skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what type of code you write, or where you went to school, but I had a professor who actually put the exam score distribution on the whiteboard after each test in a second level CS class, and the bimodal distribution was stark. And these are people motivated or interested enough to spend their academic career pursuing it beyond intro level washout.
This whole thread seems very 'No True Scotsman' and a bit snobbish to me. Labelling the entire $140 - $280 wired headphone range as 'decent' but not 'good' for wired headphones is just ridiculous. Even more so calling every pair Bluetooth headphones below $350 not-even-decent. My Sennheiser PXC 550s (which regularly go for $300 on Amazon) would like to disagree.

There's also a whole lot of outdated information in this thread, e.g. concerning the quality of Bluetooth audio. It's really come a long way.
Some kind of explosives are trivially made, a fact which is severely complicating basic STEM education as common materials that have other uses but happen to be usable for making weapons are increasingly difficult to obtain...
It's way different where I live. There is no foreclosure before the tax deed auction.
Instead of worrying about potential foreigners competing for your job, you should wonder why there are so few jobs out there: it's because the rich are hoarding them. The money for them, that is. There is so much work to be done, plenty of work for you and your Indian and Chinese friends to all have well-paying jobs. The reason we all don't have them is that we are just extremely bad at allocating resources: we choose the most inefficient method, market capitalism. We, essentially at random, select a tiny group of elite wealth hoarders who centrally plan and distribute nearly all of the world's wealth without any concern for social good or welfare or anything other than their continued accumulation of wealth and power. Then we beg them to give us jobs, to give us their table scraps and we fight each other for them, terrified at any moment our benefactors might take away our livelihood instead of rolling up our sleeves and getting to work.
I know, that's why I asked if there are others that do as well.
I run a Computer Science academy, and that’s quite literally our goal.
Going Partnerless
Sure, and top companies are not necessarily discriminating amongst dev candidates based solely on technical merit. In fact, there are plenty of recent articles that claim that Google is looking for more and more "soft" skills in addition to high technical merit.

Point being, there are probably lots of factors that combine to make a candidate skilled enough to get hired at Facemazon. It's just that having that combination of skills is rare, so the salary gap persists.
You can do this almost immediately via live chat by just asking the CS rep to make a ticket requesting that $carrier be deprioritized for future deliveries to your address.

Emailing jeff@ tends to get you directly to the best and brightest of Amazons support team, so it's a good option too (albeit a bit slower).
Crypto Investors Face Tax of Up to 55% in Japan
I was rebutting the blatantly wrong "don't expect IP to work". Yes it's not your mum's network, but then I never said it was.
This is brilliant - magnetic TEMPEST.

Though magnetic field intensity drops off with an inverse cute law, they mention that in the paper, which restricts the distance. It seems they got up to 100cm but it's 1bps at that point. For 10bps need to be only about 10cm way. Seems hard to exploit but imagine server being next to a wall/floor and someone placing a bug right next to the wall on the other side.

Seems just leaving enough space around the server would be enough. Put it 1m away from floor and walls and it should mitigate it.

I knew about the light and ultrasound before, but also learned from the paper there is apparently a thermal TEMPEST attack as well.
Wouldn't that be an indication that the wages are at market?
"Waymo is getting .34% of Uber's equity in the settlement, which at a $72 billion valuation, is valued at about $245 million."

https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/961993637348327424
Software keeps working after the work is done. That’s the key differentiator, not the brain power. This leads to economies of scale on two fronts.

1) scale for the low end. As an engineer, I’ve made a game where I have customers worldwide that pay me something like 25 cents a week. A lawyer can’t really do work that scales out at the low end like that. It’s not a brain power thing, it’s just the nature of the work product.

2) at the high end, a big company like Google or a financial institution can keep hiring programmers at say $100k, and have them produce tiny detailed enhancements that produce say 150k or or more of revenue per year over a multi year period. Most large systems can always sustain a little more enhancement that will produce an optimization of revenue.

I think this is the key difference between programming and other kinds of work. Programming is scalable at both the low end (distributable to very cheap consumers) and the high end (can always get more revenue through optimization). And at both ends of this spectrum the machine keeps earning money even when the programmer is sleeping or working on a new project.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16341094
bad apple
X-Ray Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation at the KeV Scale
Sure, but people can still have feelings about it even if what the person did was legal.
> To be clear, while we do not believe that any trade secrets made their way from Waymo to Uber, nor do we believe that Uber has used any of Waymo’s proprietary information in its self-driving technology, we are taking steps with Waymo to ensure our Lidar and software represents just our good work.

