skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well 12million jobs in the transportation sector is a pretty good reason to be sceptic if cars get automated.
"Without some form of Occam's Razor, you can't do science — or at least, you can't come to any definite conclusions, because there are always infinitely many models that would explain any observation."

I'm afraid that's a category error. I wasn't talking about science. I was talking about truth.

Many truths are literally incomprehensible. There are many systems out there in the world that may even consist entirely of atomic parts that we fully understand but we still can not understand the totality of all the parts, that simply consist of too many bits (in the information theoretic sense) for us to ever understand. The truths are true nevertheless.

I'm a bit old fashioned that way. The idea that there is no objective reality, or that if we can't understand it it can't exist, may be very exciting philosophies among the word-loving crowd, but I do not find them useful models of reality.

It actually wouldn't surprise me that much to discover that we can't quite nail down the laws of physics the universe operates on even in principle for some reason. (And I don't mean with any sort of copouts like "it might be a simulation" or anything; I mean the laws of physics that appear to govern the universe we appear to live in, regardless of whether that is itself sitting on top of something else.) Based on our progress in understanding the universe, I'd still guess that it's reasonably likely that we can find all the basic, atomic principles. But I wouldn't be stunned to be wrong.
NGINX and the future of the web server
This is a standard slippery slope argument. Is there evidence that the slope is actually slippery? Do we know that removing swear words leads to ideological censorship?
The issue here is that Shopify are being judged not for their actual stances, but for who they do business with. This is different from boycotting something because of their actual positions. What if no one would rent a building to Breitbart, or provide their offices and employees with internet access, or sell vehicles to their employees, or provide web hosting for them, because of the threat of boycotts against them for doing business with Breitbart? The practice of boycotting people for association rather than actual opinions is seriously bad news if you actually care about free speech, because it means that any group with enough buying power to affect the bottom line of anyone you do business with now is in control of whether or not you're allowed to exist.
Thanks for the clarification. Now, if they are already willing to do it without government incentive, what does expanding the subsidy to include them add?

To be clear, I'm not sure it is an effective subsidy to begin with, but that's a moot point as far as this discussion goes.
I did. Mostly because I like/use the tool and I wanted to support their work.
Untrue. The browser allows you to construct the "real" DOM using an API. The difference is that you can update only the parts of the page that require updating, rather than creating new HTML and forcing it to be reparsed (and refreshing the entire page) on every state update.

Try, for instance, to rerender the DOM in the way your code does when you have event listeners. If you're creating new markup each time, you blow away your listeners on the whole page.
Sometime in the 80s or 90s there was interest in introducing the same as plastic was starting to be used for more bottles. From memory it was very popular with the public at the time. Nothing ever came of it, so presumably the Thatcher govt considered it an unfair imposition on businesses.

So now we have towns and hedgerows full of discarded plastic bottles.
I believe endorsements on LI are fake. I'm receiving endorsements for random things from my former and current co-workers and I know for sure they never sent any (either because I asked them or I know it's entirely outside their expertise).
"Currently very rich people have a lot invested in idustries that will be threatened by this model. Why should we let you exist?"

See also: support for coal industry.
As I do a fair amount of offline reading, I'm a fan of pocket.
I generally agree with your position. But it would be made stronger if you included examples of how it would provide upsides. For example, fewer deaths due to accidents.

Take for example at least one prominent person who likely would still alive today if all cars were self driving https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.

How many countless other lives could have had an impact if only they didnt suffer a similar fate...

Next would be how to measure the impact into real numbers like GDP.
> start putting your resume out as soon as you can

i feel the interview process is broken too. this causes me pain just to think about it. but then we all face the same situation so i ll put up with it and as you suggested gotta take classes and make myself more relevant.
I think arenaninja is saying that the theoretical models predicted those things, then empirical experiments later confirmed them. (I don't know if this is actually the case) This gives the theories credibility as being predictive.

In this case we have a theoretical mode, but we later notice our empirical data doesn't match this. Both MOND and dark matter are an attempt to patch up our existing theory to explain what we have seen. This is less compelling, because it is post-hoc and these theories might just work because we force it to work by over fitting. To use an analogy to machine learning, it is like training on your test set; no on is impressed when you then have good performance on your test set.

