skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue is not only the .NET spin loop implementation, but also that .NET in general is heavy on shared memory concurrency and required locking.

Examples: All the Concurrency primitives like Task<T> are thread-safe by default, and that has some associated cost. Other runtimes like javascript or other singlethreaded event loops don't have to pay for that cost, and might still be able to scale horizontally. Also the IO subsystem on .NET requires a lot of synchronization: Most IO callbacks (e.g. for sockets) will be made from an arbitrary Threadpool thread, which requires synchronization or marshaling to get back to another context. Again that will be cheaper on a runtime where the whole event sources and consumers are using the same thread.

I certainly can't quantify it in numbers, but I guess .NET has some of the highest requirements regarding synchronization performance. At least the standard libs, there are obviously some efforts underway to improve that situation.
No one did that here. There was no mention of OO. There was an allusion to how typed FP relies on extremely generic programming, which is a notable difference from many other programming approaches.
He might sound Trumpish, he might be paranoid, but it does sound like he has something more concrete in terms of an actual event that triggered this email than typical Trumpism.
Yes, I agree. In the late 70s, it was thought there would be a period of global cooling. Time and Newsweek ran cover stories on the next coming ice age.

Climate change is real, but we have to be more careful about politicizing and forecasting what will happen. The 'imminent danger!' storyline has been played out since the turn of the century (nearly 20 years now) with many failed famous predictions.

To be taken seriously (and it should be) we must be conservative and accurate in prognostications. Further exaggeration is only doing harm.
Another reason to backup HD Youtube videos is that they'll "demote" them to SD if they don't get enough views.
Developing an offensive weapon is different than working on domestic surveillance technology.

Personally, I prefer a world where China has big-brother technology that the US does not.
You know Uber builds it's own mapping services right? And in fact, the guy who helped lead those efforts is the guy responsible for creating Google Earth which later formed the basis for Google's entire mapping efforts (which he led).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_McClendon

He's a great guy by the way, in addition to being super smart.

Your others points are not well thought through at all - I urge you to spend some time really thinking deeply about them if this is a topic you care about.

Every company drives around on roads they don't pay for. Roads are a benefit to society - part of the reason we value them is because they enable commerce. Do you complain that GrubHub doesn't use their own roads when they deliver your food? Do you complain that Pizza Hut doesn't own it's own cars when their delivery drivers bring you pizza? Does United help pay for the airports that enable them to exist?

Look, the fact of the matter is that consumers LOVE ride sharing services. They're fast, they're cheap, they're clean, they're safe, and the customer support is incredible. Ride sharing today is simply 10x better than any alternative in most cities. If you're going to argue for cabs being superior, then you either do not live in America or you've never taken a cab before. Not only that, but many drivers love ride-sharing too. Whole classes of people that couldn't find work before can now easily find work with Uber or Lyft (including the deaf, mute, retired, students etc). They can work when they want to, as much as they want to (or as little) and set their own schedule. This is simply not possible with any other low-wage work.

Having said all of this, I don't mean to imply that we should absolve Uber of responsibility for their business practices or their culture problems. We should absolutely push them, and the industry to be better. But this isn't just about Uber. This is about ride-sharing in general, which completely changed what transportation in cities means. It is absolutely innovative in every sense of the word.
Uber Commute existed in the past, but I’m not sure what happened to it.
Non-teen usage might be high, but teen usage is __much__ higher, and there are more teens. You just don't see them. Where as under-employed adults will naturally leave the house; because then can.
Based on excerpts from the book almost nothing they had actually functioned in a production type environment. Even their miniaturization created new issues that they couldn't resolve.
Skylar vs. Lizzy catfight
> "Often the newsfeed's choices of content felt personally insulting"

That sentence particularly resonated with me. I recently quit Quora, and it perfectly describes my recent experience there.
Microsoft employees criticize ICE contract amid recent reports
Looks like he pushed a change to remove the copyright notice: https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution/commit/bb01c6f084b8...
> Wow, the level of paranoia he's going into is impressive.

Exactly. It is surprising people pointing out - "Well, so many shorts etc so it's plausible". This kind of reasoning misses the bigger point - we need our leaders, political and otherwise, to refrain from actively pumping out conspiracy theories. If there is proof of malicious behavior present it instead of rumor mongering.

But given Musk's(Tesla) constant need to shift blame - car crash, negative news (Pravado), deflecting questions on financial situation of Tesla and now this, it is not looking good for Tesla.

I hope that next time there is a problem Musk stops at "we are investigating if this is a sabotage" instead of fueling the "it's Wall Street shorts" conspiracy.
Thanks for writing. My immediate reaction on reading the story was “isn’t this just E911?”.

