skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mod_perl was stateful and mod_php was stateless.

By that I mean, a mod_perl program was expected to change the execution state for future executions, global variables would remain, etc. There are ways to make that happen in mod_php, but it isn't the default and I don't know if they were available initially. This made it easier to share a mod_php server with many users... A mod_perl really should be suexeced per user (or something) and that's hard. Really, you want to do per user php servers too, but it wasn't obvious back then.
This is also what many internships are for.
OP's coworker here, thanks for taking the time for writing this, I'm definitely cheering for us to give Render another try!
Non paywalled: https://easttip.com/fb-freezes-hiring-sure-engineers-as-zuck...
Do Coat Hangers Sound as Good as Monster Cables?
Assholes who actually can learn to hide the fact that they are assholes are probably a lot less annoying.
> Just to reiterate -- the only multiplayer mode where you could guarantee you get to play with your friends was PvE and only enabled some days.

For the online mode of Salmon Run, yes.

It's been a few years since I touched Splatoon but from what I recall, if you go to the arcade, you can set up a local co-op Salmon Run session anytime. It is/was not well-advertised.
> but that's a matter of convention & taste, with no bearing on the correctness or performance of the package/language. It's bikeshedding.

I heartily disagree with that. Bikeshedding is about focussing on the trivial, and the symbols we choose in our codebases are hardly trivial, and indeed many of us regard naming things as one of the central problems in programming[1].

[1]:https://medium.com/hackernoon/naming-the-things-in-programmi...
White flashes are usually a loading issue, like too much crap in the <head>-tag, or some critical resources aren't loading as early as they should.
You would hope a lawyer would know better than to name names with absolutely zero evidence other than speculation. Hopefully this will not lead to her harassment, but based on history, I wouldn't be surprised if she's already received threats.
They don't call it that. "21 jewels" just describes the amount of rubies in the watch movement.
I am fairly sure Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos & Elon Musk would have failed this test. Are you better off having them at your company or not?
I have a "no jerks" rule too. challenge is to try to spot them early, even before you say yes to an employer/client. its hard to do reliably. but there are less complications early than down the road when they've become one's coworkers or boss

because of this I really like to get into casual friendly convos early, with potential bosses or coworkers
> As part of the agreement, Intuit admitted no wrongdoing

It was literally just a cost of doing business. They did nothing wrong*

*According to our justice system.
The downside to using Red Hat Single Sign-On is that it is a vastly inferior product to using Keycloak upstream as it is so many versions behind.

This means that bug fixes and features haven't trickled down yet. Although RH SSO 7.5 jumped from Keycloak version 9.0.17 (in RH SSO 7.4) to 15.0.2 so there's some improvement there... but Keycloak just released 18.0.0...
Man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer talk to his virtual wife
On the web backend side, I find that rust has a nice future in support of other backend. considering the difficulty to manage websocket in PHP or memory with NodeJs.
most people can't explore Amazon rain forest or go up to the top of mount Everest. Even if they can go explore the Amazon rain forest, they wouldn't connect with nature in the same way that watching a documentary about it does.
Such strident authoritarian perspective, so little interest in trying to engender democratic options, ones that might be used to weigh against the disriptive forces. There's no chance here for trying to better distil out a wisdom of the crowds. We're not going to try to let the silent majority be recogized online, make them & push back real.

We'll use force & authority to "stop" the misinformation, build a powerful state that uses force to crush the opposition. No discussion about shades of grey or improving the social or informational climate.

So many very powerful figures advocating such strongly militant new programs of control. Terrible. It's all such a narrowminded view, misses the holistic picture of whats happening so roundly.
From their privacy policy:
> The personal information we collect, use, and disclose includes business contact information such as names, job titles, and company email addresses, as well as information about individual devices (such as device hardware and operating system) and aggregated usage statistics (such as amount of data transmitted in a period of time).

> Your personal information will be transferred ... to certain third parties that provide services on our behalf.

> We use service providers to provide services such as ... data analysis to better understand and improve product and website usage, and providing advertising and marketing services.

:/
Pity my blog died so quickly! Can anyone recommend a more robust host? Ideally one with low set up effort.
What type of metrics you'd want GitHub to provide?
Bunq seems like a… suboptimal bank, though. They cost ~5x more than other NL banks, and by all accounts, their customer support is streets behind.

Their API and app-centric approach seem to be the only upshots, and even then, other banks have relatively good apps these days.
Having been on the receiving end of this as a candidate (not at IBM), everyone was in on the test in the first 15 seconds, and it changed people's behavior instantly.

It's fairly obvious if you're on the receiving end what the purpose of the test is when you're being observed (as with most interview questions, it helps to ask yourself why the interviewer asking me / having me do this?)
> which key do you think is the easiest to play on piano?

