skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not about looking the same necessarily, it’s about whether you fit the person/team’s image of a good developer, which sometimes can be very narrow. If the team is diverse that is less likely to be the case, of course.

Also, people totally get discriminated against for being trans (though I’m glad to hear you didn’t). That seems indisputable to me, so I’m not sure what your point is unless you’re saying that it doesn’t always happen, which, sure it doesn’t.
Glad I'm not the only retro weirdo. I'm reverse engineering the rom of a tms240 graphics processor in my nonexistent spare cycles.
Don't worry, Microsoft kills more products and services than Google ever will and does it with a higher cadence.

https://pastebin.com/S8CkFw86
Sorry to say, i've found pinterest to be the most annoying "nothing" of the web. It never served anything i wanted to do on the web, it just interfered with my image search all the time in a horrible way. In the last days it only shows content in the search engine for me and when i follow the image i get blank page that wants me to log into my google account - and you can imagine me doing that, really... so, what unicorn again? I've never found myself being thankful to its existence, and it leaves me wondering for whom that service really is and why
T-Mobile 4G and 2G service in Mill Valley is pretty spotty as it is.
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I left this comment on the last thread about how it would be impossible to build the iPhone in the USA.

In and around 2004-2005, Nokia had the largest cell phone manufacturing plant in the world located in the Alliance Free Trade Zone in Ft.Worth, TX. They manufactured millions of phones out of that location. There is no reason why the iPhone can't be manufactured in the USA. Foxconn is looking to replace most of it's employees across all the products they manufacture. Will labor really matter in the next 10 years at the pace of automation? People continue to call the supply chain into question, well where are most of the parts coming from?

Here is a list of countries that provide the parts. As you can see sourcing is not a problem since China has to source these parts also.

https://www.quora.com/Where-is-the-iPhone-originally-made

This article is more opinion than fact.
Under 47 USC § 332(c)(7), the FCC can administratively set aside local laws regulating cell towers if the FCC determines the regulations are based on the local government's perception of safety risks related to RF emissions

> No State or local government or instrumentality thereof may

> regulate the placement, construction, and modification of

> personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the

> environmental effects of radio frequency emissions to the

> extent that such facilities comply with the Commission’s

> regulations concerning such emissions.

> 47 USC § 332(c)(7)(b)(IV)
Great move. Now create an API for Google Play Music so that anyone can write a front end for it.
Just an FYI, SitePoint are hosting a competition to win a Macbook Pro
I'm always pleasantly surprised by this too. There are experts and hobbyist in every field in this community. It is one of the reasons why I look forward to the comments more than the articles themselves.
> Nobody at facebook is saying to themselves "yup, keep the illegal stuff around, we need the numbers".

Yet they left the illegal (and malicious) stuff up, and benefited financially from the inflated numbers.

Does it matter if that was literally said out loud, or not?
This SO answer is posted every time this topic comes up, so I've seen it many times (and, in fact, I provided one of the answers there, too) and it's still the one and only place I've ever seen "functional" used as a noun like that. I'm always tempted to edit it, but maybe I'm missing something?
My apologies, this my interpretation of your comment. Thanks for the clarification
It's a shame the team didn't take the opportunity to learn from him, it's sounds like he knows far more about work-life balance than everyone else combined.
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I guess my gut feeling is that if there's no labor involved, what does it matter where the phone is manufactured? No jobs are created, and the wealth flows to the owning corporation one way or the other.
I actually agree with you. My point is not that the original is not optimized for mobile, but that it sucks hard for desktop.

I wish there were an open, non-AMP way to remove the crap that AMP removes.
Code-splitting and Lazy-loading with Bazel
All the people who have been waiting for months+ for a body shop to find Tesla-approved replacement parts, presumably.
Or that 2.4Ghz is wide open because it's what comes out of microwave ovens. Spooky scary!
Not just Model S:

"We have only been able to verify our attack on a Tesla Model S in practice. However, Tesla did not design this system themselves but purchased it from Pektron. ... Pektron also designed keyless entry solutions for manufacturers such as McLaren, Karma and Triumph. ... This leads us to believe that the attack described here also affects the other manufacturers."
Proposal for expensive cars that don't require a button press:

The key fob and car contain identical pre-shared random data. (could be gigabytes) Each transaction uses 4 tokens, 2 going in each direction, with each token being 128 bits.

