skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a company as large as Uber could someone working on database scalability be involved in calls about whether or not payment should be withheld from drivers before a ride ends? Would her manager be the decision maker for that?

That detail seems suspect to me. There are also essentially no details about the work that convey inside knowledge about the ideosyncracies of Uber specifically at a work place. It is also weird to me that she chose to be anonymous but included her height and a bunch of specific incidental details - it reminds me of how liars frequently add an excessive amount of detail to add credibility to their stories.

Personally it sounds true to me. but I'd like to see more scrutiny from someone with perspective on this.
Get those labor costs down from having to have so many presumably high-skilled workers, and it may start to be a little more competitive with coal price-wise, which is what it's all about.
Is the C version optimized? Could you conclude that parallelism in rust is faster/ better than C + openMP in this case considering rust is to replace C++ and is safe at least in this submission?
I'd like some endorsements for Hypercard, Police Quest 3, and obscure x86 opcodes
many investment banks put users in an impossible situation to see how the candidate reacts under pressure. i'm not defending what uber did, just clarifying that this could have been the goal.
Amen.

And, if you are engaging in one or another form of workaholism (until "someday", "it will pay off", to avoid the crazy/upsetting at home, etc.), ending this is priority number one.

The basis of your health is a good personal life, whatever that means for you.

For some people, it genuinely is their work. I don't mean to discount that. But if you're working for "someday", rather than loving the moment you are in, well then, make sure you get out of there at a decent hour and find some moments you do love.
About 20 years ago as a young engineer I was given the opportunity to propose some solutions to NASA, and was invited to the Kennedy Space Center’s LCC for the presentation. Prior to meeting with the exec team at the LCC they took me on a tour of the VAB, where I saw all the operations and was allowed to take digital images of some of the vehicle assembly and maintenance operations to demonstrate possible improvements. Such great energy at the whole KSC. What an honor to be there to feel that passion and gratitude!

Last month I was again at the KSC and LCC as a tourist, and the energy was just a minute fraction of what I'd seen 20 years before. We need this kind of vision [from SpaceX and others, e.g., like this other NASA-based article today with the young engineer comments, who did the hydroponics in microgravity at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743196 ] to push science and technology beyond the video game and entertainment markets. Congratulations to SpaceX, the microgravity hydroponics engineer, and the others with vision who are once-again elevating the bright eyes of brilliant youth, scientists and engineers.
So when will they launch a Falcon Heavy with a Dragon, unmanned? They've got to try that first. Will the initial Falcon Heavy test flight carry a Dragon spacecraft?
> Teams that are all high performing are super rare, and tend to be really, really, really obvious within a company.

Teams that don't fit a normal distribution are incredibly common.

And I think the bigger problem is money allocated for pay increases.

If the average 3 rating employee in your team can get a 10% annualised return each time they change jobs then the company should be budgeting 10% for a grade of 3. In practice this doesn't happen.
>If you're curious about it, your HR department probably has some training materials.

There you go again, with the pointless grandstanding.

It seems like you never had any intention of having a genuine discussion, since I can't find a single one of your comments that doesn't read as venomous and disingenuous. You're exactly the type of person that needs HR, and I mean that in a bad way really.
> On a related note, I have in general concerns about latency spikes due to rehashing. Is there a good, general, incremental rehashing scheme?

One option is to move a few elements over from the old hash table on each operation[0].

A second option is to use linear hashing[1] (different from linear probing). Linear hashing let's you increase the size of your hash table by one bucket at a time. The general idea is once your hash table is full, you allocate a new bucket (generally from a preallocated array) and move half of the elements from an old bucket to the new bucket. I know Postgres used to use linear hashing, but I'm not sure about the current state. I heard they started using Robin Hood hashing, but I haven't looked at whether that is unrelated to the code that uses linear hashing.
BaudotRSS – RSS and SMS support for antique 5-bit Teletype machines
Yes, that is exactly right. They are not going to land, for exactly the reasons you say.
Porsche Driver Causing Tragic Accident on a Greek Highway
Nah, if Elon is going somewhere, it's deeper underground with his giant bore.
Journalist for German newspaper arrested in Turkey
We passed that milestone years ago:

https://uksportsci.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/prosthetics-in-s...
Monitoring and Evaulation of the Edinburgh City Car Club [pdf] (2001)
> Who is in a position to know . . .

Nobody is. She could be lying. She could even be providing the demographic information of a coworker who had none of these experiences. She might be a space alien for all we know.

So you just have to weigh the evidence and get comfortable with uncertainty. Is there someone who would make all this stuff up? Sure. No doubt there's someone out there who likes internet adulation enough to cook up a story. Is this an instance of that happening? Not very likely, I think, since it corroborates what we're hearing from a lot of other people about Uber's culture, and Ms. Fowler's story. I judge that there is a high likelihood this story is true or mostly true.

