skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of spending is so foreign to me.

At $250,000 per year per person, that supports 100 people for four years.

I… suppose that's not completely insane?
I’ve had plenty of experiences comparing google maps and Apple maps in turn by turn directions, and found the Apple version always took a detour to get to the same direction. This, combined with further antecdotal experiences like friends getting lost with their Apple map app open leads me to steer far away from Apple maps (atleast for walking)
Github Gentoo organization hacked
Yes, and the fragment makes no more sense in context. The full story is, I read, notable for style, in some way that fails to be very current; I'm sure that it was a big change from Cronkite. However, it meanders more slowly than a lazy river, and seems to have been padded by anecdote to disguise the author's failure to actually interview Sinatra. But, I could be mistaken, so I may as well ask about why other people consider this significant.

I very much appreciate your response, and I'm sure I hope my reasons for asking a question may meet with your approval.
I like that.

So many times I've looked at a peer's code and had a hard time reconciling what the comments and wiki articles said with what their code was attempting to do.

This mindset is probably a godsend to QA teams.
ICML 2018 Announces Best Paper Awards
> a pretty tall order

. . .
re: #4, He states 232 out of 1000 in this article, and claims the 'outright lie' was that the mayor was letting people go.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/former-ice-spokesman-sp...
It's not just the EDA industry, it's almost all of hardware including most of the embedded software people. Yeah, I get it - I too am sometimes stuck using some old proprietary compiler with a C standard older than some of the people I work with - but come on. On my last job I used a Qualcomm radio and they ended up giving me close to a thousand zip files of driver revisions going back a decade because their build process kept screwing up the output source code. All it took was running an open source static analysis tool and 200 man-hours of junior developer time to fix the root causes of 90% of their bugs - for a product that has made billions of dollars (and I'm not talking about the GSM/4G chips with crazy standards that require tons of real R&D).

You read that right. Their build system outputs source code, generated from another C code base, using macros to feature gate bug fixes depending on who the customer is. The account managers would sent a list of bugs that a given client had experienced and the backoffice engineers would make a build that fixed only those bugs.

Forget about collaboration and sharing. They haven't even figured out the basic business processes that many software engineers take for granted.
One thing that bugs me about ecigarettes is that the flavoring chemicals are totally untested. Vegetable glycerin is essentially harmless and is even used in asthma inhalers, and nicotine is way less harmful as well. However it's already been shown that certain flavoring agents like a particular butter flavoring are harmful (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/e-cigaret...). I know a couple "juice" makers and they basically just throw in random flavoring chemicals that are meant to be ingested.

It's possible to get unflavored e-cigarette juice, and when I was using an e-cigarette (i switched to gum) i tried to get it as often as I could. But it's really uncommon, most shops don't even have one, and the one i went to was often sold out.
So, disclose it when asked a relevant question, but get a name change anyway. It might be the media directly tied to you that companies are avoiding as much as your past: inevitably, your name will be attached to the company publicly (most likely) and they may not want that kind of 2-step search connection.

I get the ethical concern about hiding something that would be a deal breaker, so don't do that. But also don't create an unnecessary PR issue for a potential employer.
Bayesian Networks – An Introduction (2016)
The nice thing about using `=` instead of `gq` is that you can “set equalprg” to something smarter than the internal Vim formatter, such as `fmt` or `par`:

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#fmt-invocation

http://www.nicemice.net/par/

These formatters will do nice things like choose line breaks intelligently to reduce the raggedness of the right edge. I just tested `gqip` on a paragraph in a Markdown document here that was formatted with `fmt`: the `fmt` output put breaks in such that all but the last line was within one character of equal, whereas `gqip` had line lengths varying as much as 5 characters on a 72 character line length.

A quicker alternative to Shift-V, arrows, then `=` to reformat a paragraph with `fmt` is this:

:map <F2> !}fmt -w72<CR>

That works anywhere inside the paragraph like with your `gqip`, but it uses the smarter `fmt` paragraph formatter.

Select your keystroke to taste. I chose F2 so long ago that I forget why that was a good idea at the time.
That's one of the reasons for the broad array of plaintiffs. Maybe some of them don't have standing, but as long as one of them does, they can continue.
That’s as a % of GDP, and says more about the GDP than the military spending. The US is number 1 in total military spending many times over any other country in absolute terms.
You should definitely consult with a expert in this issue and do everything possible to minimize your taxes.
There are a lot of people who weren't smoking at all starting to vape as well. I would consider that a pretty big lose.
Anyone know of a good psychologist and/or neuropsychiatrist for adult ASD in the south or mid-peninsula Bay Area? In a really bad situation/state-of-mind rn... by bad, I mean yearning for rope and a bridge, or walking into traffic.
Yes, I do understand that we have an unsolved material science problem for the space elevator, but my question was more theoretical (hence the "assuming that") and boiled down to:

"doesn't the hypothetical space elevator break the tyranny of the rocket equation?" (which you did answer).
Yes it seems like that episode of Rotten covers this exact story?

