skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently interviewed for Tesla's module department. Module engineering is essentially the gear between engineering and manufacturing. They're the heavy lifters. They're the front line grunts. They're the ones accountable for everything - LVM to HVM feasibility, process development, metrology, selection of suppliers, qualifying the manufacturing cell, process control and sustaining(operations, efficiency, continuous improvement, training etc.) and troubleshooting lines down situations.

The interviewer was very polite and told me this is probably the most demanding job at Tesla, especially at this time of the company's state when they're ramping up the production lines for Model 3.

I was intrigued and went to second round interview, and it eventually led to an offer. That is where things got interesting. Tesla needs to invest heavily in their Module engineers. The pay package was extremely disappointing and I am not willing to let go of the golden years of my life (late 20's) for this kind of a job unless it is heavily incentivized. I've had similar demanding job offers from oil companies, but at least they offset with a very compelling pay package (15% Alaska bonus, 4 weeks off, presumably amazing yearly bonus).
Do you have a cite for that? Because the only articles claiming that size of a backlog predate the budget resolution they passed last year after 2 years of no budget. They're currently on track to be out of deficit-spending within 2 or 3 years (possibly this year, if the Trump is to be believed) due to a combination of massive spending cuts ($6 billion in total cuts between 2015 and 2017) and tax revenue increases.
He actually doesn't reject the premise. He throws around a lot of chaff about other characteristics on which to distinguish people, without addressing the issue that the groups he's ridiculing postmodernists and marxists for being concerned about actually do suffer structural inequality, then ends by saying that he's not obliged to care about the historical circumstances which have favored him in the development of that inequality.
chances are that if they haven't automated it, it's not revenue generating or important enough to invest capital to fix it
User trying to repair their image.
There are still tons of APIs missing from WebExtensions that are required for many features of Tab Mix Plus. For instance, there is no way to get click events of any kind on tabs, so things like "reload tab on double-click" are not possible. You also can't control things like whether a new "window" opens in a tab or an actual window (to implement TMP's "open popups in tabs" feature), where tabs open (to have new tabs open next to the active one), what shows in their right-click context menus, etc.

So no, we're quite a long ways away from having a real Tab Mix Plus replacement. Having said that, I have faith that we will eventually get there, and hopefully be able to implement at least half of the functionality of TMP using WebExtensions within the next two years.
Cathy, is that you?
Soros made his money by betting against people less shrew then he, not by manipulating people's minds. He's like a poker player who is opposed to modern slot machines that scream for attention and mislead about their odds of winning. Both are casino games, there's a clear ethical difference.
I remember see this once before from his blog. Why is he such a dick to HN? Does he have a post about it? (and I guess archive.is link it to avoid the egg testicle).
I was thinking a bit similar, but I'd say, no, because I am still mad for all the useless discussions I had with people claiming Illuminati etc. was factual ... (what the book also claimed to be)

So sure, every audience gets the writer it deserves, but still - I appreciate the gift, but there would need to be much more, before you can even consider that ... but I don't think he has so much money though.
Firefox hasn't been rewritten, only parts.
But will it work on Mars?
Ads could run on something like the Ethereum virtual machine, having a limited amount of "gas" (instructions) to execute.
You could just do that anyway by running Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme on a Bitcoin private key, splitting the key into M parts where any N of M parts can be combined to recover the original private key.
CONTRIBUTING.md in the repository[1] explicitly suggests authors to add their name to the AUTHORS file on their first substantial commit should they like to. A reviewer would work with them on the order and formatting. One thing is for sure: there is a diverse contributor base; you can see the full list in the git history.

[1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
I didn't say shoplifting wasn't a crime. I said it is sometimes a victimless crime. It doesn't really matter if you're aware of that when you shoplift.

