skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think some of the problems are when both or needed on the same data, or when the use case changes over time.

E.g. our customers are stored in Postgres, so let's also log their actions there linked to the user table.

5 years on someone decides we need to run analytical queries across years of 200M logged actions, joined with other data in the DB.

So now we either have to live with horrible performance, migrate the logs to something suitable for OLAP (and lose all the benefits of a solid RDBMS), or have some syncing/export process to duplicate somewhere suitable for querying.
Yes, classifying useless programs is a time-honored way to hide them from budget scrutiny. You can always insist that their usefulness is itself classified. But the rest of us can sometimes conclude correctly by what cannot be hidden.

They could ape usefulness by landing and launching it frequently, but at even greater cost.
I'm blaming cyberwarfare operations carried out by foreign adversaries, to be clear. Not some nebulous 'internet.' Targeted and deliberate actions carried out by nameable and identifiable parties.
Over the longer term tho there's a long-term trend that winter heating needs will decline while summer cooling requirements will rise (and probably skyrocket).
> Why do you think gmail strips encrypted archive attachments?

Because Gmail can't scan for malware inside those attachments?
That is how they like it: "Pay up and don't ask questions. Trust us." That has turned out badly more often than not.
I suppose the real way to win would be to add a fake hoax to that page...
I've had colleagues of Indian descent with family names of Thomas, David, and John, presumably all due to St. Thomas Christian roots.
Dramatic testimony sheds damning light on Donald Trump’s actions on January 6
Is that it, are we back at “video games cause murders”-level pearl clutching?

I’ll take a peer-reviewed cohort study before I believe that “Lego has been consistent in promoting aggressiveness”.
heh, you sure have a lot of time to write long HN comments for someone who gets 320 emails/hour. Feels like you need an assistant or two with that throughput.
> There are certainly organic humans caught in the mix, but all that antiwork, LateStageCapitalism, "America is so divisive", Marxist BS you hear repeated constantly across Reddit and Twitter is broadly manufactured far more than it is truly organic.

What evidence do you have of that?
Yeah, total comp down by 20-30% depending on how you define the "before" value of the stock (somewhat complicated by a refresher after the stock had lost some value but before recent lows). Still ~10% better than my other offers at the time I took this position and ~50% better than my previous employer, though.
> and mostly burned up on reentry due to the bad heat tiles

This is not true so far as I know. If you have some source documenting heat damage to the orbiter I'd love to see it. I believe that the Buran lost about half a dozen tiles on reentry, contrast with STS-1 which lost more than a dozen. In fact, the maiden launch of Columbia was actually delayed over a year because when transporting the shuttle something like 2000 tiles were lost on the flight - subsonic on the back of a 747.
Will cover the existent technologies that preclude vulnerabilities being exposed via cyberattacks. More recent technologies have made a lot of headway in protecting Python applications. Runtime application security (RASP) and interactive application security testing (IAST) have opened the gates to protecting sensitive data and PII, and ultimately writing more secure code. I will go over the various scan tool options available and the impact of cyberattacks should Python users not heed the warning.
You might get some helpful ideas over at /r/HomeNetworking/

Lots of rewiring questions asked and answered there.
Surely there is a Matrix to Maildir thing or something you can use, now that it supports Matrix. Duh. /s
The Soviets didn't copy most of the design - actually Buran is a completely different design from the Space Shuttle. The Shuttle had a big tank attached to it at the start, but the main engines where part of the Shuttle. Buran was launched by an Energia rocket (which was planned to eventually be reused like Falcon 9) and the main engines were on the rocket, not on the shuttle.

My wife's dad worked at NASA in the 60s, 70s and 80s - he was appointed to be the manager of one of the Apollo missions that was later cancelled. According to him Congress told NASA they'll partially fund the Shuttle program and NASA can ask the Air Force for any extra money required. Air Force involvement ruined the Shuttle, as the military wanted to have options to use the Shuttle for military operations (such as stealing Soviet satellites out of Soviet radar coverage, dropping nuclear bombs from outside any ground defense range and launching the Shuttle from military fields).

The other thing that ruined the Shuttle was NASA was not able to make any real improvements to it. The initial design had a lot of shortcomings and there was never enough funding to improve it.
For many recession means a higher risk of being laid off.
Or maybe, just maybe, the whole 'donation' thing was a plant, a mockup using then-current tech, to make people believe exactly that: that the NRO somehow was decades ahead in their sensors/mirrors game.
Too long ago, I had written a lunch-planner as a joke to mock how much time we were losing by discussing what to eat at the office (and it even was used in a non-sarcastic way, to my own amazement), and I used meteor because it just worked.

