skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a colorblind person with synesthesia (but I don’t play any instruments), I can say it is absolutely expansive. I experience sounds partially as sight; I have ‘seen’ many shades I would never be able to distinguish in the real world. I believe it works the other way as well, allowing me to notice more sounds than others because I can visually distinguish them, and then listen for differences
It's like nature's had millions of years to crunch through its own AI / machine learning of evolution and adaptation, and we're about to unleash the same thing on an impossibly faster scale. Imagine the technological breakthroughs that are going to happen.

I'm optimistic.
>From every headline there's a backstory.

The backstory being "Don't be a woman in UAE"?

>I've been to Dubai Airport and had a pint. No problem.

O, selective enforcement, the glorious ideal all other countries' legal systems should aspire to!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0604-2
Even 5GHz wireless phone base units won't penetrate a single layer of standard concrete blocks, like you have in home construction in Florida. Yet 2.5Ghz (WiFi etc.) or below (presumably part 15 at 100 mw) exhibits very little apparent attenuation throughout or outside the house. You may want to check out the Atmospheric Absorption by Frequency chart at the RFCafe site:

http://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/atm-absorption.h...
Ask HN: How Does Google Customer Engineer Work?
Currently, I am a DevOps Engineer in Toronto, doing a lot of Cloud/DevOps related works, and I am in the final round with Google Customer Engineer - Cloud, I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this role at Google? Are they second-class citizenship (comparing to Software Engineer) in Google?

how's sales commission being calculated?
> Did Google pay off the Camry driver?

The Camry driver was either absolutely or co-equally required to yield (TIL that despite the DMV Driver Handbook saying the former about freeway merges, there's signficant debate over whether that or equal responsibility is a correct interpretation of the Vehicle Code.)

> Note that the author of the article is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer-price winning journalist

No, it's Nicole Karlis, a Salon staff writer on tech, health, and gender politics who has not won a Pulitzer.

Now, the article is a sensationalized rehash of an incident from of a New Yorker article by Charles Duhigg, but he is not the author of the article directly at issue.
This sounds really interesting, I’d love a code.
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I wonder about the chances of creating this kind of toroidal vortex above a duct for lift. It seems necessary for the air to pass in the same direction as the lift, yet lift is normally created by throwing air in the opposite direction.
Dijkstra’s blog post from 1975 is somewhat relevant :p https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF
There was an HN comment from ages ago that was one of my favorites, but I am unable to find a link to it.

Basically it was a user listing how life changes at different levels of wealth.

ie.

1MM : take family on a big vacation each year

5MM : stop worrying about retirement

10MM : stop working for other people

100MM : private jets to wherever you need to go

and on and on, or something to that effect

Please reply if anyone can find a link.
But does density have to do with anything Kepler measures?

Since it only measures how much light decreases, I assumed it's only measuring planet size, and that we're totally ignorant about planet mass and density?
When's the most recently that private companies haven't owned the infrastructure facilitating daily life? Railroads are private businesses, the telephone companies are private businesses, payments have to go through credit card companies and banks, TV and radio are private businesses. Roads are public, but you have to go through private businesses to buy, maintain, repair, and fuel your car.

Commercial infrastructure providers have always had similar power, and sometimes even use it. The main reasons for them not using it has always been a combination of purely commercial motives for running a business--which is undermined by the founding myth of Silicon Valley as a haven for idealistic hippies trying to change the world--and the potential for competition--which is undermined by the monopolistic tendencies of the tech industry and the cultural groupthink on the West Coast.

Ironically, Silicon Valley, the Internet, and the field of computer science itself all originate from WWII-era military R&D.
There is, right in the article:
Cummins, C. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0604-2 (2018).
Well yes, because he owns more than 50% of the voting stock. That’s how ownership works. This isn’t “Facebook has a rule that says the ceo is replaced by his child”, it’s a matter of “Facebook ceo owns more than 50% of voting stock, and is leaving it to his family”. Feudal is: irrespective of ownership, control is hereditary. (Monarchies generally don’t own more than 50% of the assets in a country)

The alternative would be to prohibit leaving assets to your family in your will.
I love what you're doing Peter. Which code editors are you planning to support next?
That isn’t really a heap then. Just normal static allocation.
Did this thread trigger some sort "too many comments vs. upvotes" threshold? I think the discussion here was mostly civil.
Bought the phone and sold it at a loss more than a few months later for less than half. Camera is terrible and it did not at all improve with time. Screen to phone ratio was amazing but another drawback nobody mentions was the weight. for a 5 inch phone it weighed more than my previous Nexus 6p. Carrying it in my pocket made it heavy.
Top 7 Types of Computer Viruses to Watch Out for and What They Do
I’m not a good person, or even close to it, and don’t mind being shamed for the harm I have caused people (some of it serious), but I wasn’t saying that. I was saying that Harvard should admit Beyoncé over me because she became more powerful than I did.
This tax is supposed to generate $250-300 million per year. This is a crazy amount of money for a 47 sq mile city with 885k people.

