skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that sort of reasoning rather hollow.

Yea, it’s easy to right simple fast software when you only target English, and don’t have to care about Unicode, i18n, security, or any of a billion other things modern systems offer
So, none of that actually challenges my statement - that our politicians' morals are based extensively on those of their religion, thus avoiding any conflict of interest in their mind (i.e. Who doesn't view abortion as murder?), while still creating a "tyranny of the majority" for those who don't share their religion.

Legal or not according to the intent of "separation of church and state", it's holding us back as a country.
You're asking candidates to answer questions like "What problem is your company solving?". Maybe I'm misreading your comment, but if the founder is looking to hires to answer these questions, that sounds very concerning, and probably a place I'd avoid.

Enthusiasm is great, but the founders/current employees should have an understanding that far outstrips anything an outsider can provide (unless you're dealing with someone who already has deep knowledge of a well known domain, which is a bit of a different angle).
Hello. Amazon here. I see you bought some diapers but didn't reply when I asked if you wanted more diapers. Perhaps you missed my inquiry...
Couldn't agree with this more, sadly the other missing piece is the personality required to do that. When added to the other three traits that are already uncommon to find in one person, you're talking about a very unique individual.
What I'm suggesting is that there may be a disconnect between the way companies interview, hire, and place engineers and how the companies use those engineers.

I understand that there are some employee-initiated internal transfers. Though I suspect those aren't necessarily automatically granted. What I don't see, though, is company management acting as if the engineers were all replaceable cogs who can be assigned to any project whatsoever at any time. That would be insanity, I think, because there actually is a great deal of value in experience and domain-specific knowledge and skill. Would you really want a company based on dilettantism? It sounds like — "Long time ago, details are hazy" — extreme jumps are the exception rather than the norm.

Can smart engineers learn pretty much anything given the time? Probably yes. I've learned many things over my career, and I'm sure I could learn more and different things if I were given the economic opportunity to do so. Nonetheless, I dispute the notions that generalists are somehow smarter than specialists or that BigCo assembly-line hiring identifies the smartest people. The advantage of known specialists is that they've already taken the time to learn what they are assigned to do, so the time between hire and high quality work is much shorter, maybe years shorter than throwing a smart generalist into an unfamiliar specialty.

Obviously if you're creating a new technology from scratch, there's less value in experience. But how many BigCo employees are actually doing that, as opposed to maintaining existing tech? Probably too many of the employees aspire to create new tech and don't want to maintain existing tech. Google in particular is infamous for starting new projects and then later abandoning them. (Google has the luxury of this wastefulness because it still has ye old search monopoly. Though that too seems poorly maintained, and many people complain that Google Search is worse now than in the past.)

I would say a big part of this is that BigCos such as Google are selling an ideology to current and potential employees. "We are the best of the best. Any one of us could design a whole new operating system." Yadda yadda. The ideology is part of the attraction of working there, even though the daily reality of working there doesn't necessarily match the ideal.
Nope. We meet/touchbase/connect with our remote workers all the time. Not sure what you're talking about honestly.
Maybe congress should take a long, hard look at itself and its culture first.
If you refuse to interact with anyone who hasn't managed to build good email habits you're going to miss out on interacting with a lot of interesting people.
I understood that, but wouldn't the limits also involve moral interpretations?
just ASCII characters, eh? consistent at least, I guess.
I mean healthcare and education are not a real issue for people making 250k$ since the ACA (unless they don’t educate themselves about how billing works), let’s be honest here.
Jellyfin is great... client apps for roku & ios plus a web interface cover all my devices. Minimal setup, just run it from a docker container. Has been super stable for me for a few years now.
https://jellyfin.org/
> or retract your statement as it otherwise amounts to libel.

You may not be very familiar with Hacker News. The parent issued an opinion about your behavior in commenting. Commanding them to retract it or else, isn't going to work here.
Not OP, but like any other database? Even if the database supports it, you usually should not have users directly logged in the database anyways, so whenever the database "has" or "lacks" access control, it doesn't matter.

What does matter however, is enforcing parametrized queries everywhere. Unless all the db handles you pass to the client handling code are read-only, chaos will ensure from the DDL permissions.

https://xkcd.com/327/
The Grand Canyon is brimming with norovirus, sickening over 150
Tolkien was a linguist, not a geologist or economist (his anti-industrial and pro-monarchical/religious perspective were a resistance to the changes occurring in his time), so it's no surprise that he spent so much time on the linguistics.

His formative encounters with industrialization were the horrors of mechanized warfare in WW1, after which he retreated to the cloistered worlds of academia, religion (he was a devout Catholic), and the rural countryside of England. The perspectives and protagonists of his stories reflect that personal arc as well.

