skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. And to be clear to anyone who thinks it's only overwork: I've had these injuries while training intensely, and I've had them after rest periods when I start again, or during non-intense training. Muscle injuries can happen in either circumstances, and they take a while to heal properly.
Elixir (well I use Erlang but it is close enough).

* I like the concurrency model better. Lightweight processes vs callbacks and futures. I find processes as concurrency units maps better to problems I had to solve. So there is less impedance mismatch. That makes a huge deal in a larger project. (eg.: a user request as an isolated process vs a chain of callbacks). OS design got this right years ago -- think how most modern popular operating systems represent concurrency - an isolated process.

* Safety & fault tolerance. Processes are isolated. So you can build very robust systems. That simply puts money in your pocket just due to ops costs. A non-critical / experimental part of backend is crashing at 4am and restarting? No, problem, keep sleeping. Rest of the service will stay up and you can fix it in the morning.

* Debuggability and inspection. BEAM VM comes with built in ability to debug, inspect and trace out of the box. That has saved so much time (and money) over the years.

* Hot code reload. This is a first class feature. We don't rely on it to do upgrades. But it proved invaluable to fix an issues or two for a high value customer without taking down the services. Or simply to add extra logging to monitor a pathological edge-case.
I'm afraid that you are greatly overestimating the size of a Tudor City studio. The reality is less than 300 square feet for just over $300K.
Ruby also BROKE A LOT LESS, and offered immediate, tangible reasons to upgrade.
This is really good news. A major worry with driverless cars has been that companies would be harshly punished for accidents, even if there was a dramatic reduction in crashes overall.
Just funny that the 40% from Autosteer seem to exactly match with the general AEB safety improvement rate also mentioned in the report...

IIHS research shows that AEB systems meeting the commitment would reduce rear-end crashes[emphasis added] by 40 percent. IIHS estimates that by 2025 – the earliest NHTSA believes it could realistically implement a regulatory requirement for AEB – the commitment will prevent 28,000 crashes and 12,000 injuries.
Easy. Just don't use Windows 10.
I don't understand what's specific about Palantir. If our government decides to take action against a specific group of people I really don't think the database used is going to be the bounding factor.
Designs for working (2000)
I see luck even within those fundamentals. I'm pretty successful, and I'm aware of how generally lazy and procrastinating I am. Perhaps it's Imposter Syndrome, but while I can point to some areas where my work ethic or effort is greater than some, I definitely don't think these are better than some other friends and peers that I'm clearly more successful than. I just got lucky, more than once.
Employee engagement: get your employees to connect to more than a paycheck
Everyone, thats why antitrust laws exist.
Stage 2 seems problematic at least the way I see it. Most users have at least a thousand derivations- is it possible to fuse mount each one?

Also: I think some people are unaware that Nix hashes are not content addressable. The best solution (which OP is proposing) is probably to use the .nar hashes in IPFS which is content addressable.
The network effects are pretty obvious actually: as the number of people on the platform increases, the amount of time a driver has to drive to pick you up becomes increasingly shorter, thus enabling the drivers to spend more of their time with a passenger in their car (which is when they are earning money). If drivers are making more money, Uber can pay them less (reduce the subsidy).

Old taxi cab companies can't compete because they have to drive much farther on average for each pickup
Nope, as a gamedev I can say that it definitely is impressive.

As with all optimization it is hard: as you try to squeeze more out of the machine your code gets less and less elegant.
> A population less than 3% the size of the US

How does that affect government spending/GDP?

> a GDP per capita 50% higher than the US

Purchasing power is similar. This means the higher GDP per capita is compensated by higher spending on government employees, social welfare (A person without a job or children gets around 2800CHF/months) and so on.

> a physical size of about 0.5% of the US.

How does that affect government spending/GDP? The only thing I see here is potentialy lower cost for infrastructure. But then the alps that take up 60% of the land area and building tunnels is expensive.
You are ignoring the fact that someone born into a poor family in an inner city like has an underfunded, underachieving public school, overwhelmed and inexperienced teachers, a below average guidance counselor, no role models who have gone to college, parents who do not know anything about applying for scholarships or financial aid, a diet of fast food, and few examples of other people in similar roles who became millionaires. In a lot of cases, the best chance of success for people in these situations is to be LUCKY and win a lottery to get into a charter school. Or, to be LUCKY and have the physical tools needed to get a sports scholarship.
Oh, sure. I don't believe the internet is doing nothing. It can accelerate certain tendencies. But it really does go both ways. I read a number of bloggers who I strenuously disagree with, for example. I read web forums for my hobbies that aren't as segregated politically as, for example, my neighborhood.

