skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I concur with the, er... “local maxima” in terms of hiring. I routinely visit three local colleges and the number of foreign professors is just a rounding error-partly because there is no budget to allow for more, and partly because colleges have taken to turn to invited professors from local industry (often former colleagues who left academia but can teach).

This is a cheaper and easier way to get industry insights than chasing companies for grants (which, of course, are not easy to come by here).
> e.g. can anyone create a photo database and publish it like wikipedia?

I believe there's a site somewhere on the internet that was originally premised on being "a book of faces"...
You get refreshers so, no, it's not just base once your initial grant runs out. In a normal case, especially early in your career, the refreshers are larger than the initial grant as you get promotions and raises.

This is not necessarily true if you've plateaued and is not necessarily true if your realized comp greatly exceeds your target comp. If your target comp is $500k per year but you're realizing $1000k per year due to stock growth then your refreshers will reflect the $500k rather than the $1000k.
Great phone, loved using it until the benefits of the smartphone became too great to ignore. If I ever decided to give up on smartphones and move to a dumbphone (which isn't that far-fetched - I can use tablet for the most "smart" parts anyway) I'd probably get something like a Razr again. I love the tactical feedback of a flip-phone - you know how to answer a call and how to end it, and it has a physical feel to it that I still miss in smartphones.
I guess he failed the intelligence test after all. Most of what I read there can be summarized as 'person with a little money is losing it'. This is not rare at all by the way, quite a few people who come into some money end up with the ultimate fear: losing it all. And if you continue to spend your money on expensive stuff you don't need you will most likely end up back where you started in a while.

This is a pretty sad story and the person underneath it has my pity, not my envy.
There are a few automotated solutions (eg corrode, c2rust, etc) that others will undoubtedly mention. These should help with (b).

You can use bindgen to generate Rust bindings for a C library given a header file. You can use cheddar to generate a C header file for Rust code with extern fns. This should help with (a).

So you could set up cheddar, then use bindgen to generate functions which call the original c library. At this point all the Rust code will be doing is generating a (hopefully) functionally identical header file for a Rust library that calls the C library. Then you could run automated tools on the library to generate Rust functions and move things over function by function. Starting with the functions that are at the bottom of the dependency tree.

Rust has no significant runtime, no garbage collection, and is intended to run as fast as C (if you notice any significant deviations, complain on the irc channel, mailing list, or /r/Rust subreddit). So it should be reasonably straightforward as long as the C is well formed and you don’t introduce any stale/null pointer dereferences.

Does that make sense?

EDIT: Also note that there’s a gcc crate you can use to actually build a C library from source using a Rust buildscript. Depending on how you do things, you might find it useful.
It would be counterclockwise, and therefore also of the devil (though maybe according to other people?).

I seem to remember something about some peoples having clockwise and others counterclockwise dances, according to whether their pagan gods were sun- or moon-based.
Exactly. Idea of public computer is crazy. If it is university/institution computer with your presonal account hen you are probably fine it is most likely some VM. But othervise lol.
What was your Google offer?
Really? No offense but you need to read more. I don't go anywhere near their community but I hear about it endlessly.
Same here in Finland!
I was working in the telecom industry back then, and had to test phones' OTA compatibility with some enterprise software. I had to deal with Motorola's awful software for years, and as a result RAZR evokes something different for me than the hardware.

The flip side of the RAZR's skunkwork origin was the not-skunkwork-part. That is, being part of Motorola, which meant: (1) relying on Motorola firmware that was slow, ugly, and an UX joke, even by those years' standards, and (2) as soon as they found out those things would sell, the started milking it endlessly, with only minimal updates. The "it's a slim phone!" gimick got old fast. As a matter of fact, Motorola would not produce anything headline-worthy until the Droid. That's quite a long time.
Local file inclusion at IKEA.com
Lately I read an article from a french space guy (the french are actually pretty good at stuff like that as well) raising the question why one would work on developing a reusable first stage. His theory was that it doesn't make that much sense commercially but it actually could make a lot of sense in a military environment. Also he raised the question to which degree SpaceX is subsidizing commercial launches with government and military ones. Sounded reasonable enough to not discard it out of hand, I didn't have time to dig deeper into it so.

That being said, SpaceX really showed other companies, like Ariane Space, that you don't need 50k + people in three countries and 15+ years to get a new rocket to LEO.
The entire debt-based economy fundamentally depends on debt always increasing and has at least since US got off the gold standard.
It's the common language that divides us ;) (I'm Austrian)
Where I am in Australia these things sell:

https://www.binglee.com.au/tech/phones/3g-feature-phones/kon...

I bought one for my mum. It's not bad. When I bought it was one of the last ones and the guy in the store said they sell out regularly. It's popular with older folks.

