skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why pay for uncertain research when you can just wait for others to figure it out and then use their proven technology? Aka, first-mover disadvantage.
This is a good point, and I'm glad you explained it so well because it's something I haven't given much thought to. I do yoga and exercise to maintain my muscular system and ligaments, and eat well to maintain my bones and organ function, and etc., but I suppose I've never been raised to, or been given reason to, add extra physical barriers for my own safety. For example, to protect my eyes I have blue light filter on my devices, but I don't see the risk of gouging my eyes out as being very high. Mostly, in the physical world my life is pretty "safe". But perhaps when I start driving and running through thorny underbrush I will wear protective goggles and such :)
Your formulation makes it sound like the government will make sure you have insurance.

This is not the case. You have to make sure you have insurance or the government will fine you. But if you were unable to get insurance for whatever reason, you still don't have insurance.

And Obamacare premiums are not small and the insurance is not very good.
I've certainly considered it, but it's very much not me. It's hard to be more expressive than that without posting a huge long introspective ramble. I'm one of lifes natural born psudo-anonymous internet posters, I guess.

edit: Thanks for the compliment by the way :) I really do forget my manners on the internet!
I doubt they sell it to third parties, and they don’t do third party advertising.
I think that parental controls can be abused by the people implementing them and avoided by the kids "using" them so it is probably better to teach the kids what is right and wrong.
Yes, except how do you propose to implement caching and stripping out the ad junk without AMP?
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Use BackBlaze to back up your computer and external drives into the Cloud
Ask HN: Should I go for senior developer, product manager, or something else?
I spent my first four years out of college as a product manager. Then I left that to learn development, working as a full-stack freelancer for four years, where I built many products for startups and eventually built my own product that was acquired by a big company. After that, I spent four years as a developer at the big company but am moving on to the next thing.

The problem is that I don't know what I should do next.

I am a pretty good product manager — I know how to facilitate across an organization, have a good sense for design, and am good with people (but it's been eight years since I've been in that role).

I am a pretty good web developer — I can work with the front-end, back-end and set up infrastructure (but I wouldn't call myself an expert or a computer scientist).

I am an OK but honestly inexperienced entrepreneur — I ran my freelancing business relatively well and went through an acquisition but I wouldn't call myself an experienced business person.

I am now in my 30s, at a point where I want stability (I don't want to start a new business) and to maximize my earning potential. I'm social and drawn to leadership, I like working with people. I'm a solid developer but don't consider myself top-tier, and sometimes feel overwhelmed when it's how I spend all my time. I hate politics and don't have engineering management experience. I don't really have CS skills but I haven't found them necessary for most of my web development, to be honest.

What kind of a role do you think is best for me? Would I make the most as a developer or product manager? How would my choice affect my career trajectory? I realize it's a question only I can answer but I'd appreciate your perspective.
I don't know much about PG except what's been mentioned here, but I do know that I don't come from a privileged background and yet his article still was useful to me in reevaluating my current priorities.

Additionally, I would reiterate that I think this could indeed be applicable to many people. PG's example of a time-waster, "arguing online," could easily be substituted with "watching TV" and then apply to the average household in America. For example, if my dad had done like my mom and tried to reduce bullshit, he wouldn't have been an alcoholic who was either working or watching TV and never spending time with us.
If you need to write to the DB, you're hosed, and caching locally will only make things more of a headache. If not, you might be able to improve read uptime, but at a high cost. It's not easy to keep a local DB in sync with a remote that's only got 90% uptime, especially since it sounds like you have no support from the DBAs (they'd ideally need to set up replication permissions for you, and with that much downtime it's going to be a mess).

As others have said, this is an organizational issue and the best way to handle it is to dig into the human politics.
I want this for my Facebook activity.
British PhDs are somewhat unusual as you are still explicitly a student - with all the tax benefits that entails. Most positions are funded by Research Councils UK (STFC, EPSRC, NERC and so on) which gives a reasonable tax-free salary. You get council tax exemption, no student loan repayments, no income tax/national insurance. You also get 8 weeks holiday entitlement as standard.

We have tuition-only grants for EU students, but that doesn't include living. Vanishingly few universities provide full funding for foreign students - the exception is positions which have project funding.

In most of Europe the situation is different: you're employed by the university. This has ups and downs. On the upside, it doesn't matter where you're from, you still get paid. On the downside you're a salaried employee with all the tax burdens, crappy holiday and HR requirements that brings.

The pressure in the UK is time. Universities are now under serious pressure to churn students and 4 years is a hard deadline. Typically you need special permission and have to pay a fee to submit after 4 years. In most cases you're also only funded for 3 years, occasionally 3.5.

