skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/brian-marick-patterns-f... is an interesting talk on this topic, which is where I learned about Seeing Like a State. I've just finished reading the book and found the parallels between software engineering and the high modernist statecraft and agroeconomic policy discussed in the book to be quite striking. I thought the middle chapters were a tad repetitive, but overall it was a fascinating read and I would highly recommend it.
You do know that there were no software issues that would keep cars accelerating, it was purely user error that got blown out of proportion?

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game
Well, that's the ISPs' problem now. They're the ones that killed the "unified" federal net neutrality policy, no? Reap what you sow.
That's not a useful thing to say to the general public--they're not capable of that. They count on scientists to police themselves.
Enforceability of EULAs depends on where you are.
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2. Facebook

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The experts aren't necessarily credentialed experts as we would typically think of them. You can participate in forecasting tournaments like Good Judgement Project and if you score high enough you can participate in invite-only events that are in partnership with entities like DARPA. But the people come from all backgrounds- I got all this from the book Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock.

Edit: got the title wrong
I'm pretty sure that Google Maps does auto-discovery of hiking and biking trails by simply watching peoples' positions?

At least I've had rather good experiences using Maps for biking. Even small, unofficial paths were mapped, and travel times indicated that Maps had an accurate idea of their condition.
honestly who cares? there is no sane reason to use having without group by.
Depends on who you talk to.

The EFF seems to have changed its definition of NN and now includes throttling in it as their press release for the recent Verizon tiff when they throttled a fire department.

They are being really inconsistent in their definition, saying that the repeal of NN allowed the throttling to happen. I guess that isn't technically saying it falls under NN if you twist your head enough, but is certainly is conflating the two issues.
If you're using smartmontools, try running `update-smart-drivedb` first: those fancy attribute names don't come from drives themselves but are always interpreted from (model, firmware, attribute id) tuple by the software you're using to query disks.

Or you can just look for [0] directly if you just want to know what drives Media_Wearout_Indicator is currently defined for.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mirror/smartmontools/maste...
None of what you said addresses the effect of immigration on the economy as a whole in the long term...at all.
I think it's funny that Americans (I assume you're American, just based on statistics) thinks that moving to another country is just a thing you can decide to do, given the current immigration debate in the U.S...
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One piece of evidence is disengagement rates. In 2017, Waymo led with ~6,000 miles per disengagement. Cruise was in second with ~1,000 miles per disengagement. Also, if you look only at the last few months of 2017, Cruise had improved to around ~3,000 or so as I recall. The other players testing in CA are far behind Waymo and Cruise.

Of course, there are many caveats to comparing disengagement rates. These are self-reported by companies, and each company may have different policies about which disengagements are serious enough to report. Also, not all miles are equal. Cruise likes to emphasize that its SF miles are more difficult than Waymo's more suburban Mountain View miles.

Here's a nice summary of the 2017 data I found for you: https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2018/02/01/disengagem...
Are you sure arch distributes them? Like oracle jre, proprietary packages are downloaded during installation, i think debian non-free works similarly.
Compound interest, Pareto principle, Matthew Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
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Sites like YouTube or Wikipedia would have never happened then. And it would completely doom the idea of P2P internet.
That's just silly, you can build relationships in other ways.

If you want to be the go-to guy/gal that gets constantly interrupted with this sort of stuff, your time won't be respected.

Plus, you're teaching them to go research things on their own. Why is that a bad thing?
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Except for Lotus Notes.
Perhaps I'm being too broad but I think that rejection emails suck because generally, as a society, we aren't valuing communication or we don't think we can afford the time for actual feedback.

It triggers one of those "how much better would the world be" feelings, if more people took more time to give each other genuine feedback. I mean, maybe giving good feedback (for candidates that took time to apply and clearly made effort) could help people learn, it might even ultimately address unemployment, homelessness, or other root cause problems.

I understand the legal concerns - and there would be candidates who would exploit the process of genuine feedback as well - but I think it would serve to help people more than it would hurt. It does require time and resources, so organizations / institutions would have to look at it as a sort of a social benefit cost or something. But I do wonder how much good it might really do.
I would appreciate a reader-friendly list of the studies that were successfully replicated, being it the 39% of the 2015 paper or the 62% of this paper.

Knowing that I have no strong reason to trust most of the conclusions is useful. But know which papers I can trust is more useful.

Anyone knows of such a list?
There are only “too many” people moving to big cities if you take as given that most of their land area must retain its small-town character forever.

