skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's generally not true. Try banning <insert specific race here> and see what that gets you.

I can't speak for other countries, but in the US you are free to ban any race you like from your private residence for any reason or no reason, with or without explanation. A business has different rules but its not entirely "private" in the eyes of the law.

Also I don't know where you live but were I to insult a biker gang and get beat up in the US, I would not be expecting to be compensated outside of very unusual circumstances ( the "biker gang" is composed of dentists and doctors ) you simply aren't going to be compensated by anyone for something like that aside from your own private insurance (maybe). Even if you sued this biker gang and won, collecting it would be difficult, the justice system might include restitution of some sort in the sentence but it certainly wouldn't be "a bunch of money".
I was one employee of Orange at that time and was specifically asked to leave the company (I didn't), Lombard was a very fat guy who couldn't stand for a long time, he was used to make crude jokes about young (female) engineers, he was paid ~12M/year but often complained it was not enough. Clearly I was not impressed by his intelligence with respect to previous managers like Michel Bon or Jean-Jacques Damlamian. But I think things must be seen in context:

- It is not very different to what happens in other big companies, see recent statements by Google's and Meta's CEOs.

- The demography is important, we employees were mostly recruited in the 1980' in the Direction Générale des Télécoms, at that time one third of DGT's employees changed of job because of introduction of computers and automation (42C, etc). There were no social problem at all (none of the famous French strikes) even if new jobs were much more demanding (sale people)

In 2005, we employees, were ~50 years old. We were married, divorced, our parents were getting old, grand parents were dying and our children were in their late teens, most of them without jobs. This was not an easy time and the prospect to loose our job was a serious stress.
i am a naturalized american who used to have a different passport most of the life. I've pondered who I would support in a hypothetical war between the countries. I haven't been able to resolve this.
Stop fooling around. It's time to get hardcore about software. With Microsoft.

And no phone calls, please. If we like what we see, we'll call you — Microsoft
For those interested in this topic but who would like to see it explored with greater remove from present controversies, there’s a ton of great academic writing from the mid-20th century by historians and philosophers interested in looking at science primarily as a sociological phenomenon with cultural consequences rather than just as an epistemic tool for making inferences.

Among many others, Thomas Kuhn makes for a great introduction to stepping back and looking at science from that sociological perspective, and Paul Feyerabend — respected but controversial - anticipated exactly the sort of challenges we see surfacing today.
In verbal communication, you use the negative form of the verb in question instead.

In computer dialogues you see いいえ, also if im not mistaken people say いいえ when they are flattered.
> if I operate a pawn shop

Tornado Cash is not a company and nobody operates it. It is a privacy protocol.

Better to say “If I am a HTTPS”…
> But in a situation with onlookers the bull-headed 'winner' will gain a reputation for being aggressive and unlikeable, while the the 'loser' will seem reasonable and professional.

I like this angle, I'll try to observe if it's actually happening in my context :)
I think the fatal flaw is that there is no upgrade path towards sanity. If I start from a jupyter notebook or a script or whatever, it's trivial to build upon it. In Excel it's just an endless descent into madness.

All those funky features are just bandaids over a fundamentally wrong abstraction.

We have to acknowledge it's pretty much the only real tool for citizen developers out there, and as such it deserves some credit. But I don't really think it has any real advantage over $(your favorite scripting language); if you are proficient at coding I don't see why you would implement anything nontrivial in Excel given the choice.

The truly infuriating thing is that it wouldn't take much for spreadsheets to become literal 10x magic, but it's one of those path-dependent things. Sad.
Probably you get paid to not have those differences with your boss because everyone rowing in the same direction is better for the company.

Generally in an uncertain and urgent context picking a way of doing things and sticking to it is better than the distraction of debating how it should be done.

A very real possibility is that your boss feels the need to be involved because there’s a likelihood they will be around when you are gone.

My advice is to do things the way your boss wants them done without the friction of your personal opinions getting in the way.

Sounds like you are being managed.

Good luck.
Is there a way to do the variable assignment inline? I mean, it's nice to have an overview of all of them, but it would be neat to get them in there by just "tagging" a cell (preferably textually).
> Why do you think they only arrested this guy?

Because he was working on something specialized, where he was in effect a supplier to a single customer. Thus, he's turned into a ready scapegoat.

You can't easily scapegoat someone if their pieces of code (or ideas) are also used, say, in every browser for securing connections, or whatever.

If you're closer than arm's length from some people who are engaging in criminal activity, an in particular doing exclusive work for them, you are prosecutable.
There's the old joke, the CFO asks the EM, "what happens if I pay for all this training, and the junior engineers just leave afterwards?" The EM replies "OK, but what happens if we don't train them at all, and they stay?"

