skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He has a point if just by the math

Mathematically the percentage probably falls on a bell curve and is heavily dependent on priors like industry and workplace culture. Given the large number of companies we should expect at least some outliers to occur naturally. Additionally almost every company should expect to be outliers in some kind of arbitrary metric.
> I wonder if I could live with myself if this was my job.

You are in the company, you have a job to do, everybody else is doing it. Other people share your concerns, but in the end, you have a feature to deliver and you don't want to fail your team. Some people is really concerned, they try to change things, they quit, they are tired of the pressure of going against the managers and making it more difficult for their own teams. Peer pressure, management pressure, etc. is an important factor. I don't think that the people that do this things get paid better than anyone else.

I have been in too many situations where your team is in the "hamster wheel" and is just doing without thinking. Fast-growing companies have the incentive to run forward, quite often without so much direction.

It is easier to not join a job that you don't want, that to not do it once you are already in. So, think before joining if that is what you want to do. Once in, you will see that they are not evil people, that they are trying the best to do their jobs. And that to change things is hard, even when is in the company best interest, so much harder when the company will lose revenue.
It isn't, though. Getting a ringing response is enough to validate a number, and someone who isn't making the effort to check contact lists against do-not-call registries won't be making the effort to track numbers that do not answer, either. In any case, RTNR to such people simply means that there's no-one to answer right now and is no reason to discard a number.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16871131 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16873537 for what's actually happening.
Look, you seem earnest here. It’s really not a big mystery. Generally, lower paying more menial jobs have been “women’s work” while men have monopolized the higher paying jobs. There are exceptions, status is a factor as well, but generally men have worked together as a class to monopolize the most desirable work. Same for white people. Look for money and status and you’ll find a fairly strong pattern across industries.
Trump isn't right of center, Trump is right of right.
what have we done to this world :(
Is this not the same as integrating 'Login with Facebook' and sharing my user's profile data with a third party service using server-side API requests? A practice that I'm sure is rife.

The third party JS scripts simply cut out the middleman, but as a side effect the sharing is detectable.
Hi, I'm looking to understand the sensors bit.

Beyond the fact that the most common sensors/peripherals are built in...I can find a lot of USB sensors that work with Android. In general you can also drop down to NDK (c code) on Android if you want.

So I'm still curious on which sensors would not work with a Android phone that people would want to.
Team Backed by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Locates USS Helena Wreck
Wish he addressed about inhuman working conditions in AMZ
What does it mean for a community to grow at a "responsible rate"?
It does. The global amazon experience is imperfect, but amazing compared to what we had before it, unmached by competition and life changing enough that we use it for everything.

You can't do that by being average.

Don't confuse high standards and perfection.
FB should comply with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...
the number of voice based startups that have built business logic on top of this fundamental api is staggering. some names: voicera (automated meeting minutes), voiceops (call center call analysis), chorus.ai (phone call analytics)

the focus on improving call center performance is where the money is. plenty more vendors will enter this market.
> We're looking for a specific sequence, though, not a specific number of heads in a row. We don't even know what the sequence is since it hasn't been sent yet. Is that a problem? Not at all! We're looking for some sequence of length n, and given that both 0 and 1 are equally likely, the sequence 00110 is equally likely as 11111.

Interestingly enough, this isn't true!

First, let's test on a small example: how likely are the substrings "11" and "10" to appear in binary strings of length 3? Here's a table with the matches marked.

"11" "10"
000
001
010 *
011 *
100 *
101 *
110 * *
111 *

"10" can appear in four ways, but "11" can only appear in three. Why is this?

Say you're scanning through a bit string, looking for "11111". You've seen "111" so far -- that's three matches. Now you encounter a "0". Your counter resets to zero matches until you see a "1" again.

Now say you're looking for "00110". You've seen "001" so far. Just like before, you encounter a "0". You still need to reset your counter, but this time the "0" may actually be the start of a new "00110". So your counter resets to one, not zero. This means "00110" matches are easier to find, and happen more frequently!
The Days They Changed the Gauge
There is a little known feature of prime: you can read a book (from a selection) for free each 30 days. Theses books cost usually about 4€.

12 * 4€ = 48€. This little offer (which is usually not even advertised as a prime feature) alone almost justifies the cost of a prime membership. Prime is a cost-center for amazon. It's not meant to make money. It is a customer loyality thing.
Are you required to be public in order to make money ?
How familiar are you with modern javascript?
Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration
Ive been to Airlie / port Douglas every couple years for a decade, it’s unbelievable how incredible the place was and how it just isn’t now.

First couple times was exactly like Finding Nemo, now it’s a barren wasteland (and this is going to spots that are supposed to be better). Beaches in QLD still best in the world if you’re visiting, give the diving a pass or manage expectations unless you’re quite south
+1 regarding Operation Torch, but regarding the oil campaign:

> Strategic airstrikes by the US (and British) never had a significant impact on the German industrial output.