You want the population clustering into big, transit-centric cities to unwind car-dependence and avert climate change.
Most publicly available statistics https://qz.com/1220576/the-race-to-build-a-self-driving-car-...
Why not go one step further and make it fully submerged off the coast, to protect it from a bad weather?
They didn't seem to care.
> My advice is this: as you learn Common Lisp and look for
> libraries, try to suppress the voice in the back of your
> head that says “This project was last updated six years
> ago? That’s probably abandoned and broken.” The stability
> of Common Lisp means that sometimes libraries can just be
> done, not abandoned, so don’t dismiss them out of hand.

I have found this to be true in my own experience. The perception of stagnation is, however, a common initial objection to folks working in CL for the first time.
Not HN though, right?
Not exactly. Sometimes it's more helpful to have a local time source that you know is accurate but has a little jitter than to have a remote time source with intermittent Internet.
Minimum in my experience. I haven’t been able to pay under $2000 for a 1 bedroom in the 7 years I’ve lived in Seattle. The cheapest I’ve gotten was $2100 but that was a place where you had to deal with mold, you heard your neighbors every conversation, and the whole building shook when the washing machine downstairs ran.
Yes. It was an abbreviation for the bank and it was a small regional bank in a rural area that eventually folded into another company.
Even if they're encouraged to hire remote workers, lots of them will still choose to live in urban areas because that's where the new and exciting things are for many software devs (yes, I know not everyone is into that. I'd still say that more are than are not).
In 2017, four US states generated more than 30% of their electricity from wind
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I'm still waiting to hear from SouthWest Research Institute. I interviewed there in 1990.
I actually can imagine a future AR being a lot more compelling than VR. But it would take a lot of significant advances both from a hardware and software/data perspective to be useful. There's also a pretty significant question of whether it caan overcome the glasshole factor for mainstream use.
Actually this is in my opinion the main advantage of headhunters. They will typically call the recruiter after the interview and seek feedback. And it is easier to provide feedback to the headhunter than to the interviewee directly.
An interesting benefit of Google Maps which (I don’t think?) is available in OSM: different maps for countries with boundary disputes.

Google is basically the de facto map, even as far as many governments are concerned, and so showing localized maps of disputed areas may actually be saving lives.
How do you read through arxiv? I haven't see their equivalent of "popular" articles, which makes it really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff
Do (did?) you work for bloomberg? Very similar to their old online style - I like it!
Selling per GB is an absolutely horrible idea because that’s not how networks work. ISPs have conjured this concept from nowhere solely as a way to get people to pay more money.

Bandwidth is data transfer over time, and there is no “bucket of data” that gets depleted when you transfer data. It’s not gas or water or something that you drain out the more you use.

Time is divided into time slots and that time is going to pass whether you put something in the packet or not. If that time slot was empty, it is wasted and you can never get it back. So you really want to be able to use all time slots as much as you can.

But ISPs want to be able to advertise fast speeds that make them look impressive, though they don’t want to you actually be able to use it because then they have to upgrade their pipes. So they play these tricks where they can claim you have fast speeds but then this magical bucket of data gets depleted every time you use it.
I appreciate people like you but unfortunately most companies' policy mandates not talking about the reasons due to some sort of legal risk of law suit.
Yea any time I'm using a raid setup (as opposed to a cluster or other more intelligent system like zfs) I insist that there be at least one hot spare and a cold one ready. And never let anyone convince you a raid is a backup
I've been shat on by pigeons about half a dozen times in 3 different countries. It's a consequence of living in cities as Pigeons are mostly urban dwellers, the same way you probably stepped on dog shit cos the owner didn't scoop it. I don't hate pigeons though, I befriended one guy (could be a girl, who knows) in my patio a year ago here in San Francisco. He had a slight cripple from getting his leg run over. He shows up at the same time every morning for his feed. I usually give him leftover rice or bread and sometimes pumpkin seeds.

I love pigeons. Pigeons are very smart birds[1] and are supposed to have understanding of advanced concepts like time and space.[2]. Humans understandably hate them cos no-one likes getting "shit on" like literally. And since we have guns and poison, we find justifications for mass killing of a species that we declare is a 'nuisance' to our lives.

Vaguely related: Mike Tyson Defends the Pigeon: https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/bird-week-mike... ]

[1] How Smart Is This Bird? Let It Count the Ways - https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/science/pigeons-can-learn...

