skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wanted to drop a note to say I think Uber is doing a good job, all things considered. Many public transit companies have been around for decades and haven't figured out how to scale up to the kind of service Uber is providing. 4B rides in 2017 is pretty amazing.

If I understand the math correctly, BART claims about 126 million rides (2015) and cost $906M (~$7 a ride, comparable to some uber pool fares)
Well, that says more about the current state of the field of psychology, than about the task at hand. :)
I still swear by the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 [1]. Very comfortable keyboard. I think I've gone through about three of them, one of which lasted so long that the little knobs on the J and F keys wore away and I had to score them with an old soldering iron.

I do have a Kinesis Advantage (older model) that I've tried over a couple of weekends to get use to, but just found I couldn't adapt. Particularly the different placement of various punctuation keys like curly braces was too much of a hurdle for me when writing code.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/natural-ergonomic-keyboard...
I think in the case of Tesla and their recent production failures they want to publicize it to explain shortages and help defend their stock.
Not the person you're asking, but see this reddit comment[0]

>If you are using a proper private secure boot setup (not the Microsoft keys, signing keys not accessible to an attacker that remotely compromises your system), you trust that your motherboard implements it correctly, you can safely assume nobody is physically tampering with your motherboard and you're using a variant of GRUB that fully implements secure boot, ESP access gives your attacker nothing. They can't change anything there without breaking the system.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7n92ip/linux_boot_pa...
Separating these children from their parents is a much greater existential threat to our values and way of life.
Sounds like you have a short position on the stock? Do you mind revealing if you have any position on TSLA?

Disclaimer: I hold TSLA stock.
My mom warned me to diet.
As a followup for whoever is interested, this unofficial port was usually called "HackQuake" and was compiled from source code that was apparently stolen from the web server of the developer "Crack dot Com". Unsurprisingly, it was not very well-optimized at all. It was leaked online far far before MacSoft's official Quake port was released (I want to say approaching a year?), so it was the only version of Quake that Mac gamers had for quite some time. I don't know much more than that about its history, though!

BTW, the solution to the rocket/grenade lag was to replace your rocket or grenade .mdl file with one that had no particles (it was particle rendering in particular that caused major slowdown).

Some obscure 90's Mac gaming history for you! ;)
Improving Airflow UI Security
> There should be a general addiction disorder

Absolutely ridiculous. The entire point of identifying a disorder and defining the mechanisms for diagnosis is so that we can create treatment plans to help people overcome these issues. You don't treat gaming addiction the same way you would heroine, alcohol, or gambling.
> If you are in the NYC area for example, the GPS just really struggles between all the buildings.

What phone are you using?

In a decade of living in Manhattan, I've never had any issue like this. The location services on my phone (Pixel 2 XL) and every Android phone I've ever used have been spot on.
So there are nationalists like everywhere in the world. Is that really an issue? Is this even remotely plausible. I mean Macedonia occupying parts of Greece? Doesn't that sound silly to you? Greece is NATO member which Macedonia is trying to join while being blocked by Greece. Do you think Macedonia will go to war with NATO? Come on, this problem was used by corrupted politicians on both sides as an excuse for bad governing. Oh it is hard to deal with the real issues so lets fight over irrational problems.

And no, large part of the population does not share those views. The reason is simple, those views are unrealistic and have no place in today's Europe.
It's not the fact of calling shenanigans; it's the vehemence with which it's being done.

There's an inflection point beyond which "[he] doth protest too much, methinks" becomes at least as parsimonious an explanation, if not moreso.

EDIT: Not to say that's happening here, specifically, but ... gestures around there's definitely some emotionally-driven reaction to this idea, amongst (and probably also behind) some of the criticism.
> You aren't good enough to land a job in one of the cool companies you admire.

This item is a key to your whole depression cycle IMO. And this is exactly where you are mistaken. There's a great chance that cool companies you admire do not deserve admiration; you will see it as soon as you get there, and will become even more depressed. Please remove this item from your system of axioms, and you will feel better already. There's nothing meaningful about programming job, period. But it's (in most cases) something you can tolerate. Don't overwork, convince yourself that your salary is quite decent for the effort, and suddenly - you have time left for cooking, family, friends, house cleaning, improving your skills. Please tell me why this is not a good plan (Full disclosure: I decided to stick to the same plan years ago, and think it was a really good idea :)
I learned my lesson after Nintendo went berzerk and requested takedowns for gameplay videos and walkthroughs

Going after pirates and such I can sort of understand, but people enjoying your product (and obviously helping to promote it)? WTF.

