skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mountain View required Facebook to give up the free meals benefit to lease a building. Google jumped through tons of hoops to develop housing in Mountain View.

Palo Alto has blocked new housing for the last decade. They enforce strict zoning that has curtailed commercial development too.
Show HN: Android – How to record and replay touch events
If you're interested, here's a collection of resources on compilers correctness (testing & fuzzing, validation, and verification): https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/compilers.cor...
I bet Trump praises this by the end of next week.
Uber Is Building Its Own Scooter to Compete in Frenzy
Yes that could be added as well :) But at this point I think that may be better that the developer creates a custom back button. If it is enabled by zircle the button's position could be overlaped by another custom z-spot. Having said that, I think there is room for further optimizations regarding zircle-ui.
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Interesting talks from Hot Chips 2018
>You can do in C++ everything you can do in C.

By that logic, we should all use "omniglot", one language in which all the top 100 languages are first-class supported. What could possibly go wrong :D
I believe it was Charles Stross who had a character say "We would like to have Albert Einstein working in the patent office, but it still needs to function if we hire Mr. Bean".
My sibling and their friends use the Cash app, they find the social networking aspect of venmo appalling. I think when Venmo came out, there was nothing else as convenient, so we accepted the social networking aspect for the convenience.

Man, what a brilliant feature though, for Venmo. Provide users with Emoji autocomplete, get perfectly labeled transactions. If I try to pay my roommate for electricity, it asks me to use a series of emojis that represent "electricity bill." In this way, Venmo is getting users to remove the ambiguity in describing their transactions. Something like "electricity" could refer to say, a night club, but Venmo got me to accurately label it as a power bill.
All car makers (not only the German ones) buy their tech from Bosch, another German company.
You touch on the twisted point about medicine for dogs: there are often lots more treatments for them, at least as many as for humans. But this isnt because of funding. it is because nearly ever human treatmemt was once tested on dogs. And they arent all pets... or even sick. Sometimes the path to human testing leads through dark places.
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Quality of shoes don't exactly matter when you are running away from fire. Unfortunately that's how the start up analogy works.

Quality of shoes matter if you work at a garage or car wash, or may be even if you are a professional fire fighter.

Its one thing to say 'My firefighters came out fine in the building fire wearing bad shoes.' totally a different thing to say 'Bad shoes need to be provided to firefighters.'
If you reply to emails before 9 and after 6, you're telling your manager/client ... hey! I am at your disposal 24/7. By the way, if your boss gave you a "work laptop" you're already screwed.
Why do keynote speakers keep suggesting that improving security is possible?
Hate doodle polls? try whenisgood
What does administration work mostly consist of?
F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development
Shoulders of Giants – Charlie Munger and Li Lu Interview 08/2018
I use the Cash app as well. And I can't really tell if your second paragraph is a joke or not!
In 2016, before the US election, I posted this comment on problem of rumours in China and the thread turned pretty nasty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11405320

Now with the revelation of fake news and dis-information, Western countries are scrambling to tackle this problem through fact checking. But who is the authoritative source?

The west seems to believe that government should be the last candidate, but maybe China can prove it wrong and demonstrate having trust between citizens and their government.

Edit: I just want to have a discussion on the trust relationship between citizens and the government, but if people feel this is going into an ideological battle, feel free to flag this comment.
Sick days. Health is the most important thing.
I read "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" recently and think this book can help you.
the peak of MDMA is more like 1.5 hrs. A good lsd dose will have you peaking for 6 hours.
>Good luck getting 9p to work reliably faster than NFS...

Could you elaborate on that? From what I've heard (in my echo chamber), NFS is "complex, slow, and unreliable" while 9P2000 is "simple, fast, and reliable".
This is just a weird concept. Sure, not growing is risky in the existential, everything is risky sense. Profitability makes that far less scary.

The biggest cost for most SAAS business is salaries. If times get tough, letting people go is always an option, and if a company makes a 30% margin - which $1.5M and 500K profit is almost exactly - that means the non-salary costs likely need to grow by a few thousand percent before there is a profit pinch.

I'd take $500K profit and control over loss making and hope. But that's just my personal risk profile.
What do people do when they go camping or hiking? What do people do when they go to the beach? What do people do when they go to a park? What do people do when they have dinner with their family and friends?

If you can't sit still and enjoy yourself just being, you will be in constant pain, and any break in that pain is only momentary relief. Most people pile distractions on top of distractions to shield themselves from their misery.
I think there are deeper questions to be asked:

- What is the false negative rate for currently mandated FDA mandated efficacy studies?

