skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of this issue is, change.

What did it matter, 30 to 50 years ago, if things were public. Public how?

Well, sure it was public knowledge about home ownership, but you'd have to fax, or call, to get the info! And a person would have to do the work of a lookup of paper files. And so often there was a minor charge, to pay for that bit of work.

Maybe even long distance phone costs(fax), or shipping costs too!

So sure, it was public knowledge, but not usable in some sort of mass exploit. And beyond that, people performing mass exploits encountered people at the other end too!

So people would notice a change in behaviour, strange things happening en mass.

Sure, "a dude" could pull tricks against an account, but hundreds? Millions? No way!

So legisltion, and behaviour needs to catch up, and embrace the differences today.
Thanks a lot for the thread. If there was a link to a PDF/docx document, then it seems to have been deleted. I am unable to find it at least.
You're being exploited. You've been worked to your limit. You probably share some blame in this but you're certainly not the one profiting from it so the key thing is you need to stop for a minute.

You need a break to re-evaluate. At least two weeks without work before you even bother trying to sort through important questions like who you are and what you want. Once you've relaxed, you can start to ask the heady, existential questions that it sounds like you've been putting off for a while.

Try asking for some extra vacation from your employers. If they won't give it to you, and you can afford it, ask for unpaid time off.
I gave the OP another example of a deadly and yet widespread virus, HIV.

He is not completely off the ball, though. Our immune systems are rather good, so (with significant exceptions like HIV) if some virus doesn't kill us quickly, we tend to clear it out of the organism or at least get it under control, so it won't kill us at all.

Viruses that are very deadly but take a long time to kill you (thus enhancing the risk of transmission), like HIV, aren't very typical.
Not necessarily. The implementation changes. For example, riveting has largely been replaced by welding. It's unlikely a riveter today would be able to match the skill of a riveter from yesteryear. Given an arc welder a person from the golden age of riveting would be unlikely to match the skill of today's welder.

Even if we don't lose the knowledge of how to do these things, we often lose the ability to put that theory into practice with the same level of skill.
>And this was the AEC

May I ask how you voted? This seems to be an irregularity. When voting in federal elections in Australia you should only be asked for your name, address, and whether you have voted before in the particular election.

There was a bill before the federal Parliament to introduce voter ID, being the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Voter Integrity) Bill 2021 (Cth). This bill will lapse given the change of government and is unlikely to be reintroduced by Labor.
Hmm, seems like nothing changed in Czech city bureaus. It still looks like this...
> For example, take a trip to Walmart where you purchased things that cross like 3 or 4 categories.

I'm still waiting for the next step in these apps, where I connect my account to Walmart/Amazon/Target/etc and it can do item/category breakdowns automatically based on the actual line items in the order.

Otherwise, I am with you. I use a much simpler system without categories but I manually enter every dollar I spend right when I spend it.
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I'm still gonna call them JSON objects.
I'm actually in France, but I agree with travel being great. I haven't traveled as much as I'd have liked to, and I have committments that make travel more difficult than when I was in my twenties.

For me, personally, volunteering in a small association has had a life-changing impact to me in a month.
Completely agree with this! As an aside, I was actually on a concorde plane recently, there's one at an airfield museum not too far from where I live. the thing that stands out to me is how small the interior is, compared to even a 737. It really feels quite cramped!
Long lived organisms tend to procreate less. If you look at fertility of humanity right now, it is obvious that countries with the lowest life expectancy are experiencing the biggest population booms. Long lived nations aren't even sustaining themselves.
Is that like a static member? Truly, dynamic languages are God's curse upon the Earth.
This is my fear.
Some non-Javascript frameworks (e.g. Jackson for Java) offer an object model to represent parsed JSON (e.g. TextNode, JsonArray, JsonObject).

When talking about those objects, e.g. while pairing over some JSON migration logic, I’ve found it helpful to refer to them as “JSON objects” in order to distinguish those from the native object model of the language.
The fact is this is not how life is for many, many people. A lot of us go through phases like this, I have, but we move on.

For me, the way to stop thinking of my life as a burden was through service to other people. It gave my life value, grew my self respect and made me into a person another human being could grow to value and love. You can do this by first cleaning up you own life so you're not a burden to others, then by taking on responsibilities. Help and support your family if you have one, volunteer or participate in clubs or activities actively, take more responsibility at work by supporting your team and doing the jobs nobody else wants to do.

The one thing we're all responsible for that we can't blame on anyone is our attitude. Even in the worst circumstances how you choose to respond to it is up to you and nobody else. Start small with easy choices. Clean your apartment, take out the trash, wear clean clothes, do a bit of exercise, get a haircut, phone your mother or a loved one or friend, and work up from there.
Docker took the decision to pick Go when it was at version 1.2, hardly that much proven into the battlefield.