It reminds me of the complete opposite of this old meme: http://lurkmore.so/images/9/94/360_Kid.jpg
I still miss Front Page Sports Football from the 90s. While we owned a couple of different versions, the early one that had the most play time for us was completely unlicensed, so we made up names for all of the teams. It was a really nice balance of sim, play designer, and arcade football. My brother and I each had a team and played through multiple seasons. If memory serves, I tanked the end of one season to ensure the #1 overall pick in the next draft. Unfortunately, with our setup only one person could play at a time so we had to sim any games our teams played each other (including a championship game or two).
[Disclosure - I'm a Pulumi employee]

There is a top-level CLI verb called `refresh` that explicitly checks Pulumi's idea of the state of the world against the actual state of the world. If there's a diff, Pulumi reconciles the diff by updating its own state. `pulumi update` does not do this by default, but you can run `pulumi refresh` at any time to verify that your state has not drifted from reality.
Not so. You have to understand how your enemy thinks. And trump thinks just like Francisco Pizarro, or napoleon, or Julius Caesar, or Putin. He sees the world in terms of power, domination, control. It's right there in every phrase he speaks. I think the big disconnect is that people don't really notice it because they've never considered that that's not the only way to see the world.
If you don't like how a service handles your data, don't use it. No need to legislate your wishes across the board for the rest of us.
I've found that when you're working along to a tutorial etc (and are covered in oil), a forum post that can be left on a certain diagram/image is far more convenient than youtube videos.
I suggest starting at the beginning, Genesis chapter 1, and really dig into just that 1 chapter for a while and try to figure out what it's really about. Remember that it was written to a different culture, a different time, in a different language, and not at all for the purposes that a lot of modern readers want.
Thanks for the lib - have bookmarked it for a project I have in mind. Just wondering, where do you actually get the default currency formats from? Do you update your definitions if new currencies are launched etc?
I think Square has a huge incentive for cryptocurrencies to catch on because almost all their payments and hardware incur credit card fees, licensing fees etc. Not to mention complex and outdated settling mechanisms.
Stress is a hell of a motivator.
> The Article stipulates that platforms should “prevent the availability” of protected works, suggesting these ISSPs will need to adopt technology that can recognise and filter work created by someone other than the person uploading it.

But there is no requirement that at the same time protects fair use. To remove content just in case has no negative consequences.

> Article 13 is “incompatible with the guarantee of fundamental rights and freedoms and the obligation to strike a fair balance between all rights and freedoms involved”

This looks like a one-sided law. It takes into account "authors rights", you can read it as big media conglomerates financial interests, over any other consideration.

This is an example of a law that puts some companies profit over any social consideration and will impact EU socially and economically in a negative way.
It's open-source so... just fork it.

(I know you're not a developer, but this is a perfect use-case for forking and continuing.)
Google and Apple do some tricks based on WiFi to fix GPS in dense urban areas. Raw gps is basically unusable in these areas.
In a sane world, all the worlds standing armies would be disbanded completely, leaving only local police forces, coast guards and the like. I don't see that happening during our lifetimes but that's the goal we need to keep in mind.
Musk claims employee sabotage at Tesla in memo
Not necessarily, depending where you are geographically and what counts as taxable event.
Also it's not a lot of trades for a year, after all, so not a lot in commissions either.
> Is it really the tool that's unethical

Amazon runs the tool on AWS servers they control, so they can (and should) be responsible for having policies that forbid its unethical use.

Here is AWS's Acceptable Use Policy: https://aws.amazon.com/aup/

I don't see anything there about ethics.
>But you're still a shill either way

Eh. Everyone has a job, and everyone has an opinion. The difference between an honest "influencer" and you posting a comment here talking about a product/service you like is that the influencer is getting paid for their honest opinion while you're doing it for free. I don't see that as a bad thing personally.

As for dishonest influencers who shill for products they don't like... well, probably half the people on this forum work for an advertising company. It's literally the same thing. Me telling my Instagram followers to buy a product isn't any different from Google showing you an AdWords ad for the same thing.

Being a sellout is only a pejorative to hippies and artists. To anyone else, it's called having a job.
That's a pretty lay way of gauging responses, a neurotic will respond to allegations as if they were actually guilty, regardless of verity
This is highly subjective. Different people like different things.
I wonder if Jennifer Lawrence can get her voice as ridiculously deep as Elizabeth Holmes.
There's $10B in TSLA short positions, when the numbers get this big its not unthinkable.
We need to figure out if he was acting alone or with others at Tesla and if he was working with any outside organizations.

As you know, there are a long list of organizations that want Tesla to die. These include Wall Street short-sellers, who have already lost billions of dollars and stand to lose a lot more. Then there are the oil & gas companies, the wealthiest industry in the world — they don't love the idea of Tesla advancing the progress of solar power & electric cars. Don't want to blow your mind, but rumor has it that those companies are sometimes not super nice. Then there are the multitude of big gas/diesel car company competitors. If they're willing to cheat so much about emissions, maybe they're willing to cheat in other ways?

