skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably true but the ME in question chose to go a different route probably because they deep down did not like the job. No doubt they could have retooled their skillset and kept reapplying at various places or move elsewhere if they were inclined.
It does? It's stated clearly in the third paragraph.
The whole point of this thread is that the title said 40% believe the earth is under 10000 years old. We were commenting on why the title is incorrect.
Yah. The reviews didn't even look that bad.

Nothing like getting lots of press for suing critical employees to improve your rep.
A transfer between your own accounts is pretty straightforward to declare, it's you on both sides.
Just a few days. It’s done by running an external service that joins rooms and listens for commands. We’re using maubot [1] since it’s one of the more popular ones, but it has some rough edges [2] [3] [4]. Our setup for just the “rss” plugin is dockerized and documented here [5].

[1]: https://github.com/maubot/maubot#readme

[2]: https://github.com/maubot/maubot/issues/110

[3]: https://github.com/maubot/maubot/pull/147#issuecomment-99722...

[4]: https://github.com/maubot/rss/pull/35

[5]: https://github.com/SeaGL/matrix-feed-notifications
> I hope Netflix can survive their dwindling subscriber growth. They were the ones who kicked off the streaming era

Totally agree that they kicked off the streaming area; and with those missteps, have provided ample source material in which competitors can improve on. They have successfully captured as much market as one could reasonably expect and it would be good for the market if they had an contender in the space.

Personally, I think users should be able to pass around their passwords as much as they want. Netflix can't lose revenue if it was never going to be bought by the party using the password anyway. I understand account restrictions and the terms of use can explicitly outline that it is not allowed; but I'm paying for your service, I'll use it how I want, respectfully.
It's more about setting the bar / expectation.

Coding is far from the only field I've seen this. Some guys figure they'll go above and beyond to impress the boss, or just because they want to make more money.

A good boss will obviously let their employees know what is expected - but some bosses will start to ask other "Hey, John goes the extra mile all the time. Why can't you too?"

And it sort of becomes a race to the bottom.
> Real people, right now, are living in tents in the woods somewhere because that's all they can afford.

Living in a tent in the woods isn't even that bad, not if it's a real wilderness that can provide game for hunting and vegetation for foraging. You've just gone native, big deal.

But living in a tent in a concrete jungle is a completely different situation. There's no natural habitat to be had, the resources are all locked away behind commercial gatekeepers. When you try go native in an urban center you're for all intents and purposes becoming a criminal. Instead of picking berries and killing rabbits, you're stealing from vendors and/or residents.

I don't think tent encampments are appropriate for urban centers. The big SRO buildings always struck me as the tent encampment equivalent for an urban center. But even if you make those available to the homeless, you still need to give them access to some kind of currency as that's the key required for accessing resources controlled by the gatekeepers. Otherwise you'll just have a building full of thieves.
I write at https://evalapply.org and my M.O. is Writing = Thinking.

This, I think, is almost always worth it. All the other stuff is a welcome positive externality.

For example, readership:

- I don't write for an audience, rather to sort my thoughts out, so I don't mind "looking stupid" or being wrong.

- My writing is longform, without regard to "snappiness" or whatever people believe gets content distribution in a world of chopped up attention spans.

- I don't have analytics or tracking of any kind, and so it's been such a pleasant surprise to hear from strangers that they read the blog and _like_ it!

- Also, https://xkcd.com/386/ "Duty calls" is real, and I've had the nicest conversations by being wrong (or obtuse)!

Here's how it got started... like all civilized blogging re-starts, it is a long apology https://www.evalapply.org/posts/hello-world/ :)

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edit: missed a point
This is interesting but a more accurate title would be "New Zealand law allows corporations to sue Glassdoor for user data." As the article notes:

> statements of “pure opinion” are protected by the First Amendment in America. But New Zealand doesn’t have this. Statements of opinion are not categorically protected.

That said, the warning that Glassdoor adds to the pages of companies that do this has to be the biggest warning not to go work for these companies; definitely a bigger deal than a couple of bad reviews.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220719021857/https://www.econom...
We bought a copy of OS/2 Warp and ran it for awhile; for reasons I'm not entirely sure of even to this day.

It was already clear it was going to fail by the time we did, too.
My Dad's work computer had OS/2 Warp on it, and I honestly just thought it was some kind of weird 'business' version of Windows. They only used it to run Windows programs as well, very strange lol
The first time I had it was after going into a high end fish market (quite far from my house) to get some good tuna. Saw it and it was cheap enough to take a flyer on. Was great.

