skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think selling drugs on campus to employees is a pretty bad result. He also drove off %80 of the talented team before I left. The DMV person was a dumpster fire and all the incompetence they showed us what you would expect— so cliche it would be boring to give examples.

Amazon is way over valued relative to its actual business... that shows that effective PR is good for the stock price (and amazon as a company is pretty much a pathological liar when it comes to PR. Like claiming AWS was what Amazon.com ran in at launch.)

No, waiting two months and working in less critical stuff was not the right choice on Bezos fault.

Bezos is a bozo.

Which makes me think that their competition must really suck... or like the fact they were able to use political pull to to tie Apples hands on ebooks it may all be government powered rent seeking.

I wonder how much of a deal they are getting from USPS and how much government IT has been outsourced to AWS.

But ask anyone- Amazon is well known to be incompetently managed.
Naming a specific person is not nice, but still not "doxxing."
Long-Run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-Being [pdf]
I think this is exactly the case how ML could go wrong. I would assume the people who hate the cookies probably will not bother to submit a survey and try again. The sample might be biased and not representative of the general population, thus overfitting, performs badly on a boarder test set.
Instruments in Xcode 10 has a new way of constructing "custom instruments". I haven't looked into the details though, so I don't know how much of the old DTrace stuff can be replicated.
Just goes to show that as careful as we ought to be to make sure what we say is reasonable, we should also be careful to keep our interpretations charitable.
Computer/console input has been really resistant to change. Even the Wii controller, which was something of a fad at one point, pretty much faded away. Six axis controllers is another one that never went mainstream though they were somewhat popular for a time.

There have also been various alternate input styles for phones but nothing's ever taken off.
IBM Coffee Delivery Drone Patent
Precisely. Often times a rejection isn't saying that the candidate didn't meet the job requirements or wouldn't do well in the position, it says that the employer found someone who fit the role even better or knew that they could given past hiring experience.
If they come to me for basic stuff, I tell them to go research it on their own. I'm not going to regurgitate wikipedia if they haven't put in some effort.

And that’s why developers don’t get ahead....

There are basically “three levers of power” in an organization - relationship, expert, and role in that order.

The developer who knows how to build relationships is the one that doesn’t get his silly bug put on blast by the QA and gets an unofficial Skype message and doesn’t get official very visible tickets when something blows up in production and gets a quick Slack message so that he can be prepared to explain it.

It’s also the different between a developer who has to submit a ticket to netops and wait three days for a VM and one that can send an email, get it set up within 30 minutes and then create the ticket as a formality.
Wonderful design - I’d consider this to be brutalist design already!

Too bad I cannot value the usefulness of the product, but it looks great.
This should be pinned somewhere. So much time could be saved.
> Aren't free-market capitalism and net neutrality inherently at odds with each other?

Strictly speaking, yes. But free-market capitalism is also inherently at odds with ISPs having monopolies based on geographical area, which is the case for most of the US. Net neutrality regulation is an attempt to address the obvious issues with that, given the fact that the ISP monopolies are not going to go away any time soon. In other words, in an ideal free market, yes, net neutrality regulation would not exist; but we don't have anything close to an ideal free market in Internet access.
Google News, Hacker News, Local TV News, Local Print News
Link to the report from Uber's fatal accident:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

To summarize what happened - Uber's autopilot makes decisions about when emergency braking is necessary. But the software was braking so often on public roads that overall it's driving was erratic.

So Uber knowingly disabled emergency braking in all cases.

This essentially turned the car into a missile on our public roads.

at the time of the accident, the autopilot detected the pedestrian. Calculated an imminent collision, and initiated emergency braking. Instead of actually breaking, the message to break simply went to the logs.

Combine that with a safety driver that was looking down at the console and not up at the road - and the fatality was the result.

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It is completely beyond me why there isn't a battery of government saftey tests that vehicles with autopilot must pass before they get approved for use on our public roads.

How many times have you seen footage of a crash test dummy safely landing in an air bag? I want to see footage of crash test dummies getting pushed out in front of autopilot cars - and hopefully, never getting run down.
I've always wondered if it would be more fair to only pay for UPLOAD. Download all you want, but pay for everything you upload.

It always seemed to me the best of both worlds. Those torrenting and serving large amounts of data (Netflix, etc) would be paying, and they're also responsible for the amounts of traffic as well.
I think it is just hard to find the right sized problem. It's either going to be a too easy to look up fizz-buzz or some elaborate project that takes hours. It cost the recruiter nothing to toss these at you if you don't threaten them to lose you in the process.

I think the best compromise is a tech screen talking about background and projects not specific tech down to the programming level. Then if you still don't feel confident, do a mock design session on the white board and solve a fictional problem together like you would every day if they were on the team
No, that's just a switch statement. OO is the inverse of that. The objects need to bring their own code with them in some form or another.

