skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better to hire generalists who can relentlessly dig through problems while under time pressure, and maintain emotional equanimity. These are the people who will figure out Kubernetes, even if they don't have prior experience. I've been through a hiring process where they tested for that, and I'm stealing that method.
Ah, I'm glad you shared! From what I've seen on books about game design, I really like it as well for its blend of psychology and design, and well, games :-)
People said he bandwidth for internet video would be insane. Give it time.
Surprisingly I was at a party in SF with a bunch of Apple employees. Somehow some topic came up and I was like "I don't do anything personal on my company laptop. I especially don't look at porn". All 6 of them said they used their company laptops and phones to look at porn all the time.

Wow
Nice article, however, I disagree on a couple of things :

- "Plateform MLE" is juste regular Devops and Software Engineering. It's not because we're dealing with models and their accuracies that it is fundamentally different from what uses to be Devops before. We don't need to make a "special" title out of everything in Data Science.

- I still like to introduce "MLOps" into the conversation, thus making it special, and infringing the rule above. Oups.

- over fitting slightly on recent data, without accounting for gaps in modeling, is likely to lead to dire situations. See also : March 2020, when all forecasts went bananas. And , no, retraining at that time did not improved the situation. That's what the MLE was talking about here : > “I know it’s not really addressing the data drift problem,” ; they were right.

- Everything about data and model drift is just the tip of the iceberg: What happen when your model ends up in production ? It will start affecting the behaviour of the very thing you're trying to predict. A prime example of this on the retail markdown case : did you sold more of that article because the product was rated better (as qualified by the marketer to compensate for lack of control over markdowns), and the in-store stock was higher, or did your markdown on that item had the effect you were looking for and the rating was actually okay ? Did the sales went down this markdown season because your model had a perfect but unattractive markdown strategy last season ? This is already very difficult to model properly, let alone trying to measure their contribution to the drift. Good luck with that.
With physical products, design is a cost center not a revenue center. They want to pay next to nothing for the design, and then just churn out pieces. You'd think they'd want to pay more for a design that then costs less to manufacture, but it just doesn't work that way. Cheapness all around.
Or more likely 4 viewers in your household, such as different children watching different things simultaneously.

To stretch this to entire different households sharing passwords was never a reasonable interpretation.
Young people know how to take screenshots though
Permission to Sell FOSS in the Microsoft App Store Restored
Someone will be along with an e-meter soon to test how you're operating.

Good old L Ron. Whatta guy.
I can't make any sense of that. Is it saying that since unskilled jobs are important, they don't exist? Remember that "unskilled" is about how many people are capable of doing a job, not how important it is that someone does it. Anyway, if you object to the term "unskilled", then pretend I asked this instead: "Haven't wages for jobs that require neither completion of college nor trade school, and for which all required skills can be learned on-the-job, more than doubled in the last 2 years?"
I run a Tor middle relay on one of the 8 IP addresses I have purchased as a block from a certain ISP that allows you to, I have been for around a year. The amount of traffic passing through it is heavy. Obviously, this comes with certain caveats (the middle relay's, or any TOR relay IPs are publicly available and published weekly on GitHub and as you can imagine, some places like to instant ban anything to do with TOR).

Since it is only 1 of the 8 IP addresses; the other 7 remain free from blockages of any kind and the one running the TOR middle relay is setup in a manner in which I can use it normally (for the most part) and my traffic would just "blend in" with the normal tor traffic passing through it.

You might ask, what is the purpose of this? Well, if it is normal for a lot of TOR middle relay traffic to be passing through one of my IP's on a daily basis, plausible deniability becomes a real defense as checking DNS logs becomes a moot point as there are requests being routed 24/7/365.

Edit: https://hacky.solutions/blog/2020/06/06/operating-a-tor-rela...

This is an excellent, detailed, and in-depth guide of the process of going through running a TOR middle relay. The statistics provided and data presented are simply superb, Great read!
Here's the thing, i probably use netflix 1h a day at a minimum but this is really outrageous. I mainly have netflix to watch shows while driving to work and for my parents and my little siblings, otherwise i wouldve already canceled.
Can’t you hash the email and then store only the hash? If your hashing alghorithm is heavy enough you could easily figure out that a review is already posted, but brute forcing the original value would be impractical.
Thank you for correcting me. That is indeed what I meant.
I misread the title and thought it said "Secchi desk". I thought it was going to be about some innovate/unique style of desk.
Electrical Engineers also work in semiconductor design, nuclear power, RF, and a whole host of other domains, none of which are child's play.

>For a SW person, heck, there is always something that must be mastered, and pronto. Unless a SW person can kick back and write COBOL all day, there is much more to learn and apply to problem solutions. SW is fundamentally more demanding.