I also don't know why you think someone who's "smart enough to shoplift" would automatically be running some criminal syndicate if they can lookup shoplifting statistics in their area.
> Business Insider, granddady

Now I feel like Methuselah, who played with dinosaurs before the Ark.
Firefox makes money for Mozilla. Thunderbird does not. QED.
Ok so that's just the Harbor Freight weed burner with a housing that looks like a gun.

https://www.harborfreight.com/propane-torch-91033.html
With Machine Learning, obviously!

Meta Machine Learning.
I thought this was going to be a way to translate arbitrary text into a universal "voice", so you could post online without your writing style giving you away.
> IIRC, there's bit social justice ideology that essentially says that only white people can be bigots. I believe the typical formulation is "racism = power + prejudice."

Worse, "racism" is defined cyclically. If you ask "Who has power?", the answer is "whites/men because they aren't victims of racism/sexism".

This means no matter how much actual power non-whites get, they'll never be guilty of "racism", and racism is effectively defined as a sin of which only whites can be guilty.
HN title: "Holograms are here"

Actual title: "Better than a hologram: BYU study produces 3D images that float in 'thin air'"

Article text: "First things, first, Smalley says. The image of Princess Leia is not what people think it is: It’s not a hologram."

Can we not editorialize and/or get the titles completely wrong?
"Your contract with the network is, you're going to watch the spots."
And DVDs (this is a 15-10 year old series). Plus the recent re-release on BluRay.
Fun fact, flamethrowers are only illegal in CA and MD. The former, presumably, because like half the state is a tinderbox. The latter because, well, they like to ban things.

Anyway, this sounds pretty awesome, especially since other flamethrowers are well upwards of $600.

Just, uh, please be safe.
>This is funny

You aren't the arbiter of your own jokes, as evidenced.
> Can you imagine the traffic relief not to mention the stress relief (and health benefits of this) if this was common?

Indeed, traffic is a major aspect of this. Remote work is the key to solving the traffic problems in large cities around the world.

Non-remote work also incurs ridiculously high costs both in terms of necessary public (railways, roads, parking space) and private (office buildings) infrastructure costs and hidden costs such as those caused by health issues and opportunity costs caused by the huge amount of wasted human lifetime.
It grinds my gears when people call a big torch a flamethrower. A flame thrower spits burning liquid fuel onto things.
its painful see most of the extensions don't work yet in latest firefox
keychain access manager
ublock and others
why do every Firefox version break extensions ?
Security Automation: Lessons Learned
Why do you keep spamming this video on unrelated posts?
> It's looking more and more like the official reason for the layoffs - "…As with any company, especially one of over 33,000 employees, performance reviews also occasionally result in employee departures" - doesn't hold water.

Why not? If you can't find 2% dead wood at your company you're miraculously good at hiring or are not looking very hard. Stack ranking companies tend to use 5-10% as the bottom tier subject to "yank".

I'm not saying it is just performance reviews, because I have no more idea than whomever wrote the article what's really going on inside Tesla, but the idea that it couldn't make sense for a big employer like that to do a small round of firings doesn't hold water.
AMD is porting TensorFlow, but these release notes give the impression that upstream is not helping in any way. https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hiptensorflow/blob/h...
Stop! You're using reason and logic! You sound rational!
How much under what you were expecting, exactly? 10% under? 50%?
The ad authors will just Volkswagen that shit and code their JS to pass Google's acceptance tests when it's being tested, and do whatever otherwise.
UncleMeat didn't assume anything about you.

> just want my coworkers to stop getting into arguments about things that then make it really awkward to work with them.

Things like who is allowed in the women's restroom, perhaps?
Ah in the UK we do it properly www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/Snow/snowpub.html
Scott Galloway: Breaking Up Amazon, Apple. Facebook and Google
Actually it's way easier than enforcing a ban on Airbnb and similar services (don't forget that a decentralized alternative would be created, etc). If you're going to spend a night in jail for disturbing other people, you'll think twice before you do it.
> Can you levitate multiple particles at the same time?