So a vtable, a struct/map of functions, a closure around a struct/map of functions, a closure of state, and that sort of thing would be your minimum OO with no real language support.
Sentiment Analysis via Self-Attention with MXNet Gluon
How is having different regulations for each state the recipe for increased investments? This topic just seem way too politicised.
ISPs are not operating in a pure market. They have been granted billions of dollars in subsidies over the years, and in many places are/were also granted monopolies because communities don’t want wires being run by multiple companies. After all the benefits they have been given, now they want to turn around and cry “free market” and that they should not be regulated.
I ride by a flock and can't help but think "dang thats a lot of meat walking around". I have no idea how good or bad they would be to eat.
There’s a Better Way to Take White Farmers’ Land
I tried zfs on Mac a while back. A few years I think. My trial was with external disks. It seemed super easy to basically lose the disk by forgetting to export it or whatever the terminology is, before unplugging it.

Probably just my lack of understand, but for something that was supposed to be all about not losing data, it seemed very fragile in that use case.

Again, it may have just been my ignorance and I didn’t lose anything, but I couldn’t figure out how to recover.

Maybe it’s more forgiving now.
The fix was a hacknand as for “on time”, no we were already three Sadat’s into the heavyvsakes week, literally hours before thanksgiving when Bezos decided to cancel everyone’s thanksgiving because of his own incompetence.

I call it incompetence because prioritizing a new feature over a bug fix is almost always wrong. And Bezos surrounds himself with yes men so if he under estimated the bugs impact because a yesman was saving face that’s still on Bezos.
I've found that people who stay up late also tend to tell you [edit: and brag] about it. For example, if a friend is out late partying you're almost guaranteed to hear about how late they stayed out the next day.

I think it goes both ways because people want to justify why they are not at 100% energy. Partly to not offend others when you're being abnormally unenthusiastic. A type of social defense mechanism.
Western US is considerably more expensive than the southeast, but I can understand your desire to not live in the hell-hole which is the deep south.
The basic gist is that net neutrality wouldn't be necessary if ISPs weren't defacto monopolies.

Because there is such limited competition in the broadband ISP space (most people only have one choice!) the free market can't work to drive down prices.
An atomic bomb is not the only form a nuclear weapon. Reactor fuel (or related contaminated material) can be used to create a dirty bomb, which in some ways is more destructive. Not in the initial blast, but in rendering the contaminated area uninhabitable for decades or centuries.
Seems like a bad deal to me.

Uber looks like it is behind it's competitors.

Uber is a company that I just hate. It doesn't have any ethics whatsoever.
How baseball’s tech team built the future of television
Too late to edit my comment but for some reason I typed "many of the apps you write...". Bizarre, I mean't "many of today's apps are..."

Don't know what I was thinking.
Its coming to the realization of how much time you spend in Java just making sure that a string is really a string
Skimfeed and Reddit.
I think it's a feature. Benevolent dictators motivated mostly by what's most likely to pay rent in the Bay Area are not very benevolent in practice.

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I run a Mastodon instance and I sure am not blocking counter.social and I sure do not see a single toot from them anywhere in my database. Mr. Actual The Jester followed me for a day or two and then just vanished from federation along with the rest of his instance.
Anyone know how VW is doing in self-driving cars? This move by Toyota seems a little desperate, so I'm wondering what the other giant is doing...
"Free market" is about freedom to enter, participate in, and exit the market. So things like monopolies and artificial barriers to entry are anti-free market.

Net neutrality is policing specific legal vs illegal behaviors, similarly to environmental protection laws. A "free market" doesn't really (at least not publicly) allow illegal services, because the action itself is illegal, both inside and outside the market offerings, so it is relatively orthogonal.

Certainly the maximization of profit (which has little to do with free market operations, but more of lock-in) would be helped if they were freely allowed to pursue any illegal activity in the name of profit. But it is the realm of the government, not the market, to decide what should be illegal for everybody including market participants, to mitigate predatory actions and destructive externalities.
how about something in Miami to cater for those of us in Latin America and the Caribbean?
I'm not a fan of UBI, but arguing against $1,000 per person seems like a bit of a strawman. For a 4 person family that's $4,000 take home per month, which is well above median income for the US when you factor in taxes and benefits. This strongly encourages people to pump out kids for the stipend.

Doesn't it make more sense to make it $1,000 per household + $100/person?

IMHO UBI fails for one basic human reason: people are lazy. Way too many people would sit around all day watching TV if they didn't have to go to work. There would be a labor shortage. This only works in some future where we have robots to do literally every menial job. Even then it's still likely a bad idea from a mental health perspective. People without a sense of purpose or accomplishment are going to become depressed, and self starters are the exception not the rule.
I once got a detailed, feedback-driven rejection email, stating very clearly and professionally where I shined in my interview, and where I didn't. I was so appreciative of the message that I made sure to follow up with the manager working on my application and thanked them.

