skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We Made a Decentralized Amazon.Runs Simultaneously on Ethereum/Ripple/Bitcoin
Cool. You might consider describing Muze as a project rather than a product. E.g., On the homepage: Our first product, Muze... -> Our first project, Muze....
Duolingo: we achieved a 50:50 gender ratio for new software engineer hires
I think even from a PR perspective it might be the right move. In prior news cycles about Amazon's compensation, I don't think we heard about all the people who apparently were already making $15/hr after expected bonuses.
We'll never know how much "editorial discretion" they exercise by just not releasing things that don't suit the narrative they're building. And I'm guessing it's actually a whole lot. During the 2016 US election, they implied often on twitter that they were sitting on more information about all parties, constantly hyping up more bombshells and then only releasing some one-sided nothingness. It was such an obvious attempt to destabilize the discourse, it's hard to imagine their motives were driven by anything other than the interests of a certain foreign government.
Photos from the Aftermath of Hurricane Michael
South African ISP (Germany's Hetzner Subsidiary) Hacked Again
Because wikileaks is a tool belonging to Russian state
Since from what I hear a fresh grad in the Bay Area gets $100k+ just in cash, we could extrapolate. I'm guessing that's at least $150k (probably more like $200k+ in today's market) in total compensation for year. Add about $20k+ in cash and probably the close to the same in Google shares per level, that would make it easily $400k per year. So he would have gotten $3.2 million, I can't imagine his expenses being higher than half of that, so he should be worth $1.6 million after 8 years. Probably more.

I'm curious how off my estimations are :)
IoT: Respect the Present and Build for the Future
Boeing: “[We have] restructured our leadership team to better align with current program challenges, and we are refining our approaches and tools to ensure a successful transition from development to production.”

Sounds to me like utterly worthless corp-speak for "shit isn't going so hot, but we are going to fix everything, just you wait". I think there might be trouble in paradise among Boeing's top brass.

In no way surprised to hear this, especially after seeing Boeing spreading FUD here recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18139146). They must not be comfortable with all of the other upstarts in the industry threatening their comfy spot as one of NASA's go-to contractors.
The spaceship wasn't on a launch which involved failure, since 1983. Soyuz rocket fails once every few years. Just the crewed launched were lucky (and also crewed rockets are checked better + in many cases, older, lower performance, but better tested AND downrated for increased reliability, mods were used).

For example, Progress ship (very close in design to Soyuz ship, unmanned ship to deliver supplies, not recoverable) failed less than 2 years ago due to launcher failure.
Not all code is created equal.  Tests shouldn't be either
VR-based cognitive-motor training for middle-aged adults with Alzheimer's risk
Actually I think it was in April. I was headed to a U2 concert in San Jose when I heard it, and it looks like that was in April. Depeche Mode was in August :)
If animals learn where to migrate from their parents/flock, then it would be reasonable to assume they learn the relation between where they should be going and what their magnetosense is telling them. The article implies that even during transition, the magnetic field is pretty much constant within a lifetime of any individual animal.

Now a tangential question I have is: how the hell do animals know where they should migrate? Is this learned from observation, or do they have some innate idea of where they should go?
Again you can clearly see WikiLeaka mission: Randomly attacking and potentially damaging businesse.
June.ai looks to take on the inbox with $1.5M
> On the Leadership Team of the Bro Project, we heard clear concerns from the Bro community that the name "Bro" has taken on strongly negative connotations, such as "Bro culture".

My understanding is that the negative connotations of the word "bro" come wholly from outsiders who co-opted it to use as a pejorative to attack a community. It originated and remains an in-group term of endearment and familiarity in that community.

It's interesting to note that seems like an inversion of what I understand happened to certain forms of the n-word. It started out as a pejorative slur used by outsiders to attack a community, but then forms of it were "reclaimed" by that community to be used as an in-group term of endearment and familiarity.
I have never had Glassdoor give a useful estimate of any job I had, including those at major companies.
That, and decades of world-leading scientific research.
BSD's, etc. not covered by MS patent pledge, only Linux
Confusion Matrix in Object Detection with TensorFlow
I honestly cannot think of any such incident happening in all the years of space exploration. Crewed or not-crewed capsule. And I've watched enough documentaries on Apollo and other space programs.

It's the beginning of a very very small, exclusive club, one that will hopefully not be too big.
What Ring's founder bought after selling his company to Amazon for $1B
Apple might offer free original content with its devices next year
I'm not sure this is right; the NSE stuff tends to be at the shell, the user-facing API. The workhorse functions generally are referentially transparent, and writing pure functions is both natural and recommended in R. The slow parts are deeper than the NSE, so removing NSE wouldn't open up much room to optimize.

