skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only industry to have produced truly driverless public transportation systems is the rail industry. Not aeronautics. Rail systems happens to be my business and what I read here makes me very worried.

I don't think the majority understands what safety means in mass transportation. It's not about running miles and miles without accidents and basically saying "see"? It's about demonstrating /by design/ that the /complete/ system over its /complete/ lifetime will not kill anyone. In terms of probability of failure it translates in demonstrated hazard rates of less than 1E-9 /including the control systems/. This take very special techniques and if that could've been done using only vehicle sensors, it would have been adopted by us long ago. I am also sorry to report that doubling cameras and sensor fusion will not get you an acceptable safety level. We've tried that too, rookies.

Is it "fair", to use Elon's argument? After all, isn't additional safety enough compared to existing situation. Ah but we have been there too! For driver assistance it is indeed better. Similar systems were deployed during the second half of 20th century (e.g. KVB, ASFA, etc). But the limit is clear. It only /improves/ driver's failure rate. It does not substitute for the driver. If you substitute, you have to do much much much better. Nobody will ride a driverless vehicle provided the explanation that it is, you know, "already an improvement when compared to a typical driver". Is it fair? Maybe not, but that's the whole point for entrusting lives to a machine.
It's pointless to talk about comparing salaries in Europe unless there's some market continuity and no significant barriers for workforce. Absolutely not the case with Russia vs Europe, relocation at will without preexisting employment guarantee/sponsorship is not possible.

If you want to stick to the continent though, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine and Turkey should be there as well. Belarus and Ukraine in particular have IT/developer markets of same magnitude as Russia.
Yes, but what I'm asking is what's ironic about it?

As far as content websites go, Medium is as minimalistic itself as they come.

They literally put all the emphasis on the content.
Wood is ridiculously expensive. On a percentage basis I doubt a big increase in wages would change the price of the end product much at all.

This article reminds me of the one we get from growers periodically. They're having trouble finding people to do the work they need done, so instead of paying higher wages the solution is to start a media campaign to get immigration restrictions relaxed so they can flood the market with labor.
See also "I, Libertine"[1], which started out as a joke (by Jean Shepherd of "A Christmas Story" fame) and made it on to the bestseller list before it had even been written.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Libertine
Also discussed yesterday, on a Bloomberg instead of NYTimes article about the study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15084351
I'm sure 8 kW worth of GPUs are cheaper.
Elysium isn't about space stations, it's about wealthy enclaves. Those already exist, and our society is becoming more stratified every year. There's no need for the very rich to leave the planet for that.

Backing up the species is about keeping a strong diverse stock of human genetics and knowledge somewhere safe from whatever harm might befall the earth.

Under those terms, I for one do not care whether it's rich people or poor people. I doubt I'll be in the 0.00001% of the population who are part of it regardless.
That would be incredible though
I wonder about the efficacy of banning the devices entirely until a certain point. Is that all that is done or is an attempt made to teach children how to responsibly use the devices so they don't gorge themselves when the ban is lifted?
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We've got a 5yr old and a 3yr old, and we have had a no-TV policy from day one. Our kids, of course, have seen TVs in restaurants and other people's homes, and they have even seen short videos (like a space shuttle launch) on our computer. Because it's not a routine part of their life (or even casually available to them), they don't even think to ask for it. They both have amazing imaginations and can entertain themselves even on long car rides. Instead of TV, we read books, color, play outside, go to the pool or park, build with LEGO - you know, the same stuff we did when we were kids.
Do you think part of the reason the longshore industry managed to keep a really strong union was just the geographic concentration? When you only have a few major container ports, it's gotta be pretty easy to keep union solidarity...
If the one specialist in your mission dies and it takes 8 years to send a new one, that's not called an effective replacement.
How Sicilian oranges are being made into clothes
>Backend and file systems, network and systems middleware do not need the abstraction model and overhead of a language designed to add dynamic content to fucking WEBPAGES because it can and it seems easy.

Well, file systems nobody writes in JS, so that's irrelevant.

As for "network and systems middleware" depending on what it does it can be a great fit for JS and especially Node, which is a lightweight logic layer on top of libuv.
> I think it should rightfully be heartbreaking to deny that to a kid who would have it.

I'm going to assume you haven't seen the steaming piles that are today's kid's shows and apps. There's no way that crap is as mentally stimulating as content from the 90s (or before). It's optimized for addiction.