At least from what I remember it was about a hive owner from Montana (?) who transported his bees to CA.
My impression is that nicotine is "essentially" harmless but caffeine is actually harmless, maybe even good for you (kind of like a glass of red wine a week).
It would be interesting to learn how many jobs could be replaced with this type of service.
The key part in what you said is "my area". There are a great many areas in which Apple Maps is fantastic - usually well-populated cities or surrounding areas in the US.

The reason to partner with OSM would be to cover the other 99% of landmass. It's very, very difficult to scale an operation like that otherwise.
> Not sure from your post whether or not you realize the age of woman does not matter.

It does matter. It makes it worse that they were still in formative years.

> I have to wonder if that sense of strangeness is also apparent in your face to face demeanor.

I think what's coming off as "strangeness" in my writing to a lot of people here, is that it seems like I'm treating what I did very casually, like it was just something that happened. But it's just that I'm so panicked over how we literally don't have money for next month's bills, and not sure where that's going to come from, that I really can't spend any energy on anything else. The guilt of what I did has weighed me down a lot and slowed me down, and I can't afford that, so I have to shut out everything else around me and just focus on solving this one gigantic problem right in front of me, of how to avoid my family becoming homeless and starved this summer because of my past actions. That's all I can think of.
Actually it might have been Hanselminutes. Do you know which episode?
Firefox with Tracking Protection (on by default in private windows I think) asks permission for reading canvas pixels.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967895
The first line of the article is: "Roughly 70 percent of all Chinese fireworks entering the United States come here under the control of a Chinese businessman who has used his influence to raise prices and block competitors, leaving many U.S. executives fearful of losing access to their most important Fourth of July inventories."

The word "monopoly" doesn't appear anywhere in the article. The article's claim is that Mr. Ding is anticompetitive, not that he operates a monopoly.
Ukraine is still alive after 4 years of war with Russia. Relax.
Then the Vatican would be topping the charts.
There's a huge amount of construction in Seattle right now. The streets around my office are constantly closing and opening on different days. Sometimes it is easier to just look at a map of the neighborhood and navigate from that. If Google wants the app to be used for navigation only they should have called it Google Navigation.

I like riding my motorcycle around and exploring the city. I may not have a specific destination in mind or want to take the most efficient route. being able to quickly pull up a map of my location mapped to signage in the real world is indispensable.

Naming streets is the entire point of a street map. It literally maps names to streets.
This was not the point of creating Maps at all. It was to be able to approach the negotiating table with Google over maps from a more favorable position. Google was making certain demands to add turn-by-turn directions to the original maps app that Apple didn’t want to concede to.
I love to throw my coins in the toilet and then shit all over them.
Cash also has very diffuse benefits. It is anonymous, private, untraceable, and not able to be stolen or compromised without physical access.
Great comparison

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/
Google Maps's Moat - Justin O'Beirne
The average SoCal american probably spends about 15 minutes outside temperature controlled environments on any given day.
Similar from last week "Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353854
Fully loaded (inclusive of benefits, payroll tax, etc.). That’s actually not a lot.
the two seem to have a form of magnetism.
I am not aware of any doctors that would recommend using methadone permanently and and it is only legally available to be prescribed for ongoing substitution therapy by federally certified abuse recovery centers. So my analogy still stands. No one should be actively campaigning to grow the methadone market the way that people are for e-cigarettes.
> If AMD open sourced all the design aspects of their chips, I would have to get a loan to build 100 million fab to have any practical manner to enjoy it?

Try $1 to 5 billion. We're talking about something that over half of all extant nation states wouldn't be able to pull off without devoting 10-50% of their annual GDP to the project.
Incompetent gov lifers vs profit driven capitalists

Guess who's gonna win?
The virtue signaling was unnecessary, tbh.
I don't buy it. Having Cadence and Synopsys involved it is like DARPA invites Mathworks to do an open-source version of Matlab.
> Naming streets is the entire point of a street map

No, it's not. Showing where streets go is important independent of naming; street maps exist for places with unnamed streets (and include the unnamed streets), which would not be the case if mapping names to streets (or vice versa) were the entire point.
> I don't see the flaw in that one. It does seem kind of extra to secure DNS. What's the argument in favor?

If ISPs control your DNS, then they can block domains they don't want you to reach or redirect unknown domains to their own ad pages like Comcast has in the past. If you use someone else's DNS, your ISP could still block network packets sent to certain IP addresses, but they wouldn't want to block all AWS IP addresses just to block one site on AWS.

