skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And how does a company account for risk?

Higher prices, end of story. This is simple economics."

The job of the company is to manage risk of the project they are delivering, and let the ones that do it well win. What the hell is the point of private sector if the taxpayer pics up the tab every time something goes wrong?

I don't know what bids you dealt with, the ones I did looked nothing klike what you describe. For any non-mundane work, that's not like, paving a street, you low-ball the bid, deliver the bare minimum the paperwork allows and then keep milking the government for improvements because what you've delivered is not good enough.

If the bid is about new technology, the tradeoffs cannot be understood by non-experts, and are difficult to pinpoint even for experts. The expertiese required to access how good is the bid is the same as the expertiese needed to design the system -> if you have that expertiese on hand, you would not need to outsource the design.

The process is insanely time intensive, expensive, and difficult to navigate. Not because government is inefficient, but because taht's the nature of new technology.

> Future projects are always worth more than current projects, so only an idiot does bad or over-cost work often. Such groups eventually don't get more work.

In UK Capita get work again and again despite fucking it up all the time
No, it looks like you're logging in to your bank but you're actually giving your credentials to Stripe.
Interesting.

Honestly, I'm the guy who would just "roll with it" and eat whatever was brought to me because I honestly can't bring the energy to arguing with the waiter.

But having hired people and other professionals, I almost always hire the person who would assert themselves and demand the right thing be done.

Why?

Well, I recognize that I don't like to be "that guy". So I hire people who can do it for me. It has always worked out quite well in the past, where I've been able to form a team of people who work well together, but can be assertive to external groups. (And I, of course, only need to get out of their way.)
I think a lot about that "political landscape" part of the problem. It contributes to the brain drain that makes it worse. If you stay you still have a vote. You still have something of a voice if you want to try to make change. If you leave, you can maybe expect things to get worse in your absence (times everyone else who leaves for the similar reasons).

There's no easy answer there. I'd feel guilty leaving; I feel guilty or at least complicit (or worse victimized) staying.
...but the recollection doesn't differentiate between these two so it doesn't seem to be the important factor?
tarsnap is a one man show and he's not building a startup. he could've easily worked at Google, take advantage of the rising stock prices AND continue work on his SaaS. Lot of us do exactly that because it doesn't make sense to leave a good paying job at a large company to take on tremendous risk at as you said, consuming endeavour with small probability of success (+90% failure rate).

I don't get why people are so upset at my comment or why that should warrant ad hominem attacks.

I merely mentioned that parent could've had a job at Google and benefited from it. He made it sound like it was a power move, it really wasn't. My argument is only that he took on even more risk by not taking advantage of Google's offer and growing stock prices to fund his passion. He doesn't seem like the type to get distracted by a day job either.
Nice find. I had used VCGuide before (mentioned in another comment) but I see a different set of reviews than I see in VCGuide -- always good to have more data here considering how thin it is!
I pulled my flute out of its case after over five years, and within minutes was playing all my scales, and able to play the melody lines out of a hymnal. My tone was awful, and my lips got tired long before my hands.

To this day, I still associate flute fingerings with music I read for singing.

Or piano, which gets messy…
Right.

I think a few posts went on to eventually answer factually what we love about trackpoint - keeping hands on home row, preciseness, speed, high skill ceiling, etc.

But I also think the keyboard shortcut analogy, while indeed not talking about TrackPoint itself, is actually the most useful post for the goal of understanding it: One may never agree about usefulness of TrackPoint, but that analogy helps with understanding that "There's a small minority of power users for whom this is a force multiplier and who feel very strongly about the optimization it allows them" :)
superficial you say. How about I name these in chinese in my package?
My interpretation of the point in the blog post was that explicitly spelling out variable names makes APIs and the underlying code much more accessible to a wider audience.

Sure, there'll be a subset of users of these libraries that have read ML/textbooks and are familiar with what η means in this context.

Today, many (most?) users of ML libraries will probably not know what η means without looking it up. Adhering to mathematical notation puts up an unnecessary barrier to using the API/code and ultimately limits wider engagement/collaboration.

