skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily enough, attention is one of the things that help deep neural networks learn.
I think at its core it misses a huge portion of the problem, which is that bad public transit is 10x worse than just sitting in a bit of traffic

It's chicken and egg. Public transit needs ridership to get better. It won't get ridership until it's better.

The large stick of presenting more of the previously hidden costs of driving, is partly banking on public transit getting better as more people are nudged towards it.
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Indeed, there is no reason to pick a "side". All big systems I have seen either have both or would benefit from both.

In fact, our current system has PG and several NoSQL databases, because each product has its own strengths.
> since they largely solve most of the problems of cars, while still being cars

They solve air pollution and some of noise pollution. But they don't magically cause people to carpool.

And even if they did, net passenger density for buses is higher, rail substantially higher again. An NYC subway R160 carriage can, in the space of about 4-5 car lengths, carry about 250 people, meaning those trains move a thousand or more people in the distance from a T-intersection to the back of a cul-de-sac.

Cars are expensive. It's just that you don't pay for it at the car.
I wouldn't call Rust and Go object oriented. Scala is, but not also mentioning it has great support for functional programming is misleading.
Azure IoT Edge being open sourced today
Here it is:

https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html

Hands up. Who has actually read all of it?

Speaking as somebody who actually has - was teaching computer security last term - I found it relatively easy to read (as legal documents go) - but it still took a weekend. I will guarantee you, that not all of the high powered lawyers whose job it is to read it, have done that.

True story: back in the days when libraries still stamped your book with the date it was due back, I took out a copy of Keynes General Theory from the main library where I lived. It's not that thick of a book, and according to the date stamps it had been borrowed at least 20 or so times. About half way through the pages hadn't been cut.

It was a few years before the significance of that finally dawned on me. As in many things in life, HN discussions on the GDPR are a wonderful example of nobody actually reading it, and everybody having an opinion of it.
Thanks for sharing this. I don't have any specific questions but being at the tail end of 2-10 myself, it's good to have reference points for when other people do certain things, like draw down to ~50% code or 0% code, how much time to spend on recruiting, etc.

I will say that I've been feeling a different type of code guilt. I feel guilty when I code, because I view supporting, coaching, and mentoring my team to be my 10x activity. If I'm coding, there could be 8 other people getting blocked or needing help, and I'm off trying to build 4 hours of context to solve problems.
Between the the two groups of companies you list, I'd take Google in a heartbeat. The thing that nobody here is saying is this: at Google, you are in a whole new system where internal moves are relatively easy. The first few years you'll probably have to get tenure (L5), but once you have that, it is very easy to make internal moves. Want to work on search? Start looking at those job boards. Want to do research? GoogleAI is hiring. Want to work on self driving? Google's holding company also owns Waymo.

On the other hand, if you end up on a bad team at a failing startup or midsize, you have to go through the entire interview process all over again. Going through that process can be a good experience, but eventually it gets old and you might be ready to spend 5 - 10 years at one gig making multiple year-long projects come to fruition. That's hard to do at a startup and even at midsize companies. It is much easier at FAANG and particularly Google.

Full disclosure: I recently accepted an offer at Google.
Exactis Data Breach May Have Leaked Personal Data of Almost Every American Adult
Exclusive bus lanes with special traffic light queue-jumping makes this a more even comparison and costs a lot less than rail.
How Stripe has ruined my business
Dear HN,

I am only writing this post because Stripe customer support absolutely sucks.

I began using Stripe for my business as I had heard good things about it. However, out of nowhere, I received this email from them:

"Hi Ramario,

Our systems recently identified charges that appear to be unauthorized by the cardholder, meaning that the owner of the credit or debit card did not consent to these payments. This unfortunately means that we will no longer be able to accept payments for ...

Refunds will be issued in 5–7 business days, although they may take longer to appear on the cardholder's statement. Please refer to your dashboard for a list of the charges to be refunded[1]."

This is virtually impossible as all our transactions are legitimate. Which I can prove.

Stripe has refunded all of our customers, customers who have already received our products, putting us at a huge loss.

Stripe support hardly respond to my emails and when they do, I get the same response:

"Thanks for emailing the Stripe Support Team! My name is * and I appreciate you writing in!

I will be looking into this with a colleague. Myself or a colleague will be reaching back out to you shortly with more information. In the meantime, if you have any further questions or feedback please feel free to let me know.