That's all you can do really. You're never going to get first-hand, attributed corroboration in a case like this. This is because anyone in a position to do that would be outing the anonymous whistle-blower by corroborating, especially if more than two people did. If they care about the victim, they will respect her choice to remain anonymous. So demanding more before assigning credibility is tantamount to deciding to always disbelieve anonymous accounts. That is an option available to you, but I don't think that option is the most useful for developing true beliefs about the world around me, so I don't choose it.
Might as well have been a robot.

A lot of people that work in call centers are told to stick to a very specific script. If you ask a question that they don't have a scripted answer for, they end up giving an answer that has little or nothing to do with your question. Tech support is notorious for walking you through steps that you've already done or simply can't do because your environment differs (See relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/806/).

Management makes them do it to cover their ass and prevent an employee from saying something wrong, but it's terrible customer service. Not only does it prevent customers from getting the help they need, it also makes the call reps appear incompetent.
As far as I understand, the press release doesn't mention anything about landing. Quoting from the article: "SpaceX will launch the private mission on a journey to circumnavigate the moon and return to Earth"
What is even the point of having a war once you are fighting with robot armies? Why not just throw a coin and hand the country over to the side that picked the correct outcome? Use an unfair coin to correct for military strength. Or each side sends its best players for a game of Risk or Rock, Paper, Scissors or Command and Conquer.

You get a winer and a loser, it does not take years and costs a fortune and you avoid all the unnecessary loss of life and the damage you have to fix after the war. That seems like a win for everyone involved. Well, that could actually also work right now, no need to wait for robot armies.
>“There is no place for ethics in this business sweetheart."

"Oh, we are doing pet names for our coworkers now? From now on I will refer to you as 'dickhead'".
The thesis of my comment was that we should be surprised that any language does poorly on this benchmark, particularly ones that have similar kinds of targeting, and that if we cared about this benchmark (and I claim we don't), we should all pitch in, possibly upstream to fix various languages and their standard libraries to nail this benchmark. However, I also believe the rules of this benchmark are awkward and even flawed, and that it isn't clear to me that it is worth anyone's time to do that.

I am not lamenting that someone should spend more time on this: I am lamenting that tons of people seem to care about it at all, it is not a "microbenchmark" (as some are calling it), and I think the main lesson we can learn from it is "there is something subtely wrong, either with the implementation that was contributed for this benchmark, the language's runtime, or it's standard library", as given these rules we really should expect every language to be similarly in performance.

And so, if we all cared about this benchmark, I bet we could figure out what is going on and get every open source language down under 25s. Past that point, I think the rules are such that this isn't even a fun game much less a useful metric of anything worth measuring, and you are probably wasting your time contributing. I guess, to make this subthread go somewhere: why do you disagree?
"Security Hamperred Internet of Things"
I'd never seen that before. Neat. Honda has always impressed me as an engineering company.
If instead of increasing military spending 54 billion, we gave it all to NASA, we could be quadrupling NASA's budget.
What did you end up telling the CEO?
Toyota and GM happily get together to battle against support for alternative forms of mass transit. They have little worry about losing out to light rail for example. No, I'm not interested in a debate about the cost benefit blah blah. I'm using light rail as an example to facilitate the point.

IMO, that's what the previous post is talking about. GM and Toyota largely release the exact same product if you look at it from an engineering data perspective; combustion engine, suspension, cupholders. And the "market" is highly protective and curated towards them (oil industry subsidies helping bring down gas prices, bailouts).

Alternatives, like GM's battery car in the 90s, are mothballed and too expensive for outsiders to really get in on. Plus the key players obviously don't want to get away from fossil fuels, right? So they keep getting favorites.
Sorry for hijacking. Is there a podcast which talks about big, distributed systems and their architecture? I'd be really interested in that.
But it's the thinnest, sleekest, most stylish way to limit your data preserving and upgrade options on the market!
> IIRC non-profits can't make and keep profits.

Non-profits can make surplus revenues over costs and retain them; they can't return profits to shareholders or other particular beneficiaries.

Certain classes of nonprofits are restricted from certain business activities, or limited to certain activities. E.g., charities (501c3 nonprofits) must be organized and operated exclusively for purposes on an list of charitable purposes.
Have they really resisted it? SpaceX haven't had, and still don't have, a spacecraft capable of carrying people into orbit, so it's not like they've left money on the table. Delivering satellites and cargo was a good way to fund and prove the rocket themselves, without which any tourism is obviously a non-starter. And working with NASA on the Commercial Crew programme provides access to NASA expertise and facilities that SpaceX would otherwise have to develop from scratch. I suspect tourism was always part of the long-term plan.

