skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that they just made the pages private and will quietly bring them back after realizing how much traffic they lose as a result, and/or after a shareholder lawsuit is filed alleging that Musk is squandering a valuable company asset on a whim, based on his own political views. Tesla is especially vulnerable to such shareholder lawsuits, given that it had millions of “fans” on the platform. Arguably Musk just took an asset worth tens of millions of dollars, that technically belongs to his shareholders, and set it on fire. That won’t fly, even amongst the most liberal investors.
I just deleted LinkedIn as well, they flash this "All this people will miss you" and then show all the "endorsements" messages, things like: "Paulo is among the best engineers I've worked with".
Depending on your industry/employer, yes, you can be forced to join a union, or at least pay dues to it even if you're not a member.
i vaguely remember it being mentioned in something i read long ago. i think it'd be 1-2-3-1-2-3 for walking and (1,2)-3-(1,2)-3 for running or even 1-2-1-2 (bipedal) for the fastest running.
I came to Hacker News through Paul Graham's essays. I learned about Paul Graham because we used ANSI Common Lisp in an elective Common Lisp class. His essays were specifically suggesting that many college-aged techies would benefit from starting a startup instead of going into the traditional workplace.

I bet that describes a lot of the early HN (originally: Startup News) users. I don't think it was really "totally aloof engineers", but instead young geeks without much perspective on the world. Most of us weren't even engineers at that point, by any reasonable definition of the term.
Replacing functionality is the easy part. How do you replace volume of people using the system? Scandal or not - Facebook is still where "everyone is". And until "everyone" are not there, there is no "replacing" Facebook - just replacing some functional aspects of it. I use Facebook for one main purpose - to keep in touch with people around the world whom I know from different periods of my life. Unless all of them pack up and move to an alternative, leaving Facebook means leaving them.
Ask HN: What is the point of behavioral interview questions?
Questions of the type - tell me about a time you got into an argument with you manager. Clearly there is more to the question than is being asked for, probably expecting things like how you resolved the situation and what you learned from it. But aren't a lot of people, and perhaps especially engineers, bad at on-the-spot communication about non-technical topics that require nuance when presenting? That's not to say that communication is not a valuable skill, but I can't help feel that behavior questions are a poor test for it. You could for example ask them to prepare a presentation on a project they've worked on, or a presentation on the pros and cons of whatever. So the behavioral questions aren't simply testing your communication but probably more so your previous behavior. Except that's not the case either, they are testing your ability to talk about your previous behavior. Which means you can practice what to say for those questions moving them into a category that feels too much like a test to see if the monkey will dance as expected.

Except that also sounds ridiculous, at least to some extent. What is the real intent behind behavioral questions?
Only if you authorized the Messenger app to take over your SMS app.
This is a direction of thought I find quite interesting. And I'd like to ask you what you think would have happened if it were the technocrats who shaped or world.

The only type of scenario that comes to my (not very well-read) mind is the one in A Brave New World, which is in my opinion one of the most benevolent possible dystopias. What is it that you have in mind? And how much worse is it, especially compared to the other forms of human suffering we're facing?
Simple iOS app that fetches crowd-sourced data from OpenStreetMaps,shows toilets
This isn't an example of anyone having a say in how the government is run.

Any kind of extra-legal and arbitrary "making an example" of a company domestically would be disastrous to confidence in the market.

The better implementation of your objective would be to create a policy (enshrined in rules) first, then go after anyone who violates it.
If a closure cannot be optimized out, i.e. the scope of the closure outlives the scope of the function it captures a variable from, than this closure is equivalent to a heap allocated struct, which cannot be allocated on the stack either if it outlives its scope. So the cost is still the same.
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That depends if you think some Americans would be offended if you claimed Hawaii was its own country. It was also invaded and then forcibly gentrified and colonized. That's not to even mention the entirety of the United States. It's not so much if China has legitimate claims on Tibet so much as it's the pot calling the kettle black. The greatest conquerer on Earth and its modern beneficiaries telling another country to give up territory and sovereignty.
Nice work! I wouldn't let this minor objection keep you down. You can always spot check a computation on a trusted system (e.g. your own) and update your trust accordingly.
Usually when an issue like this gets up to the CEO, there really isn't any other choice but to fire whoever is responsible. I don't necessarily agree with it, but the reality is:
China >> Mariott.
> We can't let backwards dictatorships have any say in how a democracy is ran.

Unfortunately we can, we do, and we will continue to, unless we make it more expensive for companies to submit to than to oppose such forces.

