skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing network drivers in Go (Thesis) [pdf]
No, my response was very much meant an expression of skepticism at the idea that there was any connection between the piece and the Kochs. The comments here (that make clear that there is, at least, a loose connection that can be traced between the two) are entirely relevant responses.
Obviously those numbers are silly because it's impossible to precisely quantify the relative ratings of knowledge workers. But generally that percentage is very much context dependant. Someone who was top 10% at one role in one organization could easily be bottom 10% in a different role at a different organization.
Consider that people - en masse - are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on cars that they spend far less time in.

$1000 for a phone is both expensive (compared to cheaper models) and trivial (compared to other budget items).

The interesting thing isn't why people buy an iPhone over an Android phone.

The interesting thing is why people spend huge amounts of money on luxuries when they have less than 6 months in the emergency fund.
There are better ways, but they are generally more complicated and thus harder to explain to voters. IRV already gets a lot of flack for being too hard to understand, but it's the second-easiest system to explain after FPTP.
> how come all those companies HQ in europe are in ireland

Ireland has been busted (among others) for secretly passing sweet taxation deals with Google, Facebook, Amazon & co. According to you, that's the way to do it, right ? Tax race to the bottom, give deals to big player that no small company has hope to ever negociate, that's sure to bolster competitors. Any kind of attemp to level the playing field by applying tax uniformly on the European level is "sick".
What makes productionizing R difficult?

I'm curious about whether the rise of Python in data science is really just because of the lack of flexibility to integrate with other systems. I've read that R seems to do better in data science/analytics work but when it comes to integration, it's more challenging.

And any insights on which companies are already doing industrial scale modeling?
> It’s important to note that by default, this deadline is set to unlimited, which is almost certainly not what you want.

For interactive use this is somewhat reasonable as a default. When you’re processing an RPC request, it’s also reasonable because when the incoming request is canceled you can cancel the outgoing requests too.

I would encourage people to think carefully about deadlines and not just pepper them everywhere.
Exactly. The bottom 10% of engineering talent probably fill the bottom 90% of interviewing talent.
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It's not obvious to me that all the information about your ranking gets percolated up to the final decision, especially since your middle rankings can disappear without warning during intermediate stages. If you can't do anything to prevent your #2 from getting eliminated, might as well rank them last as far as the system matters.
> Recommending stretches to treat an injured back

Tesla obviously sucks at everything when it comes to workers. But recommending stretches can make things worse if it’s not clear what kind of back problem it is. In any case I think it’s all about liability and costs.
the content of the article is good - but the writing style does not sit well with me. It's an odd sense of humour and a writing style more suited to instant messages perhaps rather than a blog.
Poetry: A unified system for Python packaging and dependency management
in long time i haven't read such stupid article, to sum it up following logic of the article the best thing you can do it's kill yourself, since article basically recommend that you should stop eating what you like, you should stop traveling, stop having children and other retarded ideas

the truth it's if you live in Europe or northern America you don't need to do anything, developing world it's polluting planet on such scale that our individual actions are pointless, so for starters China and India should stop their destruction of environment and then we can talk about doing something in western world

the article doesn't also mention scale at which are freight megaships polluting environment, compared to what it's flying nothing
> Impostor syndrome

Does this refer to the company pretending they deserve better than you? I've seen enough incompetent people at companies declining good candidates because they are simply unable to recognise it. I've seen so many shitty companies pretending they are top tier, it's just the arrogance of power. Only once you're in you can see the flaws and mess it often actually is.
HFT can easily be 12000 transactions a minute with a requirement for each of these transactions to be very fast.

It's not (necessarily) about high throughput, but about low latency.
Indeed that sounds like something NLP would be useful to pick at. Do you have any sample chatter that would be ok to analyze?
I might've said the same 10+ years ago, but now?

IRV (and any preferential voting system) is quite close to the voting system for any of the weekly elimination talent shows. You rank people in order, the last one gets knocked out, you try again - with the difference that this all happens at once.

Are we really saying that people are too dim to rank their choices in order of preference, or understand the voting system behind some of the most popular TV formats worldwide for the past decade?
>but politicians are jealous and incompetent

...well they did create these tax loopholes in the first place. That’s pretty much the definition of incompetence.

So are you arguing that corporations should pay more tax than they are legally required as a gift of charity to countries? If so, how much? What if a competitor decides to pay less?
I've been using the Razer Core X for a few months now and it's worked flawlessly.
As someone with no credentials or official training, and someone who also works at a big megacorporation as an engineer, imposter syndrome hits me fairly hard, especially during interviews. It's really hard to compete with the people who actually have proof that they know what they're doing, and I'm usually interviewing for a job that has a strict requirement of a "bachelors in CS, Math or Physics, Masters preferred".