2 years ago I wondered if it still works, installed meteor, did an update and voila! It worked, just million times faster to build and much more responsive: https://github.com/egeozcan/lunchplanner/commit/91541a637531...

Even the built-in account system still works!!

Of course, it's not a serious project but I'm just very positively surprised how great of a DX Meteor has.
That's the stated reason, but it isn't the one I believe.
Of course its orbital maneuvers are a matter of public record.

If it was "meant" to be stored in orbit, that is another way of saying it is useless as something that was sold as re-usable.
Part of being a child. My daughter would not be seen dead with a Barbie (a doll anyway, she really enjoys the other kind).
You could have just said you don’t feel like working out
True. But Idea Ultimate works surprisingly well with JavaScript and very well with Typescript including react code, etc.

It's so much easier than going through NPM noise. Just auto fix and in 95% of the cases it's just what I need.

The JetBrains IDEs for other platforms have almost the same level of capabilities. I also worked a lot with xcode, its not nearly as good as AppCode but it's still an improvement over trying to build iOS from the command line... I did that a lot and that isn't a pleasant experience in the least.
My companies stock has fallen nearly 50% from it's peak this year. Leadership originally told me they wouldn't do anything when I pointed out average rent (I am single) was rising over half my paycheck and that my stocks had fallen greatly. I went all the way to HR with it, even demonstrating that under these conditions their new target software engineer was required to be married to another high income earner in both the Bay and San Diego. HR could do nothing. Eventually we had a town hall with hundreds of complaints, sometime later the CEO sent out an email saying they were raising our salaries 20% (which is still nowhere near market) across the entire company rather than addressing issues in specific markets. I'm turning in my notice after my bonus period and accepted a position with a substantial increase in base, stocks, and bonus pool. The position is also remote, which is another thing my current company told me will never happen.
Check that all 4 pairs of wires in the Ethernet cable are connected at both ends. CondoInternet had a number of cat5 buildings where they had only connected two pairs and simply recrimping the Ethernet connector got you gigabit.

Syncing at gigabit on Cat5 is common, even if a spec sheet says it's not l.
That may be the case, but still keen for a source referencing that particular usage…
> What evidence do you have of that?

What evidence do you have that's not that case?

See, I can write a throwaway comment too that adds nothing to the discussion.
> You know how people get fooled into logging into a fake site who's domain is one character different than the authentic domain? A password manager doesn't help you with that

It does though, since it will refuse to auto fill.

But I get it. Still not as robust.
12 years
I believe we have to view from the context of how most sites do auth, which is email + password with an 'email recovery' for the password. This is effectively the same thing with worse UX and an added attack vector of the password for the site being compromised.

The point on password reuse I agree with, but flakiness here is that there do unfortunately exist dodgy sites without TSL and without password hashing and salting in place. This overall increases the probability of a breach and since re-use is common the supposedly secure sites become vulnerable too. At least with email, most major email providers have some level of securing the email (example 2FA involved when attempting to login from a different device).

If the comparison is between email magic links and a site that offers email / password with no recovery at all or "secret questions" as the means of password recovery, which I haven't seen in years, that's a whole other debate all together.
LinkedIn accounts are useless, except as a way of containing all the HR/Grind culture people.
Let me tell you about my crazy experience with Meteor.

The year: 2015. I had just graduated from Dev Bootcamp in NYC and was desperately searching for my first engineering job. I came across a job posting on Craigslist for a startup that sounded promising. It was one of the few interviews I could even get. They told me next to nothing about the job, and literally nothing about the product, except that it would be built with Meteor.

The whole interview process was the weirdest I’ve ever been in. The two founders brought in four candidates (myself included) into a single conference room and told us they were going to hire two of us. They then went on and on for an hour telling us about how successful and genius they were, and that they were going to be building something 10 times more successful than Facebook. The whole interview was essentially a lightning round of JS trivia questions (type coercion edge cases and such). First to answer correctly got a point and so on.

Naive me, I remember building out a whole Meteor project trying to impress them. They took about three weeks to tell me that I had gotten the job and they were ready to tell me what the product was, I just had to sign an NDA, get it notarized, and hand deliver it to them.

Before I could deliver the NDA to them, they told me the terms of my offer—$13/hr at 20 hours per week. No benefits or equity, obviously. BUT, I would get 1% of any profits.

Making minimum wage in NYC with no potential for upside gain was not in the cards for me, but it did drive me to learn about Meteor—a technology I wasted about two months with before abandoning because no one in their right mind was using it.
Theres a lot of that unfortunately.