9 months later, I found myself in a bad management situation at another company, thinking about looking for another gig when the company that rejected me reached out asking if I'd be willing to come back and interview again. I did and accepted the offer.

By giving good and candid feedback, they wound up saving months of searching for a new dev when they reached back out knowing I was a good fit for what they needed at that time. I was essentially a lead they'd already warmed months prior. It made me wonder why more companies don't think of this.
Mapping is not a subjective topic, though. I'm saying that OSM data is objectively better for the rural parts of the world I've been to.
The person who schedule everything (and everyone)
What if I tomorrow figure out a bug in Gmail/adsense and release it public-ally without giving google a chance to fix it.

My logic : Want security, stop recording peoples data. ( The most secure way to store data is not store data in the first place)

Would that be fair to google and the consumers of google.

And I would bet that I would be booked under some "Hacking" related law for doing that.
High ISP competition would be preferable. But that's not going to be possible anytime soon until all state monopolies are removed (by law). Until then, net neutrality is needed to keep the internet fair in a market full of local monopolies/national oligopolies hell-bent on squeezing as much money as possible from their customers - even with illegal tactics like adding hidden charges to their bills.

But even if there was a highly competitive ISP market, some ground rules would still be needed to ensure that the large players don't mess with the small players somehow, just maybe not as strict.
Once a week (or even every two weeks) is still frequent enough to count as a core job responsibility. And the raw frequency understates its significance, considering that it can be a blocker for other employees' contributions.

Now, you're right, the technical distillation is not going to be on the level of "explain relational databases to a Joe off the street starting from square one", but it's effectively the same as the skill of "demystifying arbitrary misunderstandings and knowledge gaps other have", which is important.
I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment, but I doubt they are letting the sticking accelerator software bug affect their positions on mobility in the future.

It appears that autonomous vehicle progress has an interesting moat where being good at it (the ability to drive a lot of miles) allows you to get better faster (drive more miles, more quickly). It is similar to a network effect, but with competency rather than number of connections.

Does anyone have a name for this type of advantage, or know of examples in other areas?
Why not just have candidates accomplish the thing you're
assessing with an actual relational database?

My employer interviews like this, and I can tell you one reason it's not very common: It's a pain in the ass.

After all, it'd be unfair to judge someone on a platform they weren't familiar with - so now you gotta maintain a fleet of laptops with a really wide range of tools. And these have to sorta float outside the usual IT management system because they aren't really issued to a single person, and you gotta be online enough that people can google stuff, and you can't have hiring managers let other people use their login, that'd be bad security practice. And if you didn't confirm in advance what platform the candidate wanted to be tested on, you gotta haul three laptops to the interview. Oh, they're pretty good developer laptops and one went missing? We really ought to have people sign those out...

And even after that, you _still_ have to apply subjective measures like "were their variable names clear?" and judge them on communication - like if they see an opportunity to refactor the code for clarity, but they say they're focusing on completing the task before spending time on that.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do this, just that I can understand why many companies don't.
I'll take an Android promo as well!
> any company that isn't Waymo is simply burning money

Waymo/Google is winning and has self-driving vehicles all over Chandler, Tempe and Gilbert Arizona at any given time.

For the most part it is going well, sometimes they act too safe but that isn't a bad idea for now, there have been a few complaints of Waymos going when fire engines or safety vehicles are on the road not slowing and in normal traffic slowing more than needed, or cars partially in a lane and slowing or stopping for them too much. I think the more grandma driving any self-driving is right now is good.

The biggest win of Waymo which is a competitive advantage and huge bonus is that by being Google/Alphabet, they also have access to tons of data and the best maps / map data i.e. speed limits, traffic, routes, dark/light changes to behavior, weather detection, data outside the CV/LIDAR that may be hugely beneficial. Other companies are going to have to pay for that or use Google, which they will collect immensely on in addition to use for free.

Think of that Tesla crash where other Teslas commonly had the same issue by drifting towards the ramp, Waymo/Google could correct that quicker it seems with their access. They need to be autonomous but also a neural network that can learn from other vehicles. They also need to tie into other systems like weather, day/night, emergency vehicles, traffic, routes etc etc. That Uber crash in Tempe, with day/night data and known pedestrian trails nearby + across the road, it may have been more cautious through that area and Waymo has that data with Google. Waymo is leading in multiple ways not just the self-driving part.
"One chemist discovered that if you adjust the pH in cellulose-acetate filters, you can get them to change color during the smoking process, making it look like some really bad stuff is being screened out."

