skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't deny it. Pickups driving 150 km/h, minivan drivers on pills, no seatbelt. It all happens.

But living and driving and driving in SE Asia makes me always wonder where these data come from. It is against my personal experience.

Thailand has pretty good, multi-lane and empty roads. Good and modern cars. And really fast emergency response, police checkpoints, etc. - compared to it's neighbors.

- Indonesia (Bali is the worst place for me in the whole world, other places are also bad) - really bad roads, lots of cars, zero hope to get the victim to the hospital on time,

- Laos,

- Myanmar - there is now a lot of cars in country with almost no roads and no driving culture) or

- China - good roads, good cars but 'I am the person that matters on the road' culture. Tons of deadly accidents that I have witnessed myself.

Getting back to Thailand from Indonesia makes me always feel so safe on the road (I usually drive motorbike in the North in winter).
This would only encourage fragmentation. Large companies have to resources to not use your software and create a competing product.
What if your wife does not agree with your philosophy? What if your children don't?

Of course, YMMV, but in my experience life is generally less simple once you share it with other people.
> get yourself a set of Bose Quiet Comfort 35s

That's only if you like to listen to music while you work. If you just want quiet, get yourself a pair of the earmuffs that the airport ground crews wear out on the tarmac. I had a coworker who wore those and the only real downside was that he'd get horribly startled when people were trying to get his attention because they'd have to come up and touch him on the shoulder. Even basically yelling in the vicinity of his ears, he'd have no idea people were right behind him.
Isn't that was research is, a bunch of people putting forward various theories which are then subjected to rigorous testing?
Sure, there's new work all the time. But I think you might be missing the forest for the trees here. The main efficiency gain here is not in how you extract and transform features (although those improvements would also work in YOLO, as far as I can tell). The novel part is in structuring the problem as a single forward pass regression. Further improvement in this year's paper is in a better loss function. Other possible efficiency improvements are orthogonal and complementary to that.
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Or the kind of engineers capable of contributing to the software.
Not that it isn't important to lay out those things before signing a marriage contract...

but I'm not sure how much flexibility you have in deciding the (legal) penalties for breaking those informal expectations etc.

I imagine the terms of a marriage contract are defined by each state, as sort of a take-it-or-leave-it contract.

There might be ways to hedge, like prenuptial agreements. However (and not exactly the same thing), I recently spoke with a corporate attorney regarding company protections in the unfortunate case something happened to one of the company founders under various scenarios (e.g. if a company founder gets married and dies within 5 years of incorporation, is there a way to require the spouse to sell those shares back to the company, rather than them owning a controlling stake). Prenuptial agreements were brought-up, and my attorney basically said, "yeah those exist, and are an option, an expensive option, but in a legal battle, pffft, don't expect a prenup to be your pocket ace."
One could argue that bad or fragile tests can be more harmful than having no tests at all.
My dad, my sister and I don't like to keep stuff around that is not being used. We will keep the stuff we have as long as it makes sense to but we don't believe having more stuff is good. We think living a minimalist lifestyle is the way to live.
This might seem like a naive question but could you buy a child's play house with door and windows that is big enough for a desk and use those instead?
For my job I had the opportunity to work with quite some OSI standards on top of TCP/IP (X.216, X.227 and X.500, X.400 as application layers). My experience is quite in line with the common critique: most of these standards add more overhead than they're worth. It was also quite hard to bend these protocols into our use case (when bandwidth comes at a premium, it doesn't take long before the customer starts complaining).

I don't really see how a "dumb terminal" is a noteworthy feature of OSI? That's essentially what telnet does, and it too can just piggyback on top of TCP (probably the only protocol that makes use of all TCP flags available).
Britain led the way in that enlightenment e.g. The 1848 Public Health Act. Except in Britain it was government that led it. In the US, you had to rely on the hoping that some of the rich did good (today: Gates, Buffet?) whilst all the rest did bad (today: Koch, Trump?)?

This blame-the-government thing is uniquely American. In other parts of the world there are big governments that really help their populations thrive and live safely and comfortably (e.g. I live in Sweden).
At one point the US military borrowed binoculars from citizens.

https://clickamericana.com/media/newspapers/why-the-navy-wan...

It's hard to even imagine now. But presumably people sent them. They were helping. It was their war. Now the military probably buys 20 times the binoculars they'll ever use. At 20 times the price a citizen pays for them. And it's all run by career service bureaucrats. The taxpayers foot the bill but the specific expenses are unknown. And the war isn't the peoples war now. It's usually some kind of undefined action cheered on by think tanks and special interests and pumped up by news stories of terrorists. The citizens are mostly removed from the process, as it goes right on regardless of who they vote for. Unless they enlist, then they are involved, but that is less for principal now and more for a free college education or because what else to do?

