skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this effectively different from the cable TV, nintendo, home PCs and gameboy era of 20 years ago for kids?

Microtransactions? I don't think the existence of microtransactions is what makes it obviously worse. You could waste your entire childhood in front of screens back then too, and society quickly came to learn you should reduce screen time, despite the temptation of the TV babysitter. Those same lessons apply to the smartphone era of today.

F2P games, like the almost 10 year old farmvillie? That is a bit newer, and I do agree that has a problem. I don't think that is new although.
Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse
>But it hasn’t been previously reported that the Justice Department is focusing on Tesla’s Model 3 production issues dating to early last year and that the criminal securities-fraud probe is intensifying.

Does that not imply that the "Justice Department is focusing on Tesla’s Model 3 production issues."

Why else would Tesla release a statement?
It'd be great if we held politicians and the news media to the same standard.
I’m always annoyed by the arrow length trick. This article calls it the “Müller-Lyer” illusion. The problem is inconsistent line caps and the joints overlapping means that the size of the line actually is changing a little. As a result, I’m not sure whether there’s an optical illusion involved or not, and, if there is, this is a poor way of demonstrating it.
No longer imaginary. Power of LISP right there.
That's not even far fetched, the ever expanding possibilities of targeting individuals through the big data evolution, will clearly lead to some nightmare like this.
My hope is that capitalism will be rendered obsolete through cultural and technological progress, before we arrive there.
Stuff like this always reminds me on YTCracker's cyberpunk Album "Introducing Neals"

"...big data and your love live after this..."

https://ytcracker.bandcamp.com/album/introducing-neals
GUI-wise I agree completely. I remember how both windows 3.0 and windows95 were a huge leap forward in usability. Win2k combined this with the NT kernel. The main piece missing was decent DirectX, which came in XP.

But there is another important change after win2k: The attitude Microsoft has to its users. Windows XP was the first windows where actively user hostile technologies like DRM were introduced.
Tesla has, by and large, benefited tremendously from the funding and support it has received as a public company.
Do you have any basis for this claim? The Windows kernel is very efficient and well designed and doesn't have any more overhead than other kernels out there as far as I'm aware. This is also the kind of machine that won't be running many extraneous processes or features so I'm not sure what would be "bogging down" the system.
I have a good experience on new devices. I used to have a pretty good experience deleting cookies every time I close a browser tab, but now even that's degrading.

I should probably just buy a new device ever few months like Steve Jobs did with cars.
"Most people I know have bluray players and streaming services, but almost always stream now.
I prefer Blu-ray for quality reasons, and also I find some comfort in owning a physical disc"

Many years ago it was accepted wisdom that the very best blu-ray player you could buy was actually the PS3.

I am mildy interested in a blu-ray player and I wonder if, in 2018, the PS4 is the best option - in the same way that the PS3 was at that earlier time ?
We'd probably need 4 cores just dedicated to that math.
I don't see why engineers should be particularly responsible. I don't see how any work could be done without everything from entrepreneurial or financial, legal, to janitorial help.
From what I understand, people read yellow journalism and newspapers before phones on public transport. (Also, books were considered similar to phones for children nowadays.) Phones are definitely a whole new problem, but I don't think it's correct to describe it as fundamentally different behavior than the past in any way wrt adult asociality.
Introducing d3.express: the integrated discovery environment (2017)
If you start a project somewhere, choose a competitor.

FOSS development is way too much concentrated on GitHub already, it's unhealthy. But there is no problem in most people not thinking like you either.

Overall, I think the acquisition was good, if no other reason, just because there are enough people that dislike MS for pushing some diversity on the FOSS hosting game.
There are people without cerebellum:

A new case of complete primary cerebellar agenesis: clinical and imaging findings in a living patient https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/6/e353/269537

A Man's Incomplete Brain Reveals Cerebellum's Role In Thought And Emotion
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/16/3927897...
86% of Tesla's shares are held by insiders or institutions. I don't know any retail investors that have the WSJ's ear, or think that a news article is all it takes to tank the stock.
Like TV ads targeted to children 20 years ago to buy into the beanie baby craze?
you mean under all the ads and links to other google properties like youtube. Remember when they were nice little boxes out of the away...
Teams is brilliant, really pulls together all of Office 365's products.
Summit Affiliate Review – Honest Review Series – The Community
I dont understand the iPad thing. Why not laptops? It's a huge burden to do work on a toy instead of a proper machine. They're being conditioned to use inferior tooling.
Bug solved, sorry, ignore all my previous comments. I had done a stupid thing: I forgot to change the command
window.texme = { style:'none'} to
window.mdme = { style:'none'}
when I started using mdme. That is why it was not applying the correct styling.
Don't be Perl 6.
The probably wouldn’t bother going into many years of legal battle knowing they are cutting the branch of three they sitting on.

