skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially as he knew so much, and the more you know, the more you know that you know so little. Only the deeply ignorant feel that they know everything (there was a poor fellow arguing here recently that he knew everything that was worth knowing about philosophy. His responses to challenges revealed that he knew nothing about it at all).
How much would you pay me to start using Google?
You seem to be getting beaten up over this point, so I'd like to un-lurk and support it.

A screener's job is to read the resume and match static facts to company needs. A recruiter's job is to gauge subjective fit and mutual interest.

An interviewer's job is to assess analytical ability, communication skills, personality, and culture fit, as well as to be an advertisement for the company/team/project/position if both sides want to close the deal. None of that depends on a re-evaluation of the static facts on the resume.

If I interviewed with a CEO or VP of Engineering, and that person asked me questions about my resume, I'd run away as quickly as possible from that company. I'd do the same depending on the circumstances if an engineer referenced my resume during an interview.
It appears incandescent bulbs have not been banned, but low-efficiency designs have been. [1] I still see incandescent GE Reveal bulbs at the store all the time. [2]

> light bulbs using incandescent lighting technology were not banned by the government. More accurately, save for a few exceptions, any lamp failing to meet the energy standards set by EISA in 2007 could no longer be manufactured.

[1] https://insights.regencylighting.com/was-there-actually-an-i...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071VCLT6G/
I don't think of Google as primarily a search engine. It's a suite of services.

Most of their services require an account in some way, and I don't want to be tied to such a massive company.

Like most Google's services that you can use without an account, their search engine is pretty decent (although DuckDuckGo is my main search engine). Maps is decent too.

But I wouldn't pay to use any of Google's services. There are adequate libre alternatives now.
The degree of coupling between assets is called "beta" - typically you're trying to reduce the coupling of one asset to another in your portfolio (explanation [1]) but you can definitely work the other way to make predictions.

I'm not sure what the technical term is for a time-lag correlation though, since that's what you're really after; it's not an interesting correlation for your model if you don't have time to trade ETH on the BTC signal.

[1]: https://www.quantopian.com/lectures/beta-hedging
> US has banned incandescent light bulbs for the standard bulb sizes

Um, what? They're still all over the place... the supermarket next to my apartment carries incandescent bulbs, as does the city's Home Depot.
>Let's take the most conservative interpretation...

I disagree that your interpretation is the most conservative interpretation. The most conservative interpretation is that we know basically nothing about the safety of Tesla's autopilot. There are so many unaccounted variables here - the presence of AEB and collision detection, total utilization of TACC vs TACC + Autosteer, utilization of Autosteer over time (for example: are people conservative with it at first and then gradually increase their usage into riskier driving situations?), non-airbag accidents, the constantly updating nature of Autopilot systems (for example what if an update actually makes the vehicle less safe?), whether people have more accidents initially driving any EV due to being unfamiliar with the instant torque of EVs and so on and so on. Mix in proprietary data which no one is willing to share and I think the only thing we can say is that we don't know.

Also:

>it shows that autopilot is at least no worse than a human driver.

It does not show that!

There are human driven miles in both buckets, for all we know the second bucket could have more human driven miles than the first bucket which is why the accident rate is lower. Tesla has never proven that it's Autopilot system is safer than or as safe as a human driver.
Unfortunately, they are right most of the time that they know better. But it is sad that something gets ruined catering to people who can't properly formulate keywords.
Similarly, I find making life easier for regular workers quite satisfying. When they say, "Oh, this gizmo or change makes my job/task sooo much easier and reliable than the last process. Thank You!", I gleam for months. It's better than a raise to me. One accounting clerk was so happy she baked my favorite cookies for me.

Too many focus on kissing up to the big-wigs, which works to get them more money and status, but I feel I make a real impact by helping the rank and file.
IMO the death rate would be much more interesting, but I guess we don’t have enough data. I suspect that autopilot+human fails less often than human alone, but when it does, it does so catastrophically.
What about the office manager who'd rather leave at 5?

Before people accept a job somewhere they should find out the required work hours. If that doesn't match their ideal, then they should not accept the job.
I'm sure the work that F-Secure did was very technically impressive, but I don't think this demonstrates that "these electronic locks may not be very secure" as the article states.

I'd imagine that there are very few commercial technologies that couldn't be hacked if you can get research on a working copy and throw "several thousand total man hours" of highly qualified researchers at it, including building a custom device. And the hack has already been patched!

And then the end payout is that you can get into hotel rooms, which are regularly accessed by low-paid hotel employees and generally considered not a secure place to leave valuables—there's a reason for the safes in the closet of every hotel room.
Taiwan graphic card makers to see shipments plunge 40% in April
React Native, Nativescript- trailer park approach to mobile software development
I'd gladly pay $100-$200 annually for search as long as they stopped profiling and tracking me all over the web with their ads.
Would it be possible to upload the outputs of this convolution? I'd like to hear how it sounds.
>It's hard to square that with the whole 10x engineer thing.

