skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct - ZipCar is not cheaper than traditional rentals, but it gives me something that Hertz, Enteprise, etc for some reason cannot commit to: no BS and time accuracy.

I don’t want to wait in line or deal with their representative upselling me a thousand addons, I don’t want to think. I’d rather show up and hop into a car, a-la ZipCar, without having to spend 20 minutes talking to anybody or figuring out what insurance I should choose.
Much pedagogy, such as "learning styles" and "multiple intelligences" is an effort to evade the reality that IQ is important and varies among students.
Why didn't you take time off?
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I work in tech. The company I sell for is a big well established company that sells services to other big companies across many industries.

The closes we get to "bros a 'boring" is the occasional free beer on a Friday.

Outside of SV it seems like that culture is a minority.
5.6MM

based on spending 18,668/mo = 224K/yr
25 x 224k = 5.6MM

assumptions:
- withdraw 4% per yr
- earn avg 7%+ per yr
- inflation 3%

Money will last forever and I will die with bigger balance than day I retire.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

ps. I will hit this number in 47 months. Here's how I know:
https://lab.madfientist.com/
Equifax isn’t being used as a vehicle to manipulate the political process. This isn’t just about data privacy.
I based that on this quote:

>These changes in how they spent their time neatly managed to almost counteract the extra calorie costs from running, says Daniel Lark, a research fellow in molecular physiology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, who led the new study.

And as this is a mouse study I make no comments on how to extrapolate that to humans. If this is behavioral and not biological then it might not translate at all.
Like Amazon that Amazon prime feature, X-ray!
That would be amazing.
Zs response was more to the tune that 'shadow profile' is not a term that he or Facebook uses to describe the said concept, and not denying that it may collect some data pertaining to non members.
Cryptocurrencies are most certainly divisible. You don't have to trade whole "coins".

The biggest problem I see is the fact that it is a deflationary currency. Which makes it a pretty great store of value, but it also means that it is almost guaranteed to be worth more tomorrow than it is today. So instead of spending money or investing it for other people to use so it will grow, people will be incentivized to hold onto it.

Edit - I was not aware that a "satoshi" is the term for the smallest denomination of Bitcoin. I was under the impression it was a generic kind of cute name for cryptocurrencies.
interns still sign NDAs.
Aw, poo.
From TFA, it says that the delays are due to the various agencies involved (Depts. of Interior, Commerce, Homeland Security, EPA, FERC) doing their reviews sequentially. Now they will do them concurrently. I imagine that if one agency needed information from another, they could ask for it (rather than waiting for it and n other intermediate review processes to end). Otherwise, it looks like the diligence involved should be the same.
Yes except now I have 40 microservices that I have to make sure all parse URL parameters properly instead of the one I used to have that would parse them and then put them where everyone else could find it.

Security in depth is hamstrung by an ever-increasing surface area.
>a tool to graph IO activity at arbitrary sampling rates

Why sampling rate is fixed then?
You would think the approach taken with this would be to just use the standard libs until they're actually contributing to a bottleneck and then worry about optimizations. Doing it prematurely does seem to be a problem. Though I don't think having custom alternatives to parts of stdlib are bad if you're actually making a meaningful optimization.
I think with experience, "easy" changes.

Some time ago, I thought it was <easy> to write code to do things. By now, I mostly ponder how I put things into postgres/kafka|rabbitmq|../memcache|redis|.../elasticsearch/neo4j so I can reduce everything to good queries into these systems.
The term "whataboutism" is quickly becoming my least favorite word. We're allowed to talk about issues in a wider context. It's often helpful.

I'm very much interested in this issue as a whole and not just singling out Facebook as if they're the only bad actors. I'd appreciate letting that discussion take place rather than using some newly minted word to try and stifle it.
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I asked my last employer about this and they said that no contract can bind an employee to a company. Any contract would be one-sided in favor of the employee. Seems obvious when you think about it. Indentured servitude is wrong.
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Move fast and end lives.
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They do. That is data that is stored and collected about me without my consent.
But you can use RDS from Lambda: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/vpc-rds.html
I think innate intelligence (whether measured by IQ or more qualitatively) is a real thing. I think people implicitly live that way and organize society that way.

I also think it's also considered a faux pas to actually say as much. People tie respect, identity, and self worth into intelligence a lot. It's hard to say Kimberly is smarter than David without offending people. Let alone to say engineers are generally smarter than elevator operators (to pick a mostly extinct job).

To some degree, all the interview hazing and discussion about "programming talent" is all dancing around the West's inability to discuss intelligence quantitatively and dispassionately.

