skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What he described is literally the opposite of Gell-Mann Amnesia, which is the phenomenon where such a reader will forget about all of the inaccuracies he noticed in the article on which he was an expert and continue believing other articles to be accurate.
Age discrimination yes, but unions have a long history of establishing and protecting nepotism.
I think the comments on this post would probably less hostile if the title said something like "detect the number of unique visitors", which is what I believe it's doing, rather than detecting unique visitors using unique timestamps, which is what many seem to be guessing based on the headline alone.
I'm flabbergasted they had so many employees that 30% is over 1000. Still, terrible time of year for this to happen to their employees.
Matrix, the secure messenger where all messages are group messages, and servers control the group membership?
They need to really work on some things. I had DashPass basically from the beginning of COVID until a month or so ago.

The first year or so it was decent. But the past year to year and a half I started having way more issues with dashers and restaurants, either stealing items or forgetting them from an order. Not exaggerating on the stealing; there were a couple times I followed the dasher to their car and saw them drinking or eating the item from my order and they wouldn't respond to me. It was pretty ridiculous. And then at some point Doordash changed their customer support to be at least partially automated and it meant sometimes when they would credit me it wasn't the same amount of whatever I didn't get, and I had to jump through hoops to get that resolved.
I feel this exact same way every time someone claims Google search results have declined in quality.
...at the cost of caching (or at least a round trip).

Is it necessary to know how many visits per day a particular user made? If # of unique visitors per day/week/whatever is sufficiently granular you could retain a corresponding cache window.

Also if this is to avoid those cookie warnings that got popular after GDPR, it should be noted you're still storing information on users' computers. i.e. The stuffed metadata is not so different in principle from a cookie. In this case it seems innocuous, but I wouldn't be surprised to see sites exploit your trick to store a unique last-modified date for each user as a method of tracking (if that's not already commonplace).
What a strange contention. I don't think I've ever used sarcasm without meaning my audience to understand me. Most movie tropes around it don't seem to be deliberately deceptive either.

I wonder if this is a generational thing?
Yes, 100%. The idea that you have to plan vacations around refill windows since they won't let you get more than 2 days before is utterly ridiculous. And at the same time they make it difficult to impossible to get your medications, they (the medical industry) will (with a straight face) tell you "don't go cold turkey off your medications"
I would like a link to an example page. Current there are none indexed by Google so I only have the preview to judge from.
Ever heard of tectonic plates? Those mountains are practically ripping around like they’re on a go-kart track, who knows where they’ll appear in photos.
I would say "the educated public" is already the target audience for my blog. Game of life topics are notoriously hard to disentangle from their jargon, and I went to some effort here but needed to balance that against the goal to remain accurate.

My hope is that by reading only the amount of background on the blog already in the Waterbear post (referenced immediately in the introduction), you have all you need to grok the post. But that's certainly an optimistic hope, and maybe unfounded.
>actions have consequences and you're being held accountable.

If there was no government-sanctioned affirmative action and if discrimination of the basis of race was not outlawed, all the consequences in the world would not change the fact that the "cancel culture whiners" (your own words) will rise in status (both social and economic) relative to minorities and liberals. So, yes - actions do have consequences, including for you.
We regularly talk about bus factor* in tech (and other disciplines). It sounds like SpaceX realized they had a too low bus factor in this one critical area; perhaps this realization struck as part of his prep for the short medical leave.

Whether they handled solving that problem appropriately or not is up for debate, but having one person as the only person who understands mission-critical area X is an unacceptable situation at SpaceX's size.

* - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Ah shit, here we go again. I just link to my previous comment which quoted in WasmWeekly News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32564105
In a way

but having money can take away some other kinds of freedom.

If you decide to invest instead of spending (mostly in real estate), get successful and well paid on a job, and see money as the only proxy for freedom, you might kill your chances to actually move to Paris, to fulfill yourself in NGOs and clubs, and to build what you want.
You will be bound to a city, and to the GDP-making economy. You will only build the legacy that your manager needs, not yourself, and then drive back to your anonymous house.

Also, the wildest stories I've ever heard where from lowkey and remote agricultural villages, or from suburbs, as they go under all the radars.
If you have money, you most likely live in a city where you have to keep images.

Having money is double edged, IMO. It's nice to have it, but you still need to feel free, and to be ready to be free to actually be free.
A couple of options:

1. Searchable Text PDF:
You can use ImageMagick to convert your source TIFF image files (if you have scanned your pages into TIFF format) into Adobe PDF format. If you have Adobe Acrobat, you can run OCR on it to convert it to a "Searchable" text PDF (aka "text under image" PDF).

There are variations of this workflow with other tools, but this is the basic idea.

Tip: Ensure that your TIFF image files are uniformly sized.