So flip phones do sell in 2018.
Gut flora seems to be a case of we know about it but don't really know to how to use it properly and thus reliably. So called probiotics as expected for something that jumps the gun to commercialization from early stages of research tends to have two outcomes - either it does nothing except get excreted or it makes things worse.

There seems to be a history in medicine of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. Hyperdosing vitamin-C boosts the risk of cancer, megadosing antioxidants doesn't seem to actually help, etc. It brings to mind the period in history in which blood transfusion was known but typing wasn't making the procedures quite risky, and cholesterol being considered just one number.
I work in a Microsoft shop, but I always have a bash shell running. It prevents me from really diving into PowerShell. I will end up running a quick sed '2,3d' on the csv files and move on with my life.
There are two paths to reduced how much shock value and sensory overload there is. Either culturally we can change and view sex and nudity as less shocking and simply part of life, or we reinforce old values by making it more taboo.

I would prefer entertainment to be more entertaining by simply viewing sex and nudity as less shocking.
I imagine Boeing te al were started by people who had a passion to fly, loved flying, needed to fly.

But time went on and like embalming replaces blood with preservatives, level headed business people took over to maintain the status quo.

No doubt in decades SpaceX will succumb too, and this is why need a constant flow of new companies
No offense to the AutoPilot team at all, and I think Andrej Karpathy is a really smart guy who can probably do some great stuff for the company in the coming years, but Tesla and Waymo are in different leagues when it comes to self driving. If you’re looking for a real upstart company that legitimately has a chance at going head to head with Waymo, you should be looking at companies like Cruise Automation not Tesla.

Because though Tesla is a great car company with an even better brand name that I’m sure will carry it very far, one thing it is not currently, is a self driving car company. Perhaps this will change in the future. For now, Tesla has other problems to deal with and focus on.
Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Unit
Well atleast Gates invested in Carbon Engineering which does exactly that.
At the moment they estimate it to cost between $94 and $232$ to pull 1T CO² out of the air. [1]

So atleast someone is playing that game already, same with Ocean Cleanup Drones etc. etc. Lot's of people try to use market forces to save the planet, and Big Tech Co's are investing in that space, but it's not something where one can expect results in less than a decade.

[1] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/06/07/...
The link does not work for me while the top one is. I am on iOS.
They usually depend on users to upload photos.
I work with many not very technical mac users who mostly use apple provided apps like mail, notes, reminders and icloud. Only thing everyone installs is Chrome.

Safari desktop is quite dead.
> A selfie stick with a film camera would have truly been useless. You'd probably only get a photo of some random thing behind you, and only learn of your mistake a week later.

The way selfie sticks work, you holding it and the camera pointing back at you, they tend to put you nicely into the frame, even though you don't get to look at what you're taking a picture of. It's much much more accurate than holding a camera out with your arm.

So I'd say they'd be exactly useful with film cameras, because you're going to be reasonably sure to be in the picture.
99% of times success or failure is just a state of mind, so it’s pretty much your choice to decide.
No worries; you can bid to keep that seat free. If you bid more than him, it stays empty.
The root causes are:

0. There's no affordance in the regular UI/UX indicating 3D Touch is available.

1. It's awkward.

2. It's too much like long press when a longer press would've done the same without adding more hardware.
And I'm associating it mostly with expert assembly masters.

The best early virus writers were all Bulgarian, esp. the advanced polymorphic ones.
With advanced electronics HW in the Eastern block I would mostly associate the GDR (rev. engineered the 8086 and 80286>, and Russia, not Bulgaria who did mostly only the peripherals. But in SW and hacking techniques they outshined the GDR and Russia.
I went to a coding bootcamp. I have 80 repositories and can walk you through every one of them line by line with no problem.
Thats all good and I don't disagree but what does any of it have to do with the trial by jury?
I had a ringside seat on the Nokia “turnaround” towards oblivion.

The consumer side did suffer from Elop’s strategy (he also somewhat neglected the carrier network products), but the larger issue was that some carriers were so dependent on Nokia for mid-to-high-end handsets that when cheaper alternatives emerged they switched wholesale (I was at Vodafone at the time, and work at Microsoft now).

As to the rest, I don’t see Europe being a contender in chip manufacturing (even though ARM originated in our side of the Atlantic), and I don’t think patents would hold us back.