For example, when discussing foreign trends he's similarly sloppy, acting like "I searched Google a bit and this is the first I found". But rates went up in Brazil in 2020 — this had substantial news coverage at the time — and it doesnt take long to find this:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/20/homicide-murder-violenc...

I also don't think it's reasonable to expect psychosocial effects of lockdown issues to just pop up immediately in March 2020 like a light switch.

I'm not really convinced the effect wasn't there but I'm also not convinced it was, and think Alexander was being a bit too armchair about the whole thing in a way that made me wonder what else he was missing.
Today the Shuttle is largely regarded as refurbishable, not reusable. Reusability was the goal, but the SRBs actually cost more to recover and refurbish than to just spin a new casing, and the orbiter was so thoroughly disassembled and inspected after each flight - including disassembling each SSME - that no definition of reusable for any other product would apply.

That said, it does seem that at least one of the X-37Bs actually is reusable, in the sense that that it seems to have no major disassembly occur between flights. But it is so closely guarded that we really have only hints, not facts.
I was excited to read this as someone with a mathematical background and is now an engineer and software developer. However, I think this just calls out all the open questions about this style of consulting and doesn't answer them. How does one get clients, how does one keep a steady income, how to invest for retirement, how does one convince clients you have the right skills, how do you know you have the rights skills, etc.?

Also, there are conflicting answers in that he wanted better control over income than traditional employees but then later says income can be infrequent, saving is hard, and payments come late. I have none of those issues as a salaried employee and also have retirement benefits. He also mentions that finding work is no harder than finding employment but then later said that finding work is harder than doing the work.

> Clients often need to have a conversation with someone who thinks like a mathematician. This means carefully defining terms and focusing on the largest ones, making implicit assumptions explicit, knowing when an approximation is or is not good enough, and so forth.

I love to see this mentioned, but in my personal experience, this has not been valued at all. I have tried it and discussed it, but nobody has appreciated it. This is really what domain-specific design tries to get at in software engineering, but almost no one practices it.
That's just plain wrong. Energiya/Buran was a fundamentally different system from STS, and only had a superficially similar look, as the silhouette was the only copied part to conform with party requirements. For one, the orbiter was a separate autonomous spacecraft with its own fuel tanks and the main engines, not an integral part of the launcher. It used LOX/RP1 - in orbit! - for both RCS and main engines, with larger dV budget as a result. The control system was absolutely different. Etc etc etc.

The Buran design process is pretty well documented in general, and a lot was written about it. The original starting OS-120 concept was pretty much a verbatim copy of the layout and high-level decisions of the Shuttle (they didn't have the "NASA plans", they only had a layout and open data), but they a) realized they couldn't make the SRBs as they used liquid fuels for ICBMs and didn't have the production capability for such large diameter solid rockets, and b) their own additional requirements crept in. So the design evolved over time into an entirely different one.

>NASA caught on (with help from CIA) and implanted falsified heat tile formulas, which the Soviets copied. Their first Buran only flew once and mostly burned up on reentry due to the bad heat tiles.

The heat tiles used a different material, and it didn't burn up, so this makes little sense.
That's an interesting extrapolation, but you do realize exercise itself releases the same endorphins as opiates?

Sure, you do go through a form of withdrawal once you stop doing it, but it has nothing to do with opioid abuse.

Same thing makes fast food "addictive" (unnatural levels of salt and fat), caffeine, and capsaicin (peppers).
Agree with this. I don't see why you cannot add 2FA to email based login flows.
Is Maus in bad taste too?
What's a good easy way to get caffeine without coffee?
Precisely. Also, no internal network. Employees shared data by passing floppies back and forth.
Who quits their job before finding another one?
Recently I've added some rather stupid ones, for reasons that should be obvious:

1. Describe your git branching strategy

2. Who releases software, how (is it packaged / deployed), and how often?

3. Do you have dev/test environments?

4. Do you keep configuration out of your code? How? Example: IaC.

5. Describe a typical incident. How do you find out about it, who gets the first alert, how does it get resolved and how (do?) you follow up afterwards?

6. What does the oncall rota look like? Follow the sun or (immediate end of discussion) 24h?

7. Do you have superheroes (people who have been around since forever, that everybody says "well I hope <superhero> doesn't get hit by a bus, because then we'd be really effed")?