It’s a tangent, but I’ve been trying to find the answer to this question for a while, and it seems that you are one of the few people with the expertise to answer it:

Would an MNVO be able to offer a meaningfully different privacy policy to the carrier it is buying wholesale from?

The context is the recent stories of telcos being caught selling location data to cops via AGPS requests for-sale, outside of the E911 system. If, say T-Mobile sold AGPS requests on telephone numbers via an API, could an MNVO on the T-Mobile network protect its customers? Is there a particular part of infrastructure which an MNVO would need to control to ensure this?
Last season should have been a good one for me-- I'm a Vikings fan.

But since the NFL became embroiled in politics, I quit watching-- and found I was fine without it. I look forward to more free time again this year.

I see where soccer (football to a lot of the world) is picking up a little more interest in the US. Maybe that'll be a better way to get my sporting fix.
Girl forced to sit 13 hours to finish her Brussels sprouts
Red Blog Games: Learn math and computer science topics while playing a game
A New Accent Is Developing in Southwest Kansas
> There will always be a small handful of engineers that can push the button to move code into PROD or even change code in PROD live.

There is really no reason for this to be the case. Certainly all code that actually runs on the car can be required to go through review and be verifiably built, even if server code standards are more lax.
Thanks for the info. Looks like I will test it out!
This is exactly what happens with football (US soccer).

FIFA has most of the licences while PES doesn't. PES is set up to be customised.

Football fans then fight about it online.

There is someone on Metacritic who pops up as practically the first review of FIFA every year and gives it 1 and says how terrible it is.
> At border crossings, I can see this could be very reasonable.

Note that it's also least necessary at border crossings. As a non-US citizen I'm already required to give my fingerprints and retinal scan to border control agents.

Like you say it's the "walking down the street" problem - for me at least perhaps more accurately described as the "done at many orders of magnitude more scale, in circumstances where you have no option to opt out". If I don't like border control practices, I have the option of not crossing a border (at whatever cost to me that implies, but I have _some_ agency there). When this is deployed on streets, shopping centers, trainstations, and other similar places - I've lost any agency in being able to choose not to be involved/identified.

(Note too, that the USA defines "border areas" where I'm legally able to be stopped and fingerprinted/retina scanned as "anywhere within 100 miles of a border" which includes pretty much all of California and New York, and anywhere within 100 miles of each coast or the north/south borders.)
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True. But following is not engagement. If you average X likes per hour on say IG and your teen doppelganger also is X p/h but they're on IG 5 or 6 times as much as you. Well, I think you can see the difference.
What I hope is that proper forensics was done so that this can be verified in some way by a third party.

I'll let people more familiar with security auditing and forensics weigh in on exactly how this should be done.
Why Women Don't Code?
I assumed Computer Vision.
I wish more people talked about this
And their being accountable to shareholders is the avenue of accountability these groups are trying to use. Might not work, but surely it's worth a try?
>"What we do know is outside some niches (like DSPs, where VLIW reigns king)"

Interesting, why is VLIW is so predominant in DPS chips?
Firefox makers working on voice-controlled web browser called Scout
So should our cynicism with respect to corporate ethics be aimed at Tesla only? Or do other corporations sometimes do bad/unethical/paranoid/greedy things too? I suppose its just Tesla.
You're conflating two issues here. The company is not responsible for the decisions of its employees relating to promotions. It is the employee that chooses to do something irrational for whatever reason. I agree that a company should reflect on any given incident to determine whether there internal factors that may have contributed to its outcome, however ensuring the personal lives of employees are in tip-top shape is not something a company should ever be responsible for.
Yeah pretty much the same here. It's funny when you start listening to actions and incentives instead of words. You realize its all doublespeak.
ISP's couldn't function if they had to check all content, and they shouldn't be able to if SSL works. Cloud service hosts would have to know something about how the content is going to be used. It's legal to back up my MP3 collection in the cloud, it's just not legal to share it. Even if they make sure I can't link directly to it, I could write some code to fetch it with my credentials and serve the bits through a web app I don't even host with them. And that's assuming the content isn't encrypted before uploading it to the host, preventing them from analyzing it.
Nobody is entitled to a promotion. One is promoted based on merit. And the promotee is not the judge of merit. If someone commits suicide because they didn't get a promotion then I'd argue that person is likely to unstable to be working.
A lot of the subantarctic islands have similar weather to the Faroe Islands in the North Sea.

However, the Polynesians were not cold weather people, and the subantarctic islands are extremely remote.

It was hard enough as it was for the Polynesians to settle New Zealand, I can't imagine them settling any further south.
> If Uber had to shell out to fix the streets that they use, I bet it wouldn't be so cheap.

Streets are public infrastructure and are paid for by taxes, which Uber and all other companies that do business using roads presumably pay, just like everyone else. So, unless you have a specific reason to believe otherwise, it is fair to assume that yes, Uber is paying for the streets that they use.

