skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious where you are getting your 99.99% figure, and why you thought that is a would be a safe assumption to make your point out of. Do "trained statisticians" frequently assume with data?

If you can provide evidence that drones are 99.99% safe in the aforementioned "this situation", I will be happy to recant my retort. Otherwise, please avoid strawman arguments.

As for @myrryrs argument. I believe the sentiment is along the lines of "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" - which I am in favor of. Blanket rules that disallow amateur drone usage in relatively safe situations are overkill. General safety rules that urge drone users to stay away from airports - probably a good idea. If my intent is to fly my drone around in the woods while I go mountain biking, why should I be required to tell anyone?

Let us add regulation where regulation is needed - not throw it around like a panacea whenever something unpleasant happens.
I see you have written interfaces like List & Maps. Probably, we need to use interfaces from Java native, but provide better implementation through bifurcan. This makes it easy for existing applications to switch to bifurcan where they need.
We should see it sooner or later. Thunderbolt is royalty-free.

But what application are you needing more than 10Gbps externally?
As a counter example, my desktop has had 128 gb of ram since two years ago. I've never needed that much, 64GB would have been enough for the number of vms and containers that I run. But I couldn't pass up a good deal. I got the ram for $600.
The acquisition of YouTube might’ve not been bad for Google, but I could make the argument that it’s been bad for the rest of us.
So why not just also leave it alone for the "consumers" who have developed communities there?
Look into companies like Boeing and Airbus, then branch out into their suppliers and subcontractors. CS is all you need to get started in safety critical software (entry level positions). You’ll learn more on the job, and learn what other disciplines you should study.

Working with a supplier may prove more fruitful. Depending on the size of their components, you can be more active throughout the year. Working direct for Boeing and their peers can leave you with months of downtime sometimes (especially if you end up in the maintenance end of a system’s lifecycle and not the initial development period).
Here is a bit detail of the neural network chip. [1]

Anything aside, as a former embedded dev, I would never use there kinds of voodoo chinese chips. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not because it’s from China. It is because of __zero__ well-written public documentation.

Just listing specs in datasheets is meaningless. The datasheet is translated but it does nothing to devs because it has absolutely zero about low level peripherals and its core. You cannot imagine how painful writing hardware-level code is when the documentation doesn’t help. I’m 100% sure even the chinese version documentation has almost zero information too.

Look, they have a sort of SDKs and the only example is one-line-long Hello World. [2]

[1]; https://github.com/kendryte/kendryte-doc-ds/blob/master/en/0...

[2]: https://github.com/kendryte/kendryte-freertos-sdk/blob/devel...
That's got to be a joke; it's not even close to enough. IMHO, they should be banned from having access to our data, the same data we never approved them to have in the first place.

I'm all for companies growing and learning from mistakes, the credit companies have a higher standard to live up to and should have a very steep cliff to jump off if they mess up.
HN has comment karma that only the comment poster can see; presumably he used to have some number of downvotes.
It’s a matter of degree. There are things that someone can do from a skills standpoint, but shouldn’t from a priority standpoint. (For many execs PowerPoint is in this bucket)
I think he is referring to downvotes on his post.
TBH, I think your comment mischaracterizes the OP and is really unfair to him. He didn't say that he doesn't know how a 4 lb drone at 100 feet could put someone's life in danger. They can do that at 5 feet if your reckless enough. Rather, he said that he doesn't understand how this risk translates to a need to have the FAA be the regulatory body involved with similar rules to the point of requiring licensing.

I've flown a few quadcopters and I tend to agree with him. There are real dangers, but they aren't materially greater than lots of other things that we choose not to spend my tax money regulating. I'd rather we not waste my money on regulating 4lb drones at 100 feet either.
How do you know an airplane won't fly at 100 feet over your backyard?

I actually get some nice airshows at my house: their is a field across the street, and so one a year the farmer flys in some fungicide. He flys at ~1 meter over the corn, then at the end he climbs just enough to get over the power lines and my house, turns around in my backyard and returns for the next pass.

I have a friend who travels the country taking pictures of houses, and then going door-to-door trying to sell them. I'm not sure how low he flies, but this job is best done from low.
Indeed. There’s a really weird gray area too where someone should know that it’s a lie, but doesn’t fact check because it’s too comfortable.
That sounds way too short. Until a few years ago you needed to be a resident (=reside) three years before you can apply (which takes about another year). I think now it's four + application processing time.
It is junk knowledge to claim that something was never intended as a path to a green card.

Congress clearly intended this it back in 2000, when it passed Public Law 106-313 ("American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act"), which allowed H-1B extensions beyond 6 years for those who are waiting for green cards. If Congress didn't think the H-1B visa should be a path to a green card, why would they pass that bill?

