skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really really doubt that this is going to have any effect at all. Although many are septic of the attribution of "actual cyber attacks", I doubt that that skepticism can be stretched to include the disinformation/fud spread by the West or Russia.

That is to say (although it might not be the case now) that these websites/accounts are not dependent on ads for funding or growing their audience. This might cut down on lazy journalism (or churnalism as it's called) but as soon as the free proxies for the disinformation dry up, a couple of 'funded-behind-the-scenes' will take their place.

As for stopping the growth of the respective perpetrators audiences, likely also ineffective. There's a bunch of alternative platforms that lend themselves very well to fud spreading, twitter or a google search come to mind. Ultimately people, once converted, want to read and talk about the latest and greatest evil of <target>. No need to take out ads, your friends will want to tell you.
Well, I dunno what "senior" is, but we do agency-style work for clients and my boss bills me that way.

I'm on a very small team where I'm the technical lead and I code every day. I make whatever tech decisions I want.

I have a salary that's not large, but I also work a 30 hour week. 100% remote and nobody cares when those 30-ish hours are as long as I get stuff done and make some rare client meetings.

I trust my boss, who does the sales for the company, and generally she sells these really great projects with a lot of padding so there is always plenty of slack (praise bob).

Sometimes the projects are kind of dumb, but I'm still learning new things and they are large enough in scope that I can dive into some fun stuff.

So with all that, working is not a bad deal for me at all... it's something that I spend a whole lot of time doing, but it's also fun and pays well and I still have time for my 16-year-old, a girlfriend, and playing some music with friends.
Why Your Job Isn’t Making You Happier
I remember that when I have started to code and had no internet or books, just examples of other code, and needed to sort something. I have written a bubble sort too. But back then being slow was sometimes a feature, as I knew nothing about threads or clocks, so the processor ticks commanded the speed of my shitty game.
Once the machines are better than humans at a macro level, insurance companies will notice, and I think this will cause widespread adoption pretty quickly.
Futurists have a habit of thinking exponentially for things that ultimately end up with asymptotic progress.

Driving cars is ultimately about learning and learning is asymptotic. A child typically progresses from not knowing how to control their vocal cords to 50% of their peak vocabulary within 5 years. It takes several times that amount of time to be able to capably work a white collar job (a feat many fail at), and decades more to be able to make a meaningful and attributable contribution to society (something almost all fail at).

The genome project is a terrible example because mapping progress is a second order effect to the actual technological progress of learning how to map the genome. It would be reasonable to project that once we know how to build a level 5 car that AVs will consume 100% of miles travelled within a very short period of time. But learning how to get to level 5 could very well be asymptotic in the same way that it takes decades of asymptotic refinement to turn an exponentially learning toddler into a PhD.
I don't think it really assumes 1-on-1. "And let's assume that a wave of furys managed to down a F22." Let's not. I don't see how that could happen. No quantity of Furies would be able to shoot one down. The F-22 will just keep picking them off until it runs out of ammo or targets. If the former, it'll return to base, rearm, and keep going.
It already happened before Uber, except now the app is in the hands of the person being exploited, not the managers creating optimized schedules that make it near impossible for individuals to hold enough jobs to pay the bills.
It's a cross between AR and VR in which a different virtual world is inserted into the real world [1]. It predates the term, but the HoloChess scene in Star Wars is to me a good example. The contrast is with AR, in which the real world is annotated with virtual info, and VR, in which the real world is hidden. But the terms are a bit blurred.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality
BetterTouchTool provides the same functionality and then some
So you can't buy ads to bring people to your page.

How about you can't monetize your page? How about every time you do this you get shut down for X time (hours?) and it doubles every time you reoffend within a short amount of time. One or two free strikes.
I used to use spectacle but I find that I enjoy using amethyst more in terms of my productivity and window space management.
Good points. Automated train control maps are not even 2D: they're directed graphs, precisely mapped to sub-foot precision, with all permissible edges fully checked in advance, at design and at mapping. Far easier to navigate than a road network, which can be simplified and approximated to a directed graph, but 1. at the cost of some precision, and 2. orders of magnitude more likely to change unnoticed.
I've used CharlesProxy to view HTTPS traffic from apps on my phone.
I would totally put a screen on his desk hooked up to a separate computer that just displays nonsense so that people who don't know that he's blind think he's just hanging out in the office watching the entirety of strawberry shortcake or something.
Well, obviously the line of disgusting opulence is drawn a bit higher up the food chain than us, for whatever definition of us you like. ;)
Borges, Gödel and Creativity (2015)
Why is bubble sort what you would use for heavy bags?
Don't forget this infamous onion revelation, way before Snowden:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ380SHZvYU
Engineering Uber’s Self-Driving Car Visualization Platform for the Web
I think the devs of Fantastic Contraption acknowledged this partially, and several months after releasing the game they added the ability to rescale and move the world, so you could play even while sitting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQg2I7VIh8
I've seen many of these kinds of lists for macOS, but do any comparable lists exist for Windows?
The F-22 can go out, shoot a bunch down, return, go out again, shoot a bunch more down, and keep on going. With a more realistic ratio, it looks pretty bad for the Furies.
Because tracking is done via camera (instead of more cumbersome room sensors like Oculus/Vive), those cameras can also be used to display surroundings and augment them, like a lower quality hololense.