In 2014 unless we are talking about Ada, there were hardly any better alternatives to C++.

If Go is so much better, why does Python eco-system keeps using C++ instead of Go for ML libraries?
French people can be quite special with the accent and pronunciation, though. For some reason, it's the language where I've had to work the most on the accent and pronunciation to get understood. You can speak weird english and people still understand what you say, but weird french will get you nowhere.
The doors are huge!!
Just my two (oversimplified) cents:
Technology has always been created to free humans from hard work.
This has evolved from early primitive tools, over mechanisation, industrialisation and automation.
Yes, i know, nowadays profit is the main driver for technologic advancements, but this is rooted in the monetary cost of human work.

So it naturally converges to a world, where humans don't do any hard work anymore.

I know, this needs some huge global sociologic shifts (looking at you, greediness) as well and more than 10 years, but in the end, this progress and it's end state is not threatening at all.
And those shifts will have to happen sooner or later, since it's far from only software developer's jobs, that are threatened by automation.

The 'problem' with many developers is, that a lot of us actually enjoy what we do, making it seem less as hard work.

But look at it this way: In a world, where most of the jobs are automated and a global system of machinery supplies earth's demand for food, you'll have plenty of time, to do the things you enjoy, like learning how technology works or writing code without GitHub Copilot.
Why do you think those areas are restrictive with their zoning? Because people wrongfully want it that way. A developper is focused on making people and equipment work, not on being a provider of good zoning laws, and so won't fight against those tides.
I came cross tagatose in this article [1] about the company Bonumose [2], which has been attempting to commercialize a production process.

Their efforts were hampered by some drama — some shady grant fraud involving a key Chinese researcher, with subsequent litigation — which is the premise of the article. But another problem with tagatose, historically, is that it's difficult to scale up the process, which requires processing yeasts with exensive enzymes, to commercial levels. Bonumose claims to have solved that problem, but it's still stuck at the patent licensing stage, from what I can tell.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/11/1048913/inside-t...

[2] http://bonumose.com/
I don't understand why Americans don't do direct bank transfers, they're fantastic. And with SEPA Instant Credit Transfer, it's even better than ever. I have a secondary bank account in Germany (N26) and if I transfer money from my Finnish bank account to it, I get a push notification from the receiving bank basically a second after I push "Confirm" on the transfer UI.
> If the consumer law says the winner has to pay the fees, how can such a clause be legal?

And if it's not, you're back in arbitration...
They probably were divided into non-overlapping horizontal sections - it doesn't seem there is a way to go around each other horizontally, so it would be super inefficient if they had to always make way for each other
Circa 2005 or so I had perfected methods for running large numbers of web applications on a server, which mostly involved being disciplined about where you keep files, configuration, etc.

Most people aren’t disciplined though.
How to maintain open source projects without pain and suffering
> 2) with time I've grown fond of my accent and wear it as a distinctive badge. Most of my English speaking, European colleagues do the same. Everyone has their own and it makes part of our personality.

I like that. My acquaintance used to have to peel the girls off him.

I have a very strange accent, that has been stepped on, by many years of traveling.

As a child, I had a British accent, then, I lived in Maryland, and got a slightly "Southern" accent. I have lived in New York for the last thirty years, so that has also affected my accent.

Plus, I have a scratchy, high-pitched voice, anyway (vocal cord damage, as a kid).
Death Wish Coffee has been using robusta in blends with arabica for a decade because of the higher caffeine content.

https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/blogs/coffee-talk/the-rise-o...
German here. Israel is totaly off limits here. The report of AI that stated the situation in Israel is apartheid was seeen very negative here.
You cant critize Israel here without consequenz
The most interesting thing about the go vs rust debate is that it happened. In hindsight it seems abundantly clear that they aim for entirely different fields with negligible overlap, almost as if you'd lump together tennis and golf because they are both ball games with a somewhat upperclass bias ("how different can they be? And I hear polo is the same but with horses!").

But back then? Yeah, I was kind of expecting one of them to "win".
What do you mean? I don't do Python, but I know of at least three Python web frameworks: Django, Flask, and FastApi.
Interesting that there wasn't any failsafe mechanism to lower you down gently if power went out.
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Germany seems to have partnered with all the wrong countries lately. Russia, China... what's next? Iran?
There's a similar surprising += 'problem' in JS. If you have the following code:

async function totalSize(fol) {
const files = await fol.getFiles();
let totalSize = 0;
await Promise.all(files.map(async file => {
totalSize += await file.getSize();
}));
// totalSize is now way too small
return totalSize;
}

You get an overly low totalSize. It's caused by 'a += b' expanding to 'a = a + b', and the double-mention of 'a' creating a concurrency issue. If '+=' were a single operation with the right-hand-side being calculated first, it wouldn't be an issue.
> If the code is yours, then absolutely. If your code depends on other open source code, then probably (but double check).