Surely you jest. From what I can see the "always something that must be mastered and pronto" is simply javascript kids justifying their inflated salaries by rewriting their codebases in new frameworks every few months only to rediscover bad solutions to problems that were solved a decade ago.
How the 'Justice League' Snyder Cut Was Driven by Bots and an Ad Agency
I have an MS ECE from Georgia Tech and did embedded systems for the first 4 years out of school. The pay was terrible, promotions were rare. So I left.
> Why Are Good Managers Good Writers?

>

> [Every trivial thing except commmunication.]

It's the communication, dude!

You know what else they're great at? Presenting. Public speaking. Ad hoc improv because that is management - making sure everything will be ok no matter what happens.

I agree with the title-ish, in ways the author would not assert, though.

I claim "Good Managers Write Goodly." Not well. If they did that, they'd be tech writers or speech writers or . . . any kind of writer, really. The point is to communicate what you have to and not sweat the rest.
David Sinclair wrote in "Lifespan"[1] that scientists were baffled by the longevity of people in France. They investigated regions all around the world where it is more common for people to be centenarians (passing 3-digits age) or supercentenarians (110 years of age).

Okinawa? Green and yellow veggies, seaweed, tea, mushrooms. Overall anti-inflammatory and antioxidant-rich diet could explain extended longevity.

South Korea? Rice, noodles, tofu, fish, meat and veggies. A lot of fermentation.

Barbados? Fish or meat with veggies. Dishes with multiple salads.

Portugal? Fish, pastries, veggies and some wine.

France? Cheese and wine. Fat and alcohol. Some fish and veggies, too, but with a lot of cheese and wine.

If I remember correctly, France kind of screwed up their idea of "healthy diet is crucial to longevity" as they considered high cheese intake to be far from healthy dietary habit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_%E2%80%93...
> Where do I begin?

I could picture you taking a deep breath before you wrote what came afterwards. I just wanna hug you and cry man! I've been through so much shit because of Azure's weird behaviour at work. Ruined weekends, Late night troubleshooting cos Azure is weirdly broken somewhere and this is not just isolated to one service. I'm talking about databases to app services to AKS to Azure Functions, Blob Triggers what the fuck not. I've had to do weird workarounds for issues which should not even be issues in the first place. Most of the production issues I've had with a fairly fairly complicated clusterfuck of a project was mostly Azure related issues. I don't even know what to think anymore!

> I went to the lengths of writing a Log Analytics alert to trigger

I've done this lol. Not for the date issue but something else.
Why can't you do a 404 + message?
a deadbead dad doesn't even provide for the family. that's different.

i mean this:
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/are-modern-fa...

the average mother spent 54 minutes a day caring for children in 1965 but 104 minutes in 2012. Men do less than women, but far more than men in the past: their child-caring time has jumped from 16 minutes a day to 59.
It seems like he overlooks the possibility that the bot issue would turn up evidence that Twitter's executives knew that it wasn't quite following the described protocols.

But more generally, my point was that Musk could allege something that could create an MAE, and then the stock would drop and they'd end up arguing about whether the drop was due to the evidence, or due to the evidence's impact on people's belief that the deal would go through.
>To paraphrase a professor of mine: “there are people who’s goal is to climb to the top of the world and those who’s whose goal is to build the world. Be careful not to confuse the two.”

The new goal is to have enough money for gas and healthcare while also paying off the student loans.
It doesn't really seem like a "hustle" thing. You have the choice in working one of two quite similar jobs, in quite similar fields, but one of the jobs pays far more.

You also may have a friend who's already made the move telling you to join.
The average person knows it is not reasonable to pay for a service then share the password with multiple households.

For Netflix to ask you to stop seems a perfectly reasonable ask regardless of how you label it.
A specific example of a massive underbid would be the 99 year lease on Chicago’s skyway. Which was $1.8 billion for a 99 year lease which was not just profitable every year, but after 10 years they sold the remaining 89 year lease for 2.8 billion.
Anti-drone laser weapon hub to be created in Scotland
> You could reasonably extrapolate from bodies like the EU and think there is a chance we end up with a single global order that doesn't include war in the future.

How, precisely, does one extrapolate from the EU (of all places) to a one world government? The variation across the world in everything from cultural and religious norms to even technical approaches to solving problems is extreme, and it has been like this since forever. The genesis of the EU seems, in my view, an evolution of American dominance of the continent after WWII. Is that what you mean? Further American influence tends to encourage (or coerce) countries into further integration?

I’d put the odds of any of that happening on a global scale at approximately zero, because there actually have been globe spanning empires in the past (multiple iterations, in point of fact), and they all collapsed or shed their empires when it became clear ruling it was no longer in the interest of the Sovereign or the Subjects.
> ...understanding of kinetics of мetabolic system probably better way forward.