Your patience is truly appreciated!
"

I am very disappointed as I thought Stripe was a forward thinking company but, it seems that they care little about customer service. I hope to resolve this issue but, at this point I am very skeptical.
This is one of the best interviews I've seen Harlan on, he's completely relaxed and mostly allowed to run with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3jbeVA-lKM
A downside to introducing your own custom syntax with a Babel plugin is that it's likely to break most tools that run on your source code, like editors, ESLint, and Prettier. (And, of course, it might conflict with future ES features.)

Also note that Babel's parser isn't pluginizable (normal Babel plugins just run during the transform step), so the typical way to add syntax is to fork the parser and run everything against the forked parser:

https://babeljs.io/docs/en/next/babel-parser.html#will-the-b...
Uh, so like America? I have experiences most of these things.
It doesn't matter if you need the data to provide the service, you still need to ask for consent for any personal data - and personal data is defined extremely broadly.
I think perhaps before the massive realignment of the parties that started in the 60s, the Republican Party was somewhat akin to the liberal democrats. Back then it was the northern, pro-business, more socially liberal party.

But then the Democrats supported civil rights and Nixon, Goldwater, Reagan, and co pursued the Southern strategy, and the Republican Party became socially conservative while remaining pro-business.
As one of the largest retailers, you have the purchasing power to tell manufacturers to use paper, glass, or metal packaging only. Start a foundation, invite every major retailer (especially your biggest competition) to join you and use your combined purchase power to force the manufacturers to go back to the pre blister pack, plactic soda bottle days of ~50 years ago. Force innovation in packaging by saying no to plastic packaged products.
I hope you would consider expanding this to cover all student organizations - it's not just hack clubs that hold events or seek donations.
Those interest rates didn’t fall over the past decade, they stayed very consistently low, so the rise in house costs caused a rise in mortgage payments and imputed rents.
We bought it together with the press launch, which was last Tuesday :)
Good developers are self learners (autodidactics). You don’t get to be good by skating by on whatever you learned in school - you need to be continually learning.

I have a degree but I taught myself after my first programming class. My wife’s dad got her started on a little computer and she took it from there.

Certifications in programming seem like a way to separate people from their money. It might even mark you as an amateur as I’ve never met a real developer (to my knowledge) with a certificate with the exception one software P.E. [1]

[1] P.E. = professional engineer. https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
Jack Dorsey just blew up Twitter's org structure
Out of curiosity, why do you think the interview process is a good indicator of how things would be like within the company?

I feel like there must be a lot of variance there --- what if the engineer(s) you were with are bad interviewers? What if it wsa a bad day? What if it was a bad time to interview?
I've had similar experiences to OP, and I can also attest to the fact that it is absolutely obnoxious to be treated like a criminal in the normal course of filling your daily prescription.

Sometimes you have to travel for work, and because methylphenidate is such a threat to society (it isn't) you can't fill prescriptions out of state. So you talk to your doctor to get a special prescription with written instructions to allow it to be filled 4 days early (gasp!) so you can fill it before your trip. The pharmacist then rejects filling it for you, for reasons they refuse to explain.

I see a doctor in my home state, about an hour's drive from where I currently live. I see this doctor once every three months. I've seen him for 10 years. I would like to continue to see him. Recently I was put on a light sleep aid for anxiety reasons, I went to fill this prescription (which I have to do in the state that I see the doctor in). I was told my insurance only allows me to get a 2 week supply, and I'll have to come back in 2 weeks later to fill the rest of the 30 day prescription the doctor wrote. When I asked how much it would cost to just pay out of pocket, it was negligable, 20 dollars or so. When I asked to just pay for it myself to avoid making a long trip again 2 weeks later, the pharmacist decided to deny giving me anything.
Are there any links to actual data or a peer-reviewed article?
Whilst what you say is true, I don't think it would be impossible to create a structure that achieves similar outcomes without being a licensed ADI.

If I were attempting to do a similar thing, rather than positioning the "bank" as a separate service, I'd be offering full "auspicing" as many national NGOs have traditionally done for locally-run activities, where the "bank" service is actually just automating internal financial procedures for authorising transfers of money that belongs to the incorporated body rather than accepting deposits on behalf of a separate group of people.

edit: hah, just read the comments below and this seems to be exactly what they're doing
What about small(er) companies majority owned by bigcos? They have an opportunity to combine the best of bigcos with the best of (growing) smallcos.
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People downvoting -- do you like it when people post paywalled links?
Irony is that I never got that email from Facebook and Google. Only small websites bothered to try and obtain an agreement.
I buy the cheapest tools
I think if I remember right, here's what I got

170 AMP harbor freight welder -- $125
160 AMP Arc welder, amazon $199
CUT-50 Plasma $225
Pizza style air compressor, on sale HF $49 this weekend
Angle grinders - I have a bunch $39-59

Anyway I need these tools because I am constantly breaking my farm equipment. Also, instead of diddling around with things I just tack weld things, like my plow blade broke off I couldn't find the bolt so I just welded it in a few spots.