- How can studies be improved so it identifies good/bad drug candidates better and quicker?
Drum Cover / Bold / Jen Ledger
I think it's brilliant the same way that an evil genius is brilliant. Still evil though. And yes, that is actually what Venmo does if you try to type in "electricity bill"
The first paragraph is incorrect. The wing has to be built to withstand lift, which far exceeds the weight of the engines. The weight force of the engine typically counteracts the lifting force, which means -- if you're clever with your design -- you can build a lighter wing structure with a bigger engine. This is why the engines are typically located on the wing in the first place -- aside from being easier to access for maintenance, it reduces the weight of the aircraft.

The second problem with battery-electric aviation is that most large aircraft aren't designed to land at their take-off weight. Landing gear typically comprises some of the heaviest materials on the airframe, so landing at a lighter weight than you take off at is a big advantage. This also manifests in the range of the vehicle. Burning fuel reduces the power needed to maintain lift, which give you additional range with your remaining fuel. By comparison, range with battery-powered aircraft would be linear.

The last hurdle is just the sheer energy density required. A 747 requires 50-60MW just to stay airborne at cruise, and will produce on the order of 250MW during take-off. Even a business jet produces ~10-15MW at max power, and will cruise at around 1.5-3MW. Over the course of a 10 hour flight, the lower bound is somewhere around 10-15MWh, which would be 37-56 metric tonnes of battery mass using the upper limit of current battery energy density (265Wh/kg). Keep in mind, it's not enough just to get to your destination, you also need a reserve while you're in the holding pattern, plus an additional safety factor.

There might be interesting new markets opening up in the personal air-taxi space, but I'm skeptical. Personally, I think the new wave of short-haul rooftop-hopping electric aircraft will prove to be a black hole money-pit, and a regulatory nightmare. The aerospace industry is littered with broken dreams.
The only rationale given here is this:

> At the moment a detailed rationale is not provided for most of this, so figuring out why some things are considered more or less harmful than others is left as an exercise for the reader. Here is a hint: complexity is the bane of all software, simplicity is the most important quality. See also: Worse is Better by Richard Gabriel.

This is, well, just another way for people to turn their opinions into objective fact. The lumping of C++, D, Python and Ruby all together betrays either a lack of sincerity, or over-opinionation to the point of myopia.

The page links to Zed's rant about how Rails is a ghetto, while he makes some great points about the economics of that ecosystem, I'm left with no salient reasons why I shouldn't choose Rails for a project. Sure, if I want to do what he tried to do in that space, I have no reason to not expect I'll have the same kind of experience he did. The Rails community might be a ghetto, but my project doesn't have to be.

Read between the lines and you see Zed does have respect for Ruby and the Zen of the language. To see it linked on cat-v, to my mind looking for real reasons why people should and shouldn't do things, well, the essay clashes pretty hard with the seeming ideology that "complexity is the bane of all software." Zed was perfectly fine with Rails and all its complexity, he just hated the community and ecosystem. Cat-V is linking to his essay not because they actually agree with him, but because they are enamored with his style.

The whole site reads like a bunch of neckbeards blowing off steam.
..but coffee is also acidic? what am I missing here?
so the question is, how close to the cost of the real car is it? it certainly is not cheap but I have no means to estimate the costs of LEGOs or custom pieces
That's strange.
To double-check that i typed it into my blog correctly, I copy-and-pasted the code from the post into my python IDE and it compiles and runs properly in my environment. For what it is worth, I am using Python 2.7 on a 64-bit windows machine. Maybe someone else reading has some ideas?

You should notice that after my example code, I have included two other people's code demos so that you can see the same algorithm from a different perspective. Maybe these will help you understand what's required.

In summary, for 2 dimensions, x and y coordinates of the n-th term (n = 1,2,3,....) are defined as:

g = 1.32471795724474602596090885447809
a1 = 1.0/g
a2 = 1.0/(g*g)
x[n] = (0.5+a1*n) %1
y[n] = (0.5+a2*n) %1

where %1 is the mod 1 operator and takes the fractional part of the argument.
Hope that helps.
> VP of Engineering, due to his lack of ability to directly evaluate work, he would base performance reviews on a weighted average of your teammates' assessment of your work

I know this is an old hat discussion, and this argument was lost ages ago, (and I don't know if you are specifically referring to this) but that situations like this happen at all really bothers me.

Assuming the "VP of Engineering" means "VP of Software Engineering" (or the "CTO" of a software company, or equivalent). If he/she can't truly evaluate the work, he/she is not qualified to be in that role, full stop, no exceptions. No one expects them to read/write code all day (often, they might spend no time at all reading/writing code anymore). But they have to be able to do so, or they have no place in that role.

