skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously. While certain local actions can help on a local level, serious solutions to global problems require more than individual action.
I've been with Amazon for coming up on 5 years.

I love it here, and have for the entirety of the time I've been here. There are some minor changes I would make if I could wave a magic wand, but I can't imagine any workplace is perfect, and when I say minor, I really mean it.

I don't really have a lot to say about things as they relate to the New York Times article, because the workplace described in said article was never even remotely close to the experiences I've had.

I work on a fantastic team, and I work with some amazing teams. Some of the smartest people I've ever met. I don't see myself leaving the company any time soon.
Yeah I generally agree with regards to throttling/caps/license issues, especially re: AVX-512. AVX and AVX2 aren't too bad though. I'm not using computationally-intensive AVX instructions, just your standard vectorized and/not/or/test/cmp/gt etc. These are incredibly cheap from a CPU cycle perspective.
I imagine what some creative blackhats could do if they rooted Tesla's systems, and could now control a few hundred thousand cars.
FWIW that phrase has been around for a long time. It’s fairly common in the aviation industry, but it’s used in others as well: https://ask.metafilter.com/91579/Who-came-up-with-this-joke
Upvote for "crooter"
If two trains are heading toward each other on the same track, one way
for momentum to be conserved is if they pass through each other. Even
though that's not what we observe in the real universe, its existence
as a mathematical solution implies that mass is an illusion. How is
this argument different from Godel's?
2 spaces after full stop are better than 1, except maybe they aren’t study finds
This ICO guide can help know the difference between the data controller and the data processor:

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1546/da...
Seems like you have to do at least minimal analysis of all sounds to be listening for a hot word.
We’ve watched Google I/O webdev talks and chose the best ones, here’s the list
It's not advertised, but Gmail still supports a "basic HTML" mode, which uses real text and real buttons/menus/links for everything. I think it's nicer than the new all-gray, all-icon, all-JS version (except for a couple annoying bugs which will probably never get fixed).

They've removed any way to enable it from Gmail itself. You have to search Gmail Help ("See Gmail in standard or basic HTML version"), which has a magic link you can visit to enable it.
can we also spend a second complaining how the mark as read is not contextual in the web version of gmail? I hate that.
"So three times a week, the knights were permitted to eat meat"

those two paragraphs were a little scattered, but it's 3x per week... Definitely Sundays and then maybe Tuesday/Thursday, but sometimes one of those days was a fast.
Thanks tbv for submitting it. I can answer any questions!
An ISP would be a total network I think, so it doesn't matter how many buildings you connect to.
The way I think of it is that we haven't yet figured out concrete ways to assess whether someone can or can't be an effective developer on a team. So if you want me to hire you, and I can't directly measure your skills (because I'm a suboptimal interviewer?), then I need data points that increase my confidence that you are more likely to work out.

This is a 100% contrived, but here's an example...

- I run a dev team largely using Microsoft tech

- You are a Java developer

- I had a Java developer try out the Microsoft stuff, and quit because they decided they didn't wanna go all in on C#

- If you're work experience in largely in Java, but I see you spending a lot of time writing C# in your personal time, or somehow demonstrating a passion for you, I'm more likely to think you'll be a fit.

Maybe asking people to demonstrate a passion for tech is related to feeling defensive about that tech. Plenty of back-end-y developers trash talk CSS and JavaScript. Someone who works on front-end stuff all day long might not like that trend, so they filter for people excited about JavaScript, and I can't say I'd blame them for that.
I read somewhere in a list of"ten ways to tell your manager is a jerk" that one of them was "your manager compares himself to Steve Jobs".

I try and remember that, though likely not often enough.
What doe a "bell" look like?
I can't remember the last time I saw a bell.
It's weird to call these "unintended consequences."

What we know about human behavior definitively indicates that having a sense of autonomy and control is essential to motivation/performance. It's also obvious that stress increases under the knowledge that someone is monitoring you. Hell even the ancient Greeks probably understood the perils of micromanagement...

In the case of readily measurable output in blue-collar work, it seems obvious that a component of compensation should scale proportionate to productivity, so that you're rewarding high performers instead of implicitly penalizing everyone uniformly. And then you just fire (obvious) chronic underperformers, so that you still gain the advantages from there being a fear of repercussions.
> the gyroscopic forces would be such that it would be impossible to steer the vehicle.

That's a solvable problem, and has in fact been solved by F1 teams that have used it - Mclaren won two titles with their KERS equipped cars. The cars are demonstrably far from 'impossible' to steer...
No downsides. All your mail is downloaded locally and off line available. Fast Search with mu.

