skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't that just mean that the tests were effective? The goal of doing a test for each bug is to prevent them from happening again. Unless you meant that this project didn't apply this particular advice but was getting away with it just fine?

I personally believe that this advice is one of the most important one actually for a very specific reason: it leaves a very bad impression to client when a bug keep happening again and again after being fixed. Unfortunately I've lived this experience when I was just starting out in my career on a similar project (around 45-50 developers) with basically no tests at all. It wasn't fun explaining to the client, even if they were internal to the company, that the bug we fixed last month had to be fixed again.
Right, and they hit over 2000 a week about 2 and a half months after that (end of March). Setting an internal goal of 6000 per week (burst) in another 3 months from then seems appropriate if they want to actually achieve 4000-5000 per week in that time frame.

EDIT: If their production ramp doubling time really is 2.5 months, then based on the Bloomberg Model 3 tracker's estimate of 2600 Model 3s per week right now[0], they'll have about 4900/week by the end of June: https://www.google.com/search?&q=2600*e^(2.26*ln(2)/2.5)

I just don't understand this implicit idea that setting lower internal goals would actually help them achieve a higher production level sooner. That goes against common sense and experience.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
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Only if they make less than a certain amount.
Duckduckgo. It's good enough now, I am slowly moving away from Google products (only Gmail left). Rarely, I will use !g to go to Google but it has gotten lesser and lesser recently.
Like a quantum computer, computing thousand calculations at once and the true answer is what remains? I guess there's a ... parallel there. And I know some people don't like this diductic reduction, analogy, metaphor, callitwhatyouwant. I'd welcome corrections.
Forget coding. It’s the soft skills that schools should be teaching
I also used to live in the same building as him. I'm sure he's a good guy but I can help but feel terrible for his dog. I've never seen someone blind or not treat their pet as bad as him. The dog always seemed miserable when I would see them in the building or outside. He was constantly yanking on the leash jerking the dog around. It couldn't even piss half the time because he doesn't stop yanking the leash long enough for the dog to pee.

I'm glad he's achieved what he has and it's no small feat but I still feel bad for the dog
> I love how even a story about excellent journalism can be turned into an insult of the profession at large.

I understand why you feel that way. It's clearly a broadside, aimed squarely at where journalism comes from. Where else can that be but professional journalists?

Yet, is it perhaps possible that the comment to which you have taken exception might also be understood by some to be one in the direction of the business models that suppport, fund, and direct professional journalists?
In what way is the article not scummy as hell? You shouldn't waste Jenkins server time with this...
Unfortunately, I think your results will be heavily skewed in a place like Hacker News, which may or may not be what you want.

So far, half of the replies are about DuckDuckGo, which doesn't even account for 0.1% of all searches globally.

Personally, I've switched to DDG about 2 weeks ago and it's been pretty much seamless. This depends mostly on what I search for; if it's something very specific, Google will provide better results. However, a lot of the time I simply search for standalone topics that do not require a lot of context, like 'Japan GDP' or 'blue shark'. In these cases, DDG is just as good as Google, given that you simply open the first result anyway.

I'd love to see more people switch to DDG, but most people simply don't care or are not tech savvy enough to understand how much tracking Google does.
Symmetric wings generate no lift at a neutral angle of attack. At a positive angle of attack they do generate lift, naturally, but the point is that you have entrainment with NO Bernoulli effect pressure difference.
I have now tried several terminals, but most lack one feature: I use zsh's [autocompletion plugin], and I'd like to call the suggestion with Ctrl+Enter. On the other hand, sometimes I want to execute only what I typed in, with Enter.
However, almost all terminals cannot differentiate between Enter and Ctrl+Enter. The one that could is Terminator, but that depends on gconf and I don't need the tiling. Sakura, urxvt and Alacritty cannot. Does anybody have a suggestion for me, or a better mapping?

[autocompletion plugin] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
I'm sure it's not new.
I'm not sure how that would solve the problem. Not every server is a front end web server.

Think of something like video transcoding, or complex database queries. At some point you are going to have a number of servers that do the work, and a load balancer needs to balance the work between them. If one server is busy with a job that will take an hour, there's no point in randomly queueing up lots of work while others are idle.
= vs == vs ===.
The Async Hooks API is still experimental but should be stabilized by Node.js 10.
What an inspiring story, shows that true passion overcomes every barrier.

And yet, sadly, I have to add this to this beautiful story: is it just me or does this feel like Amazon marketing at its finest?
Frontpage was uhh
For your consideration:

“A Disgrace To The Profession": The World's Scientists In Their Own Words On Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick, And Their Damage To Science

https://www.amazon.com/Disgrace-Profession-Mark-Steyn-editor...
The tech world seems particularly self reinforcing of this mindset. If your immediate job title doesn’t sound appropriately “tough” then you’re a fool and ignored.