In other countries, where you have an employment contract, it's less urgent provided your group has funding. It's common for EU PhDs to take 4-5 years. This is again good and bad. The British system encourages rapid specalisation at the expense of breadth of study and number of publications. Realistically in the UK if you get one journal publication, you've done well. Abroad, it's expected you'll get at least 2-3 and in some places you need 4-5 to form a thesis.
> Now I'm 40, and time is going faster, but it's possible that life is only half over.

Maybe it's only 1/3 over, or depending on medical advances, less than that!
Kodi No More
UTF-9 and UTF-18: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode (2005)
Answer: not as fast as the D lang forums.

https://forum.dlang.org/
A very low quality article. The whole point of AMP is to define a restricted subset of HTML that is safe to prerender and still provide working analytics to the publisher. When you prerender, the advantage of AMP is substantial as it is impossible to beat a user experience of instant, which is why users prefer it and why publishers go through the trouble of implementing two web versions of their web pages (in addition to Facebook and Apple News non-web versions).

The point of the AMP cache is not for CDN speed, as the author mistakenly believed and measured, but for same-origin or CORS prerender, and Google is not the only implementer.
IMO we should introduce locale-dependent number formatting to HTML.
There have been plenty of times in my life where I knew I could otherwise advance but for forces out of my control holding me back. Simple knowledge is never enough for change.

Many forces add up and keep people in inefficient situations. In China, there’s a sort of majority dictatorship holding people down. In the US, there are local, state, and federal forces at play - from things like living in “the wrong” zip code to outsized rent, poor pay, lack of healthcare, through to national competition for scarce, good career options, racism, sexism, many other-isms, and so on.
I think AT&T's fiber modems are using 1.1.1.1. I'm getting < 1ms ping times and according to Cloudflare's website there's no data center close enough to me for that to be possible without violating the speed of light.
Maybe they just want you to think it's a weird coincidence.

;)
"noncompliant actors" is the Uber term for pedestrians in the road.

I understand the computer science concept to abstract the term but when you're talking to the drivers of the cars this is in retrospect an awful term.

Rather depressingly all I can think of is the ED 2000 from Robocop that shoots citizens who don't comply.
> ... and has an election coming in seven months.

An election that began and is being discussed exactly from the day the last election was over, 4 years ago.
Not giving it your WiFi password doesn’t make it immune from a nearby open/Mifi/phone access point that may allow the TV to exfiltrate data or become exposed.
What other live data is there for this?

(Besides the PNG which I am now downloading every 30 seconds using this in an empty dir:)

while true; do wget http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png -O $(date +%s).png; sleep 30; done

Seems to update every 5 minutes at the moment; I'm overengineering incase they increase it at some point.
Ask HN: Is there a guide to applying for a new SWE job for the first time?
Been 3 years at my first post grad job and it's time for a change. I've collected a couple of potential ads which look nice. But I have no idea where to start in terms of preparation - DS and algos - is there an ultimate guide somewhere for this?
> run it on a different network than your NAS and other computers. And that all other devices best require passwords to connect to them. Ideally you run a TV on a different VLAN.

Very important. I used to have no password on any of my internal network devices, then changed to all the same pw. I need to put them all different, because threats seem more likely to come from internal "trusted" sources that we bring in
Well, so level 3 can be safe under certain conditions and still be world changing.

For example, imagine a self driving truck that works perfectly, but only during the day, on highways, when it is not raining.

Such a system would still put millions out of work, as firing half of the truck drivers is possible if something works when it is sunny, on the highway.
Wow, that site indeed feels fast! Is there a writeup about how it’s done?
I have a 4K 55" "dumb" TV. You typically need to look for the "Business" line of products to find them.

http://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-display/displays-tv...

The downsides are that it doesn't do HDR (that's typical for the pricepoint anyway, but I'm not sure they make their nicer lines as dumb-TVs "for business" if you wanted it). And it only has two HDMI inputs (which is fine for me, or I might get a separate splitter if I want to expand later).

The upsides: the TV just works, works fast, and never gets in my way. The remote-control is simple.

I'll avoid Smart TVs as long as I possibly can.
Tech workers have organized around this, largely through YIMBY groups, which are starting to have some limited success with this.

Unfortunately, a lot of the messaging from these groups are arrogant and troll-y rather than building an even broader constituency. They don’t have any patience, and they think their opponents are naive, often calling them “stupid”
Rather than audit dashcam footage after the fact for infractions related to attention and phone use, these companies need realtime remote monitoring of the drivers (and realtime AI driven monitoring for areas without signal and attention lapses by the remote monitor employees).
While I don't know about how this is percieved within Tesla, the adversarial relationship you paint between NTSB and Tesla is exactly what should not happen. Root causes of crashes must be investigated and published so that Tesla and their competitors can improve safety of their cars.
I'm able to load http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png just fine, including via wget.
1. How is this in any sense even a fraction of how bad facebook is?

