skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. The guy who, in a holed aircraft with someone actively being sucked out, undid his seatbelt and tried to help.
This makes me wonder also what happens with multiple partitions, for example:

5 into 2, 2, and 1

7 into 3, 2, and 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipistrel_Alpha_Trainer#Alpha_...

>> Pipistrel introduced an electric version called the Alpha Electro in 2015 at a price of 69,000 euros,[3] with technology from the Pipistrel WATTsUP proof of concept design, for short training. It has energy for one flight hour plus reserves, and can recharge in 45 minutes or have its batteries replaced in 5 minutes.[4] Instead of 78 lb (35.5 kg) of fuel, it has 277 pounds (126 kg) of LiPo cells, however the water cooled electric motor weighs 11 kg;[5] much less than the gasoline engine. It has a useful load of 380 lb, whereas a Cessna 152 has between 350-480 lb useful load.[6][7]
What’s wrong with providing alternatives? Nothing against your list, but you may want to respect others’ work as well.
MongoDB is pretty average at absolutely everything.

It's fast to install on a dev machine though, lol.
This so much! As I've been watching people freak out over FB, I've been wondering - if people didn't even bother to read the pop-up, bulleted lists of information they were sharing with the apps they were connecting to FB, then how are they gonna feel about the similar, bulleted lists of information they're sharing with browser extensions? I mean, I assume they don't read those either.

[for the record, I know there are other issues w/ FB, but A LOT of the fallout seems to be related to the apps users were connecting to their profiles.]
Are there plans to open source any part of this?
Self driving cars and autonomous braking may change that some day.
For many it's the last job they ever have...
Why is this yet another implementation of Python? If C is supported why not use CPython itself?
No - because those numbers are pulled from the actual driving population(where people drive drunk, sometimes don't wear a seatbelt, and drive in cars ranging built over 40+ years with a wide range of safety standards. To do better than 1 in 102 means you only need to behavior better than the population average, not perform perfectly at all times.
Brain freeze under interview conditions? One thing that I have noticed is that taking in an interview seems to engage a different part of your mind from coding. I get quite into the flow of chatting, then have to jump into code. Its quite a context switch.

Plus the pressure of someone staring at you.

Then you feel stupid for not answering straight away.

The you get self conscious and start doubting yourself.

What was the question again?

I don't think there is anything especially unusual about it at all.
great list! I'm going to update mine ( http://lx.tc/positions ) to point here as soon as I confirm everything on my list is on yours.
> It has never been about opinions, and you know it. It has to do with antisocial behavior.

It is my genuine belief that presuming bad faith (as you have done here) is one of the most common antisocial behaviors that people don't even admit is antisocial. It is toxic to the civil exchange of ideas. It's even mentioned in the Hacker News Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html): "Assume good faith."

The other antisocial behaviors mentioned in this article (animal cruelty, r/jailbait, etc) are certainly worse. But they are also committed by people who know that what they are doing is socially unacceptable. They know this but don't care.

When people presume bad faith, they often do so completely convinced that they are the good guys. I am sure I have fallen prey to this myself plenty of times.

But this is why the attitude is so dangerous: "Antisocial behavior is bad, and I know it when I see it. I can be trusted to identify what is acceptable, and who deserves a platform." Well, probably you notice it when you see it in other people. But we as humans are really good at rationalizing our own actions.

For the record, I completely agree that moderation is necessary to keep communities healthy. But I think it's harder than people think to apply moderation in a way that isn't just reinforcing the beliefs and taboos of whoever is in charge. For example, I see too many greyed-out comments on HN whose tone is the same as other highly-moderated comments. The only difference is the opinion being expressed.
Don't forget that their cash assistance/stipend from CalWorks counts as part of their salary. So their real take home is 2k/month + monthly stipend.

You're doing incredible work though. You're allowing them to essentially apprenticeship with you to learn software development. Bravo sir
Here are a few off the top of my head: the death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville last summer, the nine people killed by Dylann Roof in Charleston, and the two killed by Jeremy Christian in Portland Oregon after they interrupted his anti-Muslim rants. Note that the perpetrators in all these cases are on record as citing racial, ethnic, or religious hatred as motives for their acts.
Behavior that follows from opinions I don't share.
Well these are practical rules that are more or less used by people working with dBs. These people are usually don't think in term of bitfields - when you have a 43 dB gain antenna you don't care if it amplifies 20 000 times or 19 952 :) Also it's a nice way to show-off to people that do not know this rule!

In any case, I never said that you get 100% accurate results; if you want accuracy then you should use your calculator (or your logarithmic ruler); but why use a calculator when you roughly want to understand how much a 15 dB gain would be?