If streets are not being adequately paid for, then that's a failure of the government that's responsible for them, not the businesses that are using them (streets are there to be used).
i thought we already solved that; it's called journalism

just read the economist or NYT or whatever you like and stfu instead of thinking you're going to somehow to a better job gathering and exploring information than that
Hey downvoters: OP made an unsubstantiated claim about correlation of stock markets and crypto markets. There is no reason to believe this to be true. Statements about 24/7 access to crypto markets is a fact. Statements about stock exchanges being limited to business hours are facts. What gives?
I bet the next developer that makes a sports game with a Fire-Emblem spin (character relationship elements, individual personalities) will make a solid amount of money.
It wasn’t just those two. The book mentions Daniel Young and others.
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Every version of this story posted has been flagged - whats the point?? Why is this one flagged, but has the most upvotes? If you're gonna flag every post of a story, nobody is going to see it...
Which many people have argued effectively. Izabella Kaminska has written the most interesting articles on that topic in my opinion.
Sure, but the question is how much more often they can make this happen given a 10 minute wait.
You actually have food labeling rules? /s

Actually, looks like you'll get some - by 2021:

https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocument...
>You know Uber builds it's own mapping services right? And in fact, the guy who helped lead those efforts is the guy responsible for creating Google Earth which later formed the basis for Google's entire mapping efforts (which he led).

Yeah, but when I get into a car it's not Uber Maps on the phone, it's Google Maps. So I'm not very concerned about a guy who worked at Uber for less than two years.

>He's a great guy by the way, in addition to being super smart.

I'm sure he is, which is why he got the hell out of there.

>Do you complain that GrubHub doesn't use their own roads when they deliver your food?

Yes, I would like for them to pay their fair share in road taxes.

>Do you complain that Pizza Hut doesn't own it's own cars when their delivery drivers bring you pizza?

...yes, but now we're being redundant.

>Does United help pay for the airports that enable them to exist?

Now this is just ignorant. Yes, large airports charge millions in landing fees. Train companies pay absolutely egregious property tax rates. It's just cars and trucks that get away with paying 18.4 cents per gallon. Oh, and me who has to pay taxes to fix the roads here while congestion and air pollution here in Chicago have absolutely skyrocketed.

>which completely changed what transportation in cities means.

Uber's success is basically because they were able to push all of the legacy costs of public transit onto taxpayers and claiming that they're more efficient. It's VC-funded bus routes but using a phone. DISRUPTION.
I'd like to do that. But every time there is a story about something I really do know about, it is so wrong as to be highly misleading.
"...operational infrastructure and excellence it takes to scale a marketplace like Uber's to 4 billion rides..."

Nope!
In the grand scheme of things, building an app, and some backend software while maintaining bunch of servers doesn't compare to building:

[1]

- 46 BART stations: 17 surface, 14 elevated and 15 subway stations.

- 669 revenue vehicles

- 112 miles of railway track

- a police force with 206 legally sworn-in law enforcement officers and 90 other staff members

- a wireless network that supplies cell phone service to riders underground

BART isn't even that good - I live in Sydney and we are always complaining about our double-decker dead-silent very clean commuter and city rail. Buzzfeed [2] even thinks our train system is from the future!

I love software - I want to make a career out of it, but we can't forget "real" engineering fields and the effort that goes into them.

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/04/us/san-francisco-bay-area...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/8rulvn/mfw_american...
There are people that spend most of their available hours staring at screens of graphs while trading various tokens in order to achieve the highest score... but of course we call them professionals not addicts.
I'm guessing here, but if you claim that work Y infringes your copyright of X. If it turns out to be false you lose copyright of X.
>Uber is paying for the streets that they use.

Uber doesn't pay a cent in gas taxes (they're not employees, they're partners, right?), and since they've never made money before, they don't pay a cent in taxes either.
They've already released "a game". The ultimate failure will come in the form an announcement: it's done! tadaaa! click here to purchase!

But the SC as imagined by the 1000th "what money is still coming in? promise something! promise more!" new stretch goal, that will never be released.
How Julia Enthoven Built a $9k/Month Meme and Video Editing App
Personally speaking I’ve been a fan of Musk’s endeavors simply because they tend to actually move where other options creep along painstakingly slowly, get stalled, or are canned entirely.

Focusing on the loop stuff specifically, even if it’s not the optimal transport solution it’s better than the alternative “better” solution that will be in a state of decay by the time it’s finished or never see the light of day at all. Musk doesn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good and I think that’s important in an age where it’s more normal for major infrastructure projects to collapse on themselves or otherwise get gummed up indefinitely than it is for them to succeed.