Not sure what you mean, almost everyone depends on open source libraries these days. My project is not just gluing several os libs, if that you meant

> Check out Signal and Pythonista.

Pythonista look like a onetime purchase. Signal is majorly donation based and it is non profit AFAIK.
My opinion is that these languages are an utter waste of time and will not see mainstream adoption (notwithstanding that members of these languages' communities derive a lot of pleasure from writing software in their respective language, hence why you see lots of "X rewritten in Y" posts on HN). 99.99% of all software should not be written in anything resembling either C or C++. The future of software development is not "a more user-friendly C" - it is a "more user-friendly Python" (or some other high-level language).
Yeah, I didn't do a good job with the propertywebbuilder landing page. With propertysquares I paid a lot less attention to the landing page and found I was getting much better engagement!
If you have a standalone application, then great, maybe docker doesn't add a lot

Maybe your application requires xyz lib to be installed via apt or something similar

Now docker is useful, as it can maintain that environment easily

Now imagine you work in a company with many different teams, and just want a similar way of deploying all services without requiring knowledge of how the application dependency tree looks, just use docker everywhere.

That is why imo you see docker used in places it doesn't really offer a benefit, because a standardized way of deploying is a benefit in itself.
I am not in the same country, but indeed, I have to go legal to enforce noscript/basic (x)html for the online services of my administration.

In my case, asking nicely, like in this case, was a huge fail.
Except that if the company did what it was obligated to do under the contract there would be no lawsuit, and if there was one the company would win.
The truth is on my side; state-sponsored ethnic genocide is absolutely happening in China. The fact you think it's there's still an "if" to be discussed is a bit concerning - it's a bit like saying "If the Holocaust really happened..."

The rest of your comment doesn't really make much sense to me. I'm criticizing hunglee2 for making such a vague comment which serves more of a dogwhistle than anything rather than actually articulating his opinions.

He later lets on -

"In relation to this story, one of the key artefacts evidentialising the claims actually is contains traditional Chinese characters. A comparator would be if CIA document that uses English spellings, a significant incongruity. To a Chinese reader, this would be obvious but of course the audience for this was Western market"

Which is almost comically poor reasoning. Without even calling into fact how poorly written and wrought with errors his comment itself is, imagine if all it took for American citizens to doubt the veracity of any of the Clinton or Trump leaks were a few Commonwealth spelled words? It's just such laughable analysis. As usual, what you see is just more deflection and water muddying from pro-CCP commenters who are in denial about the crimes their government is committing.
Docker helps with two problems DLLs dont:

1) what if I want to run your app on my Linux server and I dont have dotnet set up. I dont want to deal with installing and maintaining dontnet. And I dont trust your setup script

2) You want run a database and message as part of your application, and they aren't dotnet.
Hang on, you are going to penalise someone for taking time off to get clean... presumably on the basis that it's better they come to work hiding the fact that they are high, than that they get help?
I think that's an oversimplification. Do stakeholders have lots of input? I'm sure, after all, I also wouldn't build a product without asking potential end users what they really wanted. But with something this high profile (and with an actual chance of passing, unlike most bills in Congress), I'd guess that Congresspeople are actually personally invested in their priorities that are in the bill (maybe those are partially written by industry, maybe not).
>> The problem is that when you realize you're deceived, you empty the thing of it's value, and you move on with your life.

Tell that to Nickelback fans. Or every 12 year old girl who thought Green Day was a punk band or Maroon 5 was a rock band. They pass on into their 20s and don't think back. They've never heard good music and that's the end of it. Now they're 40 and humming along. Not to get off topic here, but since you bring it up, music is the first place that programming people by computer has been manifest for the last 20 years. And basically no new music has been created since that wasn't a deeper iteration of what was already known to sell. Movies are only about 5 years behind the music industry. Books are just catching up, and art and code are imminent.
Good point. Persistent brain fog shouldn’t be taken lightly, it might result from underlying (treatable) health issues. Regardless of what career I chose, the ability to focus and think clearly are fundamental to my personal quality of life. I would search for answers if I found myself struggling to concentrate effectively. Must agree with the people saying, “Look after your health first.”

To the OP, sounds like you need a new job, the current one is not meeting your needs. Don’t be afraid of change, sounds like your compensation is unlikely to be significantly lower, and there’s meaningful possibility of upside in terms of job satisfaction and career development. You need quality mentorship, which appears to be lacking at your current employment. Your manager’s role is to help you get better at your job.