Yes, but their device currently is only capable of levitating a single particle. With the current approach, the device would need one laser for confining each particle. The lasers used for RGB could potentially be multiplexed between particles, but this is less likely to work for the confinement due to the instability of the trap.

> How fast are they moving?

Pretty slow. All the "big" images (Leia, grad student, etc) are long-exposure. You can see the particle moving in real-time at about 0:50. In the videos, you can see the device can almost do real-time persistence of vision for volumes substantially smaller than a fingertip.

> How sensitive is it to disturbances in the air?

As I mentioned above, the confinement is weak and the trap is pretty unstable. Its possible that they have improved the longevity of the trap in the last few months, but when doing long-exposure the device is surrounded by a heavy cloth barrier to block both external light and air movement.
I want a shortcut that moves from current location to 50% of the remainder.
> But we moved forward and got the job done, because we weren't getting paid to kvetch about politics.

No, the difference was that we didn't have modern social media amplifying and echoing and re-broadcasting all the noise; so political arguments burned themselves without a wide conflagration
> FWIW, Soros has himself been accused of anti-Semitism by the AD

Do you mean the ADL? Citation? Because googling "ADL Soros" finds lots of examples of the ADL condemning attacks on Soros as anti-Semitic, but nothing I can find credibly sourced of them condemning Soros as anti-Semitic.
Makes me wonder... it worked for Airbnb with selling cereal to get some funds flowing. Musk made it work with the hats and now this. Should it be a serious strategy for startups to sell funny/share worthy swag to fund their ventures?
When I interned in San Francisco in 2012, living on Harrison St between 3rd and 4th streets, the auto break-ins were so bad and happened so regularly that every single Friday and Saturday night if I passed someone getting out of their car as they parked on my street, I'd slow down and try to tell them that every single car on our street would have it's windows broken and anything in sight stolen by the time they got back from the club at 2 or 3. And every Sunday and Monday morning I'd see the piles of broken glass on the street where each car had been parked. I think it would have been better if that broken glass hadn't been swept away, so that people parking there the next week might have noticed and decided to park elsewhere. And multiple times I saw groups of people crying outside of their car after returning to find their purses and laptops stolen, I saw multiple people have their work and lives thrown into chaos. Thesis papers lost or possessions they couldn't afford to replace gone. And yet I never saw a single police officer on my street, ever.

I often thought about how fun it would be to get a paintball gun with a scope and camp out on a roof some night, knowing that there'd be someone who I could reap some karma with.

Oh and we also had a homeless guy who literally slept on our buildings doorstep. So there were mornings where we literally had to step _over_ him to get outside.

May have been a factor in my decision to not move there after graduating.

Now I live in NYC where I can live in a working class neighborhood with project buildings scattered all around Brooklyn, and yet I don't ever notice any auto break-ins. And you see NYPD everywhere.
It's not protecting anything of value, you mean, besides every VPN session generated by the most important vendor of hardware VPNs in the industry prior to 2016?
I guess there's a wider discussion about why need more and better display technology without a noticeable improvement in quality of life, but idk.
> That full excerpt is an extremely ignorant representation of postmodernism, marxism, and Western culture, and the part I pointed to tops it off by saying he's completely justified in his ignorance.

Lets handle one thing at a time. What are some specific examples of where you think he gets postmodernism wrong and why?

> And his claim that Marxism led to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, and that Western liberal values stand in opposition to that, ignores the hundreds of millions of graves Western society is built on (I don't know where the two World Wars fit into his worldview, just for starters)

Western society has definitely had a lot of external aggression through war and colonialism. However, I think Jordan Peterson is more focused on the war on your own society and its social structures.

Marxism argues that the old ways of organizing society became a block--a fetter--on the potential for further developments in production. And the conflict could only end, as Marx and Engels put it starkly in The Communist Manifesto, "in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."

In order to facilitate this revolutionary reconstitution marxist countries have enforced identity politics in a way that led to the deaths of millions of people and has necessitated policies of thought control where 1/3 of the population spies on the other 2/3 to keep everyone in line.