He was overtly trying to give England back a pre-modern mythology that he felt it had lost, because he felt that it was a better vehicle for introducing Christianity to children than the comparatively stark biblical stories.
What are you using now? Have you tried other podcast-focused editors like Descript, Hindenburg, or Reaper with Ultraschall?
That's getting pedantic imo. The original comment acted like you either build foundational tools at MANGA or glue them together elsewhere.

Linux kernel isn't really proof of either lol.
\(…\) and \[…\] would not be without problems in Markdown either, as backslash is used for escaping, and there are situations where square brackets and parentheses require escaping.

As a simple example, if you want to write something in literal square brackets, you can normally just write […], but if there’s a link target with a matching name or you’re in an environment that may introduce a link target with a matching name (e.g. rustdoc will see [Foo] and try to find an item to link it to), you may choose to write \[…\] instead. You only need to escape one of the square brackets, but if you’ve escaped both.
The big question here would be whether the filesystem that the data file resides on is mounted on a single-disk volume or a RAID-volume (or even a clustered SDS volume such as Ceph). On a single-disk volume, if the disk dies your DB is gone (at least until you can replace the disk and restore the backup). On a sensibly designed RAID-volume, if one of the disks dies the application's admin probably would never even know. The sysadmin would see it in their logging/alerting infrastructure and replace the dead disk. There would not be any loss of data or availability of the data (just a temporary degradation in the overall resiliency). Same is true for a clustered SDS volume such as Ceph.
With social media influencers, you don't even have to worry much about the deepfakes glitching - the usage of filters is rampant enough that glitches have been completely normalized.
There is no way you will change the system other than to revoke it the way the current woke generation is trying to do.
Revocation hurts others and makes this approach anathema to them.

What eventuates is hate, mistrust, opportunism and fear.
Eventually the united states will fail because of magnified personal injury delivered to agenda that does not meet the test of improvement for everyone. Because we are short sighted, intolerant and arrogant. Like you.
Think floppier...
I don’t know about that, the hedge fund I work for is US-based and AWS can be fully SEC and FINRA compliant.

We also have a few dedicated servers, but mostly only for infrequently accessed data and logging that doesn’t need to be highly available.

I really can’t understand why this argument keeps coming up. Different solutions for different usecases. Yet anytime Kubernetes or cloud functions are discussed people come in and go like “hurr durr my single Hetzner dedicated server can do all of that and doesn’t have these problems”
>the companies feel that they can afford to "hire the best" by adopting particularly rigorous processes

And yet most people I know, when they're told they may have to do one of these inane whiteboard sessions, turns-down the potential employer because it's a moronic hoop to jump through
Given the comment I'm replying to, Chrome doesn't really disprove my point imo.
It wasn’t because it was considered homophobic to ask. It was because society was so homophobic that it put patients in a tough position to answer, even the in context of a trusted patient-doctor relationship.
You're missing my preferred option, pair program on a problem which requires skills relevant for the job. Have the candidate use their preferred tools, ideally their own laptop to minimize discomfort. Make the problem too large to get done within the time block but gives a variety of technical skills for the candidate to show off.
"because nobody who falls in to the second type can reasonably process it all"

Then hire a secretary to manage the inflow of data sent to this person, or maybe change the org structure so that the individual needs less direct correspondence. Frankly people are trying to fix systemic not-enough-time-single-point-of-failure org structures with process Band-Aids that only lower the net productivity of everyone involved.
Reading some replies here, it’s no wonder some startups go bankrupt while investing so much in infrastructure — all while not having enough users to justify more than a single dedicated server.

Scalability should be the last thing in mind if your product sucks.
What about focusing on fixing the country you’re in, rather than moving to somewhere else?

You have 50 states you could explore first.
HIV/AIDS was considered a "gay men only" disease in the early to mid 1980s. I believe they are referencing how among straight men (and women) testing was commonly curtailed because they weren't perceived to be at risk. It wasn't until 1986 that testing of all military recruits became standard.
What? This is greylisting on mental level. If I say "hi" to you and you ignore me, I won't repeat it. It's your responsibility to get your "things" together..
I'm surprised you are the only comment mentioning this. I don't have quite enough knowledge to speak up about it here but it seems that while this article is about SQLite vs PostgresQL, it's really that neither are the ideal answer in this scenario.
yeah but why does it warrant death threats? what is so threatening about my original question someone would send death threats?
Assembly language is actually simple stuff. You just need to read the datasheet. No difficult type systems to deal with.

