skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not jump to conclusions.

The only facts we know are that the bridge collapsed and a bunch of people died. Let's not turn the conversation to "blame the engineer".

Accountability and ethics are the yardstick everyone is measured by.
Whether or not it was intended, the entire comment implies exactly that - particularly with the call to the responsibility, ethics and standards of the civil engineers.

For example, if someone dies in a car crash, it's a little out of context for you to focus on the responsibility and ethics of the car designer over and above the circumstances of the crash. Usually the latter focus is for when there's concern about said ethics and responsibilities.
I disagree, it's quite a different algorithm, the main difference being ray tracing traces a path to each light in the scene at each intersection which requires far less steps to produce a visually pleasing image but is physically inaccurate, whereas path tracing takes no shortcuts, it traces a new ray at each intersection based only on the BRDF function until it either reaches the recursion limit or hits a light source, this is why it's so accurate but slow... It's not an extension of the ray tracing algorithm.

But as others point out I suppose this hardware works at a lower level than either of these algorithms by essentially just accelerating ray intersections.
A "human resource".

I always found that term to imply that we're just meat for the meat grinder.
I really enjoyed this article – not only because of the content but the distraction-free layout makes it a pleasure to read. It’s rare that I come across a site using such minimal and effective graphic design. As a bonus, the site loads quickly and doesn’t rely on a stream of third-party JavaScript files or other web resources. For a first blog post, I’m impressed. If I ever get around to publishing my own blog, I know what to aim for. Keep up the good work. The web needs more of this!

The footer indicates that the web page was generated using bashblog [1] – looks like it might be worth checking out.

[1] https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
"... police are generally able to get users to hand over their passwords, experts say."

The NSA and CIA may have the tools but that little statement speaks the gap between what our agencies can do and what theirs can do legally.
"Moving towards dictatorship" is an understatement imho. They're already there.
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The only reason it seems to even learn them is to pass an interview...

What a utterly stupid and broken process. All it's testing is recall, that you've memorized some algorithms that 99% of developers will never need. Especially when these are really hard problems that people have studied for years, to think that anyone who hasn't memorised the solution is working this stuff out in an hour on a whiteboard is craziness.
How close are we to the end of the gaming console?
Isn't this the same thing with colleges? Most of the rise in tuition costs goes to administration rather then education.
> but you also need to ... understand that [the problem is] actually solvable. Most people would assume that any effort would be wasted as the authorities would prefer to keep their revenue generator, so they'd never go through with the project.

Any reasonable person would make such an assumption without a second thought.

I'm still baffled that the city took any action whatsoever in response to this guy's request. How could he have known that they would just roll over and cough up $60k in lost revenue? It's seriously out-of-character for them.
"Small" being the operative word. A room vs. a building.
>> there is really no job security, and they could be one layoff wave away from unemployment

>Why would there be? Nobody I know is signing employment contracts or working in Civil Service positions.

Probably not true in the US, but in Europe many a 35yo has grown up under the general assumption "get a good degree, get a job at a good company, and you are set for life", simply because it was their parents' experience.

In some countries, even in the private sector, getting fired was made very hard by local laws, until recent years.

https://italychronicles.com/italys-article-18-woes/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/frances-new-layoff-law-triggers...

https://www.thelocal.es/20170521/spains-labour-reform-delive...
"If a firm found a way to keep high end workers for cheap"

What is a "firm"? Most executives in a company optimize for they own benefit, not for yours, not for the "firms".

There is a famous article frm HBR. How to manage your boss
https://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-your-boss
(paywalled but I am sure you can find it for free on the net).

You have to make your boss happy. In some cases this may be done by an outstanding performance. In most cases it is done by being a good talker, walking overtime, look busy, give him a blow job under the table, whatever. But it is rarely connected with your real job performance. And again, how to measure performance? Performance for the company or performance for your superior?
This is me and I'm 34. It started a year ago, so there's some truth to the article.
XiBaozi is Hitler in 2018.
Why did they even build apartments under a bridge or a bridge over apartments? Can't think what would of have happened if the whole bridge collapses.
What does the video say and why do they want it removed so bad?
I think that was meant to be a hyperbole.
Or you could make disciplined by the books financial decisions throughout your 20s and 30s have it easier when you're in your 40s and 50s because you're not trying to quickly save for retirement.
Given the EU doesn’t affect the rest of the world like they think they do (see GDPR) and also given that I can already install a ROM on just about any Android phone, nothing will change for the rest of us.
Your tip on the timelaps will make its rounds here in the office since many people suffer and this is an excellent tip to get real help.