I suspect pass-by-value is a much bigger barrier to speed in R than non-standard evaluation.
And the Amazon statement in the article says "more than compensates for the phase out of incentive pay and future RSU grants."

The conflict is probably due to the fact that RSU grants were very lucrative over the last few years. If you assume that the stock is going to quadruple in the next 3 years, then yes, a RSU bonus is probably better than a raise, but I don't think Amazon will be a 4 trillion dollar company in 3 years time...
Start-up economy is a 'Ponzi scheme,' says Chamath Palihapitiya
"death by a thousand cuts" is used figuratively in this instance
“Great Britain has no friends, only interests."
They repeatedly said that nobody was getting a pay cut

From the article:

> “Again, all hourly operations and customer service employees will see an increase in their base pay, as well as in their total compensation,” Amazon SVP Jay Carney said in the letter, obtained by the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post.
"Months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror."

I imagine you are happily doing 3, maybe 4 G's, then an alarm sounds and suddenly the escape system (or mission control, your the commander) decides you are not going to space after all, adds 10 G's or so to what you are already doing for a couple seconds, then a couple seconds of free fall until the parachutes open, then the final kick when you are about to land.

They had a very bad day.

At least it's not a very long time inside a Soyuz. I don't think I fit inside one.
methinks Facebook will kill itself
Provisional ballets are an 'easy' solution to this problem.

If person X, did not vote anywhere else then count the ballet. Having less permissive rules is a question of does this rule help or hurt the party writing the rule. Which is the antithesis of a democracy.

Consider, if your a US citizen and live in DC or a territory, you don't get a meaningful vote. However, if your a US citizen and live in China but used to live in a state then you can vote.
And the project based work, and the help of older students that force you to learn by yourself, and the opportunity to help students that aren't good with the classic way of doing school (shut-up and listen to a teacher talk for 3 hours), and teaching you to be independent and responsible, and forcing you to think like a real world professional, and making you own up to your decision, the ability to go beyond what was asked and be rewarded for it... I could go on and on about this school which is in my opinion becoming worse every year, but the core concept is amazing and truly adapted for an IT school of the 21st century.
A lot of the locations look more like POPs, not data centers. The multiple in Brazil are just coloc and meet-me sites run by local companies (UOL, Algar, TIVIT).

What a shitty service, WikiLeaks...
I was E6 at Facebook for 1.5 years.

Left due to a combination of not finding the right team/project and constant pressure to work on something impactful rather than fixing existing issues I cared about. This seems to be a common issue at FB with senior engineers joining and having to ramp up quickly (2 of the senior teammates left while I was there for the same reasons).

Currently at WeWork where you don't have to write multi-page assessment of all the impactful things you've done during the last half.

It's not perfect but the work-life balance at senior level is better than at FAANG.
The Decline of OpenID
Worth watching is How NOT to Measure Latency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU

The speaker Gil Tene is also the author of the HdrHistogram which addresses this articles point: https://hdrhistogram.github.io/HdrHistogram/
Never checked if it was NTFS issue, but it felt like logical explanation - when starting Stronghold Crusader through wine on Linux, loading took like 0.5s, compared to 10s or so on Windows.

Didn't bother to check the numbers, but it was order of magnitude for sure. Way more than just noticeable.
Underfunded, bureaucratically neutered, glacially slow world-leading scientific research.
Stop trying to re-invent statistics. Use a box and whisker plot of latency. You quickly get to see the mean, the quartiles, and all the outliers and you get it in a format which is familiar and easy to understand. You can even plot box and whisker plots next to each other for quick meaningful comparisons between different things.
That's true for shares, but NPR had interviews with Amazon warehouse workers that indicated the cash bonuses are monthly. One of the interviewees indicated his bonuses would sometimes equal his salary during busy periods like the holidays.
Sorry for the bluntness of my question: I only have little experience in using Python, which I acquired while trying out Django, and I remember using scripts to generate certain parts of the site (things might have changed since then?).

To be fair, Django is pretty good: iirc, it induces good discipline for development, which is perhaps why it is so easy to handle a large codebase.

On the other hand, the business logic is outside the scope of Django (or any other framework), and there, if the devs do not follow good practices and develop the right tools, it might be more difficult to be productive.

The way I see it, people using dynamic languages have much more freedom in development, but also less safeguards, which means that they have to build them to make their code more robust. Having code generators is a way of getting back some safety, because you only have to make sure the generators are producing correct code.

Custom code, however, need to be thoroughly tested to be considered safe, and if the compiler doesn't do any type level consistency check, it's that many more tests that needs to be written, which adds up to the LOC count.
Would "a tool" suffice or is that both too harsh and not specific enough?