Say you hand out this $300 million to people. Without building any more housing, this would clearly just raise rental prices with almost no change in homelessness.

Say you try to build 1000 new units of housing and pay out $300 million to the jobs created in that process. The people with these new jobs being given this $300m would drive up rental prices and shift a different group of people onto the street who can't afford the higher costs anymore.

Suppose you have rent control to try to avoid that shift. Then where will the people doing these newly created jobs live? There's a housing shortage throughout the entire bay area. They will probably have to commute huge distances.

You can't just build housing for homeless. You need to build more housing for everything else in the chain too.
Theranos Criminal Case Is Broader Than Publicly Disclosed
I dislike the way you’re framing the conversation.

Maybe we take a 20-year old who worked really hard to move through college and get her degrees while working part time to cover at least food.

She was in fact told that degrees do guarantee jobs , as a part of the for-profit education sales pitch.

She is now facing an economy where every possible job has been outsourced, and wages have laughably low purchasing power, and that’s before you consider the costs of rent in locales where jobs are available.

It’s an employers market, in a post-crash (and of course pre-crash) economy where employers have “trimmed the fat” as much as possible and in many cases left their existing employees to cover for multiple jobs.

I can’t see any entitlement here apart from the expectation of livable wages set by the education industrial complex and the low unemployment numbers based on a gig economy and non-livable wages requiring holding multiple jobs to survive.

Lastly, are you using “hippie” in light of the government propaganda effort to paint anti-war activists as unclean, undisciplined and confused? Repeating the frame enforces it.
It is disingenuous to say this in the context of the conversation: that little qualifier -- income in income taxes - matters.

I am paying 0 (none, nada, nothing) income tax. But I am a taxpayer.

This[1] source paints a better picture, and I didn't even bother verifying the data - at least it considers other kinds of taxes.

[1]https://itep.org/wp-content/uploads/taxday2017.pdf
Out of curiosity, are you liking outside of California?
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
The HashMap docs say: “This class makes no guarantees as to the order of the map; in particular, it does not guarantee that the order will remain constant over time.” This utility function depends on the order of the entries, so it can return different hashes even when the keys and values in the map are the same.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/HashMap....
I was advised years ago to try to make it harder to determine age on my resume (I'm just over 40).

Some techniques that are helpful for this:

- only list the last 10 years of work experience (add a comment about making available prior work experience on request if you like)

- pull any other skills or experience into a specific skills/experience section

- don't list the dates for your degrees/graduations

If you survive the resume cull then you're much more likely to survive in person interviews unless the place is horribly ageist.
> The other driver was undocumented

“unlicensed”, per the article. “undocumented” in US parlance, referring to an individual, usually refers to immigration status; the article only indicates this driver had no driver's license.
FWIW, the population of California (where recreational cannabis has been legal since winter) is larger than the entire population of Canada.
My intuitive understanding is that the vortex is a consequence of the slower flow through and not the other way around.
He would have to be involved in illegal activity involving Facebook stock, and even then I believe all they could do is prevent him from being on the board - I’m not sure that they can force him to sell off his controlling position, but maybe I’m wrong?
It would be awesome if I could self-host CodeStream in our own network. Any plans for that?
Watch: Amazing, Fan-Made 3D Recreation of the Upside Down from Stranger Things
> The other driver was living in the US illegally

The article only says he was unlicensed; the upthread poster converted that to “undocumented”.
YMMV, but, outside of technical contexts, the phrase "increased exponentially" is often used by people who don't even know the difference between linear, geometric and exponential growth. In many cases they don't even understand that the word "exponential" refers to a rate of growth, if they've heard of the concept.

Take the context of a high-profile art magazine, Frieze. (I googled "frieze increased exponentially"). This is shooting fish in a barrel—but the most egregious example in the first page of hits is this one:

"Seppie in nero’ – squid in its own ink – is my favourite Venetian delicacy. Although customarily served with polenta, I prefer it on thick spaghetti since pasta exponentially increases the naturally squirmy quality of the creatures’ tentacles, creating a Medusa-like mound of inchoate, salty matter."

So you've got an art critic writing slightly pretentiously about food, and he throws in an "exponentially" which has nothing to do with a rate.