Given the role money plays in our legislative process, I think we will be seeing more of this.
I recall having the same basic response to http:

"Why would anyone want to keep downloading the same content over and over again when you could just ftp it to your machine?"
On desktop there's just auto-playing video with obnoxiously loud commercials; reminded me I need the Mute Sites By Default [1] extension installed on this computer.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-sites-by...
Well, whoever sent the tweet that was liked seemed to have heard about it.
We will let them know.
Most of the relevant information will be in digital form, and it would be quite difficult to destroy that evidence without a trace.
The police were trying to go after journalist Tim Pool for reporting on Antifa activities.
It gets abused for sure, but more often, businesses get to fire bad employees, and this means they are more likely to give some people a chance who wouldn't get one otherwise.

Hiring in certain countries is very risky, because it is so costly to fire a bad employee.
The matter of federation is by no means settled. Many experts do not agree with Signal's conclusions and suspect ulterior motives, myself included.
It is open source, though, but Moxie has definitely made decisions that are harmful to open source. Again, ulterior motives may be at play.
‘The ANC isn’t in charge – we are’
Because optics increase in size with sensor size. The lens for a TV sized camera would be gigantic.
Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_I...

Then move on to what juries are, and what peers are.

In the US we have 3 boxes, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammo box. It's a beautiful system. I realize it might be hard to understand that we are not chattel, and make our own laws, but that's the way it is.

You are making an extraordinary claim, that a US citizen can be extradited for _not_ breaking a US law, the burden is on you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

If you think "the statue" in "words of the statute" means a foreign law I really cant help you since you gotta start redefining what "the" means at that point.
Why should you have a right to work at a particular place?

The workers with a democratic process negotiated with the management. You’re not special. Why should your unwillingness to participate impact the rights of others who freely entered into an agreement?
> The real story is he has no employment rights because he's in America and he's "at will."

At-will employment is state level, not nation level, so it's not really a "he's in America" thing. Most states subscribe to some version of at-will employment, but various states have different types of exceptions which make it much less clear to apply as a statement to the entire United States (much less the various other groups "America" could refer to).
As an American, I wouldn’t be offended if a Chinese person suggested that all non Native Americans should leave America. I wouldn’t think that would be reasonable, although I would acknowledge that we could do much more to help rectify the situation that still exists today. I would likewise be not offended (but might feel slightly uncomfortable) if someone told me that California, my home state, should be returned to Mexico.

But do you really think it is so unrealistic that many Americans would be offended by such a statement? Let’s not pretend it is somehow surprising that people might be very insulted by being told what they consider part of their country should be returned, especially by foreigners.
Pivotal has been talking about an IPO for years, yes - but the exact announcement timing could perhaps be adjusted in reaction to other events.
I can't find a call history in my data. But I never used FB for calls. I never installed the FB apps on the phone.
this pushed me over the edge to delete my account too.

facebook is toxic
Thank ya! Plus the way it's setup right now, you don't pay for anything until you done and satisfied with a session! I just want both parties to be happy with the GPU compute transaction :)
Forcing employers to keep employees they don't like, for any reason beyond discrimination, isn't the answer. The better answer is, IMO, better social safety net so people making $14/hr don't end up on the streets just because their job goes away.
Why do you believe that about Waymo?

We have no information at all about the progress Waymo is making. All we've seen so far are a few videos produced by for PR under highly controlled conditions.

There's basically zero transparency here.
Of course not, but cancer research is not the only society benefitting line of work that can't be automated yet. I used it as an extreme example of something that clearly isn't automated yet and that which resources (overall in society) can be freed up for to pursue.

If you use a bit of imagination, robots at the lowest level can free up jobs so that the lower level say coal worker or walmart worker can be freed to pursue something slightly higher level, which can free up options for jobs at an even higher level, and so on and so forth, until pressure is relieved to allow for more cancer researchers.

Imagine if we had automated cars that could drive us anywhere. The decreased costs of transit would make everyone else wealthier as we can do more things in the workday, go to new places, get more done. Former Uber drivers can now go back to school or training for less menial tasks, and the ability to train for jobs that can improve society even further (in the same way that automated driving did). Such improvements would make the job of a cancer researcher easier in and of itself, but also the labor force that is now relieved of duty, but more importantly now forced to pursue more useful tasks, will lead to further improvements in society that ultimately benefit the cancer researchers at the top of the pyramid.

Over 600 million people in developing countries have to walk miles to get fresh water. Arguing that automation should be impeded to save jobs is the same as arguing that these people should continue walking so they don't lose their jobs walking for water. It's pretty clear if you look at that that before any of those developing country citizens can cure cancer, they'd have to solve their water problem first (by automating it with pipes and filtration), fix their mosquito and public health issues, and other things that should be solved/automated away so that no more manual labor is required.
Pay some hourly nominal fee, and a "bonus" for how well it classifies some reserved data? Proof of work could be the fit.
Quoting from Peter Watts' book: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

A sea of tortured faces, rotating in slow orbits around my vampire commander.