With that said, I think that point of view would apply to both theories equally.
Taking Pocket Further with Mozilla
Every single mapping app has to implement some kind of mapmatching, since you can't rely on the GPS sensors to always be accurate: the GPS position is frequently wrong when you're moving between cell towers , and can be lost for several seconds in cities. Nokia/HERE's implementation (which I was told was very similar to tomtom/garmin's implementation) was written more than a decade ago, and IIRC, every time it encounters a fork in your path, it projects your position on every alternate for a few seconds and chooses the one that best matches the current gps+compass+accelerometer data as your "current" route. The output of this algorithm (which btw is hideously incomprehensible -- I'm talking old c++ with almost no comments) is what is used for map viewing/routing/guidance... the pure gps signal is never used as-is.
Will it become firefox exclusive?
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You can have hope for a better integration than that odd toolbar button and the silly login page that asks you to make Yet Another Password instead of using the Sync/Mozilla account one.
> Mozilla is growing, experimenting more, and doubling down on our mission to keep the internet healthy, as a global public resource that’s open and accessible to all.

...by buying a crappy, proprietary app?
In case you didn't know, you can remove it from the toolbar via "Customize", or completely disable it by toggling `extensions.pocket.enabled` in `about:config`.

That being said, I started using it extensively after being a big fan of Instapaper. The browser integration (especially the easy tagging) has been really helpful in keeping my tab count down.
Hm, I'll look into it. Right now it is using the built-in SpeechSynthesis library in the browser. You may try installing the language in the accessibility settings for your OS. (Could you try this and let me know?)

I've considered adding a fallback API like Google's Cloud API if the browser is unavailable, but I haven't done that yet.

If you didn't, be sure to get on the feedback/email list and I'll let you know when I do.
I've always liked Pocket, but felt queasy about its integration with Firefox.

I consider this a great move for a better bookmarking experience in Firefox as well as a better pocket service.
Right, I thought pocket was actually one of the Mozilla sponsors, given the default installation in Firefox.
Very well said and thank you. Yes, i am thinking on those lines too. need some breather time. Cant keep running all life. :)
It is weird - the press release itself notes that this is the first such acquisition Mozilla has ever made.

In their defense, it won't be the first time they've gotten into operating a service -- there's Sync, for instance. So if they see expanding FF's bookmarking abilities as a key strategic differentiator, buying an existing read-it-later service they're already familiar with could be a simpler/cheaper way of getting there than building one from scratch.
If you want to incentivise increased reproductive rates, offer appropriate social welfare and/or tax incentives, and improve availability of childcare, education, family-appropriate accommodation, etc. Some countries, notably Singapore, do this. Legalising same-sex marriage is unlikely to affect reproduction one way or another.

This article is US-centric, and the US does not have a problematic low reproductive rate (total fertility rate of 1.9), so I fail to see the relevance.
Not having a LinkedIn account would be definitely a red flag for many companies. However you have the control to display as much information as you're comfortable with on your profile.
(I had a long reply on this, but Firefox 51 crashed and lost it. Rewriting).

California DMV's regulations for testing are straightforward. 1) Get $5M in insurance, 2) Report all crashes immediately, and disconnects annually, and 3) only trained drivers associated with the manufacturer can drive. That's what Google wanted, and there are about 20 manufacturers with CA autonomous vehicle testing licenses. Their reports are one of the few objective data sources we have on self-driving cars. (Uber whined about having to report their failures, refused to register, and moved testing out of CA.)

California's deployment regulations are still in flux, although there's a draft version. So far, nobody has applied to deploy production self-driving vehicles in California.

NHTSA started with definitions of levels of autonomy. Informally:

- Level 0 - manual driving

- Level 1 - auto brake or lane keeping, but not both.

- Level 2 - auto speed/brake control and lane keeping (Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, etc.) Driver may have to take over control at any time.

- Level 3 - fully automatic driving on some roads. Driver may have to take control, but not instantly. (Google/Waymo, Volvo)

- Level 4 - fully automatic driving on all roads.

- Level 5 - no driver needed.

NHTSA proposes that at level 3 and above, the manufacturer is responsible for all accidents. Volvo is on board with this, and the US Big Three automakers don't object. NHTSA sees a bright line between levels 2 and 3, and says that at level 2, manufacturers should enforce hands-on-wheel. That's what got Tesla into trouble - weak hands-on-wheel enforcement combined with PR that convinced some drivers that "autopilot" was better than it is.

Urmson, when at Google, said that their testing taught them that humans cannot take over fast enough to deal with automation failures. This echoes what the aviation community has discovered over the years - when someone who isn't actively flying has to take over control, it takes seconds or tens of seconds before they have full situational awareness.

This means the incremental approach of adding more features to assist the driver won't work. Somebody has to be in charge, either the human or the computer. Ambiguity over who is driving leads to accidents. (For an aviation view of this, see "Children of the Magenta", where a chief pilot is talking to his pilots about cockpit aviation dependency.[1])

Congressional hearing last week on self-driving cars.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJsRF7NcjpM
Oh, that's a good idea. (It's unfortunate that neither my code nor yours is portable to non-Unix platforms like Windows.)