Also the government has recognized it many times through regulation. For example, look at the number of times this regulation talks about a "path": https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/11/18/2016-27...
https://batgrowth.com/publishers - someone built a scraper, code is on GitHub.
Manager, Demand Gen
This entry needs a simple english page. I read the first paragraph and didn't understand anything.
I couldn't believe this quote, so I had to dig it up. It's real, but from Sean Parker. Mike Allen was the interviewer.

Source (a slightly clickbaity-looking place, go at your own risk): https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-god-on...
I wonder how people get so out of touch with reality. If you wanted to download a single game on steam that's been out for 2 or 3 years (GTAV) while staying under the 15GB limit in order to not be subject to the fee, you'd have to do it over the span of FIVE months without using your household's internet connection for anything else.

I'm pretty sure just cloning a random project and running `npm install` will get you over the limit.
Croatia sadly does not have a tax treaty with the US so one would be paying extra taxes if they were a US citizen.
I have the opposite problem. I eat all of the bobas and still have tea left!
I just realized this means plenty of long-form posts will poof into non-existence. Currently, the sole benefit from G+ to me is occasionally coming upon a solution to a problem, or at least a discussion, in someone's G+ blog. It so happens that the G+ crowd seems to consist of especially stubborn and strong-willed people with firm opinions, which lets the rest of us mooch off them.
> preparing to migrate to Canada or Australia.

I know lot of ppl who have been dreaming of this for years but money and opportunity here in US is too good to pass up.
99% of ppl on H1B are not starting companies.

Most ppl just don't have the appetite to slash their income by half. "preparing" doesn't count as a example.
There’s not enough videogames; everyone should be encouraged to make them
ok, lets talk stats.

Lets NOT assume he is 99.99% safe.

Lets look at the 825,000 drones sold in one year, and estimate it from the number of problems that they had with those.

We don't just pick a number when we have a perfectly good sample to work with.

I AM looking at the population at large.

If there are There are 2.5 million drones in operation at the moment, which I am happy to agree to, and we are not seeing many problems, how much of a sample do you need?
That "can we distinguish" definitely seems to be the crux of the article. It's definitely a fascinating question with few current answers.

Did the British Roman builders use the symbol because the local tribes found it superstitiously useful or did the British Roman builders use it for some other reason (guild mark, perhaps? The fact that it is an early Euclid math problem suggests it's interest to early architects) and the local tribes picked it up as a superstitious symbol?

Presumably these are hypotheses you could start to test if you collect enough evidence, which this article is part of chain of people searching for more evidence/patterns. It seems likely we may never know the full story, but an interesting thing to wonder about.
The art of receiving feedback
Top end video gaming, those crazy 99th percential, 120hz 4k hdr guys.

Workloads limited by a single thread.

Overclockers.

That's about all I see.
I wish odersky had learned more about keeping things simple from worth.
I agree, you can't complain that every communication is locked and scripted and then try to hurt someone who has tried to be as candid as possible. It's just pushing towards a more and more unauthentic world.
I have yet to see even a concept, never mind a product, that actually uses a blockchain in a net-positive way, especially for "the unbanked". Universally high transaction fees and slow confirmation times on anything that sees leitimate amounts of use with no clear path towards mitigating this situation, if it's even possible to mitigate at all, combined with several choices of security system each with devastating concequences - from the morally black proof-of-work burning precious resources at a time climate change is already threatening to destroy us, to the morally grey proof-of-stake that simply reinforces the idea that those with the most resources deserve even more resources - makes for something that doesn't seem to have much potential for _good_. The "Unbanked" aren't going to be served by these systems, they need efficient, reliable, and safe systems.
> Most people don't care about money,

This is BS. Most ppl care about money above all else. India is a not a war zone its a "safe environment to raise family".

> I interview a lot of foreigners and there is clear trend that they don't want to go to the US with the current administration.

Why are you interviewing them then? Are you in Canada?
Since half the people are ignoring the question and chipping in their own language recommendations. I will join the bandwagon.

Use Java and enjoy C++ like syntax with 80% equivalent performance (based on my experience)

Then try this library - https://deeplearning4j.org/
Encryption, to be done right, always has to ultimately be the end user's responsibility. So there is one solid conclusion but it requires work and discipline and is therefore unpopular.

Encrypt before you send/upload, decrypt after you receive/download. If you transmit or receive unencrypted data you are placing trust in someone else and there is no way to really avoid that unless you created and control the chain end-to-end.

So you can use Google Drive, etc., just encrypt your data before uploading if it needs to be secured. A 7-zip file protected with AES256 is decently convenient (from a PC) and secure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18166184
I disagree with your disagreement ;)

In all seriousness, I understand your point, but what you’re referring to is a feature of a messaging/social product, not necessarily a product itself.

