skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your librarians are administrative staff. Your research assistants are administrative staff. The people who do inventory are administrative staff. The people who do purchases are administrative staff. The people who work in the cafeteria are administrative staff. The people who install, maintain, and fix the computers used by all of the people in the list above are administrative staff. The people who fix a broken door are administrative staff. The people who are managing student housing are administrative staff. On-site campus security that busts freshmen parties are administrative staff.

Pretty much everyone who is drawing a salary, and is not a lecturing professor is administrative staff. If your university consists of a dozen lecture halls, and a storage closet, you don't need any administrative staff. The more facilities and services you have, the more administrative staff you will have. Stanford probably has a lot more facilities then your university did.

If you just want to lecture to people, education can be incredibly cheap. If you want to lecture to people, and have them use expensive lab equipment, and have them live on campus, and have hundreds of people, with teams of assistants doing research... It's going to be expensive.
The basic facts are black people commit more violent crime and have a correspondingly high rate of incarceration. They have a higher prevalence of single parent homes, a contributing factor to academic under achievement (and future crime). Blacks commit abortion at such an alarming rate, in some major US cities there are more black abortions than live births.

Screaming racism and demanding reparations (through redistribution of wealth, affirmative action, or other means) isn't going to change the real, underlying problems.
I think you mean catalytic converter? Which don't remove lead but do mitigate NOx/CO/Hydrocarbons and the like
gdb has been scriptable with python since 7.0 https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Python.html#Python
It seems most of his ideas lately are like this. Was he always so...wrong? Or is something personally going on in his life? Rumors that he tweeted about the privatization while on LSD seem to make a lot of sense when you watch his recent erratic behavior.

https://jalopnik.com/was-elon-musk-tweeting-on-acid-azealia-...
Bunks, combined with being able to get up for brief visits to the head, and perhaps a small bar (for food, drinks, and coffee), would be a dream long distance commute for me.
> I want to make sure you're interested in that work

Is the work something so unique that it's not roughly the same as work in multiple other companies?

Is the work going to be such that it's going to continue to be interesting even after the newness/novelty of such work has worn off?
> rotations from one point on the surface to the other

This is an interesting idea. You might want to keep track of the previous rotation, rather than just the previous point. You could do some kind of search over the space of unit quaternions to find ones which effectively distributed points.
I'm not terribly convinced. The point I'm about to make may be a minor one, but... what else is he misunderstanding that I cannot judge?

In his video on https://fluent-forever.com/getting-started/ at 2:50 he claims there's a subtle pronunciation difference between German "biete" (offer) and "bete" (pray).

The problem is, the difference in pronunciation isn't subtle. It's huge.
The difference in the real pronunciation of those words.

But when he demonstrates the supposed difference, I – as a native German speaker – hear the same word, "biete", both times.

His "bete" is so very wrong that no German speaker would ever consider it "bete" on its own. It's 100% "biete".

Only if you know typical English pronunciation and you have context you might draw the conclusion that "bete" is what he means.

I fully concede that hearing pronunciation differences in non-native languages is very hard. Probably more so for some people than for others. Unfortunately, I'm in the very very hard camp.

I will never hear the difference between hard and soft consonants in Russian. I listened to audio CDs, I listened to a native speaker who assured me the difference was as night and day. To no avail.

And I seem to hear something very different from a Swedish native speaker when a sj sound is spoken (the sj sound has wildly different phonetics throughout Sweden). There seem to be some Swedish dialects where I hear a very clear [x] (velar frivative) sound, but native speakers assure me it's far from it.

So he's certainly no dummy, but maybe not as successful in learning languages as he thinks.
"For people that are "too good for this process" - well, in my experience those are the ones that aren't a good fit for most organizations."

My experience is that most companies are asking for too much and being downright rude in the way that they do it. Especially from more senior people who have options.