Here’s hoping I’ve just ran into a round of bad eggs.

Otherwise I’m glad to hear about jobs that cannot be automated away.
The US is entering a golden age of corporate medicine
Good love is boring
The problems that Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal highlight—sweeping data collection, indiscriminate sharing of that data, and manipulative advertising

No. The problem is that Facebook as a company has the data and the capacity to manipulate any election in any country. And there is no law that is forbidding them from doing that.

That's what the Cambridge Analytica scandal proved
Google.

I've tried to use DDG several times in the past, and while the product works well, Google has the "familiarity effect" baked into its search. I've been conditioned for nearly two decades by Google's layout and visual cues. At a moment when I'm uncertain of something and am searching for an answer, the last thing I want is to be uncertain/unfamiliar with the search tool itself. Those stacking of anxieties, however small, is why I think people continue to use Google.
ML Dataset: Bounded images of roadside hazards
I didn't make it a gendered issue. I was replying to a statement by someone else who characterized older men as especially frequently guilty of this. I simply tried to provide a plausible explanation for their observation based on my understanding of how life works.
Same topic already discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16891651
This reminded me of RubyConf India talk I attended back in 2013 titled “Turning blind eye to rails development by Siddhant Chothe”, that was also quite inspiring.

It made me realize, how rarely we think about accessibility when developing software.

Here is the link to the talk,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqL89VcYd6g
This just gave me a thought. What if the onboard self-driving system doesn't really need the teleoperator to take over completely, but to select from a set of decisions in difficult situations? The teleoperator doesn't need to watch the footage continuously, but only needs to respond quickly when the onboard system generates an alert.
Question for anyone who knows:

How do they accommodate blind students for university math exams? Calculus in particular seems like it would be crazy hard to do without a pencil.
Maybe it's just me, but the hubris in this comment seems a little excessive.

They aforementioned SWEs make themselves multimillionaires /and/ have great jobs /and/ get praised by their peers, yet now everyone else has to bow down to them... over claims they were great programmers in high school? Is an appeal to your own experience the best way to make yourself seem relevant here?

It's an incredible DB system, but it ain't the Second Coming. Calm down.
DuckDuckGo has become the search engine of choice. Again I agree that HN is the type of audience that will skew the results, but personally I have DDG a more than capable search engine.
I use StartPage as my primary. If I don't see results I want, I'll fall back to encrypted Google. If you're looking for more alternative search engines, PrivacyTools.io is what got me onto StartPage
> What's your definition of what makes a language static verus dynamic?

Types are checked before program execution.

I think this definition is very, very standard, and in keeping with a type theory view.

> Being able to describe and annotate types doesn't make a static type system. A static type system is a way of associating with each valid program a proof that there will be no runtime type errors (or at least that certain entire classes of runtime errors will not occur).

These two statements seem to contradict each other. Adding the type annotations is exactly what allows mypy to associate a proof with code.

I don't think the definition is useless... it seems entirely consistent with gradual typing.
Can't help but read this article and think of how Amazon _actually_ treats developers and employees and it's gross. Amazon is gross, actually.
So who is Telus, and why are they special?

Is it Google who has a relationship with Telus -- because I'm pretty sure I don't.

Can Google prevent Telus from doing whatever they're doing? Or is Telus just the victim/conduit of the real spammers?
!DuckDuckGo, switched from Google in 2013. In beginning I was !g a lot but now never. What I prefer is the straight-forward results, same results for everybody, instant answers, etc. And the fact they open source a lot (looked to contribute but ugh. failed, even i like Perl)
Google.

Results are far more relevant than DDG or Bing.

And I trust Google more than Microsoft to keep my data secure.
> Dressed up

Hmm...you can't choose how you dress?

> killing rich people ... choice

Hmm...I'd humbly suggest that the primary problem here is not the "based on choice" part, but rather the killing part. Not suggesting that's the only problem, but certainly the high order bit.

The next bit would be that previously, these were considered admirable qualities, not evil ones. So something about ex post facto laws, which tend to be broadly unconstitutional if you have rule of law.

So I don't really think it's hard to draw a line between immutable and chosen traits, and I also don't think that distinction plays much of a role, if any, in the examples you give.
The allure in this case is generating money through clickbait, so no.
Bing or DDG for me
That's a very American point of view. Armstrong was never particularly popular in Europe. Armstrong often dismissed allegations against him as a simple vendetta fuelled by prejudice.
The thumbstamp version of creating fake celeb faces was one of the projects for the Deep Learning Udacity nanodegree. (These get changed over time, so it may be different now.)

The dataset of 200,000 celeb photos with the face nicely centered at a known location is a nontrivial part of making the exercise feasible.

