skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably not a pipeline problem. https://www.cnet.com/news/when-tech-firms-judge-on-skills-al... Anyway, tech companies spend a lot of money and effort trying to reshape the pipeline to direct talent their way. https://blog.twitter.com/2015/we-re-committing-to-a-more-div... For schools, I'm not sure where to find that data, but I did see that Berkeley's "diversity" class had a higher completion rate and higher average GPA than the other students taking the same course. https://eecs.berkeley.edu/cs-scholars This demonstrates that a quarter billion dollars could effectively address any pipeline problem, if there is one.

Edit: These numbers vary wildly for other companies in the same location, so I'm not sure a comparison with them proves anything. https://hackerlife.co/blog/tech-companies-diversity/San-Fran...
> Misconception 1: Driver assistance systems will evolve gradually into fully autonomous cars

> [...]People often argue that such assistance systems need to be supervised by the driver. This makes sense for assistance systems that operate for a few seconds or minutes (such as a parking assistant) but it can not work for systems that drive continuously. Humans are not capable to maintain the state of alert for hours and hours which would be required to immediately counteract possible deficiencies of a driver-assistance system or to take over from it in a split-second.

> We can only entrust the driving task to a driver assistance system when we are sure that this system can handle all situations which arise suddenly and require immediate reaction. This means that driver assistance systems operating continuously on a highway need to be able to cope with rare situations including pedestrians and bicyclists on the highway (they do appear sometimes on highways), accidents unfolding, animals, sudden rainfall etc. Gradual evolution of such systems is impossible; they need to be extremely capable from the first day on which they are put into operation.

http://www.driverless-future.com/?page_id=774
At which point they need to provide a tibetan keyboard; unless they'll be able to thoroughly inspect your mobile device that may not have wifi.
Honestly, it's people with lives external to work (families, hobbies, friends, kids) seeing people with nothing better to do than hang out in the office all day seizing the inside lane wrt office politics by doing stuff that's not related to their actual work at all. I don't know necessarily whether that's unfair, as a manager might see somebody with nothing better to do with their time but work as an asset, but I can empathize with the resentment.
State of Mobile Networks: USA – OpenSignal
Great synopsis, thanks! I'm particularly excited by the last point - there's a genius to putting this in kernel space for exactly that reason.
The web app only works with Google right now, but the Android app works with most services.
I'm out of the industry now, but one more intuitive option we implemented was to magnify pan rotations, such that a user only has to turn their head through 120º (tuneable) to turn a full 360º. Thus a seated user doesn't have to strain their neck to get the full experience. Even in immersive VR, we aren't especially bothered by the lack of 1:1 rotation.
shrug As you like. If whoever wrote Jira revealed that the reason "stories" and "bugs" and "epics" all have the same default fields was because he thinks capitalism is better than socialism or what have you, I would entirely ignore it, and I don't think I'd be any poorer for it.

I would also wish for more projects in this vein. If something came down the pike with similar aims but minus the spooky political baggage and the eccentric syntax, believe me, I'd subscribe to their newsletter. But AFAIK there is nothing in the offing even remotely similar to urbit other than urbit.
From someone who has worked in OTC technology trading for 10 years:-

- A lot of cash fixed income trading is open to automation, in fact it amazes me when I watch some execution traders in action. Their process is highly predictable: Get order into their execution blotter, send out RFQ to brokers, get back prices, check best price against a known value e.g. limit price, trade/no-trade.

- This holds true for perhaps 80% of flow for a wealth/retail fund which trade mostly liquid bonds under 1MM. For real-money and hedge funds that ratio is perhaps <50% but still significant.

- AI is not the biggest driver of automation here but rather the openness of systems. By this I mean order management systems can interface to execution management systems that can interface to venues. FIX/FpML have helped this happen.

- I see this as augmentation for the trader rather than replacing him/her. Its a brand new colleague that can do the 'boring' work so they can go hunting for liquidity!
Sounds like someone from Apple's marketing department got a software degree :)
I just realized this is why the growth of network speed is increasing at a lower rate than that of compute. Even though they both continue to grow in capacity, the accelerations are different.
There is making the web more janky and hard to use and making it a simpler page. I think there is a balance here we can find.
Fitness ≠ Health
No. This 'semantic tangent' has very real consequences. The propaganda equating copyright infringement with robbery is bullshit, but bullshit with a purpose: getting the government to pick up the task of copyright enforcement, because it's too costly to make sense for the lobbying organizations to do it themselves.

If we accepted your handwaving, people charged with actually robbing someone's home and people charged with downloading half a season of Glee would face the same sentencing standards. That is obviously deranged.