I turned down a number of companies at (or just after) the phone screen stage during my last job search. Usually the pattern was that they'd done one form of preliminary screen, and then wanted to do one (or two, or three...) additional steps before going onsite. One company I remember asked me to do an eight hour programming exercise, after I had finished a phone-based technical screen. I told them it was unreasonable, and that I'd consider it only if I had nothing else to do with an entire day of my time. Never got back to them.

I am a tolerant person, but I am, indeed, too good for that kind of process. Early stage startups especially need to accept the reality that they're not attractive places to work, and behave accordingly. The less reasonable your process, the fewer good candidates will stay in the pipeline. Eventually, you're just intensely screening the people who didn't have better options.
I don't know, I kind of like it. I was writing a simple webextension within hours. Good tutorials etc.

New api functions are coming all the time as well. Its not yet as powerful as the old system but is there any reason to believe it will never be?
Maybe. My guess is that a car whose speedometer goes up to 300 MPH (and has all sorts of features to make high-speed driving great) is in the category of "attractive nuisance". It's like telling a kid not to stuff beans up their nose.

Looking at the most accident-prone cars, all the ones I recognize are sports cars: https://www.cars.com/articles/whats-the-most-crash-prone-car...
We need to lay all these informations on a large map, so we don't have to speculate. That said, I'm sure most of the western world is in blind oppulence. So much shit is thrown out or spoiled for no reason it's crazy.
The Feitian works just fine with the latest Firefox builds. The bluetooth functionality is great if you have an iPhone.
Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 and Von Neuman
Most tools mentioned are completely different tools from the ones they're suggested to be better versions of. I understand the comparison is for specific use-cases. For example, csvkit is far better than trying and failing to parse CSV with awk, but it's very much useless for any other type of text format. Same thing with jq (a JSON query tool) vs grep (a general text search tool). The only ones I can agree with in the general case are htop > top and ag || ack > grep (though I still prefer grep sometimes).
UK: NHS Doc Suspended for Negligently Killing Child Allowed to Practice Again
> select “Trackers (recommended)” to block cross-site tracking cookies.

What exactly is it they are blocking? Do they have a black list of sorts, or a heuristic?
I just created a Venmo account today, since I'm going to a class that requires payment via Venmo or cash, and I have no cash. They had a few screens at initial sign in that went over public vs private, and let you set it right there, although they advised leaving everything public. So at least they are making it easy to change for a first time user now that this news has come out.
Interesting paper, thanks for sharing!
I believe there's a biphasic learning curve. The first 4 languages might take long, but then you'd absorb most things easily.
Lol, 90% reimbursed by the government? No it's definitely not in the UK, not in Austria, not in Germany and any other European country I know. It's quite simple, the government introduces a law of minimum leave and all companies in the country either oblidge or have to leave. Not being able to serve a rich market like Europe is not an option, so that's really incentive enough for them to follow the rules.
Scooters to Return to San Francisco; City Only Picks Scoot, Skip
Kanazawa University Research: Body Temperature Regulation: How Fever Comes
TANSTAAFL. You’re paying for it somewhere even if you don’t see the price.
Wow, it's loading with the speed of light.

Bye, Google.
> "Intel has gotten better at this," he said.

Someone should let the BSD folks know and see what they think...
Same. You have to let the thing dry out.
> CRUD apps ... don’t stretch your architectural skills, they don’t stretch your systems skills, nor your language skills.

then

> This is because most CRUD applications generally boil down to ... 2) SQL and DB architecture, ...

Hmm? Do CRUD apps, in your opinion, involve architecture or not? I can't tell what your position is.

In any case, CRUD is generally used to mean "RESTful", which basically means you have an HTTP API on top of the app.