This and similar usages of "exponentially" are extremely widespread now. People talk about exponential increases without any mental model of the rate of growth as a function of time at all—just the woolly idea that something is growing fast.

"The term "exponentially" is often used to convey that a value has taken a big jump in short period of time, but to say that a value has changed exponentially does not necessarily mean that it has grown very much in that particular moment, but rather that the rate at which it grows is described by an exponential function."

https://books.google.ie/books?id=aVovDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA...

The battle is lost on this word, as it is with "literally". To the man on the street "exponentially" really just means "a huge amount" now.
The original thought behind tipping was to help waiting staff. Nowadays iPad based tipping has become the norm in self-service and even carry-out situations. I believe the article is focussing on that aspect.
Eller's Algorithm
In approximate order: vscode, atom, visual studio, jetbrains (intellij, webstorm, etc), sublime.

We also plan to publish our marker API so that fans of a particular editor will be able to create a client, should they be so motivated.
What exactly is "Big" here? It is about 1000 hard drives, several racks...
Not in our neck of the woods. The jobs are all in the suburbs and the cities grasp at any kind of subsidy they can get their hands on. The schools there are crumbling and bumbling. People don't feel safe. The roads are barely passable. Population is in decline, moving to where the wealth and jobs are.

The wealthiest 1400 people in the US pay as much tax as the least wealthy 50%.

EDIT: citation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-...
~25$ per person per month for a city as rich as SF does not seem like a crazy amount of money to me.
OP: Not sure why you are down-voted. The HackerNews Community seems to dislike telling the truth if it is surrounded by even a hint of negativity.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "engineering services firm"?
In light of this, check out Kathy Sierra’s blog and her book Badass: making users awesome.
15 years ago I talked to few guys at Oracle and they said the devs of the core database are pretty old since experience in this area really counts.
The result of natural/evolutionary selection?

Would be interesting to know if there are different types of dandelions (I mean the part used to "fly") used by the same type of seed, each type adapted/optimized for a particular climate (e.g. humid for asian areas, dry for african areas, windy for coastal areas, ...).
Earlier studies show that people with 'absolute pitch' can be
'detuned' quite easily.

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/acquiring-perfect-pitch-may-...

Like any measuring tool, you need to calibrate it from time to time.
That’s pretty far from their business model. They’d have to charge a lot for it to make the economics work (they don’t have the service economics of say Google), which would limit the market size, which would limit how interesting the concept is to a trillion dollar company.
This is absolutely doable, and is really the logic behind most current physical election security procedures. Procedures are designed less to prevent tampering than to make tampering obvious. Re-voting can theoretically be done, because (public, real-time) records are kept of who voted at a particular polling place, not counting provisional ballots - look outside for a "street index" at your polling place.

(Source: am volunteering for the second time working the physical polls.)
We're actively looking into it using docker. Would that work for your infrastructure?
Or that no one had been able to answer, "What makes dandelion seeds fly?" because no one had asked the question before. At least not asked it in a way that prompted someone to look at a floating dandelion seed close enough to notice the vortex.
Good move. It is ridiculous now, you can buy headphone extension cable at $0.2 with Free shipping from china on ebay. This madness has to stop.

On the other hand I have zero doubt Chinese sellers will try to scam the system by first shipping to another cheap country on the list.
Or you can just pick up a second hand AlphaSmart Neo like I did. Weeks of battery life as well.
There are a few things that might be going on here. I have done a lot of dev hiring over the last 10 years in the Bay Area and this is what I've seen:

1. Ageism is very real in the bay area. People see a huge list of experience going back to 1985 and graduation dates in that range and they filter you. It is terrible but true. If you are sending a 5 page resume of experience to win them over, try including only your best and most relevant work from the last 10 years and omit graduation dates, etc. See how that works to at least get to the first interview.

2. In addition to the conscious ageism, there is a lot of unconscious stuff people do that also excludes older devs. Even if someone doesn't include dates, I can tell almost immediately they are from another engineering culture (either physical or temporal aliens). There are a lot of little cues that people might interpret as you not being "a good fit", "old school", or "enterprise-y". If you are friends with any hip 30-35 year old devs, have them review for cues like that and squash them. Quite possibly you'll also find there are real holes in your resume or way you are presenting yourself.

3. On that note, have that same hip dev friend cross reference his version of what tech is hot with your expertise. You might be a great dev in 100 ways but your attachment to php (haha, jk php lovers!) will peg you as "old school". If you really don't have experience in any of that hot tech, "I can pick stuff up" only goes so far especially if people are already wondering because of your age. Build something real (!"I did a tutorial or toy app and it seems cool") using one of those hot tools and put it on your resume.