Bikram yoga is my poison of choice BTW. I found that really easy for a starter.
The elements for federal and state money laundering charges would be there. Lying to a bank, in a tri-partite merchant account agreement, email, or phone call, and then obtaining services from that bank, can come down on you as bank fraud, wire fraud, or mail fraud. Once you’re buttoned up on fraud, subsequent transfers of funds can be charged as money laundering. This is true for most states and under federal law.

In a hypothetical scenario where I saw this occurring, I would look for emails, texts, etc where you admit that you actually intend to sell memberships, and the T-shirt sales are merely to obtain payment processing services to get the fraud charges up.

Then I’d rack up the dollar amounts against you under money laundering statutes and stack them so you’d be looking at some pretty major prison time.

All this over selling some T-shirts to get a payment processor for your adult site? You bet! I’m working on very similar cases now.
I wasn't sure about the heading and was hoping this was about general content for adults being broken. I dont think I'm getting smarter faster but the content is going down fast. That's what's great here expect one thing, learn another.
I'd learn it just for the knowledge, I have no desire to go into the interviewing process again. I agree that interviewing is a broken process.
Very cool. I would love it if there was a computer game where you basically created different AIs for different scenarios that you played out.
I mean you say yourself it's an assumption. And things change, I'm not sure expecting your parents' experience to be your own is reasonable.
Ask HN: How to build companies that last
I want to build products that live for as long as they are useful, irregardless of the fate of the company that starts them.

Too many products i've loved are dying. Wunderlist, Google Hangouts, Parse, etc.

I want to know what you've done to make your product last for a long time. Is open source the answer? Allowing users to self-host? Structuring your company as a non-profit?

How can people build products that live forever?
Ok, here's the thing. I like playing video games. I get a sense of enjoyment and fulfillment from an evening spent crushing my enemies on the field of battle via a surprise contingent of minotaurs. That's fine. It's good!

I would not get that same enjoyment from doing what this person does, although I fully agree i could probably replicate his method. My hobbies reflect what I enjoy doing, as do those of most people. I can feel nominally "bad" that mine are so incredibly worthless comparatively but still know that I wouldn't get as much utility from doing the "better" thing?
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If it's related to the thread scheduler yes. If it's related to compiler flags then the big sites probably have their own optimized builds of the encoders already.
Do people go to cons for talks?
As a former civil engineer, at least in the US you need a license from the state to stamp a design before anyone will build it, so accountability is built into the process.

Its actually stressful and the pay isn't that great. I did mostly landfill design which is a little different, but slope stability and retention pond calculations were always checked and double checked.

Though there is always ongoing maintenance which would be the owner responsibility.
How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
See basically what wastedhours said.
> and then pragmatists at the bottom who come in in the morning, do their work, and find meaning in their lives elsewhere, like family or hobbies.

How do those pragmatists deal with the fact that, summing job, commute and sleep, over 2/3 of their lives is not part of the purpose?
Then because time is money, you just lose similar amounts of money over time.
I was looking for the site of the bridge on OpenStreetMap, but couldn't find it. It took me a while to realize that someone already took it off the map within an hour of it collapsing.

Impressive (and correct), if a little disconcerting:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/44.42585/8.88840

All the access roads have been disabled too.
Part of the collapse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0c4N91otMs&feature=youtu.be
> If a language is understandable, analyzable, executable, expressible by humans, computers most probably can process it (this is a claim, not a fact).

In English, a sentence[1] is "a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, ...".

In Turkish, sometimes you need a paragraph, sometimes you need a page, and sometimes you need the whole story to provide "a set of words that is complete in itself".

Try these for size[2,3].

I especially love the translations of the word "tane". Or "say" here[4].

I am going to stop before I keel over. Sure, you can try to codify a rule for each and every "set of words that is complete in itself", but I doubt that set is finite.

The way things are going I full expect to see people being required to use Turkish in a way computers can understand before computers can deal with Turkish.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asentence

[2]: https://translate.google.com/#tr/en/%C3%A7akmak%20%C3%A7akma...

[3]: https://translate.google.com/#tr/en/%C3%A7ak%20bir%20tane

[4]: https://translate.google.com/#tr/en/say%20ba%C5%9Ftan
So I should stop supporting my old parents by paying for their rent/expenses and move somewhere else because I'm currently not following my dreams?

Some people don't have the luxury of being selfish.
So now you have to know or invent a list of euristics that tend to go fetch the results first.
This book https://www.amazon.com/Data-Structures-Algorithm-Analysis-C-...
Don't let the "in C++" scare you
If you google about you'll find free copies of older editions online
Highly recommend Henry Petroski's book on bridge building https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/to-engineer-is-human-the-role-...
I wonder what the performance would look like if someone got macOS running on it...personally I’m not looking forward to another expensive Xeon based Mac. Sure, it’s not overpriced based on the hardware they’re using. But there’s much cheaper options to get the same performance, and a small fraction of Mac Pro/iMac Pro users even need ECC RAM. The iMac design also has some inherent thermal issues which make it not the best choice for a high performance desktop system to begin with.