Really if there is one thing you should do this year is take some time and discover emacs. Just for orgmode alone. You will Thank me later :-)

In a nutshell:
Emacs is a machine. A lisp machine. It will work for you instead that you work for your computer.

It will do anything you want ( and more)

Now is the time to discover this shining gem in all of softwares.
StartPage! It's pretty much the only private search engine I can get behind, because nothing compares to Google results.
Europa prime candidate for alien life after water blast found
IMHO, the whole mindset about college is broken. There was a time in this country when the value of educating someone was viewed more from the perspective of society. We wanted people to go to college to have a more informed electorate and a more professional workforce. This started to change under Ronald Reagan's governorship in California and was completed under his presidency. And that was a shift towards viewing education as a benefit to the student.

It seems a subtle distinction, but it has a crucial effect on tuition rates. When it's looked at from the perspective of the benefit to the student, the upper bounds for how much an educational institution can charge is the financial benefit over the course of that student's career. When you look at it from the standpoint of benefiting society, it's in the best interest of the state to educate students as cheaply as possible. And we've seen the predictable results of the change in perspective with tuitions slowly rising towards that upper bound.

But you're right...placing the primary funding burden on an entity that is sensitive to price will likely put pressure on colleges to offer educations more efficiently. Though I do think your focus on football coaches is unwarranted. That's a simple equation...football brings in $Xm/yr so they give it a budget of $Ym/yr. As long as the delta between X and Y is as big as possible, it doesn't matter what Y is. The far more concerning thing, to me, is how long we've known about the concussion issue at this point and how little college football programs have done about this. We can look at the time period since CTE was first discovered as willfully endangering college football players and colleges will be on the hook for billions of dollars in lawsuits over the next 2 decades. This isn't particularly relevant to the issue we're talking about, but will have major ramifications in bottom lines for Universities, so will probably impact tuitions as well.
Tesla already does this in some locations, using stationary li-ion batteries to even out demand with their Superchargers.
> The last time I had to empty my trash was June 2017.

I would like to know more. What sorts of things have you eliminated? What are you recycling/composting that normally is deemed trash? How do handle things like greasy cardboard?
Gaining Experience and Growing Empathy
Perhaps. The problem developing countries have - including our own in their time - is that the social conventions and norms of behaviour that promote survival in such conditions take generations to correct to the new socioeconomic conditions.
I've said it over and over again:

I speak english, not pictogram. The only platform I've ever seen that got icons right was Windows Phone, because it had a hard-coded "..." button that always did the same thing:

1) Show all the labels, and

2) Show all the additional text-labeled (non-icon) actions that were hidden by default.

So the first thing you did when faced with an unfamiliar set of icons was touch the "..." button which showed you the full list of things you could do.
>I'd argue that an important element of UI is discoverability

The whole point of icons is that you don't need to "discover" what they do. They're supposed to be intuitive.

To me an arrow pointing down means "download," not "select all."

If you can't convey your meaning inside a 16x16px monochrome block, then perhaps that's not the best choice for the task at hand.

Time to innovate.

Also, Google's choice to deviate from every other mobile menu icon on the planet (the hamburger menu) is a sign of hubris, not an effort to help the customer.
Icons are tough in general. But I think if you're able to use an icon that is even remotely related, people's brains will click and they will think, "Ok, that makes sense."
So basically like a conversion rate of applicants to students.
> the terminology could have just as easily gone with "notification clock" or "wake-up clock" originally

In that case we would still use bell icons. Because the bell would be still associated with the "notification clock" or the "wake-up clock".
Perhaps student loans should be co-signed by the universities they get their degree from?

At least this way, there may be a reasonable alignment of incentives for the university to provide valuable, cost-effective education.
When I say a comment crosses into personal attack, that's a signal that I'm assuming positive intent because I don't think it happened on purpose.

When someone posts from a place of suicidal suffering and another user replies with "that's sick", asking if it's a joke, and using sarcasm ("heaven forbid") etc., that's brusque enough to count as personal attack in this intensely personal context. Had the original comment been about something trivial, I wouldn't have called it that, though I might have still called it uncivil.