And I'm not saying to cut it off entirely. I'm just saying the new stuff is universally terrible.
Oh I see, so do they not even put a temporary hold? Otherwise doesn't that mean they might not be able to get a significant portion of their pledged funding (e.g. if people don't bother to update their cards)?
Why is humanity's survival important?
I read it, and it seemed more about the concept and practice of the rule of law, but viewed through the lens of a current political proposal.
And here I am desperately looking for an alternative to Node.
Another contributing factor not discussed in depth by the article is that loggers have to travel to remote sites, often without cell service or internet and usually without the ability to go grab lunch at a nearby deli. You're essentially cut off socially for the duration of the job, while having a high likelihood of you or someone close to you dying or being maimed on the job. I can't imagine too many of the current lumberjacks recommending their children follow in their footsteps.
Knuth vs Email:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

It's not technically a CS paper, but well worth the (very short) read regardless.
It basically requires around 2500 backers ($1.5MM / $600) to pay $600 out of pocket for a device that, at best, will be delivered in 18 months.

There may also be a handful of people like me who think the idea is cool but don't necessarily want the device (or don't want it right away); I just donated $20.
Why a Dumb Phone Is a Smart Move
Technology (apps, phones, news) is a tool.

If tech distracts from children forming attachment to parents and other people in their lives, then there is a problem full stop. The problem isn't "screen time" or even "tech" directly.

Children (or adults) who have poor attachment (disorganized, dismissive, or just lacks practice), they will be at much greater risk.
Is there a "labor shortage" or is this just too low of a wage for the labor? If these jobs paid a lot more, I am guessing they would be filled.

If there was truly a labor shortage within a free market than wages should rise until they start attracting people to fill the positions. Similarly, if wages are low in a region, then housing costs should fall dramatically to affordability levels of those local wages.

But neither is happening.

So what there really is then, is a shortage of people willing to work a particular job at that particularly low wage. Perhaps that's because cost of living out west in the pacific states is astronomical compared to the rest of the country. The prospect of earning $18/hour for dangerous work in rural areas where entry level fixer housing is $250k-300k+ (if not twice that) is not going to be particularly attractive to many people, especially since $18/hour wouldn't even qualify them for a mortgage. So wages either have to go way up, or housing has to come down. Or they'll have to import cheaper labor from somewhere else. Or perhaps what is more likely in our modern world is for the industry to simply lobby the government for subsidies (as if extracting resources from public land for private profit wasn't a big enough subsidy as is) and have taxpayers keep them afloat.
JackPair is another example that's had tons of hardware issues. Stuff that a new device maker might not see coming. One that does lzptops might also get blindsided moving to mobile where there's extra challenges.
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Thanks! I guess I must have never noticed the charges when the campaigns have ended so I'd always assumed it was in the beginning. That's good to know!
Chrome has 59% global marketshare on the desktop [1][2]. That's big, but not "crushing competition so much others might as well not exist" big.

1: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

2: https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2017&month=3
Look around in any restaurant these days and you'll easily see half of the adults in the room engaged with their phones at some part of the evening, if not most of it.
> potentially reducing the cost

Aren't we getting close to being safe to assume that this is actually true? They've already re-used a number of boosters. (:
Okay, I'm basing this mostly on playing Kerbal Space Program, but hear me out here...

I believe the extra delta-V you need to get to Mars is less than the delta-V you need to slow down to land on the Moon.
While taxes in Europe are a bit higher, here is what you get in return:

1. Paid-for healthcare. In the US, I pay close to $2K/month premium for a high-deductible health insurance plan.

2. Subsidized child-care (kindergarten, etc.)

3. Paid-for higher education. That in itself is worth at least $250K/child.

4. Great public transport, which eliminates the need to have more than 1 car (as opposed to 3-4 per household in the US)

5. Decent infrastructure in general (airports, train stations, etc). The US looks like a third-world country.

Also, please keep in mind that while income taxes in the US are a bit lower, they are still significant:

- State tax (usually 5-7%)

- Real-estate taxes. It is not uncommon to pay $1000/month for a very average house in a Boston suburb with good schools.

- "Invisible" taxes, such as excise taxes (cars, oats, etc), alcohol, tobacco, gasoline taxes.
"After some years of dwindling turnover Apple finally got bought by Facebook, which gave Facebook a way to counter the ever stronger integration between Google's mobile offering vertically integrated from the website all the way to the phones and tablets running its Android-NG operating system. The reason it took as long as it did before this could come to pass is that Apple had tremendous cash reserves from their enormous business success in the first two decades of the new century and tried very hard to stay independent."
There's something really sinister about watching a toddler utterly engrossed in someone unwrapping Kinder eggs, for hours. In the 90's, the internet involved more than just slapping your palm against a screen and not blinking for the rest of the afternoon, and TV was in limited supply. Today, you never have to take a break if someone isn't there to teach you how, or even that you should.
It really does need a better explanation right on the page. It is ridiculous to link here and require clicking on a hard to find link to get actual information.