So there is support for augmented reality, but it looks like most if the demos currently being made are for VR.
The native dialogs are defacto bad user experiences. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11745127
I was flying a kite on a wide open beach the other day. With the constant sea-to-land wind it was a piece of cake, once the kite was above 20ft it just stayed up.

However the next day, somehow the airflow was much more turbulent. I would get the kite a good 100 ft up and still, suddenly a particular vortex would flip it upside down and slam it into the ground. Made me think exactly about this kind of activity and how risky it must be.
Regarding your comment about getting the right layout in i3: https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/2653 might be relevant. It hasn’t seen an update in quite a while, though.
One thing worth mentioning (even though I agree with the gist of your point) is that machines make the same mistakes consistently. This is pretty rare for a human. Imagine 10% of the cars on the road are autonomous and they all make this same mistake.
Ask HN: Why debttothepenny hasn't moved more than +/- a billion since 3/15/17?
Why hasn't the treasury's measure of debt "to the penny" [1] changed significantly since 3/15/17.

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/search?startMonth=01&startDay=01&startYear=2017&endMonth=09&endDay=28&endYear=2017
Oh, the psychological effects of Facebook I'm certainly not arguing with. I would imagine there are some issues as there are some plusses. I'm not well versed in it because I dropped my account years ago, but my wife uses it to keep in touch with people and groups. Like anything, it depends on how it's used or how much it's used. I was just concerned with the concept of productivity cost as a measurement.

I think the Quality of Life indicator represents what you are talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_life
This is all obviously a big deal to old media, who have made an art not out of sharing incorrect truths, but of very selectively sharing truths, to the point that what emerges does not really represent the truth at all. They didn't lie, but they aggressively shaped.

Well and empirically demonstrated in the 80's by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.

http://a.co/7VVDGJz
Well, 4-5 courses was the minimum we had per semester, with enough deliveries to keep us rather busy, starting with 3rd year.

Some people managed to jungle a few more courses.

I don't see such a program being much more than simple introduction to CS.
You can also dive in first and then cover the math behind ML, by taking Andrew Ng's courses.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning
I'm using "immediate mode" to mean:

while (true)
{
processInput()
updateState()
paint()
}

That will kill battery unless you write code to not update until input or app state changes, in which case you're building up to your own retained-mode system.
I blame deadlines for most of the shortcuts taken, not necessarily "taking someone else's code".
This seems like something DNS providers would be better suited to handle, assuming its something you would want to stop.
Uber picked CEO who has influential network of relatives across Silicon Valley
FitBit that starts beeping super loudly and vibrating when it thinks you're sleeping. The technology is already there and affordable, it just needs loud beeping.
> Skydiving is actually a very safe and low-risk 'adrenaline' activity, from what I've heard

I'm sorry, but you've heard wrong. Skydiving is super dangerous, relative to other sports. Less than wingsuit flying, but more death per participant than most other sports.

There's an unfortunate infographic that's made the rounds that makes skydiving look relatively as dangerous as football, but they made a mistake with the numbers and left people with an incorrect and extremely misleading impression. A lot of people are now saying that skydiving is "as safe" or "safer" than football, and that is flat out false. I hope nobody is motivated to skydive thinking it's super safe, because it's not.

> There are multiple redundancies and you are almost never at the mercy of randomness like with winsuits

For a single jumper, there's one redundancy - a spare chute - and they fail and/or tangle at about the rate of 1 in 800 jumps, from what I recall.

For a BASE jumper, there's no redundancy, they don't normally have a spare.

Almost everyone who jumps more than a few times does formation jumping or other group activities, if not get into BASE or wingsuit. Formation jumps put you at the mercy of other people, which are less controllable than mountains or trees. I stopped formation jumping after a couple of bad ones where I had close calls that were other people's mistakes.

Most of the people I knew during my time skydiving are now dead, more than a dozen people.
> Can you imagine traveling that way?