> when Chinese CA's abuse their position they get blacklisted [in Chrome]

AFAIK, Chrome has very small market share in China. Most Chinese users use chimeric browsers that combine Chromium and IE's Trident engines. Many Chinese bank and government sites require NPAPI plugins for custom crypto, so the popular browsers can seamlessly switch a tab from Chromium to Trident for sites that are known to require plugins.
SpaceX’s BFR plans to overcome the propellant problem for getting to Mars by refueling in orbit. I am surprised the article didn't mention the refueling possibility. Maybe NASA didn't want to admit they are making a mistake putting all their cash into the SLS.

Also, the economic implications of the equation don't matter so much when you have a reusable rocket, and the BFR is supposed to be able to reuse both stages.
They know, they don’t care. It was hard enough to convince people, especially kids, that smoking was bad for you and that was with something that made you hack up yellow slugs, and stank. I would guess that convincing people that vaping nicotine is harmful decades before the harm is readily apparent, in ways that are not well studied will be essentially impossible.

Juul is just the perfect intersection of portable, concealable, and apparently consequence-free. Kids will use it, and I don’t see a way around it. Good luck to the poor little bastards.
As soon as they take the pager, I say go for it.
I just got through https://www.amazon.com/Specification-Example-Successful-Deli... which pitches a common structure (Given-When-Then) for describing behaviors and getting them out of your ticketing systems, which are not designed for knowledge explanation long-term, but are more for describing active work in short term.

BDD is almost a poisoned term at this point because it’s become associated with tooling and opinionated holistic processes. But if you think of Specification by Example as readmes with a Given-When-Then structuring, then you have a strategy (document before writing) combined with a language definition to assure your strategy is executed at the right level of detail. Which solves the entangled problem of what do I do first (document) with what level of detail (enough to describe all the input behaviors to whatever I’m working on)
Using the phrase “virtue signaling” seems to be a sort of “virtue signal”.

Does it make you uncomfortable that someone would make a decision from a place of values and ethics? Or that they’d discuss it?
That means 75% is an upper bound, right? It's only 75% if Google had the only other maps product, and even they have two popular ones (Maps and Waze) that are likely to be installed.
On the other hand, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window.
Novelist condemns female culture that revels in humiliating other sex (2001)
Ah, ... I see they've cut back on the education and civility budgets to accommodate for more military spending.
Why Porsche Crushing the Nürburgring Record Is Such a Big Deal
That's what the article is about, and what the film shows. Apparently there wasn't this kind of footage before.
I recently got double slammed with 2 graph questions during an interview after having navigated for years without getting a graph question. It's wholly irrelevant to my day-to-day work but I do hobby game development sometimes which involves more needs for graphing. Still, I can't do much of anything with a graph on a whiteboard.
Puzzled as to why it's so important to some companies to grill on this stuff, expecting it to be top-of-mind, even for front end roles.
I have done my fair share of rewrites as well. The hardest ones are where you need the new system to be backwards compatible.
It depends on the distribution of thefts and % coverage.

If the losses are high enough, higher % of trackers would increase ROI (up to a point, depending if trackers were cheap enough). If losses are low enough or trackers very expensive, a few trackers here and there would insure against infrequent "cleaned out" thefts, e.g., serious illness healthcare insurance.
That last case, "consciousness upload", means providing a new definition of "living". Nothing wrong with that, but worth noting, particularly since it's not at all clear what the new definition should be.
> Tax is always going to be the same no matter which station in town you use, so it's not a useful metric for comparison shopping.

I grew up on the border of Maine (sales tax) and New Hampshire (no sales tax). There, tax is frequently used as a metric for comparison shopping. In fact there’s an entire street over the bridge into NH colloquially known as “gasoline alley.”
> As humans, we are powerless to change this number. We simply have to accept its consequences. I like to think of this as the travel cost.

This is selling rocket science a little short, I think. The availabilty of gravity assists and aerobraking make it possible to achieve large variations in delta V necessary for a trip, as long as you can make the right tradeoffs elsewhere (travel time, etc).

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...
> False. Robert Forward has a technique

Sorry, but you're citing a science fiction author as proposing a credible method, yet don't even state what that method is.