"My God, what is this?"

"Statistics." Sarasti seemed focused on a flayed Asian child. "Rorschach's growth allometry over a two-week period."

"They're faces…"

He nodded, turning his attention to a woman with no eyes. "Skull diameter scales to total mass. Mandible length scales to EM transparency at one Angstrom. One hundred thirteen facial dimensions, each presenting a different variable. Principle-component combinations present as multifeature aspect ratios." He turned to face me, his naked gleaming eyes just slightly sidecast. "You'd be surprised how much gray matter is dedicated to the analysis of facial imagery. Shame to waste it on anything as—counterintuitive as residual plots or contingency tables."

I felt my jaw clenching. "And the expressions? What do they represent?"

"Software customizes output for user."
... but relevant in that the MPs were also violating a court injunction...
تحميل وتفعيل برنامج هين HEIN SPORT لمشاهدة قنوات BEIN SPORT
They force people out who have 15+ years. (eg. It was age 37 for me). Thankfully they asked me to write documentation and train a bevy of testers to take my place before letting me go (once the eight race tracks for the game I was creating were completely designed).

The saddest thing (of this story)? This game, from a major mobile publisher, never even made it out of beta because their monetization component had no traction. As an aside, they also ended up scraping my tracks and replacing them with drone simple turn left/right then jump. Repeat. (because of the amount of work it was going to take to implement...)

That is one of too many stories. Truth is, nearly every/maybe all game development studios is poorly managed.
Please (OP, and others allowing access to your machines), be cautious on this front. While LXC unprivileged containers are a start at isolation, LXC containers + GPU passthrough has a much, much larger attack surface (the nvidia binary blob drivers are complex and out of your control). The most common ways of giving GPU access to a container involve installing the CUDA drivers in the host and simply allowing the container to access them.

Depending on your threat model, this may be borderline OK, or may be insanely high risk. We've seen driver exploits in the recent past:

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140/~/se....

that can vector through the GPU to gain access to arbitrary host memory (aka, you're in deep trouble). The only "right" way to give access to your GPUs requires IOMMU support and running in a true guest VM, which Nvidia's consumer cards and drivers are explicitly prevented from doing (because they'd like you to buy the Tesla versions, thanks).

This may be a totally acceptable risk on an isolated mining rig, but people should be aware of the heightened risks they're exposing themselves to. Breaking your machine is well within the capabilities of state-sponsored actors on this one, and from time to time (just after vulnerabilities get announced), could be decently within advanced-script-kiddie zone.
I don't use Paper, I was complaining about the UX of the page in this submission specifically.

... But I tried looking up Paper just now and saw that their register page, https://www.dropbox.com/paper/register, has broken UI too:

https://i.imgur.com/ZyZxDSK.png (blue text on blue background)

I really don't get why Dropbox gets praised for their attention to detail.
Above all I'm interested why the car apparently did not apply the breaks when a person appeared in the visible light camera.

The NTSB investigation should be interesting.
Who do I sue for my driver's handbook lying to me?

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Thanks for your informative correction, even though it might not be a bad misconception to have. New idea for a band name: Beneficial Misconception
There are activists who argue that all of the southwestern US should be returned to Mexico. And indeed, the idea generally isn't that unpopular in Mexico. For what that's worth.
Something about this story seems off to me. I think it's the fact that the employee was so insistent that he mistakenly liked the tweet, implying that he never would have liked such a tweet on purpose. Seems far more likely he thought it was innocuous and clicked it, which would be totally understandable. The story comes off as a but disingenuous. Moreover, the lack of comment from Marriott makes this a very one sided story.

Pure speculation, but I wonder if he was asked to apologize publicly and refused?
Getting asked for opinions in order to read an article about someone getting fired for showing an opinion about people showing an opinion about a form asking for an opinion.
Source? Anecdotally speaking, it seems that there's been about as much coverage for each failed launch as there has been for each successful one.
Sorry you lost your files; that really sucks. However, just because something has flaws that can affect some people, doesn't mean their product is garbage and the founders know nothing of value.

I don't work for dropbox, but they're clearly doing something right or they would not have been able to keep so many customers happy enough to keep giving them their money.

That said, just because they were successful their opinions should not necessarily be treated as gospel or the path to riches for others. Survivorship bias is something to keep in mind: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/287440
So many bloody apps and websites require or ask for fb accounts to sign up, tinder, coffee meets bagel, bumble, etc etc. everyone empowered them.