That's because Google doesn't particularly ascribe to this idea. With good infra, tooling, and environment (management, mentorship, etc.) anyone can be "10X".

>manage out inadevertantly hired incompetent people, because no hiring proccess is perfect.

I'm not sure I've ever met an engineer at Google who I would call incompetent. Certainly some who are less competent than me, certainly some who are more. Certainly some who have made singular technical decisions are think are wrong or bad, but none who are incompetent. The hiring process is the system you describe.
The point is that this should be an "upgrade" change vs. an "update" change.

Rolling releases only have the later concept, meaning that instead of the user acknowledging and preparing for a change, users need to respond to it.
I was a kid so I might be wrong, though I seem to remember there was some crazy overclockable Celeron that was killing K6, right?
CPU utilization is wrong
Yeah, but for the past 25 years or so, the conventional way to wake up a desktop computer whose monitor has gone to sleep was a nonspecific mouse wiggle or keyboard press. Why change that? Like how big of a deal was accidentally waking up your monitor? What problem are we fixing? What's our usability goal here? Is this requirement discoverable to the user or not?
By end-to-end encryption are you just talking about HTTPS in this situation?
"I feel that I am safer with autosteer on because a moment of inattention"

If one has "moments" of inattention significant enough to drift out of a lane or "drive into another vehicle", one should not be driving.

There is a current (Toyota ?) commercial where a young driver with her father is saved from mowing down a crosswalk full of pedestrians by some form of "auto stop" and the father proudly declares "it stopped for you". If you need that to avoid killing people, you should not be driving.
Targeted programs to increase diversity are not sexist, in the same way that taking a bank robber’s loot and giving it back is not theft.
I cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Seriously. If I felt I could do better than the service providers I use I might try running my own hardware and try keeping up with all that's required, but I don't feel I can do better.

That said, I have changed providers when I saw they were not keeping things up to snuff. Verio is an example of one I left.

On my end, I do make an effort to make sure what I build on top of that is secure and backed up.
Creating an eviction response platform with GatsbyJS and Contentful
That's always been the most reasonable perspective on "bias" in most major newspapers like the New York Times. I do believe they endeavor to report stories accurately. But the selection of stories and the way they're approached almost inevitably a particular set of beliefs and perspectives.
> there's a reason for the safes.

... which all have backdoors by neccessity.
Professionally:
We designed and built a program that keeps patients with congestive heart failure out of the hospital. We had a ton of autonomy and figured out how to get old, sick people to do new things every day. Then we built an online tool for nurses to track their patients. This ended up reducing days spent in the hospital and saved a ton of lives.

I’ll never go back to a less impactful job.

Personally:
Working through a brutal custody battle that lasted for years and cost as much as a college education. Never wavered from what I thought was best for my kid, never attacked the other party, and ended up with an imperfect but fair agreement. Kid is doing great.

Going through something this difficult ended up being the major inflection point of my life.
I've been using Ubuntu almost since it started, because it works and I sure as hell don't miss fiddling with X modelines or compiling my own kernel. I've stuck with the standard Ubuntu, but have tried all the flavors because I wish some degree of customization, and Gnome wishes less every time. Unfortunately they are not as polished.

Since Ubuntu is so great anyway, I try to convince myself that less customization means less wasted time.
Show HN: Java Collection Overhead
I think we’d soon find out that a brain without a body operates very differently than when the brain is in the body. The brain relies on the body’s sensory organs for much of its decisions, how can it compute things when these are removed?

And also - if we managed to extract data from a brain, could we hold someone guilty for what we pull out? Would the brain say different things than the mouth? Which one is correct?
I'm apparently for whatever reason in the category of "gets insta-paywalled, no quota, incognito mode doesn't help" but the comments elsethread making clear that many others aren't suggests to me that I was overestimating the actual annoyance level caused across the userbase, so the current policy now makes much more sense to me.

Thanks for the explanation.
Ask HN: Does it matter where you go to college?
I attend an average state school university. The price is amazing but I feel like there is a lack of drive from the CS Professors and students. Am I making the wrong decision or does college not have much to do with success?

I have been unsure for months and I thought this would be the perfect spot to get some perspective.
The complicated biology of garlic
It's been painfully obvious to me through various recent health scares that my (only) lasting legacy will be my children. I hope to spend enough time with them on this crazy floating rock to enable them to have the emotional security and vision to help make the world a better place after I'm gone --two things I feel like I could've benefited from much earlier in life.

Career-wise, I've stressed myself out way too much over small wins, but there are two projects that I was happy to have the fortune to be involved with.

