skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do I efficiently copy text in tmux in multi-column mode?! Selecting with mouse grabs the pipe characters and text from other columns, arghh!
I'd agree that would be sufficient if we didn't see stories like this one about people overwhelmingly feeling left behind by technological progress. As it is, there's something missing between where education is and where it needs to be. Maybe it's just that the general quality of education is poor so people don't know how to use what they've learned. Or maybe there are new topics that need to be introduced to keep people functionally literate in the modern world. Or both.
Their point isn't really diminished by you claiming easy efficiency gains using "some computer program/social platform".
Check the restrooms. That's where disgruntled employees act on their frustrations and take revenge on the company. Broken and dirty restrooms are a red flag.

Also, try to find out who left the company recently, reach to them on linkedin and try to chat a bit about the reasons to leave. Take it with a grain of salt, thou.
I wrote this specifically for data science jobs but I think it translates reasonably well into any technical role:

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-science-career-advice-to...

The short answer is that it all depends on what you are looking for in a position.

The longer answer is ask them what they do (as a company, team, etc.), then ask them what infrastructure (technical and organizational) they have in place to do that. Then ask them about non-managerial growth paths (unless you're a manager).

Finally, ask them to give you a question - some business problem they're trying to solve - that they themselves don't know the answer to. Ask to sit in a room with the people who would be involved in planning a solution to that problem, and actually plan out the initial steps of solving it. That will tell you more about the team dynamics and the workplace environment than any explicit questions you might ask.
In production? I think I'm misreading your comments.
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> For instance, you do not need to wait until after installation to enable FileVault because "there is more entropy available to the system".

Looks like the author of the original Filevault paper thinks otherwise: https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide/is...

> Nor can you test the security of a CSPRNG by running "ent" on it!

Curious how then to test the PRNG output?

> In the same vein: don't run out and sign up for a commercial OpenVPN hosting service, and for Christ's sake don't install AV software on your Mac.

Ironically, the guide specifically says these exact two things ;)

> followed by advice to use Transmission to torrent videos to watch in VLC.

Transmission and VLC are better alternatives to most of the ad- and malware-ridden crapware out there, usually dominating search results. Of course, torrenting is bad for security and privacy - why don't you send a pull request with a strongly worded statement for effect?
>"Big, loud engines and noisy V8s, it just doesn't draw the same attention and I think interest with the younger crowd," said Jeff Schuster, a senior vice president at the forecasting firm LMC Automotive.

No, I think it still does, it's just that the younger crowd doesn't have the money to buy a V8 muscle car. The price of these cars keeps going up, and when you combine it with packages, the price goes even higher.
Endurance by Alfred Lansing - It's a well-written book about the incredible story of Earnest Shackleton's attempt to be the first team to cross Antarctica by land.
If Nissan would license battery cooling technology from Tesla, the current Leaf would almost be in the same class as the Tesla Model 3. It's less stylish, slower, more "econobox," but seems only to lack the ability to rapid charge more than once a trip, due to thermal issues. (Also probably results in poorer battery longevity.)
Have you seen the car on stage? https://www.pscp.tv/w/1kvKpaEpLekGE at 17:00.

I would reserve that (it won't be available before 2020 and they have yet to have the battery production ready to make the car in volume!). Tesla's Model Y will be presented in a few months.

I seriously doubt that Mercedes will be able to make good EV in volume before Tesla.
The Hyundai Kona Electric (64 kWh, 300 mile range) gets good reviews, it seems to be at least comparable in price to a $35,000 Tesla 3, and it is being sold at that price today (but that’s difficult to compare; I don’t think there is a country where both cars are sold)

Charging network will solve itself, I think. The further the biggest player is ahead in a region, the more likely it is that the smaller players will cooperate on a single fast charging standard.
Super interested to see how this works once the hug has subsided. This is potentially fortuitous timing; my employer wants me to cover most of this material by end of quarter.
I would rather CF (or any other company) not get a list of all our internal domain names.
As a single data point, my current and quite large company manages firefox settings. I discovered this when they turned off the search in address bar feature...
guess how many days of employment a server will have after the restaurant have to fill in because he could not make the cut on tips.

it will be one or two days before they are sacked, either because the place have more servers than it need for the traffic or that one server is upselling less than the others.

in anyway, your argument on the letter of the law is pointless (at least on the anecdotes I know about, would love to se actual nation wide data on this), becuase it changes nothing. either you live on tips, or you are unemployed.
The Secret of Our Success on the co-evolution of humans and human culture.