In the old days programming assembly language was nasty because one mistake could mean your computer had to be rebooted and you lost your work. Not anymore.
>> when more than one process need to acces the DB

> Easy, you use `journal_mode` set to `WAL` when you connect to the sqlite database.

and set isolation level and check_same_thread and PRAGMA synchronous and then put all queries in retry loops because the DB is maybe locked https://sqlite.org/wal.html#sometimes_queries_return_sqlite_...

I wasted so much time trying to get multiple sqlite queries running at the same time
There’s a principle in Civics that you should be careful passing ridiculous laws/policies because contempt for one law can quickly become contempt for Law in general.

Most companies have ridiculous email policies, and then managers wonder why their reports are missing their messages. Last week I found out someone important quit or was fired six weeks ago. I asked for someone to forward me the message, and it had the most innocuous title ever.

Around here if you need to talk to someone you take it to chat, which makes it very hard to record (previously outlook had such a small retention setting that you had to take it to chat it wiki anyway). Conversations happen in email, but they’re slow and often not fruitful.
Same issue since caller ID. Force the ANI as the BTN.
Your interview experience is typical - I've interviewed 4 or 5 times at Google (never once after applying), and each time I've "failed" some portion of the prescreen script interview that's done by incompetent "recruiters"
> The Wall Street watchdog found that 49 EY professionals "obtained or circulated" answer keys to CPA license exams, while hundreds of others cheated to complete the continuing professional education components relating to CPA ethics.

So at least 49 employees shared the answer key to the CPA license exams. That's more than just an ethics exam.
To be fair, these answers aren't always obvious when looking into a startup company, especially in the early stages. I'm not even sure many companies actually have firm answers to all of these. The founders may have lofty ideas, but often they aren't very public about them to avoid tipping their hand.

My two most recent jobs I was reached out to by a recruiter who could describe the general market the company is in but actually getting into detail and nuance required speaking with someone at the company.

OTOH well establish startups and businesses almost always have the answers to these questions front and center on their website. Some basic due diligence on a candidate's part is always welcome.
Show HN: NLP API for text segmentation and per-segment title generation
PermitFlow (YC W22) is hiring a head of permit operations
PermitFlow (www.permitflow.com) is on a mission to streamline and simplify construction permitting in the United States, unlocking more value in the $1.6 trillion construction market. Our software reduces time to permit, supporting permitting end-to-end including permit research, application preparation, submission, and monitoring.

We are looking for an experienced Head of Permit Operations to lead permit research and application efforts for our multi-city footprint across project types. The ideal candidate must have experience managing operations teams. In addition, experience preparing and/or processing building and construction permit applications is helpful. The candidate should also be a strong communicator with excellent organizational skills and a flexible / self-motivated approach to business management. The goal is to support and scale the company’s permitting operations to facilitate accelerating development and long-term success.

For more info see: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/permitflow/jobs/v1HlvW....
For a year now, I began using DuckDuckGo's (DDG) "Privacy Browser" on Android. By default it removes ads and third-party trackers; no need for add-ons. So far DDG's browser works roughly on par with my older setup of stock Android Firefox plus a couple of usual extensions. I wonder why DDG's Android browser isn't more well-known.
Good for you. Enjoy not being able to contact busy people like Travis Kalanick.

I don't want to contact him, personally, but your argument is delusional and unadaptive.
Telling people they should follow up just makes the problem worse and creates more email to process.

Surely something like a contact form could put any correspondence in some kind of queue that a person could just get to as they have time, instead of just using email directly. Or having an email account just for correspondence with the public so it isn't mixed with other types of email. Then just time block some time to reply to people each week.
DOing Harm (Windows Delivery Optimization Protocol Observed and Documented)
well many of us think that the excellent ideas of computing in the 1970s (those that produced Unix) are no longer the best ways to do things, and believe that the community should be innovating much more.

a lot of those innovations are over 50 years old, now. do we REALLY believe that the Unix Philosophy is the best thing in the history of computing? past and future? really? I don't. and what about in another 50 years? how about 1000 years? at some point, many much better ideas will emerge.