What does hold us back is the lack of significant manufacturing capabilities in those domains. There are a few electronics manufacturers and small fabs, but they cater to niches.
I was thinking about this (sort of) the other day. Trying to think generally about the first animal life and how that translated to what we are today. Basically the insight I had was that we're just stomachs with arms and legs and brain.
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"Biometric exit"

As if in the past this wasn't done by handling back the I94/I94W to the airline or done automatically through passport numbers in more recent times.
So do humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_live_animals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_live_seafood
My setup and workflow are unremarkable and will bore you to tears.
Linux & Firefox on all my desktops. Firefox uMatrix'ed to within an inch of its life, and with one of those extensions that kill all cookies from a given tab as soon as you close it.. Every now and again I have to temporarily allow one access or another - some sites break if not allowed use of Google TagManager, for example.
I keep a seperate profile for a few known sites which I occasionally must use, and which absolutely refuse to function without live access to all the evil empires of the world.
My searches go through DuckDuckGo, with a detour to Startpage whenever things don't work out.
Oh, and Youtube videos. I never stream. I go there, often via proxy, and I download the thing before watching.
For mail, I run all the boring stuff via FastMail, and some personal correspondance through my own server, running on an old discarded thin client with a usb stick for storage.
It's a good thing I don't really like the Go language, or I should find myself in a dilemma.
Couldn't agree more, aerospace is is an incredibly hard business, espiacially due to the pittyfull long development cycles. For aircraft you could as far as saying that one generation of engineers is developing it, the second one is using it and for the successor you need a third generation all together. Knowledge for these projects is incredible hard to develop, retain and keep. So the real moonshot in that industry would be a solution to get the development cycles down to more human levels.
My main point was actually that Musk is not really worth mentioning here at all, because the vast majority of businesses do not operate like Musk's. The adjectives I used to describe Musk are not relevant here.

> Secondly, most problems one likes to solve are surprisingly easy to solve within the existing realm of knowledge

"Easy to solve" means something different for a scientist, engineer and businessman. Something which can be theoretically or technically solved may not be practically solved (the supersonic commercial jet example I mentioned earlier). I agree with you that most of the time, it's pretty clear whether or not something will require new science or can be built with existing knowledge, and most business are in the business of doing the latter. I would add that new science is capable of turning impractical solutions into practical ones, and a multi-billion dollar business can spend easily spend unpredictable amounts of money trying to do so -- which makes it a very risky investment.
Yup, I used this in my computer architectures class a long time ago. Good to see that it's still being updated, especially with the QtSpim version that's cross-platform.
It's not necessarily about shock value, it can be just about realism. In real life, people smoke, have sex, pick their nose, throw up, swear etc. LOTR can work without this as it's an epic fairy tale that doesn't need deep and developed characters.

But if you want to make something like Breaking bad, you're seriously artistically limited by arbitrary ratings. I don't think it's fair to reduce this "sex and violence are unnecessary".
As long as it's in the same class as you bought and not a "premium seat"

But yes, it's usually not a problem
It doesn’t work when the background actions require some form of interaction
I kind of wonder why everybody is so negative about me posting JAI here. I mean, yes the compiler isn't released yet, but that's why I wrote 'upcoming'.

You write about the 'next great thing', but I was merely talking about 'a better C++ for game development', which narrows it down to a very specific use-case. And I don't know what is wrong about if someone has had some success by building games to also look at the tools he uses for building those?

Besides that, looking at the few examples I have seen I didn't find the languages elegant, but it seems like it got inspired by some other modern languages like Go (e.g., no parentheses for if statements) while explicitly rejecting other ideas like the GC.
I think this is confusing anonymity with pseudonymity. Anonymous hackers don't want anybody knowing about them, pseudonymous ones do want it very much, they just don't want everybody to know their legal name and address and so on, but very much want to know their handles and what they do. These are different modes of operation.

I also think there's a bit of survivor bias here - yes, many old-times hackers came out of the shadows of anonymity or pseudonymity, either voluntarily or involuntarily, either because they grew up and got a family and a business and a personal brand, or because they're not into shady stuff that requires hiding anymore, or because whatever they have been doing became so successful one can't be anonymous anymore, etc. That doesn't mean others still don't have anonymity, just NYT did't got to talk to them - because they're anonymous and don't want to talk to NYT either...
+1. The lack of 2x playback speed makes documentaries on Netflix unwatchable. Third-party Chrome extensions of unknown origin doesn't seem like a good idea.

Unfortunately, easier to stick to YouTube and VLC for documentary watching.
What is a function?
Because moon landings can be done with tech from the 60s with less computing power than an iPhone. Getting autonomous cars on the streets is an order of magnitude more complex.

And isn't execution much more important than just having an idea?
Sort of. The essential quality is that you're likely to have children who then have children. A walking pair of gonads or ovaries is more accurate.

Here's the human body scaled proportional to brain usage:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Front_of...

(Mildly NSFW?)

The genital areas were not scaled because – seriously – they would far eclipse the hands.
Nice images!

You can half the filesizes by better compressing the PNGs, for example with optipng or pngcrush, losslessly.
I'm far from strong algorithmically, but I'd love to improve.

I like Human Ressource Machine, because it rates me on code length and complexity. But the types of algorithms seems limited.