Note I never got a fb account, so some sites I just can’t use.
I interviewed with Pivotal Labs this week. It went well and they wanted to move forward until I asked for my current compensation. They balked like I was asking for the moon. I coincidentally had an offer from another firm for a 15% raise, so I know I wasn't asking for too much. Pivotal declined when I wouldn't budge, and I took my 15% raise. I start in 3 weeks.
$12.50 for a tiny chunk of iron is still ridiculously expensive. At $25/ea, they could easily do "buy one, give 5 (or more)."
That only works when it's mandatory for everyone.
I’ve lived in a lot of collective houses. I’ve seen a lot of chore systems come and go.

What I’ve decided is that it’s folly to try to enforce accountability. A good system provides visibility, that’s it. Who did what? Document it, but allow implicit social process to handle enforcement. Hard rules just lead to people cooking the books, or opting out of the system entirely.

I feel the same about code review. Document who reviewed. But it’s up to individuals to take responsibility for the outcome. And at the end of the day it’s the committer’s code. It’s their name in the git history.
I agree. I don't think this isn't any more revealing. Just a different way of visualizing. And there is also the drawback of a whole new interpretation when you re-map your input features to Chernoff facial features.
Another part of the puzzle is to return to blogging, for those totally public posts.
Powerful New Algorithm Is a Big Step Towards Whole-Brain Simulation
True fact. The first car phones were done in 1946.
Marriot, and almost all companies, are not demmocraces.
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Not necessarily. There are a lot of reasons for a car manufacturer not to enter the transportation market:

They have no history of operating in that market. It's a major undertaking to compete across the globe. The other transportation companies will now be their competitor, and will refuse to buy their cars. They may not be successful because of marketing, positioning, etc.

If they refrain from that.. they can sell their cars to Uber, Lyft, et al.. which we already know the manufacturer is good at. They can sell their cars to multiple transportation companies that can offer varying levels of premium features; differentiate themselves with marketing; etc. And they can sell a large number of cars to Uber more immediately, since Uber is already in so many cities. They also won't need to deal with cab regulators in each city, etc.

Manufacturers sell their cars to dealerships who stock their cars on their lot until they sell.. this lets the manufacturer turn over inventory faster. If they built a transportation network, they would need to maintain those assets on their books.

If it were simple, I think we would see more manufacturers operating rent a car services. But we don't.
Which is why many companies don’t hire many people in France

http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/knowledge/publications/14...
They've drive 5 million real miles and billions of virtual miles.
Someone needs to hire this guy. It was an honest mistake.
Illusory Motion Reproduced by Deep Neural Networks Trained for Prediction
I think the Rust devs like C++'s abstraction level. Rust is about the same (more modern), it just catches your errors. I don't think it's possible to make Rust as ergonomic as Python, but I do think it's possible to move a little in that direction without losing Rust's strengths.
1. Evidence of women being underpaid (in tech)? Definitely got evidence, both anecdotal and US-wide.

2. You didn't answer my hypothetical, but I'll answer yours: If my salary doesn't change but Alice gets a raise, good for her, doesn't bother me. If I never got hired I don't care about Alice's salary, likewise if she never got hired. Anyway, the parent comment complained "why would I want my salary to be the same as everyone else?" so that's what my hypothetical gets at.
What's really funny to me is that I've had to explain to more than one female friend that there's a reason no guys start conversations with them on Bumble.
>Talking about the day with your family while you spin wool or sharpen a sickle is...

Sounding pretty attractive to me right now.
There is zero friction if you use either error_chain/failure crate and you can still recover the precise underlying errors. The only thing is it allocates.
The letter of the law in fact does operate that way, more or less. The non-binary consideration is in the area of interpretation and severity of application of the law.

The letter of the law can open up cans of worms.

You've never heard of the exploitation of legal loopholes?
> We can't let backwards dictatorships have any say in how a democracy is ran.

Which democracy are we talking about? China? The US?
I'm really sorry to hear about your experience. In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm a PM for GCP. Please join the app engine slack channel as suggested before, and we can help you to debug your issue: https://googlecloud-community.slack.com/messages/C0B9ET46S/
> Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. Imagine how much more inspired we’d be. Imagine how much better equipped we’d be to tackle humanity’s biggest challenges.This is the world we want to live in. We hope you’ll join us.

Geez. You are a file hosting service. Stop pretending like you fixed the world's hunger or something.
The problem about Black Mirror is that since at least 2016 it has been leaking into this reality.
This happens if I am watching a video on twitter, think I am in YouTube, and double tap on the right side to fast forward. Bam, I just liked a video of some ANTIFA beating the shit out of people! Now how do I unlike that?