that's what "post-Unix" means. the things that come after this Unix thing we're hung up on.
I love it! There's also a mobile version apparently.
Yep, we like to pull up the ladder behind us.
It's the 5 satanometer process
Spend with Ukraine
Thank you for the pointer. I've been poking at it with a fork for the past few hours, and realized I forgot to respond.
Also from the above Money Stuff post:
…Robinhood therefore did not expect and had not arranged adequate funding for the additional $2.2 billion Excess Capital Premium charge. On the morning of January 28, 2021, Jim Swartwout texted [Robinhood Chief Operating Officer] Gretchen Howard at 6:29 a.m. EST, writing “Huge liquidity issue.”
…
“Hypothetically what happens if a firm can’t meet their morning NSCC margin settlement,” an operations manager asked their former boss that morning in a text message. Nothing good!
…
As Robinhood employees worked through Wednesday, January 27, 2021, to code position limits for meme stocks, they struggled with how to frame the trading restrictions to the public and seemed to want to avoid giving their own clients the real reasons for imposing restrictions. A product manager at Robinhood Financial asked, “Do we have a customer facing rational we can provide? In response, a manager in Robinhood’s brokerage responded, “The real reason is firm risk and us needing to control the velocity of trading. …But we shouldn’t expose that.”
I've done exactly this in many meetings. It's a balance between infra costs and dev time optimizing spend. Typically ping pongs back and forth.
What's the profit model anyway? I assume spying is 99% of it.
Why, there is another effect: now everyone knows that they were cheating at a large scale. This will, to my mind, give them less business.

The customers who want their books in utterly correct shape would shun them, because the company that cheated at exams could lie both to IRS and its own customers, and nobody wants trouble with IRS

The customers who would like to apply some shady practices to cut some costs would also shun then, because a cheater who cheated and got caught is a,loser, and who wants to hire a company to do shady things and get caught?

So no, there may be enough consequences.
Not great not terrible. Analogies aren't that useful IMO, so it's cute but might not be a useful pedagogical aid.

Conceptual flaws (mainly down the line rather than introductory):

One issue with it down the line is that processors spend a lot of their design budgets avoiding carting memory around. You don't have to mention that explicitly but in my skim reading I would've (if I were writing it) tried to emphasize something more akin to a postal sorting room than a warehouse as per se.

Maybe that's too advanced, but I understood it when I was 18 or 19 so YMMV.

One interesting demo is to see how much assembly you can fit in a single memory access latency.
Housing should be an exception because it’s a place for someone to stay and necessary for survival. Food can be prepared at home, people can take public transit to get around to earn money, and entertainment isn’t necessarily required for survival. But a house is a cornerstone for building your life out, and as such I don’t think it should be about maximizing profit.
I don't have any great objection to a database that lets you store a value of any type in any column.

And if they want to say '3' + 5 = 8, I could imagine why that might be fine.

But I don't think that's a good reason to have behaviour like the above.

I think it's more likely that they wouldn't choose to do those things again today: I think this is what fell out of the initial TCL-based implementation and they feel they're stuck with keeping it backwards-compatible.
in the Netherlands, i think we have now 270 cases or so. All are men who have sex with other men. Plus one child.... o-tone radio

one might wonder how the child got infected ....
Scaling is a hard problem. I've worked at places where we used a whole network of auto-scaleable services and guess what - you will still have problems. Each managed service has tradeoffs, often ones that you only encounter once you'd made a substantial commitment to that service. There is no free lunch and you're fooling yourself if you think there is one.

Often you get lucky and the cluster of managed services you select happen to scale along the metrics of your resource use. Many people's resource use patterns are similar and the managed service people take advantage of that. This is nice! But it's a trade for downside risk: you may find that your resource use patterns differ from the 90% case and your spend goes up very fast or your scaling hits a wall.

In my experience a lot of designing a service architecture is picking where you want your complexity. Services (in or out of containers) running on VMs have a simple billing and architectural model. In my experience they form a good basis to organize your other resources around and are a good foundation to grow from.
Improving Git Protocol Security on GitHub Enterprise Server
> “Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial” on a list of things they said they would NOT act on complaints about.

Yes, that’s the problem. This is essentially the only thing that actually does come up on project forums that you need moderation for.
> The hell and chaos of real world legacy COBOL all consuming.

This is 100000% true. Any decades-old private codebase is going to be a horror show. A friend of mine works for a COBOL-based payment processor and it sounds like the seventh layer of hell working there.

More power to those that want to chase the money (which isn't really that great tbh, the mean COBOL developer brings home less than 100k[0].) , but go into eyes wide open. If you're gonna sell your soul for the paycheck, Amazon pays much better.

0: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Cobol-Programmer-Salar...
Also the FAANGS do everything in their power to make you live at work and I resent that.
today was the first time i heard of deno and i innocently asked whether it is something like AWS lambda edge.

That was grounds for:

- death threats to my twitter account

- flagging all of my comments

- justifying how i deserved it.

Just wow.
https://tinyclouds.org/javascript_containers
Where can you get a dedicated for 40?
This is true of any non-physical authentication factor, so is your view that a second factor should always be "something you have"?

As, what about web-based email systems that enforce 2FA? Isn't that a good mitigation?

Any other issues you see? (genuinely just curious, I don't mean to needle you :)