I don’t endorse his behavior on Twitter lately but I do feel that the efforts of his companies have merit.
The fact Musk still has any credibility at all given his penchant for making wild claims that inevitably fall flat is baffling to me. How many more spurious predictions and imaginary milestones does he need to pump out before people recognise him for the huckster monorail salesman that he is?
There are some strong corrections that need to be made to your math.

1. Only a subset of uploaded videos need to be checked by humans, those that were flagged by the automated system.

2. Only a subset of the runtime of each flagged video needs to be checked. In other words, if a human decides within 12 seconds of a video that it is infringing, there is no reason to check the remaining portion of the video.
It seems far more likely that the controls were lax than that the saboteur was one of those privileged few. It's not a naive comment.
> operates a multi-jurisdictional police force.

operates a joke of a police force.
If more people read this and comment (one way or another), we might get a more usable desktop on Linux.

I’m going back to Linux after years on the Mac and windows, and it’s killing me. Finding anything is a pain in the butt, hence me posting this.
Musk: Tesla hit by 'damaging sabotage' by employee
The performance issues were mostly Apple's fault. The 6100/60 had a half speed bus compared to the full speed bus on most PCs. The early versions of MacOS for the PPC were partially still emulated.
This AI program could beat you in an argument
I edited that before I saw that you responded. I said that operating military spacecraft is a grandiose description of what their mission is. It makes it sound like they have a fleet of spaceships fighting other enemy spaceships.

I never said it doesn't fit what they would do. I said it's not what they would do.
I also never said operating one spacecraft wasn't relevant.

I said that operating spacecraft is a grandiose and downright pretentious way to describe the mission of an agency with one remote controlled, scaled down space shuttle, testbed laboratory and some GPS satellites. And it is.
My read of the email gave me the impression that the person had essentially confessed to doing the deed. So "making the accusation stick" should not be an issue right?
Tesla was founded before Facebook, and I'd argue that Facebook would fall into the same category as Google or Microsoft on this question.
I never suspected the balkanization of the internet would occur, particularly with such a coordinated effort across nations.
The code in question is for their manufacturing systems, not the cars.

Not that that's necessarily better... Manufacturing equipment's at about the same danger tier as cars.
It would be interesting to know whether there's any dissent in other big players besides Google and Microsoft. Is anything going on in Amazon?
What if the city does not have the money?
The one that is falsely being infringed upon.
Lets be honest Facebook is just poorly optimized. Nothing has actually changed since the 90s, it's shitty ads poorly targeted.
Singapore's public transit system is run as a for profit (two competing companies, in fact), and it's one of the best and cheapest in the world.
Yes, and anyone looking for help in managing their lives will get slapped with any such term and made to feel like deviants.

I've been "diagnosed" with all sorts of things. ADHD, ODD (obsessive defiance disorder), asperger's (ASD 1), GAD (generalized anxiety disorder), and I'm sure I qualify for others. The thing is, there was always this search like that to look for what was the ultimate cause for my distress. And then, after all that searching, nothing came of it because I grew as a person. And I think there's a small thing there, which is that if you have a diagnosis, you have an excuse, and oh, you'll have loads of friends with similar diagnoses who will encourage you to whine and wallow in it and make excuses, and there will even be competition as to who is the worse for it.

I think the system is very wrong.
Uber is nuts for letting drivers use their own maps app.
There's growing number of investors who are looking also at the non-financial side of business (social responsibility, environmental issues etc). Companies who ignore these things exclude themselves from the portfolios of these investors.

Some banks and investors are saying the don't want to be involved with certain types of legitimate activities. Here's one example: "Deutsche Bank avoids entering into, or continuing, any kind of business relationship with entities with clear, direct links to the following types of Controversial Weapons business [...]" [1]

I'm not saying face recognition is same thing as antipersonnel mines, but things can change over the years, especially under pressure from public.

[1] https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/2018/deutsche-bank-upgrades...
> This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames

If they found a way to use more than one username they may very well have run it through the review process and approved it themselves
What do most EU citizens have as far as upload bandwidth and the cost for that?
What has that got to do with anything? He got input from a range of sources including claimed structural engineers and correctly identified the point of failure during postensioning.
For a huckster he’s doing a damn good job of fake shipping fake cars to fake customers who fake drive them in fake public. Excellent scam, would invest again.
Better than none, and using the public's resources.
I think he was being sarcastic...
> the hundreds of $1000 spent just defending his short position through hiring former Herbalife people, funding legal campaigns, funding support groups

You are describing entirely legal actions. Sabotage and (this form of) industrial espionage are very much illegal. There's quite a difference there.

> a few $100k is pocket change for these guys

But a few billion dollars of market cap and a few years of jail time are the price of being found guilty of what Musk is insinuating.

That's not a small leap.