Went back the next weekend for it specifically.
Just because the NSA can see it doesn't mean we should allow the local PD, DA or even state legislature to see it.
If there even is an “inside” and it’s not some kind of 1mm thick welded OLED-SoC-battery sandwich.
If I visit my in-laws house for a few days, which is a common occurrence, am I unable to watch my Netflix account on one of their TVs? It sounds like I would be restricted to only mobile devices.
> The children may have loved KidPix, but it was nearly impossible to teach with since they were fixated with the animated effects.

KidsPix was the greatest :)
> So you think it's relatively well priced with an estimated ROI of only 6%. Probably not enough upside for a fun gamble.

Sad day, because so far I'm just annoyed I couldn't get my allocation in.
Hmm, would you agree of having copies of your brain tortured repeatedly at high frequency for marketing split testing purposes if it meant you could use a very valuable service for free?
Yup. PyEnv for installing various versions. /path/to/pyenv/version/bin/python -m venv venv. Activate the venv (I made "av" and "dv" aliases in my .zshrc). Done, proceed as usual.
This is a political problem, not a technical one, so the solution is collective action, not individual action.

300 years ago you could reasonably have said, "The correct solution to the poverty of the Russian peasants is for them to move to the cities and start an industrial revolution," and you would have been right, but if as a serf you attempted this you would have in most cases been beaten and sent back to the feudal estate you came from, if not killed. It took a century and a half plagued with serf revolts and bloodshed before serfdom was abolished, and even today the Russian peasants are subject to conscription, arbitrary detention, and many limitations on their freedom.
> Firejail

I'm sure it's great but it requires setuid privileges. If it needs root it isn't ad-hoc.

> But I agree that software developers know their software the best so they should be the ones writing the rules

Exactly! You get it. pledge() is basically an App Store permissions model in spirit. It's curated and, like Android / Apple devs, the developer is thinking about what permissions they'll need to ask for at each step of writing their program. Not needing root is an important aspect of enabling that. The good news is that with SECCOMP BPF and Landlock I think we finally have a comprehensive solution for building the perfect unprivileged sandbox.
It might be possible to do linguistic analysis (ie. What they did to catch the Unabomber) to compare the language they used in the review vs how someone usually write in things like performance reviews, manager evaluations, emails, etc
What do you mean by costly?
Which BBS were you running?
So presumably there could be a very deep ball pit with smooth walls somewhere in the world that is filled with the rotting skeletons of dead children at the very bottom?
My only guess for how pubDate would affect the cost was using it to identify previously seen entries/items. If you can rely on pubDates being stable and monotonically increasing for new entries you can just remember the last one instead of a number of IDs. But that is likely an incredibly small cost.

How else do you expect to make money other than premium services? Even if cheap hosting is not free. And likely the cost of staff is by far the biggest expense of these companies. Premium literally means something that costs. The only other major business model I am aware of than charging your chstomers is to sell their data or attention. Personally I prefer the freemium or paid model.

If you are going for freemium than faster update rate sounds like an incredibly fair compromise if that is increasing the cost of serving a user. Much better than many artificial limitations.
The best correct usage of REST is WebDAV and let it die in peace.
As a CompE and EE major who switched to software after graduation like 20 years ago, EE work was also like way harder IMO. They SHOULD be getting paid more. But they don't seem to be. I switched due to low salary and few available jobs and never looked back.
you mean the dodo or auk?
The problem is we've already gotten too philosophical. Nobody has any prepubescent moral instincts about fertilized human eggs. Nobody has any empathy for fertilized human eggs. Deciding that an ethically-burdensome life begins at egg fertilization is ridiculously modern, arbitrary, and, to use your phrase, "too philosophical". It isn't a threshold born of compassion, like mid-term or late-term abortion laws are in some people's minds. It's a threshold decided on by dispassionate intellectuals because it seemed kind of parsimonious if you squinted at it just right, and then adopted by politicians and partisans because it seemed like the best they were going to get on the road to their real goal, which is criminalizing birth control.

Is there somebody out there I could read who argues that the ethical responsibility to carry a pregnancy to term begins at the moment of egg fertilization, who doesn't also personally believe that extramarital sex and/or birth control are sinful? I am genuinely interested in being proven wrong about my characterization of people who argue for fertilized-egg-morality. I have questions for them, like "how far into the egg must the sperm penetrate before it becomes an ethically significant entity?" and "do documented cases of parthenogenesis in humans indicate that all eggs are ethically significant entities as well?"
I hate when people change meanings too, but they do. What can you do about it? Complaining is like whining about all the words that have changed meanings over the decades.

https://www.google.com/search?q=top+words+that+have+changed+...

One I hate is "rougelike". I doesn't mean "like the game Rouge" (which might include Diablo and certainly includes Larn) Instead it now means any game with randomly generated levels but requires no other similarities to Rouge.
Funny, I was also just reading about this due to the post about Jim Woodring on here.
Machine learning packages like
Tensorflow can result in GB size package directories.
Donbas Doubles: The Search for Girkin and Plotnitsky's Cover Identities
There's also the angle of "we told you what kind of harmless businesses you can have, and automotive repair isn't on the list, so you can't do that even though the rules don't explicitly say so".
> If you wish to be Christian about it, can you baptize an unborn child?