Everything above applies to LinkedIn or Github profiles too, not just your resume since people will immediately check those also. Of course, when you get to a first interview, you might still get filtered but at least you'll have a shot.

I know it is pretty callous to just try and work around ageism as I'm recommending but sadly I think this is the hurdle older devs need to tackle to get to the first interview. I see older guys not finding work all the time.

To be clear, this perspective isn't coming from someone in their 20s. I'm 45 and am already seeing these harsh realities. I feel like I get to see both sides of it since I own my own company and I've been immersed in the 25-35 year old hipster dev culture all along which helps me to stay very current in lingo, trends, appeal. Because we see it all the time, we're very careful to avoid this ageism trap in our hiring by moving people forward using very well defined criteria, not subjective "I got a good feeling about him" type heuristics that might lead us to filter really great devs because of our unconscious biases.
As a physicist who works with neutrinos, I don't appreciate the name clash :)
It's called firemen first. There's usually plenty of waste, especially in the more opaque and unaccountable areas of government, such as the school system administrative staff.

So, they get rid of something people will really notice and guess what? Next time people will say they must have really needed that money.
An oversteer to avoid a hazard followed by loss of control (especially exacerbated by some kind of panic reaction) could do it.
> Now I have a little of Newton for you

Sweet of you to bring me Newton. Always a welcome gift.

But I think you misunderstand where my question is pitched.

The solar system is rather clumped, you see. A little Aristotle for you. :)

In all seriousness, the more dark matter is around, the less it can have mutual interactions, before it would clump, surely? Assuming such forces exist, there is a nonzero probability that two particles of dark matter will approach close enough that non-gravity forces will be significant, And they will no longer act under an ideal Newtonian gravity. Dust clouds coalesce into suns, given time. Can dark matter have its own dark-only version of the electromagnetic force? Or is that ruled out by the lack of clumping? Or is there just too little of it to make a conclusion on that? My question was entirely consistent with ol' Issac.
Solving Sol
Everyone uses public infrastructure. That's what makes it "public infrastructure". Should we raise your taxes to 80% "because you use the roads that are built by taxes"?
We Got Spanked: What We Know So Far
The main reason is we have 4 kids living in the Bay Area and my wife doesn't want to move away from them.
On the nose, in a manner of speaking.
You are expected to deliver tests to Techempower yourself. Optimizing for those tests is part of the game. ;)

net/http is known for being quite slow
> often without even noticing it (and the consequences for industry and society).

I think sleep deprivation can become addictive. Some people don't seem to get, or gets used to, the despair and come to enjoy the single minded numbness to the point where it is actually uncomfortable for them to sleep well and come out of 'survival mode'.
Kunit: Introducing KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework
Congrats Kush and team! Happy graduate from 2013 here :) Keep up the great work!
I just meant that to simplify literally everything you could just work only in post-tax numbers like the rest of the world does.

Obviously this would indeed increase tip amount, but it would definitely decrease confusion and probably fix itself over the long run if the new tip amount was too big.
There actually was a computer that ran PICO-8 out of the box, too:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/19/12227806/p...

Unfortunately, the company has shut down, and these aren't made anymore. But it looks like they can still be found on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pocket-C-H-I-P-sealed-portable-hand...
Security is always relative however in this case its a little bit more risk. It definitely gives some protection against the database being hacked. I wonder if you allow the user credentials for the sites to be read back by the user on screen? One of the core principals is to never store the password credentials in plain text, however the way the service works you have to store them in plain. Another concern is if the service can read and gather the secrets from both the data stores to make the request then its a matter of some writing an API to leak that information by mistake or intentionally.
I think you misunderstand me. You are talking about computers and technology, I am talking about crayons, paint, musical instruments... Things that you can immediately use to create without restrictions. There was a small window of time when computers offered that for kids. There is no reasons why this could not be achieved with modern technology, but somehow our current culture prevents it. I'm sure it will be reinvented one day.
Are we re-discovering nature as a big not-artificial intelligence? like that big entity someone will start to respect, venerate and serve as a mythical goddess?
Not just tech billionaires.
They absolutely can be: see https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/..., specifically the section of the US code that speaks to "Failure to make choice on prescribed day" and "Determination of controversy as to appointment of electors". Basically - if for any reason a state can't pick electors on election day, it can do so afterwards by whatever (constitutional) method it desires; and if there's a disputed election and a state has a (pre-election) law enacted for deciding controversies that law just has to come to a decision within 6 days before the electors meet.