skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nevertheless, taken at face value, that remark perhaps demonstrates something of a sense of entitlement.

Many people feel entitled to being treated respectfully by their (prospective) employer. Asking people to invest hours doing useless work (which, as others have indicated, they may not even receive feedback on, just a rejection) just to get a chance at an interview, can easily be taken as a sign of disrespect: clearly you feel your time is worth so much more than that of a potential employee that you ask them to invest hours before you'll invest minutes. The potential employee is treated as a beggar rather than a trained professional.

> Entitlement is something I aim to select very strongly against, because it's absolutely poisonous in a team environment.

I'm sure those who feel entitled to basic respect are glad you are selecting against them then :)
My response was just to counter the common misapprehension that macOS itself is built on a FreeBSD userland. It's NetBSD, and devices like the AirPort Extreme/Time Capsule use NetBSD directly. And, back when the iTunes Store was a WebObjects service, it was hosted on Xserves running a weird reverse-Darwin (i.e. a Darwin-shimmed userland atop a NetBSD kernel, because macOS itself wasn't yet performant enough to be a good server but they still needed WebObjects to run.)

These days, Apple's datacenters are running all sorts of things, including Darwin, Linux, Solaris, and AIX[1]. But the "Darwin" part is still essentially NetBSD, not FreeBSD.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/tale-of-two-data-center-strateg...
You're both half-right.

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You could’ve asked to have been moved to a business account. Just saying.
Seems more like a dig on inheritance and the resultant code than java as a language.
But that's almost definitely true, and every bank in the world loses millions of whatever currency they hold every year to fraud.

The primary difference is that banks are encouraged to cooperate to recover these. In the blockchain world, it's incredibly difficult to recover losses and people suggest "no-takesies-backsies" is an ethical method of doing business while wracked by fraud.
Looks like 1.1.1.1 gets about half the ping time of google's dns for me.
There's too many parents that shouldn't be parents for that to really catch on and simultaneously net the results you would like to see, assuming a kid even has a parent or active adult figure in their life.
The gore point gets hit multiple times a year and you would think that CalTrans could at least put safety striping. CalTrans has the statistics to show that it needs better visual cues.

Why don’t they do this, like in other well-planned places:

https://imgur.com/a/2KqP7

https://i.imgur.com/PKavNwR.png

https://i.imgur.com/dfZehmd.gif
Bitcoin is sooooo important that everyone has devised an alternative off-chain protocol that actually does peer-to-peer scaling and in no way actually needs bitcoin except as a reconciliation strategy.

Yeah wow, we're all impressed.
I'd say it was human interaction. The AV is a black box that calmly goes about its business, after a few hours you're probably inclined to trust it. A human learner, on the other hand, is a bundle of shakes and nerves and jerks and danger that you wouldn't completely trust until several months after they passed their driving exam.
How Long Will It Take for Batteries to End the Oil Age?
> If we took down one of the Big Four it would probably tank the whole world economy

No it wouldn’t.
They aren't immutable. They can be fixed.
The waste problem from neutron activation is beginning to get the publicity it deserves in both articles and in comments like the parent's.

Fusion is advertised as a clean power-generation technology, but it will, in general, have its own radioactive-waste disposal problems.
The numbers so far, including human intervention rates do not support the claim that autonomy beats humans. With a limited dataset, the suggestion is very much in the other direction. These vehicles may someday be better than us, but “someday” isn’t today. In particular I think Uber had a human intervention on avg every 13mi.

Edit: I’d love to hear a counterpoint, although of course I accept that’s not required. Like the discussion about fusion, people seem to argue from a point in the future when all of the problems and limitations of today are gone. Let’s try arguing from what’s possible now instead.
For my driving lessons, the instructor was actively telling me which way to go (e.g. "I want you to take the next left"). That conveys a certain level of road awareness even if they aren't actually driving.

They are also probably expecting a student to make mistakes, which puts them in a different mental state than with a car that is right almost all of the time.
Read it before a couple of times but always good to read it again, it is my favorite Paul Graham essay.
If it's impacting a public service with external clients, you should add that to the report, with an estimation of monetary and reputation loss. Customer issues are more likely to be noticed.

The OP is the customer and the database team is the service provider. It's their role to provide a service working within specifications. That's how it works in large organization. Most of everything is internal services providing services to other internal services.
I am not allowed to share that information. I now work for a Infosec/Intel company. I've worked on IBM/Watson's days systems, and before that I worked at another Intel Agency. I have terribly worked with Packet Forensics, FBI, Secret Service, and yes... Cloudflare.