[2] Pigeons are smart enough to perceive abstract concepts like time and space - https://qz.com/1147518/pigeons-are-smart-enough-to-perceive-...
Storm surge isn't a danger to a ship unless it's docked on shore or gets pushed ashore. It's really not that different from a tsunami in that regard a ship at sea just moves up with the bulk of the water.
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Ask HN: Good Taxonomy Naming Conventions?
How do you go about naming things? I struggle with this. Especially when it comes to frontend design. I use mostly BEM style naming, but I find things to be too verbose sometimes, slowing down productivity and readability. Often times the first tool I grab off my shelf is a thesaurus.

Do you struggle with naming things, or have methods for handling this? I find what is most helpful is to use an analogy with a well defined hierarchial taxonomy. For instance:

- A stick figure has a head, a body, feet, arms - much like the DOM has a header, body, footer, and asides. Arms have fingers, feet has toes, much like there are footer links and aside widgets.

These examples could be either found in nature or just well established in society. What I am looking for is taxonomy hierarchial examples that could be used in any application, that aren't namespaced already. Examples for class inheritance is (animal → dog).

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Other applications relative to naming:

- CSS classes, and their hierarchial relationships

- Designing a CSS framework & its naming conventions

- Functions, variables, classes, etc for frontend or backend

- Defining different UX webcomponent names and their hierarchial relationships

- Defining keyword definitions document for larger projects, both from the users & developers standpoint

- Designing endpoint documentation for REST API's

- Writing technical documentation with actual relateable examples (without using the word foo or bar)

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What are examples you use?

Do you use these principles in your codebase?
> these ssds will last 2 years given that their sustained write throughput is X GB/sec on average

You are forgetting that Okmeter is a monitoring tool, not a backup warehouse. They are talking about the causes the fast wearout was made and how you could detect it with their product. Backblaze on the other hand is all about data storage and they have a good statistics because of massive amount of discs they use, so they are making reports about specific models and how they behave.
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I would have simply ignored that HR person and given honest but polite feedback.
That's a straw man. I was talking about this:

> front-end job where they explicitly told you that you will be using Angular 8 hours a day
Could you dumb it down? Are you saying that because all the SSDs were from the same manufacturer and installed at the same time their chance of collectively wearing out simultaneously was high?
I see, okay.

Yeah, I wish it was different tho' :/
How AI is revolutionizing business productivity
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

It's in private alpha now, but if you're interested, just send me an email to the address in the blog post and I'll give you an invite (offer's open to anyone else as well).
also, the gp's first link (MAPS.ME) is available on FDroid as an open source fork with ads & blobs removed: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/

It also comes with some nice extra features added, but ymmv on the stability of those features
Managerial CYA, and fear of the potential for litigation are crippling corporations more that I think we'd like to admit. Financial risk is something people seem comfortable accepting, but the specter of unknowable legal risk cause so many management anti patterns and so much passive aggressive behavior is it incredible.

As a relatively junior person in management, it is amazing the kind of phantom fears I've been cautioned against. Some of which don't even have any legal precedent at all!

I think a lot of it is trotted out as managerial "emergency hypothesis" for why someone doesn't want to do something, and so invents some plausible legal risk to justify their decision. But, honestly, it can't be only that.
This isn't supposed to be implemented now: these are all pilot studies to see if - in the future - UBI makes sense. We don't yet know whether automation will replace most jobs (I'm of the opinion that it will), but if it does, spending all that money on making sure everyone can buy their food and pay rent becomes worth it. Right now, funding the things you listed does seem to make more sense, but this will change if the job market starts getting smaller and smaller.
Agree. I remember having applied to McKinsey many years ago as a graduate. I got rejected after the first round of interview, but one of the interviewers would call me to explain their rationale. I was very grateful but I can imagine that it must be painful when the candidate doesn't react well or sees that as an opportunity to put the foot back in the door.
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Yup. And (especially) since government is gatekeeping who gets to be an ISP, it has a responsibility to ensure providers focus on providing a useful service rather than using the junction as strategic chokepoint.
Drug stores near where I live still use them in the drive-throughs.
>> It should be more expensive to be big.

It is, but they can afford it because when it comes to access to capital, they're at the front of the line. When the Fed creates new money through government loans or engages in open market operations, corporations are the first entities to get a hold of that money. It's like they have pipelines that feed new Fed-generated cash straight into their bank accounts.

Just look at Oracle; their software is mostly legacy. They make all their money from huge government contracts. The government doesn't really care about how inefficient or expensive Oracle is because the money comes from taxpayers; if the government overspends, they can just get more money from the Fed.
I interviewed for an internal position once and got similar feedback, by phone, from the HR person. She was on the phone with me for about an hour and, in all honesty, that rejection phone call made that one of the best interviews I've ever had.

I didn't get that job, but it gave me a lot of constructive advice and I ended up getting the next one I interviewed for.
>I'm certain someone did such surveys.