In the same way that the Chief Nursing Officer at a Hospital has to have been a qualified licensed RN, and be able to be a qualified licensed RN, even if they don't actually work as a nurse on the floor anymore.
I would say that pointer colouring is a type of pointer tagging. AFAIK the colouring in ZGC represents different states. So the memory page mappings rely on the pointer having one colour (1 of the 4 bits set) whereas pointer tagging is the term for the general concept of encoding information in pointers.
Read how to win friends and influence people. I used to have similar issues and you just need to understand what people want out of an interaction. My crippling social anxiety is put at bay by constantly pushing past my comfort zone. It's a slow process but eventually it kinda just stops.
I regularly sit on creations out of my daughter's duplo.
> You did: the position of neutrality. The position of not taking a stance either way. The position of actually doing stuff, like, in the real world, orthogonal to that of politics. The area outside of politics.

Everything is political. Pretending it isn't is a luxury that you yourself have, as a person who is privileged enough that they aren't in any way forced to think about the politics of any action they take.

> politics, as practiced currently, is a virus

Again, it always was. You were just privileged enough that you could safely ignore it without it impacting any part of your life.
I think a lot of people misjudge Silicon Valley. They aren't where they are because of vision. They are there because they managed to control much of technology. They aren't going to give away any opportunities regardless if it is housing or smart phones. They of course have to keep up appearances, some might even believe it, but the reality is that if housing became cheap people would lose hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars. And if they let go of control of the technology market they would lose a lot of market share, if not their jobs.

I personally don't think there has ever been any real indication that the Bay Area would become utopian. It is just that there used to be a "flaw" (relative to US society) where technology was undervalued, so opportunities were cheap. That has now been corrected, so you are paying for those opportunities.
I saw a metal frame being used to assemble the car in one of the videos but I didn't see them remove it after putting the body together.
>> It's not that hard.

Please elaborate. I'm sure everyone looking to turn their little Silicon Alley, Meadows, Walkway into a thriving techno metropolis is all ears.
I think everyone can agree that software sucks cause of X, Y, and Z.

But, when I see a list like this. Its quite obvious that this is coming from a mindset of the average user should not be using software at all.

Imagine if you will, your grandma always calling you up because she got lost in the textual interface. Yeah that would get old fast.

Also how would one look at cat pictures through a textual interface?
You're kidding yourself if you think every human has the same sleep needs. For me 5 to 7 hours is optimal, 8 hours or more leaves me sluggish for the day.
(2012) - Still cool though!
An armed society is a polite society

"Polite" just means "in keeping with cultural norms". If it's polite to deal with disagreements, injuries and insults by pulling a gun, that's still polite but I certainly wouldn't feel safe.
It is only a toy if it has no purpose beyond being a toy (see "art"). The bugatti can get me to work and back.
Well, sure. If you're going to bluff the car salesman, you have to be willing to walk out of the dealership (otherwise it really is just a bluff).
> This situation all but confirms that Slack has well and truly become a investor-first, user-second company.

You know how to predict if this will happen? It's pretty easy. It will if the company's product or service is proprietary and centralized. It's just a matter of time.
That's not exactly "powerful around the world" who are routinely vote for more censorship in democratic countries. There is no strict difference between "hate speech", "fake news" and "online rumours".
Technically RFC4180 isn't actually a standard but perhaps the world would be better if people could agree to treat it as such. However those living in countries that use the comma as a decimal separator may disagree.

> This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
And also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858019
How much evidence* is there that "stopping advertising [on TV]" necessarily causes a loss of market share?

* specifically evidence not funded by the ad industry
I don't log hours so it's kind of not relevant, but I mentally count lunch, especially if with coworkers. I can't quite bring myself to count the commute (also 30-45 min here). Counting both reduces 'real' working hours considerably.

Picking one or the other would be nearly equivalent anyway.
Because the main symptom of back pain is the patient reporting "My back hurts". If the patient instead reported "I have this lump in my testicles that wasn't there last week", I'd certainly think it's likely he might have cancer, and some good medical advice would be "go and ask a GP about that".
If Big Tech wanted to fix it, they could. They have the capital to purchase new governance in California & the Bay to effectively change the laws to foster growth.
Cable not adapter. IIRC a cable is okay but the adapter version is not. Like mentioned above/below, this is to prevent other USB-A things from causing problems. When you have a fixed cable, you remove a lot of the potential issues for misuse.
> GC’s SPECjbb 2015 throughput numbers are roughly comparable with the Parallel GC (which optimises for throughput) but with an average pause time of 1ms and a max of 4ms. This is in contrast to G1 and Parallel who had average pause times in excess of 200ms.

Not bad! Looking forward to seeing how this performs with a diverse range of workloads as it matures.
Isn’t Java a pay-to-play runtime now? I thought Oracle changed the licensing model after Java 8?
What they do is make it resilient to multi-hour fixes, while still keeping the light issues that look like emergencies but can be fixed by running a bat file to still go through, minimizing the work they have to do personally while still making them look like a hero.