To the larger point: I'm very much in favor of hiring junior developers, but there's a limit - I find you need at least 2-3 mid+ developers for each junior, ideally at least one senior/staff per if you want to do a good job of mentoring and development at the same time. Since the industry has grown exponentially, it's impossible to hire proportionally to applicants and maintain this ratio.

I am counting down the days until our recent senior hire is fully onboarded and comfortable and we can open a junior position again.
Unlike Western countries like the US, hugs are not part of the daily postures in Japan, even between family members - Most moms don't hug their children in normal circumstances for example. I think that's part of why these Japanese anime creators treat it as special and magical.
App Store? Limiting browser choices on mobile? iMessage? FaceTime?

None of these are relevant to how people en masse interact with the modern web?
Are dogs food?
Arctic populations used to have low cancer rates. Nowadays its up, especially lung cancer in males. Maybe this reflects the cold climate, but heated housing (and tobacco use) have negated the historical benefit?
Xlookup exists

CSV of all types can be imported with power query.
Domains do not point to protocols. They point to addresses, to systems.

Any protocol can be used to talk to a system. They are all equal.
Do you have any links to, or can you share any more information about "modern" haskell? What's different?
The parent comment is actually quite accurate (disregarding the FAANG acquisition - that's definitely not our plan)

We chatted to a lot of developers when we started building Supabase - all of them loved Postgres, but when we asked what they were using a large portion of them chose Firebase, because it was so much easier to get started with. They even knew that they would need to migrate away from it at some point.

So that became our goal: make Postgres as easy to use as Firebase. We're starting to shed the "firebase" positioning now. In the mid-term, you can think of us as an "open source RDS alternative", and eventually we'll be more like an "open source Aurora alternative" (with some extra bells-and-whistles)
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The article doesn't state that "astronomy" as a whole was invented by Galileo, but rather that the moon itself was never studied scientifically until his time. That's a patently false statement that requires dismissing the millennia of Indian observations and research on the moon. I'm pretty sure we could make similar arguments for the Middle East or Asia.

It's like when they teach that everyone thought the world was flat back then. They didn't. That's a fairy tale. Some people thought that, but the idea that the Earth was in fact round was not a shocking finding to contemporary people.

Likewise, geology as a field may have begun in the 1800s, but you wouldn't claim that no one tried to study any aspect of the earth before then. And if you did, I would describe that as being at least ignorant of Eratosthenes. (Actually, no I wouldn't, because I almost certainly wouldn't have thought of that precise example. But I digress.)

Is the issue that "racist" just seems too harsh of a label for what may be a simple error? One can definitely argue there is a western bias in claiming Galileo as the starting point for studying the moon. Maybe conflating "western bias" with "racism" is a step too far.
RFC 4180 came too late. I think CSV is more commonly taken to be just a general description of the data, than a reference to a particular standardized spec (I mean it is notorious for ad-hoc implementations, right?).
>They are usually real-world demonstrations.

To the degree that it's a reasonable thing to ask in terms of time, it's hard to argue against asking someone to demonstrate something that they'll actually be doing on the job. Certainly I don't think, in all but the most extreme cases, that anyone would argue that there don't need to be auditions for actors or musicians.

When I was an IT industry analyst, we did ask for writing samples. At least one of the big firms did require at least some candidates to prepare a presentation on a topic and deliver it. (This is an example of a sub-industry that has very few formal requirements and people come from all manner of different backgrounds.)
Is the emphasis of what will cause the damage more about the incompetence, or about more purposeful nefarity from the eg. ulterior motives?
What makes you think this isn't exactly the direction that supabase is going in?
Actually it's really easy. It works in exactly the same way we did it with cash. You wrench attack and punish those that don't comply and the rest will comply willingly. Of course if 10% of people decide they don't care about the law anymore you have a problem anyways but we're not there.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344757244_Dos_and_D...
Or it's just a GIF:

$ wget "https://c.tenor.com/bD9vHNiR1rQAAAAd/boom-mind-blown.webm"
--2022-08-12 09:39:06-- https://c.tenor.com/bD9vHNiR1rQAAAAd/boom-mind-blown.webm
Resolving c.tenor.com (c.tenor.com)... 142.251.46.225
Connecting to c.tenor.com (c.tenor.com)|142.251.46.225|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6381102 (6.1M) [image/gif]
My UI is almost certainly more “serious” than yours. But it was started in 2004, long before frameworks were invented….. Just saying vanilla is not nearly as difficult as people think.
> the critics often lack field-specific skills and technical expertise

> (in "diagnostic criteria") Lack of track record of field-specific skills and sufficient field-specific technical expertise

So it's a closed club: "You're not one of us, so you're not allowed to criticize us"

> (in "diagnostic criteria") Argumentum ad populum: claiming, without evidence, that most scientists disagree or believe the work is harmful

Almost everyone on both sides seems to do this. Claiming that there's a "scientific consensus" usually only means that contrary views are refused by the leading journals.

