skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like more than just a public records search, someone sent them information about her DUI:

> Newell said she believes the newspaper violated the law to get her personal information as it checked on the status of her driver’s license after a 2008 drunken driving conviction and other driving violations.

> The newspaper countered that it received that information unsolicited, which it verified through public online records. It eventually decided to not run a story because it wasn’t sure the source who supplied it had obtained it legally. But the newspaper did run a story on the city council meeting, in which Newell confirmed that she’d had a DUI conviction and that she had continued to drive even after her license was suspended.
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Or just read the article before you comment?
Just grab yourself a Hurricane Electric tunnel and be done with it. It's so irritating to work with dynamic IPv6 assignments when you're not Just Some User. Best case, your ISP has really long lease times and you can fake it being "static." Usual case is you get everything working but there are often 5-minute periods where IPv6 is down because some dynamic changes happened at the wrong time.
Not necessarily. To teach somthing you need to understand it very well. The core of it. The essence of it. When I studied I was helping others with the material. I felt how much that improved my understanding of it.

So they might have meant that you don't just need to be able to teach it. You'll understand it only after you've already taught it to someone.
https://archive.is/3h5ZD

Twenty years ago, if you had told people that one day they could get paid for not mining Bitcoin, they would have said “what?”

But now it is possible.

Modern finance created the problem (Bitcoin mining) and the solution (paying people not to mine Bitcoin); the overall result is that nothing happens and yet people get paid.

Just a miracle of financial engineering.
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This evidently doesn't work for all flags. Your own experience != all other peoples' experience.

My domain ownership was already registered even before it was flagged. I _think_ it was the search console I used to request a review of the flag. But it still took that long to resolve.

This wasn't an issue of not realising what had happened for 3 days, it was 3 days after letting Google know they'd got it wrong. And spending hours on the phone to anyone I could get hold of to try to escalate etc.
You have completely missed my point -- I have no doubt your security is good, after all you specialize on blockchains and know how to manage them.

But your security mechanisms work by pushing out all responsibility onto customers, the same customers who are not blockchain experts, and who have occasional problems even with seemingly simple things. Even a tech giant like microsoft.com have forgotten to renew DNS domains a few times... would you really expect a random industry company to keep their primary wallet safe forever?

And this is where the weakness of blockchain lies: if a hacker steals AWS root credentials, no problem - a phone call/support email will get them changed, or AWS might detect unusual patterns and lockout account preventively. There might be some data stolen or deleted before this happens, but once credentials are restored it's business can continue as usual.

While if the primary wallet is stolen, it is game over, customer's only recourse is to (1) accept the entire database is leaked.. even if the hacker did not download entire thing yet, they have all the time in the word to do so, it's not like you can revoke the key (2) accept the database is not usable anymore, and they need to clone it under a new wallet and update all the clients.

And sure, you can blame the customer but that's not going to matter much if you are competing with AWS or any other big cloud provider which does not have such weakness.
ORMs do much more than "write SQL". This is about 40% of the value they add.

As this argument comes up over, and over, and over, and over again, writers of the "bah ORM" club continuously thinking, well I'm not sure, that ORMs are just going to go "poof" one day? I wrote some years back the "SQL is Just As Easy as an ORM Challenge" which demonstrates maybe a few little things that ORMs do for you besides "write SQL", like persisting and loading data between classes and tables that are joined in various very common ways to represent associations between classes:

https://gist.github.com/zzzeek/5f58d007698c4a0c372edd95ab8e0...

this is why whenever someone writes one of these "just write SQL" comments, or wow here a whole blog post! wow. I just shake my head. Because this is not at all what the ORM is really getting you. Plenty of ORMs let you write raw SQL or something very close to it. The SQL is not really the point. It's about the rows and objects, moving the data from the objects to the INSERT statement, moving the data from the rows you SELECTed back to the objects. Not to mention abstraction over all the other messy things the database drivers do like dealing with datatypes and stuff like that.

It looks like in this blog post, they actually implemented their own nano-ORM that stores one row and queries one table. Well great, now scale that approach up and see how much fun it is to write the same boilerplate XYZRepository / XYZPostgresqlRepository code with the same INSERT / SELECT statement over, and over again. I'd sure want to automate all that tedium. I'd want a one-to-many collection too maybe.

You can use SQLAlchemy (which I wrote) and write all the SQL 100% yourself as literal strings, and still use the ORM, and still be using an enormous amount of automation to deal with the database drivers and moving data between your objects and rows. But why would anyone really want to, writing SQL for CRUD is really repetitive and tedious. Computer can do that for you.
I just find it crazy. When I started my career and Balmer was ceo of ms, ms was the big bad. Don't trust anything ms releases because they'll use it to screw you over. Doc format? Evil. Xml format? Evil. Etc. Google, Google has your back.