This is the prevailing Allied view since most of the German industry ran on coal. But Germans themselves disagree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_campaign_of_World_War_II#O...
Thanks Phillip for responding,

I actually don't see any issues with F#, it's more:

- The ubiquity of powershell and the ISE. powershell is installed on every server, and to step outside that means deploying a new compiler/runtime and its dependencies to production servers.

- Doing operational tasks is easier with powershell (in the short term) because the existing cmdlets for managing servers are provided with the language. An example would be bulk updating 500k users in AD (with complicated logic that compares data between 4 or 5 other systems)

- Using the Add-Type cmdlet to include F# libraries into Powershell requires a few manual steps that might break over time: https://tahirhassan.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/embedding-f-in-p...

- Awareness/ecosystem - powershell feels like its being used to solve all 'server related' operational problems at the moment, and that F# is used for apps. i dont think my team mates would appreciate me solving a problem in F# unless everyone was happy about the choice of language beforehand.. Same goes for them if they wanted use python, rust, prolog. etc.
I think there are a decent number of English sentences where adding or removing emphasis on words makes a significant difference to meaning. Google autocompletes "sentences where emphasis changes meaning". None of them looks like a nice list, but "I didn't say you stole my money" is proffered as an example where you can choose any of 7 words in the sentence to emphasize and end up with 7 different meanings; "I love studying English" is another.

It seems that the pattern is, there is one common face-value meaning of the sentence that is meant regardless of the emphasis, and then there is a secondary meaning that depends on the emphasis. Usually one of the words simply makes the sentence more emphatic, but emphasizing any of the other words establishes some kind of contrast (not too different from the way "if" is sometimes used to mean "if (and only if)"): e.g. "I didn't say you stole my money" implies "I did say <someone else> stole my money", "I love studying English" may imply "I don't love <doing something else with> English". Even "I didn't say you stole my money" probably implies "I did say <someone else> stole my <something else>". And often the secondary meaning is at least as important as the primary meaning.

I suspect this kind of expression is natural enough that forbidding everyone in the courtroom from using it is impractical.

Given that it can matter so much, trusting scribes to accurately record the emphasis, without keeping audio recordings around, seems dangerous. (One might say something similar about the transcription itself.)
Yes but that's not first party, voids the warranty (messing with bootloaders, yuck), in my experience has tons of problems with propietary drivers, is still Android (which is an awful OS/ecosystem for anything that isn't a phone), eventually stops being updated (as many of my not-so-old phones can attest)...

RPi and Android phones might overlap for some applications but I see them as very distinct devices.
That poster might be saying it’s a life experience that most people can relate to. I suspect most of anime’s audience has attended high school.
I see a surprising amount of awesome work coming out of the pokey town of Adelaide.
... but none of the guarantees that inetknght was bemoaning the lack of.
I always wanted to see this Great Barrier Reef since I was a small child, now it looks like there might not be any of it left by the time I get there. Is it even worth it at this point, or should I just look at pictures and imagine what once was?
Calm down, no one is bullying you.
GPS or Wifi could easily be attached via USB, you don't need GPIO for that. The huge benefit of GPIO ports are all those things that DON'T have standard ports like USB: sensors (temp/humidity/air, radar, …) or controlling lights (e.g. LED strips) or other basic electronics that you wire to your SBC.

Really the GPIO pins are what makes SBCs so great for me... a smartphone is just a closed-off portable computer with very limited built-in sensors.
Got any articles on that? I wonder what local agencies I could fuck with in my country thanks to GDPR :)
Can you please explain more about the actor’s job according to Intro? It looks very interesting.
If we feel guilty enough maybe we can work on seeding other planets.

If we just miss nature for our own enjoyment maybe we can throw a bunch of science at it.

I think there's this desire to cling onto what's original or authentic. I'm trying to see past that because it's so delicate that it's basically transient.
Just details. Since they did not design 98% of the scooter, when talking about speed, range, riding quality, I usually refer to it as a Xiaomi scooter and not a Bird scooter.

Much in the same way that if you rent a Zipcar and its acceleration is poor, blame Ford or Toyota or whoever made the car that you rented, not Zipcar.
All major tech companies are going to make the GDPR tools available globally for fear of accidentally misidentifying someone as not covered by the GDPR. Facebook will not be an exception regardless of what they are saying now.
Another possible detail this misses - I learnt about De Bruijn sequences from Samy Kamkar here:

http://samy.pl/opensesame/

(scroll about 1/3rd way down to the "(U) The OpenSesame Attack" section for the bits relevant to this discussion...)