Sorry, "easiest" may not be the best word. C major is THE key of the piano keyboard and playing in C major is so easy because all of the non-exotic chords (sorry, I don't know the english nomenclature) are played on the same kind of keys and they have identical, predictable shapes.

On a keyboard like Dodeka, all chords in all keys have predictable shapes, because why shouldn't they? You should be able to transpose any song by simply moving your hands a little to the side, anything else is just bad UI.
But now your friends and family are locked into a proprietary system, subject to whatever the future incentives of Tailscale end up being. How many people can you connect on the free plan?
Your v2 pricing model is lame. I was literally pulling out my credit card when I saw the original pricing.
True. MBA’s are short time horizon creatures. The impacts of their decisions are closely measured related to the number of years they expect to be employed at that company. Why should they care about anything else? Unfortunately, most of the executive compensation measures at corporations support this type of thinking.
It's better than no filtration of assholes at all, which is the industry standard.

Do you know if a better plan which scales to companies with hundos of thousands of employees?
>It's not feasible for the majority ( ;) ) of El Salvadorians to use crypto as a cash replacement because there is simply not enough digital infrastructure for it

And now you've finally walked back far enough to simply say most won't use it as a cash replacement by majority at present. I think that's fair -- I've never said I expect bitcoin to completely replace cash. Cash is of course practical, and has its place.

I think you've been educated enough at this point we can stop here.
I'm not sure it's quite the same as a psychological evaluation ;)

I mean, if you had to work in a team with someone.. this sounds like a good way to see how they'd fit in actually working in team under a pressured situation.

You're not labelling them as this or that, or necessarily checking for 'hidden indications' that they could have some condition you know nothing about, it's just finding people that fit into the culture that you're looking to fill.

I (probably awful) analogy could be, if I go to car boot (garage) sale and find things that are good value (and/or haggle).. I'm not telling the person how much the item's worth, but what price it's worth to me/what I can afford.. I'm not claiming to be a antique evaluator.

(Update: Well, I guess I don't _actually_ know they're doing/not doing, but it's my interpretation)
Overruling a case isn’t an all-or-nothing thing. Upholding Mississippi’s 15-week ban would simply require the Court to acknowledge that Roe’s protection of elective second trimester abortions turned out to be an error that continues to defy international norms and attract public opposition.

Overruling that part of Roe doesn’t require a meandering rant about abortion rights writ large.
Ruby’s “Golf Mode”
Open source clearly does not mean packaging your own software. This casts a shadow of doubt on the rest of your valid points.
IIUC, there's a >$100k range in TC (grants, bonus, salary) - WITHOUT appreciation for L4s. It's >$150k range in TC for L6s.

If there's a ~$180k difference between the average L6 and the average L4, and the bands are that wide - you have a lot of L4s making more than L6s.

If an L4 is "Exceeding Expectations" enough to get huge grants and bonuses, and an L4 is "Needing Improvement" enough to get terrible grants and bonuses... Why is the L4 an L4 and the L6 an L6?

Additionally, everyone has different (with big swings) of how much of their compensation comes from stock vs salary & bonus. When appreciation comes into play - this has large implications.

Additionally, people working between 2-4 years often make substantially more money than anyone else at the company in their current level.
You either print and rescan and crop the edges, or you type it all out yourself. It'd be safest to never put it online at all other than paraphrased summaries. The next safest would be to just type it all out yourself in your own words, but it's pretty darn difficult to do when you've got legalese. Politico must have had reason to believe they're in the clear there. Maybe they had two copies or they knew their source got a shared copy that couldn't be traced. Journalists lose sleep over this.
I don’t have high hopes for DXM, it’s more of a deliriant less so a dissociative, imagine fever dream. Another comment states they are mixing it with bupropion which is rather stimulating, perhaps this is where synergistic effects occur.
Also, solo was always the majority of board wargamers (90% according to statistics from SPI).

Given the size, detail, the depth of the rules, the long playtime, the interest of reading or otherwise learning about the history as you play, etc., it works out well. Pretty much all wargames by the major publishers have listed a 'Solitaire Suitability' rating on the box for decades.
Bangkok? https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1520787021987725312
Commercial Crew is a development project, I don't see what the difference is.
> just folded

According to https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...

They received 186,126 user data requests in the U.S. and 252,092 globally in 2020.
wordpress.com? i mean, that's their core business, right?
Take this with a pinch of salt, but I read an anecdote on Reddit a long time ago about a corporation in New York (I think it was a bank) where an executive was looking for a new VP/Director/something. He found a potential candidate and invited him to a one-on-one lunch. When the candidate placed his order, the executive discreetly told the waiter to bring the wrong order for the candidate. The point was to see how the candidate would react to unexpected situations. Would the candidate assert himself and demand that his order be corrected? Or would he roll along and adapt to the new situation? Either choice could reveal potential qualities or defaults about the candidate.
The IRS went 3 months past promised deadline on their withholdings estimator site. I can't imagine the folly that'd be produced by them attempting tax software, as wrong as that sounds.
>Intuit will pay $141 million in restitution, of which roughly $2.5 million will be used for administrative fund costs.