The CUT-50 and the cheap AC/DC arc welder are the best tools, but I use the MIG welder as my first go-to

I "modified" the arc welder to make small metal molds in a carbon crucible. I use aluminum, but it will melt steel. I can lathe/mill that to what I need. I also have the cheapest HF mini lathe and a nicer mill. So yeah all this stuff cost me $2000-$3000 but I use it. I also have a completely different CNC setup.

They made a kit called the Elektor set in the 1940s-50s, my dad gave me, it is the same concept as this post.
>there is a disproportionate amount of people that think that EU laws apply to the entire world

I think one of the problems is that too many of those people are MEPs.
I think that is still an ongoing problem but you can use reddit sort of like a company forum where you don't have to pay reddit a dime by having a community manager and learning the platform.
Late, but it's there now. If you want a more timely response it's best to email us (hn@ycombinator.com) because we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here.
A quick alternate analysis of ICO liveness is found by simply checking the number of tokens currently being traded with volume on idex.market: total of 291 as of todays figures, with 195 over 1 Ether/day, 80 over 10 Ether/day and 22 over 100 Ether/day. This amounts to 35%, 23%, 9.75% and 2.6% rexpectively of the 821 reported by deadcoins.com. Further to this deadcoins.com only labels 121 of these as scam coins with the majority (633) being labelled deceased. Also, a large number of the listed coins have no references to back up the given assessment.

Seems Bloomberg's reporter neglected solid research in her haste to play the funeral drum.
Talking about these self-driving cars, I think there are still so many aspects that need to be fixed by the automakers. Until then, these cars should not be allowed to be operated on public roads. I have read an article that talks about this matter at https://www.lemberglaw.com/self-driving-autonomous-car-accid.... Hopefully the automakers will think seriously about this.
For me this question comes down to: What do you want to learn?

In a big company, most risk has been removed from the equation. This is great for compensation and stability but also limits ones possible learnings as well. You might find your time learning the big company’s systems which don’t apply universally because they’re specific to that company’s needs.

In smaller companies, risk is still a real aspect of life. The downsides are obvious but the joys are that you’re closer to the customer and your actions have real impact. I find these types of learnings to be universal which is why I’m drawn to it.
In NYC, everything can be delivered, usually for free or a low fee. This is possible because of the density. If you want the 20 bags, you order the 20 bags and it can come today, Sunday at 10am, whatever floats your boat. Same for anything else. That's not even counting what Prime or Prime Now can get you.
Maybe so, but please don't post shallow dismissals to HN (especially of someone else's work, as the site guidelines say: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

If you have a substantive point, give readers enough substance so we know why you think that and can maybe learn something.
I take the dc metro all the time and it doesn’t have any of those problems.

The single tracking and random fires have been the issues here.
I feel like:

1) FB only turned back on ads so that they could get better data on how people market crypto projects (for their own blockchain team)
2) Added revenue
3) The article is very, very speculative; one could argue it's about as speculative as one of these vaporware token sales claiming they have a partnership with some major brand, and 20%+ of the copy is dedicated to building the hypothetical value of such a partnership.

Maybe someone made up the rumor as some last-ditch effort to make the price not go down
Having recently read that piece on the group that solved an unsolved who an unknown suicide was, I'm curious if anyone ever found a record of his second bit. Quick search didn't find anything. Not that I think he's lying, just curious.

I was told about Ellison back in college, maybe 2001/2002, by a woman who worked the desk in the office I worked in. I think she lent me Dangerous Visions and then I slowly picked up most of his books.

As of late I was disappointed that he didn't do much in the way of new stuff, instead releasing compilations of his older works.
On the other hand though, there is no one alive who knows all of the laws in the US. It is infeasible to be aware of everything and we likely break laws everyday without knowing it.

Would you support a system where the state can find a reason to arrest you whenever they feel like, and arbitrarily enforce it against people they don't like?
I agree with your list and would suggest one addition:

What are your competencies and how do they mesh with the requirements of the employer?