To be fair, historically there has been a lot of sexism, racism, bigotry, and pseudoscience tied up in the science of intelligence. I'm not sure how to get society to re-approach the subject in a scientific, productive, and beneficial way.
When I worked for (WIFI) I got more days too, but less options and a meager wage compared to companies right down the street. They had an abusive scrum process and overly aggressive agile practices as well. Managers would coerce employees to revise and lower estimates on non-critical items thus increasing stress unecessarly and necessitating the need for a lot of people to take a lot of "mental health" days off.
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I'm normally an automation booster, but this is the wrong PR take for sure. I mean, to take this at face value it sounds like Tesla is saying its autopilot doesn't actually work and that if you don't continue to drive your car you're going to die. Maybe that will work in court, but it's not going to sell a lot of cars.

I mean... clearly (hopefully) this isn't the attitude being exhibited inside the company. We all know there's a big strike team or whatnot that's been assembled to figure out exactly what happened, and how. We all know that it's probably a preventable failure. So that's what we need to see, Elon. Not this excuse making.
Because Takashi Miike did it with "Yakuza" (2007). It's perfect.
Agreed. MK Annihilation is amazingly bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA5nDyJ8sA0
The problem with the comparison is there's no feedback loop with "project-based" learning unless you can discuss the subjects in a classroom setting or have 1-on-1 review of what you're writing. A compiler tells you if you're wrong right away and you can get started on the next feedback cycle immediately. You know if what you're learning is the working.
Equifax may have your bank statements, and whatever sensitive numbers they can collect, but they do not literally have have your inner thoughts, in the same way that Facebook and Google have.

That is an important distinction.

Surveillance like this is harmful, either way. Not just the leaks, but the actual data gathering itself should be criticized. Why is it that during the Equifax leak nobody criticized the data gathering in the first place? It was all about the leak. In this case I am glad that the data gathering is being put into question.

But anyway, my main point is that they are collecting different sets of private data.
I have to wonder why Tesla keeps doubling down on victim-blaming. Is this a case of Elon Musk being insecure about criticism (since he's demonstrated a tendency in the past to react poorly to it)? Or is Tesla trying to actually lower their legal liability?

Edit: To clarify, in most of these crashes, it's usually a combination of Tesla's fault and the driver's fault. Which is to say, the driver could have avoided the crash, but Tesla could also have avoided it, and the driver's biggest fault lies in trusting the "autopilot" more than they should. In the case of this particular crash, I certainly agree that the driver should have been paying more attention to the road, especially because they already knew the autopilot had issues at that particular point, and if they were paying attention they could have avoided the crash. However, the fact that autopilot can't handle that barrier correctly is a problem especially because the driver reported that exact issue to Tesla multiple times in the past (heck, Tesla probably should have blacklisted that particular GPS location to force the user to take control when approaching that point, if they can't handle the barrier correctly in autopilot). Similarly, Tesla allows drivers the most freedom to ignore the road of any of the "autopilot"-like systems, and they continue to call their system "autopilot"¹, both of which only serves to make this sort of crash much more likely.

¹Yes I know it's technically correct, but it doesn't match what the general public thinks when they hear the term "autopilot". It gives the wrong impression that the system is smarter and more reliable than it actually is.
> For example, what happens when a piece of bread is worth less than 1 satoshi

That does not seem to be an imminent danger. The price of Bitcoin would have to increase literally 1.4 million times for a satoshi to be worth a penny.

> To make matters worse, if a whole bunch of flames goes up in flames more can be printed to replace it. If Bitcoin goes missing[1], it's gone for good.

Isn't that the same with paper cash? If by a "whole bunch" you mean enough to cause a worldwide issue, then there are solutions to that. Maybe not great solutions, but there are some. Worst case, a hard fork. That's essentially what led to Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic, isn't it?
There's also this weird dynamic of not having number on paper. I once took off three weeks for vacation, first in a very long time, several years. When I got back, there was definitely this air of "so and so is finally back, working like the rest of us." Even with my direct management, it felt a lot like I had spent trust for time off.

Since then, I've worked in a large corporate job for a while now as well, and it's different. Here, management and I can look at my PTO sheet and see I've accrued X hours so I can take off Y weeks, and that's earned. It feels more like a contractual obligation at that point, and not just an off-the-cuff spree.
Wow, thats terse, especially considering "the early version" of Autopilot was using Mobileye's superior product!
Yeah. I'd even go further and say that if you are giving testimony in Congress and answering questions, then you should automatically be under oath unless Congress explicitly waives that requirement before the session.
If you have a right to travel, then you can agree that you won't travel.

If you have an inalienable right to travel, then you can travel no matter what, and can't enter into a binding agreement that you won't travel; you can publicly declare that you won't and sign an agreement expressing that you won't, and then do it anyway.
Perhaps this is more of a show than the real thing
> Just imagine game developers shipping a GPU with their game just to be sure it is the same OpenGL version.