So, no. The debate must continue, until consensus is reached and the matter fixed in law.
Understood, but I was replying to his comment about Intel's reasons. parent comment said CEO stated that was the reason, then accused someone else of having zero evidence. I asked for evidence of his claim.

you are correct though. "There's been lots of talk about change in tax policy....which might prompt something like this." but you used "might", not definitively stating a reason without source.
The 3rd party mod was Cruise's original business model, right? (At least nominally.)
Not sure what your comment has to do with mine.

I used Internet in the 90s and dial-up specifically as recently as 2004 - and have quite a good memory of the experience. Internet at dial-up speed was an extremely valuable commodity, to the point of disabling images in the browser and only downloading the most essential things (which is about as far from a youtube video you can get) - like documents and zipped installers (after researching that it was what you actually needed) and checking email.

Internet "videos" didn't really even exist as content before ~2005 and Youtube. The biggest player before them was Break.com, which posted a whopping 10-15 videos a day.

While someone may have spent several hours waiting for a key software installer to download, almost no one would do the same for a video of dubious quality and content, certainly not in the 90s.

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To illustrate my point even further, the speed we're talking about isn't even dial-up speed. It's 6.5kbit/second, which makes it almost an order of magnitude slower than a 56k modem! 10 times slower!

And people are actually suggesting that someone would spend that valuable bandwidth to spend days to load a video...
> Would you agree that defining which drugs are illegal ought to be a science-based process and not an ideological/policy-based one?

Deciding the criteria ultimately cannot be anything but an ideological policy decision. Deciding which specific drugs meet that criteria may be a scientific questions (if the criteria is such that that is the appropriate method of determining it.)
Granted, you're not the parent I was referring to, but let me ask again: Do you believe there is anything wrong with the behavior?
I'm surprised they need anything. I get my home internet from a satellite in geosynchronous orbit and it works fine other than the latency. No human has got that far from Earth since Apollo in the 1970s, so my home internet has to be worse than anyone NASA cares give internet. (though I have no idea what bandwidth NASA has)
Windows 95 supported preemptive multitasking for 32-bit applications. Mac OS kept using cooperative multitasking for an embarrassingly long time through all versions of 7, 8, and 9. Macs didn't get preemptive multitasking until OS X came along although there was a half hearted API that some apps could opt into in OS 9. By that time, a lot of Windows users were already on Windows 2000 or moving up to XP, both of which made classic Mac OS look downright archaic. But not to be mistaken, Windows 95 was a lot more advanced than classic Mac OS in a lot of important characteristics.
The system is likely capable of distinguishing a lit green light from a sign painted like one. If you're simply asking "would the system be fooled if someone nefariously hung an always green light where a red one should be" surely that is a circumstance that would fool a human as well.
Minutes might be slightly overselling it but AMP has a bit over 100KB of render-blocking JavaScript alone before you get the actual content.

Here's the current top story when I hit news.google.com in a mobile browser:

https://news.google.com/news/amp?caurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.was...

Loading that in a simulated 2G connection takes about 80 seconds and at least 30 seconds of that is waiting to display anything you care about. Looking at the content breakdown shows why: ~200KB of webfonts, 1.2MB of JavaScript, 275KB of HTML, etc.

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170208_DV_R2R1/2/details/...

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170208_5Y_R404/1/details

Loading the same page without JavaScript pulls the content render time down into a couple seconds, still over 2G:

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170208_5Y_R404/1/details/...
I should add: A Peruvian buddy of mine told me that aboriginal Inca people historically have chewed coca leaves when laboring (carrying stuff, plowing, etc) at high altitude. It enables them to live and work at high altitude. My hypothesis: Coca and Humanity co-evolved in the Andes. Maybe a paleogeneticist knows how to disprove, or prove, that hypothesis.
> Why shouldn’t the web work with dialup or a dialup-like connection?
Because we have the capability to work beyond that capacity now in most cases. That's like asking "why shouldn't we allow horses on our highways?"

As a counterpoint, I have a 1G FTTH connection, 8GB of ram, but only a dual-core 1.4 GHz Haswell (Celeron 2955U) and an iffy SSD, so I get a terrible web experience if I have more than one tab open.
(I'm "Sebastian".) It meant to read C. It definitely wasn't C++. However, now I'm curious if I'm confusing it with the later Amiga games. I'll need to look into this. I was 8 years old at the time. :) Note that this was for hobby projects many years after the original launch of those products - not mainstream dev.
Solr Start – Collection of Resources for Apache Solr
Yes, http://windowsreport.com/driver-signature-enforcement-window...
I'm getting sick of Bill Nye. I loved his show in the 90's, but he's really a one trick pony at this point.

Climate Change - I get it.

He did some important work for Boeing, which is to be respected, but it's not in the climate science field.