Finally, there's a nice way to find out how much 1 dB is with the mentioned rule: Notice that 1 = 10-3-3-3 thus it's 10/2/2/2 = 1.25 so 1 dB is approximately 1.25 gain as you said :)
This is a free app and looks pretty cool, but may I ask how do you make profit?
Ballmer laughs at iPhone (2007)
Does it mean these people should “survive” on such a salary? Is that what you are saying?
Who you're selling to can make a big difference. An extreme Example is Heckler and Koch that supposedly exported G36 illegally to the conflict zones of Mexico. But there are also legal examples, for instance weapon manufacturers lobby for laxer laws, including how weapons need to be handled after they are bought.
How Many Genes Do Cells Need? Maybe Almost All of Them
Good point, thanks! Just did a quick search and learned they have a "cybersecurity division." Didn't know that existed.

Also edited my comment to reflect that.
Sure, but the question is, what are the other half of their staff doing of not working on this release?
I agree with your approach. As a junior developer I got my big break by agreeing to join as an hourly contractor while I proved myself, with the hope of being brought on full time should my performance be sufficient. Lucky for me, the company was not lying and they brought me on and the rest is history. We all have heard those horror stories about companies who claim to do the contract-to-hire thing but have no intention to make good on the promise, so this is a risky path for the candidate.
To be the devil's advocate here....

There is such a low barrier to entry for our industry that virtually anyone can can call themselves a software developer after a week of coding exercises, compared to other engineering disciplines which have a very high barrier (mostly in requiring a degree and often difficult certification like the PE). What's worse is that even computer science majors aren't guaranteed to be an effective hire. This is NOT a new problem[1].

Ultimately I would argue that the risk is higher, for a company, of hiring an incapable engineer, than it is for an applicant being hired (and paid) as an incapable engineer.

Requiring an applicant to demonstrate capability is smart. Where we draw the line for how much needs to be demonstrated is what is being questioned here.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
Titus seems to be the cost of Netflix's brilliant engineering talent. They clearly had a need for container orchestration before Kubernetes was available and by this point they have sunk years of effort into their current investment in Titus.

At this point they have surely recognized that internal closed tools will never compete with the velocity allowed by a huge open source project like Kubernetes and they are left with two options:

* Recognize the sunk cost of Titus, avoid the relevant fallacy, and migrate to Kubernetes

* Make Titus open source and hope that enough community can be built around it to justify the long-term cost of continuing its use internally.

It certainly is possible Titus gains a lot of steam, particularly from orgs that are already on Mesos, and be a viable long-term option. However, if I was a betting man, I'd say that 10 years from now the world has moved on and even Netflix will be using Kubernetes, or the future iteration of container-orchestration orchestrator that will inevitably be built on top of it.
No, that is the definition of price. Worth / value is subjective.
How Exactly Does Autism Muddy Communication?
If it’s written in Medium it’s probably worthless.
how about "the ai folks". Emphasis on 'the'
Yes.

You can either (1) keep going with your current job and do this on the side assuming your employment contract allows it, or (2) apply to a company that wants to do full time right away without a work term.

There may be other options depending on your situation, so email me if you want to discuss further. Email address in my profile.
Perhaps it's this?

https://github.com/jaytaylor/sql-layer
What does that look like, exactly? Should SWARM have been "allowed" to launch? Who is the "allowing" body? What rules do they all follow?

I'd say this is a case where the industry didn't regulate itself.
That's just now. It's evolving fast, and two new developments will improve the onboarding problem: WebRTC-based invites, and connecting p2p to friends through a DHT (Kademlia).
As a naive bystander, can you please explain why it would be bad to "pollute" space? Do things fall back into the atmosphere and burn up and sprinkle ash back onto the earth? I thought that objects once past the gravitational pull of the earth will just continue to drift away into the nothingness of space, and no matter the volume, it would be an insignificant amount to cause any harm to our planet or view of the stars.
For a properly designed distributed social network, there's no reason your data should be visible to anyone other than those you have approved.
Most of them using an interface like gmail, which unsurprisingly looks a lot like (facebook) messaging.
When I tried this I hit the 100 sub filter limit in a few days.
Congratulations, you found the simplest XSS and somehow six people found this worth upvotes.
"we also simulate dumb sysadmins".
That was a really inspiring talk, thanks!
I agree with him
If anything, it'd be slower. SQLite locks the database file (which would be another OS-level system call).

Simple files are more straightforward. You do one MMap and then there wouldn't be any other system calls made. I'd bet that compilers are "slow" because they have to make many, many, many mmaps to do anything. Each #include turns into another MMap, which Meltdown mitigations cause a full TLB flush each time.
Block level is the lowest form of addressing bytes on devices. Filesystems are an abstraction on top of block devices. Object stores are an abstraction on filesystems.