Sure, it's easy enough. But until you can actually point to the surveys, we can't say anything about the code on Github relating to the point being made.
It is harder to build a work-sample regimen than to just send candidates to interviewers, sure. But then, the point of Triplebyte is that they're eating all that work for you.

Regarding "fleets of laptops" and environments and all that jazz: these seem like unforced obstacles. Just have the candidates use their own machines. Here's a crazy idea: have them use their own offices/couches, too.

Regarding security practices... come on. We have an interview process that involves giving remote developers read/write access to an entire AWS environment. These are simple engineering problems. If they're the only thing stopping you from having a better interviewing process, and you hire regularly, just go solve the problems.
Former Tesla employee shares horror stories about their IT
This python project is modelled on yahoo pipes is worth taking a look at: https://github.com/nerevu/riko
One guy [1] manipulated a bottle return machine to get a cash out of some 40,000€. He prevented the machine from shredding the bottle, so he could return it 180,000 times.

[1] (German only) http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/koeln-betrueger-erbeut...
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Visit the Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas.

You'll be amazed by the deadly and complicated things that can be built with little material but a lot of time.
The post 4th Industrial Revolution economy
I found that having a long walk in a park or some place with lots of greenery, while also listening to some podcasts, is amazing for relaxation, as well as of course being healthy.

Choosing interesting and funny podcasts prevents me from getting bored of taking the same walking/jogging route daily. Some of the nice podcasts I enjoy and learn a lot from: freakonomics radio, tell me something I don't know, TED radio hour.
Yes, the email is from 2015.

The bigger difference that I see is your statement that "Every few months, I check that all our recommended resources are still up-to-date, available, and free."

In some unfruitful further communication with TripleByte, I asked how I was supposed to improve, given that their feedback seemed to be "we have no qualms with your ability, but we don't think you can pass an interview". They recommended that I sign up on interviewing.io. I did that, and a year later, I was still on the wait list. (I eventually got off the waitlist when complaining about this same sequence of events on HN, and an interviewing.io employee saw the complaint. I don't think that approach scales well.)
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You could say this about literally any state law.
I think you can select topics that you are specifically interested in, such as "neural networks". Then it shows relevant/recent articles.
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How do you imagine they would give feedback on something that's neither technical nor illegal? I'm imagining everything from "we found you too arrogant" to "you smelled awful when you came in"...
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You need something that confirms the take-home test was really done by the candidate.

I have received take-home tests, passed via recruiters, where the recruiters literally sent me the solutions given by previous successful candidates "for reference".
Not originally, though Microsoft have recently added an OSM layer to Bing, and Apple have attributed OSM as being a contributor to their overall AppleMaps dataset in some parts of the world.
Inoffensive and sockless.
But there is affordable housing. The only problem is that the affordable housing is not in the big cities that those people would like to live in.

Go to a smaller town and housing is pretty cheap there. If you get a larger influx of people moving there because of cheap housing, then those cities will suddenly have more job openings available because they have to meet the needs of more people.
The EFF's press release was not referring to net neutrality as a general concept, it was specifically talking about concrete language in the 2015 Open Internet Order.

There's too much to quote here, but you can search for throttling to see what the rule would have banned: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-open-internet-orde...
I'd try it again, what is the process to reapply?
I find this religion quite amusing.
True for mobile, but there’s a good chance that if I want to use it on my phone, I’ll also want to use it on my desktop and in the latter case a tab is unavoidable.
They sound terrible.
Great read! I'm still missing something though...

Is there synchronization between the GPU and the FrameBuffer to tell it that the GPU has finished drawing the current frame? This may be a rare case but I'm getting stuck at the Sample Code.

I'm assuming we're reusing the same FrameBuffer object so it seems like we're using the same two pixel array references. If the GPU can't tell the game it's not done with the current buffer, couldn't the game easily start writing into the buffer the GPU is currently working with if it's just swapping in its own loop? This assumes the game has already drawn the next frame and has swapped back to the former frame.

In the reverse case I guess the game loop could fall behind and we keep writing the same frame and introducing lag.
Apple could have negotiated what it needed, if that's what it was. From what I can recall the issue was indemnification.
Once you get to a certain level in your career, part of your job is to be the go to person that explains things, mentors, spends way too much time in meetings and just greases the wheels. The heads down developer is not seen as the multiplier like the team lead/architect is and they get paid accordingly. I have my office days where I expect to get interrupted and my work from home days where I don’t.

No one gets promoted by constantly telling coworkers and management to RTFM.