Yes, I know Robert Forward used to work in aerospace, but his fiction writings are... fiction. He's been out of the industry since 2002 and a hand-wavy "he has a technique" doesn't strike me as being particularly credible.
Still it seems like a good write up. Yes, it is not innovative, it provides a good presentation and "here's how I solved this every day, company problem." I think this has a benefit in the Data science. Yes, it glosses over the retrieving and preparing your data section, which I feel is the most work in these problems. However, it gives an idea of how to combine your knowledge and think as a new Data Scientist. So I think it is helpful to some people. As other people said there is a plethora of similar articles in other Software Engineering fields that rise consistently in the front page of Hackernews.
The exact same arguments have been perused ad nauseam by old-timers in the software industry in the 80's and 90's when they clamored against open-source being anti-capitalist and un-american. Not sure how and why H/W is different.
Dirty Money is a similarly themed one about corruption -- the first season covered a great maple syrup heist, Allergan pharmaceuticals, a Payday loan criminal, HSBC's cartel connections, the VW NoX emissions scandal, and Trump's business career.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80118100
They’re at war with Russia because they gave up their nuclear weapons. No one is invading a nuclear power, which I think is the point the post you’re responding to was making.
Ok fine, it's only a very valuable feature.
This was great to read after giving my references to a recruiter.
I doubt we will see much research on the potentiation effects of tobacco on nicotine, since broadly it seems as if tobacco is "on the way out", so to speak.

However, there is quite a bit of research available [0, 1] that suggests that an addiction to one substance can prime the brain's neurological pathways to more easily become addicted to a second, unrelated substance.

By reducing the use of addictive substances overall, it might produce some decrease in addictions to more damaging substances (i.e. meth, heroin, etc).

Of course, the same argument could be said about alcohol or caffeine, and I don't think we're likely to see those go away any time soon. However, I think that's a false dilemma fallacy, as we're much closer (in % of population, at least) to reducing the use of nicotine than either of those.

[0]: https://harvardmagazine.com/2000/03/deep-cravings.html
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1578
Quantum computing in 35 seconds: Trudeau versus the experts (2016)
The participating companies makes chips that requires a huge amount of resources to make them happen: design engineering time, CAD software, tape-out cost, validation engineering time, ...

The CAD software is expensive, but it's not barrier of entry expensive compared to design engineering time, tape-out cost etc.

If the CAD software cost gets reduced, it would result in a cost reduction of all companies involved while still having a barrier of entries that's be way too high for anyone but the best funded companies.
If I were writing this for a fictional setting, I would probably say that the bubbles act a bit like black holes, and decay over time. So the field's durability (and relative speed) is a function of the power used to create the field and apply the initial impulse to it.

And since heat and radiation may be factors inside the field, available shielding might also be a limiting factor.

And then I would solve the particle problem by saying the field somehow converts real particles into virtual particles and then put bars on my windows to protect against the bricks thrown by physicists ;)
I've found Apple Maps caches the maps around my area so I have been able to use it in areas where I have no wireless reception. Not as fully detailed but they seem to cache the main roads and landmarks at least. I recall Google Maps just failing to show anything but that was a long while ago, so it sounds like things have improved.
What exactly do you mean by "getting started with FPGA on custom PCBs?" Have you made custom PCBs with high density BGAs before? Most non-trivial FPGAs (to me that means you can easily fit a decent softcore processor with space left over for your FPGA logic) will be ball grid arrays and almost impossible to DIY without xray inspection equipment and a reflow oven. You can get what you need for a few hundred $ on eBay if you're patient and lucky but even then, getting to the point where you can solder the chips reliably will take time.

If you have the budget for professional assembly, then I would start with a Digilent product that has an available reference design you can copy later. First get used to the FPGA and how it works (they are largely incomparable to a CPU or GPU except for the fact that they both have transistors). Then, design a simpler board with a smaller FPGA and work your way up to the big 500-1k pin chips.
This study is extremely flawed, like many (if not most) sociological studies.

> Participants were randomly assigned to read a short descrip-
tion of just one of these tests and were presented with one sample
item. Participants then predicted which of two groups of people
was more accurate in an experiment: people in a control condition
who simply completed the test without further instruction, or
people in a perspective taking condition who were asked to com-
plete the test while “trying to adopt the perspective of the other
person, putting yourself into the other person’s shoes as if you
were that person.” Participants predicted the outcome of the ex-
periment by choosing one of three options: “Condition 1 (Control)
did significantly better,” “Condition 2 (Perspective Taking) did
significantly better,” or “No significant difference between the two
conditions in performance on the test.”

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/nicholas.epley/Eyal_Steffel_...

There conclusions are based on a test that is dependent as much on the reading comprehension and decision making-abilities of the participants as their ability to empathize and understand.

>Despite a large scientific literature on the consequences of perspective taking in social interaction, whether perspective taking actually increases accurate insight into the mind of another person is unclear.

I would love to sit down at a poker table with these researchers to assist with their clarity on this subject. Like most sociological "studies", these people (who I will not call scientists) are making broad assumptions based on observations of a small group of people. Their observations may be an interesting novelty, but this is not science.
Dick is my middle (nick)name, but my name isn't Philip K. Dick. I'd be turgidly-pressed to write anything comprehensible, much less worth reading. And I'm already starving, I'd have to lop off more than my ears to be a proper starving artist... oh wait, that didn't come out right. Nothing to see here, carry on.