You don't need to enumerate every n-bit sequence, you just need to enumerate a (shorter - by 62% in Samy's 12 bit case) sequence that contains all the n-bit sequences.
We've collectively chosen short term excess over long term sustainability.

I used to have hope; now it seems past the point of no return. I figure we should just try to enjoy it all while we still can, like everybody else.
This is how my intuition went: it's probably less than 128
bits because UUIDs are 128 bits, and they're universally
unique.

But what's in a name? There's no natural law constraining the UUID standard, such that they must be actually universally unique. And 128 bits isn't such an incredible bit space.

MD5 hashes are 128 bits, and prone to manipulating in favor of collisions.

Don't get me wrong, 3.402823669209385*10^38 is a huge number, and we haven't used enough passwords to occupy every value in that key space, but I still don't imagine 128 bits provides truly universally unique coverage, but really just pretty okay uniqueness coverage.
I didn’t say nobody should be held accountable. My main criticism was with the article’s tone of ‘the world is coming to an end’, or as if people were spraying graffiti all over Van Gogh’s paintings. While in the end it is just YouTube that has some more crappy videos. Don’t get me wrong, there are many many useful videos on YouTube as well.

The accountability for YouTube would come in the form of less users or less advertisers. Until this happens though, these ‘crappy’ videos are appertently just what the users want to see and the automated advertising bots don’t care.

Accountability for the video-makers? I don’t see why. The copyright system is broken and counter productive in many cases to our ability as humans to create more knowledge. One could always argue that it is an art project anyway.
you should go. It's not all gone yet.
> Any Android phone can be rooted and flashed to Lineage os atleast.

If your manufacturer hasn't decided to lock the bootloader, that is.
Create Cardboard Apps in Unity
Wow, how surprising and, in a strange way, kind of beautiful! Thanks for this.
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and mongodb.com

To be fair everyone expects MongoDB to leak data like a sieve.
I understand your point. I guess I am trying to highlight the fact that most sexism/racism these days are systematic. The people aren't probably less/more sexist than everyone else. But, they can build a culture that is less sexist.
How much time would I have left?
Manganese isn't that toxic of a metal.

Water purification tablets often contain potassium permangante. And that's safe to drink!
I wasn’t working on any code that was changing rapidly. I was basically making small tweaks to existing projects without the opportunity to refactor. The work being done by the whole company was fascinating... the small part of that I was working on was somewhat mind numbing. I kept doing some one off projects that were fun for a day or two but nothing that took multiple months or people to build and get into production. Nothing that I was personally super proud of. Others were in more substantial projects and probably enjoyed their work more.
Politics isn't just local laws but also state laws.
This was an interesting endeavour and I have to say a good initiative by someone who could have just stayed in luxury and not seen the realities of most poor travellers.
So people can't sneak up on you. It is subtile, but psychologically draining to have people constantly come up to you and interact with you from behind.
Learning from Ring’s Astounding Success
How far does it make sense to take this? Take it too far, and all tutorials are bad.

IMHO there needs to be a balance between guided learning and self-directed exploration.

Too little guidance and you can't get your bearings, causing you to get stuck and unable to cross what should be relatively minor hurdles.

Too much guidance (or too little interest exploration) and you end up not really understanding why things are the way they are or what is possible beyond the very narrow range of things you've been taught.
Washington was an exceptional man who walked away from near-total power. It’s only been done a few times in human history.
And selling it to Famoograsoft for dem dollarz.
USB sensors are more expensive and need an USB hub (which raises the price, what's the point then?).

Not to mention most sensors (humidity or CO2 for example, or even just a simple potentiometer) are not USB (and for a good reason, I don't want/need USB chips and connectors in each one of my sensors).

Example applications I use Pi for: automated irrigation, custom digital musical instruments.
It's not. The PSTN isn't one giant cohesive system. It's a federation of lots of companies in lots of countries. Getting such a system in place requires filtering between carriers as well as everyone filtering what subscribers can do. You may have heard: not every country in the world likes every other country, and not every telephony carrier business likes every other telephony carrier business.

It is possible, but easy it definitely is not.
The author line of the blog post reads 'The Tesla Team'.

However, I'm not surprised there is no single person putting her name on this blog post.

Having said that, I can imagine that unions are disliked here on HN / in the US due to various reasons. In the end, from what I witness, they care significantly for human rights across companies. If they weren't there, companies would squeeze out life of the low-end workers at a significantly higher rate, than they already do.

It's a funny thing: Move fast and break things. This basically stops working, when 'things' are humans.
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>Wouldn't these two questions have different answers?

Yes, though in practice they're close.

To answer the actual question asked. We can say that there is a length n, such that all sequences S, of length n, cannot be contained in our total bits transferred, B. This is a consequence of the pigeonhole principle.