There are a lot of competent programmers who would never get employed by Google and there are many brilliant engineers at Google who would struggle in a GSD focused small company.
Private water bombers are paid a per-diem, regardless of whether they do any drops or not. Thus the safest way to make money is pretend you saw a drone. Aerial operations will shut down and you get your money with zero work and zero wear and tear on your aircraft.

The vast majority of "Drones" spotted from aircraft are not really drones, they are birds or plastic bags or a figment of the imagination.
CA Labour code section 2870-2872

> "2870. (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information"

https://web.archive.org/web/20160516081153/http://www.leginf...

They can be as unflexible about this as they want. Stuff you built outside the scope of the company, AND outside working hours, AND not using company resources, is yours.

> "(b) To the extent a provision in an employment agreement purports to require an employee to assign an invention otherwise excluded from being required to be assigned under subdivision (a), the provision is against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable. "

The reason why you want to cross out that section isn't so much as to signal non-compliance as to communicate, that that part of the contract is illegal by California law.

If the contract does not have a special clause about illegality, leaving that paragraph in might make the entire contract void.
That adds to the argument for "eradication"
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History will, hopefully, sort out the moral inferiority of making legal migrants feeling unwelcome (and, in so doing, destroying a cornerstone to the vitality of the American experience), collectively punishing individuals because of their country's demographics and supporting the genocide of a people cramped into a ghetto with higher density than Warsaw ever was. One could say "hurt people, hurt people" but repeatedly, intentionally killing unarmed protesters with live ammunition looks like the Final Solution 2.0.
This is possibly a bad move business wise as it possibly exposes business intelligence information that a company may not want competitors to have.
No it does not count. Because it's 99% flowing for speculative purposes whereas USD is 1% flowing for speculative, the rest is for bread and mortgage payments.
This is sage advice. The opportunities of your later years are derived from how you've spent your younger ones. A brand-name employer early in life may not "be-all and end-all" but it is a very, very good idea, if you can make it happen.
There was an article somewhere recently, of someone proposing changes to CPython for just that reason. Guido had already resisted several attempts at the kind of thing he was doing, from a desire to keep the CPython implementation simple.
You're getting caught up in technical terminology whereas this article is written for non-climbers. Those of us that have done the activity know the difference between solo and free solo, but in the same way that you can't expect articles for non-climbers to get the distinction between sport and trad right (climbing is a sport, so it's all sport climbing, right?), You can't expect them to get the solo/free-solo thing right either.
I'm on the Upper West Side. 42,000 per square kilometre. More people live in these 500 hectares than the hundreds of square kilometres of Darwin where I grew up.

At the end of my street there is a cleaner, a hardware store, grocery store and restaurant. Within view of the grocery store is another grocery store. A street over from the hardware store is another hardware store. Two streets down? Another restaurant.

You get the idea. And then if I need something really specialised, I hop on a train and go to one of the mini-districts where I can find a whole street of something. Or I ring them, or visit their website, and get it delivered. A month ago I was in a three-story cloth store with a friend. On a street full of cloth stores. I had no idea such things existed. But they do. There's a curtain district. A street where I find several places selling mattresses. Famously, a street of jewelers. Again: you get the idea.

Living a middle-class life in a dense city is a kind of convenient normally reserved for the rich.
What is it you don't like about the Google interviewing process? Having been an interviewer at both Google and send mid-sized companies, I feel like the process at Google is a lot more objective and fair for hiring people.
Watered down useless bill as a ballot initative would have given stronger protection vs the $750 fine limit with this bill. As usual big tech purchased the politicians, the last minute negotiations were about their price.
I was billingually raised. I spoke in an Indian language called Punjabi with my parents and I spoke English outside of the house. My English is much better due to the lack of people besides family I could speak Punjabi with growing up in then west. Now I have my own children and although my wife also happens to have a similar background to me, having spoken Punjabi with her parents she too grew up in the west like I did and we speak English with each other. I’ve realized now that our own children will not grow up billingual because of my wife and I speaking English with each other. This does make me sad but unless I were to migrate to India (where I’ve never lived) this is the practical reality.

The lessons are, kids will definitely learn the language their parents speak with each other and also the language of the local city/state they live in. Other than those it will take an enormous effort to teach anyone another language. If you can afford an English speaking nanny or tutor or a program at a school that might make things easier. Good luck.
I hear this sentiment expressed a lot, but I rarely see anyone actually articulate their rationale. What do you think the downsides of that are?