I've managed to pull it off somehow, but I rarely go a day where I don't wonder if I really should have as good of a job as I do.
Wired did an article about how Intel does this https://www.wired.com/2013/05/facebook-and-intel/
Like I always tell my kids, "Let other people tell you that you're awesome, just don't say it first" ;)
I cannot recomend http://ec2instances.info enough - it is so much easier to filter and sort instance info.

Yet, new instances are not there yet.
No, I was entirely serious. In future, you may find that you persuade people better by actually presenting some relevant facts (as others have now done) rather than making assertions and then sneering at anyone who asks for an explanation.
Because it's 2018 and media format support in smart TVs is still garbage. I have relatively new Samsung and Sony TVs, and they are both really finicky about what they support - various combinations of container format, video codec, audio codec and bitrates work on only one or the other, and plenty works on neither (including 10-bit video).
>it's common for housing (particularly mortgage), education and health costs to be deductible on one's income tax

Oh! What's the name of this country?

In my country all taxes are applied before you get to see the actual money.
You must really suffer from imposter syndrome if you can't find a company that is worse than you at software development.
Definitely a bad fit for Google, they aren't especially well known for caring about user experience or the user these days... (/s)
They are also creating uncertainty. That AWS felt this announcement was necessary is evidence of that. Whatever goodwill Oracle may have created recently is paying off a vast deficit. They don't get the benefit of the doubt.
Please stop with Dunning-Kruger already.
Changing the method of voting doesn't require a constitutional amendment though, so it's at least an order of magnitude easier.
Precisely, I mean for sparsely Trainer personell it’s Not Even allowed to give Aspirin because some people are allergic to it.
There were two Twitter threads by high-level people at Reveal, defending their Tesla articles. I found them convincing, I have no doubt that Reveal is honest. On the other hand, Elon is notorious to lie and mislead.
Notice that, when they say they only hire the top 1%, there's a vicious sampling bias at work: even in a worst case where they're being literal they're actually hiring the top 1% of their applicants, not the top 1% of engineers. Think about how many jobs you usually apply for before getting one. Now imagine someone that's less successful than you at getting hired and think about how many times they're interviewing. Now think about the population that the interviewer sees. Now add college students that are just practicing and people that are required to interview for every job on the board to maintain unemployment. Now think about how much time interviewing you spend for every day working and how that might change as a function of quality - staying longer at better places, maybe?

I obviously don't have any statistics, but I think I could imagine a situation where the top 95% of software people constitute the top 1% of the interviewing population. Also one where interviewers are terrible at math, but that's no surprise. Anyway, you're fine, just go for it. That fact that you are self-aware enough to worry about it puts you in good standing all by itself.
Looking into those calculations, I see the current average energy used to make 1 kg of steel is about 10 thousand BTU [1] - about 3 kWh. 75% is consumed in blast furnace and "About 50% of an integrated facility’s energy input comes from coal, 35% from electricity, 5% from natural gas and 5% from other gasses [2]"

Your estimate of 2kWh per kilo would look very promising for this process. Also the comparison of electrical price, with the price for raw coal surely begs some adjustment.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-energy-does-it-take-to-produc...

[2] https://www.worldsteel.org/en/dam/jcr:f07b864c-908e-4229-9f9...
First, that means it isn't a "giant security hole"; it's a potential security hole.

Second, if an exploit is discovered just disable the extra hardware threads until it gets patched.

As an aside, I don't know what your "supposedly" about the i5 is supposed to mean. The i5 has only one hardware thread per core.
OT, but I always thought Feynman was exceptional because he was relatable, i.e. not terrible at the social.
In that case the user would use their e-mail as password manager.

Which might be an improvement or might not.
You are off by a few orders of magnitude. Total fuel load is 70,000kg and a 747-400 carries 416 passengers in a typical 3-class configuration[0]. That comes to only 168kg/passenger.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
> 300-400 lb per passenger

Maybe less if you're not talking about Americans. Even counting 40lb of luggage those are pretty porky passengers. :)
Personally, I would not use memsql as a first line RDBMS. It lacks too many useful features, and it doesn't return consistent results for all queries (I've found inconsistencies when using group by with having, for instance).
I doubt that they lied, Reveal and the people behind them seem honest. On the other hand, Tesla and Elon are not known for honesty.
Yes, definitely an option although eventually the volume of "final approval" items will stack up. Another option could be to allow items that pass protocols for non-controlled substances to be approved by nursing staff. Conversations like this are exactly what need to take place for each item on the provider's plate.
Put the flow back in workflow with Dropbox Extensions
Test how it performs? Maybe some benchmarks? Or even compare it to the high end model?
Is Apple ceasing to report unit sales because the iPhone has peaked?
PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Tutorial
> It also satisfies all of Arrow's criteria, which no deterministic system can.