So the answer to your objection is that I appreciate your standing up for the site guidelines but we have to adjust moderation for context and this was a special context.
Text is very difficult for UI layouts, especially on small screens, and especially for lower-vision users, since (a) words take up more space than icons, (b) different languages have different length words.
This is so dope - I would love to do this in east oakland
Transportation of other plastic items we didn't need in the first place. A lot of the food we eat didn't have to be packed in plastic if it was stored properly and taken care of. If we cooked our own food more than we do, even more plastic could be left for other usage instead. While we are on the topic we don't need to actually eat as much as we do. We don't have to supersize every portion, we can survive and probably be healthier on a much lower portion per meal.
At least in top-tier research institutions I think this is because big-time philanthropists would rather see their name on a new building or expansion, than earmarked for maintenance of existing buildings. So capital expenditures outpace general operation costs born by state/local and current students/non-wealthy alumni.
I believe that turned out to only be for one particular revision of the battery pack.
Also, if you have a crap connection, Google will try to detect your speed and sometimes offer to switch you to the basic mode.
Show HN: ClimaCell Micro Weather API – high-resolution, real-time weather
and what an underwhelming one - they ate meat, veg, bread and cheese! Sometimes even a lot, but usually not too much
In this application you're probably interested in something more accurate, more than the speed. But it could be worth trying to see what interactive re-mapping bought you.
I believe Verizon has a datacenter that has a number of 15 ft concrete flywheels that provides emergency power.
No. When you're thinking about leaving your current job anyway, the right phone call can be golden.

But, if I tell you that I'm not interested now, and probably won't be for at least the next six months, don't call me back next week.
Don't forget, when Asimov introduced this new law, those (few) robots that were governed by it also had a modified First Law: "...except when such action or inaction would conflict with the Zeroth Law" (paraphrasing). That got interesting, quick!
I made a "Shopping List Party!!!" shopping list. If you post or send me your local key, I'll authorize you as a writer.

I'm trying to see how many writers it can handle. Theoretically, there's no limit.

https://dat-shopping-list.glitch.me/doc/2d2641b9cab4d2bb0ea3...
"A box with a downward arrow" refers to the icon immediately before the "stop sign with an exclamation point", not to the one you're talking about.
I think salaries for football coaches is the one area where they aren't having issues because they get direct revenue from their sports teams in terms of ticket sales, merchandise sales, and TV rights. If the teams do better, all of those metrics increase, so investing there would make sense. Additionally they don't have one of the largest costs for traditional sports teams, player salaries.
That's a provincial point of view. Despite Anglo hegemony, billions of people prefer non-English.

Anyway, English invents new words or new meanings all the time. What does a "cloud" have to do with webservers?
I think the problem is that icons are categorically bad for people who are unable to interpret their visual language. I switched my preference to text as soon as the icons were rolled out, and forgot about them. I resented that the designers were imposing a new metaphorical scheme and expecting us all to adapt to it, to suit their own needs. It's the pinnacle of arrogance.
Only if Trump propaganda could choose their own headline on an Israeli newspaper.
> This isn't true for college sticker prices because colleges have perfect price discrimination. Most students don't pay the sticker price; they pay exactly what they "can".

> In no other industry do we have such perfect incentives aligned on the provider side to increase prices--

(Healthcare.)
There's delicious irony in how many jargon-y terms are in here that would be, to non-geeks, just as opaque as those icons.

- HN

- mbsync

- IMAP

- emacs/vim

- mu4e/notmuch/gnus
Three stripes or three downward arrows are the dumbest invention. Three horizontal dots already existed, and literally means ellipsis from other contexts.
It doesn’t really matter. The charger will convert whatever voltage it’s supplied with to the voltage needed by the battery at any given moment. You could theoretically run a fast charger off 120V, you’d just need massive conductors to handle the massive current.
In a well-built mobile app, long-press is "Hover"
Ask HN: Programming on paper (any benefits?)
For the programming exams we have at our university we have to write code on paper (like full code, not pseudo).

I feel that writing code on paper really limits my ability to express my programming knowledge, in comparison to writing code on the computer.

However, I cannot think of a real benefit of doing so. I mean most programmers (if I may generalize) have bad handwriting. Which is a loss-loss situation for both the examinees and professors (who have to read the exams).

Are there any benefits for writing code on paper?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or serious. Are you advocating life imprisonment for crimes like robbery?
And it isn't as simple as banning plastic bags and then patting ourselves on the back for solving this issue. Society functions as an ecosystem like any you would find in nature and removing plastic bags has consequences that need to be addressed as part of any government action. For example, plastic bags are an important resource for homeless people. Banning plastic bags resulted in a large hepatitis outbreak in San Diego among the homeless population that quickly spread and resulted in over 20 deaths.
You should also check out blockstack, offers similar storage functionality (the user choose where to store the data) and has easy to use js libs
Show HN: ErgoProxy: Dev services running on different ports made easy
Probably not, at least not as much. There's a reason Steve Jobs has always been notorious for this sort of behavior.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's not the kind of thinking the US government has historically used.
>The clock is associated with time. In the context of received mail, it seems quite natural that a time-related action would be setting a reminder.