Upon a button press, the key fob selects and destroys the next 1-time-use token it contains. It begins to transmit.

First the key fob sends a token. The car must respond with the correct token, which is checked by the key fob. Failure causes radio silence. After a few padding bits to allow for that checking, the car sends another token. The key fob XORs this one with the key fob's second token, which is then transmitted. The car takes note of the latency.

Each 100 ns delay (a single bit at 10 megabit/second) is worth about 30 meters at the speed of light. The car can use this to exclude key fobs that are excessively distant.

Now consider the repeater attack. The key fob is somehow mistakenly activated. The attacker forwards the signal over a microwave relay to the car, and does likewise for the signal going back to the key fob. Responses arrive late, causing rejection.

You don't much need crypto here. It's just XOR with a 1-time pad. Cheaper cars should just to that alone, with 1-way transmission. Expensive cars should do 2-way and measure the timing, but they don't need fancier crypto.
Don't you think your assumption that "the only people who recommend this change are virtue signalling" is pretty dismissive?

And what about a change of commander/obeyer? Sure it might not roll off the tongue at first, but the concept is clearly expressed and if it makes the community more inclusive then I would argue it's a technically better choice.
some local context: marin is the anti-vax capital.
> That gray background is not great.

That's the default background color I set for my browser when a site does not specify a background. I like it more than staring at blinding white #FFF.
The society of actuaries is now testing basic analytics and R programming as part of the exam system. The Introduction to statistical learning book is on the exam syllabus.
Interesting find, I had no idea! I'll read through it, I'm curious if it discusses Dweck's "helpness" terminology as well.
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As I said, it may be one of the members of the editorial board that acts as editor, sends the paper to the peer reviewers (only one in the case of the NYJM) and decides to accept or reject the paper (or ask for revisions) based on their report.

Even if there were two referees instead of one, they are usually external and not members of the editorial board. And you could still believe that no peer review was done or suspect that both referees were the handling editor himself.

Apparently in this case the final decision is taken by the editor-in-chief. Other academic journals may have other policies and maybe in some cases the whole editorial board is involved in every publication but I don’t think it’s usual.
According to your own citation, Google deprecated multiple APIs every year. So the odds of Google cutting off access to an API you use may be decreasing... But it's still nowhere near zero, and it's still a valid concern.
I'm Brazilian and you are completely correct.
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I see, thanks for the clarification.

I don't use Windows, but putting configs in Program Files seems just.. weird. It would be like putting user configs under /usr/share or /bin on Linux, I would think.
Oh, did you get the ones Steve Garrison makes up? That's my design. Or did someone else get the files off Github and make some?

A switching power supply has actual power conversion driven by the switching. See The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz and Hill, 3rd ed., section 9.6.

That thyratron circuit is a lamp dimmer circuit repurposed as a voltage regulator. Like SCRs and triacs, a thyratron is a switch you can't turn off. You have to wait for the input power to turn off. Usually that's the next cycle of AC. Because you can't turn off the power, you can't generate inductive spikes, so you can't pull the basic trick that make a switching power supply go.

There were some real switchers in the tube era. The most common one was used to generate the high voltage (10KV-20KV) for CRTs. Those used the horizontal oscillator, running at 15KHz and yanking the beam back at the end of each scan line, as a spike generator. That approach used a real vacuum tube, not a cold-cathode gas filled tube like a thyratron. So those were high voltage but low current devices.

Switching power supplies with serious current output had to wait for a component that could turn off fast under load. Power MOSFETS, etc. If you could do that with a thyratron, we would have had switching power supplies by 1950.
If the code is written in English, and the meaning in English is genuinely offensive to some, then yes I believe it should all be changed.
Yeah I think that's fair.
It's correct as a noun. I believe it's taken from math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_(mathematics)

The CS term is "higher-order function": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function
My question as someone who doesn't know much about DNS beyond the most basic stuff, how would a DNS resolver know a when query is spoofed? You can maintain a query cache to filter out unsolicited (spoof) responses but what would make a query valid or invalid? I'm talking about DNS/UDP btw.

Maybe some sort of challenges? Authentication? Like DNS cookies or something.
You mean this: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great...

100 years after the first electric car:

> ...Thomas Parker built the first practical production electric car in London in 1884.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#History

Horse manure is a resource. Too much of it in the wrong place was the problem. Car exhaust is deadly. People commit suicide with it.

Electric vehicles have the potential (no pun intended) to be powered from non-polluting energy sources.