No, because baptism requires pouring water directly on the child, which you can't do through the amniotic sac.

> Can you offer them communion?

No, because communion is received by eating and/or drinking it, which the unborn physically can't do.

> On what moral grounds do you deny them the basic sacraments of the religion?

The sacraments aren't being denied on moral grounds. It's physically impossible to administer them.
Insidious problems are things like sync (Google Chrome favourites, Dropbox etc.).
You might want to do some more research. DevOps is for sure one of the top paying engineering positions. I think the average salary right now is 134k a year USD.
How is The Register so good? Its thick red banner always gives me the vibe that it's just another Daily Mail type garbage pit.
Those “ad supported streaming apps” are still reliant on copyright.

Without it, why would anyone choose to view the movie with ads when they can just download it and watch it with no ads?

(Legally, since in this hypothetical, copyright doesn’t exist.)

Or are you just arguing for ad-supported viewing of content? Which is what currently exists for an enormous body of material. See, for example, YouTube.
Refer to your work laptop as your “girlfriend”.

(SV reference)
Exponential growth and finite resources are fundamentally incompatible.
What chance would said non-profit have of surviving a lawsuit like this?
Just because you keep repeating it it’s not going to come true. Lockdowns are a non factor anymore and America did it’s lockdowns prudently and reasonably. Democrats that act on evidence will be exactly those that will be successful.
There is simply much more software work to be done than hardware work. Pretty much every company running a real business has some software presence on their staff, whereas the presence of people with an EE background is quite rare by comparison.
Ongoing related thread:

WordPerfect for UNIX (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32140122 - July 2022 (83 comments)
Write your review, machine translate it into Mandarin, translate it back to English, and run it through a leet speak text filter
Only because you agreed to that. No?
> He’s not claiming that he actually didn’t know everything

Yes; he is.

> he’s claiming that Twitter lied in public filings not related to the deal.

He explicitly claims that they are deeply related to the deal.
Ah, I wrote almost exactly this! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146815

Also, I love the simplicity of your site. Cheers!
I’m sorry. I think the concern is that men’s issues can be hard to talk about. It does seem to me that many women have stronger networks.

It’s probably both, but I think the statistics are much worse for men.
Related:

How to Design Programs (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26493990 - March 2021 (136 comments)

How to Design Programs, second edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16561815 - March 2018 (30 comments)

How to Design Programs, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14932552 - Aug 2017 (40 comments)

How to Design Programs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768134 - Oct 2016 (3 comments)

How to Design Programs, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8778569 - Dec 2014 (39 comments)

How to Design Programs, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6150967 - Aug 2013 (26 comments)

How to Design Programs, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2958108 - Sept 2011 (18 comments)

How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049477 - Dec 2010 (17 comments)

How to Design Programs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=637152 - June 2009 (4 comments)
Now they need to make it easy to fish for.

In IL to do it legally, you pretty much need a boat. There is only a few places you can do it without one. It is also only certain times of year.
The most interesting aspect to me is that they were able to correlate the identities from data purchase from online markets. In a linked to article it is further described:

>Much of the information we used for our investigations could never be found in most Western countries, but in Russia, is readily available either for free or a fairly modest fee. Additionally, Russian email providers, such as Mail.ru and Rambler, and social networks, such as Vkontakte, are far less secure and privacy-focused than their Western equivalents, leading to frequent data leaks and robust search functions.

Due to porous data protection measures in Russia, it only takes some creative Googling (or Yandexing) and a few hundred euros worth of cryptocurrency to be fed through an automated payment platform, not much different than Amazon or Lexis Nexis, to acquire telephone records with geolocation data, passenger manifests, and residential data.
Also sounds like they had no idea what they were doing, since instead of missing with the Wi-Fi, SOP would have been to MITM SSL/TLS on the office firewall (trusting company root CA on all company equipment) and log everything.
It's possible that account sharing is a worse problem there than elsewhere.
AT&T is able to tell when you activate your prepaid phone what other phones are nearby. Drug dealers have been unmasked using this. They thought they did everything right but someone had a normal phone plan near their phone as it was activated and then the pre-paid phones were around those with regular plan phones. Unmasking the whole group.