Plenty of people can imagine it because they travel that way every day. Trains all over Asia and Europe reach those speeds and faster.
I replaced my Dell i5 460M with HP i7 2860QM and it works awsome until i spell water on it then replace it with my current laptop HP 3630QM, also used HP with i7 6500u and my answer will be use dell,lenovo or asus with i7 processor like i7 4770HQ or if new laptop then hit for i7 7820HK, 16/32GB RAM and SSD if possible NVMe like intel 600p or better samsung EVO or pro. Your laptop is good if you put a great components in it.
If you're not happy, and your job feels like a grind... it's probably time to get out. Life's too short to hate what you do for 8 hours a day. You should identify what motivates you, and try to pursue that. For example, I found I was not really motivated by technical challenges anymore. I found I was more interested in the business. I cared about the problem my code solved, why the code was needed, and who it helped. At the time I was a "Lead", but the path I was on only lead to me being pigeoned holed into more "technical" positions. They let me pick how to build it, but I was never exposed to the why we're building it (more than the context required to build it). I found consulting as a way to expose myself more to the business. Fortunately, I had built a great network, and that gave me a start. I've only been doing it for about 8 months, but I'm far happier with this than when I was just another "senior engineer".
> Driver salary is 52% of the cost of a taxi.

On top of that, the space and interfaces for the driver is a substantial part of the cost and weight of the vehicle itself.
All the senior devs I've worked with who seemed truly happy at work were that way because they spent plenty of time with their family, volunteering, and just doing stuff outside of work that was meaningful to them. None of them poured everything they had in their job, tying it with their identity.

People in that latter category tended to be more brilliant in general (for example a problem comes up and they immediately know of 3 different ways to solve it, half a day later they tested all 3 for that particular problem, half a day later a first implementation is up and running, while it'd take most other people a full week to reach the first step), but they seemed to have way more up and downs with their mood and happiness and general.

Obviously this is a generalization from my ~10 years or so in professional dev environments.

As a senior dev who tends to identify more with the second category in terms of happiness fluctuations, I've been trying to be more like people I've known in the first category.
It does, and most BASE jumpers that I know / have met / have taught are in their earlY 30's.
The issue here is the lack of IRB (Institutional Review Board), and what looks like an intentional effort to conduct trials in a neighboring country to avoid that requirement.

An IRB is not run by the FDA. They are independent bodies affiliated with research organizations like universities. The use of IRBs grew in response to research done in Tuskegee and Nazi Germany, and has been the standard for decades. Rather than make an organization like the FDA screen all human subject studies, IRBs are empowered to review and manage studies instead.

So no one is saying this research study needs to monitored by the FDA -- that's not how it works. There are also international standards for IRBs, this isn't just an American concept.

The investigator is at SIU, which has plenty of experience managing IRB studies [1]. It does seem odd that they would set this study up in this way, unless everyone involved is an extreme libertarian trying to thumb their noses at the notion of ethical review and monitoring, or the researcher has had past conflicts with an IRB at SIU. I wonder how many at SIU are aware of this study and if they will distance themselves from the study or the researcher, if this gets more press.

[1] http://ospa.siu.edu/_common/documents/human-subjects-forms/h...
Re: "My business manager would be upset because we can’t charge the patient for that visit."

I appreciate the honesty, but here's the problem with the US medical system in a nutshell. Saving patients a trip to the doctor is not trivial. (Particularly people who need frequent visits or have trouble getting around.)
Hey, thanks a lot for letting me know that the form got screwed up.
That's pretty embarrassing.
Really appreciate it.
Western works (especially cinema) use this in individual scenes all the time, right? The first example wouldn't be at all out of place in the first act of a film to show us that two people know one another, or (even more effectively) later after they've fought to show us that they're friendly again.

Its use as the central structure for an entire 1.5-2hr movie, or a whole novel, say, is what's rare.

[EDIT] All the examples on Wikipedia are very short, too. Is such a structure common as the central plot of a longer work anywhere? Its super-common in the West in the above use—maintaining interest in scenes that lack conflict—but again, not as the main plot structure of anything. Also, the "argument" version on WP made me realize that the thing this all reminds me of that I couldn't quite place is the syllogism
It's not Facebook's job to spot satire or fakes for people. Users expect a "common carrier" type experience, not news curation.
I plotted the total BASE + wingsuit deaths since inception:
http://i.imgur.com/BdlUrFK.png

* Note that the BFL has some errors in it's dates, which account for the downward trend in 1993 and 2000
If you don't like that, you're going to hate the physical realm, where anyone can make any claim and you're left with nothing but your wits to discern the truth
Smart code helps your phone browse the web twice as quickly
It's not one pilot, though. It's two pilots, times two shifts a day, plus some extras to cover vacation, sickness, etc.

There was enough pressure to engineer away flight engineers, navigators, and radio operators in cockpits. I wouldn't expect them to pass on potential savings in the low-margin world of airlines.
Can you recommend a Stats course that would be most relevant for people trying to be more practitioners (not researchers)?
Yes, but mostly because I co-founded a company working in an area I was interested in and enthusiastic about (VR). I work remote from home (the company is currently fully remote) and we all have pretty flexible working conditions.
Starting a business related to job/education
I am wondering whether the idea I am working on is too far from my core skillset.