1. I relocated my family across they country for a year to work at an Obama White House Champion of Change startup. I helped create an app that is used by thousands of students and public transit users to have a safe, cheap, eco-friendly ride home through Microtransit. The safe ride capability has been used by enough university students by now that I hope it has kept drunk drivers off the street and possibly saved someone's life.

https://transloc.com/microtransit-ondemand-software/

2. About 5 years ago, I worked on the consumer facing apps for a competitor to Nest, called Sensi. The thermostat was recently ranked to have the highest customer satisfaction in its class by J.D. Power and Associates. Last I heard it was in over 100,000 homes, and has kept a lot of coal from being burned by power plants in America.

http://sensicomfort.com

If I were to do it all over again, I would've been way less concerned about money, and probably entered a field other than software development. I'm thinking of getting LEED certified and going into green building design and/or solar installations in my second career.
> But Stallman wanted to call desktop distros GNU/Linux.

If a parasite with the intent to undermine free software had burrowed into Stallman's brain, something like this naming debacle is what it would use.

Reasonable people like you and me find it makes sense on Stallman's part. He did the work. He should get credit in the naming. Calling his work by the name of Linux isn't technically fair. Stallman has every right to call out unfairness, esp. if he is suggesting a compromised name that resolved the unfairness.

Reasonable people who aren't like you and often have their first experience with Stallman's dogged commitment to justice by hearing him interrupt and correct someone else's nickname for his system. They then hear him suggesting a verbally awkward compromise which he expects them to immediately adopt to communicate with him at all.

There are only so many times one can roll their eyes before having to confront the unfortunate fact that the naming tactic not only isn't working but also is eating up time and effort for very little in return.

Edit: clarification
Can someone explain the basic implications of this against current GANs and also provide a practical ML application?
There are multiple people who did things wrong here. Sure, you can call out the media companies, but there is no reason to not also criticize fraudsters. There is enough blame to spread around.
I use ffmpeg and some custom services for http://robot247.io

All the code is on GitHub. I can get very low latency video. Most of the delay comes in the form of the speed of light being so slow.

On the web site in use jsmpeg.
Teach Machine to Comprehend Text and Answer Question Using Tensorflow – Part I
I dont agree with this analysis, but Im more than willing to read up on it.

> Medicare does not reimburse below sustainable levels
> On average, you're losing money on a per-patient basis for 40% of your patient basis..

I disagree with this conception of sustainable: at any point if you have two suppliers with price differenciation yes, one of them 'subsidizes' the other, but that doesnt make it so the latter doesnt bring revenue. If by law airlines could not sell coach anymore, they would all drastically go out of business, even though they dont make money on coach. Medicare does lower reimbursement but it only matters in so far they take the spot of a private insurer.

Furthermore, sustainable implies that there would be no providers at medicares rates but that is not true: there would be less because they pay less, but you would still have providers.

Second, accepting medicare is a hassle for providers but I assure you they dont do it out of charity. They give you infinite demand which means you can fill your non-private insurers slots with medicare and provide lots of revenue.
We're All Terrible at Valuing Software: How to Succeed in B2C Software in 2018
Of course this isn't the *only way to succeed with consumer software, but it seems to be the most consistent business model we see working.

From my perspective, revenue is awesome. Selling someone's data or getting people addicted to micro-transactions (the only other ways people are succeeding) doesn't seem like a desirable business to be in.

What are your thoughts?
Google has a record of our searches, our email, our contacts, most of the cellphones in the world, in some cases a microphone within our houses... and they also want money?
Perhaps they would need to send false sensory stimuli to emulate a ghost-like body illusion and maintain the isolated brain in an induced state of normalcy.
Getting pricing information on hospitals is a good start and encouraging lower prices is good thing as well.

In addition, what we really need to get those insurance premiums down, is insurance programs that can selectively only cover cost effective treatment programs as well as legislation that protects people from overzealous hospitals that try to provide overly expensive treatment options.
Originally, FFTs were the only time I missed 0-based indexing in Julia. But the neat FFTViews.jl package (https://github.com/JuliaArrays/FFTViews.jl) addresses this, and even improves on it by letting you use periodic indices avoiding the need for functions like fftshift.
If you want to be generous, you could say that Facebook simply doesn't understand or grasp the power it has right now.

The less generous take is that they don't want to understand because it would obligate them to grapple with the ethics of having that power and the least generous take is that they understand full well and simply do not care.

No matter what take you subscribe to, almost everyone can agree that as long as the money flows and the government (US and EU) stays at bay, nothing will change with that company.
I don't think that number is overly large.

Take a question like "how much would you have to be paid to use an outhouse for a year"? Sure, it would be inconvenient, but it not like it would monumentally change someone's life.