This is what has changed in society. Life has become a faceless bureaucracy running on it's own agenda. Corporate, government, you name it. The concept of community is a pale shadow of what it once was. I don't know if this is better or worse, it's probably not great if your military has to beg for binoculars but seems the new hazards may be even more dangerous.
Only reason?

I use Firefox because it's way faster, more stable, and from an organization that I trust. I run Nightly, which means that I made the shift to Webextensions last week. My only extension that didn't have a WE version or alternative was LastPass. No surprise, since they seem to take such poor care of their extensions anyway. That's a Deal Breaker for me, so I switched to pass.
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Arxiv is thou friend :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=fast+object+detection+deep+l...

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/search?q=object+det...

There's been an absolute deluge of papers, I can't say I've kept up with them all. There was one interesting one in particular was able to learn object detection in an unsupervised manner in a novel improvement upon Bottou's "is object detection for free" paper.
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Exactly, there is a degreee of flakiness beyond which you don't gain much assurance from your tests and you spend more time fighting fires in the testsuite than actually testing your app.
That's crazy. I wonder if this also has an impact on hospital patients being tube fed!
women take birth control

they pee and flush

this water gets processed and re injected back into the pipes

if you make the mistake to drink the tap water where they re purpose it from the canalisations, you just drink birth control water.
Actually, human eyes don't have a "frame rate" per se, or if you want there are different frame rates depending on the feature - and how far removed it is from the retina. Essentially, the retina itself can detect >300hz, then there's a bunch of processing as you go back the optic nerve that causes that number to drop for higher-level features.
> or that bitcoin itself can/is used for illegal activity?

This part.

Like I said, I don't think there's anything wrong with the attempt, but if they want it to be a tradeable instrument, they'll need to expose themselves to the risk of the instrument they're aligned to. I can't see the SEC allowing that exposure.
Firefox is way faster than what? IE6?
I had a similar observation, except that instead of just storing stuff, they're converting their garages into another bedroom.

I don't blame them, housing a car seems rather wasteful, doubly so if there's a perfectly usable driveway. It'll be interesting to see how Bay Area municipalities update their building codes if cars-as-a-service ever takes hold.
She pointed out directly what she was doing, as the hiring manager, in order to sway the 5-interview panel and subsequent committee:

She wrote appeals to the committee. Quote:

> to make cases for cross-functional candidates who would be great assets to Google, even though a (typically) male dominated software engineering interview crew did not find these candidates up to snuff.

It worked, too:

> I had a 90+% success rate changing the hiring decision for these candidates.

Given that appeals exist and managers writing support for a particular candidate having such a success rate does mean that (what we all sort-of knew already) Google's hiring process is nowhere near as "clean" as advertised.

I read other places that the initial reaction to the diversity problem consisted of having the committees work without knowing names, ethnicities and/or genders and this actually made the problem worse, not better.
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Just to get an other datapoint: we used to build tests for selenium with selenium ide too, but quickly found out that the used selectors for the elements often had to be manually tweaked, and so we switched to http://nightwatchjs.org/ for our tests, and write them by hand.

Tests are more reliable now, and devs are happy with it. Based on my (limited) experience, selenium ide is not something that is absolutely needed. It's a fine piece of software, but devs can do fine without.
Tools, books and bicycles don't count :)
Recently the type of sugar has been the subject of controversy/research. IIRC, most sugar used to be actual sugar, but sweets and soft drinks often contain high fructose corn syrup these days. Apparentlt our body can deal with glucose reasonably well, but sucks at dealing with fructose.
unless you are in a 3000+ sqft home, where will you store your: snow sports equipment, summer sports equipment, bike, tools, camping equipment, car accessories, etc etc.

believe me, especially once you have kids, you'll have stuff coming out your ears.
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Hacker News is most interesting when a controversial article like this is written without all the necessary facts or research. I learned a lot about a range of existing OS and application tech just through all the refuting going on here.

Anyhow, my $0.02 is that all software dies. Either software lands in a niche due to its architecture and doesn't survive industry paradigm shifts or it groans under its own weight of cruft allowing more nimble competitors to enter the market and take marketshare. I'm no fan of full-system rewrites because of the tremendous cost and typical failure, but even so all software does eventually die and replacements will emerge.

So, it at least makes sense for some well-heeled upstart to begin thinking about the next-gen operating system in case an opportunity presented itself to establish a market. If that upstart were me, my focus would be on productivity, performance, stability/security.