Completely agree.
Hacker Liberates Hyundai Head Unit, Writes Custom Apps
* Use
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Fixed that for you
Remember Zeit Now V1 (Vercel)
When the CS pay is double EE pay, if not more, it's a non-starter.
Let's assume you make a platform like that.

What prevents it from becoming just another surveillance platform?
Of course there's a fine gradient. But, still. No personal information about some individuals should be spread by individuals.

That's the duty of the state and laws and prosecution. If you're a predator, the society should be warned about that. On the other side, the disclosure destroy an individual's life completely and even more than that.

You won't even give that one human being any more chance for a change and a fresh start. It's like life time prison - you can't live or move freely anymore.

It's the case in the US and that is more than archaic - people can change, that isn't taken into account at all.

And.. I'm talking about severe criminal doings.

What we have here is "you lie to me. I destroy your social life"

Punishment, whatever flavor it might be, should be based on laws (consensus), judicial decisions and prosecution ONLY by the state/police.
All other, open up doors to defamation out of resentments or things like "he don't like me"..

So.. anyone could be a victim.

The cases you mention. You report that one to state authorities. They check the laws. If there is a problem, they'll handle. One possible punishment could be to prohibit that one to use social media/apps. Comparable to the prohibition to be somewhere within 500m near to a kindergarten for sexual predators.

.. self justice should be punished, too.
“£84 drones”… “anti-climatic”… FFS BBC
Thats a really bad justification, if their edge depends on spying they shouldn’t exist
Technically, the nozzle provides thrust in the hot gas path. Point taken though. In jet engines, you're correct, most of the power is robbed by the turbine. :-)
Same thing could be said in 2007.

All of the goldbug quantity-theory-of-money folks were screaming about Greenspan holding rates artifically low for so long -- both before the tech bubble in 2001 and up until they started to delicately raise rates after 2003.

Once the real crash starts to unfold it may get bad for awhile, but once the Billionaires start getting worried about it they'll hit the monetary gas pedal again. SWEs will mostly weather the storm, and even if it gets bad enough that a lot of them lose their jobs (particularly at the margins), it'll still all come back.

Which is to stay that the Fed will definitely not stick to their guns once something significant pops.

(And your analysis kind of shows that there will be significant pain because everything has been built up around the interest rate environment that we've had post-2009 and trying to create any kind of structural change there will definitely cause a crash -- And the Fed works for the Billionaires so once they start to feel the pain then policy will reverse)
Hey thanks for letting me know! That's great to hear. I'll keep an eye on it.
Yes. exactly like that one.
But it’s not - that was a global map, this is a local selection of an extreme event. Even if the papers thesis is correct, that average plankton counts are collapsing, there’s no reason to believe you won’t continue to see variances and even extremes.

The writing and language used aside they’ve found something worth trying to verify. They collected a bunch of samples from a lot of places and expected to find a lot more life than they did. This is concerning because it could mean some dire situation reflecting on the health of the entire earth. Seems like reasonable research that spurs further research, but I think if their observations are consistent with future research this would be a pretty serious situation.
It's a reminder to use encryption and the darknet for any leaks.
Which countries don’t allow a company to monitor activity on company equipment and company networks during company time?
Quinn is in LA. They just don't like bothering with international shipping.
Until the first case when an employee sends death threats from your company laptop and you need to provide the data to the police to help in investigation.

Or the first case when some shared credentials get compromised probably from an infected computer and now you need to find which of the 80 laptops is the infected one.

Or the first time employee converts his laptop into a wifi access point for the office girl upstairs and unknowingly lets her inside your companies private network.

Of course, there are workarounds and better practices for every example. You can solve it without admin access to laptops and network request logging. But company property is not anonymous either with or without full admin access - so why jump trough the hoops to not have it?
Same, I miss Cheme and actually doing work on physical systems. But applied DS is more lucrative and so much more flexible in work location. DS is way easier although the stats and programming does throw many people off
Dependencies across different language ecosystems exist (for eg Python stuff often depends on JavaScript stuff for documentation, or C libraries for faster machine code), it is convenient to encode them all in one package manager format. Repackaging ecosystem libraries is pretty much automated these days but still exposes you to the internals of each library since you need to do QA on everything to get it up to Debian standards first. Once things are in Debian you get an entire community of QA too, checking for new build failures due to changes in other packages, notifying you of new security issues etc.

https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticPackagingTools
I believe the book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24693022-date-onomics talks about this at length.
Yes, it is normal for entering undergraduates. They haven't yet gone through several rounds of weed-out courses. Most of them will end up changing majors to psychology, sociology, and education.
> If the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns and gets rates up, and keeps them there, it will be unsurprising to see "hard" engineering jobs be valuable again, while all the CSS people suddenly can't find two pennies to rub together.