Because of this I think that although you are making a good point, you are talking about external violence while Jordan Peterson is talking about internal violence inflicted to cause a revolutionary reconstitution.

> and the enormous economic pressure Marxist countries were under as a result of the aggressive resistance and suppression they faced from Western countries, from 1917 onwards.

Communism in practice appears to fail in promoting work ethics and motivation, and that is more likely to be the biggest contributor to the fall of this system. For example, in a study conducted in the former USSR, over 50% of the work force admitted to drinking alcohol while on the job. Furthermore, unbeknownst to the communist party, nearly 40% chose to work a second job privately to attain more wealth. https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/commu...
Hidden camera investigation: Nursing home abuse, violence (Marketplace)
Or it is worth fixing but nobody can be bothered to collect/review the data showing the cost of doing nothing.
This is all you could come up with?
Tesla isn’t know to pay particularly well. Unfortunately, on average, non-software engineers, esp in the Bay Area, are not paid comparably very well.
> Why would I want to put my money into something "decentralized" when my bank does a fine job?

Because you trust that your money will still be in the bank, in full, when you want to withdraw it. People in Cyprus, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe don't have that trust because it's been broken by bailouts and hyperinflation.

As long as the economy doesn't hyperinflate, and the banks don't haircut your accounts, and the IRS doesn't freeze your funds, and the government doesn't use civil forfeiture to take your money because they suspect you could be involved in criminal activity, your money is safe.

Therefore, many people see holding cryptocurrency as a hedge against that type of stuff.
Yearly lecture (past five years) at DLD. Breakup argument starts at 8:30.
Shouldn't Google be big enough to bully advertisers into the same sort of deal? It seems like a business opportunity for Google here.
For starters, local property taxes pick up the slack.

Yup, and now it's not deductible anymore past the first 10K thanks to the new GOP tax laws.

People rushed to their county tax offices to prepay as much as they could before the end of 2017, but it's a lot of headache and effort for a one-time small relief.
It is hard to say the exact percent because of my unfamiliarity with the cost of living; but I was expecting about 30-40% higher...perhaps even more. I interviewed with several engineers and really got to understand (and appreciate) the kind of work they do.
That's pretty unusual. Tesla is cool but nearly as glamorous as spacex.
> But if it's advertised as a PC adventure game and it turns out to be a PC adventure game whose story goes differently than you hoped

That wouldn't fly. Significant difference, however, would.

For Brutal Legend, you'll notice almost all advertising lists both adventure and real time strategy, to avoid such a problem.
You can try that, but every major bank will cooperate and simply freeze your accounts if ordered to do so.
> Hope the explanation helps.

Absolutely.

> We can either adopt a norm of honoring what the writer intended or a norm of honoring what the reader observed. I think a lot of people who are most vocally pro-diversity use the later norm when determining if something is or isn't ????ist. If this is the norm I think it should be universally the norm.

Gods, I hope this does not become the norm. "Everything can mean anything!"
hmm still sounds like statistics to me
You don't even need to go that hard core. Either Fluxbox or Openbox has it. Or you can program^Wconfigure FVWM to do it.
How hard would it be to plant a car with a camera and mic in it with police in an unmarked van a couple blocks away? It almost seems like they’re taking advantage of a lack of police effort in this area.
For now that is certainly true, but as is obvious, we don't know yet which laws will be retained after Brexit, and with even such major things as the ECHR still undecided, I wouldn't put it past them to repeal this as well in the future.
Could be but then machine learning doesn't help either.

There's still a lot to fix and automate though with a significant ROI.

Did you know for example that the paperwork required for sending a shipping container from Shanghai to Rotterdam is more expensive than the actual transport of the container itself?