Emulating a low-level layer on a higher-level abstraction (which itself is using this hierarchy) will never match the speed, scale, or reliability of doing it correctly.
I completely agree that good software engineers are able to provide value significantly above the standard salary ranges for the profession. That said, I’m pretty pragmatic about it — I don’t want “a job”, but I respect that there is a price for which I would do the work. In the past, I’ve been direct and honest that the price is about $2M/yr + significant equity. Sends a message, and gets the wrong recruiters off your back. :)

But — if you are applying for jobs for which there are common salary ranges, you are signalling that you’re likely willing to work for something in that general range.

I think part of the larger situation is that the leaders of many small businesses (including many startups) don’t know how to effectively apply good engineers.
I honestly would have thought that the binning/testing done on those processors would make sure that the difference always go into the same direction, as in more performance for the higher specced part. Because I assume that in a benchmark just as this the cooling is sufficient to keep the turbo clock indefinitely, meaning that it makes no difference if the 8700 without limitations would beat the 8700K. But what you and the other say sounds convincing, maybe scenarios like this can happen in practice more easily than I thought.
Wow, there are so many red flags there. You made the right decision to drop out.
Was /r/politics given a vote-hiding feature that other subreddits didn't have? Votes and downvote buttons are typically hidden with custom CSS that users can disable, which would completely invalidate these results. Votes can be hidden for real for a short time, but cannot be disabled completely.
We furnished our small satellite office in Seattle from IKEA, and putting the supplied alan keys into a drill chuck saved our wrists from hours of torture.
At risk of violating some HN etiquette about memes, "pro-tip" is a word of fuzzy and common meaning since it was memed back in the ancient era of memes ("Pro-Tip: To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot it until it dies.")
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There are two packs, one forward and one aft, each 53 kg (~117 lbs) for a total of 106 kg (~234 lbs).

For comparison, the same weight of avgas (39 gal) will fly a Cessna 172 for just under 4 hours with reserves (assuming 9 gph), compared to the the Alpha’s 60 minutes.
I hate it when they group all of Silicon Valley together like this. Silicon Valley is pretty damn diverse...
I'm always curious what people are using the more exotic type system functionality of e.g. Haskell or Idris for in practice. It was interesting to hear that even Simon didn't expect such things to be used in industry quite yet.

Still, I wish I could see more info on this. At what point does the additional cognitive burden of advanced type system features become a worthwhile tradeoff for program correctness? It seems to me that this depends wholly on the complexity of the program.

Further to that point, the most complex programs I can think of (perhaps you may be able to offer other opinions, which I welcome) are AAA game engines. What are the reasons why the big engines out there are not using higher-kinded types, dependent types and the like? Is this just because of pragmatic issues such as the languages the developers learned in school not supporting these features, or because here-to-date functional languages supporting these features lacked the appropriate throughput of C/C++, where one can layout data for cache-efficiency?
With their explicit consent.
Again only if the goods fall under the criteria set by TBES if you are above the limit in a specific country which in the UK for example is £85,000 and it's more or less similar across the EU.

This means that most businesses it's not an issue since you can have a turn over of a few 100,000 EUR spread across the EU without being required for registration.

This is also solved via your payment processors and what would you know the EU also offers you the infrastructure to register where is the one stop shop for GDPR?
They definitely exist, but I'm skeptical that there are enough of them to significantly reverse current car-centric development patterns.
I remember working with someone like that. He went on to be an amazing salesperson.
That incident is a good case study into the concept of the accident chain. Both pilots were tired. The first officer complained of feeling ill. The captain had a history of failing four checkrides and three airline check events. Crew coordination was poor. The captain evidently had a complete loss of situation awareness.

Richard Collins (not the pop singer) in Air Facts Journal called it a system error[0].

[0]: https://airfactsjournal.com/2014/03/double-tragedy-colgan-ai...
How to build reproducible data science workflows
Does Sweep have an app or good mobile view for management? Looks very interesting.
It’s neat although there is no sql front end.

Bloomberg’s comdb2 was open sourced recently https://github.com/bloomberg/comdb2 - it seems similar, but would be interesting to see comparison.
You might want to look into AVX-512.

Yeah, 512-bits / SIMD computations. If chessboards were bigger, then we'd probably just use the SIMD registers. 128-bit SSE is quite common, and 256-bit AVX has been around for ~5 years now.
I use a common password manager and its max generated password length is 64, so it's in agreement with NIST. That said I am able to manually add characters to increase beyond 64.
For the curious: https://www.pipistrel.si/plane/alpha-electro/overview

I note it has "up to 60 minutes" under "endurance".