A total joke. It would be better to hold a $141,000,000 lottery instead of giving out $30/house.
Depends what you're optimising for - reliable, collaborative workers, or a visionary CEO.
This appears to be for an engineering position. I doubt any of those people would do well in such a position--they're loners, not team players.
> Even if you had two collaborators who shared docs for a word for word diff, they'd still miss half the identifying bits, which reduces the potential culprit pool to 8, and that's assuming zero redundancy.

That's not really what I'm talking about. It seems like you're focusing on identifying all the exact bits that are being used to identify someone, but that's not important. What is important is the recipients figuring out that someone is monkeying with the documents in a systematic way to trace them. Once a leaker knows that, instead of leaking the exact document for publication, they'd either leak reworded summary of key points themselves, or require the journalist to only publish something similar.
I don't think the right communicating in lockstep about the leak instead of the contents of the leak points to any person in particular. If nothing else, the right is extremely good at keeping their stories in lockstep. In any case, when the majority of Americans support upholding roe v wade, it's in the right's best interest to keep the story on the leak.
So could I use this to build a personal tool to track account balances over time?
What exactly do you think I said about Julia's linters and auto-formatters?
This is a fascinating, complex topic.
Why are a group of very clever, smart people spending ANY energy on giving each other high-school level report cards?
Why does one of our best ever tech companies become focused on everything but the customer ?
I'd like to think they are dumb but c'mon, they are not dumb people.

It doesn't mean I can't feel sad and deeply upset at this is what it takes to 'succeed' at a company I have honest admiration for.

BUT; I've been researching this 'problem'; which boils down to "is a hierarchical management structure needed" for a group of 'activists' to achieve great things? So far I have found no alternatives, why do we have to keep track of our 'success' and relative worth so intensely so share the pie around?

as the top responses says; everyone needs to chill out and I'd add "try to be nice and do no harm".

The only point I have to add is that as someone who wants to not participate and does not care what "level" they rank; f### off?
>First off, most of this funding will go to a building. The rest will go mostly to an endowment.

Academic institutions are also tax-exempt, therefore don't pay any tax on the profits of any endowment or real-estate investment gains. The rise of the ivy-league schools becoming glorified tax-free holding companies, with education side-gigs, corresponds with the bloat in academic administration.

https://observer.com/2006/05/nyu-columbia-make-a-mint-on-rea...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/higher-ed-administrators-grow...
I don't get it - in the recollection, the person leading at the front wasn't getting anywhere, so someone else stepped in to give it a go. Is that supposed to be an asshole thing to do?
Acetaminophen has an active dose very close to the lethal dose, and is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States. While the daily limit is 4000mg, 1000mg is not un-common in formulations like extra-strength Tylenol.
>In a news conference after the release of the Fed's policy statement, Powell explicitly ruled out raising rates by three-quarters of a percentage point in a coming meeting, a comment that triggered a stock market rally.

This is pretty key IMO. This indicates to me (and the market) that the Fed will retain a sense of dovishness which means that if key indicators (other in than inflation) start going down too fast, we may see the Fed rethink their decision to hike rates.
I can't see any of them going for the IBM grad scheme though
Someone Hacked a Merger
Problem is, every time anything is proposed towards increasing pressure on the giant corps that employ the vast majority of people, someone pulls this kind of what-about-sympathetic-small-business-owner argument. It’s an evocative image which effectively vetoes progress.

“Sell your labor at any price you want” perspective works great as an abstract concept. But we’ve already been here many times over and over and all sorts of labor/union movements had to push forward. Somehow waitresses and diners never stopped existing.
I'm not sure it was profitable. The article suggests they duped 4.4 million Americans. They would likely still have made at least a little money off those people if their marketing was honest.

There's reputational damage too. Hopefully more people will avoid TurboTax after this news story.

I'm not sure the false advertising turned out to be a good business decision in the end.
Fly.io can host instances of whatever (any kind of Docker container, so Ghost and Wordpress aren’t hard) and has a good free tier. You can also use Netlify or GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages for free static hosting, if you don’t need anything special. Wordpress.com is pretty low effort. I think all of these can do custom domains in their free tier.
Amazon Kindle Now Supports ePub
That is interesting and I wish you luck. Another cool demo you should look at is this https://dcgi.fel.cvut.cz/home/sykorad/monster_mash.html

Sykora’s work is huge in this space. https://dcgi.fel.cvut.cz/home/sykorad/
When I interviewed at Google in 2006, one of the interviewers asked me to write code for solving a particular problem. I replied along the lines of "ok I need to think about this, it's not obvious how to solve it" and started thinking. Time ticked away. Five minutes. Ten minutes. Fifteen minutes. The interviewer started reminding me that he needed me to write some code and if there wasn't anything for him to copy down into his interview notes I wasn't going to pass the interview. (Why interviewers were all transcribing the whiteboard rather than taking photos I have no clue.)