In Snapchat’ case, everything that makes it unique is easily duplicated by Instagram, outside of the people on it.

However, your comment on Instagram is actually about the marketing of the product, not necessarily the product itself.

Basically, if you take away the branding and the interface and distill down Instagram and Snapchat into the core functionality, there is little difference outside the network of users.
Sexual Assault in a PhD Program
I am an omnivore. [1] Also, getting the right amino-acids and enzymes from a vegan diet is challenging. Not impossible, but challenging. I compensate with plant based supplements where I can.

[1] - https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/51664/what-makes...
VS Code changelogs are really high quality and show how much effort do they put into each release.

I miss the default JSON settings editor though. The graphical interface for settings looks like a step backwards, although they'll probably improve it in no time...
Perhabs stating the obvious but Visio?
> Some things I'd share with FAMILY, some things I'd share with EVERYBODY, some things I'd share with MY QUILTING GROUP.

But if you're truly disciplined about this, you never learn that your second cousin is interested in quilting too.

And in many scenarios, there is little reward to being disciplined; unless you're into rather transgressive quilting, you'll probably share your quilting projects with everyone.
People make localized decisions which in aggregate have globalized impact. Buying and burning $3 of gasoline is a very affordable decision for a person but it causes problems when everyone does it. We need to make everything that can lead to global warming super expensive, even at the cost of comforts of life. Gasoline, meat, air conditioning, refrigeration all need to be dialed down. Do we have the will power and self control to make these sacrifices? Your first sentence is the answer.
>> Make and sell art, perform for an audience, publish on a blog or a youtube channel that’s monetized

That's weird. I cannot even imagine what the rationale for introducing these restrictions could be.

Normally, working restrictions for immigrants serve to protect the wages of the local work force, but in this case they only make the migrants' lives less fulfilling.
You too?!

My start button turns convection off and on 50% of the time. Annoying, but I just hit it again.
As a pilot of both full-sized aircraft and quadcopters, I think I can explain how 100 feet could potentially be a danger. Directly underneath the approach path of a runway that is less than a few hundred feet away might be bad.

Otherwise, there isn't a material impact. Noone should be flying their airplane within 100 feet of his house (by regulation).

I don't mean to call you out specifically, but this is really the problem with our regulatory environment. Lots of people involved with regulation actually have remarkably little understanding of the cost and benefits associated with the regulations that they advocate. I wish that I could go into more detail, but I've seen some truly crazy things being decided by people who literally had no idea of the consequences of their actions or how people in their field actually behaved.
Google+ always reminds me of my favorite management quote: "The single biggest failure of leadership is to treat adaptive challenges like technical problems." [1]

[1] https://www.sgaumc.org/files/files_library/technical_vs_adap...
> cloud business is synergetic with Google search

The funny thing is that while it's obviously synergetic, up to 2012 it was a Urs' toy project on the back-burner. It was mostly run from SEA/KIR with MTV leadership largely oblivious. There were gems like this, for example: once they forgot to cover cloud organization in the company OKR meetings broadcasted to all employees :) Only when they realized that external clouds grow so fast that Big G can loose it's preferential access to volume discounts GCP suddenly became the priority (to detriment of TI, which now largely is after-thought).

I'm convinced that Google going to cloud too late is going to be seen in history books in the same light as Microsoft/IE fiasco.
The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language
>But the most interesting with the 300 euros offer was that with a simple phone number you could get all his phone calls and it's physical location even month before

You can just log the pings to phone towers to get a rough location of a person. In that case it's probably kept automatically for a while in case it's needed for actual police work.
The same reason not every "I'm totally moving to canada/australia/new zealand/europe" liberal in the US can do so. Immigration laws.
I have no idea what the number would be, and probably no one else does either. I don't think the real issue is the total numbers though, it's always the outliers that are the problem -- as someone below stated: "jerks ruin everything".

The vast majority of hobbyists are thoughtful and considerate. RC aircraft have existed for a long time with few problems, with many of those aircraft being considerably larger, faster and higher flying.

It's the few users that don't consider the ramifications of their actions, like in the video I posted, which can ruin it for everyone.
The paper contributes Biscuit, a kernel written in Go that implements enough of POSIX (virtual memory, mmap, TCP/IP sockets, a logging file system, poll, etc.) to execute significant applications. In experiments comparing nearly identical system call, page fault, and context switch code paths written in Go and C, the Go version was 5% to 15% slower.
I'm not sure that's a compelling reason. Why aren't frozen goods at the back of the store then?