8. What is the engineering staff turnover for the last 12 months? What about for the team I'm interviewing for?

9. What are the top challenges facing this team (and wider engineering team) right now? (Not only within their problem domain, but outside it, eg communication, coordination, outages, observability, direction)
They had like 300 million people population and for a long time were the country training the largest number of engineers every year. So yeah a small percentage of these engineers did turn out to be brilliant.
When you make a claim, the burden of proof is on you. Uncovering the fact you have no evidence actually contributes to the discussion in my opinion.
I struggled with that phrasing because it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to describe a class of people capable of judging the problem but who wouldn't be biased in some manner. I'd readily submit that no human could determine the difference, but I'm not ready to pay the testing costs...
> How would Hong Kong look right now if the population were lightly armed?

Let’s be honest, if they were armed and gun ownership weren’t already against the law, the Chinese government would sweep in and pass a law that day and start going door to door, seizing weapons, take the people from their families and send then to reeducation camps. It wouldn’t forward their cause at all.

The word “civic” is odd here too (I recognize that your comment is about the intent of the parent comment’s argument), because the opposite pole to political violence is… civil discourse. There is an unavoidable incoherence to the idea that gun ownership is about civic responsibility.
Glibc strings functions are ok, but not great (but one-size-fits-all is hard, and for all I know they could be fine here).

While 512 bytes seems like a lot, the core loop is likely 4x unrolled avx; that is 128 bytes per iteration, so only 4 iterations. And it probably tries to align the dst, so annoying dispatch overhead (which you could avoid by working in batches of k at a time, eg k=4 for double floats and avx in the general case).
Poster said Lego has been promoting aggressiveness, not that it has caused aggressiveness. It's undeniable that Lego themes have drifted a lot more to violence (Lego City is half about Policing), plus all the Ninja and other stuff.
what do you think structural typing is

The concept of "duck typing" is pure dogma from a python user [1].

[1]: https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/247391#History
Exactly my sentimonies. I have an iPhone, and this seems nice, but it if makes logins a PITA on my Linux machines, I’m out.
Apple didn't own the eWorld infrastructure, and at the time they couldn't afford the bill they were getting from GE Information Systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld

In reading that Wikipedia article, I was reminded that another online service used by Apple morphed into AOL. I had an AppleLink dial up account as the tech support lead for all things Mac at work. It wasn't marketed as a consumer product.

Another native-like front end for dialup service at the time was "First Class", which could be self-hosted by any provider. The Berkeley Mac User Group BMUG had a great FirstClass BBS.
> a fully-automated landing was theoretically possible (the software was there, but it was never fully tested on the real Shuttle).

Actually, the only hardware missing for a fully automated landing was a relay to deploy the landing gear. Later shuttle flights - maybe only one - actually carried a wiring harness that _could_ have been configured to enable remote / automated landing gear deploy.

That said, landing the shuttle was a challenge and an achievement. No pilot would give up the opportunity to perform such a prestigious landing. And the shuttle commander was always a pilot.
Yes, down 30% from my original offer TC from about a year ago. Meanwhile, new hires are getting offers 15% higher than my original offer.
I’ll likely leave this year unless the company does something about it.
If it were truly a bus, these signaling rates would be totally impossible. Too many reflections.

In practice it's a bunch of point-to-point links, but even then the path across a PCB is pretty brutal in terms of loss. Cables are (surprisingly to me, initially!) better.

Overall though, sending some number of additional bits for error correction is often cheaper than driving the line harder to reduce the bit error rate.

Put differently: we could manage lower noise, but it would either result in a lower bitrate or (much) higher power. Instead, pick a target goodput and design for power and error correction from both sides.
I don't consider RSUs to be monetary compensation that's guaranteed; I see them more like the bonus that's written into my contract. Thus, my evaluation of pay is based pretty much on base salary. Has the bonus via RSUs taken a hit? Yes. Am I still earning well above the national average? Yes, about 2.5x. Could I find another job that would increase the base salary? Eh, maybe, maybe not. I haven't job hunted for over a decade now (which goes against the general HN view on job tenure), because I don't need to earn more than I currently do - I have a job that I'm comfortable in, and do things I enjoy with autonomy.
> I'm pretty sure polling also shows most Americans have some nuanced view on this that sits somewhere in this range.

People, in general, usually have pretty nuanced views. Altough, I personally have seen quite a few cases where people became more hardlined on certain issues after seeing the "oppositions" behaviour on it. (Anti gun people being more hardlined after seeing that pro gun ones go to the range with their kids, for example.)
Did they visit the secret Nazi base on the Far Side of the Moon? /s
No they really didn't. The Soviets, North Vietnamese, and North Koreans all detected and tracked the A-12 / SR-71 planes during operational missions. They didn't know all the details, but the existence wasn't at all a secret to our adversaries.