So, all that considered, I’ll probably be building a Hacktintosh even if I have to pay the premium for an i9 instead of something Ryzen based. Although I believe people had gotten first gen Ryzen chips working, so it seems like a TR Hackintosh should be possible. I just can’t sit around waiting multiple minutes every time I go to compile a decently sized mobile app (iOS dev being the only reason I have a Mac to begin with)
Same reason they build housing near other highly undesirable locations.
A lot of what I do is contracting, basically just short-term software engineering. But I have done some consulting on development processes and tooling (for god's sake use a standard build system), and have done some small amounts around embedded systems SDKs.

Most of the contracts bring me in as a 'consultant' but the work is software engineering.
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Coincidentally, a book has just been published on the I-35W bridge collapse, written by one of the survivors. I wonder how many parallels there will be (less a tragedy of design and more a tragedy of maintenance reports gone unheeded for decades). https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077FHMNJX/
If I, speaking with clear will and mind, declare that I never want to be treated against my will, (fully aware of the consequences) then I want this to be respected.
Otherwise all talks of freedom in our society is not worth the paper to write it down.

Now why am I so sceptical?

Well, first of all, declaring people mentally ill, was and is a common way to get rid of dissidents, or to get the money of a rich relative who don't want to die soon, or even consideres giving the money to a charity or alime
Sources to the last one I don't have at hand, but putting people away who were annoying, was not only done in soviet russia, but even happened (or happens?) in germany.

(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerfahnder-Affäre or
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustl_Mollath German

basically, tax investigators went after some too powerful - which backfired. So even pro-government people got declared mentally ill and were locked away)

Then secondly, the human brain is not really understood. I have high respect for psychoanalysis and neurobiology, though, but I am highly sceptical, that they really understand, what they are doing. As far as I know, also the term schizophrenia is highly disputed.
And I also know, that the common psychatrist is just bad. At least the quite some cases I knew about. (I know people working in that area).
Standard procedure is calming them down with pills ... and keeping it that way.
No thank you.

If I would see myself getting ill (it does not happen overnight), I would go seek a good doctor by myself. But if I choose to do what I do, it is my decision. Even if I would endanger my body - my body, my life.

Only if I would be a danger to other people ... well then society does, what it ordinary does with dangerous people, locking them away, until they are not a threat anymore.
What does going private mean exactly ? Is it just delisting from nasdaq in tesla’s Case ? Would they be allowed to keep any number of investors or just the top few ?
A good posture wasn't enough for me (back, shoulders, wrists, good chair, everything...), what really worked, in my case, was weight loss (-17%). Now i'm in the very average, pain is entirely gone (sometimes i couldn't even sleep).
I love exiftool. I wrote a more practical blog post on how to use it to manage thousands of photos and update the EXIF data easily with it. You can update the EXIF data based on the file modification time, based on an EXIF field, file name, etc.. there is so many things you can do. Here is the blog post if anyone is interested: https://arslan.io/2018/04/18/tips-tricks-to-batch-edit-exif-...
I find my problem mapping methodology often leads me to remember these three books:

Aho and Ullmann: Foundations of Computer Science (old but really, really, really good)

Steven Skiena: Algorithm Design Manual

Abelson: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
There is nothing about learning how basic data structures and algorithms work that won't help you in your day to day development.

You might be "fine" without it in a certain category of job, but rather than be dismissive about it you could be excited about having a massive wealth of information that you can use to do your job better.

There will always be something else to learn, wether it be how to apply Domain Driven Design to your work or how to work with graphs when munging data.
It's always worth it.

[edit] Run on sentence
I'm about to ask for the friday off, I'd even pass on the promised 5% raise if neecessary. As a rather young project/product manager I'm a bit worried about carreer prospects though.

A day doesn't sound like much, but a work-day/weekend ratio of 60/40 is so much better than 70/30 I bet.
"already there" is an understatement imho.
XiBaozi is worse than Hitler.
And if this were in a newspaper, they probably would have. But NPR is like the New Yorker - they are storytellers as much as they are journalists.
He is correct. This is how I build my cases.

I would just be aware that any interaction with the financial system can quickly become criminal. Whether it does depends on a whole range of factors, but the option is always there. (Incidentally, the same goes for insurance companies. Can go criminal at any time.)
what if their eggs had better protection compared to the dianosor egg?
I can also give you a different calculation.

1. Working hours. I know people in Europe that have 35 or 37h per week guaranteed. 40 hours is normal in the US and most of the time you work much longer. 1 hour lunch break is obligatory. It is too long, I can not eat for one hour if I bring my own lunch. It is too short to go the the gym too.