Don't be daft.
That’s because they often are not USB 3+, just 1 or 2.

USB3.1 supports a power draw up up to 3A, tho 1.5A is the more common implementation. Either will power a rPi just fine.
I had to go back over it a few times to understand. I believe its the number of branches at each depth level.
The amount of your transactions doesn't matter. If chains can't give people individual transactions in a trustless environment WITHOUT just recreating a new set of banking networks to bridge you onto the lightning network, all we've done is rotate the moneyhandlers.

Maybe that's great for your pocketbook. To me it seems pointless and worthy of scorn.
He certainly did, but it did help him find quite a few issues in the code.

I did something similar with my large C code base - compiled it as C++ and went and looked at all the issues thrown up. It helped me find quite a few subtle bugs that would have been very hard to spot otherwise.
And if we’re willing to deal with that waste, then we already have a viable source of atomic energy from fission! The future is whenever we decide to deal with the problem instead of leaving it pools or casks to solve itself.

@csallen: Be willing to actually dispose of it. We need to commit the money and political will to set up a single disposal site. Right now it’s a NIMBY nightmare so we get the worst outcome.
What you are doing here seems to be quite common in these discussions: take (some of) the authors's statements, interpret and extrapolate them in the light of your own beliefs, and deduce he is saying something that you, at least, consider to be ridiculous. The problem with this is that in the second step, his and your views become inextricably entangled, and you and the author end up talking past one another.

A more productive approach is to take the author's specific statements and reasoning, and see where you disagree. There is something in almost every paragraph that I think is at least debatable, but I don't see a clear denial of qualia - at most, he may be suggesting that they may not be what they seem.
Bugs in financial software can typically be unwound by the parties involved, or by courts, or both. This is less true for a scheme designed to be irreversible in itself.
If you want to memorize the integer, it's not a bad mechanic to use... Why do you hate me?
I used the x32 ABI at a previous job, for an ARM-on-x86 emulation project. The x32 ABI outperformed both x86 and x86_64 for that purpose. It wasn't a huge margin, but it was enough to make us want to use it over x86_64.

I wish I still had the performance data for that, so this would be more than an anecdotal comment.
What am I missing about Cryptokitties? It was on the last side. A16Z/USV invested $16M [1].

They claim digital collectibles is a viable business.

[1]http://fortune.com/2018/03/20/cryptokitties-andreessen-horow...
Because without cryptocurrency, as he says, it's a merkle tree and THAT IS NOT NEW. Github already did it. It works. Revolutionary? No.
I don't do business in Germany, but I'm curious; which firms would you say are most-respected there?
Ask HN: Using checklists for grading a code review?
The simple use of checklists has been shown to improve patient care and reduce errors from doctors and nurses.

I'm curious of anyone's experience in using a checklist in a code review setting--whether you've found it helpful or not, and if you've noticed any positive or negative n-th order side-effects.

I'm wondering if you have seen that by having a checklist that contains a baseline minimum of things an engineering organization wants to enforce or encourage, that the checklist’s use reduces politicking in code reviews, where code authors only try to select their fellow buddy who would be lenient on them (cue quid-pro-quo behavior).
I read some of the slides, but they are authored from an emotional standpoint, which makes it difficult to follow ideas and conclusions. Statements like "public blockchain security is a lie", are just not useful. If this content is used at Berkley I'm worried for peoples tuition. I'd expect more depth and logical statements for a presentation at a university.
There aren't many compelling counterarguments. That's why people haven't heard them.
I've had a quick shufti through the comments so far and I don't see too many "20 years" and anyway the meme was always 50 years. That said, I am with you - I think the 20, 25, 50 memes are badly wrong.

"People were not screaming "20 years more" at the turn of the century." - which century? I went to school in Oxfordshire, UK (later half of the 1980s) and studied physics to A level and went on a field trip or two to the local nuclear fusion project.

I clearly remember being told by everyone there how progress was measured. It seemed to boil down to a chart with time on the x axis and factors away from sustainable fusion on y. This may have been a "lies to children". The chart looked like an exponential decay with a rather wobbly tail starting in the late or so 1970s back then.