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution on what are states, where do they come from, and how do they work?

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life is just what it says on the tin.

The Strategy of Conflict is the original book on game theory which stands up pretty well.

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts on the modern science of what we know about what consciousness is.
And nothing bad could POSSIBLY go wrong with this. </sarcasm>
He's been saying this since 2013, sticking the 15 year horizon (which would now leave 10 years): "Fifteen years from now more than half of the universities will be in bankruptcy, including the state schools. In the end, I am excited to see that happen." (source: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/07/disrupti...)

Even if he is directionally correct, he could be way off on the timing.
Toyota sold more priuses last than cars Tesla has made in its entire history.
Same here. I was looking for items on the new Amazon Australia, then noticed one of the stores selling on Amazon is just a couple of train stops away from me. It made me realize I should check their own website, and they'll sell it to me for $50 cheaper if I don't go through Amazon ($65 if I include the shipping).
This seems well-intentioned but incredibly dangerous. There's no promise CF can make that justifies trusting them to receive a stream of every request from every FF browser, with all this trackable metadata.

In particular, I think it would be unsurprising if CF's lines were tapped upstream. CF and Mozilla staff have a history of treating TLS as if it protects all content, rather than as a tool for keeping narrowly defined secrets. I explain further at https://weblog.evenmere.org/posts/2014-05-16-tls-is-not-for-... .
My Escalade begs to differ. Every time I go to the dealership (which has been far too often) it is very very busy. I'm glad the industry solved the plugs/fluids maintenance issues because it's time to solve some other problems. I've replaced 5 (yes 5, not all the same one either) door handles on my $90k Escalade. I've replaced the suspension entirely (including air compressor for the rear shocks) twice. I could go on...

If Cadillac made an electric car (and it wasn't a piece of shit) it might just bankrupt that dealership.

The dealers that might do well with EV's are the quality/value brands like Toyota. I've made one dealer visit in my 4 Runner's 200k mi. life and it was something I could have easily taken elsewhere.
The big issue with Mozilla, is that they are dependent on outside revenue (which for the most part ultimately comes from advertising). A big chunk of their revenue comes from Google. If CloudFlare were to offer Mozilla a lot of money to use CloudFlare DNS, they would likely do it.
Saying it caused "a fatality" is being disingenuous. It's along the same false pretense as "we shouldn't use self driving cars at all, if they lead to even one fatality".

Fatalities aren't good things, but they're inevitable consequences of driving. And it's disingenuous to expect anyone's code to be guaranteed to work on every mile of road in the US, under all conditions, at all times. If autonomous vehicles substantially reduce overall fatalities we are better off.

(Nobody talked about banning combustion vehicles after the pinto or banning Fords over their side mounted fuel tanks or their explorers that rolled over when the defective tires blew out)
This THE list of questions to ask any team or employee to get a health check. Great book, by the way.
Well -- what if you have multiple implementations of an interface and you want users to be able to choose between them (or rather, you want them to be able to write functions around your interfaces)? I don't really like it much either, but it's a completely valid usecase for unexported methods. In fact I'm pretty sure this was an example from the language developers for why you can have unexported interface methods in Go.
This seems like just a mind boggingly bad architecture — is there any real reason that a system should be designed this way or is this organization simply the result of poor thinking applied incrementally to inconvenient realities?
> What's the spec?

I dunno but clearly running more than 248 days was not in it, otherwise this would hopefully have been caught and tested. If it was specifically specced to last N days and N < 248, personally I would have asked for my money back. As this appears to come as a surprise to everyone (caught late), I'm calling this one as I see it--a facepalm.
This sounds like a reasonable point to me, and I'm not sure why this and your other post in this thread are being down-voted.

In my limited experience comments critical of Tesla are immediately downvoted, but often recover after a while if they're making good points. I think people can be very defensive of Tesla and Musk, and they vote accordingly. Fortunately the community at large seems to be fair enough to override that.