I trained on windows with a 6Gb 1060, and went off script from the DCGAN paper, by using upscaling rather than transpose convolutions. Once all the fiddling details are set correctly, the results are quite amazing. It didn’t even require a complete single pass over that dataset.
My understanding is they give a proctor and provide assistance. How a student declares their solution is an interesting question though.
Of course it's amazon PR. They are trying to rehabilitate their less than flattering image as both an engineering shop and how they treat their warehouse employees (the latter: terribly, like something out of a Dickensian novel).
People who excel at what they do generally stay occupied enough to not inspect their current state of happiness too frequently, because they are usually preoccupied with work even when not working.

Think of it as the intersection between "No work is ever wasted" and "The reward for good work is more work." It's a messy amalgam of random ideas somehow coalescing into new products/features in the nick of time, every time.
Name one thing that Tesla has done that is revolutionary rather than evolutionary? (Working features only, otherwise you're comparing it to a very long list of revolutionary features being researched by mainstream auto companies)
The wingtip vortices are of course part of the flight, but they are unavoidable side effect.

I think I've seen the Kutta-Joukowski visualization too somewhere. If I recall correctly, it was more about visualization/memorization of pressure distribution than actual airflow.
Does anyone know how searx gets around the Google captchas that trigger after too many searches at once (or by using a shared VPN). IP Rotation maybe?
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Indeed, the DNS records are gone. They had a tweet[1] 1 hour or 2 ago how they are working on it. I guess someone got phoned on his sunday to fix it. I'm hoping for a further update from their side what happened.

1: https://twitter.com/TELUSsupport/status/988060048843657216
Modafinil was used competitivly in poker..... But I'd guess in part it would have been great at killing tells more than increasing math skills.

I wonder if beta blockers have a use in chess for some players.
Brenda Lee Feldman: “We slept in the warehouse on weekends to”
Aargh, just noticed the keyboard violates another one of my cardinal usability rules: everything directly below the Enter key must be a Shift key. This one invented a need for a second Fn key and then fulfilled it by taking away some of the right Shift key... worse, it took the area that touch typists actually use to press Shift.

Chromebooks, Apple, and Microsoft understand this. Dell mostly does. Logitech does not, nor do second-tier manufacturers who try to shrink down layouts without user-testing with conventionally trained touch typists.

Purism, if you're reading this, please: right Shift must fully overlap the horizontal space of the Enter key.
Sorry the 'encrypted' qualification for Google gave me a slight smile since G uses this 'private' information more than anyone else would.
Americans often find themselves overwhelmed and put into moral distress by causeries, unfortunately.
I'm not sure what the original intent of the 1938 law was, or how it's being abused now, but I did participate in an organization that helped the severely mentally handicapped. The charity provided them with a place to stay (a house in a neighborhood with neighbors, not an institution) including 24/7 care for things like helping with medications, cleaning, etc. Part of the program was that they spent some time each week (definitely not 40 hours) in a work environment (in our case, packing plastic bags into boxes for Johnson and Johnson), also fully supervised by caretakers.

Johnson and Johnson certainly weren't making out on the deal, given the limitations of the work that could realistically get done versus what a non-disabled employee would be able to do. I suspect the whole program was more headache and expense than they saved. In other words, the point was not for these people to earn enough money to support themselves (their housing, meals, clothes, were taken care of), and only partially about earning some spending money (there was already a budget for that too, things like movie tickets, coffee at Tim Hortons, etc), but more trying to lead a normal life -- seeing peers at work, waving to the other workers in the plant, going to the company barbecue, etc.

Again, I'm basically 100% sure that abuses exist of this provision, but I would really like to see any reform done in such a way that it doesn't eliminate programs like this.
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You're ignoring my point, which is that you need the distinction between call-by-value and call-by-reference to explain what happens if you assign to a parameter.

I think it's obvious that I was talking about assigning to pointer variables because parameters are always variables and never just values.
Google on PC, DDG on the phone.

I use an extension on Firefox to be able to view images directly and reverse search images on Google Images since they removed that feature.

None of those extensions worked for Firefox Android, so I've just made DDG my main search engine there.
Thanks ganzuul
Aurora's horizontal scaling doesn't depend on sharding at all- read-scaling uses read-replicas, and multi-master write-scaling uses a hierarchical conflict-resolution strategy [1].

On 'beating Aurora', my point was that comparing a 30-node CockroachDB cluster against a single-node Aurora benchmark and concluding that Cockroach is 'more scalable' is disingenuous, considering Cockroach 2.0 just reached GA, and Aurora multi-master has been available in preview since November and will likely also reach GA in coming months.

Once Aurora multi-master reaches GA, I'll look forward to a more direct comparison of an Aurora multi-master cluster against a similarly-sized CockroachDB cluster.