Approval voting is deterministic and satisfies all of Arrow's criteria. Arrow's theorem doesn't apply to voting systems, such as approval voting, that are not ranked choice systems.
Hi All,

I am not looking to name or shame. I'd love to just understand the experience of others within the community and get more understanding of everyone's view on this request.

To be fair, until this point the VC in question have been good to work with so it's not the usual nightmare investor rant. I was just shocked at the request from a preference shareholder that I thought would have real incentive to do this, at the same time I don't want to damage a relationship. I get covering costs, some kind of bonus incentive with a fixed fee, just not what is essentially increasing their equity holding.

Any experience or examples would really help me get more of an understanding outside of my own direct network.
Only when it was convenient to say he was. He's never been a democrat.
Are we belittling the extent of IFRS 9?
Scylla 3.0 announced – Secondary Indexes, Cassandra 3.0 compatibility and more
Can I ask why? I'm genuinely curious. My understanding is their core business is selling Enterprise support for linux, which, no offense to them, doesn't strike me as particularly interesting. I know they also contribute a lot of open source stuff back, but in terms of working in open source Linux a company like Canonical seems more appealing from my limited knowledge, just because their main product is distributed under a free license unlike RHEL. In terms of working on interesting new software/infrastructure platforms, working somewhere like Hashicorp, or even working at Google Cloud or AWS also seem more appealing.

Not trying hate on Redhat, I just never got the impression of them being particularly innovative. A lot of the most interesting stuff I have heard of from them seems to have come from acquisitions, like CoreOS or Ansible. In which case, I don't see why these acquisitions now living under the IBM umbrella is necessarily that much worse than being under Redhat.
Non-AMP link: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-new-horizon-7nm-cpu,38...
Linux Foundation Announces GraphQL Foundation
C# Is Dangerous
No, but it's not inconceivable to consider electric cars and biofuel powered jets. It's certainly possible to go mostly carbon neutral on our major transportation systems, but it's a lot of work.
I've been successfully employed the valley for over a decade (and other tech work before that). I've never done a practice interview, I don't worry about my GitHub. I agree with the cargo culting comment.

Work on your network. Apply for jobs that interest you. Interview. Get job.
But it's harder to understand consequences, which change over time. So the explanation is deceptively simple. Like the game of life. Random Ballot is simple to explain and is a lottery pool. Simpler than IRV.
I always wondered why tools like Doom (other better FPSs are available) aren't used to familiarise people with building layouts. I'm sure there are Doom levels that I haven't played in years that I could walk round confidently [1] if they suddenly became real.

[1] Assuming no cacodemons etc.
I didn't follow this particular solution to taxing tech companies as much as I probably should have, but I feel like it's not addressing the root problem. Wouldn't it make more sense to tax the revenue where it was earned (as oppose to the physical location of the european HQ)?
And that is the popular vote, which had a much larger margin than the vote that actually counted. The election was decided by a few hundred thousand votes in the right places, which makes it more like a 0.5% margin.
Just because they're bad (or worse) at it and you're better doesn't mean they'll hire you. That probabbly is why they're bad (or worse) at it.
Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding
No, it's not. It's to prevent people from voting for, say, people in nursing homes, dead people whose registrations haven't expired yet, non-citizens from registering, etc.
Scholarly publishing: EUA asks EC to investigate lack of competition
I used it (a year later than I was expecting) and it was so bad it was worthless. I brought in with low expectations and it didn't even meet them. It was slow, unresponsive and cranked out sites 10x worse than you could do in squarespace or wix if you invested 20 minutes or bought a template
Interviewing is a skill like any other. Everyone starts off a different points and everyone gets better with practice.

You maybe have good enough interviewing skills naturally and you get all the jobs you've aimed for. Perfect, great!

Most other people are just no good at it. For example:
"Do you want this job?"
"Maybe, i don't know..."

Practice may not make you perfect, but it's does go a long way.
This part really struck a chord with me:

> Cobol is relevant in 2018. A few people make a lot of money maintaining Cobol systems. However, (at least where I live) I don’t see a lot of ads for Cobol developers. I see a bunch of C# ads and a ton for Javascript developers. You need to seek the balance between valuable skills and available work.
I like the way the props are easy to see! I'll save my votes and use this when I'm at the ballot!
The coke that is mixed with the iron ore is the coke that heats the furnace. As the coke (carbon) reacts with oxygen, some of the carbon monoxide then strips oxygen from the iron oxide in the iron ore.
Student IDs aren't government issued. You can get a student ID from a private school.
Random ballot only works for races like the house though. It doesn't work at all for Presidential or Senate elections.
Bear in mind the i7 model in the article is $2,499!
Actually, it's not that hard. It only becomes hard when you try to use taxes to induce the set of behaviours you want. And then, completely suddenly Goodhart's law kicks in.
Juicero is on their list of customers, too. (Same page.)
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18392574

It was a poor word choice.
The Many-Headed Hydra
it is big corporation which guarantees stability to the employees.