With public company all you have to do is conplain to SEC in hopes to i.e. remove CEO from his duties and get going with someone else in charge.

Clearly there is huge advantage of getting access to hundreds of millions of dolars in capital to spend, but that’s usually where advantages ends.
Blocks need not do that, and most should be no more overhead than what people were already doing in posts. Perhaps is a big focus though, but one that's been easier to address outside of core with things like expanded CDN support in the latest version of Jetpack Photon.
I don't understand this as the image being transformed, "space" and "dimensions" seem to originate not with the visual features of the images but with the attributes that the CelebA image set is annotated with. The coverage of the set is not uniform with respect to gender and skin color, I'm not 100% sure how to interpret the attribute values but a some quick math shows that images with "Pale_Skin" outnumber their opposites by about 20 to 1.
Ask HN: How much do you make as SWE in 2018?
How much do senior software engineers make in 2018? What level are you? Do you work in Silicon Valley, or elsewhere?

I don't have too much to share, but here are my numbers.

Senior Software Engineer (L5), San Francisco, not FAANG, but public company. 185k base, 30k annual stock, 200k real stock with vesting period of 3 years. 12+ years of experience, male, relocated from another country 4 years ago.

Thank you in advance for sharing!

This post was inspired by other similar posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984
> It is news to me that anyone believed the kernels were different.

Indeed. At boot time, the version of the kernel was displayed on the blue screen above the progress dots, and it was the same on Workstation and Server. If I recall correctly, the important distinction was between the uni-processor and SMP kernels.
Seems like the human perceptual system is easily hacked. I wonder how close we can get to an actual Snow Crash bitmap?
Maybe we should teach kids that they don't have to be the world best to matter then. Role modeling respect toward non winners too. You don't need "dominance hierarchy" to go away entirely, just give them coping skills and don't amplify it by winner takes all systems.

But also, even today you can be good in your immediate social circle and in the past to be in environment of big competition.
That’s hilarious, wish I was invited to one!
No doubt, it's absolutely soaked in weird Christian Theosophy. More likely to pick Montessori for my own youngins, wanted to provide some accurate info.
Digital piracy bridges the divide. Movies, software, music, books: available to all regardless of financial status or what country you live in.
Prop the kid in front of the TV.

You also had - well, have - the option to just drop the kid in a high-chair or a playpen with a couple of distracting objects in the corner of the room. Sometimes the kid gets unhappy about being in a playpen with nothing to do and just screams for an hour while you prepare dinner.

Then you either have the option of stopping to sooth the baby or power through, and everyone wonders why either dinner is late/burnt or why you're in such a foul mood after listening to a screaming infant for an hour.
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You really just have to dive into it. This image is of Scheme, but the sentiment holds for Common Lisp too: https://www.thejach.com/imgs/lisp_parens.png
Love the idea, have one for me, too (got rejected twice in olden times)!

Here's a thought: would it be interesting to form a group of YC rejects (with an email list, etc.), an aftermarket of sorts? Maybe they can do a Pitch Day on HN and people can vote on ideas with a percentage of their karma points, etc.
There's already incentive to disable odometers for vehicle resale value, if you start taxing owners for miles traveled it only increases this incentive.

I've had colleagues throughout the years who pulled fuses or on even older vehicles simply disconnected mechanical speedometer cables to prevent accumulation of miles.
> Do you have any basis for this claim?

Yeah, the aforementioned picture.
I thought particularly interesting was the description of the UX:

> In a statement to supporters Friday, Cruz cited “multiple reports” of race selections changing and added “once you select the Republican party ticket, please be patient and do not select ‘next’ until the ballot has populated all of the selections.”

It reminds me of an era of "Please don't press 'Buy' twice or your credit card could be charged again."
Technology and the US military
https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/28221-...
I think it shows nicely that you can beat a "professional" ML toolkit for a specific problem.

And most people don't want to solve many different ML problems but just a single one, so I think the result is quite interesting.
Personal view here but this is insane. Sure many people ( even his own employees ) told him it was impossible. That does not mean Elon thought it was impossible. People have been telling him that for forever now. Why are people so hellbent on attacking this wonderful innovative company?
Microsoft Says It Will Sell Pentagon Artificial Intelligence
I remember that GitHub was paraded as boss-less company. But now they ended up in big pile of hierarchy.
Even if I buy a CPU that will melt at 2.5GHz and I can't[0] overclock it to 2.5GHz I'm being cheated. Nominal clock rate is just that: nominal.