To attract a bigger slice of the ML community, choosing names that the ML hobbyyist can read, understand and use without pause is the better path forward.
Yes, you do need a degree. However you react in this artificial situation in which you are grouped up with seven stranger has no bearing on your performance as an engineer. Furthermore, if you had a degree in psychology and wanted to perform an experiment like this you would need to seek approval from an ethics committee and they would turn down your request because the experiment is fucking stupid. Whoever devised this "IBM Asshole Test" is the real asshole here.
This was also my immediate thought. Being able to statically deploy larger databases without a server process would be an absolute dream. Approaching dangerously high levels of dark magic.
I don’t know if this counts, because it’s kind of hybrid, but I use Plex all the time. I like the personal flexibility, and my wife is so constantly annoyed that the music library she spent years curating got crunched by YouTube (Google Music at the time). So we have her library extracted from a backup and dropped into Plex. We got a lifetime subscription to stream from our home NAS.
I am 100% sure it won't replace non existing bank accounts or debit cards or help the people trying to pay with their non existing smarpthones at 80% of the vendors in El Salvador that don't accept it. LOL

The thing with educating other people is that you need to have knowledge about the topic you are trying to educate people about and you just don't have it. The real world is not your high school debate club were you can just pull shit out of your head and get points for being witty. At least you didn't try to paint me as racist and sexist this time :D
All minimum wage increases are regressive against the poor.

Let's say minimum wage is $1 and the family saved up $100 in a bank account. They have 100 units of labor saved up, which is a lot of purchasing power.

Now some brilliant economists move minimum wage to $100/hr. The family's saved labor is wiped; as the bank didn't automatically increase their savings to $100,000.
https://stripe.com/docs/financial-connections/fundamentals#a...

You log into your bank directly and then grant access to Stripe.

I presume, behind the scenes, your bank gives Stripe a single application token (not your credentials) to pull read-only data.

(edit) But this is only for banks supporting Oauth, it seems for others it DOES give Stripe your credentials.
Did anyone have a smartphone that could take great photos in 2006?
CDN and Reverse Proxy are Cloudflare's bread and butter really, WAF came later. The issue is that those technologies are rather invisible to most users when they are working correctly.
For those curious: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephruscio.

Seed investor in Tailscale since 2019.
if you owned stock options and invested it in Google with portion of your salary going to it, you absolutely would be looking at extreme returns. The power of compounded returns is still not clear to some I see.

With that money you could've funded any side project that generates recurring revenue.

I don't get why you should quit your job, take on tremendous amount of risk for a highly improbable outcome with heavy survivorship bias.
I have bought “Patterns in C” on Leanpub and have been surprised by the writing.

https://leanpub.com/patternsinc
Yeah, in my experience this is really what it's all about. Thinking out loud helps them assess how you reason through trade-offs, potential ideas you run through, edge cases you catch, at what stage you catch them and how you go about addressing them etc.
If you solved your problem then it's not a big deal. The web isn't that old and has been in constant churn. The signal for a shift in what's popular starts with articles like this one or the two dozen others I've seen with this same take. Over the next two years or so the zeitgeist will move into competing solutions, one will "win" and that'll propagate to later adopters as the new norm. At least that's how it's worked for *SP, Rails, jQuery, Backbone, and React. The current era has been unusually long/stable so it's likely that younger developers haven't run into the situation.

If you do want to jump on the trend while keeping your Vue knowledge, check out Astro [1]. I'm provisionally in the Marko [2] camp, not so much for the current Marko but because Marko 6 is looking good.

[1] https://astro.build/
[2] https://markojs.com/
Quite the contrary. D&D was originally a supplement for Chainmail, a skirmish wargame, in which they started adding characterization elements. Many/most of the early RPGs were very crunchy, and a lot of people played them focused on combat and stats. But it had started by adding story elements to a wargame, and over the years it continued adding more.

In the middle era, the trend was obvious with games like Vampire: The Masquerade and its Storyteller system, coupled with the LARPing fad and some diceless games.

Since that era, the trend has continued. Many games now have little or no crunch at all, and focus almost entirely on world-building, storytelling, and improv. Some games, like the mentioned Microscope, along with Ex Novo and The Quiet Year are almost entirely crunchless world-building and storytelling.

You can go quite far with just oracles and no system at all, and then if you need one, easily pull in something modern and light like FATE, Mythic, or Fu RPG that just adds a few die rolls to your otherwise creative campaign.

And it can be more soloable than crunchy games because you don't need tons of rules and stats and dice rolls. You instead have creative prompts and oracles and source material and can just go with it, reading, interpreting, writing wherever your imagination takes you.

I did also do a lot of solo wargaming, so crunch is not un-soloable, but less crunch is easier and can feel more rewarding.
This potentially lowers payment processing costs by making ACH a viable alternative to cards.
I think there’s room for debate about what “social engineering” means. I’m talking specifically about hoping to solve a problem by convincing people to do something they don’t want to do, whether that’s exercise and lose weight or turn down the heat and put on a sweater to fight climate change.