Especially with regards to UX, I would focus on defining UX Guidelines and a windowing toolkit that would only change very infrequently (like once every 10-20 years.) To me, a tacky-looking, "outdated" UX that billions of people know by heart and can play like a fiddle is infinitely more valuable than one that changes look-and-feel year to year. My devs would be laser focused on fixing bugs and performance enhancements, not feature-itis.
> Maybe this might be the push that moves some more people over?

You posted this on HN. Be careful for what you wish for ;)
Cubicles are better for all the reasons other people mentioned.

They seem to have been replaced by cheaper long tables in offices that are genuinely paperless, since all any employee needs is a computer, monitor and chair. In my experience, cubicles usually have a file cabinet and other paper storage, utensil drawer, desk phone, wall calendar and other stuff I seldom see in modern tech offices.

And when it doesn't matter which computer is used by which employee, or everyone carries a laptop and phone with them, enter hotdesking.
Majority of which composed by a single function.
I haven't used IntelliJ for the last 5 years or so, so I do not know how it is today. My remark here is not about IntelliJ, but a generally about GUIs.

A GUI can be responsive and fast even when doing a lot of work behind the scenes. I'm perfectly fine with it taking it's time figuring out what argument I can use, or something else. But do not drop percieved responsiveness - I want to be able to type and/or click menus at all times.
What does Western Men means exactly? (I am from India so asking.)
As every country has their own west. Does this mean West of US? Or West of whole world?
Have we forgot how to program?
It has, it is called whatever the company design style says and validated by tools like indent.
That I can get behind, even if it is just a busy icon showing.
No, again, you got it wrong. Preferences are not addictions or anxieties. They are possible choices, by definition. They are basically informed answers to a honest question, "what do you want?".

It's your approach that's very patronizing. You are effectively saying that you know better than somebody else. I believe people should be considered to have free will (not saying they actually have it, by the way) and make their own choices in life (mostly - children and mentally ill are the exceptions).

I hear the same argument you present in other contexts. For example, muslim women should not be allowed to wear hijab because it's a sign of oppression. No, sometimes these women decided to do it, because they consider it as a part of their culture, and it has nothing to do with oppression. Unfortunately, some people choose to misinterpret it as a political choice, but that's an error those people make.

Or it was raised against gays - that what they do is immoral and therefore they should change their sexual behavior.

> I didn't even tried for now to talk about how girls average attitude to math affects society in a way to make society more unequal for girls who like math

Because that's a bad argument to begin with. The girls have some preferences, and make some choices, and whatever they are, those girls should not be held morally responsible for how society treats them as a result! That's blaming the victim. It's the same argument as the one against hijabs, which I mention above. It's important that they have the choice (also known as "non-discrimination"), and that's it. (Actually also important is that they can change their mind later, if they want.)

> If you was a PhD in social sciences I might want to get two days pause to rethink all my understaning of inequality and personality before continuing to argue.

Don't give me that! Again, it's very patronizing and undemocratic idea (coming from Plato, among other places), that people who don't have PhD in social science or what not cannot have a preference in social issues. Or that we cannot make an informed choice.

Yourself, you show not understanding even elementary philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

Of course I am a democrat and leftist and I have an excellent idea why and what these terms mean.

> Therefore there are more likelihood that their views is not better then average.

Of course, my view is not better than average, and you should understand it by now. I don't have a better idea about life than a young woman who decides not to work in computing, or to wear a hijab. Unlike you, who would probably want to dictate them.

And you should totally read this after two days and rethink your position. Because your position is actually more conservative (patronizing) than mine.
Have there been any studies on how to reduce phthalate levels in humans? Does limiting exposure help? Can the body expell the stuff?
They should take up the flute, or singing. ;)
In what use case, is a 35ms startup time an issue?
Do you really think that the fixed compensation of most executives is $1?
Actually you can control this behaviour with "workbench.editor.closeOnFileDelete": false
How do you accumulate that much stuff that you need what's essentially a storage locker at your home?

... By having kids. At least, that's what I've observed. You may be storing stuff for them, even after they leave the house. Also, you have everything that they've outgrown, but that you haven't had time to get rid of. A lot of the stuff that I see in garages appears to "belong" to someone else, including possibly the deceased.

But I think there are a couple of other factors that turn us into pack rats. One is that stuff is sold at discount in quantity, so we accumulate extra stuff. Shopping in quantity also limits the hassle of driving to the store and dealing with the crowds.

The other thing is that we're influenced by the fear of being spontaneously dumped into poverty, something that the hip young "minimalists" probably don't have to worry about. So we hoard material stuff as a hedge.