The real problem is that a lot of articles which are less than fulsome in their praise of Tesla are rapidly flagged to death. It’s good to see this article gaining some traction.
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The supercharger network was a publicity stunt. While it is possible to drive a Tesla across the US, it isn't exactly practical for real world trips where once you get there you want to spend some time there. (your hotel doesn't have a charging port so you have to regularly drive to the one charging station in your target town)

When electric cars take off there will be independent charging stations scattered every few blocks, just like gas stations are now. They will be paid for not by the car makers, but by the stores nearby, just like convenience stores pay for their own gas pumps today.

My guess is tourist traps and shopping malls will pay for them - places that want to attract visitors for long enough to charge. Which is to say I think most people will find a slower charge that doesn't take battery life away will be a consideration when choosing which tourist trap to go to. Obviously different battery technology has different fast charge considerations and so I might or might not be right depending on how bad the effect is on real world batteries.
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They have a lot of competitors that have products as good or better. Competition should squeeze their profits considerably.
There's also a ton of academic lurkers -- I've always though that this due to the facts that 1) the border between academia and industry is pretty porous in technical fields (super obvious in ML research, but I think holds more generally) 2) academics borrow---and contribute to---the same set of methods and technologies 3) most individuals have an interest in complex systems (and their hilarious, tragic faults) such that they find articles like this one interesting.

I think it's also useful to look at preceding communities like Slashdot — in that case it started out pretty tightly scoped for Linux enthusiasts, gaming, programming, and the then-nascent social internet but then the cohort of regular readers and contributors got older and they found themselves in policy, academia, and managerial business roles; as long as people remained involved in the community, the content of the site expanded to reflect the (extremely rapidly increasing) role of tech in these domains. (Obviously, Slashdot suffered from several ownership changes, a lame commenting system, and most everyone moved on to other venues).
"...there is almost no chance that you're getting a 50ms latency on any action that requires a round-trip."

Which is why the comment is advocating for locally-cached resources.

"The way you improve responsiveness is by eliminating round-trips..."

Hence "preload" above.
You're comparing NEDC range with EPA range, and the price to buy a Model 3 with the price to buy a Zoe with a leased battery.
The O'Reilly "SQL Pocket Guide" is very well written, and, IMO, one of the best tools for learning SQL. It's extremely concise, and yet packed chock full of information. It's missing some things, sure, but once you have a strong foundation, the rest you can get from RDBMS docs. The fact that this is such a short book, and not a reference guide but an actual guide to using SQL, makes this book approachable and unintimidating. I highly recommend it.
Would they? Why do people think carriers are so easy to sink? They are massive nuclear powered machines with entire fleets protecting them. I doubt any submarine would get close enough to launch anything without being obliterated.
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I didn't consider what I was doing a flame war. I originally honestly asking for more information, and then considered it a conversation on the merits of explaining a topic to a general audience.

That genuinely interests me, which is why I've gotten into conversations on this topic a few times in the past. I understand that others may be uninterested in that or find it tedious, so I'll try to refrain in the future. My apologies.
Does Google do this with their own DNS service in Chrome...or would this open the door for them to do so? I don't like the implications.
Not a 'scientific' comparison, but handwritten 8-bit machine code compresses much less than x86/64 machine code (using gzip --best):

- a compiled C executable for x86/64 compresses to about 38% of its original size (199 KB down to 77 KB)

- a WASM blob of the same code compresses to about 32% (171 KB down to 56 KByte)

In comparison some 8-bit ROMs:

- ZX Spectrum 128 ROM (Z80): 16384 bytes compresses to 12189 (74.3%)

- C64 Kernel ROM (6502): 8192 bytes compresses to 6735 (82.2%)

So 8-bit code seems to be a lot 'denser' than today's machine code, and 6502 is denser than Z80 :)
Everyone knows that Prometheus is way better at alerting, and much more transparent. No one needs to pay for an SMS gateway at this point unless they are full of corrupt vendor contracts keeping them on legacy solutions. GitLab is also a much better option for issues and SCM integration. Therefore, Atlassian and OpsGenie go together as two dying companies.
Count me in. I don't touch frontend if I can avoid it, and if I can't, I sometimes have to work with compiling to JS and bloated node-based stacks. But when I write any JS for myself, I tend to do it pure, with files delivered to the browser as written (no minification, no obfuscation).