You can educate people and provide them with low cost, high benefit options. But you can’t change human nature or brow beat people into having different priorities than they do.
lazy loading images is only enabled when javascript is enabled because the assumption is that if you disable javascript, you don't want to be tracked and lazy loading images can track how far you scroll down.
> The learning rate is a well known name that basically every one will understand

Absolutely! Because as we all know, everyone speaks English.

The GP's point was that greek letters are used in lots and lots of papers even written in other languages. I have read quite a few papers in Japanese that used exactly the same conventions with respect to the greek letters and latin letters used.
Hm, I don't dig this. I don't think it's ethical to evaluate a candidate's interactions when they weren't informed they were being evaluated. People are stressed heading into an interview, and may be upset afterwards. Unless they're interviewing for a public-facing role, I don't see how this behavior is relevant to the job; and discussing it with a hiring committee invites all sorts of "cultural fit" biases that make the hiring process inconsistent and discriminatory. If a person's behavior would hinder their ability to do the job, then that's worth a rejection; but "rudeness" is a very subjective thing.

edit: to clarify, I'm talking about behavior that could be interpreted in different ways by different people. If you tell a driver to fuck off, yeah; I don't want to hire you or work with you. The parent gave no example of the behavior they'd reject a candidate for, and I assume it'd be reasonable; my point is just that this kind of thing is hard to do right and I'd avoid it.
Agreed, the most successful assholes have always been the ones that understood that you can't be a asshole all the time, you need to deploy it at a opportune moment.
> at a certain point it doesn't make sense to employee people doing it anymore

I’m honestly convinced a growing slice of America sees employment as inherently oppressive and undignified, and so yes, believes you would have preferred unemployment to working.
Ok, but they were transcribing from the whiteboard onto paper. So everything I wrote must have been transcribed twice before it reached the hiring committee.
They say the only two ways in business to make money are bundling and unbundling. This is surprisingly applicable to software frameworks as well.
Near the beginning of a class, Professor Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment.
According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.
Six weeks later, an excited Neyman eagerly told him that the "homework" problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.

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

Reminds me of that :)

edit:
Here's a slightly more colourful telling of the story: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-proble...

Does anyone happen to know which two problems Dantzig solved? Don't seem to be having much luck on my searches
Lack of punishments in form of incarceration being the norm is what makes this happen repeatedly.
The original contention was that women held out for higher-status men, leading to selection pressure such that men evolved to be more competitive. If women are only very recently even able to be more selective, then I don’t see how all this is supposed to work.

Is there even any evidence that modern women are more “choosy” than men? You’d have an hypothesis like: among married 40-something women, the distribution of socioeconomic status matches that of women overall, whereas married 40-something men have higher SES than would be expected. Should be easy enough to test with publicly available data.
Will one repairable laptop change the world?
My take on how the repairability and upgradability of the framework laptop could nullify the argument made by many manufacturers that future of portable devices is integrating everything and by doing so making hardware more secure.
Awesome. And I mistyped. When I said:

> Create a table in your database with an identifier provided by Keycloak, preferably an immutable one.

I really meant:

Create a column in a table in your database with an identifier provided by Keycloak. Preferably an immutable identifer from Keycloak.

So you could just add 'keycloak_id' into your normal users table and then you can pull any keycloak managed data back using an API.
Is forwarding a single port that difficult in most circumstances? I do realize there are some instances where that is hard like CGNAT, but if I have easy access to wireguard in my network already what does tailscale buy me?
Good list. One you're missing is:

e) how you're introduced

Who intros you and how they're connected to the fund matters a ton.

As an aside, I think it's true that they're all playing the same book -- with the exception of the very top. The playbook that the "deal guys" are playing and the long-term lead-the-industry game that the leaders are playing are different. The former will always say they're the latter but you will notice differences in the social network topology (as well as how they carry themselves and what their outcomes look like) which will clue you in.
Potter Stewart leaked large amounts of inside knowledge to Bob Woodward for the book 'The Brethren' (which is excellent BTW) though it didn't come out until his death. Abe Fortas eventually resigned under a cloud of partisanship and questionable financial decisions, but was not impeached. I'm sure there are others.

The honest truth is, though, that impeachment simply isn't going to happen. If a conservative leaked, essentially no Republican will vote to convict, and if a liberal essentially no Democrat. Impeachment is fundamentally a political process, the issue is partisan, and neither side has a sufficient supermajority. The facts are irrelevant, even if you think a leak is impeachable (which I don't, FWIW).
Wouldn't that fail unless your thinking is as slow as speech?
Your comment was critical without being in any way helpful, and you tried to defuse it with a smiley.