Real consensus only emerges over years or decades. The big bang theory only became consensus when all the other theories had failed.
The 'compare and contrast' case is that of not a single HSBC employee or executive being arrested for helping the Sinaloa drug cartel launder over $2 billion in profits.

> "Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as ‘the world’s local bank,’ the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. And yet, a decade ago, the same bank was hit with a record U.S. fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for ‘drug kingpins and rogue nations.’"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61349754-too-big-to-jail
I can't speak for the industry as a whole, but for me at my particular company in my particular role, it's been 4 years of not just grind, but boring grind. And since the pandemic, upper management has continually made decisions that affect our ability to do our jobs negatively, with either no explanations or BS explanations that don't actually make sense and are just trying to use politics to toe the company line. In short, we as developers are hired for our ability to think through things logically and find why things don't work and how to make them work, but upper management expects us to be okay with broken policies without any logical rationale. With all that, and a recent crunch as we started bleeding devs (partly as a result of those policies), I need something fulfilling in order to be okay with the added anxiety and pressure... and there's nothing fulfilling about the job.
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It sucks to do these assignments but I can't whiteboard to save my life. I've gotten my best jobs by wowing the interviewers with my take-home assignment.
This bothered me yesterday when news broke. I'm surprised that more people are not discussing the lack of follow-on information here.
> think a simpler explanation is that they have good reasons to believe that this guy was doing more than just the stuff you're trying to defend

This isn't a simpler explanation than the even simpler one that goverments have decided that cracking down on crypto is a good idea for a wide variety of reasons, and are executing on this decision. The way governments do this kind of thing is by starting to prosecute people who they think they have the best chance of willing a case against. This doesn't mean the case, ultimately, has merit, just that they've decided it's the most likely success.
This is a main reason corporations choose Delaware. Fast predictable outcomes to litigation.
I actually agree, and think there's probably a clear need here to provide for a market that's underserved. I do think it's odd to categorize this as inclusive though.
> "Have you stopped beating your wife"?

The correct answer to this perennial bad riddle is "only because your mom got jealous".
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Yeah, may as well do away with the concepts of offence and defence and just call it fighting.
Yes, but when are they fixing the regression in character spacing when mixing unicode and non-unicode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
The thing is, there is nothing in that book that insults anyone.
There are a lot of young entry-level help desk technicians that know how to do basic Windows troubleshooting. If you need an engineer to get involved in a tier 1 support issue, that's really a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not looking for a AAA studio. An indie studio is fine with me (in fact, preferred). I know what my minimum salary is to afford my bills/mortgage/food, and I'm not greedy beyond that :)
Interesting. I've done a lot of reading and I've never heard this.

There seem to be a lot of hypotheticals here. The Russians were pretty incompetent, plus it's not clear the UK would have taken them up on it.

But could be.
It’s a public company. They don’t give a shit about wasting money.
After the npm sabotage fiasco I was worried we would see this in the pyPI space.
It’s just a function of public markets having no alpha.

Reckless spend in the private markets makes it this way.

Crypto is the next stage. Excess supply with nowhere to go.

The sad part of it is that there are now a million startups with no real tech or distribution advantage raising easily simply because of how the markets are.

Hoping the macro climate changes and we focus on real innovation (unlike one click checkout and hoodies)
> You need a different centralized, permission controlled, and auditable solution.

So, Access? ;)

But seriously, I really miss "PC" databases, Clipper etc.; Would often fill niches between spreadsheets and webapps. (Airtable etc. are trying to do part of that, but I'd say that's more a symptom than a solution)
What a great book. It has been my go-to ML textbook for almost 10 years now, and I have bought several copies of it over the years, for workplaces and for friends. Great to see it freely distributed. And I highly recommend owning a hard copy for more thorough reads.
It is when the burnout is a result of lack of creativity :)
That's why I use Emacs and org-mode, it's been there in the open for 40 years. I expect it to be there for 40 more.
They prescribe the hardware, so that's not an issue:

> So, instead, GitLab demands that its employees use either macOS or a Dell Linux laptop.

Hardware compatibility is easy to solve this way for companies.
I built a hospotal in Nome AK.

I'd never been in such cold climate - even growing up in tahoe... Stepping into the cold air and feeling your nose hairs crystalize is a weird feeling - I can imagine huffing a cigarette in that cold... but I suppose ? the cigarette may warm the air slightly?

