skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, even if the company was truthful -- and I've seen very few companies be truthful about firings -- they probably couldn't be due to the threat of lawsuits. But I have no reason to doubt the basic facts, a popular engineer was fired. The workers threatened to unionize, and the workers were fired and replaced with ones offshore.

Second, there's a lot of reasons a company can fire its labor. E.g.: Labor is cheaper offshore, say. And yes, a company can fire all of its union labor and replace them with overseas workers if they so chose. (MAGA? Anyone?)

Third, in the US, we ask that companies give us certain benefits, such as health/dental insurance and so leaving a company is really more painful than it needs to be. Granted, his account is going to be painful, probably because for someone like him, it really is painful.
Your argument is absurd, the first sentence gives it away 'empty properties'. Vancouver has no empty properties.
Approximate annual world salt production: 0.3 billion metric tons

Approximate salt content of the Atlantic Ocean: 11,000,000 billion metric tons
Money absolutely matters. If there's no money, there's no development. And vice versa. That funded development isn't a guarantee of success, but it raises the odds to be non-zero.

You're also ignoring a key point: we have "self-driving" cars right now, but they're not good enough yet. Computer hardware is getting cheaper day by day, and right now the limiting factor appears to be the cost of sensors.
4th post with this title from this author.
Maybe people are upset about the spoiler?
I was looking for this exactly today.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. I'm redirected to https://www.savefromweb.com/inner.php and there nothing happens.
On the other hand, Firefox today is much better than Netscape ever was. And with the never re-write philosophy we wouldn’t have Rust.
> Hacker News commenters are not the ones making baseless claims about how their product is better than the current market dominator.

Where did anyone say that Fuchsia was better than Linux?

The title of this document, "Fuchsia is not Linux", is a play on the "GNU's not Unix" backronym for the GNU project, as well as being a way of pointing out that unlike Android, Fuchsia is an entirely different kernel.

I mean, obviously they would write it because they thought it would be better for certain applications than Linux, or better for trying out new ideas, or the like, but I don't see anything claiming that Fuchsia is better.

In fact, Fuchsia has been done as a pretty low-key project for a while, slowly opening up parts but without much fanfare, just repositories being available, and slowly posting more documentation like the link in the OP. I don't really see very much marketing about it, just low key releases of code and more technical information to give people a taste and show the direction they're trying to go in.
You could deploy a smart contract that has an array of all censored/blacklisted peeps which other clients can choose to use.
> smarter

A fedora, right?
> What do you do?

Quantitative strategy research and trading. I own all aspects of my strategies' research and development, and also fill in as architect for some components that are owned by other teams.

> What is your job title?

Analyst.

> What is your total comp?

$1.5mm ($200k base) cash. Last three years have ranged from $1.25-2.5mm.

> Who do you work for?

A hedge fund.

> Where do you live?

NYC tri-state area. I go to the office two days a week.

> How long did it take you to get here?

Similar roles with less upside after college (4-5 years). Current role since 2015

> How did you get here

Superior technical skills, having developed 10 or so "unique" ideas that have been profitable over several years and zealously guarding the IP. Being intimately familiar with another 100+ (from academic/practitioner literature, information leakage) that I can layer on and tweak. And in this industry, luck always helps.
>Let me put it very clearly for you: it is not acceptable, in any shape or manner, to expect your users to have to "save themselves" from your product killing them every 5 seconds. If your product requires that, it is a bad product.

Yes it is. Otherwise you're asking all car manufacturers to stop selling cars. "I have to constantly keep my car between the lines or I'll cause an accident" is an acceptable standard. That's how every car on the road works today. The liability is on the user to operate it properly.

You accuse the poster of fanboy-ism, but you don't realize how much Tesla tells the driver that they need to pay attention and keep their hands on the steering wheel while they're using autopilot. So maybe your lack of experience with the car makes you pull those baseless arguments.

While I agree Tesla is deceptive with their wording and the way they sell their autopilot ("have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability"), it's not legally wrong. They have the hardware for it (according to them), but at the moment, the software they have is a glorified lane assist. They specifically mention in that same page:

> Every driver is responsible for remaining alert and active when using Autopilot, and must be prepared to take action at any time.
Becoming a doomsday prepper edges further away from "flat out crazy" with every day of weird, weird weather.

Our climate has been extremely stable for a long time and I'm not expert but it is my understanding that chaotic systems can suddenly flip from stable to extremely unstable.

I think there will be a time, hopefully a long time away but possibly close, when the world realises that there' going to be disaster on an unprecedented scale and we all have reason to be very, very concerned.

If the entire Antarctic eastern shelf melts, there is enough ice there to raise sea levels by more than 70 meters. Some say this is 100 years away.... but ice doesn't melt all at once. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes alot sooner and what that world/civilization looks like I cannot imagine.