IBM lays off employees by the thousands every year, paying only statutory minimum severance packages. This has been extensively covered by the trade press, e.g. El Reg. It is anything but a guarantee of stability, infact it is the opposite!
Non-snarky question: can I get a Hetzner server provisioned via API? (I've never tried.)
SoftBank’s debt obsession
I think you're talking about forward compatibility, which is distinct from backward compatibility.

With backward compatibility, old programs will work with new versions of the compiler (alternatively, for web browsers, "old websites will work with new versions of the browser" (or for operating systems, "old binaries will work with new versions of the OS" (or for game consoles, "old games will work with new versions of the console", etc.))).

In this case, code written as of Rust 1.0 should continue compiling with Rust 2015, respective of the compatibility guarantee ( https://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/10/30/Stability.html ). By this definition, Rust is backwards-compatible.

What Rust is not, and has never been, is forwards-compatible. Very few systems in the wild are forwards-compatible. A C++ compiler from 2003 is not able to compile C++17 programs, and is thus not forwards-compatible. Likewise, web browsers from 2003 cannot render web pages from 2018, Windows ME cannot run binaries compiled for Windows 10, PS2 cannot play PS4 games, and so on.

> meaning each crate has to specify which compiler version it requires

Every Rust crate that does not specify a compiler version is compiled in 2015 mode. It must be this way, for backwards-compatibility. However, when you run `cargo new`, cargo should automatically insert the directive specifying the most recent edition supported by your compiler. In this way, Rust can gradually push the ecosystem forward without any additional burden to the user and without leaving behind any code that doesn't update.
Just like any other professional, a reporter may want to do a good job (because of dedication to their work, desire for fame, career ambitions, etc). And that means publishing an important story. That desire may push them to look for evidence where there's none, and humans are good at making themselves and others come to the wrong conclusions in such situations.

By the way, this also explains why prosecutors sometimes lie or exaggerate.

Furthermore, some reporters want to influence public opinion in a certain way because of their personal beliefs or peer pressure.

I do not claim any of this applies to Reveal. I just want to point out why money from views isn't the only mechanism for misleading reporting.

A really good news organization may create pressure against reporters overstepping the bounds in pursuit of a story. But IMO it takes an incredible effort to counteract the human tendency to bend the facts to help make a point.

Of course, CEOs have even more obvious reasons to mislead people: maintainging good corporate and personal image. This is compounded by the fear subordinates have in telling the CEO that they are wrong. Also, the more successful the person, the more likely they are to be a bit delusional by believing everything they do is right, and ignoring any criticism.
Electrolux and Karma create smart fridge to reduce food waste
Hey, these are some pretty wild speculations!

I've had a chance to interact with Craig and Joe on multiple occasions and got an impression that they are rock solid both in their business strategy, team building, technical execution and vision, so not sure where do your assumptions are coming from?
I think you're mixing up "parliamentary system" with "proportional representation", no?

Parliamentary system is merely the opposite of a presidential system and has nothing to do with voting methods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_system
With the amount of polarization these days I think range voting would just be treated as approval voting by the public.
That's pretty funny. I didn't like the writing style at first either, but it got funnier as I carried on (or maybe the writing got better too). By the end I was questioning why I was so resistant to light-heartedness in the first place.

Overall, a really great breakdown of a textbook phishing attack.
Like I said, we can make assumptions about travel time difference between Lyft and an ambulance - however unless we're in the actual scenario and know the circumstances, and likely times/estimates for each, a private driver can certainly be faster than when an ambulance can arrive (and likewise what is the indirect cost if not using that ambulance means someone else gets an ambulance faster who more reasonably needs it?).
Amazon HQ2 and HQ3 a Tale of Two Cities
Jet fuel is 840kg/m^3 so 70,000kg is ~146m^3 which is a cube roughly 5.2m/side.

I personally would not consider that a "enormous" amount of fuel to move 400+ people 5,500km.
A Computer Scientist Explains the Problem with Online Voting
They literally have a "VP of blockchain" >.<
False - venture capital is not debt.

They can do whatever they feel like doing.
Fictional process geometries are the new MHz wars.