UPDATE: Pushed a commit to my latest PR to replace the unsafe `File::from_raw_fd` with your `File::open`. Thanks!
... and making it open-source?
from his LinkedIn:

contact: ideas@woz.org
Really? Like what, for instance? I know that ordinal numbers are typically different in languages. Are there others?
Thanks for your advice :) Yes, 3 months would be less, but gotta move into python.. working on it now:)
It's more likely to get fully open sourced, I bet, which would make that rather hard?
I have used Pocket for the last five years or so. 99.5% of the articles I bookmark every day I never actually read. Probably should make me think why I use it at all...
They're unrelated. Wheel of Misfortune is just a role-playing replay of a previous incident as a training exercise. Someone will grab (or simulate) logs and dashboards from the incident and then play GM for the wheel of misfortune at a future team meeting. Someone who isn't familiar with the incident will be designated "on-call". They'll state what they want to do and the GM will tell them or show them what they see when they do those things.

Chaos Monkey is actually taking down production systems to make sure the system as a whole stays up when those individual pieces fall. Google does have (manual, not automatic) exercises doing similar things called DiRT (Disaster Recovery Testing), but it's not related to the SRE training exercise.

(standard disclaimer: Google employee, not speaking for company, all opinions are my own, etc.)
Interesting – can you quantify these performance issues somehow or do you have any other insight what was happening there?

It surprises me to hear it, because when CloudFront refreshes an item, it should immediately start to forward the retrieved data from the first byte onwards. So, the maximal additional latency could be the initial roundtrip between CloudFront and the origin (which I suppose should be neglectable in case of S3).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746830
This is Mozilla's first acquisition.
https://adnauseam.io/press.html
You want them to remove one of the most useful feature of Firefox?

You can remove it easily, but I'd advise you to try using it.

It personally helps me go through interesting news and "pocket" it if I don't have the time to read it now, or want to keep my time for more important articles but still think it's an important piece of news.

I have both the desktop Pocket application and the mobile Pocket application. They download the web view offline, like that I can read articles wherever I am, when I have some down time.

It's been a huge time saver when it comes to only reading what is important during the day. Having less tabs. And being able to see what I deemed important to read after a while.
As a former del.ici.ous engineer and user, I'm happy to see that Pocket will be in good hands for a while :)
Miles better in one sense (waste accumulation/environment) but miles worse in at least one other: convenience.

Guess which one is more important to the general consumer? People voted with their wallets.
Acknowledging that it's unfortunate to be shifted out of a job is different from being skeptical.
You've felt a chilling effect over the idea that we need to discuss the pros and cons of immigration??? I'm not surprised you are confused.
There's a hand-wavy footnote about recruiters not being able to divide by number of connections for every search result candidate, but I still think this would be a much more meaningful metric. I'm willing to bet the good recruiters already look at number of connections (too many/too few being flags), so I don't think it would be much of a stretch to compare the ratio.
It has a huge user-base, so we can disagree on crappy. And obviously the latter part is fixable.

Pocket was originally a Firefox add-on.
Well the first weekend of Uber's cars in San Francisco and they had to pull the project because it ran a red light very close to a pedestrian. It only takes a couple videos like that for people to be swayed against statistical information.
On the plus side, now it may still be crappy but at least it won't be proprietary anymore!
Driving robots among us who can "decide" to kill has the maximum PR potential for fear and loathing.

It is a bit like terrorism, it is a lot unsafer to step in a wet shower in the morning or well, drive to work, than say getting killed by a terrorist yet look at the wars, waste, money, time spent talking about it.
I think the model should simply switch to household-based reporting only, regardless of status, especially if the joint set of taxpayers are claiming dependents.

Each reporting adult filer in the household would link to a household TIN (like a EIN) and it would be done in aggregate. The decision to file separately would be based on the dilution of deductions as number of filers increased, relative financial independence desired, or risk of incurring the tax liabilities of others in the household.

(That would discourage roommates from filing jointly if they desired financial independence to avoid abusing the model)
First acquisition but not first investment. For example see https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2016/08/23/mozilla-makes-s...
The only other example is the hiring of three co-founders of Humanized, https://techcrunch.com/2008/01/15/breaking-mozilla-buying-hu...
Nice to know :) At the end of the day you should feel happy. Only then you will be a happy dad / happy son / happy neighbour / a happy member of the society. which is very important in the larger scheme of things. :)
That's interesting. I see they plan to open source it. I might even use it after that.
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I believe Apple requires CarPlay radios to provide wheel speed and compass readings (along with GPS) to the iPhone, and it gets used by CoreLocation to report location to apps.
You are mixing up terms.