And if you have children, then 100 years away sounds very very soon because you know this is the world they will live in.
I'm afraid US will try to implement EU-style upload filters [1], which might end up causing more censorship.

[1] https://juliareda.eu/2018/02/voss-upload-filters/
Anyone can download and run the software, and it's widely used for studies on human performance as workload increases.
It matters whether it functions correctly, not whether an expert can tell if it was made by an expert.

This statement is fine.
This is the challenge - the banks don’t get to see unlimited upside like the other investors. Their reruns are much more muted.
Steve Job's opinion on consulting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-9Fd2mEnI&feature=youtu.be...
not sure if you're being sarcastic, but you really should. Everyone should. It will cost about $5/mo [fastmail] to make it happen, unfortunately most people don't seem to assign much value to privacy.
Is this a bannable offense?
It’s a survey paper on many different algorithms so they could have each written parts of it.
> I have to preface my post to say that I think developing self-driving automobiles is so important that it's worth the implied cost of potentially tens of thousands of lives in order to perfect the technology, because that's what people do; make sacrifices to improve the world we live in so that future generations don't have to know the same problem.

This is the definition of a false dichotomy and it implicitly puts the onus on early adopters to risk their lives (!) in order to achieve full autonomy. Why not put the onus on the car manufacturer to invest sufficient capital to make their cars safe!? To rephrase what you said with this perspective:

> ...developing self-driving automobiles is so important that it's worth the implied cost of potentially tens of billions of investor dollars in order to perfect the technology, because that's what people do; make sacrifices to improve the world we live in so that future generations don't have to know the same problem.

This seems strictly better than the formulation you provided. How nuts is it that the assumption here is that people will have to die for this technology to be perfected. Why not pour 10x or 100x the current level of investment and build entire mock towns to test these cars in - with trained drivers emulating traffic scenarios? Why put profits ahead of people?
Never realized you could do that. Hey hank you, that’s handy!

One question though, is it possible to intersperse pure Julia functions but still have them piped, e.g. write custom “shell” commends?
> I am sick and tired of designers who are mostly glorified pixel pushers that throw together something pretty, but give no thought to edge cases or application states that force their designs into becoming ugly or having a poor interaction, or just becoming downright unusable, all because they rely on shallow and antiquated schools of thought that were born out of the paper and magazine media industries. Pretty, but rigid designs.

I love working with designers who know they have no idea how to code, admit to having no idea how to code, but persistently work with the developers to ensure a smooth hand off of designed assets. Everyone's job is easier when they attempt to understand the other team member's job and tasks as well. I don't expect everyone to understand how to code but I don't think anybody likes working with someone who makes their job harder.
Why do people say this? What marketing has Google ever done for Go?
there's an interface that looks something like this (including vcpu) as part of KVM, accessed through the /dev/kvm device with ioctl's.

You can see part of it here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/inclu...
Ah, so basically anyone who doesn’t agree with you just doesn’t understand.
Steering toward a barrier is not fine for any level.
I found the feed to be more interesting than the copy on the first page. The first peep I saw was a meme, and that's great. Lots of software in this space feels too self-serious for memes.

https://peepeth.com/_?id=QmQpyNnU8UaPQdfP5o1HXX4D827NwttTJm3...
As an aside, are there any reasons not to use Unity for a typical web app?

EDIT - took a look at Haiku, looks great!
> asks me if I want to add it.

Where "it" is just the snapshot of that file as it is now, not as it will be at commit time; then you have to add it again!
As a point of reference: Py 2->3 has taken a bit over a decade.

The first electric computer is about 8 decades ago.
I thought the point was that most car related jaunts are short ones.
Can you be specific?
Update: private keys acquired. Need to figure out the password for these now. https://twitter.com/DominoTree/status/984272671549677568

Here are links to current firmware images:

http://gateway.c01.sbcglobal.net/firmware/00D09E/10.6.0.5300...
http://gateway.c01.sbcglobal.net/firmware/00D09E/10.6.0.5300...
http://gateway.c01.sbcglobal.net/firmware/00D09E/10.6.0.5300...
http://gateway.c01.sbcglobal.net/firmware/00D09E/10.6.0.5300...
Clear the Runway: The Fight Over 'Uber for Planes' Is Coming to Congress
Accidents take place close to home because driving takes place close to home and accidents take place where driving takes place.

Basically this: https://xkcd.com/1138/
This paper is a good example of how much progress we've had in quantum algorithm research since the dawn Quantum information science. Here is another good survey for people who want to learn more about quantum algorithms [0].

From the abstract, it seems like a resource I wish I had when I was starting to get into quantum computation.