Electron apps aren't shipping you hardware. I think the more apt analogy would be installing a specific version of DirectX with your game... which a lot do.

Ultimately, I'd rather a company/developer spend more time actually building a better interface/product rather than perpetually fixing browser compatibility bugs.

> that is what Web development is all about.

While fixing bugs and dealing with compatibility issues are part of building any software, I'd hardly say that's what they are all about. That still holds with web development.

Do you think <successful web company> is successful due to their ability to squash compatibility bugs? Hardly. It's a means to an end.

> It is no different than using any other programming language, graphical APIs, network API, or OS stacks backed up by standards.

I would love for everything to be standardized across browsers, but I don't expect that to ever happen (fully).
Every time someone someone tries to sell me on this tired idea, I ask them: if you had to teach someone the difference between different bird calls, e.g. that of the robin vs. the sparrow, and you're told that person is a "visual learner", do you mean to tell me you'd opt to show them the oscilloscope representation of the sound wave that each bird makes rather than playing them an actual recording of each call?

It's a patently reductionist and limiting idea that human beings have a stronger modality for learning any information regardless of the type. Yes, there may be a nugget of truth that some people will have profoundly more tactile sensitivity for example, and will thrive in activities like dealing cards, or juggling, or wrestling where that modality is embedded in the purpose of that activity. But the overgeneralization to say that this person will, for example, learn how to read better by touching words and letters rather than proven phonics methods is ridiculous.
No, i lowballed at 15%. Some places saw 30% which is not attributable to that. I thought it was the tax laws, but still not clear what it is to date.
I think you're right in a way that assholes will do better in all imaginable economic systems, so it's not a result of capitalism per se.
Can your face be tagged when you don't have a Facebook account? I would be very upset if this is true.
Couldn't passion be innate as well? If you hate cilantro, you certainly won't have a talent for eating cilantro.

(Also, passion in this context doesn't imply any sort of lack of control. You don't program in the "throes of passion".)
It's not a focus of this project, but in a different project we have set up some pretty careful measurements (running every few days) to test whether this happens to different congestion-control schemes, including ones like CUBIC (Linux's default for an Internet stream socket) and Sprout (which Salsify's transport protocol is based on).

The bottom line is that TCP CUBIC is actually pretty bad for reasonable-length flows, and Sprout is empirically better (at the cost of getting a lot less throughput!).

See, e.g., http://pantheon.stanford.edu/result/1997/ and https://s3.amazonaws.com/stanford-pantheon/real-world/Stanfo...

I guess one key thing to note here is that Salsify is not a "high-bandwidth" transport -- one of the main goals is to wait until the network is ready for a frame (killing off encoder outputs if necessary) to avoid overloading the network and provoking packet loss or queueing delay.

Video over RTP can mean a lot of things, including totally unresponsive traffic that doesn't vary the sending rate in response to congestion signals at all. If an app does this, yeah, life can suck.
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..web client. With Apple Mail, I can’t remember the last time I went to an actual webpage to check email.
I work primarily in embedded, so I feel you :)

One can separate the I/O code from the application logic, and do data-driven testing of the application logic. Use recorded data from real-life systems to build a (partial) model of the system, at least enough to test individual interactions or short sequences of interactions. Capture this data continiously in production systems, so that when an incident occurs it can be cut-and-pasted to form a new testcase. The latter is critical to build up a library of regression tests for those nasty things one had to find the hard way - so that at least it only happens once.

With this basis you can optionally go to hardware-in-the-loop testing, where some of the same testcases run with real hardware instead of fake responses. This should then be instrumented with neccesary sensors/code to be able to observe its behavior. This ensures that your mock and system stays in sync, and increases coverage for non-deterministic cases. At least one such system should be hooked up to your CI server to test every revision of the software, to catch issues early.

When building the next product, consider shipping the instrumentation neccesary for QA into all products. That way the testing system is closer to real system, and one can integrate self-checking, failsafes and error reporting in production systems. This can be used by final QA (before shipping), by engineers debugging on-site and as part of periodic (or continious) health checks on the equipment.

I've done such things for electromechanical systems, though nothing with a potentially-dangerous motor yet.
> You could also choose to mitigate the risk of them leaving if you thought you could be successful at it.

Yeah good luck with that.
It sounds to me like this is about the minimizing redundency, and switching to concurrent rather than sequential review. The environmental protection laws underpinning these reviews are unchanged. It seems like an honest attempt to improve the functioning of government, independent of ideology.
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Yea, I'm in the Engineering department and at my company it depends on your manager for the unlimited PTO. My manager is awesome so I can take time off pretty much whenever.
It’s pretty clear now that Uber’s goal is to own the solution to “I need transportation”, not just be a fancy taxi company. It’s ambitious for sure.