2. EPUB Ebook Format
EPUB is a ebook standard and at its basic level it is a collection of a (a) metadata file (in XML format), (b) HTML files for each unit of content (such as Chapter/Section/Unit etc., depending on how the book is organized) (c) Image files that are referenced in the HTML files (d) CSS file for styling your HTML.

There are a number of options for advanced use, but you can avoid almost all of them if you approach it as a basic collection of XML + HTML + CSS files.

The EPUB itself just uses a folder structure to organize the files (similar to a static website) and the format is a ZIP archive file named with the file extension '.epub'.

Most of the work in creating the EPUB would be in structuring the HTML/CSS files and creating the XML file.

Tip: There are many companies/freelancers in India whom you can find on sites like fiverr etc., who can do this as a project for you at a reasonable cost, if you would rather outsource this to an expert instead of doing it yourself.

3. Print-on-Demand
If you are interested in creating a print run, that is also possible. A typical workflow would be to (a) scan the pages at high resolution (600 dpi) (b) perform image processing to deskew the images and remove noise and perform quality control (c) batch-align the front and back of the image pages (d) save the page images to TIFF (e) convert TIFF to multipage Adobe PDF.

You can use this PDF with Print-on-Demand publishers to create a physical copy of the book.

Note: This requires a cutting/unbinding of the original (you can re-bind the original after the process, if you want to keep the original).

4. Typesetting
In this method, you have a typesetter re-typeset the entire book (in Indesign/QuarkXpress/LaTeX etc.,). This is a much more involved process, but offers you flexibility in terms of how you want to layout the content, perform some editorial changes etc.,

Again, there are companies you can engage to do this for you and manage this as an outsourced project.
>The rust code was running circles around their Swift ones even when we tried to keep implementations the same.

I've done Advent of Code a few years -- even Javascript implementations, if using a good (optimal) algorithm, are highly performant, so I'm suspicious of the claim. In most AoC problems, if your code is observably different between languages, it's the fault of the algorithm, regardless of language. But perhaps you are referring to well-profiled differences, even if there are no observable differences.

That said, in projects other than AoC I've compared Swift to C++ and it's hard to deny that a low-level language is faster than Swift, but Swift itself is certainly fast compared to most dynamically typed or interpreted languages like Python, JS, Ruby, etc. which are vastly slower than anything in Swift.
Gmail.com was redirecting (still does) and that at the time sub-domains could share cookies with the main domain.

Therefore, gmail.google.com could track cookies and activity via google.com.

This has been fixed since then, so I think the memory of the internet is short and wouldn't understand how bad this was in retrospect.

(my previous edits: Yep, I didn't want to drag this out. My memory was off on something.)
Could this simply be SpaceX not wanting a "bus factor" of 1 (only this person)?

Or SpaceX values having senior engineers work on new things and junior engineers to maintain existing mature services?
I'm curious to know the rest of his story. I hope he finds a workplace that values his contributions.
You can split hairs about what a zygote is to make yourself not feel like it's murder but the procedure results in the net loss of one or more human lives.
Only if you disregard the amount of latitude that the semantics of these headers give to UAs that would effectively thwart this method of tracking.

If I fetch your /foo.html today in November 2022, and you send me a last-modified from 1978, that gives me and my UA a huge range from which to select a different datetime (anywhere between the 1978 value and now-ish) on my next request. How are you going to correlate my original and subsequent requests if in the latter I ask if you've got a copy that's been modified since 1999?
>that study is about overpopulation

That is the surprising part... it is not that simple. It does however allude to an inevitable decline under theoretically ideal living conditions, as rates of aggression and stupification increase.

You may be amused by the highlights from the paper, and how it closely resembles numerous punitive subcultures. =)
> because the filing of an issue is not a request to fix

Great phrase, this summarizes the point very well!

Exactly. A bug report is just that, a report. It increases the knowledge base of what problems exist in the project so that everyone can know.

It doesn't mean it has to be fixed. Not everything can always be done. So if it remains open, it's simply documentation of a problem that still exists. Closing it because some time passed is dishonest, if the problem still exists.
I was bullied quite a bit in school, now my boys are starting school and I have them enrolled in BJJ, and the first time my kids comes home upset because someone was picking on him I'll tell him to put that kid in guard and don't let go until the teachers physical remove him.
The tip is not a tip it's a bounty and ratings do affect your future orders. I have a very high rate of perfect orders.
I remember earlier in the year they said that they were unaffected by the bear market and were still hiring. [1]

I interviewed with them earlier in the year, glad it didn't work out.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-blockchaincom-and-k...
Sure, we are definitely eating more meat, simply because we can afford it.
The problem is that non-photoshopped photos do not represent reality either. Anything with different focal distance from human eye is by definition distorted. Levels of dark and light have to be squeezed into what computer/phone screen can show, often resulting in faces that would be fully black or white if corrective steps are not taken. Depth perception is lost, making people look much fatter than they are. A lot of edits are about approximating perceived reality rather than deception.
> Many privacy-focused analytics services will generate and store a UID on the server instead of saving it in a cookie - based on a hash of your User Agent, IP, Location, Date etc.