2. Travel. Sometimes I had to travel a lot. You board the plane Friday evening, you are back home Saturday at 5pm and Monday you start again at 8:30 pm

3. Commuting. It is difficult to live close to work. Basically 1 hour commute each way is guaranteed. And while this is no time on my companies clock, it is on mine.

So you easily get 60 hours a week.

Depending where you live, you pay 30-50% taxes, 20% sales tax in Europe etc.

If you move abroad and work from your laptop, the whole game can change. Working hours, commute, taxes, purchasing power...
If you have the privilege of being able to do this, it's a great thing to do. As others have mentioned, not everybody has the privilege. People have families, or no cash, etc. etc.

Anyway, I quit my job and moved to Australia last year, because I felt like I wasn't going anywhere with my life. Best decision I ever made. I'm aware that it's a privilege to be able to do this. I didn't have any cash, but was able to use my credit card to survive until I found a job, aware that if it all fell to pieces, I could just fly home and stay with my parents. I'm lucky that I could do this. If I didn't have that safety net, I don't think I would've made that jump.

I'm very lucky in life that I don't have to make sacrifices for the sake of others, and I'm aware that we aren't all so lucky.
It's Genoa: sandwiched between sea and mountains, space is at a premium. Think of those lovely shots of Manarola and Cinque Terre, multiply them by a million, add one of Europe's biggest ports, and that's Genoa.
Because it's defcon, not blackhat. Defcon is the Saturday before graduation at a frat house. Blackhat is a the 4th of July at a country club.
Good intro. There is a lot of history covered here. And of course, the art is in the implementation ;)

Currently, an interesting new (neuro-)evolution is happening in Game AI. With the OpenAI 5 and it's "180 years of training per day". We begin to see the feedback loop of game design being influenced by AI.

Detroit: Become Human is one recent example of how AI is used to manage the enormous complexity in game narrative. And some hotly anticipated titles for the fall including Last of Us 2 and Death Stranding will demonstrate the state-of-the-art.

And I don't think it's just for open world environments. Or a new generation of cloud-enabled VR / AR experiences. AI will also be used to re-design "flaws" in arcade classics. And render them infinitely playable into the future.
Really? I started hating jobs at 25, honestly.
What mouse?
Whisker (metallurgy)
All accents are beautiful :)
If you're building a tall apartment block you're already trusting your building regulations/safety practices to prevent disaster; having a bridge above you doesn't seem inherently more risky than having n floors of housing above you.
DeepMind's AI can spot eye disease just as well as top doctors
(Natural) convection doesn't work in free-fall. That includes the Vomit Comet[1], the ISS, the Apollo capsule between the Earth and the Moon, and so on.

Fans/blowers can drive covection artificially, though.

Convection (natural or artificial) doesn't work in the absence of a convecting fluid, even when not in free-fall.

Definitely not space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdJwG_9kF8s from about the 3 min 40 second mark.

(FWIW, the slinky stuff is also really cool; weight -- in the contact[1] sense but not in the mg sense -- is dissipational, and it's nice to see that demonstrated, so I'm glad your comment caught my attention.)

> space does not feel cold

If any part of you which you expose to space (if it's shielded from solar heating, etc.) is moist -- your skin, your eyes, your tongue, the insides of your nose -- you will feel that part getting cold very quickly thanks to evaporative cooling, which works very well in free-fall and in the absence of a convecting fluid.

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[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Weight/whatIsW...
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Naah, this is folklore:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18558/were-roma...

As a matter of fact if you have a legion marching on it, almost any bridge will collapse, there is a reason why, when soldiers cross bridges they are ordered to "break stride" in order to avoid possible issues with resonance of the structure.

And of course, while placing architects and engineers under the bridge was "fair", the poor soldiers were innocent (and at the time among valuable resources to society) so their lives wouldn't have been deliberately risked.

There are some (unconfirmed) reports about the architect standing below the bridge when the scaffolding/support was removed, however.
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From an article in Le Temps[1], the bridge had some conception issue; Concrete viscosity wasn't consider correctly. The cost of maintenance was very high and a replacement was considered but the project was opposed.

[1] https://www.letemps.ch/monde/catastrophe-genes-lecroulement-...
Diplomacy is the art of saying “Good dog” until you get to the rock. I save religiously (~80% of my income) to one day be financially independent. Until that day, you put on a smile and do your job to the best of your ability, not working a moment per day longer than required.

No one is coming to save you but you. Have an exit strategy. Buy your time back for yourself.
Microsoft's National Cybersecurity Policy Framework
I don't know about you, but one of the reasons I am accumulating less stuff is that I already have plenty of stuff, more than I can comfortably fit in my house. I need to get rid of stuff before I can get more stuff.
Much software does not have lives depending on it and it would be wasteful to treat it as though it did.
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