[1]: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/deep-dive-on-th...
Do you mean by intent, competence or both?
In your ideal world, what would be my takeaway/conclusion as a reader from this story? How do you hope it changes or informs my view of this person and the Amazon piece?
Google scholar is indeed amazingly useful, but oddly enough for me DDG is what makes it easy to use. I have no clue how to get the scholar results from the google page. If I'm honest I don't even know how to access google scholar without using DDG, although I imagine I could probably figure it out if it ever became necessary.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/50200?hl=en
duckduckgo w/ Firefox for personal things, and Chrome+Google for tech.

I find the duckduckgo search results for tech problems far inferior for some reason.
The space industry isn't really comparable to the automotive industry. The former has been stagnating on government contracts while the latter has been heavily innovating for many decades due to massive competition and markets.
That's the ticket, laddie!
Or regulators step in after too many inattentive human drivers fail to prevent very avoidable Level 4 accidents, and we end up with Level 2 driving with Level 5 parking capability permitted only on specific private properties.
Humbly, I have yet to see any of the other players offer a kick-ass EV. Bolt is the closest, and it's pretty far from kick-ass.
> Facebook Ireland Limited in Dublin is believed to have been created largely for tax minimization reasons.

From a Reuters article[1] on the same topic: "Facebook said the latest change does not have tax implications."

Is FB really going to get away with claiming Irish residence when talking about taxes while simultaneously claiming to reside in California for legal purposes (GDPR)?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-exclu...
Even if it's done for marketing, I think it's a small price to pay if it can inspire even one visually challenged person to take up programming professionally.

Perhaps someone who loved computers might be wondering around the world if he/she can ever work as a programmer. He/She might not have explored how to go about it or he/she might not be confident enough to try.

So if this story can change one person's mind, I think it's a sin worth committing.
+1

Is this from Zero to One?
One downside is that any attacker who can learn the secret token can easily DoS even a completely non-buggy victim process or kernel. Given Spectre-style attacks, leaking a token doesn’t seem so farfetched.
Startup passion: Obsessive or Harmonious?
I think it would be very interesting to spend some time doing my development from audio only.

Any idea on the easiest way to get going? My environment is osx, iTerm, vim, and safari mainly.
Google, because when it comes to localized (aka non-US) content every other search engine pretty much sucks. That's why in Europe Google dominates the market with market share in search north of 90%.
You didn't read until the end of the article. For instance:

> "Musk likely could have spared himself a lot of short-term headaches if he had relied more heavily on auto industry veterans to warn him against repeating mistakes made by other car companies in previous decades. But if he had done that, he would also be less likely to discover ways to optimize the manufacturing process—particularly optimizations that work particularly well for a company specializing entirely in electric vehicles."
Hey guys, you can contact tellus via this link. You don't need to he a customer for this.

https://www.telus.com/en/support/article/ccts-and-cprst-feed...
Be the squirrel.
The whole line stops if a single process has problems.

Given a 99% chance of working for every single process for hundreds of processes you end up with... well... not much output.
That doesn't necessarily doesn't make it any less true. Between his cancer foundation and the popularization of cycling, either by riding themselves or the rise in viewership of cycling events like the TDF, I would think there is a strong case to be made for a net positive effect of Armstrong.
>If your immediate job title doesn’t sound appropriately “tough” then you’re a fool and ignored.

And hence why programmers decided to appropriate the word "engineer" for their title...
"Developpers are assholes - even blind ones."
I am not an ML person by all means, but when I played with GPUs, I found that the time it takes to get something done using CUDA is substantially lower than with OpenCL, nota bene I have not yet tried Metal.

The barrier to entry also seems to be lower for CUDA, so this might be something that TensorFlow people are considering important.
At work we have two endpoints on every service, `/status` and `/health-check`.

The former is basically a "return true" endpoint, which can tell you if the service is alive and reachable. The latter will usually do something like "select 1;" from any attached databases and only succeed if everything is OK.
It's in an m.2 slot, and good Linux-friendly ac cards are less than $20. Sure, it's wasteful to buy a device with a part you know you'll throw away, but it shouldn't change your purchasing decision.
To seek prestige runs far deeper in our minds than one would think. It comes from a place of uncertainty and fear.

There is an interesting theory called "social comparison" [1], which states that one way to define ourselves is to compare us with our peers, either upward or downward. It's pretty on point in my personal opinion, because I do it as well. And when I have mentioned this theory while chatting with friends, they confirmed that they do it, too.

We humans are brittle creatures that pretend to be very strong and independent in order to survive and not be vulnerable.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/social-comparison-...
The article's use of "heterosexual" describes a person. Those two definitions that you listed describe a feeling or behaviour.

And while there are people who will call others "gay" as soon as they do anything that could be interpreted as vaguely sexual with someone of the same sex, that's hardly a scientific definition. And no one will identify themselves as this kind of "gay".