To me a clock in this context means I can schedule an e-mail message to be sent later. If I want a reminder, I'll use a reminders or to do app, not an e-mail client.
Former flywheel energy storage startup engineer here.

The economics of flywheels for this kind of application versus just using another battery tend to rest on the purported "unlimited cycle life" of the flywheel system compared to, say, Li-ion batteries that have a very well documented finite cycle capacity that degrades even further when doing sub-optimal cycling. To a lesser extent you can also bank on lower parasitic loads during standby as the environmental requirements for a flywheel aren't as stringent as batteries that need to be either heated or cooled almost all the time in many climates.

The problem is that, by and large, "unlimited cycles" is not true. You still have huge, very high speed bearings. Motors that require routine electrical testing and can fail. And now all this stuff is sitting below ground under a massive concrete lid for containment so it's not as easy to do maintenance on compared with a similarly-sized battery system. You also need uninterruptible power supply to maintain safety and control systems when grid power is unavailable since you've still gotten a huge spinning mass that you can't slow down without somewhere to send the energy (it's possible to use braking resistors, but it's another cost).

Batteries also benefit from massive economics of scale (both on the actual cells and the power electronics) that are getting better with time and driving costs down, while flywheels have been "1 year from commercialization" for the last 25 years.

I remain skeptical of the commercial benefits vs. increasingly commoditized and readily available battery systems.
This is pretty cool. A couple of years ago I found an old map of Singapore and built page to compare it with a contemporary one [1] - this a lot better!

The reclamation completely changed the outline of the island, and the reservoirs change the interiors. But it was fun looking for things that haven't changed.

[1] http://puliyel.com/map/
Researchers use ai to brighten ultra low-light images without adding noise
No icon anywhere is intuitive. They're all learned.

Once you've hovered over the icon and learned its meaning then you can recognize it by the picture.
>"Personally I do not read any resumes"

>"Check your linkedIn, look at your experience and
education. Catchy schools and companies is good BUT also that you are not a branch hopper"

So... you read resumes?
Net=host basically defeats most benefits of network isolation you get with docker. It should only be used for quick hacking. Use forward and reverse args instead. And as others said, connecting out from the container is possible by default, with the only confusion that localhost might not be what you think.
Spoken like a true 'never used an iPhone x' user
Recycling should really be called downcycling. With plastic as with paper, the quality of the recycled product is lower than the original, unless enough new material is mixed in.
I liked that book but remembered it being more about incompleteness theorem and cognition than time / space physics.
Also, making machines that do the work in bulk is IMO a much better use of time than e.g. organizing beach cleanup efforts where a dozen people come out with grabbers: https://youtu.be/A_ESkZmbL2c

What would also be neat would be something like an organization that operates these on beaches across a state / country. Even better: get the government to do it.

Even better than that: outlaw production of the kinds of junk that ends up on beaches. Start doing takeaway food in glass lock containers and bags that are actually reusable (not paper or thicker plastic or cotton) and charge deposits for them. Sure, it creates other problems, but those are usually better problems to be solving.
A question from someone who has never seen a NeXT computer:

How is it possible that Doom was developed on NeXT?

As far as I know, Doom was first released for MS-DOS. Wouldn't be really hard to develop a MS-DOS game from another operative system and another CPU architecture? Specially at the time without engines abstracting platform details?
There's native support for gdrive in GNOME via accounts.
All you have to is mount two of them rotating in opposite directions to cancel it out. The axles need to be able to handle the load but the rest of the car sees nothing.
Things You Need to Know About Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
I've been doing software for a long time and, I've got to tell you, your company is far from typical. In my experience, the typical retrospective is little more than a circle jerk session for sicophants.
Then the problem is with how prisons are. Those should be changed. Introducing some extreme measures and a new way to punish is not the way.
Of course, just throwing TeX at your resume isn't enough. However, TeX gives you tools at an engineer's level which can be used to make your resume stand out.
DDG is okay, I use it if I'm not finding what I want on Google. But that's rarely.
Which Google services haven't lasted years? The only one I can think of is Wave, and that was pretty experimental.
You’re crazy.
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/NEXTSTEP

From my memory of reading Masters of Doom, they developed for where they expected the consumer PC hardware market to be at the time of release. If you wanted that hardware at the time they were developing, $10k Next workstations were your best bet.

When Doom came out, I (and most other folks) needed a new PC.

Ports to multiple platforms were pretty common in those days with games and that's something the team had a lot of experience with from their years at Softdisk. Having looked at the game code, it's not really terribly difficult.