Not sure why I do it this way. For some irrational reason, I just don't like modern web tools. I don't use LESS/SASS either, prefering LASS (S-expressions -> CSS compiler library) in Common Lisp projects, and raw CSS otherwise. Part of the reason might be that I just miss the days when you could learn from "View Source" in your browser. A different part might be is that I don't understand why modern compilation to JS requires downloading many dozens of megabytes in hundreds of Node dependencies. That's just ridiculous.
I use 'A Philosophy of Software Design' as my goto-list for reviewing pull requests. It has a great set of points that apply across a wide variety of applications.
> OK that makes sense, but that's a tiny distinction.

It's potentially the largest part IMO. That would dramatically change the landscape as all research output from EU funding could simply never appear in certain journals rather than requiring that journals add an OA option. Major journals would need to switch from closed/hybrid to full OA, and soon.

> The scientist still pays a hefty fee ($5000) to publish a paper. It's probably more economical for the Funding bodies to pay the OA fee rather than paying the subscriptions, but it still foots a bill.

Yes, it's a shift in who pays - it's not a claim that the EU will now forbid paying for publishing. They are however (as now a customer with enormous weight) saying they'll cap the APCs.

> Going fully open access means the journals will more or less have the same impact factor,

I don't see that being at all true, I'm not sure why you'd expect that.

> because the strong incentive to work towards increasing it (more paid subscriptions) has gone away

The incentive is still to get researchers to publish in the journal, arguably the desire to be more restrictive may increase.
>Baring intervention on the owner's part, cars are just going to self-drive an half an hour away to get serviced when their owner is asleep or at work

oooh I didn't even consider that, an excellent idea. I hope this comes to fruition.
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Many of those jobs are done by the same academics as authors and reviewers who also work pro bono or for very little money as well.
If you like this you should read "Recursion Theory and Joy"
http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/j05cmp.html

I've no wish to be provocative (today) but I have to mention that a comparison of the JavaScript code to the Joy code might be worth your while.

(Joy is an extraordinary language, and trivial to implement in almost every other language.)

Also, a crude joke: "Yeah, the Y combinator is great, but have you tried the X combinator?"

(Seriously thou, the x combinator must be one of the most beautiful conceptual artifacts ever discovered. IMHO)

From the link above:

> Possibly one of the most satisfying introductions to combinatory logic is to be found in the remarkable little book {Smullyan90} To Mock a Mockingbird in which he manages to combine humour and rigour.

I second this, Smullyan is dreamy.
I'd guess Tesla has a 5$ headlight and a 1995$ encrypted ROM to brick your car if you go outside their supply chain
Maybe granularity -- there's only one front page for HN? I usually find that I want to read 10% of articles on the front page, but I'm often surprised by which 10%.
In the article, specifically the picture they appear in https://www.portsmouthctc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/...

The argument "it's the cyclist fault she got killed for not wearing bright colours" is practically the same as "it's the woman's fault she got raped for wearing a short skirt"

Maybe cyclists should be forced to wear high vis clothes so car drivers can drive around without awareness. Maybe schoolkids in the UK should wear bullet proof vests so gun owners don't accidentally shoot them. Maybe women should be forced to wear burkas so men don't get tempted. These arguments are very similar logic.

However if cyclists are to take some responsibility for their safety on the road, not riding at the edge of a lane is the first thing to do, not wearing a burka or a flak jacket.
> Preparing papers for publication requires a non-negligible amount of not-fun work. Someone has to proofread the paper, verify compliance with the journal's house style guide, manage the interactions with reviewers, etc. For high impact journals, it may be possible to find enough volunteer editors who are willing to accept compensation solely in the form of a line of their CV.

It's true that there are some editorial costs, but most open access journals have a one-time editorial cost that cover this. Since it's one-time, the total costs to society are far, far less. Currently governments pay hundreds of thousands of times to access each article (via library subscriptions), instead of paying once to have it published. And since the public is paying for this research, it makes sense that the public should get the result.