What location? The Geolocation API?

What date? How can a date contribute to a UID? Each visitor sends multiple HTTP requests at different dates.
Codenames, avalon, saboteur.
I'd suggest board game arena - it has tons of games and runs via web browser. Little to no access issues.
I feel as though you have some big-picture aspects correct, but you're missing out on small-picture concepts. Specifically,

Mentoring younger engineers so they can raise to
higher levels - that’s part of what a principal
engineers does.

Yes.

However: effective mentor/mentee relationships are absolutely not achieved by simply throwing unqualified and inexperienced mentees at a senior/principal engineer in a haphazard, unannounced way.
As someone who has stuck to their principles and had their reputation destroyed by someone else more willing to mold themselves into whatever shape is necessary to succeed, I would submit that yours is a losing proposition. Integrity is not a virtue anybody respects these days.

The parent had it right. Times change. Values change. Adapt or die. Don't end up like me.
I vehemently disagree with the "Economist has declined" crowd but I had to unsubscribe one time for financial reasons a few years ago and the difficulty in unsubscribing is why I will never subscribe again. I had to call a number in Singapore (where I did not live) and wait on hold for a long time.
Could be the changing job market, Musk knows it. If this was the job market like a year or six months ago, Musk would had kept his mouth shut. Elon comes across extremely opportunistic, which is not surprising but he comes across opportunistic in a cruel way. Something that wider group of people should realize and take appropriate steps
> sticks to my principles and strives to do good work

There is a line between challenging bullshit and baseless obstinacy. Every firm is replete with brilliant engineers with whom nobody wants to work, or nobody hears about, and thus who go nowhere, and whose ideas go nowhere. You shouldn’t do anything immoral. But disregarding how a firm communicates aims and values, the essence of politics, is debilitating at best.
It’s been a fairly limited enterprise to specific cuisines with limited competition. Flooding the market with supply and including restaurants who aren’t oriented directly towards a delivery model destroys margins.
Neat. Good luck. I'll paste here the request I keep making again and again:

I want to teach something like Tailscale about my contacts, so they are allowed to communicate with my services (through their services).

Then I want to run an app inside a strong sanbox (maybe Lunatic?) that has capability-based APIs to do things kind of like ZeroMQ for sending messages TO THE CONTACTS. I don't want the API to look like a tcp/ip or udp connection. I want the app to think it's sending a message to a contact I've given it permission to talk to, via some interface that Lunatic itself provides.

If this was running in a strong sandbox, I think this would be an awesome way to develop and use simple federated apps. If something like Mastodon existed on top of this, I'd think it would be really secure and much easier to tell people to stand up their own node...

And I want the whole thing to feel like Sandstorm.io, in that self-updating way, with an app store... But Sandstorm.io is like an Oasis... I want a Federation. And I feel like a Rust-language-implemented WebAssembly sandbox that uses CONTACTS (not TCP) and Messaging, over something like Tailscale for connectivity and encryption, and then a Capability model for storing locally, or talking to a DB, or making external HTTP requests depending on the service, etc...

I want a WebAssembly thin client running on my phone... And a WebAssembly server running on my PC at home. And the server at home runs applets that THINK they're running on my phone (like XWindows, basically). Talking to other applets on my server, which talk to other applets on YOUR server, which talk to applets on your phone. I type a message on my phone, lots of Tailscale happens, and you see the message on your phone. And in my head, there's basically no boilerplate in the code I write. It just looks like Contacts and strongly-typed Messages.

That's the thing I keep wanting.
Don't they realize they are supposed to create a KRY currency and pump it up to supply value to their company and pay their employees? Perhaps if the CEO had gone to Stanford, he would have been better educated in effective altruism and have placed their needs higher.
A followup question, if I may: why does a crypto exchange need 2,900 employees?
Who spoke about the government doing things? Yet another strawman.

The government forcing companies to host speech they do not want to host as DeSantis wants to do with Apple, and has been done in Florida and Texas is inherently fascist.

Where is the personal responsibility for the people who willingly taunt their followers and point the finger towards minorities?

Why are republican figures not facing justice for the atrocities committed as a consequence of their speech?
Severance at most recent layoffs has been very generous. Getting laid off sucks but this is just about the best way to do it.
>It’s obviously a complex issue still being figured out by scientists but there is a zeitgeist pushing people towards pills as the simple solution when increasingly the science demonstrates that lifestyle change is both more effective long term and lacks adverse side effects.