What I believe is the non-electric version of the plane is here: https://www.pipistrel.si/plane/alpha-trainer/overview

That has an endurance of 3.1 hours with its standard 50-liter fuel tanks.
For electric planes I'd like to see dual battery dual inverter/motor twin props for redundancy. Sure I trust a good electric more than gas, but why not offer more than just that?
In comparison Zuckerberg spent $7.3m last year on security https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/15/facebook-...
Graphite is "just carbon" too, but you cannot simply burn it by putting a lit flame to it -- it's simply not hot enough to combust it. To put it in perspective, graphite is frequently used as a crucible to melt aluminum in. Aluminum won't melt in your home fireplace (it's not hot enough), but graphite crucible will easily hold molten aluminum without combusting itself.
I don't know how much Google realizes it, but "walled gardens" are a fundamental threat to the quality of their search. Since most "normal user" internet activity is now locked up behind login pages on Facebook, the value of PageRank grows more dubious by the day.

This leaves institutional and commercial websites as the corpus of "open content" available for Google to index/test, and while they are sometimes useful, the incentives are much less straightforward when you bring in money and organizational politics.

Depending on the organic voice of the users who were publishing personal web pages and just wanted to discuss their interests and share the best information available got Google where it was, but now that lifeblood is locked down and thoroughly controlled by Google's competitors. Nowadays, many hobbyists and small businesses even forgo the web site entirely and just operate out of a Facebook page or group.

Worse still, open forums typically either completely disallow links with accurate anchor text or explicitly tell search engines to ignore them with rel=nofollow. This makes PageRank even less valuable, because the shared URL is not associated with link text. Some forums will transparently place anything containing a URL in a moderation queue, leaving no information at all for a search crawler to extract (ostensibly to prevent spam, but I've found in practice it's more often used by niche forum operators to block out competitors and get higher prices for ads; you can even see this on reddit, as many subreddit mods configure AutoModerator to filter any URLs pointing to unapproved domains).

Google was designed for the web as it stood in 1999. It's not 1999 anymore. Sadly, hyper-aggressive legal restrictions like the CFAA and the RAM Copy Doctrine mean that a useful search for the 2018 web is unlikely to materialize (at least in the U.S. or countries that impose similar restrictions).
Public servers were a temporary hack and nowadays most of the community is putting their public servers down. It's not a good idea for scaling, but above all, public servers connect you with strangers, which is basically undesired for a social network with a similar use case as Facebook.

There should be a pub server for each real community. I know it's not the most user friendly, but it suffices that one person in a real community of friends is techy enough to set it up, and it's not that hard: http://butt.nz/install?url=https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb... (this tool enables you to install your own server with a few clicks)
Zen2 and Threadripper+
If you ask someone if it was worth it to have a plumber fix a pipe, or a moving company to move their furniture, you would be comparing how much someone is getting paid versus you doing it yourself. An employer paying an employee is a business transaction, there is no other meaning than where the supply curve meets the demand curve, in a business activity, whether it be selling an item or buying labor.

Now, it should be noted that this only works when there are a multitude of buyers and sellers, but that problem is a different problem and should be recognized as such, instead of suggesting employers pay more than market rate, maybe we should be focusing our efforts on the real problem of monopsonies. Or if people are inherently "worth" something just for being, then I think it's more accurate to refer to that as "What are people entitled to" rather than "what are people worth" to avoid muddying up definitions.
They have the same rate. BigQuery and Athena are $5/TB scanned. Unless you store everything in raw JSON text, Athena will be cheaper even with most basic compression.
More relevant information (including the history of the project) from AOPA: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/october/19...
I've taken economics courses. Real ones from an accredited University, even. The only thing eye opening about them was the revelation that the entire field has such math and science envy.
I can't help but wonder if the person that made this is biased towards finding bias.
I am sympathetic to this but I have dealt with very senior candidates that could not demonstrate any coherent thought about a given problem over a whole interview. Others don't get code done but at least they can express a clear understanding of the problem and have an intelligent conversation.

I don't care if they can write the code but I want to see some level of engagement with the problem and some understanding.
Where do you think the "gravitational pull of the earth" ends? Hint: the moon is inside the gravitational pull of the earth... The danger is that things in orbit have velocity. A lot of velocity. Taking that nice F=mv^2 equation in mind you can imagine what would happen if a piece of space junk were to hit something we care about (or hit something we don't care about and create a lot more little pieces of junk that are now spreading out to cause more mayhem.) Space is big, and earth orbit is also a very big place, but there is still a lot of junk whizzing around up there and increasing the odds that something you forgot about will hit something you care about is counter-productive.
> can you please explain why it would be bad to "pollute" space? Do things fall back into the atmosphere and burn up and sprinkle ash back onto the earth?

The risk of space junk falling on people is tiny. The chief concern is around collisions in orbit. Worst case: "collisions between objects could cause a cascade where each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions," which could create a "distribution of debris in orbit [that] could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges unfeasible for many generations" [1].

These regulations are about protecting affordable access to space, by managing the risk of collisions.

(Eventually, yes, most things will fall down or burn up or drift away. But that process can take years if not millennia.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome