skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There would be very very little gain from doing so, but you'd probably kill the motor.

HEPA filters are very very very good. Running through 2 of them isn't going to pull much more out because there just isn't much more.

Actually, you'd probably get less actual filtration due to the greatly reduced airflow.
Trolling much? :)

The EU does stupid things from time to time, but generally I think the EU gets things reasonably right..

Getting rid of roaming charges was huge! Not adding software parents was huge! GDRP has pros/cons, mostly it's a problem that people think they comply by making consent popups.

But yes, aspect of current copyright reform and cookie law is stupid. But only aspects -- who knows maybe we can fix them :)
I did the same thing with my furnace. Just to try it I switched to a high merv filter rating and could immediately notice the considerable reduction in air flow that it was causing (and presumably increased strain on the furnace). Seeing as it was a bit more restrictive than I expected, I ended up ditching that and going back to a weaker merv rating filter (haven't gone back to the blue fiberglass style filters, just going with a weaker merv seems to do the trick, haven't had any problems with increased wear on the furnace in the last ~8 years).
Yeah, sorry for this. I definitely meant it in the context of a longer commute. Definitely commute in whatever you want if it's 10-15 min.
Manhattan also has a robust public transit system, making it feasible for a person without a car to get around. Driverless taxis are probably disproportionately likely to be used in suburbs and other places without that infrastructure.
How Amazon landed ~$2B in subsidies for new HQs
I think this is almost without exception true in larger companies. There’s just so much communication that goes into doing pretty much everything.
OP here. This blew up without me realizing. Sorry. I will go over the comments and answer them
The purifiers I use have the activated charcoal before the HEPA. Probably doesn't matter that much though I sometimes findd a small amount of dust leakage from the pre-filter screen on the carbon filter which would just clog the HEPA.
Learn a different language. I would recommend C, Forth or Lisp for stretching your brain.

Solve challenging problems; databases, interpreters, whatever floats your boat.

The only way out of the matrix is to keep pushing boundaries, repeating the same old with different frameworks is the blue pill.
On food, EU authorities don’t mess about. There is a complicated set of regulations to mark “characteristic” food, which is enforced very rigorously across the continent. The problem seems to be that such regulations mostly cover traditional foodstuffs, whereas modern industrial concoctions (like this crappy cheese) are ignored. Claiming copyright was a somewhat-clever attempt to extend protections.
The first Apple Store was also in Tyson's Corner in Northern Virgina
Agreed. I had the G4 but eventually quit because it was sounding false alarms frequently. The later versions are more accurate but I question whether I would participate if their programs get more closed off. Also don't want to use a closed source mobile app without knowing what personal data might be getting sent out.
It's mostly holes in the inseams, nothing to do with chain issues since I roll up my pant legs as necessary.

Sure, it's possible, but highly dependent on your route and time in the saddle.
Your insurance coverage can vanish in a moment. A current anecdote..

I live in a neighborhood of ~80 small lots/homes a few miles west of Palo Alto. Since Oct.1, nine of our neighbors have had their fire insurance policies terminated immediately on receipt of the mailed notices. Most of the nine had their policies in place for >15 years. Not like they were dodging the need for insurance.

Gofundme has its uses. I hope it brings at lease a small measure of ease to the Godbout family.
Doesn't Uber have their own driverless car division? Toyota recently invested $500 million in it as well. I think where Uber goes from here is to compete in the space they're very familiar with.
Best of luck - and happy birthday!
https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/production/2018-8-2/43...
This is how 90%, if not more, of all jobs are.
I am the creator of Redox, and I am glad to have this rundown. Yes, the design of the Redox kernel is such that the kernel can load any set of drivers from the initramfs, including being completely diskless.

In order to make this easy, ELF loading is part of the kernel. Otherwise, the ELF loader would have to be loaded somehow. How does QNX solve this issue? I could see there being a simpler executable format, or maybe the loader could do what the kernel does and modify its own paging tables.