Some cases I've seen started with trivial underlying NoSQL DBs, and then grew insanely complex. That's architecture right there. Even if you start with SQL, if you don't know the language and how to model the data effectively, then chances are you'll end up in a world of hurt.
The tunnel boring machine would likely cost much more, for a larger tunnel, but it's fixed relative to the length and a capital expenditure, much of which can be recovered or re-used. The amount of material moved would be proportional to the area of the tunnel, but I can't see that as a major cost factor. A larger machine would need more lining material, and more workers...

And it still doesn't address the terminals.
There is already rail connecting Hollywood to downtown that doesn't see particularly high usage. I am not sure why this specific real estate needs to be reserved for a second Hollywood to downtown subway line that as far as I am aware has not made any progress in the decade or two since it was initially proposed.
Drive-by code reviews (and maybe other types of annotated "audits", like for security bugs) would be a nice feature source repo sites might consider adding one day. It seems like a missing practice in open source development, code reviews (if any) are done by active developers once on check-in/merge acceptance. But as we see here code reviews can be a useful way to pay it forward too, not just new code / issue fixes, and done out-of-band there's no pressure to bow to the reviewer just to get something in; you can just have conversations and learn things.

The video format is a nice twist, in my distributed teams sometimes we've done "code review meetings" for some changes that are rather involved to capture some of the benefits of in-person / video code reviews.
Tried to cover it up? It's an unclassified report from the test pilot. Not really intended for public disclosure, but this isn't the Pentagon Papers. And the author of the article has an axe to grind against almost all of the military. He left out most of the in that mitigated the story he's been pushing for a decade.
If you're clever about it, you can do U2F using the secure enclave built into touchID. You don't even need a separate device.
As someone who is continuously trying to get people to use self hosting over web services I somehow expect that will be a tough sell.
Google AMP: How to Debug Your Pages
That's right AirBNB isn't to blame for the overall lack of housing - but it is to blame for pushing people out of housing. Landlords can make much more money if they kick out all of their tenants and rent to people on AirBNB - effectively turning the property they own into a hotel.

The long term solution for this is to have more housing, but that isn't going to fix the problem that many face currently. I think the best course of action to take right now is to put laws in place that restrict AirBNB in some ways.

For example, this recently happened in Boston: https://boston.curbed.com/2018/6/13/17460760/boston-airbnb-r...

These new regulations makes it so that AirBNB "Hotels" would be impossible. Of course it /does/ screw over an individual that would possibly want to rent their apartment out while they're away, but I think the pros outweigh the cons. Namely, if you're able to afford a single person apartment in Boston - you're probably more well off than other people in Boston, so you probably don't need the extra income provided by AirBNB anyway.
Of course if/when a1 gets also referenced from outside while you may not need B any more that is then the things become more interesting.
I feel like a capsule hotel-style bunk would be way more comfortable than current airline seats for single travelers.
"As part of the investment, KaiOS will be working on integrating Google services like search, maps, YouTube and its voice assistant into more KaiOS devices, after initially announcing Google apps for KaiOS-powered Nokia phones earlier this year."

Google is everywhere. What if you don't want it on your KaiOS-powered Nokia phone and prefer open source alternatives? If I want Google, I'll get Android with OpenGapps. It has terrific support for Google's products.
Yup, I can't believe the author didn't go over something like this. It's the perfect use for the JTI. Put it as a column on your users table and all set. We use a Ruby authentication library that does exactly this.
>There's just no good approach.

There's no silver bullet, that's why companies should offer alternative recruitment paths. Some prefer a take-home assignment, some a face-to-face interview etc.
> McDonalds is a great example of this. Minimum wage is headed to $15/hr and they've replaced 80% of the front counter staff with self-order kiosks

The jobs in line against kiosks were already gone, and won’t come back, whatever you do to minimum wage.
Someone paid attention to what Redislabs did, and wanted to get ahead of it. In the most ass way possible.
They are getting better, even if they didn't set a very high bar to begin with. I believe they let the FreeBSD folks know about the last round of Intel bugs as opposed to trying to keep them in the dark like the first few rounds of Intel bugs.
They don't need to spoof your comms to deny you said comms. All they need is a good jamming system. If you have no comms to your drone, then you're toast.
I am struggled with caring for a parent in the past and its far more burdensome( mentally and physically) than having a baby( which i also experienced).