This is simply a lie.
Please explain why this isn’t compliant?
I am having trouble understanding how knowing someone has visited three times is more privacy invasive than knowing they visited twice. What is so magical about 3?
Lifestyle changes work for some people, but coping with ADHD is not for everyone. Most of the folks taking the meds are not looking for some "medicated state of productivity" that is beyond human, they're trying to stop feeling the urge to get up and run around during meetings.

I spent 24 years of my life without the meds. When I started taking them, I didn't become substantially more productive at my workplace. I became substantially more able to deal with my personal life, my chores, my upkeep. That's it. And I felt like I had been wasting so much of my life looking for coping mechanisms, like I hadn't fully lived until I started taking them.

Or to put it briefly, the fact that I wasn't medicated made me feel less human, made me less able to enjoy the aspects of life and work that make us human.
They're using this to track number of unique visits from a single user to a site.
In that scenario I'd recommend learning javascript, react/redux, and css. And also SQL if they haven't worked with it.

Why? They'd probably be fine with the server side aspect of web development (writing an API or whatever), in any language. So concentrate on the browser stuff, for which react/redux is still the most in demand.
That is not a more reputable source. The XKCD thing is a graph of highly regarded and more rigorous social science work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_(scaling_method)

Further, I think the Pew stuff is flawed in a number of ways. One, it comes after the Reagan era, missing a time DW-NOMINATE shows as important to right-wing polarization. Two, it doesn't include the Trump era, when polarization hugely spiked. Third, and most important, 9 out of the 10 questions are not suited for directly measuring ideology. The one I think is actually a decent measure of ideology is "Homosexuality should be discouraged by society" vs "Homosexuality should be accepted by society". The rest of them are practical questions relative to the circumstances of the day. E.g., "The government today can't afford to do much more to help the needy" is a question that's explicitly about the current state of the budget. If the budget improves, then more people should answer that as yes regardless of ideology.

The measure I'd rather see is the extent of ideological litmus tests for access to power. E.g., look at the way the right's orthodoxy on abortion has hardened over the years. In the 1970s it was possible to be a pro-choice Republican and a pro-choice evangelical Christian. Now neither is acceptable, so much so that the most prominent Republican pro-choice group just gave up a few years back: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/abortion-rights-r...

Or you could look at the way large portions of the Republican party have polarized around things that are provably false, like that Trump won the 2020 election, that January 6th was a left-wing false flag, or that ivermetcin is a good way to treat covid. That is wildly asymmetrical polarization, and it drove litmus tests for Republican candidates across the country. Nothing similar exists on the left.
I think the key term here is learned helplessness. Children and to a lesser extent adults push boundaries. Establishing strong boundaries is a key part of developing a sense of control over one's life.
Why? It’s anonymous and doesn’t collect any user data other than IP and stuff from the user agent
My personal anecdote.

I have issues with focusing and prioritizing work.

What helped me is getting a work with absolutely floating work time. For example today I went to work office at 19:30 and I'm going to leave it at 7:00 or something like that. It doesn't matter. What matters is: I work prolonged hours (because I still procrastinate, but I've found out that I start to focus on work after 4-5 hours or something like that. And I can sleep as much as I need, without any alarm clock or calls. I usually sleep 8-9 hours, my whole day is something like 25-27 hours, so it's slowly rotating.

With these weird conditions I'm starting to unleashing my potential and it makes me feel so much better than before. When I'll get to work "late" to 11:00 in a sleepy state, will procrastinate until 18:30, when office is closed I'm going home without completing good work, then work overtime to finish sprint, getting burned out and this cycle repeats again.

I don't think that my current life style is sustainable and I plan to adjust it to a "normal" style slowly, but it's important to feel that I don't just slack at work and I actually do enough work to warrant my salary. This makes my soul happy and then I can move on with other things. Because when I feel uneasy, I can't really proceed with anything.

I don't trust psychiatrists, but it's just me. I prefer to find issues and ways to solve those issues. I tried to visit psychologist, but I felt that it's absolute loss of time and money.
I'm sensitive to the tone, since there's still so many climate change deniers about, but overall makes sense once they get to the point:

> The best solution is to incorporate the ‘carbon opportunity cost’ of land use into the accounting of emissions from bioenergy in all climate and energy laws. This cost can be measured simply as the carbon that could otherwise be stored by regrowing native vegetation. A superior approach would use carbon opportunity costs, as we have done here, to calculate the average carbon cost to reproduce the same food elsewhere. This approach does not require a switch to consumption-based accounting but recognizes that land use has an opportunity cost, which should be factored into the life-cycle analyses of bioenergy used by the EU.