Eventually I ran out of time, having written no code on the whiteboard. I asked my interviewer "ok so what is the algorithm for solving this" and he admitted that he had no idea.

At the time, I thought he just meant that he had no idea what the solution was; but in hindsight I wonder if the real test was to see if I would crumble under pressure and write code I knew didn't work.

(I got a job offer, but turned it down to start Tarsnap instead.)
"self hosted applications" is such a tell-tale phrase in my eyes

(this is not a criticism, btw)
I don't know... most people are too dumb/lazy to install a program using an installer or apk file.

Notice how most of the software listed is free and open source - if the end user can't be arsed to learn a few things, why would the developers go out of their way to accommodate them?

They're just not the intended market.
People Who Spy on You Don’t Ask First
Donor behavior such as this comes down to human psychology and neuroscience.

* Tribalism: Humans like people who "are like them", it's easier to relate. Thus, IME, Stanford grads prefer other Stanford-branded people. Or at least crême de la creme Ivy. Especially compared to the plebs and the proles.

* Vanity: Donors find it appealing that the structure will be around for a long time, prominently and proudly emblazoned with the donor's own name. Yes, external validation does feel good. Especially among certain (insecure) types. A truly altruistic and self-assured person makes donations anonymously.

Empire building is a popular pastime among the human species, especially those with power. The rest of us settle for something like Civ, SimCity, or sand castles.
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The time and expense of training a model at this size does not benefit well from trial and error. It's simply impractical to iteratively try ~20 different learning schedules.

Hideously ineficient and hacky to have someone manually tweaking things, but not terribly different from the state of the art for scientific research. As long as they state the objectives of their manual control and produce a log of what they did someone else could try to replicate it.
Do you need especial expertise in human psychology to see who is behaving like an asshole in a group?
I'll be AFK for the next 8 hours (GMT+1), if you have questions, I'll answer them tomorrow.
Sigils indicate what an operation evaluates to, not what the input type is. You get used to it.
If it's during an interview, people tend to not fully be themselves. Even if they don't specifically know it's an "asshole test".

So maybe this catches the intersection of "asshole" and "poor situational awareness".
Sticking Cloudflare's free-tier CDN in front of your existing blog will probably help a lot. If nothing else, it'll make a stopgap while you're investigating alternatives.
This is one of the reasons I like matrixed organizations as it allows people, over several years, to choose who they work with and encourages leaders/managers to develop effective people and leadership skills. Siloed organizations unfortunately facilitate assholes.
Having worked for one of the people in that list, I can say that yes, I am definitely better off not having that person at my company.
Microsoft Graph’s Journey to .NET 6
Next stage of interview: Sign this NDA and fix a couple of issues on our backlog and review a couple of PRs :D
The problem is Congress tells NASA do this with this money this way. NASA has little flexibility. Recently with the CLPS program NASA flexed it’s muscle and it’s paying off so far.
why does always seemed to be assumed in these discussions that alternative to cities must be suburbs? you can live in a town.
I enjoyed this darkly humorous tale in the same way I enjoy "Dr. Strangelove".
This is definitely an interesting test and the motivation is totally valid.

But I'm wondering whether I can pass if I don't speak up at all? Or just passively play along?
A "Half Round Foam Roller" is indispensable to bring rear-arching flexibility to any part of the spine. Lie on it in bed after spending hours sitting. Have it placed against the lower spine. It can even be used lengthways along the entire spine.

... can also use it while driving.
What a great way of vetting people who won't complain while working for a shitty company.
Having to use third party repos and trust the uploaders kind of misses the point of self-hosting imo
I was one of the ones that didn't play the political game right (choosing mentors, proper faculty appts etc) so my grant got tossed aside (triaged). Then the choice is to either do another 5 years as essentially a post-doc while the chairman grumbles that you're costing his department money, vs. going into practice and making double what the NIH protected salary would be for a K grant, and the choice was clear.
> In an internal memo, CFO said a "reprioritization" is in part due to an "industry-wide downturn."

Is this spin or are things really cooling off?
Do you have an example of how you did this?
Yes and no, the example that the author gives is actually a very good one:

> Many Julia APIs look like Optimiser(η=...) rather than Optimiser(learning_rate=...). This is a pretty unreadable convention.

The learning rate is a well known name that basically every one will understand, on the other hand, "η" or eta, is not even used everywhere in the literature with some papers using alpha instead.

This just looks clever, it's a pretty bad parameter name.