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/columns/straight-dope/ar...

Or you might prefer this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4688990/
Basic income shouldn't be targeted to ensuring that people can afford to bum around on no income in a high-cost of living area. If you want to live in a high-cost location, you should secure the income to live there.

Sam Altman and other tech giants are proposing basic income as a means to provide for people incapable of getting jobs due to automation permanently eliminating jobs for large numbers of people. They predict permanent unemployment of up to 80 percent of the population.

The jobs being eliminated currently pay between $20k and $50k. Once they eliminate those jobs, they are talking about giving you about $10k and no hope of ever having a full time job again.

Please go talk to the people who are proposing UBI as a solution to this scenario, not me. I am not actually pro UBI. I am for seeing this as another industrial revolution and further improving worker's rights. Among other things, the first industrial revolution gave birth to the expectation of a 40 hour work week in order to spread earned income around.

I am all for people working for a better life. But people like Sam Altman would like to design a world in which that is simply not possible for most Americans and would like to then throw a few crumbs to the masses for whom a job is simply not a possibility in the world they foresee and would like to optimize for.

(Though I think if your goal is to eliminate jobs -- rather than find ways to redistribute work -- then UBI needs to be designed as a middle class income, not a poverty level income. Otherwise, you are an asshole in my book if this is the world you want to design for people who aren't already millionaires.)
What happened to Uber wanting to focus equally on bikeshare going forward?
FWIW, a PWA added to your homescreen doesn't impact # of tabs.
1. arxiv
2. nytimes [trying to quit]
3. reddit [trying to quit]
4. hackernews [trying to quit]

tbh I really like trying to minimize my browsing in the morning.
On the topic of SBT: https://www.lihaoyi.com/mill/, a response to http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html
> Google is not obligated to reply at all nor do they have any obligation to hold on these announcements. There are no faults for Google here.

This is a non-sequitur. You are equivocating between legal obligation and ethical obligation.
I think that it's leading with its weakest aspect, which is the logo with nothing but LIBRARY. It's much more interesting when there is an actual goal, like identifying an event or department and then putting a little Library of Congress logo next to it.
When I was a hiring manager, I used to always include a personal note that included suggestions and constructive criticism for the candidate. In a couple of cases, those people replied to me, demonstrated some actions towards those goals, and I hired them later, when I had more available positions.

And those that I didn't hire, I encountered them at other companies. It was flattering to hear them say they remembered me and had a positive impression of our recruiting process, even though they were rejected.

I've always believed that the recruiting process is a great way to sell one's company. Even if the candidate isn't a good match, that candidate may recommend peers to the role if they have a positive experience with you.
Install smartmontools, then configure it to do a SHORT self test every night, and a LONG self test every week. You can do the same on Windows, but I don't know the tool name. The self tests are built in to the drives and do not require OS support, just a way to start them and read results.

Better make sure the tool has a way to contact you if it finds an error! (Email by default - and test it!)

The long test reads the entire disk looking for errors.

Next, if you are using a Linux MD Raid array install mdadm and make sure it's configured to run a checkarray command (by default every month).
If someone told me that in my country (or maybe just outside US) I would simply not believe them at first. It might just be the choice of companies I've worked with though.

It is sad indeed.
Are you talking about orange extract? or cayenne pepper? The post is here: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46507 and direct link to paper is here: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

And the recipe I found internally is "The Real California Cookie" in that paper:

Bake at 163C (325◦ F) until brown:

• 167 grams of all-purpose flour.

• 245 grams of milk chocolate chips.

• 0.60 tsp. baking soda.

• 0.50 tsp. salt.

• 0.125 tsp. cayenne pepper.

• 127 grams of sugar (31% medium brown, 69% white).

• 25.7 grams of egg.

• 81.3 grams of butter.

• 0.12 tsp. orange extract.

• 0.75 tsp. vanilla extract.
Toyota also has a joint research center with MIT CSAIL. https://toyota.csail.mit.edu/
The reason OpenVPN (and almost all VPN solutions) use such ridiculously long keys is that you don't have to brute-force them. An actual cryptographic attack on the algorithms commonly used for VPNs (or for HTTPS connections to websites) looks a lot more like a dictionary attack than a brute-force attack; you can discount great swathes of the problem space without having to actually try them.

That explanation seems fine to me. It's not an explanation of the underlying math but it doesn't need to be.
Besides the ssds, who in their right mind uses raid 5 anymore? It's been dead to me for years... since the first time I had to rebuild an r5 of 4tb disks and did the math on the time window for cascades. Also, not to nitpick, but you shouldn't wait to order a replacement that gets shipped to rebuild, you should have spares ready to go at all times for all raid systems. That might have been the difference between a cascade and a normal rebuild.