(Tools are being used for political agenda, often contrary to what they want.)
June.ai raises $1.5M for AI-powered email management
I understand the GraphQL pitch - I just don't buy it. From my experience, you don't generally need that level of flexibility. Most callers probably want the full set of data returned by your API. Those that don't can easily ignore it or filter it out client-side. So GraphQL is basically a big, unnecessary hammer.
Does one have to get shot to know it hurts? Is a male doctor incapable of advising a pregnant woman?
I've had two separate "Documents" folders on a few different machines before. I never used those folders, but they both showed up in my home directory and could contain different data.

I'm sure they were something different if I dove deeper in cmd, but I never cared enough to figure it out.
This will not work for everyone as I do the same with airplane mode. I figure if it is that much of an emergency, a police officer will show to my door with terrible news.
> A type inference does not check types. It inferences types.

OK, on that definition, of what possible use is a type inferencer? Aren't they useful only as a component of a compile-time type checker?
Did you read the article? They're trying to filter out lower relevance items, so that when you search "coffee maker" and sort by price, you don't get a 2.95 coffee filter instead.
Wow... This is not acceptable at all. They should have a team to go through these and at least prioritise the tickets instead of just relying on upvote. I'm pretty sure Microsoft can afford that.
This sort of hand wringing seems like a distraction from the likelihood that Amazon has moved up the date* in which these jobs will be eliminated. Whether employees are netting out the same or not is going to be moot. If it's similar though then that really doesn't seem like a good deal longer term.

*Robots will be able to do the jobs for $15 hour sooner than they'll be able to for $7 an hour. The math will accelerate the move to automation.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...
> the possibility that someone can reboot the system to a new OS and read whatever was in RAM

or physically pull the RAM out, keeping it cold with LN2, and stick it into devices designed for reading it all out.
I believe lispm is not a native English speaker. His website TLD is .de.
I'm glad you find it useful :)

This is just the initial release, as I'm using it more myself I'll refine it further.
I have a Rolleicord with a film back set aside for this very purpose. The biggest issue is actually film plane flatness and focus - those are hard to get right!
They are indeed lucky and unlucky AF.

Lucky to be alive after such an incident.

Unlucky to have gotten on top of a Soyuz rocket system that failed, when it's been proven to be so incredibly reliable all these years.
...

It is not about Republicans or Democrats -- the reality is that it is operating in a way where we can all be assured it is not doing so in "our" best interest, but instead for some other nation-states purpose. Just because the party you identify with seems to be helped by something they have done recently does not mean you should take them as being honest actors.
This is also good for workers in that most compensation conversations in my experience (professional agency recruiter for 2 years now), start with the employer asking "how much did you make in your last role"
This. As a woman it sometimes makes me want to ragequit not just HN but the industry as a whole.

And then people wonder why women don’t want to go into tech and make even more assumptions about our not being interested. Nope, it’s just that a whole lot of us quite understandably would rather work in a field where we’re not constantly made to feel unwelcome.
I think their first indication that something was wrong was that they felt weightless at a time when they should've been experiencing 4g's. Apparently after the abort they still stayed under 7g
What I need is a script to sue a John Doe #1 and Wireless Telecom Provider #1, get an order for the latter to de-anonymize the former as well as they are able, obtain default judgment for illegal robocalls, actually collect on it, and get an order to cease future robocalls.
This storm was crazy!

One of the pics is of a line of train cars turned onto their sides. The weather channel reported that CSX said each train car weighed 30 tons, and there are just a row of them turned over.

Photos of a gymnasium wall just gone.

Video of a hotel's roof being blown away, and then a 10ft cinderblock wall disintegrating.

Being a Florida Man and loving hurricanes, these are the only kind of storms I legitimately fear. This was not an Irma, Florence, Frances, Wilma type storm. This was an Andrew, Katrina, Charlie type storm. I think the local news did a terrible job differentiating this storm from recent storms, they kept talking about this in comparison to Florence. All the signs prior to landfall said this would be a tight packed (meaning it would hold it's strength upon landfall), and fast moving (meaning large areas of damage).
Apple boosts chipmaking efforts with $600M Dialog Semiconductor deal
I remember one of the live ISRO launches I was watching some 10 years ago on television, and the white blinking spot went off the parabolic curve after few seconds. I was like, "is everything OK?". Audio went into data-only dictation, no dictation and such... and than suddenly rocket exploded. I was in tears.
I guess I'm glad that I don't use any of those folders... I just dump everything into category folders at the root of my data partition, e.g. G:\Code, G;\Pictures, G:\Downloads, etc.