Today ms is the underdog in the digital world. Google is looking to take away every last bit of your privacy and use it against you. And they will kill anything they release in a year or two.

In any case...
To add to what I said in another post - I have found this very difficult to apply to code. Military skills, while underestimated, virtually always have very, very clear steps. Perhaps this is also true of specialized medicine, though probably not outside of quickly troubleshooting certain conditions (stroke) or certain common procedures (clear airway). Basically, combat medicine.

In programming - good luck, literally everything you work with is new, all the time. I guess that's why FAANG tests on useless algos - it's at least something you can memorize and pretend it applies to everything.

Maybe I am just using excuses, but I have never used things I wrote articles on: RxJS, Angular Route Resolvers, Modern CI/CD, Web Components - all of these things either died or I used them once in my career and even the articles themselves are useless.
I’d also like to add that the Access module provides generic access to key-value collections just like Enum does for sequences.
> Owned by citizens, or SMALL groups of those. Like small family business, or company with a few dozen workers each owning equal share in the company.

That is Socialism.

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

Of course socialism could also mean state run, which Americans get really hung up on because they can't tell the difference between communism and socialism, but most people outside of the US use it to include:

Community

Collective

Employee

Owned/run services. It would vary depending on how much of a monopoly each service ultimately becomes. Building a power station is unlikely to work well as a community run effort, for example so that would likely require being state run. Grocery stores less so.

Whether other commenters view socialism as good or bad is irrelevant here.
Using Apple as an example seems silly because from what I see they agonize over the tiniest quality details in their products (and still often get it wrong). They spent almost 5 years and billions building an AR headset that possibly doesn't even have a market. This is the biggest and most successful business ever, how does that factor into the "generate business value" rhetoric.
So many missed opportunities for a small business.

A code review should never be done in person; instead all communication should happen asynchronously through passive aggressive messages left in GitHub. If you're on bi-weekly sprints, the review should be left to age for a minimum of 5 business days before any feedback is provided. Never write resolvable comments, but rather leave ambiguous musings of how a block of code could be cleaner. Assign the review to multiple engineers but never make it a formal part of their responsibilities. On special occasions, unpredictably merge a review with no feedback, or do so simply based on your mood. Loosely, and unpredictably, enforce documentation requirements. Most important: never update your product managers on merged features, so that they can experience the joy of discovery just like your customers!
Unfortunately probably no one, hence heavy vigilantism in the past which is starting to recur.
"As far as this outsider can tell, the systems and processes for writing code at Google must be among the best in the world, given both the scale of the company and how often people sing their praises."

Is this really the case? In high school I sure thought Google was a magical software heaven us mortals could but dream of working for, but now (and increasingly as of late) I'm strongly under the impression that 20 years ago they discovered unobtanium in the form of a very under-served search and ads market, they plopped down camp on top of it and turned it into a giant money firehose, and now to this day are simply operating that ridiculously high-margin business while trying desperately to find another vein of unobtanium because when you already have one, that's the only thing that even registers on your radar.

"Revenue from Google Network ads hit $7.5 billion (10.7%), and YouTube ad revenues registered at $6.7 billion (9.6%). In other words, at $54.5 billion, the total ad revenue from Google constituted 78.2% of the company's total revenue in the quarter." https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/how-does-google-make-money

78% between google and youtube. And given youtube isn't nearly as high-margin as the search product (can you even imagine the cost related to essentially storing the video history of the world?), I'm hesitant to say youtube is their 2nd vein.

So yeah. Turns out when you have essentially a monopoly in a high-margin business, you can do basically anything and build an entire private software ecosystem without going bankrupt.

I interpret "how google does it" to simply mean "look at all this cool stuff you can do when your product is this high-margin".
> You guys don't seem able to decide if he never said it and Reiss made it all up (an extraordinary claim), or if he said it but it doesn't matter.

It does matter because you’re trying to criticize an entire field of science by ignoring all of the accurate predictions made in official publications in favor of attacking an incorrect summary of a misstatement made by someone else which differed in both the time period and conditions (the book for which the original interview question was made specified doubling CO2, which is a level we’re nowhere near).

Similarly, the rest of your post is trying to sound science-y but it’s conspicuous how you always have to paraphrase things and allege all of these non-specific problems, again carefully without making a claim specific enough to fact check and ignoring things like the Montreal Protocol which impacted some of the growth curves.