There is a good reason for the 20/25/50 years meme. It's the best model we have had for progress for a very long time. I will be ecstatic to get my 'leccy from nuclear fusion in my life time and unimpressed if my grand daughter is still waiting.
Ask HN: Amazon Behaviour Interview
I have onsite Interview scheduled with Amazon in few days. I read about few interview experiences and many candidates talked about the importance of behavior questions in Amazon and how questions revolves around their leadership principles. Can anyone provide me some resources from where I can practice these type of questions specifically for Amazon?
Clever. I like it.
Bingo. Apple has a good amount of engineers working on Linux and QNX embedded devices. I think it's pretty clear at this point that they are still working on cars and that they are also integrating those cars with Apple maps. I think they want to kill two birds with one stone with Project Titan: get more map data and develop software for self-driving cars.
It’s probably unfair to compare one of many means of communication online with a singular activity burned into the fabric of our genetic ancestry for hundreds of millions of years. Or: it’s like saying you shouldn’t eat bacon, not that you shouldn’t eat at all.
> the lack of recognition among said new money for their role in gentrification

This is where you jumped the shark. How does one "recognize their role" in gentrification? I know I'm probably a gentrifier, but I don't have much of a choice do I?
Great comment. Uber's behavior shows it is interested in securing a monopoly of local transportation markets, not self-driving technology. Self-driving technology is a means to that end. If they cared about self-driving technology itself they would be starting with much smaller applications and working their way up rather than forcing themselves on to our streets as quickly as possible before their funding runs out.
Definitely worth pointing out, but I don't take issue with their wording. KPMG has a worldwide presence and is an incredibly popular auditing firm. It's certainly possible for KPMG to be a "well-respected auditing firm" in the public's perception and for them to fail to detect all unethical practices during an audit.

While hiring them doesn't prove that Cloudflare's code and practices are sound, it does reduce the risk that they aren't.
If it's a utility then why ICO? Strictly as a fundraising method? To enable resale? None of that requires a centralized consensus chain even in a trustless world.

No, you ICO a utility token because you hope it'll go superluminal by interacting with an ecosystem full of unregulated securities.
See Hashcash, which long predates the blockchain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
It seems pretty useless to even try to formally verify a program when all of the dependencies that are necessary to do anything useful are not formally verified. Where do I find a formally verified TCP/IP stack, a formally verified database, a formally verified HTML/CSS renderer, etc.?
The opposite (i.e. force feeding the immune cells) would also be worth looking at for improving the checkpoint inhibitor treatments of cancer. I am off to look to see what can be used to increase oxphos activity.
Makes me think of

>ONCE UPON A time, artists had jobs. And not “advising the Library of Congress on its newest Verdi acquisition” jobs, but job jobs, the kind you hear about in stump speeches. Think of T.S. Eliot, conjuring “The Waste Land” (1922) by night and overseeing foreign accounts at Lloyds Bank during the day, or Wallace Stevens, scribbling lines of poetry on his two-mile walk to work, then handing them over to his secretary to transcribe at the insurance agency where he supervised real estate claims. The avant-garde composer Philip Glass shocked at least one music lover when he materialized, smock-clad and brandishing plumber’s tools, in a home with a malfunctioning appliance. “While working,” Glass recounted to The Guardian in 2001, “I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him that I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.”

from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/t-magazine/art/artist-day...
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I've enjoyed reading your comments in this thread. Have you considered writing up any of your observations about places you've visited, lived or worked in in a blog/book/etc? I would check it out.
Can you be less vague, a lot less vague?
From Feb'18

https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2018/insurance-company-su...

The insurance company says that despite its suggestive name and marketing campaign, "Tesla produced a semi-autonomous vehicle that misleadingly appeared to be fully autonomous."

In addition, the lawsuit claims Tesla advertised the package as providing a way to “automatically steer down the highway, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic," all without requiring the driver to touch the steering wheel.
Not at all. Yes, pleasing work is wonderful. But you’re still tied to being there for most of your waking hours. It doesn’t matter how flexible the position is, there are opportunity costs.
I am building the pyramids so that some day a dead pharaoh can lay inside them.
It's like saying rapists will be deterred by a sexual harassment course. People are ruled by different passions and different ideals. College isn't going to change the person who is naturally indifferent, or even sadistic, and only plays along until the stupid class ends.
I understand what you’re saying completely. The point of highway safety equipment is usually as a last resort to minimize injury as much as possible, this is after markings, signage, drivers and vehicles have failed to prevent a crash.

Obviously the crash should’ve been avoided, but poorly maintained or designed infrastructure should not be left out of the conversation.
If something is 95% of the times X, can't we just label the whole thing as X? Just making life simpler. (Actually, my threshold goes even as low as 50% for the case of BS.)
It's the gospel of someone who experienced, by common standards, extreme success. No more, no less. I find his essays mostly to be opinion pieces without exceptional insights or conclusions that would make them stand out if they were not attached to his persona.
All in all, KPMG is still well respected (so is E&Y and smaller firms).