The best way is buy the prepaid phone from a 7/11 type store. Wait 6 months, go to the mountains in an old non-trackable car, leave your normal cellphone behind. Activate the prepaid phone. Put the pre-paid phone in a chip bag. Hand off the phone to the person who is going to use it but they put their phone in a chip bag before using the pre-paid one. Always protect your normal phone so it doesn't unmask your "secure" phone.
Why are all the pictures young women?
Maybe it's one home at a time?
You're right, but this is still a very funny sentence that only a lawyer could take seriously. "Zuru didn't just allege it, they DECLARED it!"
There is a cost associated with the providing of the streaming, so it’s not entirely neutral to Netflix to have never subscribers using the service.
Where “this” also refers to Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Quora, Uber, Reddit etc.....
There aren’t any people over the age of like 35 who started their career in data science. Careers are sticky, people don’t like switching once they’re in one. They’re being trained quickly and I think you’re right, the salary used to be higher than a normal software dev but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
Electric ovens have a lot more material in them, and use a great deal more energy to heat your food.
Yup. Java is 27 years and has a splendid package management system (Maven Central) which is so well designed that you can use it from two different tools that are extremely different (Maven and Gradle).
Leaving aside (for the moment) the moral question of abortion after rape, the issue is this: Once it happens, can you take action to reverse it?

If someone stole blood from you, and if you take it back the person will die, are you permitted to take it back? I don't think you are. Of course most people permit abortion after rape, so you need some other kind of justification for that, but on an intellectual level, this one will not work. You need a different argument.

> We can take opposing positions on that, but I think understanding that both positions exist is required for honest discussion.

That is definitely a very interesting question. I feel you would have to distinguish between a pill taken before implantation (birth control) and a pill taken afterward (plan B).

One prevents it from ever happening, the other destroys something that did happen. To me they are different.

Also, I must point out that none of this discussion informs my position on early abortion (although it does inform my opinion on abortion later on). So this discussion is more intellectual than practical. I say this to argue with your position that this line of reasoning transformed your opinion - I strongly disagree that this is a good line of argument.
The greatest thing I ever saw on Glassdoor was our company's Chief People Officer arguing with anonymous people in their reviews. It wasn't a response they were aggressively going them.

That CPO soon moved on.
You're right, but in me experience, (I'm going to get grilled by you guys, but I'm honest, sorry) nobody is really that skilled in Linux and definitely not to support a school. I'm sorry, I've never seen someone in my lifetime do this.
Taking things less personally
I think your wording was fine. I didn’t read that into it at all. Of course you worked with folks to do them. You also spent the majority of the post thanking people you worked with.

I’ve also read your code. I enjoy it and learned a lot more of go that way.

Whatever. Thanks for helping make Go so much fun for me. I look for excuses to write CLIs with Cobra/Viper. They’re of a very few set of libraries I look forward to using.

I use Hugo for much more than it was intended for.

Heck, I wrote a CLI with Cobra around Hugo and a simple theme for my personal note taking and todo management. I was annoyed with other markdown note tools and DIY was a fun waste of time :).
When I tried learning Python, this mess is what turned me off so badly. Python is the first language I ever came across where I felt like Docker was necessary just to keep the mess in a sandbox.

Coming to that from hearing stories that there was supposed to be one way to do everything disenchanted me quickly.
It’s a great question. I don’t know the answer, but I have a sneaking suspicion. Something something Kim Dotcom? There must be some treaty…
Why not, as a taxpayer, my interest is in defense of the nation and getting more “bang for the buck” so to speak :-) instead of giant defense companies milking billable hours.
“ I am almost tone deaf—only with great effort can I carry the simplest tune, and serious music was to me no more than an arrangement of noises. So I did what I always did when trapped: I sat down, and when the music started, I fixed my face in what I hoped was an expression of intelligent appreciation, closed my ears from the inside, and submerged myself in my own completely irrelevant thoughts.”

It’s exactly how I’ve managed my way through countless dinners with my wife’s French speaking family.
Why indeed, I know how I consume media.

I support a wide range of monetization strategies and access to content by the most amount of people.
Author suggests a data store without explicitly explaining why; reason being the benchmarks focused on time, not space at scale, but the context assumes needing to scalable. At scale, HyperLogLog appears to be a good choice for managing space demands.

This paper covers analysis of HyperLogLog (HLL):

http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdf

TLDR: Calculating the exact cardinality of a multiset requires an amount of memory proportional to the cardinality, which is impractical for very large data sets. Probabilistic cardinality estimators, such as the HyperLogLog algorithm, use significantly less memory than this, at the cost of obtaining only an approximation of the cardinality. The HyperLogLog algorithm is able to estimate cardinalities of > 10^9 with a typical accuracy (standard error) of 2%, using 1.5 kB of memory.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog
Labour intensive to round them up, test them, and design/build custom circuitry to hook up a pile of dissimilar panels. Then you have a pile of near EOL panels with reduced output and reduced reliability that is unlikely to ever break even. When it falls apart there will be no money to ship them back to the landfill. So in short, it's a roundabout way to dump them in the desert.