At what point do statements like this start to harm a company rather than benefit it? It is plain to see that they are lying; if the first is true the second part would not be happening.
Not with sealed ports. I never trusted the S5 water proofing because of things like the battery cover and unsealed ports. Oh, and the charging cover broke off both of my wife's S5s...
@tomcam Yes it is :)
> aka deactivate, no full delete anymore

IIRC, you can still full-delete, but you have to find a the link through a help page, not your profile.

I'm content to leave my profile up with a big reminder that I'm no longer using Facebook, so I'm never going to use either option. I actually get some satisfaction that my profile is basically an ad against Facebook, which worse for them than if it just vanished.
In the particular example he describes, both are placebos, because the performance is essentially random, and even in that case, it will appear that punishment is better than praise, because the administration of punishment/praise is linked to performance, which in this example, is purely random.

His thesis is that praise, in real-world situations, has a positive effect, and punishment has a negative effect, but on extremely short timeframes random effects dominate, leading to the reasonable empirical belief that praise is ineffective compared to punishment.
Can you select which one you’d prefer to use? This seems like another anti-trust case in the making.
That was quick. What would Uber and/or Google have been embarrassed to see become public? And will Lewandowski get to quietly sneak away, or will both companies now pillory him?
Maybe he's trying to atone for his Nazi collaboration past.
Amazon has had its own delivery service for a long time. This news is about Amazon operating delivery for external packages, not just Prime products.
A Sleeping Alexa Can Listen for More Than Just Its Name
You're not going to say to shareholders "please give me your money and also we're looking for expert because we lack expertise in the product we're doing"
Coming from pgAdmin, I couldn't be more pleased to see this. I was considering building something like this for myself with an electron app, but this is far more ideal. Great work!
Uber was right to cave. Google is not a litigious company, and would not have sued unless Uber had behaved really badly.
As an "offshore developer", I have worked on multiple US projects with low quality code written by US developers.

Should I assume that American code is usually low quality?
The median isn't affected by the right-censored datapoints (ie you only need to observe half of humans to find the median life expectancy, by definition), which is why it's used so much in survival analysis.

Failure seems to mean 'closed' but there's no reason to expect such a short lifetime of exchanges that they would all close already (an exchange can be immortal) and even if you think that, the exact number of 48% is useful as it gives you an idea of how informative the dataset is due to right-censoring (the closer to 100%, the closer to a complete dataset in which all deaths have been observed).
Awesome. I'll send you an email.
We scientists WANT (desperately want!) anyone and everyone, experts and neophytes alike, to read and pay attention to our work! The unavailability of scientific research papers is in no way due to snooty scientists restricting the availability of papers to others in the ivory tower. This is on the publishers, who charge massive rent-seeking mark-ups for actually doing very little work and providing very little value in this digital age. It is also on the system of sticks and carrots that prevents many scientists (notably those who do not yet have tenure) from publishing in free and open journals by tying our livelihood to publication in more traditional (non-free, non-open) journals that have high Impact Factors.
Prop 13 also means my parents can afford to retire, as outside forces have come and multipled property values many times, and the city has very high property taxes. Otherwise to pay 1+% on some of the worlds most expensive real estate without active income is insane.

I liked Cambridge, MA’s model... the first 250k of your property value is removed from property taxes. Doesn’t make a dent in big expensive houses, but makes property ownership more affordable on the lower end.
We had to redesign a new kind of module called a renderer that has some weird capabilities and of course the Chromecast being kind of undocumented didn't help.
Yes. Most companies in the W18 batch were not launched when they applied to YC. They just move quickly.
If you want to know more about him or his philanthropic work, I suggest checking out what his charitable foundation: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about

He's also written a number of books, some a better read than others, but I find all of his ideas interesting, even if his communication of them is at times a little dense. (It's clear he is or wants to be a philosopher at heart)

It is striking the way he's demonized. When you press people (like in person, not on the internet) why they think he's the devil incarnate, you usually get some really wild ad hominem not rooted in reality or a realization that they don't really know why they hate him so much other than he's a benefactor of their political opposition and they were told to. It does have an effect, even subconsciously, after a while
Talking about books that you haven't read. [1]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/06/fiction.societ...

Signaling that you haven't read it gives one a defensible position! You can't criticize my mischaracterization of the arguments of the book, I haven't read it! Her opinions can be her alternative facts known to none except her.

There is accidental fallacious logic, and then there is manufacturing bullshit.
* No

* Don't Care

* Uh... maybe? There is some merit in having a localized indicator of approximately where in a given day cycle a particular location is, E.G. if I call someone on the other side of the planet knowing they're local time gives me some idea of how much I will or won't be annoying them. On the other hand, UTC is massively useful and the fact that we have almost no awareness of it in our daily lives is kind of problematic as well.
It was always going to end with money, this just fast forwards it a bit.
I'm fine with that, as long as they can positively contribute. I'm not fine with bringing in millions of people who immediately go on benefits while US citizens can't afford health care, college, and military vets are living on the street
I just looked it up and I still don't quite understand what clacks are supposed to be, other than an inside joke for Terry Pratchett fans. Do people actually use clacks for side channel data or is it just a way to keep Terry's name out there?
Just to chime in here about how terrible and unaccountable the delivery service is -

I bought a part for my bike that on first attempt went to the wrong intermediate routing center. They marked it as undeliverable instead of just rerouting it. I had to get a refund and was promised a $25 credit to my next purchase. That didn’t happen.