I need transportation:

For 5 minutes, and cheap? Grab an Uber Scooter.

For 30 minutes, with sunshine? Grab an Uber Bike

For 30 minutes, quickly? Grab an UberX/UberPool/UberBlack, etc.

For a weekend? Grab an Uber Rent.

If you frame their goal in these terms, it gives you a pretty good idea what other sort of deals we’ll see coming down the road (boats, aircraft, scooters, etc.)
When I google my own first and last name, the 4th result is a Facebook “public figure” page of me. I deleted my account years ago though. Creepy.
How can we compare those contributions?
My thoughts on this are complicated. I agree with the overall goal (namely, "HN threads are for conversation"), but disagree with the implication that this was anti-conversation--I find it disturbing that places that _should_ have conversation are so easily derailed.

I want there to be a good solution for this, but don't think we as a society have figured out a way to address deliberate manipulation that isn't worse than the problem.
> ...they said that no contract can bind an employee to a company.

Seems to work fine for athletes, actors, medical residents, certain kinds of scholarships, etc.
The Sims dodged the bullet (so far) -- it would have been just so horrible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims#Film

Film

A live action drama film based upon The Sims was announced in 2007. [15] On May 25, 2007, it was announced that The Sims film rights had been purchased by 20th Century Fox. [16] It was to be written by Brian Lynch and produced by John Davis. [17] [18]

[15] "The Sims Coming to the Big Screen". ComingSoon. May 25, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007. http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/20635-the-sims-coming-...

[16] ""The Sims" to move from PC screen to silver screen". Reuters. May 28, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-electronicarts-thesims/th...

[17] "Producer John Davis Gives Updates on THE SIMS Movie, the Aliens vs. Predator Movies and Jason and the Argonauts! | Collider". 2008-09-21. Retrieved 2016-08-09. http://collider.com/producer-john-davis-gives-updates-on-the...

[18] "The Sims movie planned". Retrieved 2016-08-09. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-sims-movie-planned/110...
This is a very upsetting response. Yes, the driver could have paid more attention, and yes, he shouldn't have activated Autopilot in an area where he knew Tesla's autopilot was not working correctly.

However, Tesla calling it "Autopilot" should be no longer allowed. It's clear that it is most certainly not that, and customers are not treating this feature in a careful and cautious fashion, and I do believe that's due to Tesla overselling Autopilot's abilities. In addition, its warning systems are obviously not enough to get drivers to take corrective action and ensure their hands are on the wheel. (Why you can take your hands off the wheel at all when engaging autopilot is a mystery to me.)
I know a couple in SF who don't have a car and, AFAIK, they still use Zipcar and a competitor. My understanding is that one of their common cases is running around on a weekend to shop. One of the advantages over rentals is they can pick one up closer to their place.

I do have to believe that the (subsidized) Uber and Lyft rides has had an impact on their business.

And this is a business that probably didn't end up being as big or disruptive as people thought it would be in the first place anyway.
That's what I was referring to regarding the exchange with Gardner: it was talking about users and implied that Facebook had to be open at the same time.

>> Senator Gardner: if you're logged in to Facebook with a separate browser and you log in to another — log in to another article, open a new tab in the browser while you have the Facebook tab open, and that new tab has a Facebook button on it, you track the article that your reading.

So it wasn't emphasizing that this tracking is ubiquitous and could be used to construct quire information-rich shadow profiles. I still don't think the senators are aware of this.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/10...
It is a cliche to say this, but the movie really was made for fans and not for the general "Normie" audience.

They would just name drop locations and people, expecting you to know what they were. It was just mostly a fan service, "here is your movie, loyal fans!" types.

It still wasn't "great" even if you were a fan, but I can't imagine how bad a lot of it would have come off as if you didn't follow things pretty closely to begin with.
>>If the system detects that hands are not on, it provides visual and auditory alerts. This happened several times on Mr. Huang's drive that day.

If the system detects that hands are not on the wheel, perhaps something else should be done that will incentivize the driver to disengage Autopilot. Perhaps, send warnings alerts to law enforcement, insurance companies, or emergency contacts? Not sure what the fallback procedure is when Autopilot detects dangerous situations for extended periods of time - presumably disengaging completely would be worse, unless there's a safe way for Autopilot to pull over to the shoulder at the next available opportunity.
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This response from Tesla comes across as cold and shows no empathy to the victim's family. "We are very sorry for the family's loss" sounds so hollow after reading the rest of the statement. Does Tesla needs to give such strong public statement against the victim and his family? What is the point? Tesla is euphemistically saying - "Driver was stupid. Sorry but not really." This statement is really hurtful for the family and friends who got affected by this tragedy. Grow some heart Tesla. I am probably asking too much from a faceless corporation.
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