Poor communication.
Ask HN: How to move past 150k/200k in compensation?
It looks like i am stuck around 150k range compensation despite having 10+ yrs of experience. The only thing against me is that I am an immigrant. Nowadays, new grads are pulling 120k to 130k right away.

I no longer enjoy coding but I am good at getting things done and building good rapo with people. What can I do to move into leadership roles?

How does someone like me get 200k or more in compensation?

PS- I am not a native English speaker but I have studied in English throughout my life.

Any suggestions?
In that case I would trust the math, but I'd suggest that first we somehow classify the complexity of the scenarios before we jump straight to "9 out of 10 respondents voted "fake news" therefore it is fake news".
ICE hydrogen fuel additive system
Yes, in the short term. That's actually the original goal of the H1B program, to address immediate labor shortages in fields where the time it takes to become fully trained is very long (PhDs and the like.) In the long term the problem solves itself with things like high salaries for statisticians, actuaries, programmers and so on.
I'm sorry but this is just silly. Just because something happened in a novel published more than 50 years ago does not at all make it likely to happen in real life. The Moon is much less habitable than we thought it would be in the 60s, meaning any moon colony will be very dependent on the Earth for the foreseeable future and the rock launcher wouldn't be bulidable with the kind of infrastructure in the novel.
Unfortunately, copyrights and trademarks aren't mutually exclusive, so technically logos could be infringing derivative works if copyrighted.
If I were one of those engineers, and didn't believe in the claims being made, I'd personally be quite worried of being held personally liable if the company gets sued in the case of accidental death. Last thing I'd want is my bug being responsible for someone dying.

E.g. I would quit too.
Yup, straight from the Amazon playbook.
Who cares?

If they don't get enough fellers then they will raise wages and overall comp. until they do. If they have enough, they will lower wages until they don't. It is a functioning labour market, and the degree to which people desire to work for lumber companies is reflected in the wages, and in turn the price of lumber.

If anything, at $18/hr for dangerous hard labour, they obviously have plenty of people who want to be fellers. There's no other way that wage would be so low.

If they have a shortage, lumber simply costs a bit more.
You can also do a similar thing in Java, as illustrated in this answer on CodeGolf stackexchange: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/28818
Does anyone here have any input on this tech?

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Sorry, long time listener, first time caller post :)
> children are like any other animal

Yeah, raising kids is just like owning a gerbil. Exactly.
Check your chances of having a Robot Boss anytime soon
Isn't it actually 2 threads at the minimum?

The V8/JS thread and the C++ thread?

Doesn't the C++ part create threads in some cases when needed?
Sounds cool, I don't have an Echo though. When can I get this on my other devices?
The company can always re-negotiate, but a 30% paycut might mean you can’t afford your rent or mortgage anymore.
The longshoreman part is a bit more complicated than that.

An admittedly bad example, I guess. I was thinking welding might fit in that category (wearing a hot, dark mask all day in not always pleasant conditions), but it takes a fair bit of skill, and it might still pay well. And, oddly enough, a lot of welders I've known over the years seem to like it. OTOH, a lot of welders I've known over the years were heavy drinkers.
Methodology: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology/
As pointed out before, Facebook's license only terminates with respect to patents (not copyright) if you sue them for patent infringement. So ... given that, the important question is what are the actual patents that cover React?

Here's why it matters. In my mind, there are basically three scenarios:

(1) There are no patents. This seems the most likely scenario. Patents are public. As far as I can tell, no one's pointed to an actual React patent yet. If this is the case, then the patent grant is irrelevant. Facebook can't revoke a license for a non-existent patent.

(2) There is a patent (or will be) -- but it covers some relatively new, hyper-specific feature of React. Generally speaking, patent examiners force patent prosecutors to narrow the claimed patent to avoid prior art. So in React's case, you might end up infringing the patent by using React but only if your copy of React comes with JSX, per-component state, context, and the new fibers stuff. So in order to get around the patent, you could fork React and remove per-component state or maybe you pin React to a version prior to the introduction of fibers and use that. This would super annoying for a large code base, but if Facebook actually was infringing your patent (and you thought it was a big enough deal to bring in expensive lawyers), forking React is a (relatively) small price to pay. Remember that Facebook's copyright license isn't subject to patent revocation, so forking to work around a patent is totally allowed.

(3) There is a patent, and it's huge. So huge, that you can't really fork React to work around it without completely destroying what makes React work. But here's the kicker. If such a patent existed -- for the sake of argument here, let's say the patent is for components or shadow DOM -- then it probably also covers Vue.js, Angular, or whatever other framework you might want to use. That's terrible! But it suggests that the real problem isn't Facebook's PATENTS license, but the underlying patent itself (which OSS advocates should be trying to kill). At any rate, this seems unlikely -- there's lots of prior art for React out there.
"Because Linux still isn't ready to roll out for the average enterprise office user. "

And my point is, how will Chrome OS enterprise be different?