And are you sure milk needs to be stocked from behind? Is it at the back of the store because it needs to be stocked from behind - or is it stocked from behind simply because its at the back of the store?
I'm more likely to write a stub implementation around more complex behaviour that still functions in a minor way first, especially if I want to observe that some component functions even in absence of a complete implementation of another component.
Founder of Pramp.com here. Coding and interviewing are orthogonal skills. Being good at the former doesn't mean you're good at the latter. My recommendation to you is to challenge your own assumptions about your interviewing skills. Do you know for sure that you can do a credible job at system design? Is the process you use when tackling a problem aligns with interviewers' expectations? How are your communication skills? The point is that practicing coding interviews with other engineers will allow you to get unbiased feedback about many of the aspects above.
Why is the hosting business more important?
> I assume that's $1500 per year?

Total, not per year. Even S3 would only cost $250 a year to store a TB redundantly, and you could host 20 of them off a $200-per-month server or something.

Backblaze gets you a bit more than one copy for only $60 a year.
This is really well thought out. Thank you for posting :)
Blazor[0] was what I was referring to, but you're right, I shouldn't treat .NET like it's only being used in that context.

[0]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/03/22/get-start...
Every single root escalation bug could potentially leak huge amounts of data. And the definition of a successful exploit is one where you don't find out for a long time, or perhaps, not ever.

So does that mean that every single time you patch a remote-exploitable hole, in your web server, et.al, you have to file a report with every single government saying that there might have been a leak of all our data from all of our users, but we're not sure? It will be like the California proposition 65 warning where there will be so many "could be potentially harmful to a fetus" warnings that they all fade into the noise.

Just think of all of the CVE's reported by Microsoft, Red hat, etc. Anyone of those _could_ be a vulnerability leading to the loss of user data, and there is no guarantees that you would be able to detect it via logs.
Kind of a bizarre title for an article that's really "Our company would like to be more diverse and here's our plan".

Regardless of how you feel about diversity goals, not being diverse would hardly seem to make the company a bunch of assholes. And they don't use the word or address the idea in the article, so it's hard to say what they mean by this.

And for that matter, being diverse, being inclusive, and not being an asshole are three very different things.
I would think it should be required to report. Just because you don’t know if a vulnerability was exploited does not mean it was not.
[Reposting my comment shared on the earlier thread, I guess this one wasn’t marked as dupe]

“In June, more than 100 students at Stanford, M.I.T. and other top colleges signed a pledge saying they would turn down job interviews with Google unless the company dropped its Project Maven contract. (Google said that month that it would not renew the contract once it expired.) “We are students opposed to the weaponization of technology by companies like Google and Microsoft,” the pledge stated. “Our dream is to be a positive force in the world. We refuse to be complicit in this gross misuse of power.”

This is an incredibly powerful statement. A bunch of students getting together brought Google to its knees.

Now these brave students might consider standing up en masse to Facebook and its rapidly shrinking signing bonuses before FB moves too fast and breaks reality again.
I don't know why circles was so difficult for some. As soon as it launched I dropped FB because I would always get concerned about different groups of people seeing what I posted. On G+ I immediately had a Family circle, a circle of people I knew from work, close friends and then people I met on the service. In fact it didn't seem like people had a problem with the system until TechCrunch gave them talking points. The same thing happened with them integrating it across the properties and the "ramming it down our throats" flap.
> In Ontario, if you're working you have to pay a health care tax that is similar to what an employee would pay at a Silicon Valley company.

You must be comparing California monthly costs to Ontario yearly costs. Maximum Ontario annual premiums are $900.[1] To get equivalent coverage (by equivalent, I mean in terms of insurance value - as in, I won't have a $15,000 copay if I get into a serious accident) from Kaiser in Southern California (the "silver" plan) is about $750 per month for me and my wife. If you are covered through your employer (we both freelance), you might be getting fooled into thinking you are paying less money because your paychecks show a smaller number as "deducted," but that is because the rest is paid by your employer and is still part of your compensation.

[1] https://www.ontario.ca/data/ontario-health-premium-rates
So lets say Luke and I are troubleshooting a production issue. Luke and Chewbacca recently did some some work on the relevant parts of the code. I ask Luke: "Luke, this is really odd, didn't we ran the test suite and it passed without any problems?"

And Luke says "we did and and it passed" knowing full well that Chewbacca marked some tests with #[ignore] annotation and one of those ignored tests covers the exact functionality that is now failing in production.

I call telling partial truth intellectual dishonesty and for all practical purposes it is indistinguishable from lying.
Not cheap
10 Years of Spotify: Celebrate or Despair?
Great writeup, thanks! I look forward to digging in to those links. I could have done with it longer, but no-one could find it boring the way it is, so that's a good thing I guess. What's next?!

Sorry to be that guy, but I kept thinking of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKp29ZcslOM
I made a visual programming and debugging environment for PostScript, a stack based language, that let you perform "direct stack manipulation" by dragging object up and down and on and off of a "spike" stack that impaled the little tabs sticking out of objects.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-shape-of-psiber-space-oct...