2. I can not fathom why anyone would connect their "smart" TV to the network at all.
Briefly, this is very similar to nonstandard analysis and the hyperreal number system. The paper appears to follow along the trails considered by NSA and HR textbooks previously. Those works are fully rigorous, so this paper seems a little redundant in the logic portion.

I even attempted to code those systems in C/python/java.
It's a completely business model, though. Slice just provides online ordering for existing pizzerias. The marginal cost of each pizza sold is very low, so they don't have to make a lot off of each pizza to eventually be successful if they have high enough volume.

Sliceline was doing things with high operational costs like repackaging and delivering pizzas, so their marginal costs for each pizza were very high. That means they have to make a lot off of each individual pizza no matter how high their volume gets.
To follow up on this, you will be fined by the IRS for every month of the year in which you have no insurance...
> Part of the silence, people in the industry say, comes from a desire to avoid the business equivalent of bad karma — knowing that they, too, may one day face the buzz saw of public censure.

This is pretty much it. Rule 1 of PR is not to criticize competitors for problems you have as well.
Increasing system's entropy is bad, bad, bad! There's no way back, you know?
>And moving back here was a mixed bag

"here" meaning the Netherlands; is that not so?
There's a bit of discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592769

Source of the site is here: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
How fast could google.com be if they trimmed the JS fat?
I agree that's usually best, but one exception is worth noting: if you want only publicly resolvable results, don't use 169.254.169.254. That address adds convenient predictable hostnames for your project's instances under the .internal TLD.

Also, no need to hardcode that address - DHCP will happily serve it up. It also has the hostname metadata.google.internal and the (disfavored for security reasons) bare short hostname metadata.
Publishers go through the trouble in order to get the boost in Google's rankings.

As an iOS user I find AMP to be quite buggy, and AMP versions of pages like reddit are borderline non-functional. I don't prefer it at all.
We could use them in Brisbane. State and city governments slogging it out over a metro (rubber tired trackless bendy buses) vs tunnel thing. Brisbane transport has been up in the air since Patrick Geddes day. It's a mess
Genuine question: What does not using oil for mass transit have to do with reducing cost to orbit?
That's exactly the scenario I was thinking of. I've run samba in a household with a (non-smart) TV, back in the day. There's definitely some overlap there.
Maybe, although I smoked a pack a day and drank heavily for 15 years to try to head off being undermined by medical advances!
Yes. So rather than putting a gun to my head to make me pay for your insurance they put the gun to the head of the purportedly responsible adult who should be paying, and provide steep discounts if you can’t afford it.

Government can merely redistribute its tax earnings, often in extremely corrupt and wasteful ways. It does not create wealth on its own.
FT had a lot of coverage, if you're looking for a non-South African source (linking behind the paywall is probably not going to work, but you can Google for it).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-22/kpmg-unde...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/09/15/kpmg-south-a...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kpmg-safrica/kpmgs-south-...

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41283462

It's also been extensively covered in the South African media.
I’ve been pretty convinced for a while that this is effectively how it will play out. Effectively the “iRobot” model of designated areas/highways that are autonomous and highly controlled/protected and surface streets will remain human controlled for a long time.
PoS has other disadvantages which PoW doesn't have.
Other SV companies (Apple, Salesforce etc.) and former Facebook executives, but no one that actually compete with them in social networking/advertising. The lone Google statement is a personal one from an engineer, not a company stance.
I didn’t realize git was Turing complete
The MIT team thinks they might be able to do it in 15 years. Wilson isn't on their team.
Curious what you mean by "deal with" it. Somehow make it non-radioactive, or improve our disposal techniques, or what?
An airplane has never had to dodge a pedestrian.
At least level 4 is required for that.
The modelling of value is a prerequisite to the most interesting use cases.
I did this by following the instructions I found at https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
That is the sole reason companies calculate 'man hours.' You simply can't do exponential work just by living 50 times over. Other people in parallel matter a ton. Interesting point though
When you put validation on the model you can't have separate validation rules for two requests that interacts with the same model.

When you put validation in the controller, it's not reusable.

Having request classes gives you best of both worlds. I really like the way Laravel does it.

I actually like almost everything the way Laravel does it. Really a lot of thought has went into every design decision.
I guess you missed the point of TFA. It is impossible for humans to perform the tasks these two persons were hired to do. 100% of people who attempt to do that job will eventually fail, likely sooner rather than later.
Though impractical to implement, this is an interesting thought experiment. What if the autonomous driving system has a "chaos monkey" that required intervention by the trainer every so often?