[0]: https://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/
I don't really get this? you can advertise through our system to pretty much anybody if you pay enough but if you want to buy a list of doctors and advertise to them that's out of the question. Or high net worth people etc.
I haven't considered myself a front-end developer in quite some time (at least 7-8 years), but it used to be what I'd put on my business card. Since then I've focused almost entirely on PM and Design. I have a decent front-end background, but I'm by no means pushing production code.

I recently decided to give Webflow a try after a good friend, who does happen to be a front-end dev (and quite good), told me how cool he thought it was.

He wasn't wrong. Yes, you have to pay to really do anything with your creation, but I think it might be worth it (if you're a designer who doesn't want to learn to code). I was extremely impressed with how quickly I could export my assets and various measurements from Sketch and lay everything out in Webflow, especially when it was time to build the various breakpoints and add some animations.

What would have normally taken me a few days (over the course of a few sessions), instead took me 2-3 hours, tops.

More importantly I used flexbox for much of the page, which is something I hadn't touched before. I've of course read about it and have a basic understand of how it works, but I'd have spent A LOT of time getting that aspect of it right had I been coding from scratch.

The best part was, at least from what I could tell and based on their claims, all of this would have exported to clean code worthy of a production site. Pretty cool.

So, as the author mentions, Webflow is very interesting. It's just not exactly practical because of the way it's tied to their CMS and hosting platform. If you're only really building marketing sites for clients who need basic hosting anyway, it might be perfect for you, but outside of that I can't imagine where I'd use it. Certainly not on a product team, but it's still worth playing around with on the free plan.
> I don't believe that you can have a car engaged in auto-drive mode and remain attentive

I can't even drive an automatic transmission car without getting way too distracted at times
> What applications can you imagine would make so many clock calls so as to incur noticeable overhead?

Low latency processing or realtime-ish applications. If you have a budget of a few milliseconds only, lots of gettimeofday can start to add up. Now true that nowadays they are mostly vDSO so it doesn't matter as much. I remember before they were we saw a decent speedup when we upgraded to vDSO kernel version.

> But to answer your question directly, the ability to access the clock in a shared memory segment can itself be reified as a handle that's granted to a process.

rdtsc is not shared memory but more like a register read. Though it is a virtualized instruction so on proper VMs (not a container) it is possible to control what the guest sees as the value.
Where exactly do you think we get our tonnes of salt? Some of it is mined but a lot of it comes from the oceans in the first place.
New apartments flood market; Seattle area sees smallest rent hikes in a decade
And the actual algo part is mostly just making some API calls.
What about "fear"?

The most pernicious thing about technical debt, in my opinion, is that it creates fear in the sense of "I don't want to touch that module".

Even if you try to be objective and use hard facts to overcome the fear, it doesn't matter, because fear destroys creativity, so you've already lost.
I honestly liked the original Hitman movie. Timothy olypheant nailed the character of agent 47. The sequel basically said "hey you know everything that game is about... Let's do the opposite"
His only job – Painting the pinstripes on Rolls Royces (2015)
And even on the latency side, you just want the kernel out of the damn way.
To me the most disturbing thing about this incident is the way people talk about it as if it's a serious crime. It was funny and interesting, and kindled wonder and curiosity, and that's enough of a reason to do it.
Well it's an interesting idea, with an intriguing motivation. It seems like it comes down to trusting the junior adventurer and how well they know you.

It reminds me of a science-fiction plot (the name escapes me), where a scientist clones themselves multiple times. Each of the clones does a task for the scientist, dating, socializing and working. Then the scientist can relax... but then he eventually realizes that by delegating these parts of his life, he missed out on love, friendship and fulfilment (Sorry not intended to offend).

It's just an strange idea to me and I would love to see an article describing the experiment and how it works out for you.
A Chinese surveillance company may have just become the most valuable AI starts
I don't think changing the usage of system calls in the kernel as a reaction to Meltdown is a good workaround to make. This could lead to CPU makers relying on the workaround rather than fixing the issue in their CPU architecture. The other side of the medal is that this increases the motivation to switch to a newer CPU, which generates more waste, and the fact that CPUs running slower need to run longer, and use more energy, both of which is bad for the environment, and costs money.
There is certainly some reason to be skeptical of the real intent and implementation of this change by the current administration but we'll have to see.
Car demos are almost always "do not attempt" and violating this or that, so when they say the driver wasn't necessary for the demo I don't personally extrapolate that to say anything about real life.
whats wrong with linux?
This seemed like a nice software to manage my passwords so I decided to give it a try and install it on my Synology NAS.
However, two things put me off about it.

1) I wanted to install it via Docker App that comes pre-installed on my NAS so that I can use its GUI to make necessary hosting configurations. I searched for the keyword 'bitwarden' on DockerHub and found multiple images created by Bitwarden's company with different names such as "bitwarden/web, bitwarden/api, bitwarden/setup, bitwarden/server, bitwarden/admin" [1] and all have the same description which basically tells you to go to their website for more information about self-hosting it.
And unfortunately they don't have any information regarding which one of those images is the one that needs to be installed for self-hosting. All it says on the documentation is how to install it via terminal and pulling the image from GitHub.