Still, I'd guess my number for the outhouse question would be over $50,000 possibly more.
You might not test this. Keep in mind, the bar exam, medical boards, actuarial exams, and other entrance exams aren't intended to establish competence in all areas of professional practice.

I think that the google style data structures and algorithms exams are a good case in point. Think of these like the actuarial exam for linear algebra, vector calc, and numerical analysis. These exams don't of course test everything important about being an actuary. But they do establish competence in something that can be tested. As a result, actuaries don't (to my knowledge) have to do 5 hours of whiteboard exams doing LU matrix decomposition or finding a steepest descent vector. Whereas software developers have to find all matching subtrees in a binary tree over and over (and over).

What I like about the actuarial exams is that while they are rigorous, and it helps immensely to have majored in math or something closely related, you are free to decide how to prepare for these tests. Although I like the idea of a widely recognized entrance exam, I really don't like the idea of something like the law schools putting themselves (and 200k in debt) in between an individual and the right to take the exam.
Try my back-yard: the sprinklers broke and we procrastinated fixing them.
That's what I get for hastily making a homepage. Thanks!
I use shortcuts a lot. Three desktops,

Top: Dev environment (VS Code + browsers + git extensions)

Middle: Servers, frontend servers and test runner console (anything I need to check or restart from time to time)

Bottom: anything that I'd rather not touch (I start some windows from a shell and move them to desktop 1, this is probabably not the most optimal way but I try to be more pragmatic and spend less time on tweaking my setup and this is a step in the right direction.)

I use Super + arrow up/down to move between them, I've assigned super + ctrl + shif + arrow up/down to move the currently focused window up or down etc.
> I’d love them to be, but unfortunately there’re technical reasons for that. Both depend on too many Windows components. WinForms is really a thin wrapper around Win32 windows and GDI+. WPF relies heavily on DirectX 9.

And yet somehow Mono is able to (mostly) emulate WinForms, while Wine can (mostly) emulate D3D9. And MS can't (at least) throw their weight behind that, rather than wasting time on WSL?

> Again, there’re technical reasons. For the same reasons Apple is pushing Metal, and Khronos is pushing Vulkan, all 3 are conceptually quite similar.

So why aren't Microsoft (and Apple) pushing Vulkan as well, rather than their own "quite similar" APIs?
If a program deliberately excludes one sex, is it not sexist?
I'm so raged right now at Apple
Regardless of the spin of the article, it's important to note that the big entertainment companies are pushing for harsher punishments for internet companies to prevent the distribution of "unlawful" content.

I think this is interesting because while they sound like they are attacking Facebook, they are likely looking to go after their old enemies: YouTube and any video on the public internet.
The problem with statistics is, if you put garbage in, you get garbage out. Especially in the case of garbage categories, and garbage questions. Before you do any statistical work, you have to ascertain whether or not the groups you are considering, or the questions you are asking, are actually existing groups and scientific questions. IQ fails this test. Race fails this test. Running does not.

If make statistics about ill-defined, politicized questions, at best, you get nonsense. At worst, you get a reinforcement of your muddy, politicized thinking.

The problem with science is, if you're not very careful, it can become a wrapper around stuff that isn't scientific. The only way to avoid this is to be absolutely allergic to any concepts that are unclear, uncertain imports from the normal world. And, while I'd love it if intelligence wasn't like that - let's face it, it is. If it wasn't, and we had a clear image of it, we'd probably be capable of doing stuff like building general AI.
Yeah, try discrediting the article than fix your mistakes.

Real mature, Google.
PySEAL: Homomorphic encryption in a user-friendly Python package
> "Too late for what?"

Too late to avoid unnecessary deaths.

> "To safe everybody? We never did. People allways died of starvation."

People die of starvation as a result of war, lack of rainfall and plant diseases. Do we need to add another cause to that list?

> "And people are doing nothing?"

People aren't doing nothing, but the changes aren't quick enough. For example, how much of our energy currently comes from non-renewable sources? If you look at the graphs here, you'll see that use of oil, coal and natural gas are all growing at faster rates than renewables or nuclear:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

What do you think it will take to turn the tide on this trend?
An annoying interview process is a one-time pain, though. Once you're in it's behind you. (For my current employer - not Google - I did a 3-hour auto-graded coding test in which I resorted to rewriting something in C and not calling free() to make it fast enough to pass all the test cases, which I hated, but it was a one-time thing and the company itself is otherwise pretty reasonable. I should probably have held it against the company, but I didn't.)

If Google is losing out on good candidates, it's going to be either because of false negatives in the interview process, or ongoing engineering culture concerns (which is roughly why I declined the Google offer I got last year), not because of people self-selecting against annoying interviewing processes. Even this blog post itself is written in the form of "Here's what you need to know to get past the process" - i.e., even this guy assumes people still want to work at Google and work around their process.