It was -40 F on typical days in the winter months - and there were Inuits who would stand outside the back of the old hospital and smoke in minus 40 degrees. and looking like any place else outside. There are a lot of heavy smokers in that area it seems.

(The hospital had a drunk tank for the alcohol problem in the tribes, where they dont arrest you for being drunk, they throw you in the tank and one has to deal with tribal council for such matters. It was important because very often people got too drunk in the cold and pass out on way home and freeze to death.)
It certainly is an ideal if not a legally protected right. Before slaves were free, they could still say “freedom is a human right”.
So something like "It isn't here", with the qualification that "here" doesn't quite express the contrasts available?
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Rick and Morty [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwEubkHY8-I
Google Sheets REGEX* and QUERY kick ass. I don't want to use PowerQuery, I want to use formulas.
> BlackRock can't print extra bitcoins

BlackRock can't print extra shares of the components that make up the S&P500 that most mutual funds/ETFs invest in either

(I realized after you were alluding to the US government printing USD, not the stock market)
i read a story on HN recently about someone having left a `nohup yes > /some/efs/mount/file.txt` type command running, and not noticing until the bill came due...

since then, I'm totally on board with pre-provisioned storage. at the very least, some way to put an upper bound on volume size (maybe efs has that? not sure.)
So you and the author define both 'class' and 'derogatory' very differently from me and everyone I know, then. Fair enough, crack on.
I think there are likely many many confounding factors that would make extracting that data difficult. Separate from environmental/cultural factors we know that traditionally cold-weather cultures (Inuit for example) have genetic adaptions, including within the brown-fat cell pathways (for example: https://www.nature.com/articles/525429d). This would also make for confounders.

I think it's reasonable to go look for existing evidence, but it'd also be difficult to extrapolate.
Ceph's RBD basically works like this (but it's a self-hosted software package, not IaaS), so you still need to manage the storage pool yourself.
Satellites definitely have multiple computers onboard. Their design philosophy evolved from aircraft which tend to use discrete computer for different tasks. Communications, navigation, data logging etc. That's not counting the computers providing whatever the satellite's mission is and they almost always have redundant hardware to make up for failures which are common in space. So there are definitely far more "computers" in space than there are total satellites. Are there "hundreds of thousands"? I'm not sure.
> Also it is technical and not user-friendly for windows users, because luarocks (package manager) is unusable there unless you’re skilled in C build systems and are ready to fix these issues.

I've found using hererocks[1] makes setting up lua and luarocks on Windows very easy. Running it in visual studio's command prompt has let me install pure Lua and C rocks.

However, I've noticed many rocks aren't updated on luarocks and the best way to install them is to point luarocks to the rockspec file in their git repo. Instead of `luarocks install testy` you do something like `luarocks install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/siffiejoe/lua-testy/master...` I don't use Lua for desktop development, so I only use rocks for dev tools to help write Lua for my embedded target, so I'm not sure how popular luarocks is these days.

[1] https://github.com/luarocks/hererocks
Excel is great until suddenly it's not. When I started building ProjectionLab, it began as an excel spreadsheet that (at first) was easy to share and explain to friends and family who wanted a better retirement plan. But as they asked for more flexibility and new features, it spiraled out of control into a complex web of advanced Excel features that became opaque and unmaintainable. No doubt Excel is powerful and feature-rich, but sometimes layering on more and more of those advanced features isn't the answer.
Wind engineers know this, but the software control work is non trivial and, apparently, simply hasn't been done.

A few years ago I was talking with a family member who is in wind power research. They were trying to convince me to start writing turbine control software because it is massively inefficient and naive.

I was shocked at some of the optimizations they are lacking.
It has been wild watching this crowd slowly morph over the past decade or so, largely, into exactly what feels like this.
At first I saw their preferred method is an A record, but I used a CNAME, thank you very much.
More importantly, why isn't posting a link to a paywalled site against HN rules? HN has plenty of rules to improve the quality of submissions and headlines; why do they allow paywalls?
Hacking Custom Content onto Gameboy Cartridges (30 min, 2022)
BoA just sucks for foreigners. But not all banks are like that. Wells fargo will allow you to have a foreign number and send your debit/card overseas too.
Clever.
Really Clever.

Always be suspicious.
> reliably selling services to local city and county governments

And cities are starting to do this more regularly too. E.g. NYC's Riverside park was cleared with goats this year. (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/goats-released-new-york-cit...)
Or just don’t use Coinbase and do everything on-chain and avoid middleman exchanges like Coinbase. All your Coinbase are belong to us.
You are cherry picking part of my comment and reducing it to absurdity. Obviously any implementation needs to be more nuanced than a single sentence generalization. I mentioned warrants for a reason!