Wow, the level of paranoia he's going into is impressive.

And amazing how close his speech is moving (in form) to Trump's: it is all about "rumors", "alleged", "witch hunt", "unfair"...
If people were being abrasive to her then it would have been worth mentioning in the article. Instead she said that she felt like some people were being aggressive if they didn't seem interested in helping her.
Yes, we update these based on the CLDR by Unicode (more info available here: http://cldr.unicode.org/). They can be a little slow to update recent currency changes, so we will often add in more recent changes if we are made aware of them (usually someone will just open an issue on github)
What’s happening is that there is no central database of all US citizens, but there is information on every lawful immigrant.

I think you’re trying to say: “they have no qualms deporting x, and x has a stronger claim to being here than y, so clearly they’d have no qualms deporting y”.

The reality is completely different. If you’re a lawful immigrant, they have your fingerprints, photograph, travel history, address, and a whole lot of other information already, and you can use that to prove your identity. Of course, you may then be subject to a fine for not carrying your documents, as all aliens are required to pursuant to INA 264(e) and other provisions.
That game had _the best_ weapon play ever. I truly feel it never got the recognition it deserved. Unfortunately it came out in close proximity to Rune, which had a much more arcadey feel, and, I think, may have stolen much of the audience.
I completely agree -- wouldn't you rather help law enforcement and our military protect our well-being?
oh gee, i just LOVE websites that have about 300 pixels of readable space.

get rid of the huge fixed headers and fixed footers garbage. PLEASE. fuck this stupid trend.
Blogspam.

Source is https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/elon-musk-email-employee-con...
The problem with the analogy is that for a learning algorithm, there are clear definitions of the model complexity as it relates directly to the outcome being optimized. YAGNI applied to a model is a penalty term for parameters or various methods of regularization.

But when the “goal” of the system is just “arbitrary short term desires of management” you can easily point out the problems, but there is no agreement on what constraints you can use to trade-off against it.

Especially for extensibility, where you can get carried away easily with making a system extensible for future changes, many of which turn out to be wasted effort because you did not end up needing that flexibility anyway, and everything changed after Q2 earnings were announced, etc.

In those cases, it can actually be more effective engineering to “overfit” to just what the management wants right now, and just accept that you have to pay the pain of hacking extensibility in on a case by case basis. This definitely reduces wasted effort from a YAGNI point of view.

The closest thing I could think of to the same idea of “regularizing” software complexity would be Netflix’s ChaosMonkey [0], which is basically like Dropout [1] but for deployed service networks instead of neural networks.

Extending this idea to actual software would be quite cool. Something like the QuickCheck library for Haskell, but which somehow randomly samples extensibility needs and penalizes some notion of how hard the code would be to extend to that case. Not even sure how it would work...

[0]: < https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey >

[1]: < https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropout_(neural_networks) >
> Governments are just people, led by politicians

... empowered to do things we lock up, tase, beat, sick dogs on, and/or kill other people for doing. Kind of an important distinction to make.

If you have reason to think exhorting your peer-proles to 'pick qualified and capable people' will lead to better outcomes now than it has in the past, certainly, please continue. Some of us, however, don't see that happening and prefer to explore other approaches, even if you happen to find our pessimism 'silly'.
I was just talking about this with a friend the other day. We both agreed that to date, it was the most fun either of us have had with a computer football game. Watching your fictional players develop,get hurt etc added an rpg-like element that was addictive. I am surprised and disappointed no one has made a comparable modern version.
> Even putting aside that the computer tech part of the business isn't their core competency, custom hardware is hard.

Hmmm. Good point. (Maybe I scared OP away, heh.)

> Is there an example of any large company, other than Google, who has mastered this?

Well, I certainly don't know. I've heard Cloudflare gets their systems made, for some definition of "from scratch", by Quanta. Presumably there's a bit of a decision-making process in there, and presumably Quanta handles everything related to the "why is the devkit sample broken again #51383" side of things and ships a more or less finished product (maybe even with finished enclosures). My reference point for this knowledge is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA-gNoxSLCE&t=19m31s (2015).

Regarding SAS, maybe past a certain ordering quantity (or anything similar that would reveal a massive operation) the market would expect certain behavior like requesting value-adds, ordering with only one supplier, or other things that would generate lock-in. I of course have absolutely no idea [if this sort of thinking is reasonable].

Your points about commodity at scale sound quite reasonable. (You clearly have more experience than I do, which is kind of zero, heh.)

As for suspicion about summaries and conclusions, well, (tangential example) the radial graph on https://about.gitlab.com/ (the one from Forrester) doesn't show GitHub :D

Yeah, building own hardware is sadly still within the realm of over-specialization at this point. I guess this is because 4+-layer PCB printing is still eye-watering so the amount of cheap iteration that can be done is restricted. There are probably similar cost-benefit disparities as well.