My point still stands: we don't live in the best of all possible worlds in large measure because we refuse to think carefully and deeply about what we value most and how to achieve it.
I'll be incredibly selfish and simply say, but I am not driving and being frustrated. Uber isn't a ride sharing platform, it's "I don't have to deal with assholes" platform. Also I no longer need to pay for the monthly parking.
Power drops off with the square of distance in free space. To get power of an RF wave you S = E x H [1]. Both the E & H fields decrease with distance. If you double the distance and both E&H decrease by half then |S| decreases by a factor of 4.

Interestingly though, in some environments you can actually get better than free space loss. I remember an off-hand comment from a professor in university that in concrete tunnels you can get R^1.6-1.8 because the tunnel acts as a waveguide

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector
Thanks for the question. This is something the team is actively considering in: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/111193036

Our primary concern is ensuring that users have full control over the quality of media that's added to their library (so currently the API defaults to always uploading in original quality).

Clearly there are ways that problem can be solved, so please suggest this use case in the issuetracker and star the issue (so we have a sense of developer interest & you can be kept in the loop on updates).
Randomness Is a Hard Challenge for Computers
Comedy and Tragedy are a matter of perspective. I've seen Titus Andronicus performed as a comedy (And also as a comedy cooking show) - what seems dramatic can also seem melodramatic as a matter of portrayal. The darkest of realities can be the lightest of jokes, ever heard a dead baby joke? Likewise, most good comedy has a serious core at it's center. I have no doubt that by changing the stakes slightly, Caddyshack could be a serious statement on the human condition: Make the scholarship the make-or-break for Danny's college chances, put Spackler on the edge of feeding his kids. Comedy and Tragedy are simply how much distance we put between ourselves and the characters.
Aren't all the Getty images water marked though? WOuldn't this have driven traffic to them?
The fact that 1% moved the needle shows how powerful and easy it is for a motivated group to affect local politics.
On the other hand there has not been a single nuclear explosion within city limits since those signs went up.
Nope, but I felt good when I finally managed to write one from scratch, because I knew for sure there was a time when I couldn't. So maybe the same would happen for you too.
I'm a Brazilian who use to work at some startups here. I have a strong feeling that we didn't produce more and better companies because of two things:

1) Public Universities here hates private money and do business, entrepreneur classes are rare and most of the teachers never did create a company (to teach here you must be an academic, a successful entrepreneur can't give classes about it). If you suggest to your teacher to start a business with his Ph.D. thesis, probably, he will feel offended by your suggestion.

2) Our legislation is bad. I'm mean, very very bad. Open a company in Brazil is crazy:

- So many taxes. I'm not talking about the value that you pay here, I'm talking about an insane amount of taxes. At the federal level, for example, there're 6 or more different taxes. And if you need to send a package across states, you need to deal with a lot of bureaucracy to transport it (and more taxes);

- Labour protection here is insane too. It's not cheap for small and medium companies. And there is a thing that makes it even more complicated for startups: legally, the owner of the company is in charge of the labor debts even when the company is broken. So, if your company broke, you can't close it until you pay all the labor debts, and if you don't pay, you can lose your home or other assets that belong to you, not to your company;

- Almost everything here is regulated, and our regulations are not easy to deal with.
I've seen lots of highly active accounts posting hundreds of images. That's the spam I was referring to. Pinterest seems uninterested in policing/removing them, which makes sense because they draw traffic.

I suspect those are counted as MAUs (and I can't see any reason Pinterest wouldn't count them, even though a human can tell they're just bot accounts).

Unless Pinterest has written transparently about their massive bot problem, I'm reluctant to believe any self-serving metric they publish.
Are there any software engineering projects for undergrad CS students that will get them exposure to actuarial science? I know very, very little about actuarial science, but I think helping my students learn about it could really benefit them.
It's possible that the ability to get a programming job without a CS degree depresses the earning power of that degree simply by increasing the size of the applicant pool. Also, someone who can short circuit the higher education route by getting a job without a degree might be willing to work for a lower starting salary, and still come out ahead.
Can you blame them? If they don't particularly value having the service, and have been informed of [0], of course they don't want this in their backyard.

Does Mill Valley already have 4G coverage, or have they stayed completely dark? If it's the latter, I can at least empathize. If it's the former, then the objection seems at least a bit misguided considering this should reduce the power levels relative to 4G.