He's becoming more of a propagandist than an educator now, and i will not be watching his show.
Forbes says it's being used that way.[1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/01/05/the-2-facto...
Why not? They are all basically wrappers around ASM.
> none of that concludes to why YC has to be less prestigious

In 2005 YC's thesis was that the smartest technical people would make the best founders. That's why when you applied for startup school, they asked you what your favorite technologies were. And while there were certainly Java people there, the expected answers were clearly Python, Lisp, or Haskell.

The reason it may feel less exclusive now is because they're now actively encouraging people to apply rather than (arguably) actively discouraging people from applying. But that's because A) they know the original thesis was wrong B) you can basically now acquire the technical skills needed to build a startup by spending a few hours watching YouTube video about Django, so for most startups there isn't really any advantage conferred by being some sort of technical genius.

While it's true there are more startups now, it's also much harder to get in. Back in 2005 - 2007, probably a third of the startups went out of business without ever even launching. And it was expected that another third would never get any users. The stuff that would get you funded in 2006 not only wouldn't get you an interview today, it wouldn't even get you the email saying you were close to getting an interview.
Essentially saying that the biases of individual teams trump the diversity goals of the entire company?

Blind testing is not so difficult that it isn't worth doing. Last week, the spouse and I did a blind taste test of nine different beers. We got someone else to pour them into numbered cups and rated the contents of the cups without pre-existing biases. You just have to interview in such a way that no one can see the candidates' labels.

Would it really be that awful to use a telepresence robot with text-to-speech in an interview? That would allow the candidate to see and hear everybody else, but no one would know anything about them other than what they typed in a chat box.
"Of course they could have separate signing certificates for 'overriding' drivers, but that would be just as much a hack as using the time stamp."

It'd be far less of a hack, IMO. At least that particular hack wouldn't be totally subverting something with as much predefined semantic meaning as a timestamp.

Besides, it could actually fit into Microsoft's organizational structure reasonably well. The team that maintains default drivers could have one signing key, and the team that maintains override drivers could have a different signing key. Same deal for Microsoft teams/departments that develop/maintain drivers for Microsoft hardware projects (like Microsoft-branded HIDs).
It's not entirely true. Copland microkernel was in (hidden) in System 8.5 onward, and provided preemptive multitasking, file mapping, timers etc. It's just that the only real 'task' on it was the old cooperative OS.

They had made a LOT of work on that, and the driver model by the time System 9 arrived. What really failed on Copland was the 'userland' equivalent. At the time, Apple had gone into a completely bizarre way of designing complex APIs for everything and most of them had no use whatsoever. There were heaps of crap, like OpenDoc and many others and Copland was 'trying' (and failing miserably) to integrate all of that.

How do I know? I have a collector t-shirt with 'Copland Driver Kitchen' on it ;-)
Can we use this to get them out of the school earlier? Thereby giving the other students a better chance to learn and saving resources all around.
Whoa -- that is a very small town in a low population density area. I apologize for asking -- my question does a lot more to attach identity to you than I'd realized. I would delete my question if I still could.
Given the laws we have today, do you believe there is anything wrong with the behavior?
That video was impressive. It shows great situational awareness.

Here's what I wonder about the future. Is there a point in which consolidation will take place in the auto industry as a result of superior self-driving performance and capabilities? Meaning -- can the value created by self-driving software be more of a factor than the other existing assets of a GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, etc?
This is from 2014.
Of those only WhatsApp and FB Messenger are globally relevant. (by that I mean have 1 billion+ users, globally distributed)
One hack-y way to do it would be to load it via JavaScript. For example, see this stackoverflow [0]. Obviously not a great solution, but it works if your dying for something.

I bet people w/ slow connections are much more likely to disable javascript, though.

let loadTime = window.performance.timing.domContentLoadedEventEnd- window.performance.timing.navigationStart;
if (loadTime > someArbitraryNumber) {
// Disable loading heavy things
}

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14341156/calculating-page...
This is a really good point. It's likely not just the case of "you might as well make it "worthwhile"" - economics plays a big part too. Once transportation and handling (and smuggling) costs make up the majority of the price of a product, the only products that are worth supplying at those of the (perceived) highest quality.

A classic example is the observation that the average orange sold in New York City is of significantly higher quality that the average orange sold in Florida.

On the face of it, this sounds silly - NYC doesn't grow oranges and Florida has lots of excellent orange trees, yet what happens is that given the high costs to ship fresh fruit, it makes sense (from a marginal cost perspective) to send mostly above-average fruit to NYC because the people in NYC who are already paying a much higher amount than the people in Florida for the same orange likely won't care very much about an extra five or ten cents to get the better orange while the people in Florida could see the extra five or ten cents as a 100% increase in the price of a good.
Yes, my point was specifically about videos, and I've elaborated on it further in the post above.