2) The other thing, which is more important than the first one, is having to give them an email address and get a unique installation id and key [2] for self-hosting it. I understand that they probably see it as an easy way for upgrading your license for premium features [3] if you choose to do so later on but it kind of kills the idea of self-hosting it on my own server and wanting to have nothing to do with the company other than using their open-source software for me.
They may be right for saying 'It's really free, not a fake "free trial free"' on their website but what they're not directly telling you is that it actually is a freemium [4] software if wish to self-host it under these circumstances.

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/bitwarden/
[2] https://bitwarden.com/host/
[3] https://help.bitwarden.com/article/licensing-on-premise/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium
The statement does not function correctly.

Do you honestly believe the statement, as written, aligns with the goals Tesla sets for themselves when releasing a statement?

If yes, then how wildly incompetent must Tesla be to release the statement they did.

If no, then this statement does not serve the function of a statement released by Tesla.
"you just need to understand what the language is doing under the hood in a general sense"

Isn't the best to find out to look at the assembly? How else can you know what the compiler and optimizer are doing?
High-rise apartments stripped from controversial California housing bill SB 827
But ILS (the autoland system on ground) was disabled that day. Are we talking about two different incidents?
For people who sleep at work to be on call I hear it is usual to pay them a lower than usual rate (40% ish) for every hour of availability which (depending on the time) will change into a [much] higher than usual rate if they have to do anything. It seems fine to be paid 40% for the other 16 hours and 2 times 24 in the weekend. At 40% these 128 hours would be 99.2 hours. I would jump out of bed at 3 am to do whatever you want. (well almost)
Good, anything to kill Turo is welcomed. I dislike Turo being itself. Horrible customer service and user experience. With more players and competition, the consumer wins.
Story of my life in data science, right there. We work hard to build a culture of shared data ownership, where the data producers have ownership and responsibility of the data they generate, rather than just lobbing garbage over the wall for us to deal with. But it'll always be hard-- as the ultimate the end users of the data, data science/analytics/business ops are always going to care most about its quality.
I vote that ABC News has it's journalism license revoked! All in favor?
All generators have always baffled me in this way. But this might because I'm always looking at the next shiny thing.

These generators are probably best suited to people with specific repetitive workflow's, like writing React Components everyday.
DeepMind Hype vs. Reality
I wanted to get HN's opinion on DeepMind. It seems that they have a lot of the talented AI researchers working for them, and since AlphaGo (maybe since Google bought them in 2014) there has been a lot of hype surrounding the company. Is this hype deserved?

Is seems that their main goal is ultimately to develop an AGI. If an AGI is possible, would it be fair to say DeepMind is winning the race?

If you were offered a job there would you take it?
Not necessarily the end of humanity is a “bright side”?
Okay, but still, some kinds of changes are better than others. They should probably start testing for this in the visual perception tests: is lost information greyed out in a visible way? Are words and digits always fuzzed, or replaced?

Because it turns out that fuzziness and compression artifacts have a higher-level meaning: when you see them, you know something has been lost. That's an important (if inadvertent) signal. We need to make sure the artifacts don't go away.
Higher cost of living personality, not area.
"Major changes to SB 827 include:

Replacing affordable housing: Any rent-controlled or low-income housing unit that is demolished as a result of the bill must be replaced.

Low-income housing: Developers using the bill for a project with 10 or more units would have to set aside a portion of the new housing for low-income residents — even if the city does not impose such requirements on development.

Demolitions: If a landlord has evicted tenants under the Ellis Act within the past five years — a law that allows landlords to stop renting altogether — that building cannot be redeveloped under SB 827.

Bus stops: The bill would now apply to fewer bus stops — those that have service at least every 20 minutes all day from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., as well as every 15 minutes during morning and afternoon rush hours.

Delayed start: SB 827 would not take effect until January 1, 2021. But the bill prevents cities from trying to skirt the legislation in the meantime by taking off the table land that is currently zoned for homes."
The simple reason is that people are lazy. Someone isn’t going to put in the extra work of marking up their text with the correct semantic structure if they don’t get much out of it, and the ROI for an individual site owner was dubious at best. People keep talking about RFD, but that barely qualifies IMO, it was more of an agreed upon RFC so that search engines didn’t force site owners to all adopt differing indexable formats (events, addresses, etc). Even with the backing of Google, RFD is not something that most sites are doing until they start tackling some enterprise grade SEO optimizations.
Read this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/04/27/harvard...

It started in the 70s. As far as I know GE and Jack Welch were the poster child of this movement.