Why can't everyone get equal paid time for 'life events' instead of just for having a baby.
No, you’re wrong. The policies differ between various places, and it’s not always 90% of last pay, but almost always it is government or social security who foots the bill, not the employer.
China officials 'faked water tests with bottled water'
The inclusion of Ponysay over cowsay is dubious at best.

Let me be clear: Ponysay has its niche. But with the Ansible stack providing great out of the box integration with Cowsay, it's clear which is the tool of choice for modern workflows.

On a serious note, TL:DR is amazing in some cases. The man page for "tar" compared to the TL:DR is much more unwieldy for 99% of use cases, for example.

I love ripgrep and htop, and I think that a lot of people new to *nix cli's would love tree as well!
If you're taking ownership of the city, you also kinda have to take responsibility for the city's mismanagement of housing supply.
SFMTA Offers Two Permits for One-Year Powered Scooter Pilot
> That number is probably growing over time (as the article alludes to).

I don't see them growing that fast, nor do I see all that growth being in the US. Companies can only grow so fast or they end up hurting themselves.

Additionally, I have been seeing an increasing nber of online anecdotes about Google and Facebook rejecting candidates who passed the interviews because there was no head count at their level.

> I mean, just take a look at how many positions Netflix alone is hiring for:

112 is less than a rounding error when there are well over a million people currently employed in some sort of software development position.

> Supposedly, this is also changing as their demands are growing and they've had to "lower the bar", so-to-speak.

I haven't personally seen any evidence of this, and every time their processes come up for discussion here there seems to be no end of defenders of these practices.
> We have this expression "Information wants to be free".

This expression refers to public available information which is nevertheless copyrighted and costs money. [0]

I have never in my life (before now) heard anyone seriously argue that all private information, and all personal secrets should be free.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
I'm not against energy efficiency, however, conservation is fundamentally the wrong approach. What is the future going to look like?

- Earth will have another 10,20,30 Billion people living on it

- These people, if we don't screw up and start another war, will want a house, air conditioning, a car, air travel, lots of kids, and more

- Human will inhabit more parts of the Earth that are uninhabitable (Antarctica, Siberia, Canada, Australia), which will require an order of magnitude increase in energy for heating/cooling

- Industry and manufacturing will need to provide for the leisure spending of billions of additional humans (iPhones, Televisions, etc)

- New technologies will require orders of magnitude more energy, such as flying cars, space travel, etc.

The solution to these things isn't to crawl in a hole and try to shave a few % efficiencies out of a washing machine or a pickup truck. Energy isn't a limited resource. It's one of the most abundant things in the universe. With today's technology (Nuclear Fission and one day, Fusion) you could make energy more cheaply and abundantly than the air we breathe.

People should expect to behave as if energy is free. And energy should be free. The problem is that society at large (and NIMBYs and Anti-Nuclear activists) don't have any imagination and therefore set back our civilization and post-scarcity society 50-100 years.
By the name, I imagined it would be a successor to the iPhone SE, probably the only smartphone in the market I can comfortably use with just the one hand.

It turns out it's anything but that.
They never needed to be dependent in the first place. We're probably centuries behind where we could have been if half the population had been allowed to contribute from the start.
A majority of the trading volume and, thus, the apparent market liquidity is in Tether. The problem with this is that Tether doesn't represent real liquidity since there's no way to redeem Tethers to actual USD. Tether currently represents a pool of USD that is trapped in the crypto market. This makes the crypto market seem much deeper and wider than it really is. The only Tether:USD market on Kraken doesn't have enough liquidity for a large entry/exit.
> “We have people with degrees doing Mickey Mouse jobs and young people who will have no occupational pension and no house to sell to see them through old age."