I like project Euler for its variety, but I don't get any feedback on quality of my solutions.

Is there a good middle ground?
> If missing welds were discovered on an airliner

Airliners are riveted together, as rivets are more inspectable and reliable.
My twitter was almost spammed with it.
Can California’s next governor fix the state’s problems? It depends on Palo Alto
That's underwhelming.
> Mapping is done by writing the formula once and then dragging it from the corner to the whole column. Filtering is not really done. Normally use the gui to hide the rows to be filtered away.

You should look into array formulas (or block formulas). They break out of the one-at-a-time mold and could be much more powerful.
600 Microseconds – How CVE-2018-17144 Was Discovered
You may want to check out:

The whole calculator running in a browser, thanks to emscripten : https://www.numworks.com/simulator/

An interactive PCB viewer, in the browser again : https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/hardware/elec...

Full schematics https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/hardware/elec...

And of course the whole source code to the operating system, https://github.com/numworks/epsilon
Chrome lost all my browser history, bookmarks, settings and extensions when I let someone else log into chrome and log out again. I now try to use Firefox for non Google services but still use multiple gmail/docs accounts in chrome for performance.

Even if I hadn't already had a terrible experience with their login feature, it is a privacy violation. I haven't agreed to have my browser history and other private data uploaded to an advertising company. The argument that most users want this is flawed: many would object to giving Google access to this without permission. Maybe the EU will step in?
> Cardinal De Richelieu.

They key here is that the Cardinal can hang virtually anybody just by willing to do so. The justification is secondary, just for appearances' sake - if the Cardinal wants somebody hanged, they'll hang (unless they find a more powerful ally, of course), and "finding something" is just a formality, like signing the documents in proper places with proper name. Wielding this power is the key, and that key would decide whether your past words would be your doom or a justifiable youthful digression. If you look at how it happens, you can see the power currents of the society the same way you can see the magnetic field lines by watching metal dust affected by it.
This sounds like a case of Apple not learning from their own history. Previously their management actively discouraging gaming for a while because they wanted to be business machines and they worried computers were already too whimsical. It isn't an end-all as a niche but the forfeiture is pointless - especially since endearing itself to a young niche as a brand can pay premiums. They wound up left behind anyway since they aren't their customer base anyway and prefer others. IBM got the business market largely. Meanwhile Apple's target while pretty broad certainly doesn't seem concentrated on prudes and stodgy sort but the trendy if anything.

I know that slogans tend to be pretty vapid and poorly followed at best but the irony of 'think different' and that sort of mindless conformism to outdated norms is staggering.
In terms of percentage, yes. But also mean time to failure, in that case to launch failure, is the really interesting point. So the better comparison would be the last 60+ launches. And then you get 3 failure for SpaceX vs. 0 for the Ariane 5. I did not double check the numbers myself, just the values stated above.
> A services API isn't software. You're not buying a copy of the code and running it on your computer.

It's called SaaS, which stands for "Software as a service"[1].

> They're direct competitors operating in largely the same markets and using the same business models.

Google generates 84% of its revenues from ads[2], Microsoft generates 95% of its revenues from software[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service

[2] https://martechtoday.com/google-posts-31-1b-in-total-revenue...

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2018-Q1...
No serious predictions include a 6 degree increase in the near to medium term.

Don’t pass on crazy predictions like that, it causes people to ignore the real problems a 1 or 2 degree increase will cause.
You seem to be fairly knowledgeable about all this and/or have thought about it long and hard. Do you have any idea, how would one apply the same kind of process to building a moon lander?

Also, do you have any further links to the kinds of organisational structure that SpaceX has, which I think is the main advantage over traditional organisations like NASA, Airbus, ULA (well, in addition to having someone crazy like Musk - it's been said that SpaceX has enough amazing engineers that they'd probably be flying and landing rockets even without him, but the probably wouldn't be landing them on water)? Like those YouTube interview you mention, or how they manage risks, etc.

Feel free to email me, this is a very fascinating discussion for me.
One of the limit is reliability. Robot don’t self maintain... The more elaborate the task, the more complicated the maintenance to ensure acceptable failure rate. At some point you spend as much time fixing as doing the job. Especially in cases like here where the throughput target is craaaaazy.
then isnt this picture kind of pointless and not supportive of your point at all?

do you know if a picture exists thats truer to scale including genitals?
Interesgly, I did the same actually I hated SPIM so much I spent a substantial amount of time tweaking MARS to work better on my computer: https://github.com/saagarjha/MARS/
In which states exists a tax on "job creation"? Genuine question. I know of, e.g., taxes on a company's profits (where wages are subtracted from profit before it is taxed), and I know of income taxes, which is basically a tax on personal profit. None of those would qualify as a tax on "job creation".