I, too, remember quite vividly waiting 30-40 minutes to download a 5MB installer for WinAmp and ICQ.

I honestly wouldn't even know where to look for videos in the 90s internet. Most people probably didn't have the upload speed to even consider sharing them online.
Considering how fast git is compared to everything else for common operations, I'm quite happy for `blame` to be slow.

Optimise for the common case is standard engineering practice as I'm sure you know.

(btw putting design in quotes is a bit rude; as a fan of
yours it pains me a little to say this)
I heard this somewhere on HN, but websites should fail like escalators, not like elevators. Too many people design sites like elevators though.
I use gmail's Basic HTML interface all the time. AJAXy gmail and Inbox balloon to incredible levels of memory use pretty quickly, and are slower for most interactions than the full-page loads on Basic HTML, which means that someone somewhere lost track of WTF they were supposed to be doing all of this for.

It's easily worth the loss of a couple features.
> (NASA has their wacky ways around the issue for ISS residents, something like VNC to a ground-based browser IIRC.)

Wait, VNC? Won't that use oodles more bandwidth than proxying HTTP?
That's because the pentium 2 chip isn't decoding the video. Try it with a software decoder some time. It hardly works. I had to disable video scaling before my 366 would stop dropping frames.
I think your memory of the late 90's is actually from the early 90's ;)

I remember the first realtime mp3 player on Windows, Fraunhofer IIS' WinPlay3, which launched in '95. Then Winamp came out in '97 and blew our minds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinPlay3
I Can't Find .dltemp File in Download Folder of UC Browser – Onenaija Blog
Because it is a undisclosed conflict of interest.Imagine you go with a friend to a bookstore , and he recommends to you several books. Since you seem to trust your friend and you have the money, you buy the books. Unbenknownst to you, your friend receives a 5% commission, and he never disclosed it to you. Same principle. It is a whole different game if he mentions this to you in advance, since now you consider your friend a as an interested part and you will consider his recommendations more carefully.
He needs to integrate it with systemd
Smart lighting gizmo offers video chat, gesture support, and Alexa
I have been failing to communicate, but it has not been deliberate.

Your assertion that there is no such thing as objective truth is A) false and B) not a reason to redefine objective truth (a property that is impossible to obtain is still a useful thing to talk about).

Humanity does not generate the properties that it invents language to describe. Those properties can be thought of objectively, but natural language does not always do that (it does do it sometimes though, the word "three" is objectively defined).

Some words do not contain within their definition any objective phenomena; "Beauty", for example, does not. The reasoning you have applied thus far should apply to all words, since you have not expressed any particular property of 'troll' in any of your arguments. So if the original comment had said "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and we had continued to have this same argument, the validity of either of our positions would be unchanged. Would you still be complaining about relativism if that had been the topic?
It's one of the smoothest web apps I've ever seen, on mobile.
I take it you don't walk in the woods much...
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I'm saying that valuing somebody for their background instead of their skills is a subtle but very real form of bigotry while also betraying the reality that you can understand/empathize with people from different backgrounds without being part of that background.
Rust's regex crate has fuzzing running against it, and that has lead to a lot of useful small fixes: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/pull/262
That's reasonable, because "SSA is functional programming", as demonstrated in Appel's classic paper:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/ssafun.pdf
Does this mean that you are giving them the right to use any data transmitted through the service? Including your own personal messages?
Do you (or anyone) ever see Waymo cars downtown?
The unintended consequence I'm talking about is they expected it will take 100 years for the system to be utilized at full capacity but in reality it took just 20-30 years...
Because GEB is, in many regards, pop-science (or pop-math). It's a fun introductory read, but it won't really (and by really I mean rigorously) explain (and by explain I mean prove) much of anything.

Any reference to it in the context of academia is a bit on the nose. It's like trying to study piano and saying you love Mozart. Like, yeah, okay.
In the short term, perhaps.

In the long term, possibly not - there are already efforts and approaches being done in ML/deep learning to get models to label unlabeled data (google "deep learning unlabeled data" for tons of research info).
I have not. That was a little bit before my time. The first modem I've had the luxury of using was a 33.6K.
It's a shame that their oldest mobile version, the original m.reddit.com is no longer available. It was truly the most compact way to experience the site. Barely more than a list of links.
So I've caught flack for choosing an OpenSSH "native" VPN (where it sets up TUN/TAP for you on both ends, etc..) over IPSec before.

While I'm sure it's probably lower performance, if you've ever done more than just plug and play some Cisco IPSec stuff (e.g. manually implement IPsec on Linux), it is terrifying in its complexity, IMO, for something you depend upon so critcially.