Finally, dealing quite mining here is not any more fun than it is with creationists. I would politely suggest again that you focus on the IPCC reports – those represent the work of many people rather than a single person and have a much better claim to represent the consensus at the time they were published.
Often the FBI will get involved when they hear about corruption.

https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/does-the-fbi-investigate-graf...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbs_Act

Really goes to show you how wide interstate commerce clause goes.
No expert but I do wonder how a cheap client can be more secure than a professionally managed server.
> We’ve insulated them from accountability so much that they can basically do shit like this with impunity.

Other countries protect cops more than regular citizens yet don't experience the same level of police raids and death by cop.

I think the problem is rather that sheriff's departments in the US are run like small businesses; fining people, raiding and confiscating.

Preemptive brutality is a sign that these people are not first and foremost protectors, but have to meet a quota.

Mercenaries.
"Legitimate" does a lot of work here.
By default, it's even right next to what's playing now. It's only below when you're in theater mode.
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It’s pretty nice to be able to lock in a price for 40 years. Whereas rent will typically increase a few percent each year. So after 40 years, if you’re still there, rent will be 3-5x the original amount.

Whereas mortgage payments with a fixed interest rate don’t increase so really only expenses like taxes and insurance increase over time. So after 40 years your monthly spend may be 1.5-2x.

I’m expecting that eventually there will be an interest only perpetual mortgage where the principal never decreases so banks are basically just buying secured annuities based on the real estate collateral.

Some countries have 99 leases that sort of operate like this and I thought it was strange that people would be willing to pay to purchase these leases where they never owned the property. But I guess some stability is better then none.
well, presuming yes. but not concluding.
This is a issue with astro's website, not astro itself.
In international trade, this is usually referred to as “dumping.” VCs simply adopted it domestically in a low regulation environment.
This was a bit disappointing because I was hoping this would be an unsupervised learning example. This is not the author's fault. However there is a large need for unsupervised acoustic event detection and classification. Current methods like lta/sta, match filter, etc. Are not good enough anymore. I will be happy to see this kind of technology grow or be pointed in the right direction.
It's beside the point, but is it just me that finds this reply really quite rude? You wouldn't jump in to someone's conversation with such a demand, especially in response to them recounting an experience that was stressful to them and had consequences for the fledgeling company they'd founded at great personal expense?
We go WFH but understandably not really any sort of payrise as our industry was heavily affected/repressed by the pandemic. I agree we should wfh where possible though; it's a complete waste of public transport/office space/bad for environment otherwise.

Would be nice to see some level of turnabout for everyone that banded together to weather the storm, though.
Yup, between analytics engineers and ML engineers, it seems data scientists are the weird middle we no longer need.

I have worked with "data scientists" that are more rebranded statisticians. Some are overpaid SASS users, but some are true statistical wizards who can also program (R/Python/SQL), and when you need them they're great. I don't need them to write production code. I'd rather call them statisticians but I'm glad to see them getting paid better!
> so the democratic process here would be to first change the law/constitution to allow for advocating

How does one gather support for changing the law if it is illegal to advocate for that change?
8 60s and a 21 seems more elegant, though your approach is more difficult because you have to aim for more different places.
Zoom does use a custom protocol. This is why it doesn’t work nearly as well when you take a call in the browser client. Not because WebRTC isn’t up to the task, but because Zoom hasn’t invested in it.

Ignoring costs, while having someone host infra for you will always be easier than managing it yourself, I think we’ve really improved the DX of hosting your own WebRTC infra with LiveKit: https://github.com/livekit/livekit
>The sense I get in Toronto is that more & more employers would like to do a model or having employees sync up at co-working locations, but are stuck with their 10 year leases.

Regus has been around for a long time.

https://www.regus.com
Anyone else mostly fine with IPv6 like it is?

Biggest complaint here is that I wish I had a way to correlate SLAAC addresses with hostnames somewhere other than the host. But I don't so when it matters I run a DDNS client on the host, which is probably the "more correct" answer anyway because the host always keeps DNS updated with its current address.
> It is only thanks to "happy eyeball" algorithms in the browser which prefer v4 when v6 is broken or non-performant that mitigate end user complaints to the point that people can just kind of turn it on in some state of broken and forget about it.