I ordered the same item again. It was lost in transit. Got refund with no credit.

It took the third try to get my item. I selected same day delivery on the previous two but not the third.

I live in San Francisco and the item was in their Fremont fullfillment center. So....?
"To be clear, while we do not believe that any trade secrets made their way from Waymo to Uber, nor do we believe that Uber has used any of Waymo’s proprietary information in its self-driving technology, we are taking steps with Waymo to ensure our Lidar and software represents just our good work."

I feel like there's a contradiction inside this sentence.

Is this an admission that some of Uber's technology came from Waymo, but merely things that are not trade secrets / proprietary information?
Give it another try, who knows.
There's a good reason many of us dislike current usage of word "privilege", and to your credit, you avoided it. Lots of times the word "white privilege" is thrown around by relatively well-off people in urban areas, and that usage is extremely hurtful and frankly stunning if you're a poor white person living in a small town in say, W. Virginia. You work multiple minimum wage jobs and still barely scrap by, watch friends and family succumb to desperation and opiates, and look around your town as it crumbles in neglect. And you don't feel like you're very "privileged" in spite of being white.

The term is particularly bewildering to rural and small town poor whites when it's tossed out by a 20-something-year old professional in some big city who's making a $200,000/year salary, or by a trust-fund kid protesting in a university where tuition costs more money a semester than your whole extended family makes in a year.

I realize that many people who use the term "white privilege" may not be targeting such people with the term (although many clearly are). However, when the only qualifier someone uses is "white", it's hard to draw that conclusion.

Again, to your credit, you used the term "straight rich white men". But most people fail to make this distinction.

I also strongly agree with your final paragraph. What we call "privilege" is something that all people should have. Instead of working to destroy privilege, we should work to ensure that all people have that same privilege.
The difference is that others' lack of access to the Louvre or the beach isn't preventing them from feeding their families.

To a degree, we should feel bad for having access to capital when there are far greater needs for this capital elsewhere. Most of us don't have any real power to change the situation unfortunately. But it is definitely something to be conscious of and you should reflect on what you can do to help turn the tide for those less fortunate.
K-9 is slow and has an ancient UI. I hope that they will finish the rewrite to Material UI any time soon.
He hardly invoked turmoil.

Joining the ERM invoked turmoil. It was a silly idea and the valuation being wrong wasn't exactly a minority view.

We should be criticising and remembering the idiocy of Norman Lamont rather than of George Soros for profiting from that idiocy.

Now I don't know enough about the rest of Soros' career to have a view of whether he's good or bad. The infamous ERM short is not a smoking gun here.
'2g ETN' pulled up a bunch of stuff about 2G cellular networks for me.

Found a youtube video. ETN stands for Erythritol tetranitrate, an explosive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug3qce3Sae4

Yikes...
In RHEL 7, using TCP_NODELAY and FAST_ACK still results in IP level conflation. Even when you turn off hardware coalescence. Only way i've been able to get one push = one tcp packet is via solarflare. Even then you have to disable a SF specific batching amount that still kicks in when nagle is disabled
Well stated but I think you're wrong, although I can't articulate why, so I'll upvote in the hope that somebody else will adequately refute.
What are "these people" though? Successful investors? The "East Coast establishment"? Jewish investors?

I believe the point your parent post was making is that these distinctions are bogus. The entire investment business (and not only that) is amoral. This is unfortunately inherent to Capitalism.
Good behind the scenes analysis of why Waymo's case was flimsy here from Sarah Jeong, a lawyer and journalist who has been live tweeting the trial:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16993208/waymo-v-uber-tria...

Summary - Waymo was claiming Uber violated 8 trade secrets (down from 100s), and had only directly discussed these trade secrets for 45 minutes over the past week. "Can you really explain eight self-driving car trade secrets in 45 minutes?"

"And then there’s the part where Anthony Levandowski is not on trial, Uber is. Even if Levandowski took 14,000 confidential documents, that doesn’t mean that Uber did something wrong — there isn’t a clear link to how those documents got onto Uber computers or were used in Uber self-driving cars."
>No DRM-decryption, though.