If I had to guess why they decided to start with this mission in particular, I think it is probably because it provides a better PR opportunity than simple orbital tourism. SpaceX are clearly very image conscious, and beginning by taxiing billionaires into orbit perhaps sends the wrong signal. It's not doing anything that Russia hasn't already done, and undercuts the idealistic image they put across.

On the other hand, sending people beyond LEO for the first time in over forty years is clearly a major accomplishment. And having them be private citizens, even very rich ones, sends a very strong message that private spaceflight has come of age.
It's all about costs and benefits though. I do think that a decimal type should be standard along side a float so that the most appropriate one can be chosen. But in many contexts, one needs to go outside the immediate ecosystem to third party libraries to get an alternative to floating point. Currency is a good example of a type that should not use floating point arithmetic but is far too often.
Easiest way to do it is called a cooperative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative

But VC never fund them, they prefer private owned companies.

Maybe because it is easier to bribe 1 man for 100 grands than 1000 for 10grands
They are in fact classic examples of infringement.

It is someone's "opinion" that a private Catholic Christian charity should exercise a procedure or have a policy that is strictly against the values of that organization.

Strictly speaking, as intelligent adults here, we can rationalize that a Catholic charity does not believe in contraceptives or abortions and would not participate in these activities. They have a long held history of this practice and it wasn't made up on the spot because they felt like it, such as your example of belief in evolution leading to denial of a procedure, which very few if any people in this country hold and especially any organizations that practice in the field of medicine.

Frankly, if you have issue with private healthcare providers having a choice in their practice, you should be for a legal framework and consumer market that allows for more consumer choice instead of less so people can choose a provider that works with what they need. In a truly free market, this would be extremely easy to accomplish.

As to the baker example, it doesn't require any further explanation than this. No private individual or business has a solemn duty to respect and faithfully accommodate the practices and requests of another individual that they object too. Would a satanist be a protected individual with case to sue if they specifically wished for a Christian bakery to create a cake with Jesus impaled on a cross? Afterall, the satanist is a minority holding a minority belief.

As citizens in a free society, if we want to start rolling back division in this country, we need to dramatically improve our education, and we need to start allowing people to behave freely again, good and bad. Forcing people into associations they don't want to have causes further division ultimately.
How many thousands of votes on Hacker News are required to graduate out of lousy trolling?
Definitely agree caution is a good stance to take -- as much as we need to be supportive of victims we also need to be smart about doing our research. With that said, given Uber's recent history (Fowler) and without any action from Uber's higher-ups that indicates they actually give a shit (frankly a twitter apology from Kalanick and a half-assed 'investigation' isn't enough at this point), I'm far more inclined to err on the side of supporting the alleged victim than the alleged perpetrator in this case.
he could've voted and contributed behind closed doors like most other wealthy people

At least one Silicon Valley CEO can tell you how that one worked out for him.
It's worded in a way that it could apply to a protest that becomes a riot rather than only a planned riot. I doubt anyone would object to a law against planning a riot, but that's already illegal.
I wouldnt start my marketing spiel with "get a job at uber" unless I was going to follow it with "... and bring your wiiiifeeee"
I think this will keep Uber private for much longer/indefinably. If they were public, the company's stock would be in the pooper. Since they are private, who knows what secondary markets have 'priced' the effect of all the allegations(toxic management, previous SVP sexual harassment issues,IP theft, running red lights, etc). If anything this will probably ripple to other Unicorns that staying private is a better idea. No accountability so you can get away with way more.
Why not just apply to a master's program? She can probably get a dev job while enrolled. At least then she'll get a better signaling artifact than a boot camp certificate and probably spend less doing it.
That is beautiful, but I need more data.

1. Do project managers, product managers, etc. count, or only real managers with teams reporting to them?

2. Do urinals count, or only real sit-down toilets?
I had no idea that Enterprise Car Share (a ZipCar analogue in the UK) got started as a publicly-funded program to reduce car ownership. This report is a postmortem on the failed initial implementation + partnership with Budget.
They try to stay independent. They try to manage their resources. So they can still exist to be Mozilla in the future.

It's HARD.

Don't blame them from not being the perfect champion we used to idealize. They are doing everything they can.
If your threat model for your Bluetooth keyboard doesn't involve, say, an abusive spouse sniffing traffic to see if you're reaching out for help, your threat model is probably biased in favour of wankery like the NSA and not real threats ordinary people face.
I certainly hope they allow permission for any emergency landings required at Clavius...could create a bit of a diplomatic row if not.
>And this new world order is being driven by a tiny cabal of monopolies. So commercial dissent is near impossible. Do you want to be the weirdo without a Facebook account?