As with most things, largescale demographic and economic changes matter more than "soft" cultural shifts. Or that's how I see it, anyway.
It's going to happen sooner or later. I'm pretty sure the $8000 models employ some kind of computer vision to adjust the sprayer to the correct "human output interface".

A cloud toilet that examines your feces and urine probably isn't far off (and is probably already in the works).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435818
AMP is not an aggregator, it's a opt-in program to speed up pages. Personally, I prefer when someone posts an AMP link, because it is the exact same page and content but loads substantially faster. In this case, the AMP page took me 4.95 seconds to load while the non-AMP link took 10.73 seconds. Again, AMP is an opt-in program implemented by the website owner, is controlled by the site owner, and of course provides the same ad revenue for the site owner.
I think you pointed to the wrong link. That's a study about ethics, not safety.
> And regarding Riot, their marketing is (was?) really shady.

If you're going to throw shade like this it'd be helpful to bring some examples, I have no idea what you're referring to so this contributes nothing to my understanding other than FUD.
Why would it be reasonable to assume that?
Ah, good. If the NSA asks for this and I don't give it to them, I'm fucked. So they can have it. I don't want to be renditioned to Guantanamo.

Now if there was a non state-level threat, that'd be different.
I don't have a magic solution. I tend to learn best in the typical formal classroom way. I like to watch lecture, read the material, take notes, and work practice problems. Ultimately it's the practice that really helps me learn something. Most things I know really well I know because I had a work related or personal project that I could use those skills for.
Why would you hide your email from your colleagues?

..

using some IRC client as our chat app

Try IRCCloud, it's extremely simple and much better than Slack in almost every way.
About 80+% of people join the military for money, college, and other benefits. The well-off people don't need the military for that. So, a volunteer military naturally selects for a make up of lower classes to be sent to die overseas to largely protect wealth of upper classes.

If there was a lottery, pushback from casualties would come from more people in upper classes that could cause real problems for politicians and generals. Could even be their own kids sent there. Switching to a "volunteer" military in an increasingly-shitty economy sweeps lots of their problems under the rug. ;)
Why theorize about "economies of scale won't help"? We know the answer is "yes they will" -- Uber's US operations were profitable in 1Q16[1] and that included many non-scaled markets.

Like I said 8 years ago[2]: "Facebook made ~$200mm in 2008. It's pretty clear they could profit on those revenues, and instead are choosing to invest in further growth (with outside capital)."

[1] https://skift.com/2016/12/21/uber-isnt-profitable-in-the-u-s...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=427212
What are the odds that the private keys for all of the .gov domains are also sent to the NSA? I guess if you are worried about another nation spying on your traffic you would be fine. I would expect that all of this traffic is decryptable by NSA though.
Not unsupervised. Unleashing a robot into school zones without a human in the loop is still considered too dangerous legally if not physically.
> there is apparently a tax break or something for hiring a person of color

False (as stated in a sibling comment)

> because race is always included in the job application

I have not once ever been asked my race. Perhaps because they'll be able to tell at the interview? But it's not "always included"

> and always under the same header as questions for, say, disabled or veteran status.

I've only ever been asked about disabled or veteran status after employment.
Podcast Episode – Q&A for Web Developers Who Want to Grow Client Base
So I'm far less likely to crash if I use this, and I have something to blame if I do. Everybody wins! (Except the engineers).
Investors are giving Uber a near infinite bankroll so it's hard to say that they'll be allowed to fail.

I was in Southeast Asia recently and it's insane how cheap Uber is. It almost doesn't make sense to take any other form of transportation. I imagine once the competition dies, they'll have complete control over the market.
Shouldn't you also add super enforced SSL certificate validation for such a setup? Since SMTP is usually merely opportunistic SSL, any Tor exit node could very easily strip STARTSSL (or just MITM with a fake certificate that doesn't get validated) and you're worse off than running over the normal internet?
They said it was a 40 percent drop after the roll out of auto-pilot features. That means it dropped 40 percent with the same driver base. Please read the article before posting comments.
That's funny, 90% of people I told "I'm interning at Mozilla" gave me a blank stare until I added, "they make Firefox".
Or if one doesn't have cdecl installed there's an online version[1] which has proven as a useful check on several occasions

[1] http://cdecl.org/
I would disagree with your luck statement. I broke out of poverty. My parents were both unskilled labor, we were on assistance at least once that I can recall.

Part of what allowed me to escape is luck. Yes it required that I developed early and so was ahead of my peers in education. It also required hard work to capitalize on that lead. However, what kept more than one of my cohorts from escaping was bad luck. A family member had a health issue, a legal issue, whatever. Their need to care for their family caused them to miss an opportunity (Get a job rather than go to college).