By that, do you mean libaacs?
I don't think eliminating length restrictions would be beneficial even if they are no longer necessary. You can already basically have as much room in a supplemental/supporting section in many journals to include extra data/methods if needed. But if you extend the main article people will ramble on and in my opinion it will make it harder to read the articles for the intended audience (other scientists) with probably only marginal benefit for a broader audience.
What is that Jeff address thing?
> "may have potentially"

This kind of language must be intentional given the team that reviewed and edited the memo, which makes it worse to my ears. Either "may have" or "potentially" would have sufficed.
> They ... provide typesetting and editorial service beyond just basic copyediting.

Not necessarily. For-profit publishers today – perhaps more often than not – expect the unpaid volunteer editors of the journal to do any typesetting or copy-editing, and then just send the publisher a camera-ready PDF to print.
This is a quasi-religious reversal of cause and effect. Parents create children. Children aren't assigned parents. People - real flesh and blood people, not abstractions - devote an enormous amount of their resources and waking life to doing the best possible for their next generation.
We do? Such wow.
That would be me :)
> We have them because we judge their operation to be in society's best interest.

> ...

> If a company is not acting on society's best interest, it should be made to or abolished.

Wow! And here was me naively thinking that we have for-profit companies to bring profit to their owners/shareholders.
I love you right now. I had no idea that was a thing. I've repeatedly asked that USPS not be used because I like my packages to make it on time and to the right place. USPS has only been more reliable than the Amazon service which misses about 50% of the time and tramples all over my lawn about 30% of the time. I offered video proof but they apparently don't need it. I wish I could go FedEx or UPS only.
Not bothered enough to do the work of educating yourself, though?
>Sorry, I'm simply not convinced that monetizing and marketing people's attention is all that much of a social ill.

What about monetizing and marketing people's affection? The dowry would be the classic example, I'd be curious why you (presumably) are against dowries.

To me it's basically the same, certain things are corrupted by their commodification, affection, attention, others.

Besides when you say:

>The world survived, thrived

You're not exactly speaking to the people hooked on video games or TV or Facebook. Your uncle lost years to a game but because what, he doesn't do it anymore it's magically fine?

Are you also okay with advertising cigarettes to children? Cigarette breaks provide great opportunities for social gathering and let you interact with other people you never would have otherwise. A smoker may lose a lot of time to smoking but when they come up for air the world will be exactly as they left it. They'll manage their enjoyment of tobacco just like everyone else.

Is it disgusting when a casino calls up a gambler who's trying to quit and offers them a credit to come back and play? I happen to believe that's a huge social ill and in many cases basically equivalent to what Facebook is doing, just that it costs time instead of money.
Turmoil and crisis is usually the result of above described idiocy and people who “take advantage” of turmoil and crisis are intelligent.
Amusing.

> options like QT, but found them to be extremely large and full of things I didn't need

> But then, I decided to just use a web browser.
Neural network electrocutes you to take better photographs
I am no great fan of Facebook, but the indignant accusations about them wanting to keep us glued to their screen seem mostly to come from people who were (and are) perfectly fine with television networks that did the same thing for decades. Even today, the typical citizen spends more time watching TV than on social media, I bet. I use Facebook once a week, and TV never, and I find that people are mostly not even willing to consider the idea that TV may be a problem, for their children or themselves, whereas their attitudes towards Facebook, while problematic, seem to be a lot more self-aware.
> * there is no support for non-reliable streams

Can you have a stream based protocol that doesn't try to be reliable? A message oriented one i understand.

> * There is no support for datagrams, just datastreams.

because, I guess, you can always just use UDP!
5 Things to look out for when buying your child a smartwatch
Really? As an extreme example, if it costs $1B for a company to develop some IP (1000 people working for 5-6 years) that IP should just be freely shareable?
I wonder if this means Levandowski is also personally off the hook now as well.

Also, I'm not clear how much he actually netted from Otto, since lots was probably based on vesting that didn't happen.
"A direct quote of Google's long time former CEO making the exact same argument I am seems pretty on topic to me."

It's only on topic because you keep changing topics!
You've now gone and pretty much ignored every point made and just shifted discussion to something else in pretty much every reply.
It's not even the same argument you have made in these replies, as you claim.
(Eric is talking about accountability to shareholders, you started by talking about direct benefit to the business. These are incredibly different things)

So while this has been fun, it doesn't seem very useful or constructive.
Have you ever managed developers? It is incredibly hard and intellectually-demanding (albeit using a different part of the brain / areas of intelligence.) I tried my hand at it for a few years and went back to development which was much more intellectually satisfying and much less stressful.

It will depend on the company/team/* of course, but don't think that because your manager isn't visibly grinding through programming tasks that she/he isn't just as intellectually competent or taxed as you. You may just not be mature-enough in the industry to see it yet.
Either you install libaacs or MakeMKV (and don't use it to do MKV, just as a libaacs replacement).