Note that we already do this to keep people vigilant in rote tasks, e.g. for airport x-ray scanner operators or train drivers.
Sorry, I don't know the author and it shouldn't matter. Still think the slides are made up of emotional trigger words rather then arguments and content, you can grab content like this from random reddit threads. How sad indeed.
Trump is not entirely wrong. Is Amazon too big?
Governance (DAO's, Ardent United, Aragon, etc.)
> There is also a debate to use delegated PoS or a hybrid of PoS and PoW to get both of their upsides with none of tbeir downsides.

Read: PoS has downsides.
Truck drivers do a lot more than just drive trucks: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/02/wil...
A notary
> (Now consider that in the golden age of oil before the oil shocks in the seventies, oil consumption was growing more like 8% per year.)

At that time, per capita energy use in the US was growing by 3% per year while population would grow by 1.5% per year. Today, per capita energy consumption in the United States is falling, and the population is growing more slowly. The story is much the same elsewhere. Even China has leveled off in per capita energy consumption. India's is still growing, but it will take many years considering their baseline of 1/10 of the United States per capita before they're the biggest problem, and I guess they'll probably turn that trend around before they actually get to that point.
That's what makes it an elephant in the room. And that's even before the pun, with it having an elephant as a mascot.
I think you're underselling the science and engineering behind building waste disposal systems that scale, the science behind the taste, shelf life, etc. of packaged food & beverages, and the complexity of taxes.

Sure, there is a lot of menial work, but society has been on a trend of automating that away for decades. No matter the field, there are things which can't be automated away and those are also things which someone somewhere is bound to find deeply interesting.
Lmao, so now you need two people to drive a car.
And not NEARLY as fast as example.com!
They're a summary (powerpoint presentation); not the actual argument(s). Emotional trigger words stick; empty abstract words don't.
Just wait. They will all look for ways to monetize their data once there is pressure to meet growth numbers.
The "too big to fail" argument is what saved KPMG in South Africa:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kpmg-safrica-exclusive/ex...
Rewind to 2005. Isn't this why Rails was born?
Just make sure it's really a product manager position and not a project manager position if you decide to go in that direction. A product manager (IMO) "owns" the product, where a project manager tends to wander around trying to facilitate things or implement some kind of agile, scrum, or other methodology...constantly messing around with burn-down charts and such.

I don't have anything against real project manager positions, but most companies I've dealt with just don't properly utilize the role. The companies I've dealt with tend to have project managers embedded in too small of a team or teams to really add any value.

In the long run a product manager is a good career choice if you can get in with the right place, they're going in the right direction, and they're developing the right products.

But I don't see how you escape politics in a real product manager position. If this is "your" product that is being developed (you essentially own it), then you're going to have to sell your vision and to get the resources you need/want. You'll probably also ruffle some feathers in the process.
Unfortunately, the situation there isn't as good as it should be. It isn't always clear which autopilot mode the aircraft is in, and the Pilots no longer get enough flight hours in the degraded modes.

This contributed significantly to the Air France 447 crash in 2009.

see:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen...

and
more broadly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
"Turing complete" wasn't part of GP's suggestion; my reply therefore still applies. On top of that, Ethereum's "turing complete" relies on an unsafe, unproven and likely broken programming language.

And I didn't realise the secrets I gave to my notary were out in the open. Hint: they're not, and that's legally enforceable. The blockchain is nothing because data is [legally] [1] nothing. You might as well just use public key cryptography and release your data over BitTorrent, like Wikileaks did. It'll get distributed based on supply & demand, and using BitTorrent is still cheaper & efficient than blockchain.

[1] At least, in the EU.
Exactly. Train drivers have whole protocols to counter attention issues. And they are trained professionals.

A tape repeating "put your hands back on the instruments" can only buy you that much safety.
Wind generation is increasing year-over-year, you're just seeing a seasonal difference because the chart cuts off at February. Wind resource availability has a significant seasonal variation. Try comparing it to the same month a year earlier.
> the adversarial relationship you paint

There is space between being an adversary and being a partner in the investigation.

> Root causes of crashes must be investigated and published so that Tesla and their competitors can improve safety of their cars.

Yes, and two independent such investigations are better than one. With less opportunity for the subject to steer the result.
What's your criteria for "good"?

The worst conforming ACA plans are essentially the catastrophic insurance that people think they are clamoring for; they are expensive because health care costs in the US are spiraling out of control. It could be that people actually want plans with a bunch of complicated limitations and limits, but I doubt it.