We regularly receive government grants, and the best audit experiences I've had was with the small, EU-funded auditors. They have a high level of integrity and technical/financial knowledge. But that is a very specific niche.
Fastest Bigpipe residential connection available in the middle of Auckland:

$ ping -c 4 1.1.1.1

PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=29.0 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=30.5 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=28.6 ms

--- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.731/28.993/30.573/1.028 ms

$ ping -c 4 8.8.8.8

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=27.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=30.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=28.5 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=30.6 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.772/29.409/30.710/1.280 ms

I'm starting to feel I should change ISPs...
You are picking the least controversial part of the memo. Far more controversial is that Facebook executives would admit to their behavior being ethically questionable but insisting that it’s necessary because Facebook is “de facto good.”

There’s plenty of ways to defend Facebook in this without constructing strawmen.
What is making this difference?

Driving instructors are constantly graduating their most experienced students and recruiting zero-experience students.

These zero-experience students need the instructor to intervene from time to time, thus justifying and reinforcing the instructor's habit of vigilance.

On the other hand, if an autonomous car has one near-accident every 100,000 miles, it's not often enough to maintain and keep strong a habit of vigilance.
True, but most require some sort of backend. Many of those apps can still exist with little or no Javascript.
Years ago, Flash (I thinks it's "Adobe Animate" now) had a similar feature in that you could create symbols and Symbols and edit them after the fact, so this part, while cool didn't impress me much.

I'm glad I continued watching up to the point where the presenter puts symbols within themselves because that part blew my mind! I'd really love to see a feature like this incorporated into Inkscape and/or Kitra.
Nobody has a clue, because we haven't figured out how to build a reactor that generates net positive power at all yet. The cost of the fuel is trivial, but there's no telling how much it will cost to mass-produce and maintain stuff like superconducting magnets, high-grade vacuum systems, whatever we end up using to contain the massive neutron flux, etc.
Or maybe you just read.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-trolls-locked-m...
> Statements like "public blockchain security is a lie", are just not useful.

The good news is the statement you quoted was not made.

> I'd expect more depth and logical statements for a presentation at a university.

The slides contain logic statements, depth, and e.g. historical comparisons.

Since there's some character assassination in this thread (how sad): Nicholas Weaver's credentials can be found here [1].

[1] http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/
So basically Google could get 90% of what AMP provides without AMP itself, because the magic is in the caching and forcibly reducing the ad junk the page loads.

Does that about sum it up?
No spaces is my preference.
It's pretty ironic though that Uber's driver app almost/does require you to use it in motion though, eg when you are driving and another fare comes up. Nearly every uber drive I see goes over to the phone and slides to accept the fare.
Software engineers aren’t all clones. There are probably more who don’t care about privacy than those who do.
If you can't get the team who owns the data to meet the needed uptime, then you probably shouldn't start the project in the first place. It's a classic case of organizational differences in priority; solving them with tech pretty much never works. Any caching layer will be more expensive than fixing the root cause, and add consistency issues. As an IC, you'll feel pressure to make it work the best you can with what you have, but sometimes the answer is it's doomed from the start if the right folks aren't bought in.

Some tips if you have to proceed:

1) Be clear you can promise a SLO for you app, but not it's dependancies. If the dependancies are down, some features won't work.

2) Have honest clear errors that explain the clear root cause. Cloudflare's "Web server is down" page is a great example. It pretty clearly say's "we're up, but they aren't".
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/unlearning-toxic-behaviors-i... has a whole bunch of useful advice.
I really appreciate commas a separators within numbers. One man's trash, I guess...
Every student car I've see had a brake on the passenger side, some even have a steering wheel.
I had the same feeling. It would be better to be 8 slides or more.
This seems to be a European issue perhaps? I've never once been confused by a comma in a number. In fact, it makes them easier to read, not harder.

Can you describe your experience with numbers? Are you a mathematician or in some other scientific field?

Also, it seems odd to make a request like this of a (seemingly) random author on the internet. It feels similar to making a demand to change writing style. (ie, oxford comma, em-dash, etc...) Do you think it's reasonable to ask someone else, for what seems to me, is a cultural or occupational perspective should be adhered to just because of an individuals momentary state of confusion?
As a side note, not only one's life is short, but the entire human history is short. I'm over 40 and it struck me that if I repeated my life 50 times it would already go back B.C.! We've invented and developed ALL the things in between. I don't think I could live 50 times and do that myself. That was some amazing achievement, humans.