With regards to the book, it was outlined by a contributor who is no longer part of the project, so it is likely to be restructured when there is time, and the sections may change.

There are drivers for what are considered to be critical features for any userspace inside the kernel. This mainly means the interrupt controller, but has included a serial console for kernel debugging. This will be an optional component in the future.
I've seen this go two ways. Become convincing and try to use experience to persuade. Or, document for the experience, do your best and use any failures as an example later to tactfully persuade in the future.
Mahendra Highway Nepal
Mostly holes in the inseams. I basically wear jeans at work everyday, so something similar to that look is what I'm aiming for. It'd be awesome to not have to change when I get to work since the facilities aren't so great.
It was not a secret in USSR that Germans participated in early post-war rocketry works. Boris Chertok - in post-Soviet memoirs - describes works of team of Herman Grottrup. I'm not sure von Ardenne had that much influence on space-related technologies. Soviets rather have hidden their own projects, trying to paint too rosy a picture of a string of successes.

Orbit-capable rockets were for a long time being developed for military goals, it was only governments which can afford them and governments had their own justifications. In USA, for example, a lot of military rocket technologies found their way into civilian NASA programs.
> I highly recommend an StVZO approved (German bike regulation) head light

While I find the idea behind StVZO sound, if you only shop StVZO approved lights you are at a stroke eliminating a lot of extremely good quality lights at pretty much all price points. Even among really high-end bike light brands (Exposure etc), often only a limited subset of their range has received this certification.

Much of the issues with blinding other riders and drivers can be mitigated almost entirely by setting the light at a sensible angle on your handlebars, if it even is an issue for the light you have.

> Most bike lights have terrible beam patterns

This really isn't true of good lights from reputable companies, and hasn't been for a while. A no-name bikelight from Amazon for 5 bucks might differ.

> but you really don't need that 1000+ lumen light in the front or that "Can be seen for 5 miles" eye searing taillight for most road riding.

This entirely depends on one's needs, but if you cycle anywhere that has zero street lighting, such as backroads at night, 800-1000 lumen lights are the _dimmest_ I would consider. Especially on a roadbike at ~20MPH, you absolutely need that level of brightness in pitch black to ride with similar confidence to daytime. For in city use, I absolutely agree though. There is a difference between lights for being seen by others, and lights that allow you to see in pitch black environments.

If you are struggling to pick a light, I really like the road.cc light comparison tool, which allows you to compare the actual beams.

https://lights.road.cc/
I think the problem with heroku is not scaling but the cost. They use AWS behind the scenes so you are paying a premium over AWS. Eventually that will become expensive. But if you are saving money on labor it's worth it.
I'm using their indoor sensor, works well
12 Cognitive Biases Explained (2016)
I have like 10 routes to and from work and more elevation and distance is the way to go for me (if time is not a constraint).

Being on the bike and riding is not friction for me, trying to find my riding clothes in the morning is :)

Friction is anything that will prevent you from going out, once you're out the longer and harder the better (for me).
Imagine the lawsuits when someone relies on what they saw on the panel and an accident ensues.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Holes in the inseams, pretty much! More layers over the top definitely won't solve that problem.
"Individuals with a large amygdala are more sensitive to fear...which, taken together with our findings, might suggest the testable hypothesis that individuals with larger amygdala are more inclined to integrate conservative views into their belief system."

Fascinating. I'm going to avoid going off-topic any further, though.
I agree. My main objection of the QM metaphor is that in QM you can have interference. For example in version more similar to QM if you have a 2x2 map like this

1) X ? 2) X Y 3) X ? 4) X Y
? ? ? ? Z ? Z ?

The probability of some particular tile in the bottom right corner may be bigger in 2) and 3) because somehow Y and Z make this tile more probable, but perhaps in 4) the probability decrease.