For those of you who started your own business, was it related to what job you had/degree you possessed?
I'm not a pro in security but if you use a valid certificate with a certain domain name (not just a ip), it should be impossible to watch with a proxy in the middle? unless you cheat the certificate which are in the phone maybe?
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Thanks for this. I wish there was more awareness of the distinction. Too many comments here are describing automated things as autonomous.
Performance benefits of iTerm? Terminal.app has much less latency.
This is one of my pet peeves, as well. Though I have moved on. Colloquially, it is clear how folks take that saying. Just transpose the chart if it helps you think about it.

That is, it may have originated with that meaning. But it is far from unique in having the general meaning shifted with use.
Prettier 1.6.0: Config File, JSX
By context you mean a timeline of events while speech recognition is actually dependent on that timeline.
Same applies to situational state recognition in driving. E.g., to derive speed, acceleration and direction of objects.
> The core requirements for a cs major at a typical university (read: not CMU,MIT,Stanford,Berkeley) and especially at a non flagship is basically 4 or 5 courses, which you can for sure cram into 6 months if that's all you're studying.

Huh? That's an incredibly terrible CS curriculum. 4-5 courses is at most 20 credit hours. A typical undergrad degree requires about 120 credit hours of courses before you can graduate. I went to a second tier state school and our CS curriculum had 12 common required courses (excluding seminar courses) that everyone took, plus three upper level electives of your choice. Basically half of the four year degree was CS.
Nvidia  DGX Station
According to members of the .net team, one should embrace f#: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/05/31/why-you-s...
Fairly sure it still needs the pilot to tell it "now we're taking off", "now we're cruising", "now we're landing" (and under what parameters). Doing that switch automatically seems unsafe.

The other part sounds improbable - quite the opposite, a pilot always needs to be able to take over in case the automatic systems fail.
> I can tell by your post that you never did any sort of meaningful repair on a car.

Or their house. Especially with blanket statements that prohibit "working on" your own home.
I managed to find both the problems and the solutions: http://www.math.niu.edu/~beachy/abstract_algebra/guide/conte...

This study guide doesn't seem to contain the solutions, so hopefully that will be useful to someone.
Not really. Not enough challenging/interesting work to go around it seems. My current job doesn't even really involve 'developing' anything. Mostly going to meetings and writing documentation.

I've tried hunting for a new job, but there's definitely a glut of senior software engineers these days. This current job, whilst boring as hell, pays well and doesn't demand overly long hours from me. And since I have my side project(s) to serve as a creative outlet to satisfy my 'coding' urges, I've stopped caring about finding other work for the time being.
Bubble sort is still the only sort I will write by hand. It's fast to write and easy to read. It's in-place and stable. It has a stupidly low coefficient in front of that n² that keeps it in the running until about 100 elements.

Once I get beyond that, I select a pre-written sort that's tailored to my needs. Do I need stability? Do I need in-place? Do I need a local copy at all, or can I stream the results?
I don't think that without serious research proving to doctors that this works in this case, they'll have a chance.

The diagnosis they are going after is cancer, so people do what their doctors tell them.
I'll start. I had been chatting with a coworker online while at work — using a bit of coarse language. Shortly before leaving, I copied and pasted some marketing copy into the CMS for the page I was working on. I didn't check my work and went home for the weekend.

Got a text Saturday morning that something was off about our "For Prospective Students" landing page (I was working on the new website for a Private Catholic College). Navigated there, and stood staring in disbelief as I read my own words calling a certain friend of mine a certain derogatory name or 4 under the heading "Why Choose Us?" Turns out, I thought I had added the Marketing copy to the clipboard, but must've accidentally copied and pasted a fraction of my damning convo instead.

Lesson Learned: ALWAYS check your work, no matter how long you have been building websites or anything public-facing. It was such a dumb mistake. I didn't end up fired, but got a stern reprimand from my direct supervisor. Months later, the President of the school confided to me that he found the incident fairly hilarious, and somewhat troubling. Hoo boy.
What service business do you have? Curious.
So how does Facebook really know if something is fake?

You can't trust user reports. They will say a story is fake when they don't like it.

You can't trust some worker in Bangladesh to determine this either just as easily as you can determine if something is NSFW.

You still can't trust AI.

So how? It hires specialists in each field to determine what is real and what is not?
And still, the pilot portion of the cost of operation for planes is in the single digits. You barely scrape into the double digits (maybe 20% MAX, closer to 10 I think) if you count all labor.
We need to nationalize social media and turn it into a civil right to free speech, along with all the protections that goes with it.

As a libertarian I never thought I'd hear myself say that.
In my experience with Latin America, much of that homebrew was produced by the local experts and most people don't make their own moonshine.
There was a Bionic Woman reboot in the oughts that failed to do justice to the concept, so it will probably be another decade before we see it tried again.