the Windows attack surface as of 2020 is caused by using an administrator user (Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210618023509/https://www.beyon...). This does not mean you cannot do administrator actions, it only requires the admin password on each UAC prompt.

2. This is for legal reasons. You're not going to get in trouble if you don't follow it, and many people don't. (Unless you're a business)

3. Windows activation has telemetry, and there's no real reason to have it in the first place.
If you still wish to activate with a license key, you can activate Windows before performing a manual amelioration (Guide here: https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=documentation_21h1)
good example, it just means one hopes that there are at least 3 subsequent of the same sign so one can read it in chunks (at least that's what i do)
Don't think that's true. ETF fund managers, when faced with a corporate action decision, will always vote for whatever maximizes their shareholders value.
elon wants to save us from woke people, and sees that this is a trillion dollar opportunity.

have you seen the matrix? they powered a cluster the size of the planet using humans for batteries! this is the same scale problem, that and pedophilia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit
Sorry, what is "CLI Display"? Do you mean a display (as in physical object which shows stuff) that only shows text (and not lines, graphics etc...)?

You want old-school monochrome monitor, in amber or green color if possible. they have this old, analog-only look in them.

(And you may want to avoid using "CLI" to mean "text only" -- there were plenty of TUI, text-only displays with full screen interface [0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
Levine is being disingenuous, as usual. Obviously he would have banks and investors fighting to finance the deal. Wouldn't a breakup penalty address the breakup problem?
I like this approach.

Far to often I’ve interviewed at places and been grilled by the interviewer only to find out when you start the quality isn’t great, what you where grilled on you won’t be working on “as that’s to hard” or “we don’t do that” despite being grilled on it and the level of skill not to great they just want senior people. It’s the bait and switch.

At least being taken through existing code you know what you are getting yourself in to. Also looking at the current open pull requests and closed pull requests to see the standard and speed of delivery. Bonus points for no PR’s and trunk driven development as that shows a very mature team.

My simpler interviews have often been with companies that have held a higher bar than the ones with tougher interviews. Those companies have often been sink or swim though and if you don’t make the grade you’ll be kicked out pretty quick. My last company had a reputation for new starts disappearing and not great that way, but the team was probably the strongest bunch of people I’ve ever worked with as only do good survived.
"culture war" is the ultimate propaganda tool to be used on people who think they are smart
They take a short position before going public, to profit off the drop.
I've had one given as a thought experiement.

List as many different ways as you can for how to figure out if a singly list is broken and has a loop
Developed land does not have to bring revenue (or even profit). May I not have just an illiquid house on a plot of land and no other assets?
There is obvious ideological/institutional bias. Look at who Facebook offloads censorship to and who finances them.

There is obvious censorship not due to shitstorms. dang censored plain links to scientific studies highlighting myocarditis side effects to covid-19 vaccines. Now those effects are accepted fact.
When you learn about a tool, actually think about a specific situation/use case where you would actually use it. Try it out as soon as you learn about it. I find I can only do one tool at a time. You remember it better if it’s something you would use frequently at the moment. If I get a big old list of useful stuff, I’d be lucky to actually incorporate more than 2 of them. At a time anyway. If you don’t remember the tool, it’s probably because you wouldn’t use it enough to retain knowledge of it..
I believe that some things which are necessary for a healthy society are, are not, and cannot be made to be, profitable by themselves. Nightclubs was my guess as to what one of those things could be, parks was another. Other examples which are usually brought up are public transit and the postal service. These might never earn enough income to afford the space they take up in a city center, but it is still vital that they exist there.

> To argue that commercial tenants will be charged more is to argue that commercial landlords are leaving money on the table, which I don't believe.

Getting more money might involve tearing down and rebuilding (which is expensive) and forgoing income while the rebuilding is taking place. If one were cynical, one could assume that most landlords simply don’t have the capital on hand to do this, and/or can’t get rid of their current tenants easily enough. A more charitable view might be that the landlord likes having a nightclub where it is.
how do you ensure consistent criteria between candidates and avoid unconscious bias?
I hate to disagree with you but when was the last time you checked your MySpace page?
i don't understand. I am sure twitter has confidentiality procedures. under new ownership this would change.
It seems like you’re assuming farmers don’t get taxed on land. According to a brief Google search, “Nationally, 1.9 million farms paid $9.4 billion in property taxes.”

The question would be whether removing that in favor of a land tax would really change that. I’m not sure it would make it worse, given that there are (relatively speaking) fewer “property” improvements on top of the land in a farm.

Either way, I don’t think this is a fair reason to dismiss LVT outright, as it completely depends on the implementation.
Code / stackoverflow is also somewhat lacking on Brave Search, but I'm a big fan of the ability to do !g to redirect the request to Google (I don't care if they see that I'm trying to figure out why my build is failing c: )