Unless you're advocating living life as a sociopath and ditching people as 'dead weight', luck is absolutely part of escaping poverty.
Before good birth control, extramarital sex meant single mothers. And if it's hard to be a single mom today, imagine being a single mom in a world where there were a fraction of the job opportunities outside the home for a woman.
My point was the meta-search engine will eliminate the friction and eat the whole pie.
Developed chest and shoulders give you better posture, which is usually enough to alleviate minor to moderate back pains.

I would add squats to the pushup routine (even unweighted). They will develop the quads and glutes somewhat.
Isn't this even better for Tesla then? People that supposedly already drive carefully now have fewer accidents.
It's a business with natural network effects. The service that has the most cars on the road has the most liquidity to clear the market, and will have the shortest wait times. People pay for rides in both time and money, and you can be "cheaper" by getting a car to show up faster.
How well does anyone drive through a flash flood?
Uber only uses subsidies when trying to break into new markets to expand. If they stopped expanding, they would become profitable rather quickly.

Many of their losses were due to the turf war in china, which is now over. They have a 20% stake in Didi now, which will almost certainly recover their losses.
For others (LastPass for instance) to take action on it, yes. For anyone reading this, because we could be looking at an unreliable source, they might as well treat it as if they never read it at all.
Keep this wisdom in mind while writing behavior tests and the result will require less maintenance due to changes in How (also when it does require maintenance you can refer to the Why to determine whether the Why is still valid).
Poor pepe...

https://thenib.com/pepe-behind-the-meme
these two vids are pretty great, obviously they favor FP/elixir, but great advise from two expert people.

Elixir Should Take Over the World by Jessica Kerr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25xOhntr6s

What every Node.js developer needs to know about Elixir - Bryan Hunter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wueg2hswA

FP and the Erlang VM gives you a great deal of advantages, which you should be aware of.

Ultimately I would also look into node.js, since it's so popular it's becoming a reference, and jobs for javascript/node are easy to get.
Correlation vs Causation.

I googled the list of the most ethnically diverse countries:

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

You don't think that having an average income of $1 - $2 thousand a year and living in some of the most dangerous and least developed countries in the world has anything to do with wealth, life satisfaction, and expectancy?

I also notice that the most happy countries in the world are all significantly more diverse than the US, so it would appear that the US needs to double it's diversity index in order to crack the top ten of happy countries if we go by the logic of that hateful and biassed site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
You need audiobooks or podcasts. Heck, I love taking a conference call while on my commute (handsfree of course) - 80% of it is in the left lane of an interstate.
So "better" drivers saw 40% reduction; doesn't that indicate that worse drivers will see even greater reduction in accidents?
Ok sure, but I don't care about that as much as I care about a drastic reduction in danger on the road. This is a big step forward for that.
>I did. I did not think I needed an argument to ask you to stop bringing such an incredibly negative attitude to the table.

Not argument or not (and as you said, you didn't think you needed one) you don't have the right to tell me to stop bringing my opinion to the table.

Whether you think it's negative or not, it's not your place to conduct the discussion on HN. Just state your case, and let others state their case. I wouldn't even have left all those comments if I didn't have to defend myself, as most as responses to your demands that I "just stop" and your accusations.

>I was referring to Django, to be clear. And whatever you've paid, it's in donations -- that's great! But if you want to see support, you'll need to directly pay people to maintain that support. I believe in fact you yourself said that before, here on HN, about other tech.

I didn't force anybody to provide me support. I didn't even ask anybody for support for me specifically, and I didn't hold a gun to anybody's head on the matter.

I criticized projects dropping support for Python 2.x, and made my case. Criticizing is not the same as demanding.

>This is basically saying "I do not care for python 3 features, therefore Python 2 should continue being supported even longer [because I have an old codebase to maintain]"

Which is a perfectly reasonable argument, only you omitted the part where I said that the majority of Python users seem to be in the same position (and thus such a drop could be bad for Django itself -- if people are forced to migrated an old project, they might as well bite the bullet and try something else entirely, Node for example).

>The argument in a nutshell is that because the transition is hard, the Python team should just give up on the transition and support both. It's an argument I've heard before. The reason it doesn't hold water is because doing so would completely kill the language, for good.

The transition itself might kill the language, it has already taken far too long with meagre results thus far. It's not impressive that "nearly all popular libraries" have been ported to 3, when it's close to 10 years past 3.x and the majority of users are still on 2.

In any case, there are ways to "support both" that don't kill anything, e.g. making a "merged" Python 2/3 hybrid release that runs both 2.x and 3.x codebases, and is the official CPython going forward.

Or supporting 2.x as longer as needed for 60 or 70% of the users to migrate, as opposed to an arbitrary optimistic cutoff date in 2020, set when people still thought 3.x will get quickly adopted.