Without focus and confidence, it’s hard to imagine becoming highly skilled at anything. At the same time, realistic assessment of where you currently stand in your skills is vital to improvement. That’s where solid mentorship can make a major difference.
My apologies, I think I was mistaken. The contract is here: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1476573099902611457

You're right. It says "Each will separately pay their own counsel fees and expenses." I was focused on the part that said "Company and Contractor will each pay one-half of the costs and the expenses of arbitration." Wouldn't a $50k judgement be considered an expense? I suppose not, but it's all quite confusing for non-lawyers.

The 50% clause was confusing enough that when I went to someone for advice, they mentioned that it would limit my upside. Here's the full advice I got from them. (They were relaying what their father said, who is a lawyer.)

> He said $10k is a little small to bother recouping Bc you might burn thru 20% just retaining a lawyer + covering half of initial arbitration fees

> And arbitration—if it happens, and if it’s extensive—will absolutely burn thru the rest

> He said your best bet was a friend or young out-of-law-school kid without a crazy hourly rate to help out, make a few calls, make sure the company is willing to move forward with arbitration

> But, if they are, it might not be worth it…

> Unlike mediation—where a neutral third party tries to guide the parties to a resolution before arbitration—arbitration is adversarial, involves a legal decision, and will require things like discovery (surfacing all the relevant facts + documentation etc.)

> He said arbitration can be as expensive + complex as regular ol’ litigation

> Grain of salt from a non-Washington lawyer who probably did most of his work in a different scale / context, but in case it’s helpful

> Your agreement says you half to cover half of arbitration costs, separate from your lawyer, unfortunately. Some agreements split cost disproportionally between winner + loser, but this one doesn’t (I think, skimmed), and even if it did it would be a risky / ambitious gambit
Not looking for legal advice but: how does that work in the context that the other party is recording my call? If I phone a service provider, they tell me calls are recorded for training and monitoring purposes - does this prove they've given consent to both parties recording?
Why don't you take a moment to open a computer architecture book and just start reading and solving? Or read and solve through a discrete mathematics book? Knowledge will help you straighten up. Then try leetcode again with your new insights.
You can run multiple (.net or other) services that are required by a project or application suite and manage it in a generalised way.

For example a database container a application container a web server.

Maybe you’re confusing docker with something like flatpak. .Net applications AFAIK are already simple to package and run so the benefit there is limited.

Context I’m a web engineer.
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Yes, that's absolutely a good point worth repeating - Google is obviously under no obligation to publish anything or make any demos available. They can keep their research entirely proprietary if they want. There is maybe a question of whether this is what their researchers imagined, as many were brought to Google partly by the promise of being able to do their research in the open. But that's their problem.

The link you posted seems to reinforce my point though. It's a reimplementation of DALL-E, not anything done by Google. That seems to be how it goes, everyone tries to duplicate the OpenAI work even though Google's models are (or claim to be) more advanced. The mindshare value of making their demos available appears to be phenomenal.

Is it reproducible - well, only for flexible definitions of reproducible. If you try to follow the method in the paper and don't get results as good, is the issue the method or that you didn't follow it well enough? You can't follow it all that closely because they often aren't detailed enough and the training sets are constantly changing.

The issue here (for Google) is a bit different. If they were keeping their research proprietary because they wanted to turn it into a product and sell it, that's one thing and totally understandable. It's very expensive and needs some way to financially justify the cost. Their justification is quite different though and raises questions about their whole AI initiative. What's the point of creating SOTA AI trained on the internet if you're afraid of what people will use it for? Their efforts to make ideologically acceptable AI don't seem to have worked yet, nor has OpenAI been embarrassed by abuse. So OpenAI is powering ahead here and everyone talks about their models, whilst Google's languish in obscurity. Like, Scott Alexander is talking about the limits of DALL-E 2 that Google claim they already solved, but it's irrelevant because Scott can play with DALL-E and not Imagen.
How to you deal with resource allocation (memory limits, cpu limits, etc.) ? How to give a different IP address to each application ? What if an application fails and starts filling your disk space and thus impacts others ?

Docker, and the tools on top of that, can make these problems easier
I don’t understand how it works. It only has one jack. What do you plug it into? How do you get any audio into the earphone AND record both sides of the call? Or is it just like any microphone and you have to put the phone on speaker and basically record the ambiant audio?
Because DLLs are old and Docker is new.

DLLs have the unmistable stench of C++, COM and deep plumbing around them. Docker smells of json-over-http and familiar things.
> The producers describe your appearance next weekend as multimedia, which is a great cliche. If you speak and hold up a picture, you're multimedia, aren't you?

Ah yeah, the 90s. We got our hypes of AI and blockchain and whatnot, they had their multimedia and hypermedia