The trick is that you must calculate amplitudes, not probabilities. For example, Y may contribute an amplitude of .5 to the bottom right corner , and the probability is (.5)^2=.25. And Z may contribute an amplitude of -.3 to the bottom right corner , and the probability is (-.3)^2=.09. But when both are there the amplitudes must be added and the probability is (.5-.3)^2=.04.

This is a case of destructive interference that reduces the probability of a particular tile when both are present, but if both have the same sign it can be a constructive interference and increase the probability of that tile.

This type of interference is what produce the weird interference lines in the double slit experiment (and even in the single slit experiment).

This project just add probabilities, without squaring the numbers, so it's more difficult to have quantum-like weird things.

Anyway, I like the result very much. Nice project. Nice name.
Also works for dehydrating fruit:

http://frugalvagabond.com/the-box-fan-dehydrator-experiment/
I don't really care about "fairness", it's more that the process seems to be so convoluted that I imagine a ton of people just not bothering.

The application process for GitLab, for me, seems to be:

1) figure out the highest paying area I have access to (visa or whatever)

2a) actually move there if I have to or it happens to be where I am, or 2b) get a postbox or rent a studio apartment pointlessly

3) actually apply for the job and potentially get it

4) if at any point I want to move, figure out how to do it without anyone finding out because otherwise I effectively lose my job (the UK salaries outside of London are comedic)

(as an aside I'm not convinced this "your rate will be reduced" stuff is even legal, I imagine it'd be considered constructive dismissal)

Contrast that with an on-premises job (you can move, the commute length is your own problem) or a real remote job (completely unrestricted).

Again, it seems to be working for them, but it looks really odd from my perspective.
Pretty much this and fintech isn't this one thing that pays well but ranges from highly paid domain experts to generalists working on maintaining legacy systems. most generalists are not usually paid that well by SV big tech standards and the work environment is generally not as great. Amazon is more than competitive enough against the bulk of software engineering roles even at top investment banks and you will see lots of ex-top-IB engineers already working in their NYC office.
HWY9, Montebello, PageMill, OLH are all valid :)
> I wonder if you'd put cotton wool, how effective it would be.

Not very. Wet wool is better, but only as long as its wet and clean.

> XIAOMI Mi Air Purifier 2 straight from China

Interesting question. Does the removal of particulates offset the health impact of its cheap plastics?
Most of these attacks are pretty short, around 10 minutes on the graphs. Some people are just doing this for the lols. Cloudflare is pretty open about their tech stack, so if there were significant issues, I would expect them to do mitigation work and then blog about it.

I used to see a bunch of DDoS against my work servers, it tended to be exactly 90 seconds, plus or minus a bit of clock skew in the generators. The time frames seemed to be about the same regardless of if the attack was successful or not, although when the attacks weren't successful, I am less likely to have noticed.

Usually, but not always, our www servers were targetted, and not the servers actually doing useful work, presumably because it's cooler to attack www servers. I have to say, sometimes pretty dumb DDoS would crush our servers, but it was always fun to look at the sampled tcpdumps and fix the bottlenecks.

There are a lot of DDoS for hire sites out there, so it takes less skill to get it done than checking host records.
Yes, trademark. I don't know what possessed me.
Score! Another AI assistant, we are all saved! I bet it'll be at least 2x more helpful than those other AI assistants... Let's see, 2 × 0...
Seven deadly paradoxes of cryptocurrency
What's the difference between application development and software engineering?
How is undercutting the driver (that already don’t get paid shit) going to reap massive profits? Also think about what it takes for uber to start in new city (literally a guy with a phone in a motel) vs self driving company =)
Corporate car services have existed for decades before Uber. Googe and partners popularized smartphones and mobile mapping, and developed mobile payments. Uber added nothing of relevance here except creating labor+capital intensive low paying jobs.
I am the creator of Redox. We have a somewhat POSIX compliant C library called relibc that supports existing Unix applications.
Don't risk your family savings.

Feel out if you might be able to go part time at your current company. Half days or a day off a week may be more appealing to them than you leaving. If not the current company, then exercise your network - put out there you are looking for something part time.