It doesn't warrant ad hominem attacks, but hardly anything does.
> He complains about a direct-to-consumer underwear brand costing 10x as much as fruit of the loom. This isn't any different from Ralph Lauren, or Calvin Klein, or any of the legacy players in the segment.

I mean, sure, but

1) Warby Parker glasses are generally cheaper than equivalent Prada frames. They might be more expensive than their online competition (Zenni, GlassesUSA), but the price advantage is unbeatable compared to optometrist's display case.

2) Harry's handles and razors are cheaper than equivalent Gilette's. Both brand now have online and offline presence (Harry's started exclusively online), but once again, it was hard to pass up on the price alone.
The problem is that politicians who want to legislate based on their religious values are extremely picky about which tennets of their faith they want to codify into law.

Luke 3:10-11

“‘What should we do then?’ the crowd asked. John answered, ‘Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.’”

There's a distinct absence of many people willing to either legislate that into law or practice it themselves. Not that I'm advocating for codifying such things into law: this is merely an observation, and an expression of my frustration with those who want to impose their values on others, but only when it's convenient for them.
Your character is defined by who you are and how you behave when you think no one is watching you.
It's hard to believe that someone can write these sentences based solely on the OP's statement. You have no idea who this person is.
The test wasn't to determine your performance as an engineer, it was to see if you demonstrated bad behaviour working in a group under pressure. You could be a great engineer and I'd still pass you up if, in this test, you were rude and abusive, or impatient and condescending to the rest of the group.
Well so that happened after WWII, tons of businesses went under, and their owners had to just get a job like everyone else. But the jobs were good, and he might get promoted a little quicker. The second thing is pulling immigration. Like US is no longer impeding immigration across the border, it is pulling it in.

Like DHS fills an airplane with Wahhabi Muslims masquerading as Mexicans to send them out of the...the Homeland, and the executive says no turn that plane around. So they can compete with that waitress for her job, and play with fireworks on the 4th of July.

And suprise, immigrants can learn to wait tables pretty quickly, but don't exactly own any land for a diner already and have much capital (like $30 in their pocket), so their benefit to the economy will be higher for the diner owner who enjoys their competition than the diner waitress you competes.
I don't ask anyone to change, but if you have a problem I should be under no obligation to help you. I may help you but I'm not obliged to pander to your needs.
> would have to be very convinced that someone was going to flip

The only element making me question the amateurishness of this leak is its timing, on the eve of bellwether primaries.
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They catch CO2 from air. They make fuel only from this and electricity. Then once someone burns the fuel, it produces the same or less CO2.
The major problems I see are one of two cases. Often just naive implementations run a filescan, run as fast as they can, the OS starts using more ram for caching, then at some point applications need more ram. That triggers a reclaiming pages from cache, writing dirty pages, reading pages from the disk for the application, all while the scan is keeping the I/O pipeline full. The user observes this as a slow/laggy machine, and if you are unlucky enough to have a i7/i9 in a laptop often a fan running flat out.

A second case is where a vendor offers "unlimited" backups for a flat price. This creates an incentive for the vendor to make an INCREDIBLY inefficient backup client that consumes substantial ram and CPU resources locally and minimal storage remotely. Typically this means that you aren't allowed to use more efficient clients, and have to use the vendors client. Here's looking at you crashplan.
Yeah, just this. It's not a psychology experiment, it's "do I want to work with this person?"
> Raising minimum wage while leaving other wages untouched accomplishes that.

Not sure I see how that is going to get a lot of support. A number of years ago when the talk was $15/hr, a friend of mine was livid whenever talking about it. She just finished a nursing degree (while working full time) and was starting her first job as an RN around $15/hr. And now the support staff, who didnt need more than a HS education was going to make as much as, or more than, her and not have the student loan burden on top of it? Her and I disagree on most social issues, but I can see how that would not be popular enough to be adapted. It had nothing to do with wanting to keep others poor and everything to do with -feeling- like everything she worked so hard for (to improve her own situation) meant nothing. Of course, over the years as nursing pay increased so did the support staff or maybe the other way around. I dont presume to know the causing factors. I know that my friend isnt upset that the support staff is paid a living wage now, but I also know her pay ladder (and nursing in general) increased as well.
I don't want to work with anyone who treats service workers like garbage, no matter what mood they are in. I have never in my life, no matter how bad or good of a day I am having, taken my frustrations out on a service worker for whatever internal/external stressors are happening to me.
HN isn't reddit, please keep this shit out.
Even better is to have the IRS to automatically calculate your tax each year. Send a postcard with the results, if you disagree, you do the entire filing yourself. Planet Money[0] did a story about California's attempt years ago. Conservatives vetoed the legislation because they think taxes should be painful.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...