Granted, these things don't necessarily make sense. The money we could save by owning a smaller house (if zoning laws allowed such a thing to exist) would probably be worth more than the stuff that we hoard in our bigger house.
https://shinmera.github.io/portacle/ <-- it needs a bit more testing so the scary warning message at the top of the page will go away, but it's impressive already IMO.
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I'm a minimalist, but my wife throws out more stuff than I do!
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Ask HN: Do you work for Google?
Given the large amount of flagging around news that put Google in the negative spotlight I want know if the are any large amount of "Googlers" here.
Jerry Lewis was the first nerdy (anti)hero in movies that I saw. I remember very little of his films, I was very young when spanish TV used to air them, but I can say his usual character was funny and likeable.
My chemistry is very rusty but, there seems to be a short road from polyphenols to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs - the stuff you might use in a laboratory to produce cancers (!!!) in order to study them)... or am I wrong?

I won't be so keen of increased usage of food additive that get easily transformed into proven carcinogen compounds when some stupid cook or food producer decides to "deep fry the ice-cream cookies" or some other stupid shit like that sounds unhealthy but harmless... Even if the compound itself is healthy in its natural combination, I imagine the percent in strawberries is low, and humans' propensity to fry, prolonged bake, or grill & smoke a strawberry concentrate is low, whereas if you start using this additive on a wide scale and it ends up in all sorts of other products...
And your takeaway from Pinker's research was?
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Still, "person" can be pretty useful/scary.

https://twitter.com/Sentdex/status/899057144884015104
There was a time when React was Apache v2! https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/3bbed150ab58a07b0c4fa... shows that license.

Has anyone seriously explored forking React from the last Apache v2 version?
My kids jokingly lament the need to go through it after I die.

They might not be joking, I'm dreading dealing with my parents estate when they go and that's just one house.
More realistic is a small (30cm square) table with drawers, which I think most people could move themselves.

Something like this. Sturdy, office-looking versions were common in my school:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0119UDUSI
That would require arbitrary telemetry and possibly non-deterministic solution, or something like SPICE(https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html) which is a bit too far outside of 'database' domain.
the hashrate that bitcoin is performing at is also dropping

https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=30days
>> I am getting a bit sick and tired, however, of this refrain that everyone needs to be a minimalist

I spoke only for myself :-)
Whoa that was a download link

(On Android)
I do not.
Fine china of the generation we're talking about here is typically made in Europe - the fine bone china my grandmother owns was made in England. China in this context refers to porcelain, using techniques learned from China.
Are these E2E tests robust?

I found they often break easily
I don't use extension any extension but i use Firefox on Desktop and Mobile. From end user wait time etc i dont see any difference between firefox and chrome. For some reason firefox is seem to be faster than chrome on mobile. I use firefox focus mostly on mobile. It would be really sad to see firefox go away as that is only one which is not tied to OS or tied to provider of webmail etc. I see firefox as a product from browser company.
> And how much does it cost to have your entire engineering team audibly and visually distracted and annoyed 100% of the time?

No one has any idea, because that isnt a cost which is tracked by the accounting department...

therefore it has zero cost, right?

Right?

> So again, the costs don't show up on your balance sheet, and every person on your team could fucking hate this open office shit and work at half capacity, and you would never have any idea.

If only the managers could... I don't know... manage ? And pay attention to what's going on in their company?

Nah... a good percentage of managers I've worked for spend 75% of their time doing management politics / make-work. Getting things done is a low, low, priority.
If people can't afford them then there must be an upper limit.
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"Look, we were going to buy you for $500million but our thorough due diligence has turned over a rather nasty stone that you probably wished we didn't look under. You know what I mean don't you? YES - we found out your dirty little secret that you're using ReactJS. Due to this, we have decided to pull the deal in favor of your competitor who uses AngularJS. What you need to understand is that although you've cornered the market with your superb software and business model, we are dead serious about never buying companies that have built on ReactJS. We have a deep, and we think entirely valid, concern that Facebook will, at a point in time, suddenly pull the carpet from under you and Mark Zuckerberg will be laughing at us saying 'suckers... we sure got you with the whole ReactJS ruse didn't we!'"

"We're also not very enthused about you building on Amazon - surprised you'd take a risk like that, it doesn't indicate much business sense."

"Sorry to say, but your business, due to the ReactJS decision, is worth $0."
> No programmer is going to be confused about what "var" means, so making everyone type "variable" gains you nothing

"variable" is easily distinguished from "value" in Ceylon, whereas "var" and "val" are easily confused in Kotlin, being only different by a single letter "r" and "l" -- which even sound the same in some East Asian languages.