Of course this will fall apart once their manager catches on but in some monolithic organizations that could take years
Astronauts are repairing a hole in wall of International Space Station
No it won't. One case in either direction means anything.

The game is that VCs will adjust, then founders. Then VCs. Then founders ad nauseam forever. This is just one small piece of a giant play being performed by many in different ways every day.
Of course people microdosing are a minority. But that doesnt mean you are not missing out. LSD should be used as a last resort for people with treatment resistant adhd/depression, but it can be a total miracle drug. I wonder why you are so quick to bash a drug that is increasingly being shown to be effective.
How to Read a Food Label
I'm glad they didn't buy into the refcount meme that's so inexplicably popular these days.
>Good luck getting 9p to work reliably faster than NFS

Fast != good. A slower system which works more reliably and elegantly is often (usually) a better choice.

>awk intead of ruby

I agree with this, though it's expressed poorly. For use-cases within the intersection of awk and ruby, use awk. For use-cases without, you probably shouldn't use ruby anyway.

>It's easier and simpler to use C++'s std::map than implement a red-black tree from scratch in C.

Easier, yes, simpler, no. When you use C++ you get all of the baggage that comes with it, increasing your complexity hugely.
High-Performance Graphics–Are We Going Back to Black and White?
I had that insight a while ago when I had to dig into a process that was sometimes brittle and supposed to be automated. There were probably 10 departments involved and we never found anybody who actually understood all the details. the thing just had evolved over the years and worked without anybody ever having designed it.
various orthogonal locking schemes ?
> But if the diversity training moves on to "you should have a positive view of gay marriage" or some such

So, again, the concern is of a hypothetical nature.
Any company that stores or processes identifiable info like photos, names or even ip address on EU citizens is within the scope of GDPR.

If I withdraw my consent for example from Venmo to hold my name. Is that public record altered?
How will this platform handle facts that are inconvenient for the moderating authority?
To be a good ad for Lyrebird, I would have at least put a ton more into the Obama/Trump voice samples. Enough that they didn't sound like they came out of a voip connection from the 1980's. All the current demo's make me think is "Well, if I'm going to do anything voice, use Poly".

Like I said, it's a really cool idea. If I could realistically duplicate my voice I'd certainly use that. But as of right now... meh.
You'd probably be torn to shreds in the lego one by the flying pieces and/or die when you try to leave the car and step on the million pieces lying around.
But this continue still todays, with hundreds-of-million dollars or euros projects being thrown away (or that should be thrown away, given their poor state).
Combined cycle gas turbines are actually higher efficiency than this. The current state-of-the-art is somewhere around 63% thermal efficiency.
Two syllable naming conventions will always prove dominant.

- Goo-gle

- Faceb-book

- Twit-ter

- Snap-chat

- Git-hub

The list goes on and on. Duck-Duck-Go is just a poorly thought through name and the fact it's 3 syllable just makes it worse. At least with Instagram you can abbreviate it (ins-ta).
Show HN: A cheap and different option to promote one's product or service
I've seen the letter and it's all questions you should be able to easily answer anyway.

The very first point in that letter requires identifying every communication you have ever had with or about the data subject that is still stored anywhere in your organisation, among other actions. If you think that is easy, presumably you know how to automate that process, in which case I look forward to seeing the multi-billion-dollar business you have presumably built scanning unstructured data reliably in ways that no-one else has figured out how to do yet.
SurveyMonkey files for NASDAQ IPO
In what sense can this actually be considered to be "AI"? It's software that builds a voice profile from input sources and then uses that profile to generate waveforms. Where is the intelligence?
Snapchat's Snap Map Is Currently Showing “slur” Instead of “New York City”
Created to help businesses big and small promote their products for cheap.

Main function is that the site lists 36 random listings and on every "pivot", those 36 listings are changed with 36 new random listings. Making sure no products are "left in the dust"

Currently more than 200k shoppers monthly

Thank you for your time.
I'm not exactly risk-averse - but thomas112 correctly deduced that I don't want to live in a society that basically says "f..k the poor". Also plenty of people with whom I studied are taking financial and career risks instead of going the "9 to 5 family life and happily ever after" route while staying in Europe. If you run a successful company here you can still make a lot of money ;-)
$1.17/hour for a V100 GPU vs. $3.06 at AWS
Sure for some no-true-Scotsman definition of “CRUD app” this is 100% true.

However even for the most boring CRUD app there is still unlimited applicability of intelligence and skill to build the right thing balancing speed of delivery, performance, UX, maintainability, and requirements compromise for simplicity. Doing this well is a path to business success far broader than winning a dick-measuring contest at FANG.