Freight forwarder Maersk considers this to be a painful enough problem to try and solve it with Blockchain technology now (one of the few cases where using a Blockchain actually makes sense because not all participants involved in the process necessarily trust each other).
When you moved there in 2009, were you also shocked to know that your previous two governors were (or would soon be) serving prison sentences related to corruption charges?
recent reddit post where an owner was on his second attempt to take delivery of a III https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/7t0uul/inspect...

the annoying part was the take it or leave it that they felt they received, apparently the first car was worse
That's the first thing I do when I start a new MBP.
Don't lick Mr. Yuk!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yuk

Don't touch Mr. Ouch!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Ouch
Scientists catch a glimpse of 4 dimensional effect in 2 dimensions
Two new cryptocurrency heists make off with over $400M worth of blockchange
uBlock works, it always worked. They had a WebExtensions version early.

And the point of WebExtensions is to provide a stable API and prevent the constant breakage.
You can hope you won't be wrong for very long
Show HN: Appenguin – Create an Android app in minutes, for free
I had been using Apple phones and computers since 2008, and in the last few years everything got so crappy that I'm using XFCE4 on a Chinese Thinker i35, and I couldn't be happier. I can use the extra money to take my girlfriend on a trip.
Done. =)

Now fx has standalone binary (linux, macos, win): https://github.com/antonmedv/fx/releases
> Edit: This is funny

Perhaps (I disagree, but its subjective), but also ungrammatical and substance free. The latter is probably what HN doesn't like.

This isn't Slashdot, and +1 Funny isn't, in general, a thing.
This is actually my preferred config. The reason being emacs shell buffers. I can interact with any shell tool using the full text editing features of emacs. I've had to interact with many Oracle databases via sqlplus. "sqlplus" is not a fun tool to use on the shell. However in emacs it is perfectly fine and works as well as the command line interfaces from PostGRE or MySQL. The inline shell also allows automatic history, block selecting and line truncate/wrapping controls across all tools. However for pure text editing, it's always vim for me. I've even found myself launching emacs+shell within tmux in one pane and vim in another.
Ohh, this would be interesting, assuming the jump would diminish by 50% each time the shortcut was hit!
I'm fairly happy with opensmtpd:
https://www.opensmtpd.org/faq/example1.html#smtpd
GM cruise av video https://youtu.be/MvP82IsGqNc

'GM can now mass-produce self-driving cars....Scale will help steeply to reduce the cost of sensors, which are the key components of an AV.'
iRedMail will do this for you in one shot. I've done it. I still don't recommend it, but it's pretty easy.
Ha. No. I'd rather not encourage Google/Youtube.
They are legal in CA so long as the fuel is a gas.
A new way to join the Recurse Center community
I could never do this work, insanity. Props to all the nurses and people behind the surgery technology.
One of my best friends growing up went to a high school in Baltimore City. It was absolutely _incredible_ how many students and parents he knew that had died. I commend you for working there as long as you did. It's really unfortunate how terrible those schools can be. My friend said it was very rare to see a teacher last longer than a year or so, too. They would get scared or hurt and quit.
With Apple I feel like it’s more about whether or not you deviate from the golden path they develop and test for. It’s harder to stray from it on iOS but not impossible and doing so results in a very frustrating experience.
I was once on a beach in the southern part of Crete in Greece, many hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest city. There was no moon, and when we turned off the flashlights we could barely make each other out, but the sky was full of stars. It was glorious.
Practical volumetric display could improve lots of fields, including medicine.

(Admittedly, VR/AR gets you most of the benefits of that, but its also clumsier.)
The seed phrase is 24 words. You write it on paper, you don't need another hardware wallet to secure it.

You can import that seed phrase into any number of wallet programs if you lose your hardware wallet.
Apparently, they're already testing a driverless ride-sharing service (currently for GM employees only) and plan to open it to the public in 2019.

http://fortune.com/2017/11/30/gm-autonomous-ride-share-2019/
So how do I make an extension that supports Firefox 57 or later and does mycustomprotocol:// without prefix? Do I have to Rowhammer my access through Firefox' code? I do not see how it is in Mozilla's right to restrict what a user can do with the user's browser.