KDP refers to the entire publishing program.

KU, Kindle Unlimited requires exclusivity but you get paid by page read.
Sufficient evidence was presented to demonstrate a non-fallacious usage of the slippery slope argument. Simply because it's a slippery slope argument doesn't make it fallacious - though such accusations are very good at silencing.

Perhaps you can provide an example where increases in censorship do not make it easier for the types of problems listed above to occur, a place where the misuse of power is unheard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope#Non-fallacious_...
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Over the past few years, Jepsen has developed a reputation within the database community for having an ability to verify claims about databases.

https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen
Thanks! Regional dialects and differences in accent would be a great idea. I may end up being limited by the availability of the audio since I'm using a speech synthesis library at the moment. Perhaps some fallback methods of crowd-sourced audio for the less-common dialects would be an option.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13739329 (33 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13740949 (9 comments)

It was also submitted another time, but there has been no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743772
But this is the rule of law, unfortunately. While we (Americans, in this case) are trying to change the laws, the problem, or rather a problem, is that people who enforce the law at the border have too much power (and too much leniency for exercising too much power). This problem is not peculiar to the US.
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I am planning to add this! If you are interested, be sure to get on the list to know when it's released.
> as well as the conclusion that the study expressly does not make, but that the headlines have made

This is why I always default to doubting "new study finds ..." until I can see the actual study.

Researchers get to choose the headlines about as much as programers get to choose the software features.
> The only appropriate visa to get paid is a work visa, like H1B, O1 or J1.

No. There are plenty of situations where you can get paid in the USA without having a work visa. As you mentioned, the scholar in this article is one example. Another example: my spouse has a H-4, which is not a work visa, but has received employment authorization (EAD) and can get paid. Another example: athletes can enter the USA on a B-1, which is not a work visa, and get paid prize money.

We could keep going, but the point is that a rule with too many exceptions stops being useful and just becomes a false statement. This led the first CBP officer to incorrectly detain the scholar in the article. This also led the author of the original comment I replied to to visibly stop reading the article halfway through, and post to HN that the scholar did not have an appropriate visa and that it was the university's fault, both of which are explicitly debunked at the end of the article.
To clarify, any time I in any way praise floating point, I'm always talking about double precision. I think single precision floating point should never have been invented, and given that it unfortunately was, it's best to behave as though it doesn't exist. Don't get me started about half precision.

Financial calculations are another matter; they usually require decimal arithmetic, not because it doesn't give rounding errors, but because it gives the same rounding errors an accountant gets when he checks the result with his desk calculator, and that's the requirement.
Sure, but I'm less worried about absolute rank and more interested in whether the language I'm using is on the order of C/C++/Fortran.

I can sell a 2x slowdown to my boss if I can show that that's the only cost of a significantly more elegant and productive language, but at 100x that's a much harder sell.
That's a great idea for an advanced mode. Everyone loves math problems. :)
I have reservations, too: it's important to be able to remove data even though disk is cheap.

* Removing very old data is a reasonable hedge for user privacy.

* Sometimes confidential data makes its way into the data set and needs to be removed.

* Old event data is often not useful but can impact performance or cost just the same. For example, one needs to allocate an EBS volume on AWS volume with a certain level of performance; but the cost of that is `IOPs * GBs`, not `IOPs * useful GBs`.

* Replicating and backing up the dataset takes longer and longer as the application grows.
Zen Shorts is one of my favorites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Shorts
Sure, and I have two 5x5 Expedits (modified) nearly full of records, but the shelf dimensions are not good for boardgames.
I remember making several comments over the years about that on LinkedIn asking why endorsements were relevant. Recruiters or IT companies looking for favors would randomly give me credit for skills they had no idea I was capable of or not. In the beginning I would message them back saying "You don't even know me, why are you endorsing me?" and people would be surprised like it was rude or something like they were doing me a favor with bullshit endorsements.

After that, I just cared only about getting recommendations from CEOs and CTOs etc. on LinkedIn. These actually are useful and are a true marker of your reputation. Endorsements need to be completely overhauled or abandoned. They have the potential to be cool if somehow there were rep points that could be distributed for the given skill set that people were actually qualified in to give but that would be way too complicated for most people to even understand or care about.
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I have a 8 year old Dell running OpenSUSE. I counted 9 seconds to open the app. It was 6 seconds to reload after updating 5 extensions.
It was stated several times that Mozilla didn't get any money from Pocket for the integration.