0: given sufficient digging around in low-level settings and availablity of a appropriate clock source on the motherboard
AI Researchers Fight Over Four Letters: NIPS
I meant if I have a fever with persistent, unproductive coughing after the flu itself has seemingly subsided. A fever would suggest a lung infection, either causing the bronchitis or vice-versa, but which in any event might require antibiotics lest it degenerate into pneumonia.

I've had pneumonia at least twice as an adolescent, but which went untreated for awhile because it was typical for me to have prolonged coughing and lethargy after a respiratory illness. So while I'll treat my own bronchitis, I have to be mindful that the bronchitis could be secondary, or could have resulted in an infection.
On the note of brain games, there have been studies on their effectiveness. You can read more from the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/0...
IT and Finance are completely different fields with very different rules. One can't simply apply one's understanding of one field to the other (which, sadly, seems to be the rule on HN).
When It Comes to Sleep, One Size Fits All (7-8h/night)
His subsequent tweet removes any doubt about what he meant:

> Investor support is confirmed. Only reason why this is not certain is that it’s contingent on a shareholder vote.

I'm convinced that he lied to hurt the short sellers.
A glass ceiling is a metaphor used to represent an invisible barrier that keeps a given demographic (typically applied to minorities) from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy. The metaphor was first coined by feminists in reference to barriers in the careers of high-achieving women. –Wikipedia
Which is showing all CPUs at 100% but presumably was captured during a load test exercise. I figure you were kidding.
If you are a CEO who's partial to headline-grabbing stunts over listening to what your corporate counsel is telling you about what you can legally announce, then yeah, you shouldn't go public.
Or just get a drm equivalent implementation that doesn't require root privileges for the modesetting Xorg driver to function.
I think I'll switch on noprocrast then...

And maybe leave my mobile at home tomorrow!
That's how I interpret Musk's statements. They've got the same "aspirational" feature as software projects. Completely unrealistic goals outside of some everything-is-easy-and-works-the-first-time utopia that doesn't exist.

I don't know if he's keeping this tendency to keep people interested, or just never adjusted to something closer to reality.
That used to be my experience as well. However, I do think two different things happened. One is that I'm getting older. I'm not in my mental prime anymore.

But the second is that everything is more complicated. In high school, you could just sit down and crank out some homework while watching Youtube videos and chatting with friends. And you would just sit down and crank out some homework.

Yesterday, I got into work thinking I was going to write some code, and... oh wait, this depends on chasing down an issue in code owned by someone else, and I need to get answers to some questions about how this other component works that I depend on, and this other piece of code I need to modify doesn't actually work the way I thought it did. Even within the same task, I'm constantly context switching between mental modeling, communicating with other people, and code reading/writing. Also, I'm reconciling all of this against a multi-stage rollout plan where different people will see different behaviors. It's complicated in a way that teenage me never really had to deal with.

It's no wonder I've spent several days feeling like I got nothing done. I did a lot of unwinding hidden dependencies, but very little of it was actually writing code. Most of my time was spent figuring out what questions were the right ones to ask in order to get the answers I needed, which might not end up being what I thought I needed.

Teenage me never had to deal with that kind of complexity.
It can be, especially in the winter in areas that are prone to snow. Also a lot of "suburbs" don't consist of developments but are just houses along roads. In many cases, those roads don't have anywhere for cars to park.
The answer is: Whatever amount of money which Oracle’s sales and customer research teams determines that you can barely afford to pay.
The moment that I truly got the idea of "you are the product" is when my 8-year-old complained to me, "I had to watch 10 ads in order to get a gold coin to feed my fish."

I felt literally repulsive when my sweet kid is part of an army to bump up someone's ad views. I also felt truly ashamed as a parent and as a tech worker.

Unfortunately, the most common rule in my kid's circle is that kid can download any app as long as it's free.
This is just so wonderfully fascinating, that's all I have to say!
Then we completely agree.
Hi I am a founder of Alpaca, but please try out https://alpaca.markets/ . We built this commission-free trading API for tech developers in mind (simple REST API).

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At least, bad if you let yourself be led by the nose by the platform's "recommendations."

If you're able to wrest control, you can have good experiences in sketchy apps. For example:

• Facebook with no Pages, just friends, sorted in chronological mode, and only subscribed to the particular friends that you actually want to know how they're doing.

• YouTube, but only for videos you find linked on some other place than YouTube; and then maybe subscribing to those videos' authors, and then directly checking your "latest updates" feed.

However, you can't really force kids to use these apps this way, and every step of these apps' workflows is trying to lead you out of this usage and back into their "idiomatic" recommendation-based one. So maybe better not to expose kids to the potential. (Or just give them an alternative interface without the drug-dealers-on-the-street-corners, e.g. YouTube videos discovered via an RSS reader, downloaded using youtube-dl, and loaded into Plex.)
The best read about Accessibility in Gutenberg is here:

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/18/regarding-accessi...