Even if you are a generalist, you can look like an expert at something. I wear many hats personally.
That's correct. HEPA filters anything bigger than 2,5 μm e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzopyrene and NO2, SO2 etc. are 1000x smaller.
It's originally from the book Accidental Empires, but you probably read the summary on CodingHorror:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/
I'm sometimes bored between two traffic lights :)

Doing the same route every day didn't work for me, that "automatic" riding is not appealing at all.

If I feel I need to "wash off" a hard day, there's nothing like a hard ride through the mountains to get you home calm and ready to spend time with your family
Literally all jobs scale to local rates. Look at any of FAANG. They all scale with local rates.
> No bag on your back

Just want to reiterate this: a small backpack doesn't seems like it would be problematic, but being free of it really feels like being free. Also, you don't need expensive saddlebags, a bike rack and basket is fine.

The car is the natural predator of the bike.
I have been quite happy with the top pick from this review: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-air-purifier/

Although the price of that purifier is now $40 more then when I bought it, so it may make more sense to look at their other picks.
Sydney buses have ads for various tech brands - Salesforce, Xero (I think?) and a couple more I can't remember. If you think 'enterprise software' it's mostly brands in that category. The fact that I can remember some of the brands means it's working I guess, but I can't speak to your actual question.
That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying. Knowing it's used as a technical term helps to reduce the creep factor somewhat.
I have an addition to your great points here re #2. There have been numerous times, as an automobile driver, I'll be approaching a cyclist at night with a bright light, and it's so blindingly bright in the darkness it actually makes it hard to precisely see them. Almost like someone taking a pic in your face at night with a flash, or walking from a very bright room outside where it's dark. It takes your eyes longer to recover and see the surroundings clearly again. The closer you get to them, the harder it is to "see" them, which is very dangerous. The same is also true for some modern car headlights that are so bright it almost looks like they are driving with their highbeams on.
It's nice to see advice for longer commutes, but I am a firm believer that using a consistent route is safer for regular commutes.

Familiarity with the route is essential to understanding how to behave (e.g. when to take a lane or when to switch lanes).

Since motorists typically take the same route while commuting, you know to watch for them and they know to watch for you.

Some routes are also intrinsically safer.
Do you mean "smoother than any unreasonable (human) driver"?
So... These will have to have people in them until they are 100% effective which many people think is still 5~ years away. Until then Waymo just have very very very expensive (to them) ride sharing, which is really unlikely to scale.
Seems like you discovered a gap in your knowledge, congratulations, you're one of the lucky ten thousand [0]!

It might be a good idea to pick up a book about algorithms (others are posted here) or follow an online course yourself to learn about these things. They might give you some insight into problems which you might encounter during your job.

On the other hand, solving algorithmic problems is not equal to 'software engineering'. You have to think about more than solving a (theoretical) problem in isolation and you've build up skills on that area of the past few years. From source code management to soft skills, these are things a compsci degree won't necessarily teach you.

From personal experience though, I find that my background does help me (at times) with solving problems at work. But apart from the utility of learning compsci, consider that it might be fun to learn so and just give it a go.

It doesn't make you less of a web developer by not knowing it though, so don't be too hung up on it. It's just different, as others have pointed out.

[0]: https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
I would be very surprised if they decide to monetize this with ads.

My impression is that the executives very much want to diversify income streams. You can see this with Cloud, GSuite, Chrome OS, hardware, etc. It doesn't make sense (to me) to want to throw even more eggs into the same basket.

I work for Google but opinions are my own.
At the current cost of a self-driving car (~$250K), it would be ridiculously expensive to build a fully self-driving ride-sharing fleet [1]. So expensive that I doubt it's possible to make real money that way right now.

Self-driving cars are a long game until companies can bring down the costs. It might be years before that happens. Uber has the advantage of being able to ramp up self-driving cars as part of their existing fleet until then.