>now, we're on the final stretch and the remaining complaints are from people in similar situations as you: Large Python 2 codebase to maintain, therefore can't switch, therefore "please give us more time, and by more time I mean just forget Python 3 ever happened and come back"

Sounds perfectly reasonable. If the largest stakeholders (people with actually large Python codebases) can't speak up, then who can? Newbs that started some small greenfield project with 3.x?
FAP80, a retro computer without the retro baggage
If you read the abstract you will see that the studies involve driver behavior.

"Results Studies 1 and 2. Our first two studies were naturalistic field studies, and examined whether upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals while driving. In study 1, we investigated whether upper-class drivers were more likely to cut off other vehicles at a busy four-way intersection with stop signs on all sides. As vehicles are reliable indicators of a person's social rank and wealth (15), we used observers’ codes of vehicle status (make, age, and appearance) to index drivers’ social class. Observers stood near the intersection, coded the status of approaching vehicles, and recorded whether the driver cut off other vehicles by crossing the intersection before waiting their turn, a behavior that defies the California Vehicle Code. In the present study, 12.4% of drivers cut in front of other vehicles. A binary logistic regression indicated that upper-class drivers were the most likely to cut off other vehicles at the intersection, even when controlling for time of day, driver's perceived sex and age, and amount of traffic, b = 0.36, SE b = 0.18, P < 0.05"
Would love to find an alternative that works for larger teams vs being meant for one individual at a time. LastPass has that functionality, big part of why we use it.
The trick to reading crazy C declarations is learning the "spiral rule": http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html (here are more examples, with nicer formatting: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/reading-cdecl.html)
Because traffic-aware cruise control has existed for years from other car manufactures, and I have seen no data showing that this feature decreases safety.
Yeah, this is something that we are aware of and that we need to solve. For now, you might find some inspiration in this github discussion: https://github.com/realm/realm-js/issues/141#issuecomment-27...
Yeah, it'd be a good feature here. I saw your reply because I use HN Replies: http://www.hnreplies.com

It's basically a third party equivalent.
It seems like age is a rather large driver of involvement in crashes (younger/newer drivers end up being more crash prone) according to here: https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/2012OlderD... (page 5)

Which seems like the current driver profile is possibly safer than the overall population since it's unlikely a large percentage of young drivers own a $100k car. It seems like the effect of widespread autopilot could be greater if it included this cohort.
Normal logistics providers have their own fleets and have to deal with the depreciation and maintenance costs. Uber shifts all those costs onto their drivers.
I'm in the same boat as you here. Level 2 and 3 are unsafe for me as an individual. When I drive, actively focusing on the road and driving keeps me awake. When I'm a passenger, the lack of mental concentration plus the gentle rocking motion of a moving car knocks me out within ten minutes.

The current Tesla autopilot is obviously working well for many people, but for myself I have to wait until level 4. Anything more hands on than that is inherently unsafe because of my habits.
What is the learning here ?
There is a dead project named `rusti` (fails to build on Rust nightly >= 2016-08-01) that can interpret Rust source, and a newer project named `miri` (last commit 3 days ago) that interprets MIR output from the compiler. Several of us in the community, me included, would like a REPL, so I'd keep an eye on these projects to see if they go anywhere.
This particular subject invites heavy bias due to vote herding, and I am proud to call it out and to speak an unpopular but fair opinion nonetheless.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEw...

As a moderator you appear guilty of partisanship because I note a conspicuous absence of action against a clear mob suppression of the 2.7 view.
He knows I can just open up a linux vm right???
Does Level 3 require instant attention?

I thought it allowed the car to require some parameters (such as road type or weather). If my car can handle the hours-long uninterrupted highway sections of a road trip, yet still require manual driving on city streets, that is still a huge value proposition for time & safety.
The upgrade process of south was pretty shitty.

The documentation was telling something like: Ensure you applied all previous migrations and then start from scratch. Thats not an upgrade path. It may work for standalone web applications, but I have a python project (packaged as deb/rpm package and using the packaged django version of different distributions) that should work with multiple django versions and the user may upgrade the django version at any point.

I had to write raw sql statements to get the mirgration status of south (after the upgrade, without a working version of south anymore) and "fake" apply the migrations of the new native solution.
I've done a few thousand miles with Tesla's Autopilot and I find it to be much easier to stay awake with it than without. Constantly making little adjustments is pretty tiring. Paying attention to the the road and other cars is enough to keep my attention. Your experience may, of course, vary.
If you don't, how are you going to convince anyone to invest in anything?
I've never seen anything I disabled turn itself back on after updates (major or minor) either, but in addition to turning things off during the initial Win10 install/upgrade, I also used ShutUp10 [0].

[0] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10