Do you think they'll write their own Printer management tools, or just install CUPS?

Will they write their own Active directory client, or just use SSSD or Samba or whatever RedHat is using these days?
I call bullshit

> Unless a company decides to sue Facebook (or accuse its products), the termination trigger has no actual effect.

Please everyone, don't rely on this advice.
It's worth noting that "kill all the Jews" isn't a new idea.

Edited to add: But, okay, I suppose "kill all the Jews with Zyklon B"[1] was a novel form.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B
> If you're better with screwdrivers, why struggle with a hammer?

Not a great analogy. A more accurate analogy is switching from one very big toolbox to another very big toolbox. If you are used to one and know where all the tools are, and they have been used so much that the wood perfectly fits your hand, then it's just going to take some time to get used to the new toolbox. I'm not saying it's a hard rule and you should never consider another language. I just answered the question of why someone would want to use javascript on the backend. It's not the only factor, but it's a factor.
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Why was this flagged? With an ongoing engineering skills gap and an increasing nativist political climate around the world, inequalities in American education will make or break the tech economy in this country. If we avert our eyes from the systemic problems here, there might not be a stream of H1B candidates eager to implement your 'disruptive' ideas. We need to ensure quality education is accessible to every demographic here.
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Accessing the DOM is not really part of the language specification, but the browser API, no?
That's what seems to be happening in the various image classification competitions. Accuracy has reached 95-96%, but further improvement is tough.
People speculated that SpaceX might do something interesting with the second stage, but it's just speculation. The last time it was rumored something interesting was done with the second stage -- a test of longer-duration operations on the NROL-76 mission -- nothing was said before or after.
It's important for the exact same reason you're able to ask that question. Without humanity, who asks why? Humanity is, to the best of our knowledge, the best and possibly only chance of increasing understanding of the universe. I care about that, as well as about our species generally in what is likely an evolved and chemically reinforced way. At some point that may be less true, and I would care less (but would still care).

At a meta level, if you truly don't care about the survival of your species (even if only through the survival of your own relatives and loved ones), you're an evolutionary dead end.
The future better look like that.

The alternative is... dystopian.
It depends on what you're optimizing for. Others using LIDAR are optimizing for speed to market, while potentially sacrificing ability to solve the problem as fully. Musk's argument is that we know for certain that the entire road system can be navigated by visual cues, because that's how humans do it. We do not know for certain that this is possible with LIDAR.
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/online-harassment-lauren-duca...

Read this article. Seriously. Ignoring any potential "actual" harm his business practices may have inflicted, he is a toxic person who doesn't care what his effects his trolling has in the real world. He's inspiring people to threaten and harass people online. Someone took pizzagate seriously enough to act on it in the real world - how long until someone does the same here and shows up at Lauren's or her parent's house, or actually rapes her?
> is there a way for me to introduce solutions to problems that may require more technical expertise, to better not only myself but the company as well?

Please do not think this way. You're there to solve business problems. Not to build solutions to scalability problems that don't exist. I've had to inherit the code of people who think like this and it's horrible.

Think about all the problems you could be solving for the company and what those problems _actually are_ and what the actual constraints are. If you can't find any satisfactory career growth in solving those problems then you probably should find a job that does have the kinds of problems you think working on would provide the career growth you want.
It would be quite difficult to burn oil without oxygen.
Plain CSS works doesn't it? [0]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/SV...
For those looking for a more automated approach for doing things like blue/green, take a look at Spinnaker (http://spinnaker.io). Here's a quick video for App Engine - https://youtu.be/pOPgTHz_nYw

Disclaimer, I work on the project.

We don't have a deployment strategy named "blue/green" for the App Engine provider for various reasons, but do provide stages such as "deploy", "disable", "enable", "destroy", as well as setting traffic split percentages that you can string together in a pipeline.

Edit: okay, no markdown on HN
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Closeness aside, the gravity on mars complicates a lot of things from landing to taking off - which currently dictates that this is a one-way trip.

A moon base is much simpler in both scenarios and return trips are achievable (has already been done FORTY YEARS AGO).
This was the first fork of bitcoin.

namecoin.org
> That is suprising! It turns out that all “small integers” with the same value point to the same memory. We can use the Python built-in function id which returns a value you can think of as a memory address to investigate.

Unfortunately this blog post seems to miss a great opportunity to show you how you should compare integers for equality -- using the equality operator `==` and not the identity comparison `is`.

EDIT: odd, this post attracted a lot of downvotes. Please help me learn how this post could be improved.
Neil Postman (Technopoly) and the Heusemanns (Techno-Fix) both advance this concept signficantly.
15 total landings, 11 of them in a row, not counting missions intended to be expendable.