There are entire ISPs that are IPv6-only at the CPE and have to deal with brain-dead software that can't handle it and so have to spend enormous amounts on CG-NAT:

* https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624
I think the Fly.io free tier is more generous than Netlify(has 3GB persistent volume). Cloudflare if I need a database someday I will need to adapt to their exclusive options(K/V, Durable Workers) instead of picking whatever I want.
(Samsung Internet isn't too bad for another forum website I use. At least it has the option to do tabs in lists as opposed to the unwieldy grids Chrome forced on users, deprecating tab lists...)
NAND gates allow people who can't build transistors from self-mined ores to build CPUs.
> Additionally, critics of Google may point out that their engineering culture may not be great on its own terms -- every time Google launches a new feature, people post links to the Google product graveyard.

It is personally scary when they develop new products. What if it is a brilliant idea, one I cannot live without? If Google develops it, then I am looking at this stillborn thing, mewling for life when I know its horrible fate.

The trouble here is that Google employees (and perhaps even its upper management) want to believe that they are a company which is an inventor of things. But they are not this at all. They are an advertisement company. Advertisement companies should not and do not want to invent things... inventions are worse than burdens, inventions are these weird alien objects that appear valuable but are quite expensive and do not help to sell ads at all.

So they hawk the inventions like they were freaks in some carnival sideshow to move traffic past their billboards. Until the traffic dwindles (or until they get tired of it). And then they take it out back behind the woodshed and put an end to it.
This is one of the lowest-value articles I've seen linked on HN. It's a weak tea defence of descriptivism and a failed attack on prescriptivism. The only substantive points made, albeit without evidence, are that prescriptivism 'stifles creative expression' and 'gives language an elitist veneer'. I'm not sure what the latter is supposed to mean or why it would be wrong - that's not explained. The former is clearly false; constraints typically enhance creative expression. Or perhaps we are supposed to believe the Aeneid would have been better not written in hexameters but free verse?

English is, obviously, a widely spoken language with a long, dynamic history and a large number of dialects, argots, cants, jargons, and accents. Linguists studying the differences between, say, the way people of Indian heritage in Solihull and in Delhi create and understand English can have a field day.

To deny that some of those dialects count as 'professional, educated English' and to deny that 'professional, educated English' has some quite strict rules for disambiguating itself from other dialects of English is not descriptivism - it's simply anti-intellectual activism.

If the author is so concerned that people shouldn't be condescending or rude why is he flinging insults like 'Grammar Nazi'? Pillock.
You clearly have little to no experience with the diversity of Microsoft new hire compensation packages. That's ok, you aren't expected to. But when someone makes a claim that new hires "can make"[1] 200k+, and someone else backs it up with data from personal experience, don't come flinging your ignorance around and accuse others of acting in "bad faith". Instead, sit back and learn. Maybe ask a few questions.

And I'm a native english speaker. But I've never felt I had to stick to the "standard" way of doing things. You shouldn't either. Certainly not when reading text you can't be sure is pulled straight from Strunk's.

I just realized you might be getting so emotional about this because you claim you also made 250k straight out of college and want to feel superior in some way?

[1] "Can make". Not "all make", "must make", "will make", "should make", or even "expect to make". "Can make". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37115731
For most anything but a very new project, 1.5x the features isn't just advancing the roadmap, it's hitting the end and not stopping. At work, that'd probably be something like five years of work poofed into existence. Getting that for free is absolutely worth a fairly large amount of mediocre code.
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I used to work there. The tooling is pretty good.
> I'm strongly under the impression that 20 years ago they discovered unobtanium in the form of a very under-served search and ads market, they plopped down camp on top of it and turned it into a giant money firehose

In 2010 when I interned there, one of my mentors said something to me that stuck with me: "Google found a hose that money pours out of, and it's name is 'online advertising'. All we do is optimize that hose, and search for another one."
Sorry to hear that. Must be be a heavy thing to carry.
Question to the SQL-only people, how would you handle something dynamic? If I have a database of shoes and want people to be able to find them by brand, size, style, etc., what does that look like?
Seems to me that the story is getting wide-spread attention and outcry.

Just because people aren't in the streets doesn't mean they don't care. Repercussions are sought in the legal system, not with placards on a sidewalk.

https://www.wilx.com/2023/08/14/central-kansas-police-force-...
Apple has undergone a similar ossification.

I think it's just something that happens to companies that get a certain size. The Process becomes more important than the Product.

When I was younger, I wanted so badly, to work at Apple.

A few years ago, they actually approached me, and I found out that the culture seems to have drastically changed.

They ended up not wanting me anyway, so maybe it's just sour grapes, on my part.
I was curious if seriousness of it was related to the restaurant hosting the Kansas congressman at the time (which the journos were kicked out of then wrote a follow up story about the restaurant owner). Maybe whoever invited him had some connection to both the politician and the owner, and the congressman helped kick it upstairs? This is just speculation though.