I was under the impression that "hard" engineering isn't as financially attractive to investors due to the long payoff period as compared to web software. In that case, won't high interest rates actually hurt "hard" engineering due to a greater discount being applied to future cashflows?
Yes but the rest of the world doesn’t convert volcano lava into blocks of aluminum to export energy.
Seems like the authors have something against marathon running.
Deterministic, yes. Calculable, no, because you can never know the precise initial conditions, either for statistical mechanics reasons (classical) or uncertainty limits (quantum).
I've heard some pretty simultaneously funny and Orwellian stories about this, mostly about people being fired for looking at porn using work laptops and the specific porn they were looking at.

Don't use work computers to look at porn, your employers already know about it.
Even if the company was Facebook?
Can you share more details about how that hiring process tested for that? I'd love to hear about it.
I recently made a very stripped down XML to JSON parser, specifically for parsing RSS feeds, for a react native project:

https://xnacly.vercel.app/blog/2022_07_18_rss_parser
Lol, it’s insane that they offer cheap and somehow reliable cloud offerings though that whole companies rely on.
> it's what you would expect from a group of largely white, upper class, me

If you try to see everything through identarian lens, no wonder your picture comes out skewed.

> No matter when a life begins, the posters here on HN feel they will largely be unaffected

So, you think we should shut up about it, because it's not for us to discuss such things. But you, yourself, do not. Because it's different for you, of course. You brought us the revelation of us being (statistically, because this is the only thing that matters) of wrong race and gender, and thus you are the exception from the rules.

> vast political project that is underway, a project that cares not for philosophical arguments, because it really cares about control and obedience.

Oh, you mean like we're being censored on every social network, deplatformed, fired from jobs for saying a wrong word at a wrong time, locked down, forced to surrender control of our movements, what we put into our bodies, what we wear, who we do business with, how we speak, how we teach our children? Constantly surveilled and monitored, and continuously gaslighted by our own government? Yeah, I feel you, I don't like that too. Not sure why you mentioned it out of the blue, but that's bad, I agree. But I have an idea. Maybe a bit less of power centralization would allow us to fight this control and obedience project? I mean, if the guys in control of it didn't have the power to tell the whole nation what to do - maybe they could demand less obedience and exercise less control? A wild thought, I know.
There are interpretations of quantum mechanics in which it is deterministic as well (google search term: block universe).
As a Brit, I am screwed then.
Well, you’re not really giving concrete examples that check out.

> This makes it sound like he designed the mongodb query language.

While I suppose spf13’s LinkedIn page could all be made up, it backs up the claim being made—that you quoted!—which is that he led the team, not that he was responsible for the design. Also, while “user experience” is pretty squishy, nothing suggests he was talking about whatever crappy Drupal web site you think is crappy.

> MongoDB user manual? You mean the book that Kristina wrote

I presume you mean Kristina Chodorow, who wrote MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, which is not the user manual. Again, the LinkedIn page could be entirely banana crazypants, but it says he led the technical writing team, which would have been responsible for the user manual.

Your post has a very, um, personal ring to it, like you were part of one of spf13’s teams and thought he was a bad manager, or maybe came in after he did and “cleaned up his mess.” (Something I’ve found happens virtually any time someone in that kind of position leaves any company, since “mess” can mean “actual mess” or “thing that worked fine but accumulated a lot of technical debt we are now stuck with”.) Maybe he ran over your cat. My point is, nothing you’re pointing to as evidence of him being “a total liar” appears to actually be a lie.

Also, I’m sure he’s sorry about the cat.
As an example, the MMORPG "Elder Scrolls Online" [1], uses Lua as the interface and plugin ("addons") language. This allows feature-rich, very useful UI modifications such as "Bandits User Interface" [2]

[1] https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/

[2] https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1643-BanditsUserInterfac...
> 2: Don't use a DB. Use human-readable text files

This is interesting, can you elaborate? Do you mean like CSV files, or some JSON structure, etc?
As someone who has implemented S3 (TL for Cloudflare R2) I’ll choose to disagree that the RESTfulness of the S3 API is a resounding success. Just go ahead and try to write the code to route requests. So many features are likely excluded just because Amazon couldn’t figure out how to jam it into HTTP verbiage.

So sure. S3 is implemented on top of REST but I’d much rather pick a proper RPC protocol. The only reason to stick with REST is that there’s an entire ecosystem around intercepting it as the lowest common denominator (proxies, reverse proxies, caching, browsers etc). If all of those spoke something more modern (gRPC, capnproto, etc) we might be better of. Certainly it would be simpler to maintain and evolve these code bases.
Snow Goggles
> A lot of people, if not the majority (because it's mainstream now), don't realize we no longer live in a society with liberal values of truth, freedom, justice, and equality

I think I missed that history class. When was society ever truthful, free, equal, just?