[0] https://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/9890/2017-12-14/calif-...
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What about regular assault?
Their acceptable use policy seems to be fishy

> Innovate, don't duplicate

> Don’t make a substitute for Google Photos or use this API to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) a similar or competing product or service. For instance, if your app’s primary aim is to provide a general purpose photo gallery app, it’s a substitute for Google Photos.
>Victoria Police received intel that he was breaching his RSO and parole conditions by contacting a number of females typically between 13 and 17 years of age. Enquiries showed that he was contacting these females and offering them drugs in return for sexual favours

That makes it sound as if they've got enough. Metadata Retention, which was legislated a couple of years ago, would be able to join the dots. Can't see the content, can match up sources, destinations, locations, and timestamps. Case closed - or at least it's up to a jury from there.

It's like they're requiring a high definition video of a murder being committed before they can charge someone for the murder even though they've got the murder weapon, motive, opportunity, and all those other things that almost guarantee a conviction.

Additional thought: What if the messages were deleted off the phone as soon as they were sent? Or accounts were added to the phone, messages sent, message deleted, account removed from phone? Like a smart criminal would do? The way they're desperately wanting this data makes it sound as if a lack of it could be used as defense evidence, which is NOT what the authorities would want at all.

They've got enough to make a convincing case. A smoking gun is a luxury, not a requirement.
Like when they take over hosts, change their behavior, ... essentially operate them as zombies.
Presumably, the same wholesalers/auto parts trading places I've seen in third-world countries with suspiciously sourced grey market Toyota Land Cruiser/Lexus repair parts.

Or people who want $20,000 worth of 100kWh 18650 battery conveniently packaged with connectors and cooling system.
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TEL? ...Tetraethyllead?
Reader view on Firefox does this beautifully without the need for any middleman. Client-side solutions are the way to go.
Oh, well, if we're dividing the ocean, then I divide the ocean into 1 square (each one ocean) with 100% fishing activity in 2018.
Data science is pretty fun and quite well paid. I enjoy my work a lot and manage a good work life balance.
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$120k-$150k is the norm for new fellows in my area. People typically reach that level around 5-7 years of experience nowadays. If you can't or don't want to manage people, your salary probably won't get much higher than that, but directors (managing teams of ~10-15 actuaries) make ~$250k-$300k at my company and VPs (managing ~2-4 directors) probably make ~$400k-$500k.

Also, keep in mind that the hours are much shorter than what CFAs would typically work - most actuaries outside of consulting rarely work over 45 hours a week.
Yes, because trucks and personal vehicles are the same thing? The infrastructure requires for all our trucks is 1% we have, because of all the people driving.
Lumping different wavelengths into the general of "radiation" isn't really scientific. And adding more technical-sounding hyperbole to the conversation doesn't actually help.
In my city, scooters are convenient for a few people. For the rest of us, they make walking and cycling a lot scarier. I've almost been hit several times, and I've accidentally hit a discarded scooter on my bike because it was left on a sidewalk around a blind turn.

I've also seen them on roads, impeding the flow of traffic.

As sad and frustrating as it may be, a lot of US cities were narrow-mindedly built for cars and maybe walking. Adding other forms of transit without dedicated pathways, like protected bike lanes, just doesn't seem to be possible to do safely.
Or increase the price of the API by ten times.

Seriously, it should be a rule of thumb that if you are not big enough to negotiate with Google for a secured pricing, don't rely on their API exclusively in your project
Because cars are horrible, produce pollution, over a million deaths a year, a huge waster of resources, cars are 20x the size of a person, cause lots of damage, and a 100 other reasons.
Tough crowd. No sense of humour.
Creating a safe & reliable USB hub actually is quite a bit of engineering if you have never done it before. It isn't as simple as just splitting the wires into multiple outlets.

If you are wanting to learn I could see it as a fun project but it will cost you many times what it would just to buy one from Amazon.
> My biggest criticism with matchmaking systems is they're too good. The skill rating is so accurate in such a short amount of time that every match is frustrating and/or boring.

I'm confused: wouldn't a boring game (too easy) or a frustrating game (too hard) be indicative of a bad matchmaking? Wouldn't good matchmaking always feel winnable, with a 1/competitors chance of winning? (That is, 50% for two players, 33% for 3, etc.)
I'm pretty sure shutting down critical parts of acquired products is a major part of the problem.
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Well, at least that's dangerous.