Naively, this would be B = n * S, and S = 2^n. So B = n * 2^n. Note that we can actually compress things more though, if we assume that in the worst case every window in the internet bit-corpus is unique.

That this is possible isn't immediately obvious, but consider

01, 00110, 0001011100, 0000100110101111000, 000001000110010100111010110111110000 (which, interestingly, isn't in OEIS, but related sequences: https://oeis.org/A052944 and https://oeis.org/A242323 are).

These bitstrings contain, perfectly overlapping, every bitstring of length n, for n from 1-5. In general, it takes 2^n + n - 1 bits to convey every possible bitstring, if you manage to overlap them perfectly (if someone can prove this, please do. I thought it was grey code/hamiltonian path over hypercube related, but I unconvinced myself of that).

EDIT: Someone else mentioned De Brujin sequences, which these are. And they are based on hamiltonian paths, although not over hypercubes :(. And my sequence is on OEIS, as https://oeis.org/A166315, just converted to decimal. /EDIT

So the real answer is just B = 2^n + n - 1, but for n > 15 or so, n - 1 is so small we can ignore it. In other words, our length n is just log(B). Given the assumption in the article of 3.4067e22 bits, the base 2 log of that is...74.85. This is exactly 1 more than what the article says is the point where you'll have seen half the messages. This isn't a coincidence.

Which raises an interesting question that I leave as an exercise to the reader:

Why is the length for which you cannot have conveyed all bit strings exactly 1 bit more than the point where you've conveyed about half of them?
Intel is giving up on its smart glasses effort
Seems like he's advocating little more than "critically examine your behavior and forgo following stupid conventions if you deem them stupid". He's just giving concrete examples to make easier the connection to what that actually would mean in practice.

There are smarter-than-average people working at Tesla; they will figure out what is useless and what can be reasonably applied as productivity measure. They just need to be reminded to consider these things every once in a while, like the rest of us.
I wonder if Project Fi has a good spam detecting system. I don't remember when I last got a spam call.
Why did they choose such a specific task to make a general statement? Wouldn't it make more sense to say, predict the real world complex motion of a double pendulum?
> And, in fact, it has a name - gradual typing.

Is there a guarantee that runtime type errors in Julia can be precisely traced back to an offending piece of untyped code? This is part of the definition of what gradual typing is.
Maybe it is in order to prevent something like domainsquatting – just for usernames.
Facebook just needs to be gone forever now.
Yeah which means 74 is an upper bound on the length of bit sequence which might have been transmitted already.
> Most places in the US at least are not very livable without a car

absent subsidies, this would not be the case
<cynical response>I wonder what historical and eons-old natural wonder on Mars we're going to ruin when we start driving around on it in a fleet of Tesla Model S and growing potatoes by burning surplus rocket fuel?
Have you tried that with a scooter? It's not pleasant.

For bikes, sure.
How about this question: If all matter in the universe was dedicated to producing new bit sequences until the heat death of the universe, what is the length of the shortest sequence that would never be generated?
Dart merely has optional typing, not gradual typing.
Thanks for engaging and not immediately seeing my refutation as hostile as is often the cases when I speak with most people I disagree with despite trying my hardest to be diplomatic.

You raise many points that I think are mostly mistaken, but understandable from the viewpoint of our standard human psychology. These similar feelings were actually shared by people buying into Bitcoin early, thinking "oh, I rewarding these early people for doing nothing!". Now they look back and think "ha ha! I robbed those early people!". Those sellers may also feel it was a requirement to launch the currency as well. There were "faucets" giving our Bitcoin for free would you believe, just to increase distribution. The protocol works better when more people use it.

The fact that the supply is finite means that despite these wealth allocation drawbacks, there is a limit on how long that game plays out. Arguably it is infinite with constant growth, but if that is the case, this is hardly a problem for the community.

I think this is at the crux of the difference of our viewpoints. I see two systems. One you are in by default and is not transparent and is unconstrained. The other you can opt in, was vociferously prevented by the status quo (see centralised digital currencies), and is constrained. Those early people took a punt and deserve to be rewarded. Also, early is just relative term. Compared to the coming 9 billion, this is still early. However, investment now isn't at their expense, it is for their benefit. Everybody benefits from a common protocol for sound money.
"If been using a lot of Python/JS/TypeScript in the last couple of years and it seems like each new release brings them closer together."

Yeah, I've just moved from a Python thing to doing some modern JS (async/await etc.), and they feel like cousins. To my surprise, I find that I like the comparative minimalism of JS: it has most of the key features of Python, but doesn't feel like it has the same cognitive load.
Sorry, some of the nuance is lost in google translation. It seems that the hackathon drastically reduced the amount of seats a few days before, is that the issue here?