Accessibility has been thought about from the beginning, and no design happened behind closed doors (it was kicked off and announced at WCUS 2016), but we are doing a fundamentally more complex task with block manipulation.

I'm not sure what the best path forward is there. We'll continue to make the block editor friendlier to accommodate accessibility needs, and I also think it's important that WordPress has a variety of ways to post to it, from email, to other apps, to the command line... by supporting as we always have a ton of ways to get content in and out of WordPress it'll allow people to use the interface they enjoy the most.
> One year effect? What exactly are they speaking about?

From article:

> What may take a cluster to compute one year takes a consumer machine the next.

So, one year after introducing something you don't need cluster for computing, consumer machine will be sufficient.

From first comment:

> Is that not partly because the hardware is ever improving? [...] Certainly improving the model will help, who hasn't marvelled at how better his code ran when he fixed that On^2 hot spot. But I can't help but think improving hardware plays a role too.
> Am I off base here?

Now my comment was about original commenter being off base. Hardware improvement plays a role, but not during one year. 1000x speedup in a year is due to algorithms.
Deduction = deduplication
> Message-passing interfaces are generally difficult to discover and to debug, and require a lot of careful documentation, logging & instrumentation.

You just use the "most common structures". For example, Elixir has the Agent module, which encapsulates state, but lets whatever you're using interact with the state via lambdas (or passed functions).

Another common structure is the state machine. I was somewhat displeased with the complexity of gen_statem, so I wrote my own! It's about 50 lines of code, and can have plugins to do facilities like logging and debugging via a plugin-able interface.

Ultimately the real win with message-passing is not having to write spinlocks, semaphores, or mutexes.
There's been proven success teaching a variant of HtDP (How to Design Programs) to highschool students in Algebra classes https://www.bootstrapworld.org/index.shtml

It is described here in an excellent talk about the challenges of curriculum design https://youtu.be/5c0BvOlR5gs note the end of the talk he discusses how Calculus is secretly taught to them as well by keeping track of a video game state over time. Going from Bootstrap->SICP would be possible too.
Win NT 3.X had the same interface with Program Manager.
I do and will always advise my friends and family to vote by mail in ballot (if allowed).
Are doctors using this yet? If so, what percentage of them?
I'm making no definitive statements just more interested that they did it. I would personally trust a new Go codebase over an old C codebase but I could definitely be wrong in this case.
You want to grow your company and need a ton of money.
It is my understanding that atropine (like scopolamine, cyclopentate, etc.) effectively paralyzes the ciliary muscles by blocking muscarinic receptors. This enables an ophtalmologist to measure the "true" refractive error of the eye.

Atropine is also a mydriatic agent (dilates the pupils) and this lets you better see the retina, but that's a different effect than the one I was referring to.
> “The Hart eSlate machines are not malfunctioning, the problems being reported are a result of user error — usually voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering,” said Sam Taylor, spokesman for the office of Secretary of State Rolando Pablos, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Yes, it's those stupid users' fault, of course.
There's historical precedent for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_des_Refusés :-)
iPads are cheaper than laptops, and it has to be Apple because Apples are pretty.
I pay for LWN. [1]

[1] - https://lwn.net/
That's a completely separate idea from what I'm suggesting, though.

You don't need to already understand programming to be able to use SICP. SICP doesn't need an intro (or to be modified), it is an intro. What you need to already understand, is math. Specifically, the kinds of math that SICP uses in its examples and problems—which aren't taught in high-school, but totally could be (100-level Discrete Maths has very few prerequisites; you could theoretically learn it in elementary school, though practically not, for mental-development reasons.)

SICP is, essentially, a book to teach programming to "mathematicians who have not necessarily ever heard of a computer." It works wonderfully when used as such. But the less mathematical grounding you have, the harder you'll struggle.

It's exactly like a textbook for one of those "Communications for Business" courses. If you're not a business student, then it'll be a bad communications textbook, because all the examples and problems are business-related.
> I'm convinced that he lied to hurt the short sellers.

Luckily, it'll be for a court to decide if it even goes that far.
What can I do to prevent my district from using electronic voting machines?

With paper ballots, I know that there's no way my selection was changed before it was given to the poll worker (who is subject to public observation). With voting machines, I have no idea what the poll worker received.
I can't compare NYC vs Chicago. But Chicago has plenty of honking. To the extent that I think Chicago should fine people for it. If you lay on the horn for more than ten seconds you should get a 1000 dollar fine and lose your license. That is how excessive and obnoxious it is.

Typically taxi drivers are the worst with that behavior. I can understand giving a tap when someone isn't paying attention to a green light. But laying on the horn when no one is moving because traffic is backed up for three stop lights, fuck those people.