Edit: Math mistake

[1] https://qz.com/924212/what-it-really-costs-to-turn-a-car-int...
[2] https://www.uber.com/newsroom/company-info/
2) is super reasonable, I think. Almost all jobs will do 2.
Definitely. I started with a Heathkit H-8 because I could not afford an S-100 based system. I would have very much liked an IMSAI-8080 with the paddles for address and data to manually load RAM data.
Well, that is implementation defined, surely the only reasonable answer here is `sizeof(void * )` chars... where a `char` is probably 8 bits.
All Cloudflare plans have unmetered DDoS protection. Where did you get the idea that they would cut you off if you were on the free tier?
Do you actually make more, or just on paper? You can't just disregard the difference in living expenses.
The Chesapeake bay is another one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater
On this topic, I have nothing against paying for content, I pay for NYT and lots of other (video) content services. $40 a month seems like a bit much, no? Worth it? Comparitively, other similar services seem to be in the $10 range?
I know so many beautiful remote places in Himalayas - ideal for remote working...

But there is almost zero demand for subcontracting or plain coding into a remote repository.
I think it is important not to boil fiction down into the 'idea or set of ideas the writing expresses' because if the author could so well articulate their 'idea' then wouldn't they be better off writing an essay rather than a narrative?

Instead, I think the fascination with difficulty is exactly this -- the idea that some ideas are amorphous and difficult to express directly, and that authors have tried (successfully and less so) drastic measures to try and, in their own way, do exactly what you said in your comment.

And there is something, for some, inherently interesting in the different contortions of text that experimental writers have come up with.
Care to point out some examples? (I use tf every day and it feels fine to me but am sure the tf team is curious where others see areas for improvement).
it's IP - i.e impossible plonkers
Palantir has a $20B valuation and a big problem: It keeps losing money
MP3, if you prefer.

https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/production/2018-8-2/43...
A better question might be "why not?" I don't believe that it's required or forbidden to learn Assembly before e.g. Python. It's a game that teaches you stuff too -- I want lots of these in the world! Some kids might like low-level computing more than something else. And some adults might prefer game-ified learning over textbooks.
At the current cost of a self-driving car (~$250K), it would be ridiculously expensive to build a fully self-driving ride-sharing fleet [1]. So expensive that I doubt it's possible to make real money that way right now.

Self-driving cars are a long game until companies can bring down the costs. It might be years before that happens. Uber has the advantage of being able to ramp up self-driving cars as part of their existing fleet until then.

[1] https://qz.com/924212/what-it-really-costs-to-turn-a-car-int.... [2] https://www.uber.com/newsroom/company-info/

Edit: math mistake
I'm a year-round bike commuter in Montreal, which many assume is impossible. There's a great community of cyclists here [1] who post info about ice/snow conditions, road closures, etc.
Some tips I'll add for the winter commuters:

1. Get a face mask/balaclava - ideally one you can raise and lower as your face gets hot and then cold again

2. Get really good gloves. Your bike will be COLD to grip.

3. Wear leggings under your clothes. I commute all winter in just jeans/leggings, but my roommate adds a splash guard too. My jeans aren't as clean as his

4. Layers that you can zip/button. You'd be surprised how hot and sweaty you can get while riding in the winter

5. Grease any parts on your bike that you don't want to seize -- this includes all nuts/bolts on the brakes and derailleurs, the cables where they enter the housing, the brake/shift levers themselves...

6. Ideally you have at least somewhere indoors that you can clean your bike well every so often (a location where it's ok to track tons of grimy snow). If not, still clean it/re-lube pretty much weekly

7. Practice slipping/drifting -- this advice follows for anyone who drives in the winter too. you should know how to handle a vehicle when you lose traction

8. Learn to plan your routes. Some streets will be more clear of snow than others. Some bike paths close in the winter. You need to know all of this

9. Know when to walk your bike. I still bring my bike most days, even snowy days! I just walk the bits that I can't ride

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/velodhiver/