Correction: you have people with Mickey Mouse degrees unable to find gainful employment. Millennials that studied STEM are doing just fine.
Big batteries are a solved problem. You use electricity to pump water uphill. When you want the electricity back, you let it run back downhill through a turbine.

This does not require mining lithium either, btw.
FYI, RAM got spun out of Dodge a few years ago. So now all the trucks are made by RAM, rather than Ram being the model name.
It's 90% for the first six weeks and is taxable, for maternity leave only, then some low amount of a few hundred a month for the rest. There's a separate entitlement for unpaid parental leave. Many employers pay higher and for longer than statutory amounts.
>There's never been a disagreement about issue severity in the history of any development project, that's for sure.

Right, but take a look at the groups doing the categorization. The team that rated the issue Category I was the actual QA testing team, made up of engineers and aviators. The Board that downgraded it was made up of managers and bureaucrats, the majority of which, according to the article at least, have a vested interest in the process rather than the result. This reads to me as a Dilbert comic.

Engineer: "We tested the product. It has these 111 critical defects, any one of which can destroy the product, or the user. These need to be fixed as soon as possible"

PHB: "Would you call these fixes an upgrade to the current system?"

Engineer: "Yes, in that it would upgrade the product to "not death to look at"

PHB: Downgrades issue "Perfect. So we can fix it after we ship and charge an extra 40% as part of our exclusive upgrades contract"
I think there should be a distinction between Canonical and debian, but Ubuntu is certainly based on Debian, and the latter should be used when talking big scale like he did. Many cloud services and providers run on Ubuntu, and as long as Ubuntu uses apt and .deb, it's Debian (along with Linux Mint, elementaryOS, etc)
David became Goliath
We cannot make an F-22 right now. A few years ago, Lockheed Martin was asked how much they thought it would cost to restart F-22 production. The cost was several billion dollars. Plus, the people with the intimate knowledge of how to build an F-22 are dispersed throughout the rest of the industry, retired, or deceased.
> They build a metro but it doesn't go where people want, like the airport, the Rose Bowl, or the new stadium they are building.

Metro rail connects some of the densest residential (South LA, Koreatown/Mid-Wilshire, Mid-City, Palms, Hollywood) and commercial (Long Beach, Pasadena, Koreatown, Hollywood, Downtown, Santa Monica) districts of the region.

Prioritizing Metro rail construction to bring people to POIs like LAX or the Rose Bowl for what amounts to a handful of trips a year per person would be a waste. Better to serve trips people make nearly every day, like commuting to work or school and going shopping.
How many android installations use Intel processors?

Edit: never mind, Android was apparently indeed effected.

https://www.androidcentral.com/meltdown-spectre
What's wrong with a db call on each request? A single server can handle over 10,000 of those per second..
The Book of Procedures is like a computer program. The unskilled workers are the CPU and those who create the Book of Procedures are like programmers.
"The other aspect is that some of us actually like our work and want to succeed at it"

I like my work and want to succeed at it too. Do not insinuate that someone who values their time outside of work doesn't. That is demeaning and insulting to the rest of us who have lives outside of work.
> I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but seeing this so often...

I have similar problems in Chrome on the rare occasion I use it, so my theory is just a lack of quality control.
I would never make such a statement without having been there.

I spent quite a lot of time walking in non-tourist areas, particularly small towns with dirt roads. I met a few locals on different occasions and visited their poorly built houses with no A/C, insects walking everywhere as the door was open to let the wind in, and pipes leaking.

The stores are also severely limited in supply and prices were high for everything.

The people were clearly depressed, which was apparent undertone even as they feigned niceness to the foreigners.

I'm honestly shocked at people with a clear ideological agenda who try to pretend like their economic experiment wasn't a complete failure.

Other parts of latin america and caribbean might be poor but Cuba could have done so much better. You can tell they are a strong-willed industrious people who work hard.