The obvious solution is antitrust law. Why is Microsoft no longer the competitive boogeyman of the 90s? Because it was prosecuted under section 2 of the Sherman Act in 1998 [1]. Everyone would be using Bing, Zune and Internet Explorer otherwise.

But the last two administrations haven't prosecuted anyone under section 2. Just imagine spinning off Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome etc. and letting them survive on their own merits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
That's not the definition of introvert at all, you're using it as a proxy to mean shy or even socially awkward.

Introverts have sex and date too. Using your logic (which I don't necessarily agree with) I could argue that they are more likely to feel frustrated with a lack of options, and to abuse any power they do have.

Anecdotally, most of the harassment I have seen (in academia at least) has come from introverts -- things like staring at a colleague's chest, awkward comments that bring up a colleagues femininity / looks / relationship status / childbearing status, and drunken propositions at conferences. It's not as malicious as the examples from Uber as most of the time the man can claim to be unaware that his actions were making the woman uncomfortable, but it persists nevertheless.
Do you know how many calls you can get in a year of scammers pretending to have kidnapped members of your family in some developing countries? The only real difference from that to this is the added tech-savyness of obtaining real recordings instead of bad acting, which some scammers are actually likely to have by virtue of purchasing this data the way they currently purchase phone numbers, names and CC numbers. The police in those places won't bother going after a phone scammer that only took money (say, in the form of a non-cryptocurrency digital cash transfer that was quickly exchanged for cash), even if the criminal is fairly traceable in theory. When the rule of law is such that only about 2% of murders ever get investigated, this sort of thing just becomes the background noise of un-safety.
I think there is still place for similar projects. Although do look at Calca as well if you have not done so yet.

In regard to both, I suppose that there is an opening to something more complex.
"The state has no right to exist" is basically the definition of anarchism.
"“The world isn’t really on an annual cycle anymore,” GE head of human resources Susan Peters said at the time, explaining that millennial workers in particular wanted faster, more frequent, mobile-enabled feedback."

Literally nobody, not even a millennial, has said they want mobile-enabled feedback on their job performance.
IMO the simple reality is they need to diversify their income sources to avoid putting all their eggs in one basket, and they decided Pocket makes sense. I'm still a huge Mozilla fan, the whole Pocket episode is not a big deal to me.
Amit Singhal leaves uber over allegations of sexual harassment at Google
Seriously? That's a fairly aggressive comment to just throw out there without any backing arguments.

You really can't think of anything valuable about hooking up small devices/sensors to the internet? Do you really believe the potential for stronger security is so low that it's not worth investigating?

I work at an IoT company and we take security far more seriously than some would say is necessary or even reasonable. We're not the only ones out there, you just don't hear about us because our stuff works and therefore doesn't make the news. Just like you don't hear about all the miles an automated car drives safely.
I'm a former neo-Nazi. Don't ignore the threat of white extremism
We're getting closer and closer with Nylas Mail, although still have a long way to go!

https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail'

(I work at Nylas)
Does music skill transfer to cognitive and academic skills? [pdf]
Not only they removed that feature, but they also removed a bunch of other automatic-categories that I used to love (quick reads!)

And, as I've described in a blog post I did about Pocket, the recommendation system they created fails in one huge aspect: it is recommending me things that I've seen elsewhere but just decided not to pocket...
Underprotection of Unpredictable Statistical Lives Compared to Predictable Ones [pdf]
I wonder what cloud-connected pets the Trump and Trump-Kushners have.
Personalized Media: A Genetic Investigation of Online Media Use
Ah - don't think that'll work.
Do the employees know it? As far as I know, I've never worked at a company anything like this. But then it occurred to me maybe I just have no idea why I get whatever level of raise I get.
Why Google Play Sucks for Selling eBooks
My problem with your comment is the entitlement you claim to define acceptable behaviour of those being abused "what I demand from anyone who wants to call themselves a victim". Also people don't want to call themselves victims, they are victims who may feel able to make that known.

Letting a bully know that they are having an effect on you is far from risk free.

You also seem to believe that people have no responsibility for making people around them comfortable unless they are explicitly told it is making them uncomfortable. Everyone has a responsibility not to be ass.
Is there a fine for this? Some sort of punishment? Companies need to be taking security seriously, we are all paying the price.

Internet-of-Shit will remain exactly that until neglecting security is a substantial threat to the bottom line of a company.

They ignored multiple warnings? Got hacked multiple times? This is negligence, and this company should be fined out of business.
Nothing really surprising. I would imagine with some thinking and maths one could come up with a number e.g 5,000(just a made up number) power elites controlling media, finance, law and business but may not keep public facing roles all the time.
Or it was an unauthorized leak. Someone in HR, with access to the files, deciding for themselves what the right thing to do was