The entire Users directory ends up being such an unimaginable cesspool on a Windows machine that has seen any significant service time, with this, that, and everything else poking and prodding and leaving its detritus inside. My desktop is essentially a single-user machine, as most Windows laptops and desktops are, but even on servers where user accounts are actually used, I spend an undue amount of time fiddlefrigging to take ownership and permissions on files because some script I need is saved to a different account's desktop. Bailing out of the whole thing and running your own filesystem shouldn't be easier, but it is.
Family Video survives, marks 40th year as competitors fail
This in no way harms Amazon in terms of security, though it may have a PR implication or possibly allow others to take Amazon to task in some way.

Security by obscurity cannot be relied upon.
> The conflict is probably due to the fact that RSU grants were very lucrative over the last few years.

The conflict is probably due to the fact that Amazon publicly and loudly announced the raises alone in response to political pressure, to pretend they were giving people the same deal but with higher hourly wage, and the the benefit cuts became known later and separately. It would be a conflict even if there was no question that everyone was getting at least a small net raise, because even if that is true everyone is also getting a smaller net raise than Amazon tried to get public credit for. Being caught in a lie, including a lie of omission, by people concerned with the issue about which you are being deceptive, produces (or exacerbates) conflict.
Yup. I meant to reply to one of my other comments but apparently I wasn't paying attention.
The story of who made millionaires and fools of Bitcoin investors (2017)
Example UAS facility map. The class E surface area is depicted in a magenta "keyhole" shaped overlay with blue dashed line. And the squares show areas where a UAV could operate (with authorization) at or below the depicted altitude. Much of the central area is marked 0, so UAV's can't operate there.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/request_waiver/uas_facility_maps/med...
Something similar happened with another Soyuz in 1983, right?
Same-sex mice genetically engineered to have babies
There are 8 independent engines, IIRC, mounted two by two. I think they are controlled in pairs, one on each side of the craft so as to avoid an engine on one side not knowing its counterpart on the other side failed and forcing the capsule to spin instead of fly away from the faulty booster.
I wouldn't be excited to return to Earth in that particular Soyuz
Yes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. But if it's really the case that some people are coming out with less money in the end then they've misrepresented themselves publicly.
This is the problem with media. It starts with the media focusing on how many Amazon workers aren't making enough money. Political pressure mounts and Amazon increases everyone's salary to minimum $15/hr.

The media then changes focus to those that feel slighted by their loss in bonus. They stop focusing on the people who are now happy and keep focusing on the small percentage of people who are unhappy, and seem to revel in creating a narrative where Amazon is STILL doing something wrong.

This is the fake news culture that is driving people like me away from actually believing the news.
I don't buy this argument. The problem usually isn't that robots are too expensive to do the human jobs, it's that robots can't do the human jobs, period. If something can be done by machine, it is done by machine, and that's been true since the beginning of the industrial era. Entire job classifications get wiped out by new automation, all the time.

At this point, the jobs that are still done by humans are jobs that require judgment and intuition. Those things are very, very difficult to emulate in software, unlike repetitive motions and data lookups.
9B is nothing when you look at how much waste is spent in the military, like the the Abrams tanks that the military consistently says it doesnt want but always gets [1] [2]

[1] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/12/18/congress-agai...

[2] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/11/ohio-wins-aga...
SNAFU, so to speak.
I like this format. There is always things like Thread Reader to read it "long format". Eg [1] is your thread in one page.

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1050258171317510144.html
How is running a startup better than being the CTO of a startup?
Bad macros are bad. In case the arguments appear twice, you must create an intermediate variable to hold the result. This is also important to ensure that all the arguments are evaluated in the correct order.

With a Google Search I found this example that is more clear and has working code (using a GNU C extension): https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Duplication-of-Side-Effec...
I stood one on the window of my bathroom, and left it there for a couple of years.

Never watered it at all, and it thrived despite the leaky window. I always assumed it would get water, via condensation/steam from my shower and that seeemed to be the case.
The What and the How of Building Software
The Challenger crew is thought to have to survived the initial explosion[1], though how long they would have remained conscious is questioned. The collision with the ocean is what killed them, not the explosion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...
>Fewer engineers mean non-critical bugs in internal tools sometimes don't get fixed. We just don't have time.

This sounds like everywhere I've ever worked. I didn't even realize that the alternative actually existed!
As a resident of Ashburn, VA the locations are hardly a secret. Just about everyone in the area who cares to know, knows. I drive past the place in the header image of https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazo... on the way home from the Sterling Wal-Mart. My next door neighbor is an HVAC tech for Amazon, and he's only barely secretive about where they are (to me anyway). Everyone at Old Ox and Crooked Run breweries seems to know, etc.
Wayne Hale's NASA Blog: Black Zones
> I don’t know why so many hacker news readers both are illogically irate about paywalls and also irate about data collection. The irony is almost overwhelming.

Because they're not the same HN users? I don't care at all about data collection but I abhor terrible UI such the modal ad in the original post.