I guess, for the sake of discussion, then... what's the best vector into the middle of "commodity solutions" that scale massively (which this operation sounds like it needs a bit of)? I mean in terms of rough vendor selection etc, what to look for, etc. Admittedly this question is based on my own complete naivete and OP probably has at least some info on this sort of thing available or accessible.
This whole thing with trying to place a medical diagnosis on behaviors is too much. This is really no better than the old Greek humors theory where if you were sad, you had an imbalance of melancholy.

There are a bunch of human behaviors, many of which are destructive, for which we don't really have insight into the underlying bio-physical explanation. Without that understanding, we should not be turning them into medical diagnoses.
I don't think it's meant to be run on a phone. It uses 580 MB of RAM in a Chrome tab and quite a lot of CPU when rotating, zooming or moving around. I just tried it and on this Linux laptop, in Chrome, on an Intel iGPU, it performed well enough.

What it is, is the star map for the PC game Star Citizen. This will be in game eventually.

The Star Citizen web site also does some neat ship models and wireframes using WebGL.
> A bad parent could easily make a child fit all the criteria given by just being a bad parent.

That's just as true of lots of diagnoses of physical and mental conditions and injuries. (bone fractures and PTSD are obvious examples.) The fact that bad parenting can cause a condition doesn't invalidate the diagnosis of the condition.

> Something like this should not exist in the ICD. There should be a general addiction disorder that puts forth general criteria for showing that a person has an addiction for something.

The inherent differences between different subjects of addiction require some source specific variation, but various addictive disorders in either the ICD or the DSM do have generally similar criteria.

> This just looks like a scapegoat to me.

A scapegoat for what?
It will be interesting to see how reproducible this is. Meditation can contribute to clarity of thought. If the task is an experiment or work that helps people and pays or something a child needs may effectively all be different cases.
According to the email from the article, the person has admitted to it and claimed it was due to promotional reasons.

"The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad. His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not promoting him was definitely the right move."
The shock waves of this deal basically killed all competition in sport video games. When I was a kid there were usually 3 or 4 games in each of the big pro sports. Today there is really only one viable franchise per sport (even though I believe all the exclusive licenses have since expired). The market for these games is bigger than ever with EA bringing in almost $1 billion per year from their Madden and FIFA franchises. However the cost of licensing and the threat of another exclusivity bidding war means the barrier to entry and long term risk of creating a new franchise is sadly too high to get any serious competition.
Isn't it basically analogous to say sex addiction or porn addiction wrt the underlying psychology?
Which is hilarious. Because a single game of American Football is like 3 hours, and its "fine" to watch every game throughout a season, often multiple times a week.

Ehhh... no thanks. I'll stick to my games. Nothing against Football or sports, but DAMN those things are huge timesinks I don't personally want to be a part of. I generally just spend a few minutes reading the scores / major plays so that I can continue to have conversations with my coworkers (I do see the importance of smalltalk and being able to keep up socially, so that's the level I try to stay at with sports).

Spoiler alert: pretty much every hobby eats up a lot of time. I'm not convinced any particular hobby is better or worse for you, aside from health-mandated fundamentals (ie: a bit of exercise and time in the sun).
More things to aspire to with tentative hopefulness! :D

(Said as someone whose hand-eye coordination could do with some serious tuning)
Sounds like taking the bus. :) There is a wait and a walk to get to the ride.
> humans commit hundreds of leaps of faith of various severity on the roads daily

And this is necessary (to some degree, probably not as far as we take it though) in order to drive a car in a practical manner. Instead of thinking about it as "safe" vs. "unsafe", it's more helpful to think about driving as trying to limit your risk to whatever you consider an acceptable level, based on your model of the world.

From least to most risky, some potential models are:

* Assume nothing beyond the basic laws of physics

* Assume nothing outside your visual range is breaking any road rules

* Assume the road outside your visual range is as you last saw it (no blockages / hazards etc.)

* Assume other vehicles around you will mostly follow the road rules (basically what Waymo does, afaik)

* Assume other vehicles around you are alert and have a sense of self-preservation (the normal human driving behaviour you describe)

* Bomb through traffic YOLO style

The other issue, especially for emergency braking, is that whether or not something is a collision hazard or not is dependent on velocity, not just speed. Until emergency braking systems can take control of steering as well as braking there will always be false positives and negatives no matter how good we make the system's perception.
Close to $14.5B now:

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/short-interest
Southern Poverty Law Center finally pays for its smears
We bought a house with a porch and eat dinner out there whenever possible. We probably know about half of the people on our block.

Also, when you have kids it’s easier to bond over common ground with the kids. Otherwise I found myself in awkward conversations yakking about work.
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